Training sector must embrace vulnerable customers
The financial services industry is under ever-increasing pressure to recognise and protect vulnerable customers and it is an area where banks, building societies and other financial institutions have made great strides in recent years. There is now an opportunity for other companies, organisations and industries to follow-suit and set an example, under the guidance of […]
Badge of Honour
Have you ever been in a situation where you’ve felt conspicuous and out of place? Perhaps you’ve been alone in an empty train carriage when a group of rowdy youths have boarded? Perhaps, to use the old cliché, you’ve found yourself in the wrong pub, wearing the wrong football kit? Or perhaps, you’ve found yourself […]
Positive Goal Setting
One thing I’ve been reflecting on this week is the nature of goals. A few weeks ago, I wrote about how recognising and celebrating ‘little wins’ can help us feel more positive and in control. On the back of this, I realised that our personal goals have an important role to play in ensuring we have those […]
Good Leadership?
On the day President Biden took office in the US, I found myself coincidently having a really interesting conversation about leadership with one of Trainers’ Library’s members. One of his delegates had pointed out that in our module The Leadership Identikit, a good proportion of the examples of symbolic, powerful, charismatic and heroic leaders we’ve included […]
Snapshots We Retain
The other day, as I was trying to get to grips with a left-hand drive Nissan Micra on snowy hill roads in France (my car was in the garage), I suddenly thought; how on Earth did I get here?! I am, after all, the boy that never wanted to leave the village I grew up […]
Count Your Little Wins; They Soon Add Up!
After 10 years of procrastinating, my husband and I finally moved to France, in November. It might seem a strange thing to have done during a pandemic, especially as our move coincided with France being in total lockdown. But the truth is, I don’t think we’d have plucked up the courage to actually do it […]
eLearning Trends To Watch Out For In 2021
With COVID-19 taking a grip over the world, organizations across the globe are forced to rethink how they conduct business, train, and equip their employees to meet the challenges posed by the disruption and business dynamics. How are organizations gearing up for the coming year in upskilling and reskilling their employees? We will look at […]
4 Ways to Make Sales Enablement Training Success
Be it a product or a service company, the sales force plays a vital role in organizational growth. The success of an organization depends on how well the sales teams are enabled. In this blog, I will share four ways to help you make your sales enablement training a success. It is critical for sales […]
Microlearning: What Is It Not?
Introduction Many feel Microlearning is chunking large volumes of content to shorter pieces, while some opine that Microlearning is 5 minutes of video. Are these really Microlearning or is there more to Microlearning than what meets the eye? In this blog, I will share my understanding of what is not Microlearning and what makes for […]
Thank Ewe!
Life has a funny way of surprising you, and never more so than this year. For many of us, it’s been a year of stress, anxiety and extraordinary challenge. Those are some of the negative consequences of unwelcome change. But change, even unwelcome change, can encourage resourcefulness, creativity, and lead to some surprising new opportunities. […]
How to Map Microlearning to Your Employee Training
Microlearning is an effective method for developing employees and providing employee training at all levels within the organization. It can also be used at all times during the training lifecycle of an employee. To maximize the benefit, your organization must think strategically about how to map the use of microlearning onto the employee training lifecycle. A […]
5 Microlearning Formats to Use in 2020
Microlearning has emerged as a great model to impart knowledge and concepts quickly. In this blog, I will discuss the five microlearning formats that we recommend for delivering high impact microlearning. In one of my previous articles, “Make Your Microlearning Interventions Work To Achieve Your Training Goals”, I mentioned that for microlearning to be truly microlearning, it […]
Increase Learning Effectiveness Of Mobile Learning
An Overview An increasing number of learners are using their tablets and smartphones to take up courses in their domain knowledge and to develop their skill sets. We can also see an increased demand for bite-sized learning and learning on the go. The course completion rates are higher on mobile devices. Also, learners appreciate having […]
How to Improve Training Outcome with Microlearning
Attention spans and the forgetting curve contribute to learning fatigue and less impactful training. The need of the hour is outcomes-based training that helps the learners in the moment of need. What’s better than microlearning to implement this? In this blog, I will focus on how to improve training outcomes through microlearning interventions. The Forgetting Curve It has […]
How do you evaluate remote training?
How should you get feedback from delegates who have attended an online training session? I was interested in the advice given on this topic to someone who’d attended training to become a Certified Online Learning Facilitator. The programme had recommended a series of questions that could be used to gather feedback at the end of […]
Gamification in eLearning
Gamification in eLearning is the usage of gamified design elements in a non-game scenario. Design elements such as points, badges, trophies, customization, leader boards, levels, progress tracking etc., borrowed from games are used to gamify eLearning. Due to reasons such as enhanced user engagement and increased motivation and engagement, gamification is being increasingly applied in […]
Microlearning Examples in Action
What is microlearning? That’s an interesting and often asked question. Is microlearning a simple text message? Is it a short video? Is it bound by time? Does microlearning need to include a quiz question? Many questions swirl and whirl around microlearning. To help answer those questions, many different folks in the learning and development field […]
Training and Regaining a Sense of Control
We can learn a lot from dreams. For example, the other night I learned that if you go mountain biking, it’s best to choose a practical bike with brakes, rather than a more handsome one without any. As you’ve probably guessed, in my dream I, rather unwisely, chose the latter. I subsequently discovered, without coming […]
Is Too Much Feedback Negative?
When someone says, “Can I give you some feedback?”, how does it make you feel? Do you feel excited, in anticipation of a gift? Or does a little nervous knot form in your stomach? Have you noticed how much feedback is focused on perceived weaknesses? Perhaps that’s why so few of us enjoy either giving […]
Make your LNA improve business performance
A research study by CEB Global found only 34% of business leaders think the L&D function impacts on business outcomes. This figure is damming for the impact L&D teams have on organisational performance. But how do we improve this negative perception? By starting right back at the beginning of the learning cycle, at learning needs […]
