KZO Innovations

JULY 23, 2019

Struggling to understand—let alone increase—diversity? In this 2-part series, Affirmity’s Patrick McNiel, PhD, an expert in workforce analytics and diversity insights , explains what workforce diversity is and defines 4 best practices HR leaders and recruiters can follow to make it a reality. Scan any business journal, HR industry trade magazine, or leadership blog and you’ll find an article (or six) on the benefits of having a diverse workforce.

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KZO Innovations

JULY 30, 2019

Struggling to understand—let alone increase—diversity? In the second of our 2-part series, Affirmity’s Patrick McNiel, PhD, an expert in workforce analytics and diversity insights , defines 4 best practices HR leaders and recruiters can follow to make it a reality. Before we can seize the value of diversity to drive critical business goals like customer satisfaction, productivity and innovation, employee retention, and brand, we must first define what we mean by “diverse workforce.”.

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KZO Innovations

AUGUST 13, 2019

As ERGs become increasingly integral to the employee experience, they have also grown in value to employers. In this post, two experienced ERG program leaders share insights on what it takes to foster ERGs and ensure success in the eyes of employees and business leaders. Sometimes called affinity groups or business networks, employee resource groups (ERGs) aim to foster inclusivity in the workplace by creating a space for employees who share a common interest or affinity to support one another a

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KZO Innovations

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

As organizations look to D&I initiatives as drivers of organizational success, HR and diversity leaders look for successful programs to emulate. In this blog post, we share insights from our 2019 Strategic Diversity Measurement Survey. U.S. demographics are changing. Employment is hitting unprecedented highs. Birth rates are down. And according to the US Census , a significant percentage of workers are due to retire in the next 5-10 years.

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KZO Innovations

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

At Affirmity, we’re very proud to be celebrating our one-year “Affirmiversary”. It’s hard to believe it has been only one year since we launched the company. Despite over 40 years of being in business, we feel like a start-up. When LTG purchased PeopleFluent in May 2018, it generated excitement about the potential opportunities but also unknowns about what changes would occur.

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KZO Innovations

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

In this blog post, Affirmity’s Diversity Advocate, Pamela Pujo, reviews results from our 2019 Strategic Diversity Measurement Survey and offers six steps to advance your D&I program. The statement “Diversity and inclusion work is never finished” not only reflects the reality of the continuous process necessary to grow a sustainable strategic program, but also the adjustments required due to ever-evolving workforce demographics, new generations entering the workforce, and culture shifts

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KZO Innovations

JULY 17, 2018

Last week, KZO Innovations interviewed learning influencer and expert community builder, Brent Schlenker. The conversations focused on two key areas: How L&D professionals can build communities of learners around new learning technologies and new learning modalities? How L&D professionals can move employees from feeling bored and frustrated with learning to being excited and collaborative about learning?

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KZO Innovations

MAY 4, 2018

Once again, marketing sets the groundwork and learning will walk the landscape and help people grow. In this case, we are talking about curation. Over the past decade, we have watched some major shifts in how marketers market. Further there are clear parallels between these marketing changes and how talent development professionals develop talent. Here are just a few: A focus on the end user.

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KZO Innovations

APRIL 19, 2018

KZO was recently listed in Smart Selling Tools’ Top Sales Tools Guide for 2018 in the category of Sales Enablement. Smart Selling Tools, Inc., is an analyst and consulting firm that specializes in sales productivity and sales performance improvement through the use of smart sales tools. Businesses of all sizes can find suggestions and reviews for sales and marketing software along with great resources to learn about revenue generating tools.

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KZO Innovations

APRIL 11, 2018

If video is the future of education, it should probably play a role in your organization’s training strategy. Here, some of the most compelling reasons video should complement—or perhaps even supplant—your existing training programs. It Cuts Costs. Video can help your organization save significantly on training costs. By serving as an alternative to classroom training (or other in-person events such as seminars and conferences), video eliminates travel expenses.

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KZO Innovations

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

KZO Drive is extremely excited to be a part of the Salesforce ecosystem. As a new app in the Salesforce App Exchange, we look forward to contributing to these great outcomes! REPORT HIGHLIGHTS: The report offers compelling stats related to the enormous size of future opportunities and supports the transformation (we’re leading, together) toward a new cloud-based, customer-first partnership: Today, public cloud computing accounts for less than 5 percent of IT spend.

