It’s Time to Move All Your Training to Mobile Devices . . . Or Is It?
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’…
The Science of Planning Your Training Day around Energy Highs and Lows
“The Ideal Work Schedule, As Defined by Circadian Rhythms,” an article by Christopher M. Barnes in The Harvard Business Review, explores the energy peaks and valleys that most people experience through the course of a day. The author writes that it is important to consider those biological rhythms when planning employees’ work schedules ….
How Effective Is Social Media for Training?
“Don’t Be Lazy with Social Learning,” a post that Chris Browning wrote for the ATD Learning Technologies Blog on April 6th, makes some excellent points about why social media channels can be ineffective for learning purposes. To quote from his post . . . “If I see a three-minute video or read a blog that…
Don’t Forget Soft Metrics when Evaluating Training Success
Because the first aim of training is to improve the way people do things, all training programs measure hard metrics like these after training is done: Are our salespeople making more sales calls, closing more sales, or increasing the size of the average order? Have our product assemblers increased their output and reduced the number…
Case Study: Low-Cost Ways to Boost Training Results
How much does it cost to breathe fresh life into an under-performing training program? Is it even worth trying, or do you need to discard what you have and start designing all over again from the beginning? Many companies assume that it cannot be done without incurring enormous expenses. But that is often not the…
New Study Points Up Need for Focused, Cost-Effective Training
If you’d like to know where American companies are spending most of their training dollars today, you’ll find out by reading the Brandon Hall Group’s 2015 Training Study. Let’s review some of the study’s findings. The Cost to Develop One Hour of Training Increased Nearly 13% between 2014 and 2015 The study found that in…
Basic Training: How to Use the ADDIE Framework to Design Better Training
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…
What is Brand Training? Why Do You Need It?
Have you ever had an experience like one of these? You were impressed by the service-oriented salespeople at the appliance store where you bought your new stove. But the people who came to deliver and install it were hurried and couldn’t answer your questions. Plus, they tracked dirt into your house. You visited a fast…
Be Sure Not to Violate Copyright Laws when Creating Training Materials
As you’re putting the finishing touches on your training materials, you hunt around online and find the perfect video, image or quote to insert. You’re tempted to grab it and insert it – it’s there online for the taking, right? You can’t get in much trouble, can you? An attorney who specializes in intellectual property…
