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Not All Micro-Learning is Created Equal
ej4 HR
SEPTEMBER 1, 2016
Consider a study of online course viewing that came out of the University of Rochester a few years ago. The study examined the average time students spent watching videos of various lengths for their online courses and found that students were watching most of the content in a video when its length was nine minutes or less. The same advice applies to the trend of micro-learning.
Getting Learning to Stick: Go Beyond the Training Program
ej4 HR
FEBRUARY 29, 2016
For example, if your employees take a safety course but still forget to wear the appropriate protective clothing (or wear it [.]. One of the biggest challenges of employee training programs is getting the material to “stick.” If your trainees can’t recall relevant material in the instant they need it, the training was not effective enough. The post Getting Learning to Stick: Go Beyond the Training Program appeared first on. eLearning Training & Development Uncategorized
10 Steps For Growing Your Learning Culture
ej4 HR
JULY 19, 2016
For example, if most of your training is on-site, supplement those courses with an at-home eLearning option. Learning cultures don’t just appear out of nowhere; they take time to cultivate. The The habits of your employees have to be changed at the same time you are changing the attitudes of your managers and the policies of your company or unit. Such wholesale change does pay off , however. They have a 26 percent better track record for delivering quality products. They have 37 percent greater employee productivity. They have a 34 percent better response to customer needs.
Bullying at Work: EEOC Won’t Take It Anymore
ej4 HR
AUGUST 9, 2016
If you would like to see some innovative ways to present compliance and harassment issues to employees, ask for a free trial and checkout our video library for courses on harassment. The term “workplace harassment” often conjures images of 1950s-style gender-based pestering where men made women feel uncomfortable and powerless through comments and touch that would not fly in today’s workplace – “Mad Men” style. The issue has become much wider than just gender though, and is recognized by the U.S. Supreme Court. Abusive, coercive behavior that is repeated and habitual”.
2016 Training Program Best Practices
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Can you hear the collective groan when you launch that new compliance course? Do you get complaints both public and private from trainees about the uselessness of the training courses you've launched? Is there anything that can be done about it
Practical Tools to Enhance Training Reinforcement
ej4 HR
SEPTEMBER 28, 2016
When 80 percent of training courses fail to be recalled by employees, it is important to understand what other elements are needed to retain and apply training information—and how those elements can be worked into existing programs. Of course. For example, you could look across students to see if there are any patterns with regard to groups, courses, or general topics. Understanding which courses are popular and which are lacking participation can help you measure your training progress and communicate future training goals. Will their recall be better now?
Check out our New and Updated Supervision Content
ej4 HR
AUGUST 4, 2015
We’ve updated important managerial lessons such as transitioning from co-worker to boss, becoming a successful delegator, or learning to analyze employee performance, while at the same time, introducing new courses on how to create a workplan and how to become better [.]. ej4 eLearning Management Training management training courses new manager training courses supervision courses supervisor training contentWe’re happy to announce the release of our new and updated Supervision content! The post Check out our New and Updated Supervision Content appeared first on.
Thinkzoom 2.0 is Now Live!
ej4 HR
OCTOBER 20, 2014
Course Tiles. Like groups each course is now contained in its own tile. Each tile has an image of the course, brief description, and displays the length of the course. Here you’ll have access to adding content, the course catalog, messaging, and the administrative functions, if applicable. To remove a course, you just click the blue ‘X’. Groups. Reporting.
6 Tips for Identifying Potential High-Performance Employees
ej4 HR
NOVEMBER 7, 2016
Some training is, of course, mandatory—compliance training, for example. Other training courses might not be mandatory, requiring the employee to show some initiative in identifying what training to pursue and then actually pursuing it. For example, you could have them shadow another employee with more responsibilities, giving them additional training courses, or assign them a small project that requires some organization and decision-making. All organizations want to identify, develop, and deploy their high-performance employees. Do they actively seek out feedback?
Leaving performance reviews behind: Where to start [Guide]
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setting expectations – an eLearning course. participant’s manager, of course! Added Support To provide the extra layer of support, all the course participants are assigned. available to the course delegates on topics. 1Making Dynamic Performance. Development a Reality eGuide 3Introduction Does your organization want to adopt. more dynamic approach to managing. sprints.
How to Communicate With Any Personality Type
ej4 HR
SEPTEMBER 12, 2016
To start honing your communication styles, you should: Learn about the differences – Introverts and extroverts differ in many ways: How they process information, how they work in groups, how they “recharge their batteries,” and of course, how they communicate. Everyone exists somewhere on the continuum from introvert to extrovert. That’s a good thing because both the quiet, introspective introvert and the outgoing, assertive extrovert have their place to communicate in the work environment. Still, leading a team composed of different personality types can be a challenge.
