How many situations have you been in as a learning professional where you've seen a project completed and are then unpleasantly surprised at the post training results?
If you're thinking back to one such situation as you read this, don't worry, you're not alone.
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ONE-SIZE NO LONGER FITS ALL
Allowing a person to own their experience with a brand creates affinity and fosters a personal stake in the product, service or brand going forward.
This is no different in the workplace where Learning Leaders must find a way to for their product (organizational training) to resonate with their clients (organization-wide learners).
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Whenever there is an organizational change or a new roll out of products, services or technology training is essential for employees. As a trainer, you may have noticed that although employees may be required to attend training sessions, they may not always be the biggest fans of them.
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When you take a flight, do you watch the airplane safety video? Be honest.
Many inflight safety videos are good examples of what NOT to do in corporate training videos. They are often boring and if you look around the plane, pretty much no one pays attention to them.
Several years ago, Virgin America tried to address this issue by producing an animated safety video featuring wacky characters. The voice over was delivered in a mildly sarcastic tone, as if to say, “Yeah, we know you’ve seen this a hundred times but we still have to show it so at least we can try to make you smile”.
Implementing important change initiatives can make even the seasoned change professional shudder, and often times training is involved too late in the process or becomes a mere after thought. Many learning leaders question how their companies can be more effective throughout the transformation process, particularly when managing training for change initiatives. This infographic will reveal the facts and best practices of implementing and supporting training for important change initiatives brought to you by some of our top training consutants. Reveal training solutions for your organization:
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Best Practices that Training Companies Use for Technology Implementation. 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. Although the dependency on technology varies depending on timing and industry, most businesses are required to introduce it at some level to their workforce. New technologies help companies increase efficiency and speed, create barriers to block entry for competitors, reduce long-term costs and create new markets that would have otherwise been unreachable. Quick User Adoption is critical.
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Introducing a new technology or strategic ideology across an organization can be a daunting task. Training consultants are faced with many challenges when constructing corporate training programs, including a limited time frame, conflicting learning styles and differing learning strategies. To accomplish desired results, consultants must make sure the learners are engaged and comfortable with the material and delivery.
Learner engagement is so important that, in recent years, we have seen a significant growth of research into the subject of learning styles. An individual learning style is defined as the way in which a learner takes in information, processes that information and applies it to solve and understand problems.
As a training consultant, you will invariably be faced with many different styles and learners. It is important to identify the underlying style of your audience before diving too deep into the creation of lesson plans and activities. Depending on the size of your group, identifying the learner's preferred learning styles can be approached through having a discussion with the learners themselves, their managers or distributing a learning style questionnaire. Being aware of the preferred styles will avoid a mismatch in style between yourself, the training consultant, and the learners.
Once a clear picture of the preferred physical learning style is understood, lesson plans can be easily structured to specifically address some or all of the styles. In most cases, a combination of two or more styles will be needed.
To help you dive quicker into the creation and introduction of material, we’ve listed the 4 most common learning styles along with suggested teaching strategies to help engage each group.
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If this blog post was about the top fears of new training consultants, public speaking would be at the top of the list. For the inexperienced training consultant starting out fresh, the nerves awaken by fear of public speaking can significantly impact the effectiveness of an important presentation. Whether it’s realizing you are rambling on, losing your audience or forgetting your lines, this fear boils down to the fear of being ridiculed and rejected by your peers.
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The growth and quick adoption rates of eLearning authoring tools like Articulate, Captivate and Lectora have raised questions in many organizations as to the relevancy and value of instructional design services.
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Prior to beginning the process of building and leading of cross-functional teams, training consultants urge you to stop and consider how often to you take the time to consider the effects of combining members based on personality, experience and age? How about considering the level of interdependency you needed in order to achieve success?
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