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JUNE 4, 2021

Every industry from education to retail and hospitality were severely impacted over the last year and a half. We continually hear that the skills gap problem has not gone away, and unfortunately, the pandemic made it even clearer as businesses went remote or were forced to shut down.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Higher employee engagement leads to higher productivity, job satisfaction, and revenue across industries and roles, but many organizations neglect to provide environments in which their employees are encouraged and supported in engagement.

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APRIL 1, 2021

Gamification follows in the footsteps of increasing video game popularity, which is an industry that now grosses north of $150B yearly worldwide. Simply put, gamification aims to use game-like structures to achieve training and learning outcomes via fun, challenging learning formats.

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AUGUST 12, 2020

Or the global industrial behemoth using AI to create futuristic factories operated by robots. You may have heard of Siemens, Germany’s mammoth technology conglomerate with a wooly paw in everything from power plants to trains. They are described in many ways, such as the international energy giant pioneering new electric highway technology.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2021

If you’ve been working in the L&D industry for some time you will know that these misconceptions are exactly that: misconceptions. As a full-service learning and development organization, we feel obligated to provide L&D professionals with the knowledge they need to inspire change and development in their organizations.

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MARCH 9, 2021

In recent years, the emergence of learning in the flow of work has become a hot topic in the industry, and for good reason. While the past is important to learn from and build upon, it is necessary that L&D professionals focus on the present and future of the field.

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OCTOBER 5, 2021

Employees across nearly all demographics, departments, and industries are finding new challenges when working exclusively in digital environments, and this is for the most part because many organizations have failed to develop their employees’ digital proficiency.

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JULY 13, 2022

Little more than a spark in a highly competitive industry, that same small coffee shop, Starbucks, is now a multinational super chain that grosses just over $5.7 On March 30, 1971, a small coffee business was launched by three friends at Pike Place Market in Seattle, Washington. billion in annual revenue.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2011

This movie should be required viewing for anyone in the learning industry – it demonstrates all the ingredients for effective learning. In her article* 10 Brainpowered Wonders in the King’s Speech , Dr. Ellen Weber nicely summarizes a few of the lessons this movie teaches us about learning.

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JULY 22, 2014

Hearing Von Glitschka’s assertion made me wonder about the instructional design industry. Certainly,… The post Why Instructional Designers Should Draw appeared first on Dashe & Thomson. Instructional Design Creativity instructional design'

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JANUARY 30, 2011

Train Your Client On Training by Paul on January 31, 2011 in Instructional Design , Training Development In the enterprise learning industry, when you sit down with a client to discuss an opportunity, oftentimes the client has a good idea what they want.

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APRIL 28, 2011

Bureau of Labor Statistics, over 70% of workplace knowledge is learned informally (a statistic that is frequently referenced in the learning industry). While I haven’t seen more recent data, my experience is that the informal learning trend holds true today. So, what does informal learning look like?

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MAY 4, 2011

Among industries, a greater number of technology companies and business services/consulting firms spent money on these tools. times the earnings per share growth rate compared to their industry counterparts. The figure was highest among large businesses, 42% of which spent money on informal learning during the year.

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DECEMBER 13, 2013

It’s an industry poised to hit $5.5 In a nutshell, gamification techniques strive to leverage people’s natural desires, ranging from competition to achievement to self-expression to closure. billion within the next five years (M2 Research).

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MAY 15, 2014

As a salesperson in the enterprise learning industry, a critical responsibility of mine is to obtain the necessary information from a client in order to appropriately scope a solution. Many times the client won’t have all of the answers, in which case it is even more important to find them.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

However, when I entered intothe world of learning design, I was surprised that I very rarely heard the term user experience within the elearning industry. Having come from a web design background, I was taught to view projects through this lens.

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JUNE 7, 2011

They accomplish this by enlisting the assistance of: A volunteer task force for each curriculum project comprised of industry experts to provide subject matter expertise. Industry vendors who provide information about their products and work with the organization distribute safety messages.

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DECEMBER 27, 2010

However, conversation quickly turned to the temporary staffing industry in general. Many consulting firms in our industry become too niche and lose out on work they can easily provide but do a poor job of marketing. Beth’s experience looking for work as a private contractor exposed her to the current temporary staffing boom.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Corporate training is a huge industry in this country, and in many ways corporations are embracing employee development like never before. According to the most recent numbers from the American Society for Training and Development (ASTD), American companies spent over $150 billion on training in 2011 alone. With a national [.]

