Wed.Mar 28, 2012

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Employee Satisfaction and Engagement Once Again Linked to Financial Success

The Performance Improvement Blog

Still another study , recently published by The Forum at Northwestern University, supports the notion that satisfied and engaged employees are essential to the financial success of companies. Dr. James Oakley , now Associate Professor of Marketing at UNC Charlotte's Belk College of Business, led this comprehensive study of these factors across a sample of 100 media companies.

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Social Collaboration Services: the missing piece in the L&D jigsaw

Jane Hart

This post is an extract from a new Internet Time Alliance whitepaper, available in both web and PDF formats. In the Workforce Development Services Framework there are 4 key service areas although there is a high level of overlap in the activities provided by the different service areas: Training/Instructional Services focus on designing, delivering and managing training, e-learning and/or blended learning events.

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Changing How Your Sales Force Learns

dVinci Interactive

Training your sales force about new products and how to sell them used to mean classes, conferences or one-on-one training. Today, many progressive organizations are looking for their sales team to take e-Learning courses, complete online assessments and take virtual, instructor-led courses. They also want their sales reps to use an iPad or other mobile device for ongoing learning and to support interactions with customers.

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Are You a Performance Consultant?

Integrated Learnings

By Dean Hawkinson. Let’s face it – the title “Instructional Designer” comes with a reputation that designing instruction or training is all that we do. We have been placed into a box that can be a real challenge to get out of, especially when it comes to moving into more of a performance consulting type of role. How do we break beyond the barriers that have been placed on us and convince our clients to look beyond training as the only available solution?

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Quickly Create Personalized Learning Experiences that Work

How can we actively engage learners 24/7, on their level and according to their interests, while respecting their learning styles? It’s not impossible. In this guide: Explore how to transform traditional, one-way videos into two-way interactive learning experiences Understand different types of artificial intelligence (AI), including - Generative vs.

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Top 5 Reasons You Will Leave your LMS – and How to Switch Successfully

Association eLearning

'There was quite a bit of focus at the 2012 Learning Solutions Conference in Orlando on Learning Management Systems (LMS) and how dissatisfied many users are. Digitec presented a session on “ Making a Successful LMS Switch ” which drew a crowd of conference attendees. Some attendees were the victims of an LMS that had been acquired from a merger which had affected the product support.

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Building an Internal eLearning Team

eLearning Brothers

Let me start out by saying that online training is not better than classroom training. It’s different! Both are effective ways of motivating and transferring information. You need to determine your training goals, to determine which training method is best for your organization. Here are a few factors to consider when deciding which training methods will work best for your organization: Geography.

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Stupidly Simple Social Learning Strategy

LearnDash

Social media is here to stay, that much we know. Yet I am amazed at the number of organizations that don’t take advantage of social components for their employee learning. The efforts I have seen just haven’t caught on because they weren’t used properly. There are a wide range of options at your disposal for social learning, so let me provide you with a strategy for one tool that you may find of use: Social tool: a “Facebook” type wall for commenting.

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Formal Training Vs. Informal Learning: Which Makes More Sense?

Mindflash

There’s been a great deal of discussion over the last few years related to informal learning. Today, just about any training magazine, website, or conference probably devotes significant time to talking about informal learning. Many times, I feel those discussions miss the mark. My biggest gripe with informal learning is that, like many things, it’s often viewed in terms of absolutes.

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Learning Solutions 2012: Today's Solutions. Tomorrow's Vision by News Editor

LearningGuild

The eLearning Guild’s Learning Solutions 2012 was an overwhelming success, thanks in part to. increased attendance, thought-provoking topics, and knowledgeable presenters. For anyone. responsible for leading training and development efforts, managing a transition to eLearning, or. building world-class solutions, no other event could offer more of today's solutions. and. tomorrow's vision.

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Measuring the ROI of Enterprise Learning for Customers, Partners, and Professionals

Prove the ROI of Learning Struggling to measure the business impact of learning initiatives? Try our three-pillar approach to show the true value of learning, backed by stories from real businesses like yours. Make 2024 the year of ROI!

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Tom Peters - Best of Excellence. Now Presentations

Take an e-Learning Break

TomPeters has distilled down thousands of slides from over 2,500 presentationsthat he has done on organizational and personal excellence into 23 separatepresentations that you can download. Peters say, “Use this material as you wish andplease 'steal' all you want.” Includes both a PDF and PPT - he is releasing onea week so you'll want to bookmark the site and go back!

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Well Read: Drive by Judy Unrein

LearningGuild

What motivates humans? How well do the systems that companies typically use to motivate humans work? Will money and praise inspire better performance, or will autonomy, mastery, and purpose give better results? You might be surprised – see the article to learn more.

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Hashtags and Crossbreeds and a Benign Eye of Sauron

Mark Oehlert

I just finished reading the hashtag flows from the likes of #TED , #GDC , #SXSW , #LSCON , and #IAS12 - sheesh - talk about wishing to be able to have a superpower to transport from one awesome conference to the next and then instantly synthesize all the data coming out of those sessions into some insanely powerful new discipline that could sweep across multiple communities and problem sets like some benign Eye of Sauron leaving nothing but solved problems, renewed relationships and powerful new

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Asynchronous E-Learning Vs. Synchronous E-Learning

Mindflash

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HIA Technologies Turns a New Chapter in Interactive Learning

HIA Technologies announces the launch of Qvio™️ interactive video platform for learner-driven, AI-enabled, education. Viewers get instant answers to their questions directly from videos, interrupting when needed, and getting an author-validated answer!

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Where’s Your Electronic Learning Record?

Jay Cross

Everyone should be so lucky as to find a medical doctor as good as mine. I have every confidence in his advice. He calls me after hours to report a test result that’s out of line. He makes house calls. He’s personable and funny. He’s a master at playing the tabla. So when Michael moved from one medical group to another, I followed him without hesitation.

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Why You Need HIPAA Compliance Training!

cogentys

HIPAA Online Training – Find out more Compliance Training – Find out more on other courses Compliance Course Advisor Wizard. [click link to visit website for full episode, links, other content and more!].

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Employee Testing Online

Mindflash

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Adobe Captivate: Apply Your Changes

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

by Kevin Siegel    Over the past several months I've written myriad articles extolling the value of using styles on slide objects (including how to  reset them ,  clone them  and how to create styles  on the fly ). Have you been a good developer? Are you using Object Styles? I'm going to give each and every one of you the benefit of the doubt. of course you are.

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The Ultimate LMS Buyer’s Guide: Everything You Need to Know When Purchasing an LMS

Whether you’re shopping for your very first learning management system (LMS) or looking to upgrade, the process can be overwhelming. With so many vendor options, each with its own multitude of features and pricing structures, even the most seasoned educators, trainers, and business leaders can feel lost in a sea of choices! Finding the LMS that’s best suited for your organization requires a planned, strategic approach.