December 2020

A Training/HR Roadmap for 2021

In 2021, HR and Training managers will need to take a more proactive and more intentional approach toward working to foster a positive culture. Article Author:  Janine Yancey, CEO and Founder, Emtrain If 2020 taught us anything, it’s that there’s no such thing as “normal” and it’s incredibly difficult to predict what’s going to happen […]

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Make the Personal Connection in the New World of Virtual Work

Trainers know how to create learning environments that focus on the emotional side of organizations to help create connection, empathy, and talent development in support of individual and organizational performance in this new world of work. Article Author:  Ross Tartell, Ph.D., Adjunct Associate Professor of Psychology and Education, Columbia University The COVID-19 pandemic has caused

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Improve Employee Engagement in 2021 by Activating the Hidden Experts in Your Organization

Your learning experience platform, when tightly integrated with your learning management system and your performance management system, are essential foundations in sustaining an intentional learning culture. Article Author:  Lars Hyland, Chief Learning Officer, Totara We can all agree that 2020 was a challenge for everyone. While we’re taking some of these challenges with us into

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Training Top 100 Best Practice: MTM, Inc.’s Bench Program

This year-long leadership program is multifaceted to teach the skills, knowledge, and behaviors required to immediately step into a leadership role for new contracts. Article Author:  Edited by Lorri Freifeld As MTM, Inc., continues to grow, the non-emergency medical transportation (NEMT) solutions company must ensure candidates are immediately ready to step into leadership roles when

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Training and Development: The Fuel for Sustaining a Positive Culture

Excerpt from “Culture Spark: 5 Steps to Ignite and Sustain Organizational Growth” by Jason Richmond. Article Author:  Jason Richmond Managing and sustaining a culture shift can take on an energy of its own. The initial stages require intense attention, stimulating excitement, and an intimate awareness of actions. But as time passes, the trend is for

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We Like Stories

Excerpt from “Instructional Story Design: Develop Stories that Train,” by Rance Greene (ATD, April 2020). Article Author:  Rance Greene Your training initiatives take many forms—instructor-led, microlearning, gamification, branching scenarios, virtual reality—and underneath all of it is a solid foundation of instructional design. So why do you need stories? There are three great answers to that

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Remote Learning in a Post-COVID World

Why businesses are rethinking how they train their teams. Article Author:  Hans Kremer, Business Partner, Inchainge Before the devastating impact of COVID-19, many businesses were already looking to move more face-to-face training to remote learning formats for cost and efficiency reasons. Then 2020 arrived, bringing with it the disastrous pandemic. Almost overnight, Learning and Development

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