Normally as the calendar shifts from March to April, we celebrate the arrival of warmer weather. To help educational institutions, healthcare providers, municipalities and non-profit organizations embrace “the virtual workplace” LogMeIn is offering Emergency Remote Work Kits to new customers. To help distributed workers or learners connect, communicate and collaborate, Cisco is making Webex online conferencing tools available for free to new customers for 90 days. MORE

Our goal is to educate and inform, and to that end we invest considerable time creating and researching content that the learning and development community will find useful. Sharon Boller’s white paper, which summarized seven of the emerging L&D trends for the year, was downloaded thousands of times because we increasingly need information that helps us sort through the trends and determine what’s really pressing for our organizations. MORE

By creating an overall communications strategy that pulls from each of the buckets below, it allows your association to create diverse advertising offerings, customize relevant content for different member groups, strengthen your brand and emerge as an industry thought leader. There are two ways to offer sponsored content: The advertiser can sponsor content created by your association, or the brand can contribute editorial they’ve created through their own thought leadership. MORE

I checked the calendar to see if I had anything interesting planned further into the week. I looked over to my calendar again. Dan White, CEO of Filament Games , presented a VR demo at DevLearn 2016. Companies who offer VR learning experiences to their customers are likely to have a competitive advantage over companies who don’t. Download our white paper, Creating Serious Games and Simulations , and stay tuned for our white paper on Virtual Reality in learning! MORE

The cost part of the formula is easier to determine, and the process of doing so has been described in our white paper. Included in first level are: Customer (trainee) satisfaction – their opinion – what did they like, what did they learn, was anything missing, Likert rating scale feedback. Business impact (results) – Frequency: Regular intervals over the calendar or fiscal year; monthly or quarterly is typical. Reduced customer complaints and returns. MORE

For example, an easy way to avoid making simple, everyday decisions like what to eat for breakfast can be avoided by creating a habit, such as eating the same thing each morning. Depending on an organization’s size, a competency model can be used to create a competency management program. The templates typically need to be customized and validated in order to be of value to the organization. Requires customization. Can’t decide which competency model to use? MORE

To confine predictions to a single calendar year partially betrays the point of the exercise (long-term forecasting), so in my mind our predictions for 2015 build upon previous efforts and sort of stitch those thoughts together. This model creates value by aligning the objectives of health record analysis (gather information about treatments and outcomes to identify issues/concerns) and the objectives of professional development (train practitioners on how to improve performance). MORE

It can be done, but you have to be very diligent and you have to have the right tools to make sure you’re connecting with your customer.”. What I’ve seen is customers have more time to self-enable and sometimes that involves talking to specialists like me who can help. MORE

Reps are not doing their research to find out if they’re connected to any other customers, digging into their DISC style or personality, looking for hints in their LinkedIn profile, or reading something that they wrote. This article appeared originally in Forbes. MORE

She reminds us of the all-important elements of a good pitch and why taking a more natural approach to customer communications might be the answer. white paper provides insight into the relationship a buyer wants to have with a vendor, specific customer needs, and how you can craft the right materials to support the rock stars on your sales team. He begins by boiling it down to a simple equation of whether or not you’re meeting your customer’s expectations. MORE

The discovery process for WebDevStudios tends to take up 10-20% of the project budget and at least a few weeks, so this process serves to create a strong foundation. There’s so many great tools out there that can get us so far ahead, we can focus on the customizing it, it’s really tailor, but the core of it is done. BuddyPress, we used custom post types, of course, Gravity Forms, and created a quiz system that the employees could participate in. MORE