Blogs
Online course creation top tips: Two reasons your online course isn’t selling
Ginette Tessier helps us to overcome that challenges of our courses not being popular in-house or not bringing in the money As a trainer, there’s a very good chance that you are reasonably comfortable with the idea of creating an online course. There are definitely things you want to know about, but the process of creating training will not feel like an insurmountable challenge for you. Of course, you might not want to create an online course – but that’s…
Learning from life: What I learnt from parenting puppies
Michelle Parry-Slater shares puppy cuteness overload and also looks at the importance of knowing your audience, and guest blogger Julie Drybrough adds her experience about letting go A little over two years ago we welcomed two puppies into our family, Georgie and Elsie. Chaos. Cuddles. Cute. A little under 18 years ago we welcomed six puppies into our lives as I bred my cocker spaniel, PIxie, to donate her litter to Hearing Dogs for Deaf People as they started their…
Tayloring learning: Webinar skills and The One Show
I have recently delivered some training on running effective webinars as well as hosted some large development sessions of up to 200 people. When I do this, I am aware that it’s is a new skill we didn’t really have to utilise until Covid. It was during this recent development session that I was asked what further learning could be done, or what resources could they use to keep improving, and I duly shared some useful pieces of information. One…
Bridging the gap with killer communications: a dive into why you should be ‘selling’ your learning offer
Kerry Jary looks at why you can build it, but they might not come and the importance of more than just creating great training In today’s dynamic business world, the phrase “knowledge is power” couldn’t be more relevant. As businesses strive to stay ahead of the curve, investing in employee learning has emerged as a critical strategy for success. But here’s the kicker: it’s not just about offering learning opportunities; it’s about selling them to your employees. First off, let’s…
Online course creation top tips: are you using quizzes properly?
Ginette Tessier shows you how to make your quizzes count Quizzing functionality is often highlighted as a key benefit of online course hosting solutions. The ability to offer a quiz at the end of every lesson is assumed to be a good way to ensure learning transfer has taken place. A creator needs to first understand what role the quiz is playing Many new online course instructors remember quizzes from either an academic environment or from a corporate learning experience…
Learning from life: what I learnt from marketing my business
Michelle Parry-Slater is always Open To Learning, Open To Reflection and Open To Sharing, but this month she looks at being Open To Work I changed my LinkedIn profile to show the #Open To Work banner on my profile photo. I did this as an experiment for this blog. I run my own business – I am always open to work, but does publicly saying so make any difference? I am no algorithm expert so I don’t know what that…
Future human: cultivating resilience for the 21st century
The curve balls and challenges that life inevitably throws at us are often the most valuable lessons for building our inner strength and resilience. Building a resilience toolkit will help us to feel more empowered and cultivate self-efficacy and inner strength I can certainly appreciate this from my own personal experiences as well as the extensive research I have conducted over the years around this beautiful, multifaceted and powerful life skill. As Theodore Roosevelt once remarked: “For those who have…
Conversations, relationships and learning: Spotify Tag
Julie Drybrough takes us on a tour of Scotland, music and collaboration A couple of years ago we rented a campervan and meandered our way up the west coast of Scotland to Skye. As you can imagine, there were a lot of driving hours. During our travels we developed Spotify Tag – a game where someone picks an initial music track (from Spotify – other streaming services are available) and the next person tags on a song, based on association,…
Bridging the gap with killer communications: the power of storytelling for building a learning culture
Kerry Jary weaves a tale about story telling in L&D An embedded learning culture – we want this, we need this! But just how do we achieve it? In an ideal world, learning and development forms the backbone of our organisational culture, employees want to participate, they are motivated and engaged. However, in reality, modules often become tick box exercises, we only communicate with our audience when the next training refresher is due, or worse still, we don’t communicate at…
Online course creation top tips: measures of success
Ginette Tessier reminds us that it’s not just the video equivalent of bums on seats we should be looking at One of the most quoted measures of success for online courses are completion rates. But is this really the best way to tell if an online course is any good? You don’t have to look very far to find statistics about ‘poor’ completion rates for online courses. A simple search will bring up numbers ranging anywhere from 5% to 35%. …
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