4 Tips for Finding Happiness in your Career
How about we begin things off with a few useful tidbits from the Chinese philosopher Lao Tzu: “He who controls others might be powerful, yet he who has aced himself is even mightier.” Finding happiness in work or career choice depends on taking a gander at happiness from a few alternate points of view, since […]
Digital Learning for an Evolving Workplace
The health and success of a modern company depends on people thriving in their given roles. And, just as importantly, employees need to feel that they are doing meaningful work, and doing it well. This means that in today’s hyper-competitive business environment, it’s imperative not only to identify and hire talented people, but also to […]
How to influence in the overwhelming world of communication
How can you influence your employees in the overwhelming world of communication? Presentation coach Simon de Cintra reveals his top tips. The art of effective communication is so critical in this modern, ever inclusive world, with the need to connect and engage effectively across countries, languages, religion, ages, gender and more. To get the best […]
How to make my training program mandatory?
In my previous article, I discussed how making training programs mandatory boosts participation, causing participants to learn more and put this into practice. Despite the fact that some clients find this scary, practice shows me that participants don’t nearly mind as much as their managers expect. The question is: how to make sure your training program […]
6 Types of Visuals to Spice up Your E-Course
At this point, there really isn’t much need to go into detail on the ways in which visuals can enhance educational content. We’ve known since before the term elearning was coined that most people are visual learners, and that using visual content improves both understanding and recall. So, rather than addressing why, let’s revisit how. […]
3 Tips For Better Training And Productivity
When you need to make sure that your small business is thriving, it pays for you to set up some parameters that help everyone succeed, improve through training and set up processes that help you all stay productive. With a small business, it’s crucial to set up a nucleus that will continuously grow. It’s important […]
How to turn digital learning content into revenue
With so much information freely available online, are there ways of harnessing your digital learning content to generate financial returns for your organisation? After working on just these challenges for many years, I’ve noted what I think are the top five opportunities that may give you a few useful ideas: 1. Sell your updates, training […]
How to Simplify Your Leadership in 7 Steps
Being an effective leader ultimately comes down to two things – leadership and communication. Of course, successful management is multi-faceted and often tricky, but at its core remains a simple truth – leadership is about an ability to influence and motivate other people, and to do this we must be able to clearly and effectively […]
How To Create Effective Online Training
Effective online training has grown to become a vital aspect of the contemporary economy, which remains more powered by emerging technologies than anything else. Despite how crucial it’s become to master the online training process, however, many businesses and entrepreneurs are letting themselves and their workers down when it comes to their online training programs, […]
5 Important Customer Service Training Skills
It is important to use the best resources you have to ensure that your products or services are of the highest quality. However, the success of your company relies on the effectiveness of your customer service. If you want to achieve sustainable business growth, your aim should be to leverage excellent customer service and good products […]
Training & developing staff without spending much
Training and developing a workforce can be expensive. For example, the cost of sending one employee on a Lean Six Sigma Black Belt course, which can last for up to 20 days, can be £5,000 upwards. And that doesn’t include paying the employee’s expenses, the loss of that employee in terms of productivity, or the […]
Arming Your Employees To Become More Autonomous
Having a true autonomous workforce is every employer’s dream. Not only does it mean everyone’s doing their job, but they’re doing so in a way that’s not holding anyone else back from doing their best. However, implementing systems like this can be tough (especially in keeping everyone accountable), which is why I’ve compiled a few […]
How to Build a Client Base as a Corporate Trainer
Employing, a full-time, staff trainer can be a big expense. Sure, in some cases a trainer can do double duty as an HR generalist, for example, still that’s one salary taken up where it could be used elsewhere. Many companies would prefer to keep things lean and focused. This is why many opt to contract […]
Just how memorable are your presentations?
As trainers our words and presentation materials are the tools of our trade. But how often do we stand back and review our own performance? If we listen to ourselves will we be wowed and persuaded? Are we presenting in such a way that our audience members are guaranteed to achieve their learning objectives and […]
Tips to curate your content for Online Training
Creating an online training program is a prolonged activity. It involves creating loads of unique content in the form of online training courses. It is becoming increasingly important that training-related content is selected carefully and shared at regular intervals. During employee training programs, content is curated for different stages including pre, post and in-between training. […]
Make your soft skills training programs mandatory
Should you make a training program mandatory? As project manager, I regularly chat with clients to help them implement an online soft skills program. In the first meeting about training implementation, I usually start talking about making the program mandatory. This is often seen as an obvious thing to do, but sometimes it meets with […]
A Belbin Team Role Guide to Snow
I couldn’t resist – this has just been played out in front of me! The Resource Investigator is out immediately to film the snow falling to upload on to their Instagram/Twitter/Facebook account. It’s snnnnooooowwwwwwwwing! The excitement is palpable. The Teamworker is ensuring that everyone can get home OK – best leave now if you’re feeling nervous about driving in the […]
How to Create a Training Program For Recruiters
The job of finding talent, representing your brand to the general public, and helping you meet your staffing needs is one of the most important jobs in your organization. Acquiring talent isn’t cheap. You rely on your recruiters to get the job done right the first time. However, they are only as effective as the […]
7 Ways to Improve Your E-course Accessibility
It is absolutely no exaggeration to say that elearning has caused extraordinary changes in education. Today, no matter where people are, regardless of economic status, and regardless of their backgrounds people can become educated on a wide variety of topics. In spite of this, there is one area where many elearning programs falls short. Accessibility […]
Incentivize your customers to complete training
Customer training is the process by which a company teaches purchasers how to use a product efficiently. Online teaching modules can include brief demonstrations, tutorials, or written information on specific product operations. This process delivers the precise learning users need when it is most relevant. Online customer training is most often provided to support software […]
