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Women in the Workplace: Leadership & Inclusivity

It’s an ongoing conversation that women have long been overcoming challenges in their work lives. These challenges include a stubborn pay gap, less opportunity, higher standards, and gender bias. While society has taken many steps over the past several decades to enable women to achieve their career goals, the struggle remains and the conversation must continue. This article dives into some of those challenges that women in leadership face day to day, and what we can do as a community to create a more inclusive work environment.

December 13, 2017

What Are The Best Ways to Motivate Employees to Complete their Training?

Having trouble getting your team to finish their trainings? You’re not alone. Many companies struggle with low completion rates when the training is not compulsory. Unless participants are in a classroom being directed to do so, it can be difficult to get participants to complete training in their own time, including on the job. Luckily there are several things you can do to help motivate them to put in the extra effort. It’s worth it for you and for them too.

December 12, 2017

Overcome these 4 Barriers to Keeping an L&D Project on Schedule and On Budget

Learning and development projects can seem overwhelming sometimes. With so many business objectives and stakeholders, many projects quickly scale out of control. But just as with other project management tasks, there is a strategy to reigning things in when it comes to L&D. Here are 4 common barriers to keeping your project on time and on budget, and how you can overcome these challenges.

November 30, 2017

Just-In-Time Training with the Right Learning Programs

Developing the right learning programs and getting them to the right employees at the right time is a challenge almost every employer struggles with in building their learning and development strategy. Part of enabling your staff to accomplish business goals means providing them with the tools and resources they need to do their best. To help with that challenge, here are a few best practices to help you flesh out the best training programs just in time.

November 27, 2017

4 Strategies For Successfully Working With Subject-Matter Experts

Subject Matter Experts (or SMEs) are critical to helping your team and your business understand some of the more technical aspects of the work everyone contributes to day in and day out. While they are an important part of the mix, sometimes working with SMEs can be a bit of a challenge.

November 20, 2017

Measuring the Effectiveness and ROI of Learning Programs

When it comes to building a team with the skills and abilities to get your company out ahead of the competition, learning and development programs are critical. That said, it can be a challenge to quantify their value. For companies with limited L&D resources, showing the value of an investment in professional development and training programs can be a very real challenge.

November 15, 2017

Keep Your L&D Flexible Especially Because of These Drivers for Change

Your ability to stay flexible, especially in your efforts for Learning and Development, are critical to allowing your business to have those quick-twitch reflexes to react and operate across different organizational landscapes. Businesses are a constantly evolving. That agility to meet the demands of the market head on are what make companies successful.

November 8, 2017

5 Reasons Why Using Consultants are Good for your L&D Budget

It might seem counterintuitive that hiring a consultant would help you save money, but when it comes to your L&D budget – hiring a consultant is a great option. Without a strong learning and development plan, your employees will fail to keep pace with the fast-moving market, or they may even jump ship to find a company who is willing to invest in their long-term success. As an employer in one of the most challenging hiring markets history has ever seen, this is not a risk you can take. Here are 5 ways that hiring a consultant might just be the answer you’ve been looking for.

October 17, 2017

3 Essentials For Getting Your Company To Embrace The Future

There is one thing that consistently holds companies back in their efforts to achieve goals and grow. That thing is an unwillingness to let the past be the past, and to openly embrace the future. The world is changing very rapidly, from a changing workforce to changing customer expectations. What led to business success years ago will no longer do the trick. Here are 3 actions you can take to make sure your company is ready to take advantage of an accelerating economy.

October 10, 2017

The Surprising Benefits of Gamification in eLearning

Games have long held a position of power in the world of online content. Even before mobile devices became a popular form of game consumption, computer games were an excellent way for a user to interact with the online world. Gamification is so powerful because it is fun and addictive. People want to keep playing, they want to compete, they want to win prizes, and are happy to learn some important lessons along the way. So, if you are at all interested in exploring how gamification can play into your eLearning strategy, read on for 5 surprising benefits of this learning strategy.

September 27, 2017

Examples of Organizations Who Have Top Business Training Programs

There is a real war for talent occurring today. Many companies are already operating with lean staff, due to high attrition rates and not replacing staff, not to mention downsizing as a result of a difficult economy. In this kind of environment, focusing on worker retention and cross training to make existing workers more efficient makes a lot of sense. Everyone is trying to do more with less, and to help them achieve this goal, organizations are leaning in to their learning and development programs to help them fill that gap.

September 18, 2017

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