For learning and development executives, training needs to be tied directly to business outcomes. It is safe to say that the future of the learning function lies not in pushing stale 'interactive' tutorials that simply require a box to be checked once they are completed.
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Employee training is supposed to be all about helping employees get better at doing their jobs.
Study: 90 Percent of New Skills Are Lost after Training
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Elearning programs usually fail because they deliver the right content at the wrong time: employees do not want to sit through day-long training sessions for seemingly irrelevant material (think Death by PowerPoint).
In a recent Harvard Business Review article, 'Is Your Company Encouraging Employees to Share What They Know?', author Christopher Myers points out that while organizations invest significant resources in handbooks, protocols, formal mentoring programs, and knowledge management systems to share...
As companies launch new products, hire new workers, open new offices, or incorporate new technologies -- essentially, as companies grow -- they find the need to provide training. Good training, that is, training that is current and readily accessible, that doesn't disrupt the day-to-day business,...