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KZO Innovations

JANUARY 26, 2017

We just loved this Salesforce.com blog post! Marketers are paving the way for how salespeople are going to talk to their prospects and video is the media of choice! Take a look: What Mobile Video Trends are Telling Us and Why They Matter to You Nov 30, 2016 By Sati Hillyer in Customer Service, Marketing, Mobile, Sales. There are two words you may be sick of hearing by now; “Mobile” and “Video.

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KZO Innovations

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

No matter what your role, connecting with others is an essential part of moving initiatives forward. Video is proving itself as one of the best forms of media when it comes to reaching and impacting your viewer. Here’s why: Video makes it easier for our brain to interpret content. It’s more natural and easier for our minds to process and learn new things if they are effectively presented to reach more than one of our senses.

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KZO Innovations

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

No matter what business, effective communication and content retention are critical components of our day-to-day operations and expectations. Distractions in the workplace, technology, and work-life balance often impact the amount of time others are willing to dedicate to what we have to say or what we have to teach. In a recent study conducted by Microsoft, the average adult attention span is charted at 8 seconds while other studies and experts claim it can be as long 30 minutes.

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KZO Innovations

MAY 30, 2017

We’ve broken it down into 8 steps and 30 seconds. Are you ready to engage your prospect? KZO Drive is a sales communication tool that lets you record a personal video, add product videos to your personal one, put that video into an email, and send that email directly from your CRM to your prospect. You’ll be alerted when your prospect views the video and know just how much they’ve watched.

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KZO Innovations

JUNE 13, 2017

“You need a playbook,” demanded Lauren Bailey, CEO, Factor 8. “You need a playbook.”. I knew she was right for multiple reasons. I’ve been in sales for more than 20 years and “playbooks” give sales people comfort. Playbooks help sales people to streamline and simply the sales process based on what other people in our industry have learned after multiple attempts and many failures.

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KZO Innovations

DECEMBER 7, 2017

In a recently published research report, Using Video for Learning , by Stephen Haskin, The ELearning Guild finds that L&D teams are using video in the following ways: Used video as part of a course: 83.8%. Use video as a short tutorial (microlearning): 70.7%. Use video to supplement classroom training: 54.1%. Since 2009, there has been a massive shift in the use of video from 41.3% of the responding organizations saying that video was included as part of their L&D offerings to 92.4% in 2

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KZO Innovations

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

I met you at Dreamforce. Do you remember me? I gave you my card. I sent you 3 emails and one even used “Re:” in the subject line. I texted you too; you didn’t text me back. Oh…you don’t text much? You prefer email? Ok…I’ll try email again; this time I’ll make it seem like it’s your fault that we haven’t connected yet…. Does this sound familiar? We are contacted to by sales and marketing people every single day — multiple times.

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KZO Innovations

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

The healthcare industry is no stranger to electronic performance support. The vast majority of doctors and medical staff use electronic resources to make the right decisions at the point of care. With such fluency in these tools, it’s no surprise that video is fast becoming a primary means of educating doctors, practitioners, patients, and medical sales professionals on their field.

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KZO Innovations

JANUARY 28, 2016

The last few years have been seen major developments in learning technology and breakthroughs in common thinking about workplace training methods. Here, we’ve rounded up four trends that we think will make a very big impact on the industry this year. Is your organization ready to take advantage of them? Blended learning. According to new research , “blended” learning — in which training is conducted both in-person and online — will comprise more than 70 percent of all workplace training efforts

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KZO Innovations

DECEMBER 17, 2015

In a not so distant future… Video’s ability to leverage multiple senses and convey information quickly and effectively is quickly earning it a role in today’s corporate environment as an essential tool for learning and development. One use that is often overlooked however, is video’s ability to cultivate professional growth and ultimately reveal the next generation of leaders within an organization.

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KZO Innovations

OCTOBER 7, 2015

According to HubSpot , 85 percent of the U.S Internet market watches videos online. Since visuals tend to capture attention more than just words alone, the big question is, how do you keep viewers engaged? It turns out there are some simple key steps that you can use to retain your audience’s’ fickle attention. It may seem obvious that the longer a video drags on, the lower its retention.

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KZO Innovations

DECEMBER 3, 2015

If video is the future of education, it should probably play a role in your organization’s training strategy. Here, some of the most compelling reasons video should complement—or perhaps even supplant—your existing training programs. It Cuts Costs. Video can help your organization save significantly on training costs. By serving as an alternative to classroom training (or other in-person events such as seminars and conferences), video eliminates travel expenses.

