CLO Magazine

JUNE 28, 2018

The Society for Human Resource Management’s 2018 Annual Conference and Exposition, held June 17-20 in Chicago, included various leadership, learning and development sessions where speakers discussed the need to continue evolving workplace culture. Rushing discussed the #MeToo movement, gender pay inequities, diversity in the workplace, technology advancements and social behaviors. ” The 2018 conference boasted its highest attendance ever.

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Limestone Learning

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Monday, November 5, 2018, 8AM – 9AM PT: Shifting Your Talent Strategy to Focus on Fulfillment and Purpose (Free for ATD members) Imperative leads global research on purpose at work. Tuesday, November 6, 2018, 11AM – 12PM PT: Selling, Developing, and Delivering a Modern Learning Program for Financial Services (Free for ATD members) Disruption is the new normal in the financial services industry, and that’s made learning and development more important than ever.

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Limestone Learning

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Monday, December 3, 2018, 10AM –1AM PT: Taking charge of your professional development (Free to ATD members) As a learning professional, do you spend so much time developing others that you don't make time to develop yourself? Tuesday, December 4, 2018, 9AM – 10AM PT: 5 easy ways to improve sales team training using video Are your sales reps operating in a crowded marketplace where prospects are more rapidly becoming more knowledgeable and competitors more aggressive?

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The Learning Dispatch

DECEMBER 6, 2018

Training managers have a lot to do. Why do I need to do that? What can we do? Why Do Training Programs Need Accessible Elearning? But How Do I Know My Elearning Is Accessible? What to Do with the Elearning You Already Have. What to Do with the Elearning You Haven’t Yet Created. Training Managers Have a Lot to Do. What do we mean by “elearning”? What do we mean by “accessibility”? How do you do this?

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Limestone Learning

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

They’re a reminder that 2018 is rushing by. Tuesday, October 2, 2018, 9AM – 10AM PT: How to Deliver a Coaching Training Program Managers Love! Tuesday, October 2, 2018, 10AM – 11AM PT: Great Customer Training Requires the Right Technology Fit Focusing on training throughout the customer lifecycle can have a significant impact on churn. Friday, October 5, 2018, 11AM – 12PM PT: Are You and Your Employees Open to Think? Do you use PowerPoint on a day to day basis?

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The Learning Dispatch

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Training managers have a lot to do. Why do I need to do that? What can we do? Why Do Training Programs Need Accessible Elearning? But How Do I Know My Elearning Is Accessible? What to Do with the Elearning You Already Have. What to Do with the Elearning You Haven’t Yet Created. Training Managers Have a Lot to Do, Redux. What do we mean by “elearning”? What do we mean by “accessibility”? How do you do this?

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Limestone Learning

MAY 29, 2018

Monday, June 4, 2018, 10AM – 11AM PT: The Well-Connected Employee: Networking Competencies That Foster Engagement, Collaboration, and Business Results (Free for ATD members) In a survey of 2,000 employees from many different organizations, only 20% said, “Yes, I have the network I need to get the job done.” Unconnected employees hurt your business when they fail to see the big picture, don’t know how to uncork bureaucratic bottlenecks, and don’t contribute to enterprise-wide results.

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Limestone Learning

AUGUST 31, 2018

Tuesday, September 4, 2018, 9AM – 10AM PT: Content Authoring Strategies That Save Enterprises Both Time and Money Without the ability for managers to personally check in with every single employee, global enterprises need compelling eLearning so that dispersed workforces can meet their training requirements. During the session, you will learn: About the latest eLearning trends, tools, and strategies to consider when building an engaging and future-proofed training program.

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CLO Magazine

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

The more we know about how the mind works and the best ways to build expertise, the more confident and successful we will be in designing systems and content to develop knowledge and skills in any audience.”. The second prong of Sugrue’s strategy — measurement — shows how a company is doing and how it can do better. “We We can confirm if a learning solution as designed is having the impact we expected, and if not, what is causing the gap,” Sugrue said. “We

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Limestone Learning

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

Thursday, March 1, 2018, 9AM – 10AM PT: Open-Source vs. Closed-Source LMS: Why the Technology Your LMS Uses Matters When looking for a new Learning Management System, there are a multitude of questions that must be asked, starting with: What do I need my LMS to be able to do to allow us to reach our eLearning goals? This webinar will discuss: The fundamental differences between an open-source LMS and a closed-source platform.

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Limestone Learning

APRIL 27, 2018

Tuesday, May 1, 2018, 11AM – 12PM PT: The ROI Dilemma: Measuring Results of Your Learning Programs (Free for ATD members) Significant resources are being allocated to training and development across most organizations, but many companies still find themselves unsure of results. L&D can’t prove ROI using the same methods other parts of the business do. Discussion topics include: The L&D technology landscape. You feel stuck and don’t know what to do.

