Learning & Development

Learning & Development

Webinars
March 22 2018

Webinar: Creating Manufacturing Training That Works

Creating Manufacturing Training That Works The ultimate goal of job training is to teach employees skills that they will perform on the job as desired, leading to real and measurable progress toward business goals (such as increasing revenue, decreasing waste,…
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Blog
March 21 2018

5 Ways to Make eLearning More Relatable

One of the most distinct and unique advantages of eLearning is that, to varying degrees, it comes with a captive audience. Granted, some of that audience is obligated to participate in order to achieve mandated compliance, but it doesn’t change…
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Blog
August 2 2017

Tips for Beating the Training Forgetting Curve

In a recent article, we introduced you to the well-documented forgetting curve in training and explained that something called spaced practice can help reduce or even eliminate the forgetting curve. In this article, we’re going to give you a few…
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Blog
June 17 2016

Onboarding New Manufacturing Workers with a Learning Management System…

If you’re a manager at a manufacturing company, you know it’s important to deliver training to new hires as part of their new employee onboarding. And that’s also true if an experienced worker is moving to a new site, work…
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Blog
April 12 2016

How to Write Better Smile Sheets: What’s Wrong With…

If you’re in training, you’re probably familiar with the sheets that trainers pass out to learners after a training session, asking the learners to evaluate the training session and the trainer. These are known by a variety of names. Maybe…
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Blog
January 29 2016

Using Scenario-based Training for Workforce Learning & Development

If you read current literature on training, one of the things you’ll read about a lot is scenario-based training. This goes by other names, too, including immersive learning and problem-based learning. For this article, we’re going to stick with scenario-based…
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Blog
December 31 2015

Onboarding New Employees: Why and How to Do It

  What do you do when a new employee is hired? Do you have a process for onboarding new employees? Some organizations have no real plan for managing this process at all. Whatever happens, happens, and it varies from one…
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Blog
November 16 2015

The Training Within Industry (TWI) Job Instruction Program (JI)

In a recent article, we provided an overview of Training Within Industry (TWI). TWI is a training program that was created by the U.S. government during World War II. In the long-term analysis, however, TWI was more influential overseas than…
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Blog
August 18 2015

9 Important Training KPIs You Should be Tracking

   KPI stands for key performance indicator(s). KPIs are numerical ways to track the progress of a business as it strives to reach different business goals. KPIs have to be something you can count and measure objectively so that you…
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Blog
May 4 2015

Testing Employees After Training: Best Practices for Workforce Training…

Companies put a LOT of money, time, and hard work into training their employees. New employee onboarding, job role training, succession training, compliance training–you get the picture. In many or most cases, that training includes some element of testing. People…
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Blog
January 2 2015

Goal Analysis: How to Analyze Goals (So You Can…

People like you and I have goals: “I want to be a good parent” or “I want to be healthier.” Businesses have goals: “We want to be an industry thought leader” or “We want to be cutting edge” or “we…
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Blog
January 29 2014

Teaching Attitudes: The Affective Domain of Learning and Learning…

    [This is the eighth in a series of posts about learning objectives. We’ve now compiled all the posts into a single downloadable guide to writing learning objectives if you want to check that out.] As we mentioned in…
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