White Papers & eBooks
Transforming L&D for a Sustainable Future
With the pandemic, mass working from home, and huge changes to working environments, 2020 saw incredible transformations across the working world. L&D teams had to pivot almost overnight. For many organizations, this initially meant transferring predominantly or completely face-to-face learning into the virtual realm.
At LEO, we worked closely with, and spoke to, L&D professionals around the world and in many different industries throughout the pandemic, as we helped them respond. In doing so we also began to understand what has and hasn’t worked for them in such a transitional year.
One of our favorite analogies heard in discussion with a senior L&D professional went something like this:
"Railway tracks were built on the same basic dimensions as roads created for horse and cart. They didn’t think out of the box. We can’t do that this time. We need to develop ground-up virtual strategies."
So, what does this mean for learning?
Put simply, in order to transform learning in an effective, sustainable, and scalable way for the future, we shouldn’t simply adapt the old ways of doing things. Just because something worked before, that doesn’t mean it will work in a new, digital, distanced, and flexible learning context. We need to embrace the opportunity for innovative and agile transformation.
So, as we look at the world of learning in this period of drastic change, what shifts are taking place, what are we learning, and how can we take these trends and observations into consideration as we prepare for the future?
In this eBook, we’re looking back over some of the biggest challenges this industry has faced to see what can be learned and what our key takeaways are for 2021 and beyond.
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COVID-19 is changing everything. Many of the organizations that survive, emerge, and thrive will be different than they were before all the unpleasantness. Their workforces will have to be, too.
We’ve already seen an unprecedented number of workers displaced all around the world. And the redeployments, furloughs, and layoffs will likely continue throughout 2021.That’s forcing countless workers to refresh their current skills, and more importantly, build new ones. But few of us know where to start — and both time and money are in short supply. That's why we created The State of Skills.
Degreed surveyed over 5,200 people around the world to assess the effects of recent global events on workforce skills and to gauge their readiness to adapt to new challenges.
We segmented our data by identifying the countries, industries, and job roles where skills are most at-risk of becoming obsolete. We hope this will help workers, team managers, and business leaders focus their limited energy and investments on developing the skills they need most.
Pay close attention to the data on your country, industry, and role throughout the report. Those who act quickly have a game-changing opportunity to get ahead of the competition.
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For many organizations, the learning ecosystem extends far beyond the four walls of the organization. Although, extended enterprise comprises a relatively small chunk of the L&D budget, it represents a huge opportunity for organizations to build their brand, improve customer relationships, and even generate revenue.
Brainier partnered with The Brandon Hall Group to develop this research brief on the state of extended enterprise learning and its future.
In this research brief, we’ll cover four key considerations in planning an extended enterprise learning endeavor, as well as case studies of organizations finding success in doing so. Key considerations include:
Building the business case
Finding the right technology
Defining the audience and characteristics of requirements
Strategizing your revenue goals for the program
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The COVID-19 pandemic continues to affect the workplace in unprecedented ways. Whether it’s the dramatic increase in employees working remotely or the blurring of boundaries between our personal and professional lives, the pandemic has created new dynamics between employer and employee.
As these trends evolve, employers will need to be proactive and recognize the expanded role they’ll play in their team’s physical, mental and financial well-being. Accepting this role and supporting their employees’ well-being will be essential to maintaining a productive, satisfied workforce. Download the full white paper to learn more.
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Most organizations don't have to time to build custom content for their training program, but they want to be sure the content is high quality and well-vetted. Enter off-the-shelf content.
Using off-the-shelf content for training saves time and money and allows you to offer more variety of content than if you had to produce everything yourself. Plus, you can be sure the information employees are getting is more reliable and well researched than something they'd find on Google.
In this ebook, you'll learn how to maximize off-the-shelf content. You'll also learn:
How to further optimize off-the-shelf content with the right learning technology
Tips for choosing an off-the-shelf content provider
How to use off-the-shelf content as part of a blended learning solution
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The more relevant and relatable a piece of eLearning is to the learner, the more effective it’s going to be. But are you sure that your eLearning remains both relevant and relatable when it’s read by colleagues in another part of the world, or in another language?
Creating eLearning for global audiences isn’t just about making the content available in the languages in use at your organization—though that’s obviously important! It requires an extra layer of course planning to ensure that those ‘relevant and relatable’ boxes remain ticked.
Download the eBook to discover:
How the right localization process will lead you to more engaging results
Key language issues that even non-speakers should understand
The importance of having imagery that reflects familiar public spaces and local customs
The implications of different cultural preferences such as uncertainty avoidance and power distance index
How to better use language selection, display conditions, collaboration tools, and other key features to build better courses
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Considering whether virtual reality is right for your training needs?