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Limestone Learning

JANUARY 31, 2018

Thursday, February 1, 2018, 9AM – 10AM PT: ATD Research: 2017 State of the Industry (Free for ATD members) The State of the Industry report is ATD’s definitive review of training and development trends. In this webcast, Maria Ho, senior manager of ATD Research, will discuss learning benchmarking data from ATD’s 2017 State of the Industry report. However, you do not need to have read the report to follow and benefit from the webcast. How to do sustainment right.

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Docebo

MAY 8, 2018

For organizations, the ability to formalize the informal knowledge that exists within their ranks, and rewarding their best contributors for doing so, boosts engagement and encourages more knowledge sharing. Today, we learn by watching, listening and doing; by blending visual, auditory and kinesthetic learning styles to understand new concepts, retain that knowledge and apply them to everyday challenges, at work and at home. Motivation: We need motivation to do anything.

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ReadyTech

MARCH 12, 2018

In late January, we attended ATD’s TechKnowledge 2018 conference at the McEnery Convention Center in San Jose, California. For attendees interested in learning actionable tips on how to use reinforcement to improve training and increase results, Wurth outlined practical tips on building reinforcement objectives; measuring knowledge retention; closing the common training reinforcement gaps, and achieving the three phases of behavior change.

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Experiencing eLearning

AUGUST 14, 2018

Comparing lists of instructional design competencies to your current skills is one way to determine what you already know and where you need to focus on improving. If your resume is currently focused on teaching, you’ll need to do some updating to focus on the relevant skills for instructional design. Check the bottom of the list for links to several discussions about interview questions.

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Adobe Captivate

APRIL 19, 2018

Often, the business dynamics change, the kind of solutions your customers require now can change, and this can lead to a gap in what you gain from an existing partnership. If you are doing outsourcing for the first time, you are drawn towards the “safety net” a larger company offers. Checkpoints: Do check for the industry-specific expertise that is relevant for you. Do ascertain what they “do not do”!

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Docebo

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

Over the past year, I always get the same two questions: How do you motivate employees to embrace social learning and share their knowledge? In short: our numbers clearly show that employees do create a lot of training materials (>200 courses in the past 12 months) and the employee satisfaction on corporate learning content has risen by 10%. How do you motivate employees to embrace social learning and share their knowledge.

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Docebo

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

This blog will discuss specific pain points felt by B2B sales teams, but from a high level it is important to understand why sales training is critically important to increase revenue. This blog post will examine 6 major sales pain points and discuss how learning might be the solution and remedy to ease a sales team’s suffering. Filling in Partner and Vendor Gaps. Docebo Blog Docebo News & Updates Learning Technology Trends Learning technology solutions lms

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Talented Learning

JULY 24, 2018

Today I explore this and other high-consequence compliance training trends with Bill Mastin , a learning systems expert who has been at the forefront of the industry for years. Q&A HIGHLIGHTS: Before we talk about high-stakes compliance training trends, could you share some background about NetDimensions? Do you do that? ” What do those terms mean? How do employers in a highly regulated industry get rid of someone’s data?

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NovoEd

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Closing the skills gap is an urgent issue. But why the urgency and what can we do about it? jobs are unfilled as of last June and the skills gap widened over the past year. jobs are unfilled as of last June and the skills gap widened over the past year—key trends many L&D leaders actually expected to impact the future workplace and workforce. We know why “It Don’t Mean a Thing If It Ain’t Got That Swing”. Bring on the skills gap.

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Limestone Learning

JULY 26, 2018

Wednesday, August 1, 2018, 9AM – 10AM PT: Mousify Your Organization’s Performance: Five Keys to Disney-Inspired Success Examine the five Walt Disney–inspired strategies for peak organizational performance—Purpose, Priorities, People, Platform, Process—and learn how Walt Disney applied each of them to his theme park business. Thursday, August 2, 2018, 10AM – 11AM PT: Improving the Recruiting Process (Free for ATD members) Companies see hiring as a cost or an investment.

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Web Courseworks

DECEMBER 30, 2018

Around New Year’s Day each year, we issue our predictions for the top eLearning trends of the coming year. We’ll explain our new methodology below, but before we launch into that discussion, let’s not bury the lede. Finally, some group of people learns how to use the new concept or technology to do useful things. million words drawn from that epicenter of all buzz in 2018, Twitter. Microlearning had a rought 2018.

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Learningtogo

JANUARY 15, 2018

Big Data analytics examines these massive, varied data sets to uncover hidden patterns, unknown correlations, market trends, customer preferences and other useful information that drive artificial intelligence. Identify learner competencies and gaps to make better training and education suggestions that are truly personalized to the individual. Comparing unrelated data sets and/or data points will result in inferring relationships or similarities that do not exist.

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Chronus

AUGUST 21, 2018

Q: Why is there often a resistance to this kind of change, or even discussion, in the workplace? Jennifer: The discussion has historically stemmed from compliance, legal and HR and is focused on mistakes or negative consequences of organizational decision making, policies or actions implemented by a particular leader or manager. Often, we don’t know that these are biased decisions until they’re brought to our attention, which can perpetuate inequality in a company.

