Does Your Training Content Reflect DEI Values?
Reflecting your company’s DEI values in training content is an important step toward realizing the long-term benefits of a successful DEI initiative. To understand that importance, you must know the answers to a few questions. What is DEI? Why is the reflection of DEI values…
Set Your Employees Up for Success with Purposeful Training
How can we create a culture in which our employees value training? “People love to say, “Give a man a fish, and he’ll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he’ll eat for a lifetime.” What they don’t say is, “And it…
Microlearning’s Bite-Sized Training Modules Get Results
Steak! When it’s grilled to perfection, it looks and smells wonderful! But have you ever taken too big of a bite and found yourself chewing and chewing. You literally bit off more than you could chew, and no matter what you did, the food simply…
Designing Instruction for Adult Learners
Do you remember what learning was like when you were in high school and college? Teachers would give you assignments and then point you in the right direction. In general, you believed what your instructors told you, without question. You tackled each subject so that…
12 Instructional Design Basics You Should Know
Instructional designers are superheroes when it comes to merging learning principles with graphic design. To achieve your superhero status, make sure that you know how to apply these 12 instructional design basics.
Signs That Your Employee Training Program Needs Improvement
“If you aim at nothing, you will hit it every time.” This famous quote by Zig Ziglar, legendary author, salesman, and motivational speaker, speaks volumes when it comes to employee training and development. What goals and expectations do you have in place for your training…
Increase Revenue with the Right Employee Training
Businesses can depend on properly trained employees to deliver high-quality performance and create increased revenue. With that being said, prioritizing professional development training strategies with an enterprising perspective will result in positive trends in your long-term profit margin. Whether you go with on-the-job, instructor-led, online…
How Learning Changes as We Age
There are obvious advantages to being young — health, energy, stamina, flexibility, and being able to process and take action quickly are just a few. While some companies are bent on hiring younger adults, there are obvious advantages of hiring older employees. Wisdom, life experience,…
Writing Better Questions to Assess Learning
Are you a public school teacher or a college professor? Are you a safety instructor in an industrial setting? Or are you an instructional designer who writes eLearning courses for various types of businesses? Whatever the case, if you convey information to others, how can…
How Coronavirus Has Changed Training
The coronavirus pandemic has demanded a change in almost every area of our human existence. Changes in workplace learning are among those demands, and businesses must consider them if they expect to maintain pre-pandemic momentum. Flexibility and creativity in employee development are of utmost priority…
Instructional Design Principles Provide Methods to Avoid Madness
“I have no idea where to begin!” How many times have you sat in front of a blank computer screen and pondered this thought? It is your job to write electronic learning (or eLearning) courses for students that you do not know personally and whom…
Part 6 of 6: Key Features to Look for in an LMS: Classroom Management
(Editor’s note: This is the sixth and final article in a six-part series on the six key features to look for in an LMS.) Whether cloud-based or in-house hosted, a key feature to look for in an LMS is its ability to provide useful classroom…
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