The day was rainy and gloomy, but the smiles on the faces of the TrainingFolks team were sunny and bright as we gathered at the Enercare Centre early Sunday morning, June 4, for the Becel Heart & Stroke Ride for Heart in Toronto.
Topics: Heart&Stroke, RideforHeart
Technology is the biggest form of communication that millennials use today, both in their personal lives as well as in the workplace. As new tools are developed, millennials are the first ones to use them. However, what some people don’t know is that millennials also value face-to-face communication. They need more engagement than their employers realize which may be why some hiring managers find it difficult to find and retain millennials.
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For the sixth consecutive year, TrainingFolks has been selected by Training Industry as part of their 2017 Content Development Companies Watch List. Training Industry publishes this list each year, as part of its mission to monitor the training marketplace and identify top providers of training services and technologies.
Topics: content development watch list
If your company is like many, you’ve probably invested a lot of time and money in creating, implementing and managing your learning and development program. The question is: do you know how effective it is? Are the learners not only understanding the information but also retaining it? Are they able to put the learning into practice in their daily jobs?
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With the recent Ransomware cyber attack, thought to be one of the biggest in history, many organizations have been scrambling to update their internal security measures. “Security experts said the attack appeared to be caused by a self-replicating piece of software that enters companies when employees click on email attachments, then spreads quickly internally from computer to computer when employees share documents.”1
Topics: Cybersecurity Training
The workplace continues to change rapidly as technological advancements seem to be never ending. Software, social media and hardware are all part of this tech revolution and can pose some serious challenges for organizations that must offer technology training to remain up to speed and maintain their competitive edge.
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Mobile learning or m-learning is a great way for organizations to keep their workforce in the know in an efficient and up to date manner.
This corporate training delivery tool also speaks to the changing learning styles and needs of an evolving workforce. For example, the average attention span of Canadians has gone down from 12 seconds in 2000 to eight seconds!1 This speaks to many challenges that Instructional Designers are faced with when it comes to planning their content and for facilitators and trainers to deliver longer format content.
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The Better Business Bureau has once again accredited TrainingFolks with an A+ rating, the highest possible rating for its expected interaction with customers. This is the sixth year in a row the corporate training experts have been recognized by BBB.
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Millennials are quickly growing in size to become the largest cohort in the workforce. Statistics show that by 2025 organizations will be dealing with a workforce made up of 75% Millennials.1 With this in mind, successful companies gearing up for the future need to take a step back and really consider leadership development of this group, even though poor retention numbers characteristic of this group may serve as a deterrent.
Read MoreTopics: Millennial Workforce, training millennials
TrainingFolks has been selected by Training Industry as part of their 2017 Training Outsourcing Companies Watch List, the sixth consecutive year the company has received this honor. This annual list ranks and recognizes the top training consultant companies.
Topics: Training Outsourcing Watch List, top training consultant companies