Getting Training to Stick with Bite-Sized Learning
ej4 HR
NOVEMBER 16, 2015
eLearning eLearning Courses Off-the-shelf eLearning Training & Development bite sized learning courses bite sized training videos success with bite-sized learningLet’s be honest: most training does not transfer well into the “real world.” You can sit someone down and expose them to a rigorous 48-hour training session, and even if they ace the material, precious little might come of it. The problem is exactly that traditional format where information is blasted at the learner [.]. The post Getting Training to Stick with Bite-Sized Learning appeared first on.
What is Blended Learning, and Why is it Important?
ej4 HR
JULY 25, 2016
Online courses also allow employees the option to choose their own path through topic areas. Furthermore, employees can take training courses at home in their spare time, leaving them to be more focused and productive during the workweek. Finally, digital formats allow courses to be updated and expanded with little cost outside of content development. Today’s solutions can track which employees accessed which assets and courses, when they did so, how much they watched or read, whether they completed a course, and more. It reduces training costs. Tracking.
Why Performance Reviews Call for Formal Feedback
ej4 HR
SEPTEMBER 6, 2016
There are, of course, many other ways to perfect the performance review process. Employee feedback is a widely recognized way for managers to develop their direct reports, and no event provides a better opportunity for candid feedback than performance reviews. Giving Giving your managers and leaders extra training on reviews is a good way to help them overcome the discomfort that often follows formal feedback situations. Indeed, soft skills like “coaching and providing feedback” are precisely the ones that many of today’s managers lack. Feedback is a Critical Step in Development.
Ditching the formal performance review? Kineo shares 3 Elements for Success
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very logical, of course, until an organization starts to. participant’s manager, of course! Added Support To provide the extra layer of support, all the course participants are assigned. available to the course delegates on topics. From Performance Management. to Performance Development eGuide 2Part 2: A Roadmap. for Change In Part 1 of this eGuide, we explored the confluence. of factors that’s driving change in how performance. is managed and how organizations are moving. away from the traditional annual review process to. more real-time dynamic approach. Moving.
8 Steps to Building Your Talent Pipeline
ej4 HR
JULY 6, 2016
If you’d like to learn more about this or other workplace topics, please feel free to check out our eLearning Course Catalog to get a better idea of how we can help you with all your training needs. The front end of the Baby Boomer cohort—77 million strong —is turning 70 this year, with many of them already retired for a number of years. The back end of this demographic is age 52, with a lot of good work years left. In between are wave upon wave of soon-to-be retirees: deeply skilled and experienced workers leaving the workforce in unprecedented numbers. Consider flexible options.
5 Steps for Proving the ROI of Your Training Investment
ej4 HR
JUNE 21, 2016
The idea, of course, is that organizations can’t afford NOT to train their employees. To learn more about why eLearning is right for you and your organization, check out our Course Library or sign up for a free trial of our eLearning platform, Thinkzoom. There’s an old meme that gets circulated on LinkedIn and other sites, reporting a conversation between a CEO and a CFO: CFO: What happens if we spend all this money training our employees and they leave? CEO: What happens if we don’t, and they stay? But where’s the proof? Employee loyalty? The bottom line? That’s a 353% ROI.
Applying Path-Goal Theory to Corporate Training
ej4 HR
DECEMBER 10, 2014
You may find they really like the course videos but wish they had more opportunities to put the information they learned into practice. Path-goal theory is a system of leadership that emphasizes the setting and achieving of goals. Leaders use a path-goal approach because it’s designed to increase employee motivation, empower team members and boost productivity. Directive. Supportive.
How Should You Present Statistics So People “Get” Them?
ej4 HR
DECEMBER 29, 2015
eLearning Content Training & Development presenting data in training courses presenting stats in trainingIn business, few things carry more weight than a well-researched statistic. And few things are just as easily misunderstood. Why are stats so perplexing? Put simply, our brains are not wired to readily understand abstract percentages and large numbers. They are much better at comprehending smaller groupings and relationships. To get a fact across, it [.]. The post How Should You Present Statistics So People “Get” Them? appeared first on.
Move Beyond Learning to Applying: A Modern Management Development Program
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course, deliberate practice in the real-world. kineo.com [email protected] 312-846-6656 Of course, we’re not the first to use such. 1 kineo.com [email protected] 312-846-6656 Hard to believe that it’s been almost 20 years since the term “eLearning” entered the corpo- rate learning lexicon. And just in the last five years, the velocity at which new solutions have entered. We now.
