Instructional Design
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 Outdated content, poor quality, and irrelevant content can all be issues, but when you dig deeper into the problem, there are often higher-level problems that need to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
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Instructional Design
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
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Learning Technology
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
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Instructional Design
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.
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December 12, 2017
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Instructional Design
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.
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November 30, 2017
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Instructional Design
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.
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November 27, 2017
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