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DECEMBER 20, 2017

It comes as no surprise in the light of recent events from the entertainment industry to Congress, and the ascent of the #metoo movement. We’ve recently received a flood of inquiries on sexual harassment training, from updating outdated and ineffective old training to realizing the need to establish such training.

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DECEMBER 30, 2014

For our final post in 2014, I wanted to take a look back and compile a list of our top 5 favorite blog posts from around the industry in 2014. Time to reminisce about the year that was and reflect on the high points, or at least the things that stick out in memory. Learning'

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APRIL 8, 2014

A couple years ago, I wrote a blog post about a fledgling social learning company called Learnist that was beginning to make waves in the learning industry.

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MAY 8, 2011

On-demand is gaining ground quickly on traditional solutions and that is forcing our industry to reasses how we design, develop, and deploy learning solutions. Most recently, Ive been working on training programs for the propane industry. As VP, Instructional Design Services for Dashe & Thomson, Inc.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2011

Shane, a veteran of the training industry, has encountered various levels of success with social learning and I asked him to share those experiences with us. The financial services industry has evolved a lot over the last decade. In this industry there are a lot of regulations and privacy issues that we need to be conscious of.

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JULY 17, 2011

Are they in the same industry? Most industries now publish their trade magazines online and/or share information through social media channels and blogs. Reaching out to several notable figures at various levels of the organization allows me to gain a multiple perspective view of the group. Are they all managers?

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

The training industry has seen plenty of debate around whether or not organizations can and should take steps to strengthen social learning. Everyone agrees that social learning is very important and that somewhere between 70% and 80% of all learning is done socially and/or informally.

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AUGUST 8, 2011

This is a fascinating tool for those in the Learning and Performance Improvement industries, because it attempts to identify the objective and discreet attributes that characterize different kinds of behavior change. 2) Amplitude of change (increase/decrease, start/stop). Click for larger image.

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AUGUST 11, 2011

I’ll begin by saying that an overwhelming number of terms we use within this industry are so vague, ambiguous and all-encompassing that it’s hard to fit anything into a nice, neat category. My point is that social learning and informal learning both have places within our vocabularies and within the learning industry.

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JANUARY 11, 2011

I’ve often wondered what all this right-brained thinking means for the learning industry. The era of “left brain” dominance, and the Information Age that it engendered, are giving way to a new world in which “right brain” qualities-inventiveness, empathy, meaning-predominate. Won’t it be difficult to ‘corral’ all these creative thinkers?

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JUNE 22, 2011

He has also designed learning for the transportation industry and military. When I started in the industry we were limited to traveling facilitators delivering paper based training materials or very basic computer based training burned onto CD/DVD. James Hill is an instructional designer at The Home Depot Inc. Internet, software, etc.)

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JANUARY 8, 2020

As the industry continues to change and evolve, I see time and time again the value of being able to demonstrate new ideas in a tangible way. Not spending time worrying about what it looks like in terms of quantity of books, or how many minutes or hours read. Instead, I’m going to make an effort to have a book in my bag with me to read.

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MAY 29, 2012

Sometimes in the training development or tech writing industry we get very caught up with the content we are communicating and forget about the “form” that supports the “function.” But not before we asked them to share a few of their favorite stories from the world of learning. Below are some links definitely worth checking out.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2011

Most recently, Ive been working on training programs for the propane industry. As VP, Instructional Design Services for Dashe & Thomson, Inc. I see myself as a translator, taking complex ideas and systems and making them easy for a learner to understand.

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APRIL 21, 2011

Most recently, Ive been working on training programs for the propane industry. As VP, Instructional Design Services for Dashe & Thomson, Inc. I see myself as a translator, taking complex ideas and systems and making them easy for a learner to understand.

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APRIL 19, 2011

Last week I participated in a webinar entitled The State of Social Media Marketing Industry , co-hosted by Hubspot and Social Media Examiner. But, in the end, they’re just ideas. Instead of getting answers, by the time it was over I found myself asking more questions.

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APRIL 12, 2011

Only recently has the training industry begun to tap into this realm of informal, social learning.

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OCTOBER 26, 2011

This “gamification” of the workplace, or “enterprise gamification” in tech-industry parlance, is a fast-growing business. Tech-industry research firm Gartner estimates that by 2014, some 70% of large companies will use the techniques for at least one business process.

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