eLearning 24-7

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

Dozens of humans trying to get to the beach late in the day, and blocking traffic in doing so. After all, your learners are engaging in some manner with the content, not as a learning experience – which you know my dogs do when they bark at anyone or anything near my house. . Yeah it is a peeve of mine, which is why, I decided that LEPs needed their own RFP template. I know what you are thinking – how does this relate to his above story? I know.

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Talented Learning

JUNE 19, 2019

But preparing RFP responses can be brutal – especially if you blow it with unforced errors. I know, because I’ve been on both sides of the evaluation table. What’s Wrong With This RFP Response? You rally your team and spend many hours developing an RFP response. You know your product is a contender and you deserve a shot at closing the deal. So why are you losing at the RFP stage? But vendors have more control over RFP outcomes than you may think.

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Talented Learning

AUGUST 1, 2016

I thought I’d share some of the best “do’s and don’ts” from the recent sessions. LMS Demo Do’s. After receiving the vendor RFP responses and confirming we were only evaluating highly qualified partner options, we invited the four vendors in each opportunity onsite to present their company and solution. The best of the eight asked the audience to introduce themselves individually and reveal one thing most people don’t know about them. How do you measure that?

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LearnUpon

JULY 14, 2016

RFP (request for proposal ): Document prepared by organizations to help assess LMS vendors during a selection process. Skill gap analysis : Compares a person’s skills to those required to do a job they have been, or will be, assigned to. You should now know your manifest from your module, your cognitive load from your knowledge construction. Catch up with the ultimate eLearning terms you should know: Part 1 (A-L).

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Talented Learning

MAY 29, 2018

Then we recommend 4 highly qualified, matching vendors to evaluate in a formal RFP process. With 8 total finalists, my head is still spinning from analyzing more than a thousand pages of RFP response documents, sitting through 24 hours of demos and critically (sometimes ruthlessly) evaluating a diverse cast of sales characters as they pitch their solutions. As you may know, this isn’t my first sales rodeo. What do I notice? How do they demo?

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Docebo

AUGUST 12, 2020

Everyone dresses differently based on what they plan on doing for the day (we won’t tell anyone what you’re wearing while working from home). Unfortunately, you can’t just do a quick throat clear and yell “project team, ASSEMBLE!”

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Clark Quinn

JUNE 2, 2015

So allow me to do that now. I’m talking about things like writing up an RFP, or a response letter, or creating a presentation, or responding to a live query. What they then could do was listen to a model response as well as their response. This isn’t something you’d likely do straight off; you’d probably scaffold the learning with simple tasks first. What do you think?

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Cloudshare

JANUARY 8, 2020

Salespeople sell the product, developers build the product, and sales engineers bridge the gap,” writes John Care, managing director of Mastering Technical Sales , in the description of his LinkedIn Learning course. Want to really know what’s happening in the field? Sales engineers do more than demos. It indicates the SE is likely to be active in a series of stages including pitch, demo, architect/customize, proof of concept ( PoC ), and RFP.

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Talented Learning

MARCH 25, 2020

Do your customers focus exclusively on employee training? Use this opportunity to fill gaps in your solution, so you’ll be prepared to pursue this high-growth market successfully. • Leave Your Trade Show Marketing Mindset Behind. What can your organization do navigate this crisis effectively? Answer these questions: Do you have a system in place to train customers, partners and other external audiences? Do you know why? Who knows?

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Talented Learning

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Whatever you do, don’t wait to make a move. Associations are equipped to bridge this skills gap, but they’re somewhat late to the game. Also, keep in mind that you want to choose a vendor that understands your level of learning technology expertise and wants to help expand your know-how as your learning programs grow and evolve. 13) What mistakes do associations make when defining learning system requirements? You should know that I want you to succeed.

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eLearning 24-7

APRIL 24, 2017

Arrgh is at the threshold of despair, below, below average, where you want to use the WTF remark, but just can’t do it. Let’s Do it. self-pace, learn on my own time/anytime, non-linear (A to C to G), able to make mistakes without others knowing about it, etc.) and why LMSs were created (to track what learners knew and did not know, and be able to fix that or improve upon that), then they can enter the space with no knowledge or experience. Trends.

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Talented Learning

MARCH 4, 2020

So what do I think about this mega-merger? I monitor the gap between slick marketing and reality. And I know how buyers feel about their decisions long after the shininess of a purchase wears off. Do you see any mention of extended enterprise needs in the acquisition announcement? Neither do I. Why do these customers look elsewhere? 9) Active LMS Buyers: What Should You Do? What exactly should you do to choose the best solution?

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Talented Learning

JULY 31, 2019

Your sales team recently crafted a strong proposal in response to an LMS RFP , and the buyer has given your company a thumbs up. 2) Do your research. I know a rep who generated excitement with prospects with “intro demos” but he refused to prep with a sales consultant. For example: Update discovery findings – One of the biggest mistakes you can make is assuming that research from the RFP phase is still accurate in the demo phase.

