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Regardless of whether you are delivering training material through a seminar, eLearning system, webinar or mobile learning, getting your staff fully engaged in the learning process remains a challenge.   Here are 6 ways to get higher engagement from course participants.   1. Gather feedback before you start.  Consult with employees, formally or informally, and […]

How to Make the Most of Experiential Learning Programs In talks about effective methods of training employees, one forgotten area that works well for many companies and organizations is bringing newcomers into the fold by giving them experiential learning opportunities. This means that you are inviting interns, co-ops, part-time jobs, volunteers and researchers into your […]

Remember in school when some students excelled in classroom settings while others could only grasp concepts when they were in hands-on shop classes for field trips?   If you are not designing workplace learning options, recall those days and realize that cookie-cutter learning rarely works for everyone.   Science is now teaching us that every […]

How to Stay on Top of the Latest Learning Trends Continuing education is a huge part of any company’s success. In certain industries, such as teaching, health professions, real estate and lawyers, there are mandated requirements in some regions for a certain number of professional development days to be taken each year and courses that […]

Collaborative, creative teams work best when they have the tools to capture their ideas, solutions and innovation as they occur.   Like everything else in the modern workplace, there are some great mobile apps for that.   Just about every productivity app has some means of recording ideas and insights, some are much more adaptable […]

How Technology Enhances Teamwork in Companies   Effective teams no longer have to sit in close proximity to each other to meet up for chats in the corporate coffee room. The growth of the global marketplace and the increasing use of consultants and specialists hired on a contract basis means the old style team of […]

Some mobile apps are so impressive that everyone is talking and writing about them.   Human resources departments are putting in requisitions for mass purchases to ensure that all employees move with the times and share information freely and effectively.   But there are a few apps that never make it to superstar status, but […]

Mobile apps for remote team collaboration   Building a collaborative workforce where co-workers can stay in touch requires new tools in a work environment that often spans multiple locations in one country or even spreads across continents. Not only do you need apps that allow material to be shared and worked on simultaneously, but you […]

With rapidly changing political, social and economic realities impacting business daily around the world, it has never been more important for business executives to know what is going on.   But who has time to thumb through a newspaper, sit through a television newscast, or even read all the reports on your industry when you […]

Competition Vs. Collaboration in Business The desire to one-up each other by constantly raising the bar has been the driving force behind much of humanity’s rapid development. We have, and will continue to have that insatiable hunger to distinguish ourselves as somehow special or superior to those around us. This competitive nature is difficult to […]