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5 Leadership Tips for Building a Culture of Accountability

Infopro Learning

How do you spot a culture of accountability? That’s the challenge we talked about recently with our post on How to Identify a Culture of Accountability. Once you can spot an invigorating culture of accountability, the next step is building a culture of accountability yourself. Be sure to remember from Harry S. Truman, accountability starts at the top.

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Is your organisation future ready? My pick of articles from September & October 2016

Jane Hart

Due to a number of reasons, I didn’t do a monthly round-up of my favourite blog posts and articles in October, so this one covers both September and October. Here are 5 articles that reflect my own thinking and work. 1 – There’s a movement afoot for CLOs to step away from tactics and focus on culture , Dan Pontefract, CLO Magazine, 5 September. “Learning and development departments seem to think their customers are the top executives of the company.

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Selling Your Training Online is Easier Than You Think [Plus Bonus Download]

Administrate

Does the thought of making the switch to selling your training courses online send shivers down your spine? The fact is, the transition doesn’t have to be painful and the potential benefits are huge. In a recent survey, we discovered that 33% of training companies sampled have yet to make Read More. Published on November 3, 2016. The post Selling Your Training Online is Easier Than You Think [Plus Bonus Download] appeared first on Administrate.

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Breaking Up with “Yeah, but…”

Learning Rebels

In the training world, it is not uncommon to hear: “Yeah, but…” and it’s time to put an end to this unhealthy relationship. It’s a relationship that is holding us back from success. It is holding us back from moving forward. It is holding us back from seeing the future. This “Yeah, but…” relationship is further separating learning and development from the people who need us the most, at a time when our help is most needed.

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The Ultimate Guide to Monetizing Customer Learning

Every decision that goes into your learning monetization strategy matters for your organization’s bottom line. Our research has shown a clear correlation between high program maturity (and ROI!) and choosing the right monetization strategy. This eBook contains clear, actionable ways to approach packaging and pricing models that will help your association grow revenue, improve profitability, and drive expansion into new markets.

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Show not tell by giving your learners superpowers

Kineo

Scenarios (video or otherwise) are a fantastic way to immerse learners in the learning. They add realism and context, and can give learners control so that they have those all-important practice opportunities. However, anyone who's created a lot of scenarios realise that they're not enough to cover some topics. In many cases, you need to drop into instructional mode to deliver some information for the learner to make sense of what's going on.

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Limited Time Enrollment Pays Off Big

LearnDash

As the trend of selling online courses continues to grow I have seen a slight shift in the way these premium courses are offered. Most people slap a price onto their course as soon as it is ready to be sold. Sure, there may be variants in how the course is priced (subscription versus one-time payment). The course may also have multiple tiers depending on what is included.

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Baseball and your Learning Organization

Gyrus

Baseball and your Learning Organization. As an admitted Cleveland Indians fan and gracious World Series loser, I thought long and hard about how I could somehow link America’s Pastime to this unique blog. I could talk about learning techniques utilized in the past seven games and why players were less intimidated by pitches they encountered the second and third time around, or possibly what a combined 176 years of waiting can teach us in preparing for the future.

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The Neuroscience of Cubs Fans, continued

Learningtogo

Finally! No more Waiting Til Next Year! I grew up in what is sometimes considered “Chicagoland,” a wide area around that great city where some people live in alternating states of hope and despair over their beloved baseball team, the Chicago Cubs. The story goes that the team is cursed because fans objected to the odor of a pet goat attending a game in 1945.

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Nine Amazing Online Learning Facts

CommLab India

The number of companies using e-learning is increasing with each passing day. A study by Research and Markets predicts the global e-learning market will grow at a CAGR of 17.81% during the period 2016-2020. Let us now look at a few interesting statistics about online learning. 1. Online courses help people learn fast. Today’s companies want their people to learn fast to meet the vagaries of a highly dynamic business environment, and e-learning is perfectly suited to meet this requirement.

