10 ways to liven up your training
A trainer is not an entertainer, so entertaining your audience should never be your primary focus. However training should never be dull either. Dull training is instantly forgotten so if you can keep your delegates interested and engaged, they are far more likely to learn than if you bore them to death with hours of […]
5 Training Tips for Sales People
Companies today should understand the long-term benefits of training more than ever, and this especially applies to your sales personnel. Those people are the primary contact between your business and customers, and a good, helpful sales experience will retain more customers than all of the marketing tricks in the world. Furthermore, a poor sales staff […]
FAQ – New Name
I’m looking for a creative / unique way to call FAQ’s for Training sessions. Typically when we talk about FAQs they aren’t actually Frequently Asked Questions at all, but questions that the Trainer creates that we think our participants will ask during our training. What would you, or do you, call your FAQ section of […]
Employee Training: Outsourcing vs. In-House
If you keep employee training in house, you ensure you retain control over the development of that training. On the other hand, by outsourcing, you avail yourself to having these services provided by people who haven proven expertise in educating employees. So, which is the best choice? Let’s take a look at the pros and […]
Creating a Work Culture Focused on Cybersecurity
Cybersecurity at the office doesn’t begin and end with the IT department. In fact, it takes everyone to truly create a secure network. That means you need to foster a culture of cybersecurity from the CEO down to the clerks and assistants. Everyone needs to know how to protect the network from viruses and hackers. […]
How AI will improve corporate learning
“Let me know if you have any questions,” is a phrase new employees commonly hear from mentors during the employee onboarding process, but new hire’s questions can be expensive. Managers’ time spent helping new employees learn procedures and basic company routines is time not spent on value-driven projects. For many, the ideal way to learn […]
Behaviour or Beliefs? What’s our Role?
When I began my career in Learning and Development, I remember being told that our role was about changing behaviours, not beliefs. The thinking in those days was that beliefs were too fixed and difficult to influence but that if you taught people a new behaviour, the effectiveness of that new behaviour would eventually influence […]
Coffee briefing: augmented reality, leveraging your board seat and the realities of point-of-need learning
Give yourself a well-earned break and take five to catch up on some highlights of this week’s L&D news and opinion. Let us know what you think of the articles we’ve shared, and tell us what you’ve enjoyed reading too! VR in Learning Research – Our Summary & Lessons Learned (Niall Gavin) Following a three-month […]
Ideas for Managing Team Dynamics Training
Hiya, I am developing a course around how to mangage team dynamics, so far the types of topics I want to cover include: Tuckermans team development model, looking at different character within a team, thinking about indivuals motivations. I am struggling to come up with some interactive activities to pepper throughout the training – has […]
Creating a randomly generated question paper
We have developed an accredited course which has a 30 question multiple choice exam at the end. We have set up 4 individual question papers from this bank but would like to add more questions to the bank and have a paper randomly generated each time. Does anyone know of a programme that can do […]
German speaking Instructional Designer
Can anyone recommend a demonstrably-competent German-speaking Instructional Designer for ongoing work based at home? Can anyone recommend a demonstrably-competent German-speaking Instructional Designer for ongoing work based at home?
Promoting Your eLearning Course To Target Audience
Coca-Cola is easily the most recognized soft drink brand on the planet. So, with this type of brand fame, will the company stop advertising? Not on your life. The point is this: Even the huge brands understand that marketing must continue, because consumers always have choices. And here you are just trying to get staff […]
How to Get Your Employees To Love Training
For any business, training their employees is a critical investment which can pay off over time with more skilled employees. But for the employees, training is often meaningless blather where they are forced to sit and listen to someone speak about useless topics without actually learning anything. Training programs often fail to engage employees because […]
Adopting disruptive technology in eLearning
What is Disruptive Technology? Look at a typical college classroom today and you’ll see a lot of laptops. Students use them to take notes, access course materials, and compare sources. Of course, they also use them to browse Facebook and shop online. The technology has obvious advantages, but it also shifts attention away from the […]
Potholes: The Very Definition of Insanity!
I am going to start by admitting that I have a very particular reason to dislike potholes, having broken my foot many years ago by stepping into one whilst wearing some (oh so beautiful) strappy sandals – but that’s a whole other story. But, experience tells me that, whilst my tale may be unique, almost […]
How To Destroy Training Side-Eye
I’ve worked at companies where Friday mornings were training mornings. We bustled in early with the excitement of the weekend, the complimentary cheese toasties and the likely chance to take away a piece of knowledge which would genuinely improve our work glowing before us. Yes, we had a lot to get done before the week’s […]
Learning Journey for Collaborative Change
. What did we do ? ‘Learning Journeys’ or ‘Discovery Journeys’ encourage you to move out of your daily routine, allow you to observe more deeply and to experience a workplace, team or community challenge, or system through the lens of different stakeholders. What happens on a facilitated Learning Journey? For our Learning Journey, UK and International climate change […]
Women in Leadership:Despatches From The Front Line
Starting a conversation about women in leadership requires a clear head and a deep breath. It is a hot topic, raising issues and temperatures in offices and boardrooms around the world, and the subject of much academic study. The statistics are many and varied, and whichever way you spin them, the news is still frustrating […]
Train the Trainer Co-ordination
Hi I’ve been asked by my manager to co-ordinate a Train the Trainer programme for our large manufacturing site. I have never dealt with this before, but I am administering the programme, not delivering it, this is being done by an outsourced company, where I work closely with a gentleman from the company. I’ve been […]
The Many Benefits Of Culture Study For All
Do you ever wonder why you act differently from those living in the other parts of the world? If this is something that you want to learn in details, then, culture study could be the best option for you. By studying the societies across the globe, you will see the implications of the difference in […]