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KZO Innovations

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

If you haven’t already started planning for 2016, there’s no time to waste. And, if you’ve already put some plans in place, there is always room for improvement, so let’s take a look at what innovations 2016 will bring to traditional sales training. Videos: Public vs. Private. Industry forecasts predict that digital and video marketing will remain the frontrunners.

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KZO Innovations

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

Link many industries, the healthcare industry is bursting with complex information. Between hospital regulations, complex terminology, and insurance web, it’s easy to see how professionals can get confused on terms and details. As medicine and technology continue to evolve they will also continue to complement and aid one another. Video can greatly help with education and training, particularly with the medical device industry.

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KZO Innovations

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

It’s that time of year again: time for the “best of” 2015 lists and forecasts for 2016. Digital marketing and online marketing are obviously at the forefront of predictions, but what about video marketing? Here is a look at the top trends affecting the video landscape in the coming year. Epoch of Video Ads. According to a recent article by Forbes, ( Forbes, 2015 ) video ads will be dominant.

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KZO Innovations

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

As the population continues to age, the healthcare industry continues to grow and evolve. Access to professional training is a primary concern for the industry. Today, video learning takes center stage. Gone are the days of boring videos meant to supplement key content. Now, integrated, multi-platform videos offer unprecedented access to training materials and educational information.

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KZO Innovations

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Check out this article from CLO Magazine. Consider what your shift strategy looks like. Learning’s Not as Important as You Think. Chief learning officers need to shift their efforts from pushing out learning to enabling employees to easily acquire knowledge. Carol Leaman. November 16, 2015. What’s the secret to success? What’s that one central thing that forms the foundation of a person or company’s ability to be successful?

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KZO Innovations

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

In forward-looking companies, video is an integral part of the onboarding process, as it helps to scale and expand onboarding activities. Video offers real opportunity for your training team to go above and beyond. Here, we’ll explain 4 reasons why! Let’s dive in. Video helps employees retain knowledge. . A central challenge to every kind of organizational training is how to make information memorable.

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KZO Innovations

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

From the time a new hire walks through the door of your organization on day one, the goal is to onboard them as quickly as possible so they can start adding value to your business. But, typical onboarding strategies – like in-person presentations from existing team members and executives – can simply overwhelm new hires, leaving them little hope of remembering anything but scattershot detail.

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KZO Innovations

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

An enterprise-wide digital learning strategy can help guide your organization toward its learning and teaching goals and foster effective technology implementation. Here, we’ll cover 3 key areas that you should include in your digital learning strategy in order to enhance the teaching and learning quality in your organization. Your Enterprise’s Core Values.

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KZO Innovations

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

As the market for e-Learning will be worth over $50 billion by 2016, organizations need to improve their practices in order to deliver effective digital learning resources. Read on to uncover the available types of e-Learning, the right blend of learning and e-Learning , and some strategic objectives you should consider setting this year. Here are the top 4 tips to help get you started.

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KZO Innovations

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

How can you create stress-free and impactful internal videos for your employees ? Producing something that emotionally engages your audience is not an easy feat. Even those organizations lucky enough to have in-house production teams still find their overall skills heavy on technical ability, but less robust when it comes to creating and delivering video that people actually want to watch and respond to.

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KZO Innovations

OCTOBER 31, 2015

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OCTOBER 27, 2015

It’s been said that how well a message is communicated is as important as the message itself. This is very much the case when it comes to internal communications. It’s essential to focus not just on what you’re communicating, but also on how you’re communicating it. It’s not too late in the year to improve your internal communications and get your team connected, engaged, and motivated.

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KZO Innovations

OCTOBER 22, 2015

Today, businesses are using video to inform, educate, and influence a wide range of audiences, including their employees. According to a recent survey, 93% of internal communications teams said they see video as an important tool; another two-thirds said they expected to increase their budgets for video. Advances in recording and media streaming technologies have made video more affordable and accessible than ever, allowing companies of all sizes and types to incorporate video into their communi

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KZO Innovations

OCTOBER 20, 2015

How can businesses leverage the power of video internally? According to Forrester Research, 27 percent of firms planned to launch internally focused enterprise video in 2013, up from 21 percent in 2010. Furthermore, 75 percent of respondents of a video enterprise survey conducted by Kaltura said they felt that the integration of video into a company’s tools (email, social business, instant messaging, etc.) would play an important role in the near future.

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