Best Practices for Creating Online Training for Learners Who Don’t Have Much Time One of the things that learners like about e-learning is that it doesn’t take up as much time as in-person training courses. They don’t have to travel, for example, and they can often progress through the course at their own pace. To ensure learners get maximum benefits …
Essential Topics that Ethical Leadership Training Courses Should Cover
7 Essential Topics that Ethical Leadership Training Courses Should Cover Ethical leadership is essential in modern businesses and organisations. Ethical leaders set standards for their teams, and they inspire those around them. Leaders who behave ethically also reduce corporate risk and enhance brand reputation. Given the crucial role that ethical leadership can play in the success of an organisation, it …
Applying Andragogy When Developing New E-Learning Courses
Applying Andragogy When Developing New E-Learning Courses Andragogy is a term that refers to adult learning concepts, characteristics, principles, and methods. As a result, it has relevance in the modern workplace where staff training is essential for ensuring compliance, maintaining competitiveness, and staying relevant to your customers. How can you apply andragogy when developing new e-learning courses for your team? …
Elements of Excellent E-Learning Courses
4 Elements of Excellent E-Learning Courses A list including everything that should and could be in an e-learning course would run into hundreds of elements, from design features to technical considerations to content elements. While most of those components and features are relevant, there are four absolutely essential elements that, when optimised, make e-learning courses excellent. That last point is …
How to Ensure Consistency in Online Training
How to Ensure Consistency in Online Training Delivering a consistent training experience to the learners is important for a range of reasons that include enhancing the learner experience and ensuring you achieve your training objectives. Maintaining consistency in online training doesn’t happen by chance. You need a strategy and focused effort. The following tips will help ensure consistency in online …
Essential Steps to Retain Knowledge When Employees Leave
5 Essential Steps to Retain Knowledge When Employees Leave Companies in a range of different industries in the Middle East and around the world are prioritising employee retention. The aim is to keep people with the skills and knowledge you need, as those people are hard to replace. Even with the best employee retention efforts and initiatives, there will still …
Adapting to the Modern Learner with Dynamic, Flexible, and Interactive Content
Adapting to the Modern Learner with Dynamic, Flexible, and Interactive Content The learners you target with your e-learning courses and other training materials experience learning in a very different way to experiences of 20 years ago. Today, learning is democratised as anyone can search for any topic and will find a plethora of training materials, from YouTube videos to blogs …
How to Overcome Objections to Corporate Training
How to Overcome Objections to Corporate Training Objections and resistance to training can occur for a variety of reasons, not least the fact that people are generally very busy so see training as an added burden. One answer to objections and resistance is to simply force employees to complete the training. However, this approach will limit the impact of the …
Utilising UX Design Laws to Optimise E-Learning Courses
Utilising UX Design Laws to Optimise E-Learning Courses The most effective e-learning courses are developed using learning experience design (LXD) principles. LXD is a combination of instructional design and (UX) design. Instructional design focuses on achieving learning outcomes while UX design focuses on ensuring the experience of users is as enjoyable, smooth, and hassle-free as possible. In previous blog posts, …
HR Training Best Practices
HR Training Best Practices The HR department plays a crucial role in the success of any organisation. That role covers everything from recruitment and retention to compliance and employee wellbeing. Despite the importance of HR, there often isn’t the same level of training focus for HR staff as there is for staff in other departments, particularly those that are customer-facing …