Editor’s Note

2017 was a boon year for many businesses, but it was also a year when the term “skills gap” entered our everyday lexicon. Employees are becoming increasingly concerned about job security, as rapid advances in technology change the nature of jobs and require technical skills not familiar to many workers.

5 Learning Predictions For 2018: L&D trends to help bridge the burgeoning skills gap

2017 was a boon year for many businesses, but it was also a year when the term “skills gap” entered our everyday lexicon. Employees are becoming increasingly concerned about job security, as rapid advances in technology change the nature of jobs and require technical skills not familiar to many workers.

Training and Development February 2018 Advertisers

New Year’s Resolution - Optimize To Innovate: How to optimize resource allocation

‘New Year, New Me’. During this time of the year, we commit to endless lists of resolutions striving for change and novelty and breakthroughs. We tell ourselves that this time, it will be different. We will follow through, and with ALL of them. But, somewhere inside, we do know that these resolutions will be only that: exciting ideas drafted on a piece of paper forgotten in a drawer of our desk. Except that, this time, we could actually keep our resolutions, if we back them up with an effective approach(1).

Knowledge Sharing: Informal Learning In Organizations

This is the age of the “knowledge worker” – where it is brain power and not brawn that dictates how valuable employees are to an organization. And while many companies spend inordinate amounts of money on formal learning programs for their staff, a lot of organizational knowledge sharing happens in informal settings.

What Makes Microlearning Effective In Employee Training Programs?

Some training administrators are fully on board with microlearning, while others remain skeptical that it could actually be effective within their programs. Where do you stand? Have you already implemented microlearning courses and started seeing the effects? Are you just getting started with it and unsure if it’ll work or not? Maybe you’re curious what all the hubbub is about and still investigating if it’s everything it’s cracked up to be.

5 Tips To Incorporate Peer-Based Coaching In Online Training

Human beings have a natural herding instinct. We are influenced by the behavior, attitudes, and inhibitions of the people around us. On a positive note, this peer influence leads to the development of healthy, functional societies. We can also use positive peer engagement to improve the performance of corporate learners.

Power To The Learner: How social learning is changing

Last year we published Social Learning: How it works in the workplace. It talks about the idea that, if organizations are to nurture social learning, they need to step away from formal, traditional top-down structured delivery mechanisms - and towards a learning culture that empowers individuals to take ownership of their own learning needs. To develop social learning cultures requires a shift in control, or power, from the organization towards the learner.

11 Custom Learning Trends In 2018: Top trends to look out for in 2018

eLearning has gradually evolved to a large-scale industry over the last few years. 2017 witnessed reinvention of various learning technologies and allocation of more budget and investments in eLearning programs, learning management systems, and various educational tools for training employees.

4 Reasons Why Performance Support And mLearning Are A Great Duo: How are both connected?

What is the main goal of training? To ensure that employees acquire more knowledge, meet some compliance standards and/ or perform their tasks in a more efficient manner. No doubt! So, needless to say, organizing training is one of the most important initiatives that a company can undertake.