How to Prepare Your Company for eLearning Training Tools
ej4 HR
DECEMBER 15, 2014
Of course, you can follow up video-watching sessions with in-person collaborative meetings in which employees discuss what they learned. According to a study published in the journal Computers and Education, employee satisfaction is made up of several elements : learner computer anxiety, eLearning course flexibility, instructor attitude toward eLearning, perceived usefulness of the training, quality of the eLearning courseware, perceived ease of use and diversity in assessments. Furthermore, they must consider how they’ll ensure the program satisfies employees needs.
5 Ways Teaching a Skill is Like Marketing a Product
ej4 HR
DECEMBER 29, 2015
Of course. Cards on the table: We’ve been talking to some marketing professionals recently. Besides being interesting people, they taught us a few things…like teaching a skill is, in a lot of ways, like marketing a product. For example: Don’t just provide information. In marketing, you do have a “core message” to get across. But [.]. The post 5 Ways Teaching a Skill is Like Marketing a Product appeared first on. eLearning Training & Development Uncategorized teaching a skill and marketing training is like marketing
The True Cost of Poor Project Management
ej4 HR
JULY 12, 2016
To see some of our quality courses on these topics, simply request a free 15-day trial. A study conducted by PricewaterhouseCooper found that only a mere 2.5% of companies complete all the projects they set out to do, and about 1 in 6 projects had a cost overrun of 200% or more. We thought it worth following up to see if anything had improved over the past couple of years—and if not, why not? Another Wake-Up Call on Poor Project Management. What we found were even more sobering statistics to add to the list. They reported that, for every $1 billion spent on projects in the U.S.,
The True Cost of Poor Project Management
ej4 HR
JULY 12, 2016
To see some of our quality courses on these topics, simply request a free 15-day trial. A study conducted by PricewaterhouseCooper found that only a mere 2.5% of companies complete all the projects they set out to do, and about 1 in 6 projects had a cost overrun of 200% or more. We thought it worth following up to see if anything had improved over the past couple of years—and if not, why not? Another Wake-Up Call on Poor Project Management. What we found were even more sobering statistics to add to the list. They reported that, for every $1 billion spent on projects in the U.S.,
The Performance Management Storm: Four Macro-Trends Driving the Change
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adjust course on a periodic schedule? 1Why Your Company Will Need to. Rethink Performance Management eGuide Part 1: The Argument. for Change 2 3About this Guide Organizations are increasingly. moving from traditional performance. management systems (organized as. an annual review process) to newer. performance development systems. organized around real-time dynamics). happening now. If the.
8 Steps to Building Your Talent Pipeline
ej4 HR
JULY 6, 2016
If you’d like to learn more about this or other workplace topics, please feel free to check out our eLearning Course Catalog to get a better idea of how we can help you with all your training needs. The front end of the Baby Boomer cohort—77 million strong —is turning 70 this year, with many of them already retired for a number of years. The back end of this demographic is age 52, with a lot of good work years left. In between are wave upon wave of soon-to-be retirees: deeply skilled and experienced workers leaving the workforce in unprecedented numbers. Consider flexible options.
5 Steps for Proving the ROI of Your Training Investment
ej4 HR
JUNE 21, 2016
The idea, of course, is that organizations can’t afford NOT to train their employees. To learn more about why eLearning is right for you and your organization, check out our Course Library or sign up for a free trial of our eLearning platform, Thinkzoom. There’s an old meme that gets circulated on LinkedIn and other sites, reporting a conversation between a CEO and a CFO: CFO: What happens if we spend all this money training our employees and they leave? CEO: What happens if we don’t, and they stay? But where’s the proof? Employee loyalty? The bottom line? That’s a 353% ROI.
Positive Ways to Deal with Toxic Employees
ej4 HR
JUNE 14, 2016
If you would like to find out more about managing employee behaviors, start a trial of Thinkzoom so you can check out our video courses on topics like change management, managing negativity, organization, and more. We all have workplace habits that could themselves use a little work. Sometimes though, bad habits combined with bad attitudes can create a toxic combination that spills over and affects whole teams. There are many toxic behaviors that may be present in your workplace, but it’s important to consider looking out for the unproductive behaviors such as: . Disorganization. Gossip.
Positive Ways to Deal with Toxic Employees
ej4 HR
JUNE 14, 2016
If you would like to find out more about managing employee behaviors, start a trial of Thinkzoom so you can check out our video courses on topics like change management, managing negativity, organization, and more. We all have workplace habits that could themselves use a little work. Sometimes though, bad habits combined with bad attitudes can create a toxic combination that spills over and affects whole teams. There are many toxic behaviors that may be present in your workplace, but it’s important to consider looking out for the unproductive behaviors such as: . Disorganization. Gossip.
