In 2022, Dashe & Thomson collaborated with The American College of Chest Physicians to develop an interactive eLearning card game for COPD diagnosis and treatment. Due to complex and constrictive timelines, the Dashe team chose to implement some elements of the agile project management approach to maximize efficiency and collaboration ..read more

As we’ve written before, workforce agility is necessary for any organization to adapt to rapidly changing environments. After the pandemic hit worldwide, I think it’s safe to say that most organizations now operate in a significantly changed environment. Organizations across the globe have faced great challenges over the years. Are you equipped to lead in the new business world, especially with significant changes made to operations, process, and labor force?  Whether you’re responsible for an employee, a team, a department, or an entire organization, developing effective leadership ski ..read more

In the past few years, online training has become a norm and is a well-established method for developing remote, hybrid, and in-office teams. As training continues to develop and grow, we will also see it move into the AR/VR space, allowing for even more mobile training opportunity. Nonetheless, one of the most underutilized and underrepresented aspects of online training remains accessibility.   We have previously touched base on the importance of 508 Compliance. Accessibility is the law. Over the past 40+ years, the federal government has set standards for what accessibility means and ..read more

Many of us are familiar with the training style “Learning in the Flow of Work.” For those of you who are not familiar with this training style take a look at one of Dashe’s blogs on “Learning in the Flow of Work.”  This style will not be dismissed but instead will be enhanced with another style “Learning in the Moment of Need.” This will be a huge trend in 2023 and it has many benefits that will change the way L&D creates training modules. The moments of need focus on the learner, their situations, the skills that are needed to perform their jobs, and how to benefit them th ..read more

Another trend that is emerging for learning and development teams is creating a better feedback circuit between team members and the L&D team. Employees that are learning from the content and training courses are the ones who have the most relevant and influential feedback on what improvements could be made to training programs in an organization. However, it’s commonly known that getting feedback from employees has typically been difficult.  Why is Real-Time Employee Feedback Important? There are several reasons that make employee feedback critical for an organization’s success. As ..read more

What Is Microlearning Gamification? To begin, we need to understand what gamification and microlearning are on their own. After we understand what each of these are we can begin to understand what they mean once they are combined. Gamification is incorporating games or gamelike elements to a process or procedure to encourage participation and increase engagement. Microlearning is bite-sized information that is distributed in the right amount for the learner to process and retain, instead of overloading the learner with information that is impossible to remember all at once. Microlearning gami ..read more

In the L&D industry, we don’t have an authority who sets the meanings of terms and strategies we see in learning and performance. You can ask 12 people the definition of something (in this case, reskilling and upskilling) and get 14 different answers. The purpose of this article is to demystify and get to the real power of what reskilling and upskilling are, and how to use them to achieve business outcomes. Let’s start with the definition: Reskilling and upskilling are similar; context is where they differ. Reskilling is learning entirely different skills for a new role while upskilling ..read more

What are Serious Games? Serious games leverage the playful aspect of games to help learners easily and effectively grasp new content. For serious games to be effective they must enable the player to utilize their skills, while adapting to the new skills or information being taught throughout the game. Serious games are becoming a go-to training solution in the L&D industry because they hold the attention of the player, encourage and support engagement, and have higher levels of learner retention than basic training modules. There are a few things that must be included in serious games to ..read more

In an organization, there will always be things to complain about or nitpick; perfection is not realistic. Managers are the first to notice when things are incorrect or could be better, but sometimes it’s the teachers who need the extra support rather than the learners. An organization cannot perform at its best without the support of managers and willingness of employees. To be most effective, managers need to support the performance of their employees and identify problem areas proactively. Instead of focusing on what can improve employees, think about what can improve managers, since they ..read more

A skills gap is the difference between the skills you need and want your employees to have and the skills that they currently have. Having these gaps is completely normal and does not reflect negatively on the employee or the organization. In 2022, there are some common skills that are missing across many organizations, but there are ways to close these gaps ..read more