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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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5 Sources of Motivation for the Corporate eLearner

SHIFT eLearning

Trainers and managers have known for decades that employees who are motivated to learn will more effectively consume training materials and perform better at their jobs. But what exactly motivates employees today? And what are the best ways that eLearning courses can impact and motivate modern learners, including millennials — a group that will make up more than half of the workforce by 2020?

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The Learning Function Has Become Invisible

CLO Magazine

Over the past few decades the world of corporate training has radically changed. In the 1920s and 1930s, we put training in the managers’ hands. This meant managers had to roll up their sleeves, show people how to do their jobs, and give them ongoing support. During World War II, the need to recruit millions of people into the U.S. Army led to the growth of skills testing, competency evaluation, and later formal instructional design.

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Content Curation – the Roots of Great Learning & Development

Skillsoft

Learning content curation is a great way to make sure your staff finds what’s relevant to their development, rather than getting lost in a sea of content.

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It’s Not All About You

CLO Magazine

We’re all basically wrapped up in our own stuff. That’s not selfish or Machiavellian; it’s just a fact. Our human nature is to be self-absorbed. It’s part of our survival instinct. As a result, most people communicate from their own perspective instead of the other person’s, and that’s the leading cause of poor communication. If you want to communicate more effectively, and distinguish yourself from those around you, communicate from the other person’s point of view.

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11 Tips to Drive Learning Content Consumption

Unlock the full potential of your educational initiatives with the 11 Tips to Drive Learning Content Consumption eBook. You’ll uncover: Why measure content consumption rather than (or in addition to) completion rates and member satisfaction? What are some proven tactics to create quality learner content and raise your content consumption rates? Discover the secrets from leading experts in the field, distilled into practical tips that promise to elevate the quality of your educational offerings,

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Is Adaptive Learning the Way of the Future

Training Industry

At any given time, training organizations work with learners who are experts in their field and in company policies, subject matter experts who are new to the organization, entry-level employees with no experience in their field, employees with a range of learning preferences and abilities, employees who learn quickly, employees who learn slowly, and employees who don’t want to learn at all.

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6 Questions to Determine your Content Readiness for E-learning [Infographic]

CommLab India

One of the crucial aspects you need to consider before implementing e-learning is content readiness. It directly or indirectly affects the time, resources, and budget involved in e-learning development. So, to make the best use of your existing content, you need to ask a few questions to assess your content readiness for your e-learning project. Curious to know what the questions are?

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Updating The eLearning User Interface

The eLearning Coach

The default user interface in typical eLearning is problematic. It is based on a book-like model and uses dated user interface elements. With a little effort though, we can transform the default approach into one that provides a delightful experience.

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What is gamification?

Growth Engineering

In 2002, Nick Pelling coined the term ‘gamification’ and freestyle rappers everywhere rejoiced at the rhyming potential it offered. The world is now a very different place, we’ve had three new Spider-men, Serena Williams has won 5 Wimbledon titles and we no longer ‘Ask Jeeves’ if there’s the slightest chance that our missing sock has been sucked up into a black hole.

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20 Common Mistakes Made by Inexperienced Project Managers

You’ve read the PMBOK® Guide several times, taken the certification exam for project managers, passed, and you are now a PMP®. So why do you keep making rookie mistakes? This whitepaper shows 20 of the most common mistakes that young or inexperienced project managers make, issues that can cost significant time and money. It's a good starting point for understanding how and why many PMs get themsleves into trouble, and provides guidance on the types of issues that PMs need to understand.

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Get Ahead of Toxic Culture

CLO Magazine

The disturbing Wells Fargo fraud revelation goes to show how going against one’s moral code can have mental health implications. It’s even worse when that pressure to act unethically comes from the culture promoted by the organization that provides your bread and butter. Following the bank’s admission this September that it had created as many as 2 million unauthorized bank and credit card accounts, dozens of former and current Wells Fargo employees reached out to media outlets including CNNMone

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Is eLearning the Solution to Employee Turnover?

OpenSesame

Employee turnover is a lingering issue for many organizations and it can have some serious side effects. If employee turnover is not well maintained, a company can lose large chunks of time, money and productivity. Company culture is also related with employee turnover and can quickly be damaged by employees constantly leaving the company. Not all turnover can be avoided, but the factor that must be limited most is the voluntary quits by employees.