The Performance Management Storm: Four Macro-Trends Driving the Change
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adjust course on a periodic schedule? 1Why Your Company Will Need to. Rethink Performance Management eGuide Part 1: The Argument. for Change 2 3About this Guide Organizations are increasingly. moving from traditional performance. management systems (organized as. an annual review process) to newer. performance development systems. organized around real-time dynamics). happening now. If the.
Succession Planning: Solving Issues Before They Form
ej4 HR
JUNE 7, 2016
If you are interested in ways to equip your next generation of leaders with the skills they need using engaging but quick eLearning videos, check out our Leadership Training courses today! In day-to-day operations and their accompanying challenges in IT, marketing, compliance, and so forth, there often isn’t time to focus on projected problems. Unfortunately, most organizations are ill-prepared for those changes. The survey also revealed that about 25 percent of companies have done no succession planning whatsoever. Identify the essential positions in your organization.
Succession Planning: Solving Issues Before They Form
ej4 HR
JUNE 7, 2016
If you are interested in ways to equip your next generation of leaders with the skills they need using engaging but quick eLearning videos, check out our Leadership Training courses today! In day-to-day operations and their accompanying challenges in IT, marketing, compliance, and so forth, there often isn’t time to focus on projected problems. Unfortunately, most organizations are ill-prepared for those changes. The survey also revealed that about 25 percent of companies have done no succession planning whatsoever. Identify the essential positions in your organization.
How to Create Leaders Your Employees Will Follow
ej4 HR
JUNE 2, 2016
And, of course, they encourage good work. There is a perpetual debate on whether leaders are born or made (or both). Whatever the truth may be, there is always going to be a gap between a high-potential employee and the leader he or she can, and hopefully will, become. The job of development is to fill that gap and make leaders that employees willingly follow. Employees naturally want to follow good leaders, and while many leaders are charming or energetic, that charisma will only bring them so far. Employees will only continue to follow someone who supports and challenges them.
How to Create Leaders Your Employees Will Follow
ej4 HR
JUNE 2, 2016
And, of course, they encourage good work. There is a perpetual debate on whether leaders are born or made (or both). Whatever the truth may be, there is always going to be a gap between a high-potential employee and the leader he or she can, and hopefully will, become. The job of development is to fill that gap and make leaders that employees willingly follow. Employees naturally want to follow good leaders, and while many leaders are charming or energetic, that charisma will only bring them so far. Employees will only continue to follow someone who supports and challenges them.
4 Ways to Close the Learning-Doing Gap for Front-Line Managers [GUIDE]
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manager, of course! FOUR WAYS TO CLOSE THE. LEARNING-DOING GAP FOR. FRONT-LINE MANAGERS 4FOREWORD We’re in business to help organizations. achieve their goals by making sure their. employees have the knowledge and skills. they need to succeed. Our experience. and research led us to identify that one. audience organizations consistently. struggle to do this well for is front-line. managers.
The Complex Levels of Content Curation and Vetting
ej4 HR
OCTOBER 26, 2016
The content itself is important, of course, but merely gathering the content together is insufficient for training. Putting the content in logical order and creating courses of study. Customizing content and courses for specific needs. The downside, of course, is that this content has not been vetted. In training and development, content is important.
7 Secrets for Setting and Communicating Priorities
ej4 HR
OCTOBER 18, 2016
Setting them forces us to sometimes choose one course of action over another, or one activity over another. If you’ve ever stayed to finish a report instead of heading off to lunch, gone for a morning run instead of grabbing an extra 20 minutes in bed, or sat through a kid’s school play, you’re familiar with setting priorities. Setting priorities isn’t just about choosing to do one thing over another; it’s about choosing to do important things first so that you can achieve your long-term goals. Once priorities are established, they help us to stay organized and on-task. Write them down!
Why Are Home Learning Courses a Great Alternative to University Courses for Employers?
Get Hppy
OCTOBER 1, 2016
For a long time, distance learning or correspondence courses as they were sometimes known, had a stigma attached to them. The quality of the materials and the course itself were suspect. People thought that these home education courses were easier, simply a case of ticking a few boxes and reading a few paragraphs could lead to a qualification. Progress in home study education.
Free Online Courses to Boost Your Tech Career
Dice
JUNE 2, 2016
The growth of free online college courses and training programs has made it possible to enhance your résumé or acquire foundational knowledge at a pace that suits your needs. Completing a few of these courses over the summer can help you move into a hot specialty or management role as early as next fall. Big Data. Big data fundamentals. Intro to Hadoop and MapReduce (Udacity).





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