The 2021 LinkedIn Learning Report listed upskilling and reskilling as one of the top three areas of focus for L&D programs. While continuous professional development increasingly resonates with the modern workforce, engaging learners for the long term continues to pose a challenge among employers whose teams are likely already juggling a variety of priorities. More than that, constant cultural shifts present even more challenges for effectively providing impactful learning experiences that take training beyond initial onboarding and compliance. Fortunately, the eLearning market continues to diversify, creating more opportunities for creative content, customizable solutions, and increased engagement in order to supercharge online training. 

Research shows that MOST multiple-choice questions include mistakes that damage assessment quality and validity. These mistakes lead to frustration and unfair assessments. They supply bad or unusable data about whether test-takers gained needed knowledge and skills.  

Listen people, your job is hard enough—don’t let technology get in the way! Whether it’s training for 10 or thousands, Bob Pike Group webinars include a producer in the background every time. Like a caddy to a golfer, a producer helps you avoid the bunkers of live virtual training. Join Kim to learn how you can play this essential role for colleagues or ramp someone up to assist you.

Download this Practitioner’s Guide to learn how to redesign and modernize the academy model to effectively build skills, cultivate talent, and generate loyalty and retention among employees in this new world of virtual work and talent wars. Learn how to:  Rethink talent academies so they are relevant, attainable and invaluable for any business Design a learning program that is highly contextualized to roles and jobs, developing skills that employees can apply in real-time Execute on a foolproof 10-step plan for developing your own talent academy

If you look at video games today, virtually all games have animations built into them. While we can’t develop high-end animations, we can look at stepping up animations you see in simpler games like card games. How does your eLearning stack up against common and simple games? This is important because your learners are looking at your course through eyes that have experienced a variety of games. While tools like Captivate have animations built-in, they are not interactive and are limited in what they can do.  

Is "we’ve always done it this way" a common attitude at your organization? While traditional assessments can help with upskilling, companies such as Paychex, 3M, and Honeywell are getting superior results by using newer video-based practice and coaching techniques as an integral part of their L&D strategy. From sales pitches to soft skills, your learners can become rockstar communicators by applying and validating knowledge transfer using the unique benefits of video.

Cybercrime costs companies and countries billions of dollars each year. Most of us think of getting hacked when someone is phishing or has hijacked our email account. But serious cyber attacks have, and continue, to take place. These attacks put so much of our data and service access at major risk.

In the midst of the pandemic, the shift towards digital transformation accelerated—as did the seemingly permanent trend toward remote work. But new remote and hybrid office strategies make it harder than ever to manage productivity, cultivate personal connections, and motivate and inspire teams. Today, managers and employees must rethink how they communicate, collaborate, and develop trust in hybrid workplaces. At the same time, it’s critical to understand productivity is now directly tied to the flexibility and satisfaction that people get from their work. In this Idea Brief, featuring key points from a virtual event discussion with HBS Professor Tsedal Neeley, learn the critical elements that need to be addressed as we shift to a potentially permanent hybrid work environment: Why hybrid environments require organizational flexibility and a centralized approach Why cognitive swift trust and emotional trust are critically important for success Why leaders must consciously decide which digital tools to use in different situations Why regular team relaunches are an essential tool when leading virtually And why it is important to get new work environments right as we prepare for the impending digital revolution

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

Failures and errors happen each time work is undertaken. Their costs are damaging when they are undetected early on or devastating when persistently ignored. 

As we know, the most important component of a company are their employees. Studies have shown that most barriers that lead to employee attrition are people related. Replacing a lost employee is far more costly than training and inspiring leaders and employees while they are on payroll. Helping leaders and employees to understand how to improve their skills to improve their impact on organizations is a key component that is often over-looked.

Using Failures and Errors as Learning Opportunities - Ray Jimenez

When people’s heads are down, "performing, performing, performing," where can learning fit in? If there is no room for learning and development (L&D), then performance will soon suffer. An organization’s success is dependent on their employees’ skills development and continuous learning opportunities.

What if you designed virtual training sessions that were so engaging and effective people clamored to attend? With the pivot to remote work, web and video conferencing have become essential tools in the learning professional’s tool kit. Are you ready to move beyond stale slide presentations and boring chat discussions to develop truly engaging learning experiences? Learn how to leverage your participants’ need for practical, relevant content that is immediately applicable to their jobs. Recognize how to increase effective collaboration in virtual training sessions. Design challenging case examples that people want to solve with their peers.  

Video conferencing continues to fuel remote training, but is it really the best tool to use for all of your learning and development needs? Distributed teams require information in the flow of work, and repeated live training has put significant pressure on team schedules and bandwidth.

In this webinar, we will provide you with the essentials for converting traditional classroom training to the virtual classroom. Learn how to leverage the virtual classroom as a tool to maximize your training reach and address the immediate need to shift to virtual classroom training. 

The pandemic forced most L&D functions to throw out their in-person, instructor-led, learning playbooks and start asking, "How do I get all my learning online, ASAP?" Several months later, leaders realised that they might never get all their classroom training online, and what’s more, maybe that shouldn’t be the goal. The ways people work are changing; the methods companies use to learn must keep pace with those changes. Learning methods—literally, the ways people learn—are key to the question of how companies can enable learning and upskilling differently. Over the past few months, RedThread have investigated both the methods themselves and how organisations are choosing them. They looked at over 60 articles, hosted a roundtable on the topic, and talked in depth with 15 learning leaders. This report outlines what they found, including: An overview of learning methods and how they align to RedThread’s Employee Development Framework How leaders are deciding (on a continual basis) what methods work best for their orgs Real-life examples of how orgs are leveraging learning methods in different ways to help employees develop

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

You can't improve what you can't measure. With a growing emphasis on upskilling and reskilling in the training industry, learning leaders are challenged with effectively evaluating skills gaps.  For an accurate evaluation, though, assessments should mirror the real-world environment, be relevant to the learner's job role, and evaluate specific skills at the task level.  

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