Starting Up CherryApplePie Inc: The Virtual End of E-Learning
The mLearning era will see a “PDA-black-box-all-in-one-solution” that has four shareable screens and multiple audio streams, can be collapsed into the size of a mini-iPad and be plugged straight into your desktop like a flash drive.
A Framework for Progress in Mobile Learning
Brandon Hall Group developed its Mobile Learning Maturity Model to give organizations perspective on where they are today in terms of using mobile devices for learning, and a roadmap for moving forward toward a more mature approach.
Five Ogres and an Angel: Guarding the Gates of Organizational Improvement
What is blocking true organizational improvement and change? “Ogres” in the form of fear, comfort, broken promises, language, and drift. The remedy lies in intelligent and systematic performance improvement plans.
Role-Playing with Allied International Credit
An interactive card game that replaces traditional role-plays created more than 25,000 complex scenarios with less than 30 hours’ worth of effort. Results include increased engagement, enhanced learning, and a global rollout that is transforming training results.
Rethinking Learning Design
An educational program should force students to stop and think, re-evaluate their mental models, and reach their own insights into how to modify their personal thinking or behavior.
Employee Secondment: A Secret to Successful Integration
One often overlooked yet effective way to improve communication—both during the merger process and after closing the deal—is “secondment,” which involves placing employees from a buyer’s organization into the seller’s, and vice versa.
Productivity Tip: Put a Label on It
Work on building a labeling system to improve your workflow, reduce stress, and increase your overall level of personal organization.
How to Train Employees Using Social Media
Companies can use social media to train employees on a cross-geographical level, using a multimedia approach that relies on more indirect, peer-to-peer, and creative methods to render training a more engaging experience while saving time and money.
A Time for Courage
Knowing what is the right thing to do at any given time is the challenge most of us face. A critical report urgently needs to be completed, yet it is competing against a promise to be at a ball game. Why does a situation like this require courage? Because to have courage is to act as one believes one should.
Vouching for Visual Learning
Visual technology often is overlooked when organizing onboarding programs, and may be looked at as a complex implementation reserved solely for large institutions. But regardless of company size, there are new hires out there who are more than willing to be their own drivers of introduction and instruction.
