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Raluca Cristescu

Raluca Cristescu

Raluca Cristescu has over ten years of experience as a corporate trainer, focused mainly on soft skills for customer service and direct sales. She also enjoys writing about marketing and sharing best practices with knowledge entrepreneurs.

3 Core aspects of building organizational resilience

The pressure of modern business life is very often daunting. Expectations are high and employees have to juggle work responsibilities with family life, friends and things they are passionate about. An...

Boosting organizational leadership with the Process Communication Model

The modern business world is one of constant change and challenges. Rapid technological evolution and a major shift in generations and the way they act in the workplace has made the need for a new typ...

Drilling employee engagement up with a good learning strategy

Ask any CEO about the importance of learning in the organization and the answer will be: it is nothing less than great. It’s commonly acknowledged that L&D is crucial in any business, that it can driv...

Reporting on talent management

There is a saying that goes „dress for the job you want, not for the one you have”. For HR specialists the version is „hire for the needs the organization will have, not for the needs it has now.” The...

On the use of infographics in online training

Infographics are tremendously popular these days. The rise of social media platforms has led to these visually appealing informative items to go viral. They are currently the most shared things, accor...

Bringing down 4 myths about facilitation

My formal education was aimed at becoming a teacher for middle and high school. I decided to gear towards facilitating adult learning after a short but wonderful time as „Teacher” because I felt I nee...

Overcoming the shortcomings of micro-learning

There is a lot of talk about how employees have to do more and more things in a limited time frame and how challenging it is to HR professionals to offer them the support they need, when they need it....

Top 3 strategies for LMS adoption

The process of choosing the right LMS for the organization, figuring out all that it will have to do as well as how much it will all cost, how maintenance will be handled and the results it will have ...

On measuring the impact of learning

The business world is in continuous transformation ever since the digital revolution started and companies need now more than ever to have effective L&D programs and streamlines in place so that they ...

The Elaboration Likelihood Method for instructional design

The digital revolution has brought with it a wide array of tools and apps for instructional designers to employ in order to make learning interventions more engaging and relevant. Since visual stimuli...

Combining the perks of VR training with xApi

Training has always been very important to modern organizations. Starting with onboarding and moving along with products and services, internal procedures and useful skills, employees learned all they...

What L&D professionals need to know about curating learning content

In the beginning, there was the corporate trainer. He was in charge of conducting training needs assessments, designing and delivering learning programs meant to improve employee performance and lead ...

Overcoming the forgetting curve in training courses

L&D specialists constantly search for ways to create courses that are relevant, engaging and that can prove a positive ROI for the business. Teaching methods change, learning environments become incre...

What does a company need an LMS and an LRS for?

Being a learning specialist requires knowing a lot more than how to design and deliver training, whether online or face to face. You also have to be familiar with a lot of acronyms and new ones seem t...

The Crawl, Walk, Run methodology for adopting learning analytics

This post has been updated on March 26, 2020. In a time where everything is rapidly transforming and what is state of the art today becomes nearly obsolete in what seems like an instant, employees dis...

3 Ways to apply scenario-based learning in your training program

The way adults learn has become a field of study rather recently. Its pioneer, Malcom Knowles identified several principles that lead mature learners: Adults are autonomous and self-directed. They req...

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