In this eBook, you’ll discover 5 training instances where VR excels. We showcase real-world examples and tell you exactly why virtual reality training works! See how organizations across industries saved money, increased learning retention, and more.
The examples in this book will also serve as inspiration for your own immersive learning projects. Remember, anything is possible in virtual reality!
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As today’s organizations stare down the challenges of ever-increasing compliance regulations, unpredictable turnover, and rapidly expanding cultural and learning style changes among employees, companies are looking for new ways to automate and scale their training efforts.
More and more, they’re finding that help in video. Adaptable to both formal and informal learning needs, video overcomes today’s most common training challenges. It helps instructors increase training quality, speed and effectiveness — all while significantly lowering program costs. But of course, today’s learning and development professionals already understand the potential that technology can offer in the modern training
environment.
Their real challenge? Convincing their organizations to do more.
In this paper, we help L&D practitioners tackle that challenge head on, including:
5 benefits that help convince your decision makers to use video in more ways
14 ideas for supporting and scaling formal and informal learning with video
1 technology — the video platform — that simplifies the use of video for L&D
Video training is no longer a novel idea. It’s the new normal. Make sure your organization isn’t missing out.
Click below to download this White paper from Panopto.
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If you oversee a learning program, a few things hold true no matter your business’s market or industry: your learners need to master your course material, your content and experience must be engaging, and your learning program needs to drive revenue for your business.
The high-stakes learning market includes any organization selling critical learning products and includes all kinds of businesses— professional certification test prep, highly-skilled professional, continuing education, and more—but there are distinct trends that set them apart from low-stakes learning companies. Download our e-book to find out the top three trends BenchPrep identified after surveying 248 high-stakes training providers.
In this e-book you will learn:
About the evolution of the high-stakes learning market
What business results high-stakes training organizations want to generate
What high-stakes training organizations look for in a learning platform
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If you oversee a learning program, a few things hold true no matter your business’s market or industry: your learners need to master your course material, your content and experience must be engaging, and your learning program needs to drive revenue for your business.
In this new eBook, BenchPrep reveals emerging market trends they identified as key findings after surveying 248 training providers.
You will learn:
How virtual learning can support your business objectives
What training organizations look for in a digital learning platform
What business results training providers want to generate
How these results lead to maximum organizational ROI: revenue, mastery, and a lifelong learning commitment
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BenchPrep Increases McGraw-Hill Education’s Online Learning Engagement by 10×
BenchPrep | Case Study
McGraw-Hill Education ("McGraw-Hill") is a leading learning science company and publisher that delivers personalized learning experiences. As the world went digital and technology adoption soared in recent years, McGraw-Hill realized a drastic need to reassess digital delivery options for their content to keep pace with competitors and meet the changing expectations of their evolving customer base. How could they digitize their well-known test prep material in a way that would generate more revenue and not abandon their core business model?
Download this case study to learn how BenchPrep's modern LMS increased McGraw-Hill Education's online learner engagement by 10x.
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Digital transformation is undeniably here. You have the opportunity to lead your organization into the future... or you could resist and end up left behind.
Here's what you need to know:
"Digital transformation" is more than a buzzword.
There is "no going back" - eLearning is here to stay.
The education industry is typically slow to adapt, but now is the time to seize the opportunity!
There are 5 key factors driving this transformation...
... and all 5 of them will have a profound impact on how you conduct business in 2022 and beyond.
In this free eBook, we share 5 key factors driving digital transformation and how you can take advantage of this unique opportunity.
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With so many learning management systems on the market, it can be difficult to determine which is best for your training business. You want a solution that can ensure program revenue, grow and scale your business, ensure customers are engaged, and stand out amongst competitors.
Unlike a traditional LMS that focuses on the ‘M’ (management of content), BenchPrep takes a learner-centric approach to deliver the best experience out there for the learner, and the data analytics your business needs to make informed decisions about your training program.
Need help understanding the nuances? Download our LMS comparison guide to learn more.
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Storyboarding—imported into our business lives from the world of moviemaking—is a powerful way of getting a sense of what you’re creating before you create it. Completing a storyboard involves documenting screen-by-screen the rough visuals, interactions, assets, and other crucial details of the learning journey you want to build.
What are the benefits of this approach? And how can you get the most out of storyboarding? This guide answers these questions, while also providing best practices and examples so you can storyboard your way to eLearning success.
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Since COVID, digital skills are more important than ever. The world has shifted to a more virtual communication, collaboration, and project management style.
Most leaders agree that they will not return fully to a live, brick and mortar workplace. The bad news is that according to McKinsey, 70% of all efforts to boost digital skills - fail.
