Learning & Development

Learning & Development

Blog
August 20 2020

5 Perks of Using Analytics To Set Your Organization’s…

We’ve all heard the sayings: “if you can measure it, you can manage it,” or, even better, “if you can’t measure it, it doesn’t exist.” Even if you wouldn’t take it quite that far, there’s no arguing that data is…

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August 5 2020

6 Easy Steps to Better Industrial Employee Training Programs

Providing effective training that helps industrial employees quickly develop necessary job skills is an important part of success for industrial companies. Yet not all industrial employers are familiar with reliable methods of creating and delivering effective training materials and programs…

Blog
July 8 2020

The ATD Human Performance Improvement (HPI) Model

Vector Solutions isn’t just a training company. Instead, we’re devoted to helping organizations with a variety of performance improving solutions to increase efficiency, decrease waste, and improve profits, opportunities, innovation, learning, and successes. As a result, we’re not just interested…

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May 6 2020

Robert Mager’s Performance-Based Learning Objectives

    You don’t have to read up on learning objectives for too long before you run into the name of Robert Mager and hear about his performance-based learning objectives. These are also sometimes called three-part learning objectives, behavioral learning…

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May 6 2020

ABCD: The Four Parts of a Learning Objective

    [This is the fourth in a series of posts about learning objectives. We’ve now compiled all the posts into a single downloadable guide to writing learning objectives PLUS you can check out our Introduction to Learning Objectives recorded…

Webinars
April 21 2020

Developing Maintenance Tech Training Programs to Improve Employee Retention

Overview Learn how Vector Solutions partnered with a client to help design, develop, and deliver a comprehensive maintenance tech training program, including but not limited to online knowledge assessment tools and online 3D-animated maintenance training courses, to help the client…

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March 13 2020

Free Downloadable Guides, Whitepapers, Infographics, and More

From time to time, we create stuff that you can download for no cost right here from the Vector Solutions blog. These include a wide variety of things (guides, white papers, infographics, checklists, etc.) on a wide variety of topics–training,…

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February 27 2020

Finding the Right Online Manufacturing Training

So you’d like to add online training to your current manufacturing training program, but you want to take your time and make sure you’ll implement the solutions that are the best fit for your organizational training and learning needs? Are…

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December 12 2019

2020 Best Practices in Professional Learning & Development

We’ve said it before – and it really should go without saying – but it bears repeating: We know a thing or million about learning and development.  As you may well know, we cover these topics extensively because we’re passionate…

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October 31 2019

5 Tips for Making Your eLearning Accessible

Buildings have it. Signs have it. Schools, jobs, restrooms and transportation have it, too. But what about your eLearning? We’re talking about accessibility and in recent years, the protections afforded under the Americans with Disabilities Act are expanding into digital…

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July 15 2019

Learning Myths

You’re probably familiar with the concept of an urban myth. And perhaps you’re familiar with the Mythbusters TV show, which often takes a look at urban myths and other things people believe might be true and puts them to the…

Podcasts
June 26 2019

Prevention Podcast, Season 2, Episode 22: STEM’s Dirty Little…

DAN VERTON, Director of Content & Branding Women remain woefully underrepresented in the STEMM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics and medicine) fields. But the explanations we’ve been given over the years for this discrepancy (lack of role models, lack of encouragement…

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May 23 2019

Do Adults Appreciate Gamification in Continuing Education Courses?

Anyone who’s ever lost themselves – and hours – playing Mario Kart or Angry Birds can speak to the captivating appeal of video games. They offer seemingly mindless escapism that so many of us seek in our everyday lives. But…

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February 5 2019

What Is a Learning Organization?

  In today’s economy, it’s important for organizations to support learning. Without doing so, they risk losing market share or even going out of business due to increased competition or by being disrupted in the way that streaming video services…

Webinars
March 22 2018

Webinar Download – Developing Effective EHS Training

Developing Effective EHS Training We all want safer workplaces, however, many aren’t familiar with best practices for developing EHS training. This webinar will introduce ANSI Z490.1, the national standard for EHS training, and will focus on a few methods covered…