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Livia Bran

Livia Bran

Livia is the Head of Content at CYPHER LEARNING. She writes about edtech, workplace learning, knowledge entrepreneurship, and other e-learning-related topics.

5 Common mistakes to avoid when implementing remote training

More businesses are becoming increasingly reliant on their employees working away from the office, especially in recent months. While remote work benefits are undeniable, having a dispersed remote tea...

How to restructure your business for remote success

Despite the fact that many states and many businesses around the nation are beginning to open up, many remain closed with nothing but uncertainty for the future. One thing is for certain, though: the ...

8 Cybersecurity best practices to keep your small business safe online

Running a business nowadays is as challenging as ever. There are plenty of things requiring managers’ attention at any moment of any day, all of the utmost importance. Cybersecurity is one of them. Fo...

How L&D can embrace digital to solve fundamental training problems

The L&D landscape is being transformed by the Fourth Industrial Revolution. The Internet of Things, cloud networks or cyber physical systems are taking over the workplace, as the knowledge economy con...

Will Artificial Intelligence make face-to-face training redundant?

Artificial Intelligence is one of the most important things humanity is working on. It is more profound than electricity or fire. These are the words of Google CEO Sundar Pichai, speaking at an event ...

4 Ways to encourage collaboration within a remote workforce

In an age where technology is creating a more flexible workforce, the question that many business experts are asking is ‘Are remote teams the future of the workplace?’. The fact is, more and more youn...

Building a knowledge-sharing organizational culture

This post was originally published on October 22, 2018, in Modern Australian. The workplace of today is made up of people belonging to up to five generations. Each and every one of them knows things t...

Making your e-learning interface mobile-friendly

The rise of e-learning in the past decade has now coincided with a more recent wave, in the form of mobile computing. As fresh batches of learners use more versatile devices, e-learning providers are ...

How video-based courses make training more effective

Effective training is a necessity for personal and professional development regardless of the purpose for which it was taken. In an organization, training is used for many reasons ranging from masteri...

How technology is making us more productive

This post has been updated on March 12, 2020. The face of business is rapidly and constantly changing with the extensive use of technology. Humans have come a long way since the mass panic in the Indu...

Exploring the link between quality of sleep and personal excellence

After years of progress and incredible breakthroughs in all aspects of how the human body works, there are still many things to be discovered. Especially about the brain. One of these things, which I ...

What is GDPR and why should talent development professionals care?

If you've been online in the past few months and especially in the past few days, you've no doubt stumbled across the acronym GDPR. Perhaps there were news titles about it, maybe some ads, definitely ...

On employee motivation to work and to learn: 17 TED Talks

One of the first things we learn in Economics about making people perform better at work is how reinforcement and punishment modify people’s behavior. In a workplace setting that would mean that when ...

Why Millennials prefer blended learning

Many words have been spoken and written about Millennials: they're entitled, they're lazy, the "prefer" avocado toast to owning a house, they kill things. The world will never be the same as it was BM...

5 Non-negotiable features to expect from any business LMS [Infographic]

A Learning Management System is like an ecosystem made out of an array of features, that together form a complete learning and training solution. The LMS of today has come a long way since technology ...

Expanding your company L&D strategy to CoPs

We often say that people are the most important resource a company can have and that the success of any organization is directly connected to its people. However, it is often the case in many companie...

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