Editor's Note

As we step into the New Year, it is the ideal time to review your existing strategies for the training and development of employees and consider making changes for the successful execution of your goals in the new year.

Competency Training Works … Or Does It?: Building the right environment

Not long ago, my CEO, Jim Haudan, shared some thoughts on the downfalls of competency training with me. Don’t worry, he wasn’t panning the entire philosophy of competency training, but instead commented that he didn’t think stand-alone competency trainings – ones that didn’t align with an organization’s culture – made for a very effective learning and development tactic.

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Why Training Millennials Is Not Easy: The problem is their fast communication style

The Center for Creative Leadership found that 70 percent of workplace learning comes from real life, on-the-job experiences, compared to only 10 percent from formal training. So why are companies still investing so much in formal training practices when their employees desire something more their speed?

Developing Your Learning Agility: It can give you an edge in the job market

The pace of change in the business world is accelerating as consumer behavior evolves, new technologies come to the fore and competition grows fiercer. As a result, recruiters and employers are looking for people who are fast learners and agile thinkers - chameleons, who are proficient with technology and who relish change rather than fearing it.

5 Tips To Get More Out Of Performance Support: You need active recall, or spaced repetition

The Ebbinghaus forgetting curve, a psychological theory that asserts 70% of information is forgotten in three days, is a classic reminder of the fragility of human memory. And while the 70% figure is thrown around a lot, but of more concern is his estimation of memory retention after a month: only 3% of information is remembered thirty days after it is presented. While Ebbinghaus conducted his experiments in the late 1800s, his results have been successfully replicated time and time again.

Want Your eLearning Courses to Deliver Results?: 5 mistakes to avoid

Perhaps you’ve been here: Amidst pressure from colleagues or employees, or after reading an online article about training trends, you took the plunge. You started an eLearning program at your organization — and then watched with dismay as it fell short of your goals. What went wrong? Chances are your program fell into at least a few of these five common mistakes:

Hitchiker’s Guide To The eLearning Galaxy: 42 deep thoughts about Michael Allen’s book

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is a story about a race of hyper-intelligent pan-dimensional beings who built a computer named Deep Thought to calculate the Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything. And the answer is: 42.”

7 Things That Motivate And Inspire Corporate Learners: Engaging your learners

Do your employees look forward to online training courses? Or would they rather book an appointment for a root canal? Online training doesn't have to be dread-worthy. But you have to know where your corporate learners' motivations lie. This allows you to create online training experiences that are custom tailored to their needs. Here are the top 7 things that engage and inspire corporate learners to perform at their peak in online training.

Learning Is Evolving: It is an interesting time for learning budget

Companies have struggled mightily with the perennial challenge of learning’s ROI. Corporate leaders want to know just what they are getting with all the money they are spending on L&D, and, historically, it has been difficult to provide the answers. Even as companies move away from providing true ROI and focus more on the performance outcomes of learning, it is critical that organizations have a fundamental understanding of the learning budget first – before they try to figure out what it is producing.