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Talented Learning

JANUARY 8, 2019

Welcome to our 5th annual trends post! When you look at the list below you might wonder why we’re not calling this our 2019 Book of Learning Systems Trends. Our trends lists reflect how learning systems buyers are actually driving innovation with their dollars! Top Learning Systems Trends for 2019. #21 In 2018, we tracked 40 notable acquisitions – up from 35 in 2017. We first noticed this trend last year.

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Limestone Learning

DECEMBER 28, 2017

2018 is standing by, with a full payload of resources to help you tackle a multiplicity of resolutions. Just check out this list of January offerings and get your 2018 off to a roaring start. Monday, January 8, 2018, 10AM – 11AM PT: 4 Keys to Enhancing Your Healthcare Culture (Free for ATD members) A healthcare company’s culture has a tremendous effect on the patient experience, and ultimately your survey scores. How do we manage this new set of expectations?

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Talented Learning

JANUARY 23, 2018

We don’t perform on a live stage to sell-out crowds, but we do produce thought leadership webinars that attract hundreds of global attendees. We’re not exactly poetic, but we do create a stream of carefully crafted written content. Litmos customer, Kevin Hanegan, VP Education and Training at Qlik joined me to discuss key success factors, and how they make a measurable difference in real-world business scenarios. 7 LMS Market Trends: Issues and Opportunities.

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looop

MARCH 6, 2018

A trend I’m seeing more and more, and which is reflected in the latest Bersin By Deloitte ‘Market Trends’ Keynote , is L&D’s shift in focus from ‘learning outcomes’ to the complex and individually experienced reality of the work itself. I know this from my years at Disney – and I knew then that training programmes and e-learning were not a reliable means for real performance improvement. I know this. We all know this. We know how adults learn.

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Elucidat

JUNE 6, 2018

Each tool clearly has the core features required to create great elearning content (as do Articulate Rise, GomoLearning and others that we’ve reviewed here ). Storyline’s code is customizable, opening up full flexibility… if you have the skill to do so. Overcoming the authoring skills gap. We had hired some amazing people who, it turned out, couldn’t fully perform the job they were hired to do using those tools. ”.

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TalentLMS

AUGUST 30, 2018

Before you settle down to training your employees , you first have to know how adults learn. Although written for academic settings, the ideas discussed in this book can absolutely apply to the corporate world of training and development. It’s packed with guidelines, best practices, and checklists for you to design a course without always wondering if you’re doing it right. Instructional Design that Soars: Shaping What You Know Into Classes That Inspire by Guila Muir.

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Experiencing eLearning

AUGUST 14, 2018

Comparing lists of instructional design competencies to your current skills is one way to determine what you already know and where you need to focus on improving. If your resume is currently focused on teaching, you’ll need to do some updating to focus on the relevant skills for instructional design. Check the bottom of the list for links to several discussions about interview questions.

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Litmos

JANUARY 17, 2018

It has to be — according to Deloitte’s 2017 Global Human Capital Trends report , the half life of a skill is five years. There are several things managers can do to bring reluctant learners into the continuous learning fold. They should also know what will be expected of them and what supports will be in place for them. Let them know, for example, that continuous learning is designed to give them more control over their development, not less.

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Elucidat

JUNE 6, 2018

Storyline’s code is customizable, opening up full flexibility… if you have the skill to do so. Overcoming the authoring skills gap. We had hired some amazing people who, it turned out, couldn’t fully perform the job they were hired to do using those tools. ”. It’s safe to say that once your content is released, it’s difficult to know whether your course is really working.

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CLO Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2018

So why do we let the group responsible for improving the value of our most important asset get by without any accountability for results? How do we let them get by without being able to demonstrate and quantify the impact of improving the knowledge and performance of our people? It’s hard to get better not knowing if the changes are improving results. When we incorporate data and analytics into our work streams, trends and spot outliers become visible.

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TalentLMS

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

For instance, when your remote sales teams and distributors need to know the features of a new product, you can develop stand-alone online training tutorials and demo videos. They also inform each other of new trends in the industry that might not be covered in the course content. This sparks a discussion among themselves where they brainstorm ways to deal with the challenges. Or product knowledge gaps that prevent them from improving their sales stats.

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CLO Magazine

MARCH 21, 2018

They are not programmers themselves, nor do they build or operate the product. Above all, L&D must stop creating learning content and instead start directing employees (subject matter experts) to do so. In part one of this two-part article, “Managing Changes with Start-Up Thinking and Employee-Driven Learning,” I discussed the importance of getting started with employee-generated learning. Resistance to Change: Do SMEs Have What It Takes? What do they need?

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Talented Learning

AUGUST 7, 2018

That’s what I discuss today with guest, Mary Burke , Associate Director of Educational Services at Land Trust Alliance. Q&A HIGHLIGHTS: As many people know, I live on a farm, so conservation and natural resources are a big part of my life. But I didn’t know about land trusts until I met you four years ago, Mary. How do you do that? How do you educate such diverse volunteer groups? What other types of interests do you serve?

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