How to Use Data to Improve Your Content Marketing
You’ve probably heard it a million times but numbers never lie. It is when we learn how to utilize them in our favor that they become our best friends. Especially when it comes to marketing strategies. If marketers didn’t rely on data to track and monitor the trends in marketing, then they would certainly misjudge […]
Is The Cloud-First Approach Right For You?
We all know that cloud computing represents the technology of both the present and the future. It creates flexibility, enhances and streamlines technological processes, and can actually save organizations significant money. But, is the cloud-first approach, which is anticipated to explode in corporate growth within the next few years, right for all business infrastructures? Or, […]
Three popular IT technologies: tips and trainings
As the pivotal link between technology and a company’s personnel, service management would be expected to always be on the cutting edge of new trends in technology. The latest and greatest tech can often completely transform the way a company operates, introducing better tools, efficiency, and profits. Often the opposite can be true for IT […]
Technology for trainers: tailored learning solutions
Today’s technology offers more opportunities than ever to tailor training for individual learners. Tailoring your training to meet an individual’s needs has long been recognised as the best way to deliver positive outcomes for learners. When faced with many requirements and abilities, it can be a challenge for trainers to offer bespoke learning. However, recent […]
Why All Employees Should Learn To Code
Coding is becoming a central facet of contemporary life, enabling the wonderous machines and software that helps us as we go about our personal lives and business pursuits. Learning coding has thus become more popular in recent years, particularly since it’s becoming financially lucrative to do so, but more could be done when it comes […]
Training needs assessment – for your company
Training needs assessment is the bedrock of a training program. For something as critical as employee training, planning to develop a training program begins with the needs assessment. Whether there is a new technology that needs adoption by skilled engineers or an updated process, assessing the need for a training program sets a clear directive […]
Training in the digital age: outdated or essential
Technological developments and changes in the workplace contribute to an increasingly dynamic working environment. Employees are bombarded with emails, messages and other impulses. Less time remains to keep skills and knowledge on a sufficient level. Find out why, especially in this time, it is important to keep hold of your training. The overwhelmed employee A recent […]
Learning technology: six steps to choosing the right tools
Too many organisations are focused on learning tools without understanding how employees learn. It’s time to start prioritising learners ahead of the solutions. People use technology, not the other way around, and yet when selecting learning technology tools and platforms, very few organisations put the user first. The challenge is that it’s not realistically possible […]
Soft skills: why digital technology is killing communication
Today’s ‘always on’ culture of instant communication is eroding our understanding of soft skills. I’m often approached to undertake soft skills training for individuals and groups on behalf of companies. Their strategies may be comprehensive and their systems well honed, but they often have an imprecise, but clearly felt, sense of softer interpersonal skills lacking […]
AI to Change the World in our Lifetime
In the same way as the internet gained critical mass and became ubiquitous, Artificial Intelligence (AI) adoption is gaining momentum and is set to change the way the world looks over the next 20 to 30 years. This is the view of data science and AI expert Shourjya Sanyal, CEO of medical devices innovation firm […]
The Cloud-First Approach & Your Business
We all know that cloud computing represents the technology of both the present and the future. It creates flexibility, enhances and streamlines technological processes, and can actually save organizations money. Furthermore, it can be part of a comprehensive plan for your business’s IT due diligence strategy. But, is the cloud-first approach, which is anticipated to explode […]
What are the pillars of a modern learning culture?
We are in the midst of the fourth industrial revolution, which is creating new jobs, transforming the way people work, and putting increased pressure on organisations to upskill and reskill workers to ensure they thrive as the marketplace shifts. From the employee perspective, nearly 80% of UK employees believe learning and development is important, and […]
Can gamification win learners’ hearts and minds?
Enaging learners can be a rewarding process if organisations deploy gamification in the right way. Gamification remains a hot topic in corporate learning in the quest to move beyond ‘click-next’ elearning and inspire today’s learners. Just because gamification can be used in most elearning courses though, it doesn’t mean that it should. So when and […]
Getting the best from social media for learning and development
Are you making the most of social media to drive your own professional development in the L&D space? Possibly not. Consultant Fiona McBride offers her personal tips and ideas for getting more from your social networks. I love helping people learn, that’s my thing and as someone who supports and helps others to grow and […]
How to Encourage Employees to Adopt New Technology
The use of new technology has helped many companies stay ahead of the competition. This is an obvious fact. Thus every company strives to adopt newer technologies as a strategy for business growth. However, introducing new technology in the workplace is not a guarantee for the business increase because the employees may not quickly adopt […]
A guide to implementing the global payroll system
Global payroll can be defined as a comprehensive system that has been set up to manage the entire payroll operations covering organizations local and international businesses from a central location. The introduction of the global payroll system which functions based on the cloud technology has provided a platform through which multinational organizations oversee their overall […]
Don’t let irregular training drive staff from your business
We all know the whole culture surrounding the workplace and the idea of jobs in general is changing: people are working remotely and for many different companies in their lifetime. There isn’t the old sense of long-term ‘job loyalty’ anymore. A UK worker will now change employer every five years on average, with millennials more […]
How to Train Your Staff for GDPR Compliance
We have less than three weeks until GDPR comes into effect, and yet far too many businesses in the UK are unprepared. A January survey from the London Chamber of Commerce reported that a quarter of London business decision-makers are unaware of the new regulation, and “just 16% say their business is already prepared for […]
Tips how to implement a safety management system
Many organizations have not laid a foundation for the introduction and subsequent implementation of a reliable safety management system. For these companies, it can be quite a difficult task, but it is not impossible. The best way to get started with the right momentum is ensuring that everyone is absolutely committed to adopting the new […]
How to Encourage the Use of CRM Software in office
There are high expectations when new CRM (Customer Relationship Management) systems are installed in the workplace. You expect to immediately start reaping the benefits when your employees use the system CRM software aid the management of data in a centralized database where the information is easily accessible by all the authorized users. However, in many […]
