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Have you considered virtual team building?

Working in an office has the advantage of bringing people together in the literal sense. They genuinely get to know one another, share coffee breaks, brainstorm ideas, and give or receive help. This i...

5 Tips for managing your remote team so it runs smoothly and efficiently

Managers already have a lot to deal with in today’s volatile business environment. The switch to mostly remote work has come with even more challenges and major shifts in employee needs and expectatio...

What you need to know about employee advocacy

Sunday is a trip day for my family. We have this “tradition” of having take-out food when we return home – always from the same chain restaurant, close to our house. While the menu is wonderful and th...

5 Tips on how to coach a hybrid workforce

A decade ago, work from home was a very rare thing. As of 2020, it has become the norm, and with the global situation getting to some kind of (new) normal, most organizations are moving towards a hybr...

Using the 5 Whys technique for better instructional design

L&D departments get training requests all the time. It’s a good thing because that the organization values learning. However, the result will be far from good when a training intervention is not reall...

Why every company should embrace an agile mindset

It’s already a cliché to say that organizations are facing enormous challenges due to the health crisis that has been raging for the past year and a half and shows no signs of slowing down. As it ofte...

Building a data-driven training strategy in 5 steps

It's widely believed that data is the new gold. In a world of algorithms, the Internet of Things, and quantum computing, the amount of data generated by users is virtually unlimited. However, to make ...

How to plan online training programs so you save time and money

I’m sure that most L&D professionals feel like laughing at the concept of planning e-learning. As crazy as the last couple of years have turned out, there’s been absolutely no time to plan anything. I...

7 Ways to keep employees motivated post-pandemic

A version of this post was originally published on July 15, 2021, in HR News. As the CEO of an e-learning company, I have had the opportunity to work with hundreds of clients from diverse industries. ...

What you need to know about accountability in the workplace

Some two decades ago, accountability was only a fancy word for a manager’s prerogative to offer constructive feedback (often used as a euphemism for criticism) during performance appraisals. Employees...

Putting to good use the 5S Kaizen model in L&D

Kaizen is a Japanese concept that means “continuous improvement”. Widely used in Japan across many industries, it is a key management strategy used in manufacturing to improve productivity and standar...

How e-learning makes employee certifications simpler

We tend to look at 2020 for all the disasters it sent our way. Yet, the rise in e-learning that resulted from the pandemic has had benefits across industries. While we definitely would prefer 2020 had...

Possible obstacles in implementing blended learning and how to deal with them

Blended learning has proved it’s not an L&D fad but an organic development in the business world. This approach to corporate L&D is the right answer to the demands of a very dynamic (and often unpredi...

What instructional designers need to know about blended learning

I’ve been in corporate training for well over a decade. Even back in my early days as an instructional designer, we tried our best to have various training methods. Granted, back then, much of the div...

3 Ways online training is revolutionizing workplace safety

Workplace training isn’t always fun or engaging. Classroom learning tends to run long, can be redundant, and eats into time workers might otherwise spend solving problems and making money. But trainin...

4 Tips for using visuals in instructional design

We have so many design apps and picture libraries at our disposal that it’s both an opportunity and a challenge to create amazing visuals in instructional design. The upside is that anyone can build o...

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