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Start the New Year Right by Focusing on Employees
Happy New Year! Are your learning programs ready for a fresh start or even just a little makeover? The name of the game is driving improvements throughout the organization and throughout 2020. If you...
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To Centralize or Localize? Solving the L&D Locus Issue
One of the many trade-offs in L&D is whether to have instructional design (ID) centralized or localized. Sure, it can be outsourced, but you’re better off developing your proprietary materials...
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Keeping Employees Safe & Satisfied: Keys to Training in the Packaging Industry
The packaging industry has faced increasing scrutiny in recent years as it has had to adjust to ever-changing compliance regulations, integrate new technologies, and adapt to pressure from consumers to...
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Tech Savvy and Time Poor – Training the Modern Worker
In a typical work week, workers have just one per cent of their time to focus on training and development. Now consider that in a typical day, the average person checks their smart phone an average of...
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Onboarding Employees for Great Experiences
It’s generally accepted that onboarding employees is a critical first step in their employee experience. It’s also good for the organization. As a manager, would you like a fully engaged employee or a...
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The ROI of Training Your Employees
Nothing strikes fear into a training manager’s heart quite like the term “ROI.” Trying to prove to leadership that a training program is paying off financially is a daunting task — direct evidence may...
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For the Love of Learning: Love Your LMS
Click to view larger image Ah, February. It’s the month of celebrating love and romance — red roses, boxes of chocolates, a tête-à-tête over a candlelit dinner. But wait! Let's not forget that...
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For the Love of Learning: Love your Content
Click to enlarge We’re not usually prone to being overly promotional on the blog, but… (you knew there was a “but” coming, didn’t you)? This month we’re celebrating things we love and let me tell you,...
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Learning with and from others
My editor here on the SAP Litmos blog, Samantha Lang, commented that she had been hearing quite a bit about “group versus individual learning” the previous week at a learning conference, and wondered...
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For the Love of Learning: Love Your Customers
Click to enlarge image It’s a great time to be a consumer (in both B2C and B2B) because there are so many innovative, exciting new products available across industries from tech to retail to automotive...
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For the Love of Learning: Love Your Partners
Click to enlarge For the final installment in our four-part “For the Love of Learning” series, I was asked to provide some insights on a critical component to success for many organizations – partners!...
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How Should the Learner’s Journey Fit into the Employee Journey?
I’m really encouraged by the amount of focus and attention leaders are beginning to put on the employee experience. Not the specific role or job deliverables, but the overall well-being and journey...
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International Women’s Day 2020: An Investment in Training is an Investment in...
International Women’s Day 2020 is this weekend, Sunday, March 8th! Now, two years after the #MeToo movement and the ripple effect of “that tweet,” we look at the cultural shifts emerging in workplaces...
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Spring Training: Three Ways L&D Can Learn from Baseball
Here in the U.S., we’re right in the heart of Major League Baseball (MLB) Spring Training season. This is the time of year when teams travel to practice facilities in the warm climates of Arizona and...
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Maybe It’s Lucky, but It’s Probably Learning
Every company has its stars. You know the ones. They’re the employees who excel at almost everything they do. Their projects are a success, they seem to have a good instinct for the industry, and...
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In Challenging Times: Make Lemonade in eLearning
In 2009, an SRI team working for the Department of Education led by Barbara Means, reported for the first time, that eLearning was superior to face-to-face. This is in contrast to the work that Kulik...
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Pro Tips for Working from Home Effectively
If you clicked a link to read this, you’re likely working from home. Since mid-March, because of the coronavirus pandemic, many of us have been sent home from our offices and asked to work virtually,...
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Knowledge is Hope: Training in Times of Change & Challenge
Let me start by articulating the most important point of this post: during these exceptionally challenging times, SAP Litmos is committed to supporting our customers and helping you navigate...
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Seven Tips for Training Remote Workers
Many of us are working from home, managing a team remotely, or working in a disrupted environment. It’s the state of the world today. It might feel like the time to press pause on your training and...
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How Will California Assembly Bill 5 Change Gig Worker Training?
Last year, I wrote a blog post about the ways gig economy workers can be enticed to take voluntary training. Training and the gig economy can be a difficult mix for several reasons, but that reality...
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