Successful Technology Training Requires User Adoption

As market trends shift, new opportunities are revealed and the competitive landscape is constantly transitioning to new heights.  Organizations that manage to remain ahead, it seems, are those who turn to cutting-edge technologies.

Building Your Instructional Design Team

Putting together the right team of Instructional Designers can be a challenge for any organization. Whether it be a contract Instructional Designer or an in house hire, figuring out expectations, deliverables and what traits you’re looking for are critical to getting the organization on the right track.

Tips to Social Media Strategy and Training

One of the most popular questions we get when facilitating social media training here at TrainingFolks is how to use each medium correctly in order to generate the highest engagement.

Each business is unique and although social media training is similar across the board, the difference lies in the social media strategy.  Although there are no exact answers, there are definitely best practices that can be applied.

TIPS FROM YOUR TRAINING COMPANY

Would you build a house without a blue print?

Would you head to a new destination without a map?

Would you attempt a soufflé without a recipe?

 Maybe, but the chances of success would be significantly lower that if you had a plan to follow.

TIPS FROM YOUR TRAINING COMPANY

Successful learning leaders already know how important having a learning culture is to ensuring that their organizations remains relevant in today’s global market place.  What continues to change is how these leaders shape their learning programs in order to speak to the diverse and ever changing workforce.

TIPS FROM YOUR TRAINING COMPANY

How many times have you opened your email inbox to find a new project marked ‘urgent’ just as you were trying to figure out how to keep up with your current initiatives!

You’re not alone. 

Why Do You Need an Instructional Designer?

Let’s face it.  Learning is more than passively requesting employees to read through your PowerPoint in hopes that they'll get up to speed on the latest training initiative.  Unfortunately, many learning leaders continue to use this form of training in hopes to see their targets met, and continue to fail.

Why Behavioral Style Affects Business Training and Development

There’s nothing worse than walking into the office on a Friday morning with a cup of perfectly brewed coffee and the completion of an upcoming project in sights and finding one of your team members waiting to speak to you about leaving the company.

Tips from your CorporateTraining Company!

Which sounds more like a post meeting comment in your organization? 

“That was a great meeting everyone-we’re making a lot of progress from these weeklies.”

“Well there’s an hour of my day I’m never getting back.  Why do we have these weekly meetings anyways?”

The Impact of Poor Cross-Cultural Training 

Tips from Top Corporate Training Company

Cross-cultural communication is defined as the field of study that looks at how people from differing cultural backgrounds communicate, in similar and diverse ways among themselves, and how they work to communicate across cultures.