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...
With the rapid growth of technology in the workforce, more and more employees are choosing remote work. All over the globe, the amount of people working remotely at least once per week has grown by 40...
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....
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...
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...
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...
A version of this post was originally published on January 22, 2019, in Training Journal. The knowledge-based economy is here to stay. Companies operating in a variety of industries are aware that hav...
The base of a healthy diet is finding the optimal balance between the different food groups. Unfortunately there is one big group that is just plain unhealthy and bad for you but so incredibly appeali...
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 ...
As the year is coming to a close, HR departments tend to focus less on learning and development and more on such lovely endeavors as office Holiday parties, team buildings and reward systems for loyal...
Organizations have long gone global. Offices are scattered all over the planet, employees come from various cultures and have different expectations when it comes to their path within the company. Del...
Self-directed learning (SDL) is not a recent concept. One of the leading experts on adult education, Malcolm Knowles, has researched and published studies on what he called the self-directed andragogy...
Recently I was talking to a former colleague from a telecommunications company. She was complaining that very much has changed lately and there are tons and tons of new information, procedures and off...
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...
Whenever somebody says they are going to take a course, we immediately think of something that is lengthy and takes no small amount of effort. That’s mainly because the educational system is still pri...
Recent developments such as Virtual and Augmented Reality as well as the introduction of gamification in corporate learning are changing the face of training. The challenge still remains to engage and...
