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JANUARY 29, 2021

As talent development responsibilities extend beyond the Human Resources department, management and leadership teams express their needs for more support in developing their skills as well as their staff’s skills.

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JANUARY 25, 2022

The “Great Resignation” is a theory developed by Professor Anthony Klotz of Texas A&M University , in which he predicted large sums of people leaving their professions after the pandemic ceased and life returned to “normal.”

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Additionally, you drive a culture of continuous learning throughout your organization. You boost learner motivation, while also ensuring that training is reinforced, retained, and applied.

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AUGUST 20, 2021

Hiring a diverse and inclusive team has proven to be an extremely successful approach for organizations. However, creating an environment where employees thrive and are empowered takes a lot of effort and determination.

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APRIL 22, 2021

Simply put, sales enablement is the ongoing process of equipping your organization’s sales team with the knowledge, skills, and resources they need to make sales. The term “sales enablement” is tossed around the business world a lot, but seldom do people understand what it actually means.

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Here at Dashe, we continuously develop new training strategies and products to help businesses thrive and adapt. While we do our best to ensure the learning programs we build help achieve behavior change goals, the impact of these training programs ultimately comes down to how they are implemented and received internally.

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Every year, an increasing number of organizations use eLearning to deliver more of their training. Other factors can affect cost too, such as custom illustration, professional voice-over talent, and the number of review cycles during the development process. So, exactly, how much does eLearning cost? What variables affect that cost?

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JANUARY 13, 2022

One of the greatest challenges organizations face when creating learning and development programs is a lack of engagement from their learners. Traditionally, L&D has been viewed as an additional burden and task for employees, thus leading to a general dread for development and education courses, experiences, and sessions.

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JANUARY 20, 2022

As learning and development professionals, we often focus on going beyond learning programs to create an organization-wide learning culture. This often includes taking extra steps to develop resources and programs that make learning and development an enjoyable, functional part of employees’ roles.

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JANUARY 12, 2022

The emergence of virtual and remote work over the last two years has led to radical changes in learning and development strategy. In-person instructor-led training has become nearly impossible to conduct, and many organizations are opting for fully digital development strategies in the wake of office closures and permanent remote workers.

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MAY 28, 2021

Most organizations are still experiencing the repercussions of COVID-19, especially when it comes to the training and development of their employees. As many of these organizations are still working remotely, L&D professionals have had to get creative with their employee training programs.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Learning and Development: Social Learning for Leaders. But in L&D today, social learning has become a powerful tool for developing both leaders and organizations. There’s no one size fits all technique to utilizing social learning in your organization; it’s most effective through natural social processes like discussions.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Microlearning is a term that is used often in the learning and development world. It is an emerging strategy that allows learners to complete their education and development on their own time and is particularly attractive for its flexibility and agility.

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The learning and development landscape has shifted dramatically in the last couple of years, and that includes employee onboarding. Many organizations are opting for fully virtual onboarding programs leading to new strategies, rollout methods, and employee experiences.

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JANUARY 31, 2022

In the learning and development world, the term “subject matter expert” or “SME” is used often to refer to individuals within organizations who have valuable knowledge in a particular subject area.

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JULY 9, 2021

Organizations have always had to frequently re-establish new objectives to meet the ever-changing business landscape, and this has become even more important in the last couple of years. Establishing business priorities is a cornerstone principle of business success.

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This is a key aspect of not only individual development, but employee development as well. It is absolutely essential for leaders and their teams to possess effective communication skills in order to overcome challenges, reach their goals, and enable their organizations to grow and succeed.

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JUNE 10, 2021

Hybrid working took the business world by storm in 2021, and organizations everywhere are grappling to find a smooth transition to new training and development programs for all of their employees.

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In a fast-paced and ever-changing landscape, many companies feel as though they do not have the resources necessary to invest in learning and development. If your organization is struggling to find ways to fit development into everyday operations, this strategy may be the perfect solution.