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Meet the Team #4: Giorgos Kalfas, the Sales Manager

eFront

Building a great platform is a tough but rewarding endeavour, as we’ve discussed time and time again on the blog. There are details to be ironed out, use cases to be explored and catered to. But there is an undisputed truth: as good as a product may be, without a strong sales team, it’s an exercise in futility. Thankfully, we’re covered on this front as well.

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Top eLearning reads: October 2016

LearnUpon

Here at LearnUpon we love sharing interesting and insightful eLearning blog posts with our colleagues and our customers. That is why we have decided to round up a selection of our favorite pieces from the previous month. In no order of preference here they are: Instructional Design Tip: How to Simplify Instruction. The rapid elearning blog by authoring tool Articulate is always well written and practical.

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10 Questions to Ask Before Buying an LMS

Find your perfect LMS. Choosing the right Learning Management System (LMS) is crucial for your business's success. With so many options available in the market, how do you ensure you make the best choice? This guide is your key to finding the ideal enterprise learning platform for your business. Compiled by industry experts, these questions will help to clarify your needs, prioritize your most essential features, and guide you through the evaluation process.

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CORPORATE INSTRUCTION IS STILL DISCONNECTED FROM MILLENNIAL LEARNING STYLES – A LIST BASED ON OBSERVATIONS IN THE WORKPLACE

Wonderful Brain

By this time we all know the tropes that define who millennials (M) are, how they act and their fundamental personality characteristics. You’d think with all of this proven—and nowhere is it more evident than in large corporations—that learning programs would have been adjusted to align instruction with M proclivities for workplace education. Having just spent some time at an F100 company I can affirm with great certainty, most instruction is still a series of bland courses and in some cases lon

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Breaking Down My Entry for Trivantis Community Contest 15

Trivantis

Do you ever struggle with creating a course? All that planning, developing, reviewing, and testing might seem overwhelming, especially if you’re new to the program you’re developing in or trying to create a sample on the fly. Don’t worry! With the Trivantis® Community Contests, it’s easy. We provide you with a basis to develop from, and all you have to do is let your imagination and fingertips run wild at your computer.

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DDoS Attacks: What They Are and How to Prevent Them (or 'Did I Just Help Break the Internet?')

Accessplanit

If you’re reading this, good – that means the internet isn’t dead yet, then. It was a bit touch-and-go back there for a second, wasn’t it? No more Twitter. No more Spotify. No more Reddit. All of them, alongside Amazon, Etsy, Netflix and others, were taken down by a pretty sophisticated DDoS attack. And you thought the biggest problem Twitter had was trolls and celebrities discussing their favourite flavour of crisps.

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Go all infograph!

Teachlr

This is the age of images! Learn all the benefits and all the resources you can use to incorporate infographics to your online course. The post Go all infograph! appeared first on Teachlr Blog.

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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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Seven Tips to Ensure Localization-friendly E-learning Content

CommLab India

“If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart” [1] – Nelson Mandela. E-learning localization is a step ahead of translation. Localization is not just about the language, but customizing the learning content to suit the geographic, ethnic, and cultural sensibilities of learners.

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Is eLearning the Solution to Employee Turnover?

OpenSesame

Employee turnover is a lingering issue for many organizations and it can have some serious side effects. If employee turnover is not well maintained, a company can lose large chunks of time, money and productivity. Company culture is also related with employee turnover and can quickly be damaged by employees constantly leaving the company. Not all turnover can be avoided, but the factor that must be limited most is the voluntary quits by employees.

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3 Innovative Things Happening with E-learning Design

CommLab India

Heraclitus, the Greek philosopher said “Change is the Only Constant in Life” This holds good even in the context of organizational training. Over the years, the way the training is delivered has evolved, from classroom training to e-learning, and now it’s bite-sized and mobile. With changing learner needs and preferences, organizations are innovating new methods to make training easy and effective.