How will your people thrive in the post-COVID, more virtual world of work? Best-selling author and productivity guru, Mike Song shares the keys to success and reveals three digital skill sets that can no longer be ignored.
This e-paper is a must-read for any HR leader tasked with helping their organization improve digital skills.
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Yes, change is hard and it keeps happening to us in today’s hyper-complex, uncertain, competitive, high stakes world. Consider these alarming statistics:
75% of projects fail
71% of companies do not feel their leaders are able to lead them into the future
87% of employees worldwide are not engaged at work
In summary, projects are a disaster, leadership is diabolical and people are severely disengaged. A piece of friendly advice: STOP stockpiling statistical knowledge about how bad things are "out there." Dwelling on this is more likely to evoke a "I give up, why bother" reaction. Rather, take a thorough, honest inventory of what’s going on "in here." What are you doing, or not doing that might be adding or detracting from positive change?
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What are the biggest losses that come with not training, or training ineffectively? We all saw Starbucks in the news when they shut down stores to train employees on racial bias. That one day cost them an estimated $12 million in lost profit.
Our eBook goes into more helpful detail to help you make your case for more effective training on a variety of topics including:
Safety Training: Safety incidents and OSHA fines can cost you over $1million. Are you keeping your employees safe?
Cybersecurity Training: Cybercriminals have stolen over $2 billion from American companies. Is your company next?
Sales Training: Improving prospecting, negotiating, and closing skills may translate into hundreds of thousands of dollars in new sales.
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Create learning experiences with AI Voices. Learn how the technology has evolved and how natural a WellSaid Voice Avatar sounds. You too can create a Voice Avatar for brand to narrate your learning content more efficiently — without sacrificing quality.
What's in the eBook:
Our vision for AI voice
What are AI voices for
The value of creating your own AI Voice Avatar
A link to listen to the eBook, narrated by WellSaid AI Voices!
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Get A Coach | Be A Coach the authors introduce a new framework for coaching that extends the benefits of this powerful tool to the masses. You will see how everyone, at every level of the organization, can get a coach anytime they need one, anywhere they are within the organization and for anything they are doing. Why? So that people can get better results in their job, more fulfillment in the workplace and more growth and development in their careers. For the organization there are also huge benefits:
Facilitating knowledge transfer
Fostering collaboration
Closing the skills gap
Establishing real time, on-demand learning
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You've put together a great training program with interesting content and a user-friendly platform, and you're feeling excited that learners are actually engaging. But then leadership asks to see an ROI for the program, and you're not sure where to look beyond utilization. It can be hard to know how to prove the value of training and tie it to business success.
The Kirkpatrick Model can help you get a complete picture of the success of your training efforts from both a qualitative and quantitative perspective.
In this ebook, you'll learn how to measure the success of your training program through reaction, learning, behavior, and results.
You'll also learn:
How to tie business goals and changed behaviors to training
Tips for getting specific feedback from learners
How to calculate ROI for training
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Our goal is to provide training that is engaging and effective. As more training moves online, it is important to ensure that it offers a natural, enjoyable learning and training experience.
This eBook includes:
Trends
EdTech
Tips & Tricks
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Corporate Learning in Today’s Environment
Since March of 2020, all in-person learning and in-person workshops have been replaced with online sessions on tools like Zoom and Teams. In addition, organizations started to create more online learning programs and deliver them via their Learning Management Systems. But while the combination of Zoom sessions and digital learning might sound like an effective way to deliver learning, the results are not that great. Learners remain passive and isolated, and learning is still completely separated from the employee’s day-to-day work.
Click below to download this eBook from myQuest.
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Localizing your eLearning content can do more than just create a culturally appropriate eLearning experience for your audience, it can also be highly profitable for your organization. In this paper we show you all the ways to capitalize on the benefits of localization.
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What will you find in this report?
2020 was an uncertain time for everyone. Corporate training has faced rapid changes that have revolutionized the way we learn and develop ourselves at work.
In this report, we draw conclusions on the challenges and contradictions associated with skill training in organizations from a survey of 1,500 HR professionals and employees across various sectors. The analysis of the data obtained reveals some tensions between the different actors within the corporate training sector, but also points to some common ground and key trends for 2021.
Download the report and access:
Data obtained from surveys conducted on 1,500 HR professionals and employees from diverse sectors, in the United States, Mexico, France, and Spain
Graphs and infographics that reveal where there is alignment and misalighment between the parties involved in corporate training
Case studies of well-known organizations that support the conclusions drawn from respondents' answers
Opinions of professionals and experts in talent management and development fields
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