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Making Your LMS Dance
It’s time for learning executives to have a heart-to-heart conversation with their LMS. Ask them if they are ready to dance to the music of performance, profitability, talent management and extreme learning. Tell your LMS that your company is ready to hav
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The Emergence of Managed Learning Services
Educators have been using outside assistance to deliver learning programs on subjects where they lack expertise in one manner or another for as long as there have been teachers. However, in the past five or six years, technological advances and the wi
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Sanofi-Aventis: Reaching New Heights Through Continuous Learning
As the world’s third-largest pharmaceutical company, Sanofi-Aventis continues to make advancements in the development of new medications in the areas of oncology, the central nervous system, the cardiovascular system, diabetes and internal medicine.
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Driving Greater Value From an LMS
Anyone who’s been involved in the planning, selection and implementation of a learning management system knows the feeling. They know the feeling of one day waking up and realizing that the LMS hasn’t delivered the anticipated returns that had been touted
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Laying the Cornerstone: Alignment of Learning
The formula for success in learning and development is based on the careful execution of three relatively simple concepts: assessment, delivery and measurement. Assess the learner’s needs, deliver the content and measure to see if it had impact. With th
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Onboarding: Helping New Executives Get It Right
Too much. Too little. Just right. How does an organization successfully on-board its new executives? According to a survey by RHR International, an executive and organizational development consulting firm, about half of senior executives say they are not
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Environment: How Venue Selection Impacts the Success of Your Meeting or Training Session
With increased pressure to demonstrate ROI, Chief Learning Officers tend to focus primarily on the effectiveness of curricula and training methods. However, as this article demonstrates, mounting evidence shows that the choice of venue and the physical fa
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Report Shows LMS Market Growing Apace
If your company is one of the holdouts of joining the learning management system game, fear no more. You can now count your chips and play your hand with confidence. According to Josh Bersin, CEO of research and enterprise learning advisory firm Bersin &a
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Trends and Tactics
We’ve recently been through another New Year celebration, and once again I’ve noticed the deceptively obvious: Unless there’s a major snowstorm overnight on Jan. 1, one year looks pretty much like the next.
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Scotiabank: Cashing In on a Community of Learning
Many companies embrace a centralized learning model to offer learning and development opportunities to their various employee populations. Scotiabank, which offers retail, commercial, corporate and investment banking services to millions of customers arou