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New Springtime Rituals for Learning Pros in 2020
A global coronavirus crisis has put most information workers at home for the foreseeable near future and has changed the flow of business for many companies. On a positive note, experts and companies...
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Emotion in Learning
The behavioral and cognitive views of learning essentially viewed us as formal logical beings. And while a nice conception, it turns out to have little correlation to reality. More recent research,...
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Make Employee Training More Than A Checkbox
Over the past few years, one of the key messages I’ve shared with my fellow training, L&D, and HR people has been to shift the mindset around employee training. In the past, training has been...
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Reduce Emissions With Distance Learning
Tomorrow is Earth Day 2020 and here on the SAP Litmos blog, we'll be dedicating several posts this month to the various ways that eLearning is a better choice for the environment than traditional,...
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Celebrate Earth Day 2020 by Committing to eLearning
Today and all month long, we’re honoring Earth Day. It’s the 50th anniversary of this tradition, which began as an organized call to action – when on April 22, 1970, 20 million Americans gathered in...
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Star Wars: Light Years of Learning
Happy Star Wars Day, all! Fans of the iconic film series chose this day (originally, way back in 1979) to honor the magnificent franchise and its legendary creator and director, George Lucas. May the...
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Learning from Our Mothers: 8 Lessons from the World's Greatest Trainers
We might pride ourselves on our top-notch LMS and training content, and how it can help learners develop as professionals and as people. But let us be the first to admit: many of life’s most important...
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Tackling Transitions in Your Employee Experience
Organizations have learned a lot collectively in the last few weeks and months. They learned how to transition to a digital workplace, whether that was in their annual plan or not. They moved from...
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How Learning in the Flow of Work Can Help Remote Workers
How much time for training do your workers really have? Two years ago, according to LinkedIn’s annual workforce learning report managers’ biggest training challenge was that employees weren’t making...
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Making Small Learnings Work
The label "micro-learning" refuses to die. You’d think, like most hype-driven buzzwords, it would have faded away. Its very persistence suggests, instead, that there’s some legitimate appeal. And,...
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Five Effective Check-ins to Gauge & Improve Remote Learner Experience
We’re all learners right now. Most workers, still clocking in from home, are learning skills they didn’t know they needed. We’re learning skills like how to look professional and polished on surprise...
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5 Ways to Keep Quarantine-Weary Learners Engaged In Training
It’s the start of June. That means it’s been 12 weeks since the Coronavirus pandemic sent most knowledge workers home to work remotely. We’ve been taking Zoom meetings, working out of bedrooms,...
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Training’s Renewed Role in a Rapidly Changing World
I’ve had a song stuck in my head this week. Unfortunately, it’s Cruel Summer by the 1980’s pop band Bananarama. Admittedly, summer doesn’t technically start until June 20th in the Northern Hemisphere,...
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The Father Effect: Lessons Learned from Our Dads
As we approach Father’s Day, a familiar tune has been circling my brain all week. “Teach Your Children” by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young is a song my dad introduced me to during one of our many road...
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How to Build a Simple Digital Learning Strategy that Works
Getting started with digital learning can be deceptively simple. Buy some online content, put the content into a platform, then market it to your audiences to increase use. Voila! You have a digital...
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Learning & Dev's Positive Deviance Approach
We, in learning & development, often focus on fixing what’s wrong. We try to find guidance on how to do it right, and then build learning around it. We’re reactive, in that sense. Can we do better?...
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Independence Day: Celebrating the Freedom to Connect and Learn
As the U.S. prepares for our annual Fourth of July celebrations this coming weekend, this year takes on a different tone as we continue to endure the COVID-19 coronavirus crisis. There will be very few...
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How Would Hamilton Launch a Learning Program?
As you may have heard, Disney+ recently released a filmed version of the Broadway smash hit, 'Hamilton'. For those of you who aren’t familiar, 'Hamilton' is a musical created by Lin-Manuel Miranda,...
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Looking Ahead to Learning in the Post-COVID Workplace
Organizational learning is going through a seismic shift. The COVID-19 pandemic has created a new world of remote workers, with no chance for in-person classroom training. Delivering digital learning...
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Conferences are Cancelled: Making L&D Community Connections in Lockdown
The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the way we work and learn, but it’s also changed another fundamental thing about the L&D community: how we connect. We’re halfway through 2020. By this point in a...
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