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What You Need to Know about SCORM If you use computerized training materials of any kind, you need to understand what SCORM is and what it can do for you. This article will tell you what you need to know. What Is SCORM Compliant? “Sharable Content Object Reference Model,” or SCORM serves as a Reference…
You have a group of trainees. You have stuff you want to teach them – skills, behaviors or information you want them to absorb. That’s the usual situation before most companies start to design training. But what kind of training will most effectively deliver the knowledge you want to teach, and in the most cost-efficient…
Our dynamic Tortal Training team is looking forward to meeting you at ATD’s TK 2017 Reimagine Learning Conference in Las Vegas this week. The conference will be happening from January 11-13 at Caesars Palace. Please stop by and visit us at booth 413! When you visit, we’ll be pleased to discuss the training…
Our Editorial Team had a busy year researching and writing post for the Tortal Blog. Here’s a list for your review. If you see a post that you would like to read, just click on its name and it will open in a new window. All of us at Tortal Training wish you every success…
Not long ago, a leading brand of cosmetics started hiring brand ambassadors. Those reps would travel to retail stores to see whether products were being correctly displayed on shelves, whether new displays were being used and, on occasion, to hand out samples and coupons. The company assumed that mostly millennial-aged applicants (born between about…
“Total nonfarm payroll employment increased by 287,000 in June, and the unemployment rate rose to 4.9 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Job growth occurred in leisure and hospitality, health care and social assistance, and financial activities. Employment also increased in information, mostly reflecting the return of workers from a strike.”…
Everything is going mobile . . . shouldn’t you??!!!! Maybe you have thick old training manuals that you’d like to convert for delivery on mobile devices. Or how about those old lessons that you’ve been delivering on computer terminals in your company’s training room? Isn’t it time to adapt them for delivery on your trainees’…
Since the ADDIE training model was developed at Florida State University in 1975, training designers have added their own tweaks and improvements to the way it works. But despite all the refinements over the years, ADDIE is still worth knowing about. It provides a useful structure for planning and implementing your training. Let’s review the…
If you have service workers who work in multiple locations, you know how labor-intensive and costly it can be to create a training program for them all. You have to deliver hands-on training to your employees in all your franchises, restaurants, hotels and health club food concessions, no matter where they work. You might…
Improve training results and cut costs with this advice from our free downloadable ebook Six Tips for Successfully Training a Distributed Workforce There are many ways to get creative when training employees who work in multiple company locations. But when you analyze them, you realize that distributed training really comes in three basic formats….
