Offering a remote work environment essentially means people don’t have to commute into an office and work to achieve their organizational goals from a designated desk or space in that office.
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Much like a training needs assessment helps to set the plan in motion for a new corporate training and development initiative, a storyboard lays the foundation for an effective online professional development program.
Both are completed by an instructional design consultant here at TrainingFolks and both include several best practices that drive results for our clients.
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Employee Onboarding refers to integrating a new hire successfully into their new role within the organization.
Corporate learning and development ensures that employee are upgrading their knowledge and expertise in their related fields.
You can’t exactly show someone how to perform better in their role until they are assimilated into their role-but this is something that many leaders across organizations continue to confuse.
Consider these three areas of an employee onboarding process to see how it greatly differs from on the job training.
Read MoreTopics: LMS, employee onboarding, new employee onboarding checklist
There are plus points to both sides.
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Planning for the best strategy to effectively train up employees for a new change can be a challenge.
There are many factors to consider like available resources, the target audience, timing and milestones. Are you going to work with a fully internal learning team or look to external partners to assist?
Read MoreTopics: corporate training company, change management, generation z, millennials, new technology rollout, corporate trianing, new software implmenetation, sales and service training, corporate change initiative, large scale implementation
Keeping up to speed with new technology in today’s global marketplace is essential to remaining competitive and is a never-ending challenge for companies. For Learning Leaders this means creating effective training and development to up skill employees, especially sales and service teams.
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As the most trusted source for information on the business of learning, Training Industry prepares this annual list to highlight the best providers of training services and technologies in the market.
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What makes a good learning leader and how can you hire them?
This is a question that continues to linger in the minds of many hiring managers and organizational leaders from the largest to smallest of companies worldwide.
The real question is, what defines a good Chief Learning Officer (CLO), Chief Knowledge Officer (CKO), Director of Knowledge Management or Director of Learning and Development for you which can vary based on your organization’s industry, size and corporate culture.
Read MoreTopics: new hire training, employee onboarding, executive search, new hire, corporate culture, corporate trianing
It can be very frustrating to see poor training results following the completion of a new corporate learning project.
As a Learning Leader, you may think you have taken all of the right steps to ensure the best training and development event possible.
You had a strong team of Instructional Designers design the program based on your brief. Experienced technical developers created the program that followed. You even hired a team of contract corporate trainers to carry out the training company-wide. So why did it fail?
Read MoreTopics: corporate training programs, microlearning, training needs assessment, elearning developer, sales training programs, training needs analysis, workforce training, learning retention, learning company, new technology rollout
Companies need to do more than simply provide employee training.
Did you know up to 90% of corporate training is forgotten in the first week of the training event.
Even worse, 50% of that gone in the first hour following the training?
Read MoreTopics: corporate training company, elearning company, contract trainer success, adaptive learning, learning engagement, forgetting curve, new technology rollout, corporate trianing