Employee engagement plays a critical role in any organization. It is the level of commitment that an employee has towards their job, their department, and the company as a whole. When employees are engaged, they are more productive, efficient, and committed to their work, leading to improved business performance.  Now that remote work has become mainstream, driving employee engagement has become increasingly challenging. Virtual work environments tend to be isolating, which can result in decreased productivity, engagement, and motivation. But with the right strategies, organizations can ..read more

Did you know that 90% of the world's data was collected in the last two years? Or that the number of IoT-connected devices is expected to surge to 30 billion by 2030? Or that ChatGPT, a language model, reached 100 million users in just two months, surpassing TikTok, Instagram, and Facebook?  The question then becomes: how can business leaders cope with such rapid change? The answer is clear: you learn or you die. Building an organization that can learn and adapt to new challenges is crucial for survival. Learning isn't just about acquiring knowledge and skills; it's also about using that ..read more

The fact is that learning new skills is essential to business success. Employees who do so can improve their work, make fewer mistakes, and become even more productive. However, your job as a manager or company leader doesn’t stop at providing learning opportunities. You should also motivate your employees to continue learning. After all, we’ve already emphasized the importance of learning design: it makes learning more impactful, efficient, and interesting by creating a systematic learning process and a more conducive learning environment. That said, you may be wondering how to start motivati ..read more

Color is a powerful tool that can greatly affect learning and memory Studies have shown that color can impact a people's attention, motivation, and ability to retain information. Understanding how color affects learning and memory can help educators and instructional designers create more engaging and effective online courses. Use colors to grab attention but don’t overdo it One of the most important ways that color affects peoples learning is through its ability to grab attention. Certain colors, such as red and yellow, are known to grab attention and hold it longer than other colors. This ca ..read more

It’s undeniable that remote working is the new future of business. Companies like Facebook and Twitter have moved to a permanent remote working environment for employees who want it and number of HR leaders saying that their organization’s employees will be allowed to work from the comfort of their beds and sweatpants even after the vaccine rollout. At this point, it’s clear that remote working isn’t just tenable in the short term, but it’s becoming an increasingly popular way for employees to work. Unfortunately, not every business at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic was set up to allow for ..read more

I have been working with people in C-level roles for more than 20 years and I can say that if getting recruitment right is the number 1 most important thing then number 2 is on-boarding. Depending on the role but it can take from 6 to 12 months to get your new hires to full speed.  But hey, hold your horses - before gaining speed you need to set the objectives for on-boarding. In most cases, you want to introduce your new hire to: the company (story, culture, mission, values,...) the colleagues His or her personal objectives and the ways to achieve those Now you can start plannin ..read more

By George Siemens Introduction Learning Management Systems (LMS) are often viewed as being the starting point (or critical component) of any elearning or blended learning program. This perspective is valid from a management and control standpoint, but antithetical to the way in which most people learn today. LMS' like WebCT, Blackboard, and Desire2Learn offer their greatest value to the organization by providing a means to sequence content and create a manageable structure for instructors/administration staff. The "management" aspect of LMS' creates another problem: much like we used to measu ..read more

Engaging learners in a virtual learning environment is one of the biggest challenges training leaders facing today. We asked our good partner, educator and instructional designer Veronika Tuul, to write down 10 things that help attract learners: 1 Activating the learner's previous experience and involving him in the creation of learning content. This means that the learner is given the opportunity to contribute with his practical experience. In digital learning, this means the use of various surveys and forums, the creation of co-creation learning materials. 2 Visualization of results and lea ..read more

Five tips that help you create more meaningful learning solutions Do more online courses mean more learning? Unfortunately, no. Completing and liking any (online) course does not mean we learned something or will use the knowledge later on. More learning events do not automatically mean improved performance. By meaningful learning solutions, we consider the ones that also support learning in the flow of work and improve someone’s performance. But it is easier to say than do.  Following is the list of principles we have found useful in designing learning solutions: 1. Do not design to just ..read more

By Marko Vene Learning design is not just about aesthetics. Learning design is best understood as systematic design of the learning process and learning environment with the aim to make learning more impactful, efficient, and interesting.  So there are two important aspects which need our attention : Learning process The learning process involves all the activities the learner is doing when learning. For example reflecting on the experience or interacting with others. However the nature of interaction can be different: instructors-learner, learner-learner, learner-content, learner-envir ..read more