Clarity Learning & Development Blog
Perspectives on the continuous evolution of workplace training, learning and leadership development.
The L&D Professional’s Secret Power as A Consultant
Learning and development professionals have a unique place within an organization’s structure. They are often tasked with the difficult objective of educating a technical or project-based workforce while not experiencing that environment first hand. That’s why they are so appropriately placed to act the role of the consultant, where they work with other professionals in their field to build and develop talents, knowledge bases, skills, and abilities for the overall success of the company and the individual.
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March 1, 2018
Is Your Corporate Training Boring?
Remember that when you are building a training session, you have control over many aspects of the learning environment. Test the waters and see what you can change to create a more engaging and interesting experience for your learners.
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February 22, 2018
L&D Pro Challenges: Managing Stakeholder Expectations
L&D pros are challenged with limited budgets, small teams, and an overall gap in demonstrating return on investment (ROI). To tackle these challenges, and others, L&D professionals must demonstrate business impact. Challenges can come from projects, people, process, and even just from learning to manage stakeholder expectations. Here are 3 specific L&D challenges that are often revealed in the attempt to make sure everyone involved is getting what they expect out of the L&D experience.
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February 15, 2018
L&D Pro Challenges: The Process
Challenges can come from projects, people, and especially process. Here are 3 specific L&D challenges born from the process that you may encounter frequently, and a few tips on how to overcome those challenges effectively.
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February 8, 2018
L&D Pro Challenges: The People
Continuing the conversation around common challenges L&D pros face, we’re exploring the topic of people and how they have a large impact on the success and ability of your learning and development programs. L&D pros are often challenged with limited budgets, small teams, and an overall gap in demonstrating return on investment (ROI). To tackle these challenges L&D must focus on and demonstrate business impact. When it comes to the people involved in L&D projects, that can be a real challenge.
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January 25, 2018
L&D Pro Challenges: The Project
Here are 5 challenges that L&D professionals face when it comes to delivering excellent training and development projects, and a few tips to help work through those challenges.
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January 18, 2018
Our Training Didn’t Solve the Problem. What Now?
Sometimes we as learning and development experts learn more from our own programs than the students we aim to educate. It happens. Sometimes the training that was developed simply didn’t solve the problem. There are a number of reasons why that might be the case, but often the issue at the root of the problem is that the real problem was more complex than originally thought.
A failure is more than a failure in cases like these, because they provide two valuable assets that companies did not have on the outset: feedback and information. Sometimes, knowing what doesn’t work will help you better identify what will. Here are 3 steps to take when you realize your training didn’t solve the problem you set out to solve.
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January 11, 2018
What Makes Clarity Consultants a Pioneer in the L&D Industry?
We are proud to say that our consultants are true pioneers in learning and development staffing industry. That’s because we specialize in the latest instructional design trends and have a deep understanding of how businesses like yours can benefit from the latest models and strategies available today. Here are a few of those up to the minute trends that can set your training programs apart and are a big reason why we are at the head of our industry.
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January 4, 2018
The Top 3 Limits on L&D Product Quality
When you are building out your Learning and Development strategy, it’s important to pay attention to the blockers and obstacles that you are likely to encounter over time. For some companies, that’s aligning expectations, or managing resources, but an often-unforeseen challenge relates to quality of your L&D products. Outdated content, poor quality, and irrelevant content can all be issues, but when you dig deeper into the problem, there are often higher-level problems that need to be addressed to make sure your employees are getting the training and skills they need to succeed in the long term.
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December 28, 2017
How Can a Proactive Learning Plan Help Employees Deal with Major Corporate Changes?
Change is never easy, especially for large companies with hundreds of employees to coordinate and motivate. Companies who do not have proactive learning plans in place to handle major events that could affect employee skill sets or the company’s internal knowledge set are more likely to suffer from retention issues and overall productivity. Proactive learning plans are critical in every phase of a business’ growth cycle, but especially during times of disruption. In fact, being proactive and maintaining your focus on development can help connect those dots even through disruption on a corporate level.
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December 20, 2017
Companies Are Ditching Their Old Learning Management Systems
In their desire to enable employees to continue growing and learning professionally, many companies have fallen hard for the lure of Learning Management Systems. While LMSs are capable of doing some great things, they are far from the end-all, be-all of Learning and Development. In fact, more and more companies are realizing that pure automation isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.
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December 15, 2017
Achieving Financial Success in a Competitive Market
The modern business environment is defined by rapid change, digital transformation, and of course, a highly competitive market. There is constant pressure on companies to do more with less resources, and it’s the ones who are able to clearly define their goals, understand their challenges, and take decisive action who are able to achieve the financial goals that drive success in the enterprise market. The question remains, even for Fortune 500 companies, how to manage time and resources more efficiently, financial departments and accounting resources being chief among those concerns.
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December 13, 2017
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