One of the keys to successfully sharing knowledge within your organisation is how you select subject matter experts. Whomever you choose will have a reasonably large impact on not just what knowledge is shared, but how it is shared. As a result, its critical to make a wise choice!
When it comes to employee induction and the first weeks at a new organisation, having an induction buddy can make a huge difference to the speed at which new employees manage to settle into their role.
Running a pilot program for a learning platform allows you to test diverse aspects of the new platform but on a small scale.
One way of making knowledge sharing within an organisation easier is to have multiple people share expertise on the same topic – multiple subject matter experts. Seems like a sound way to speed up the process and reduce everyone’s workload. But how do you make it work?
Despite all of the issues of training relevance and training context, most participants are typically well-intentioned when it comes to training! While there will always be those participants who, for whatever reason, are unable to approach learning with the best of intentions, they are in the minority. Most learners are keen to improve themselves and make change. But learners are also busy. They can be easily distracted.
The faster new employees integrate into a team, the better their induction process goes. In particular, improved teamwork helps the new employee pick up best practices and tips from other employees. It accelerates their employee induction process. So let’s consider four practical tips to specifically build employee induction teamwork.
Whether its work at home employees or employees in locations other than where your training team is based, organisations need strategies to train a remote workforce consistently and efficiently.
They say you only get one chance at a first impression and in the employee induction space, that first impression means a lot. The cost of getting it wrong A study by Brandon Hall Group suggests that organisations with strong onboarding processes improve their new hire retention rate by 82% and their
One of the top questions we see from people new to elearning (or even experienced instructional designers) is how long an elearning course should be? Yet most people approach this question with fundamental mistakes in their thinking. Let’s review four of the most common mistakes in determining how long an elearning course should be in this article.
Software training is a common focus of online learning. Within an organisation, new employees often have to become familiar with many software platforms. Software training, therefore, represents a significant part of internal processes. Software training can also be used for software providers as part of onboarding, user support or service packages for that software. Providing training for the users of your software often reduces support needs and improves the initial experience for your users. In this article, let’s review six tips for creating software training to help you create training which is effective for the task at hand.