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...
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 ...
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...
One of the most daunting challenges that instructional designers face today are shrinking budgets. They are often asked to do more with less and even though everybody always says “there are a lot of g...
Once upon a time, in a kingdom far far away, there lived a … If you are already interested in who that enigmatic character is and what adventures he engaged in, you are human. We have a natural inclin...
Self-direction seems to be a major trend in today’s organizations. This applies not only to everyday tasks and projects but also to the way employees want to learn. With L&D budgets getting smaller an...
Any L&D specialist working in a large organization will list at the top of ‘challenges faced everyday’ the ever present gaps in communication. These happen for a number of reasons – sometimes the over...
When talking about training, most people refer solely to the actual learning intervention, whether it happens in a classroom or online. The biggest challenge of training is to prove effective even aft...
There is a lot of talk these days about how modern employees are very volatile. Millennials in particular are described as these utterly selfish individuals who on one hand care about big things such ...
People have been proudly displaying their diplomas for as long as they have been around. We are used to seeing framed pieces of paper on the walls of all professionals we see – from physicians to psyc...
If you ask children what they have done at school on a given day, they will most probably tell you all about how a teacher had funny hair, how two colleagues got into an argument or how the fish taco ...
On one hand, the latest word is that our attention span is growing shorter and shorter due to all the technological developments. We forget stuff on our grocery lists, we forget names, we can’t possib...
Motion pictures have become something all of us are used to. We wait for our favorite franchises to come out, we frantically search for trailers and previews online and some of the most often used ref...
Not two years ago, on a warm summer night I happened to be the beneficiary of free and reliable babysitting – the grandparents had come over to spend quality time with the baby. There was a foreign fi...
One of the greatest issues leaders face in today’s business world is getting their teams to listen, internalize and apply what they are advocating. There are several reasons this happens. First of all...
When I first started out as a corporate trainer it was very easy for me as I mainly focused on customer service courses and I had been a customer service representative with that particular company fo...
