Is your team finding it tough to use its budget effectively? Many training and instructional design teams are enjoying higher budgets, but either don’t know where to apply funds or feel like they’re not allocating them well. Or both. In this eBook, you’ll learn how to: Spot areas where budget and resources aren’t used to their full potential Identify opportunities to improve resource usage and save costs Apply learning operations data and insights Run L&D like a business

It’s no secret, people want to do meaningful work, expand their career opportunities, and understand their impact. To remain competitive, you need to help people connect what they’re learning to the benefits of career growth and new opportunities to advance their careers and transform the business. In this guide you’ll learn three critical steps to establishing skills as the universal language for growth and success for your people and your organization.

In this research partnership between HCI and Cornerstone People Research Lab, we investigate nascent new skilling efforts and patterns of collaboration for skills discovery and the development and delivery of learning programs. Although new skilling is itself new, we’ve found that organizations in which elements of a new-skilling approach are emerging also tend to outperform their peers on a range of talent and business outcomes. These high-performing organizations engage in practices that recommend six action items for building a new skilling approach to learning and development that can better keep pace with the changing needs and priorities of the organization and its people.

The "25 Challenge Questions to Personalize Your Virtual Training" is aimed to help you answer these questions. The article consists of my top-of-mind thought processes to help me understand, learn, and know more about the learners.

Growing a training program can be difficult whether you are just one person running it or there’s a team tackling employee training. It can also be stressful to take a step back and understand the strengths and weaknesses of your training program. Regardless of whether your program is brand new or already making changes at your organization, the potential it has for impact is high. With the right strategy, and a focus on continual improvement, you can reach the next training milestone and deliver even more value to your organization. In this infographic, you’ll learn: 5 phases of a training program KPIs for each level and strategies to reach each level How to prepare your program for success

Using Failures and Errors as Learning Opportunities - Ray Jimenez

Reskilling is essential to build foundational knowledge for the future. But what about driving performance and expertise over time? You can drive performance by building employees’ competence through reskilling with upskilling — making knowledge accessible in the flow of work to accelerate expertise. This ebook is for learning leaders focused on upskilling people, driving performance today, and augmenting reskilling efforts for the future. Read the ebook and discover: How to accelerate the ROI of reskilling How to drive continuous improvements of skills How to reinforce a culture of learning

The world expects more than compliance. Through a partnership with research and analyst firm, Brandon Hall Group, OpenSesame has distilled the latest in DEI benchmarking and progress research; and created a seven-part white paper series that reveals seven strategies that transform your DEI initiatives. Discover factors that connect within a DEI framework, methods for program longevity and employee action, and ways that leadership within your industry creates lasting and meaningful change. Learn about: Developing a holistic DEI approach that builds a culture to transform company connections Establishing strong DEI values across your organization to maintain engagement Assessing your industry’s needs and how to prioritize DEI efforts for robust and lasting outcomes Ways to integrate DEI programs into your current and ongoing learning curriculum

The Great Resignation - or employees leaving their current roles for better opportunities in a post-COVID world - is well underway and shows no signs of slowing down. To survive and thrive, organizations must adapt to this changing economy and learn how to retain the best talent. Our infographic explains six strategies that can help your company attract and retain employees.

In the fall of 2020, we surveyed our customers about diversity, inclusion, and belonging. Our findings reveal that leading organizations are getting increasingly sophisticated in their approach. No longer a side initiative, actions to create inclusive cultures are becoming more holistic, pervasive, strategic, and measurable. But there is much to be done. Our research also reveals opportunities to close gaps between leadership intention and plans and the real-world perspectives and experiences of our people. Where is your organization on this journey? This report will help organizational leaders: Benchmark your organization’s progress on diversity, inclusion, and belonging against other global companies Identify potential gaps between the views and actions of your leadership and the perceptions of your employees that can impact your culture and performance Identify next-level actions your organization can take to close those gaps

What did employees actually learn and did it improve their performance? Every learning professional wrestles with this question. Often held up as a way to address these issues, microlearning is a scientific methodology designed to test learners out of the skills, coursework, and knowledge they have already mastered and deliver targeted learning experiences that fill in gaps. However, there’s a lot of noise in the learning technology marketplace from vendors claiming to provide microlearning when all they provide is over-gamified bells and whistles that do nothing to change learning outcomes. This eBook will clearly define microlearning, the science backing it up, what actually makes it work and how microlearning fits in with your broader learning and development strategy.