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The emergence of virtual learning environments over the past two years has led to unprecedented advances in organizational processes, collaboration, and business development. Many organizations have found that virtual workspaces allow for greater employee engagement, task management, and scalability.

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AUGUST 16, 2021

Organizations create and collect data across all areas of business, and the use of data analytics is a driving force in determining ROI and other high-impact business metrics.

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JANUARY 10, 2022

Recently, microlearning has become a go-to strategy for organizations looking to create engaging development solutions without overwhelming their learners. Simply put, microlearning is the use of small, short, learning units that can be delivered through a variety of different media.

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JULY 1, 2021

Mentoring is one of the strongest tools organizations can use to train and develop new team members. Providing mentorship programs within your organization can be complicated, but we have some tips on how you can make it a consistent part of your new hire onboarding.

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As we have mentioned before, the learning and development landscape has changed dramatically over the last year and a half. Organizations across the globe experienced everything from postponing training events to budget cuts, and even the cancellation of trainings all together.

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JULY 13, 2022

Starbucks, Apple, and Tesla are all examples of extremely successful organizations that represent the best of the best when it comes to design, production, marketing, sales, and operations. Nearly 50 years later, Tesla Inc. is dominating the electric vehicle market, holding the top three spots for most popular EVs and managing $16.8

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FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Employee training manuals have been a mainstay in learning and development since the conception of organizational training. By creating more meaningful training manual experiences for your employees, your organization can simultaneously improve workplace culture and make learning a part of work.

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JANUARY 5, 2023

In the past few years, online training has become a norm and is a well-established method for developing remote, hybrid, and in-office teams. As training continues to develop and grow, we will also see it move into the AR/VR space, allowing for even more mobile training opportunity.

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AUGUST 23, 2021

However, many organizations are now allowing both in-person and remote work for their employees due to its reduced costs, efficiency benefits, and employee approval. The question is, then, how can you leverage the respective benefits of in-person and remote work to improve your learning and development programs?

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JANUARY 5, 2021

Before COVID-19 hit the world by storm, many L&D professionals struggled to get their organizations to include robust eLearning tactics as part of the training process. However, as the pandemic continues, many organizations are forced to quickly move to a digital learning environment.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2022

organizations (hovering right around 36% of employees being actively engaged in their workplace), it is critical that businesses work to implement learning and development programs to supercharge their employees. In fact, in 2021 employee engagement in the United States dropped for the first time in nearly a decade.

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MAY 18, 2011

Military by Jim on May 19, 2011 in Gaming Theory Think game-based training doesn’t have anything to offer your organization in the way of savings? The Army even recently held a contest for soldiers to develop the best military-applicable smartphone app. The Department of Defense disagrees with you. Properly d.

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JUNE 18, 2021

Instructor-led training (ILT) is a fundamental type of learning and development that is popular for a variety of reasons. In the realm of L&D, instructor-led training tends to require significant planning, buy-in, and funding, so it’s important that you work hard to get it right for your learners and your organization.

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Having created thousands of training and development programs, we are aware of the vast benefits L&D can have on organizations and their success. While we work hard to create learning experiences that speak for themselves, businesses will always need to be able to measure program effectives through objective metrics and data.

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JUNE 24, 2021

Performance support is a critical part of any successful learning and development program. As organizations continue to move to hybrid work environments, the task of creating a seamless performance support system becomes more difficult.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Given the state of work today, many of these organic integration opportunities are suddenly non-existent. Fortunately, we have developed a resource to help solve this issue, saving your company money, time, and effort when adding members to your team. Remote teams need to find new ways to onboard employees effectively.

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MAY 27, 2022

Culture is the gauge in which values and standards are cohesive and reinforced in an organization. Strong company culture takes planning and subjectivity to build a company culture in an organization that doesn’t have any offices. Fortunately, there are a variety of steps your organization can take to do just that.

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