learning re-imagined

What the Most Popular e-Learning Courseware Tells Training Leaders

2010-03-11T10:56:55-05:00

By Tim Hildreth Do you know what your audience’s e-learning priorities are for the year ahead? Every year as SkillSoft looks back at the most popular corporate courseware across our many customers, I always find it fun to pick out the trends for the year ahead. 2009’s top 100 business skills courses included stand-by topics like Communication and Professional Development, but also showed strong use in the areas of Leadership and Management. It is encouraging to me in these times to see companies and employees working on improving skills in these key areas. In terms of Professional Development, we can...

Want to Close the Employee Engagement Gap? Offer Growth and Learning Opportunities

2010-03-08T16:21:27-05:00

By Shawn Hunter There's an old adage that goes like this: you take the job for the money, stay for the people, and leave because of your boss. If we believe this is true, then it becomes more about the quality of relationship, environment, and fulfilling expectations (the job actually reflects the brochure), than managing precisely what people do, how they do it, etc. So why is it that organizations have such highly refined analytics about when and how to interact with customers and prospects to maintain the highest revenue uplift and retention rate? Companies invest enormous sums to understand...

What is the Learnerprise? The Road To Collective Understanding

2010-02-26T11:24:04-05:00

By Shawn Hunter “ New Research Shows Corporate Training Budgets Are Misaligned Although 64% of Learning Executives Believe Informal Learning Approaches Have Higher Impact, More Than Two-Thirds of Corporate Training Budgets Are Spent on Traditional Formal Training - Bersin & Associates” Props to Dan Pontefract who pretty much inspired this whole post about the mashup of Andy McAfee’s Enterprise 2.0 notion and Learning 2.0. This is to contribute to Dan’s argument to help bring this word, “Learnerprise” from lonely neologism into the general vernacular. The first steps of the emergent Learnerprise organization must include federating the LMS and integrating learning...

How Important is Social Learning to Your Organization?

2010-02-22T10:29:40-05:00

By John Ambrose How important is social learning to your organization? According to just-released survey data from Hyunkyung Lee, a MASIE Fellow from South Korea, 76.57% of some 781 global organizations are either currently using or planning to use social learning at some point in the future. While Mr. Lee doesn’t break down in the split between “planning” and “currently using” in the summary I read, I am encouraged to see that the total number is this high. Based on the informal polling I have been doing in presentations over the past year, I would estimate that the number would...

A Chance to Take a Long Hard Look

2010-02-02T10:20:31-05:00

As they say every cloud has a silver lining.... Here in the UK it is becoming increasingly clear that whichever party comes to power in our general election (which must take place before the beginning of June 2010), there will need to be huge cuts in public spending in order to balance the books. At the moment politicians are engaging in a kind of phoney war; both sides competing to show how they will bring spending under control. But there’s little doubt that, in the public sector, training will once again be in the front line. This is despite of...