21 Surefire Facilitation Techniques in Virtual Training + Engagement Matrix Exercise and Video

Did you know that 80% of employees enjoy game-based learning at work more than traditional training methods? With so many employees working from home and many feeling stressed, anxious, and overwhelmed, game-based learning can be that "magic elixir" that adds the right amount of fun needed. Tapping into the power of play allows businesses to not only stimulate learning retention but also improve company culture. By applying gamification strategies, and adding game-based elements (games, points, badges, leaderboards, competition, rewards, etc.), companies can accelerate the learning process, improve retention rates, and promote a fun environment.  Download this eBook to see how a well-known cosmetic company drove ROI by creating a gamified learning environment to effectively train its global sales team. You’ll learn how to apply the same gamification strategies - including making virtual onboarding more interactive and effective. 

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) brings tremendous benefits to organizations of all sizes.    There is a growing push for DEI in business because it benefits organizations with things like a 50% drop in staff turnover and a 56% increase in productivity.  What effects do DEI efforts have on your leadership team?  Is your management team accurately reflecting your DEI goals? Download our free eBook - Diversity, Equity & Inclusion in Leadership

You and your team put a lot of effort into creating training.    But to showcase your value to the rest of the organization, you need to speak their language. And ROI is the metric everyone understands.   Use this training ROI calculator template to: Calculate ROI for many types of training initiatives, such as onboarding, sales enablement, customer service training and more Show the impact of L&D team efforts on business performance Forecast time and budget savings as a result of training Produce ROI charts

Employee mental health has long been a taboo topic in the workplace, but there has been a recent shift at organizations to cater to health and wellness of employees. This shift has resulted in the need for all employees to be able to recognize the signs of mental illness, know how to offer support, and how to handle the tough conversations that can stem from discussing mental health. In this ebook, you’ll learn: Key elements for building a strong mental health initiative at your organization Common myths and misconceptions about mental health and how to overcome them How to get buy-in throughout the organization for a mental health initiative

50 Thinking Tools to Help Learners Scale Capacities Infographics for Social Collaborative Learning

35 Thinking Tools to Create Impacts in Compliance and Technical Training

How do you prepare for the unknown? Confounded by the complexities of the last 22 months and the impact to the business, leaders need to pay special attention to the emotional impact on their workforce.  How do you support your people going through this process on both the human and business side of the change management equation? It is more critical than ever to be emotionally intelligent and build trust through clear and frequent communication to promote successful implementation of change. This report published by American Management Association (AMA) addresses the human and business strategies needed for managing change today-how it affects your people, your awareness of it and the way to approach it.  L&D professionals exploring techniques for preparing, communicating with, and supporting their management teams to successfully implement change will find this a valuable resource.  

It’s Time to Break the [virtual] Ice! And Avoid Awkward Starts & Silence! In an era of non-stop virtual meetings, there are few tools that have become quite as indispensable as the icebreaker. If you’ve tried to run meetings with Zoom, Google Meet, or other video conferencing software, you’ve probably noticed that screens can impose a distance which can be challenging to overcome. When participants don’t feel engaged, meetings are less productive. By learning to deploy the right icebreakers at the start of your virtual meeting, you’ll help participants stay focused, engaged, and energized, making your meeting a success.

Career growth used to mean climbing a linear ladder based on a fixed path of development. Today, career growth is more of a lattice structure that can be a personalized journey based on skills, progression, interest, and career goals.... that is, if you've got the right skill-forward, agile mindset. How much agility do you bring to career planning and development? Take the quiz to determine your career agility quotient.

There’s a lot that goes into managing a training program. Between getting leadership buy-in, selecting the perfect content, and identifying skill gaps, measuring ROI is often a task that is considered too difficult to manage. But when leadership wants to see the results of your training program, hard data is one of the best ways to paint a clear picture of your program’s value. Through the Kirkpatrick Model, a four-stage model that allows for both qualitative and quantitative data, this task becomes quite straightforward. In this eBook, we’ll cover: The four levels of training evaluation Ways to implement the Kirkpatrick Model How to align training outcomes to business objectives

New year, new training budget. Putting it together is easier said than done, though. From your team and vendors, to the tech you use and events you plan to attend, there’s a lot to consider. To simplify the process, this annual training budget template and tracker will help you: Plan your budget, and track spending, across different categories Get instant visibility if you’re under or over budget throughout the year Identify areas that need higher or lower budget allocation

Technology brings the world together and enables content delivery on a broad scale, but challenges to creating inclusive and accessible content can still arise. According to the Center for Disease Control (CDC), approximately 61 million Americans (25% of adults) live with at least one disability or impairment.  And if one in four learners are unable to access your content, this has a direct impact on your business and profits. In this eBook, Chris Paxton, President of D3 Training Solutions, and trusted consultant of eLearning Brothers and Interactive Advantage Corporation, you’ll find out how your organization can design more inclusive and accessible content. It’s simpler and more attainable than you think!