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Talented Learning

DECEMBER 27, 2019

But I do believe the past can inform the future. If you follow Talented Learning , you know we share information and advice through multiple channels. But what do innovative technologies mean for continuing education providers operating in the real world? 1 Bridging the Learning Analytics Gap. How can you bridge this critical gap? And we do it with a fiercely independent perspective. What exactly should you do to choose the best solution?

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eLearning 24-7

APRIL 14, 2015

Why, Oh Why do I lose the love? I know, I know it is never your fault (client) – its those nasty LMS vendors, but as with the failure to recognize, often more than not it is duality, at least at some level. Hate is a strong word, and many consumers (clients) rarely say it out loud, but if your system isn’t doing what you were promised and the calls from your learners are coming in OR worse they aren’t using it because of these issues – you are mad.

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eLearning 24-7

JANUARY 23, 2013

Many people confuse the term thinking it means electronic learning and thus will boost that they were doing e-learning 20 years ago or even longer. The most common features within this area for a LMS, include 360 feedback, skill gap analysis, performance reviews and skill paths. You do not have to purchase all the modules. The vendors who offer it (and those who do – do not make it public – so if you want it – you have to ask) tend to charge per course sold.

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eLearning 24-7

APRIL 23, 2018

These tips are “ DO NOT DO “ This list is long because I’d say that folks who end up hating their LMS, often start the cycle right here – on the trade show floor. . This is due to “the never do this”, that folks end up doing. So, to ensure you do not fall down the rabbit hole early in the process, never do the following (no matter how tempting it is). Do NOT. Do you have xAPI? Do not forget that.

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eLearning 24-7

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Workforce management is vague and ambiguous enough to do well in 2020, albeit for learning it would seem to me that workforce enlightenment would be better suited, unless you plan to incorporate additional HCM functions into your learning system, which of course, will place you completely into the segment of SuccessFactors, Cornerstone, SumTotal, Saba Cloud, Talentsoft among others. If your system isn’t doing content curation, then, well, you are going to flounder.

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Talented Learning

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

But there’s definitely a gap. We know it’s been there and we’ve talked about it for years, especially in the software industry. Great idea to fill that gap with a community by and for customer education pros… A lot of us find ourselves kind of falling into this field. We know education is essential. But unlike corporate training professionals who are instructional designers by trade, many of us don’t know where to start.

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Talented Learning

APRIL 26, 2017

And if you don’t yet offer CEUs, what should you know before you take the plunge? Why do CE content providers have such a hard time finding an appropriate LMS out of the box? 3) Functional Gap. Most employee-oriented LMSs do not offer functionality needed to manage the complexity and diversity of CEUs, organization-level customers or ecommerce-based relationships. 4) What Usage Patterns Do You See? Let me know if you need some help figuring it all out.

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Petra Mayer

JULY 3, 2019

Typically, this is done through a “Request-for-Information” (RFI) process or through a “Request-for-Proposal” (RFP). At this stage you will likely come across some gaps and open questions. Now it is time to find the answer to those gaps so you have a full understanding of how each of the potential solutions will match your needs. Identify the gaps in each of the systems and assess them against your requirements. Where do you draw the line?

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eLearning 24-7

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

Ecosystems for authoring tools – I’m not talking about it in the same scope of the LMS space (which I foresaw and which is occurring), rather think of it as a one stop shop for all your needs – I see this coming more by 2016, but there are already vendors doing it. Nothing ever comes out well when such a gap is appearing and continues. To solve the issue, various vendors have gone the active/inactive route but do it, by you paying for seats up front.

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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. We don’t look for holes or gaps based on arbitrary standards. When you need advice from blogs you can trust, do you dismiss content produced by LMS vendors? Do you know what’s available?

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eLearning 24-7

DECEMBER 20, 2018

It might be a surprise to some folks who only know of Degreed, EdCast and Learn Amp, that there are quite a few LEP/LXPs on the market, which offer quite a bang for your budget. Ability to brand, add logo, do quite a bit on your own – Easy too – No developer skills needed. Share Link – I debated about listing this in poor, because I still see zero value in this – other vendors do it too, and I see zero value in that as well.

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Limestone Learning

MARCH 28, 2017

It’s about the things leaders do to transform values into actions, vision into realities, and challenges into opportunities. How do you move the discussion forward? Free for ATD members) Do you ever wonder what hiring managers are looking for in talent development professionals? However, you do not need to have read the report to follow and benefit from the webcast. What do high-performing managers do better than the rest? Why do videos work in learning?

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eLearning 24-7

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

However, I always have to remember that plenty of systems do not go out and seek raising funds/receiving funds from Private Equity firms, VCs and alike. . But what you do not see is their burn rate, nor their financials in the end before being acquired. I know of vendors whose burn rates are well, bad, but who are seen by folks as darlings. I see the system best suited for SMB, although the do support large enterprises too.

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LearnUpon

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

It’s jam-packed full of helpful terms, bookmark it so that you are always in the know. HTML5 technology provides many tools to fill the gap left by the decline of Flash. Describing how one system can communicate state with another, an API that adheres to REST (or is RESTful) does not require the client to know anything about the API structure. RFP (Request for Proposal). Skill Gap Analysis.

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