Strategies for L&D

New Edition of "What Makes a Great Training Organization?"

Raleigh,NC (USA), November 2024 - The business and learning landscapes have changed dramatically in recent years. Today's learners are different, businesses are evolving rapidly, and organizations must follow suit. These changes have led industry experts Doug Harward and Ken Taylor to release an updated edition of their book, "What Makes a Great Training Organization?" This comprehensive guide provides learning and development (L&D) professionals with a clear framework for driving exceptional performance through proven training processes and best practices.

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Research

Are You Giving Your Customers What They Want?

Bath (UK), November 2024 - Do you know what your customers really want? Maybe you did five years ago, when they first came to you, but everything moves so fast now their needs and wants might have changed. Customer listening is a fantastic way of helping learning, HR, and talent suppliers dig beneath the surface to understand what customers think of your product, service, marketing, and communications.

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Gomo

Ebook Explores How to Supercharge eLearning Design Workflows

Raleigh, NC (USA), September 2024 - Cloud-based eLearning authoring tool Gomo has published a new ebook that details actionable content authoring efficiencies to help L&D teams maximize their time and resources. The ebook offers practical, timesaving eLearning authoring tips and touches on the advantages of an intuitive, collaborative L&D toolkit.

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In Partnership with YouGov

New Flagship Report from Mind Tools - Building Better Managers

London (UK), July 2024 - Mind Tools has published its 2024 Building Better Managers report. In the report, we have introduced a new framework for measuring manager skills, developed in line with the research evidence showing relationships between manager capabilities and people outcomes, manager outcomes, and business outcomes.

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Thomson Reuters

AI to Save Professionals Twelve Hours per Week

London (UK), July 2024 - Knowledge workers are optimistic about significant boosts to productivity, with AI poised to redefine workflows, drive innovation, and unlock new opportunities for growth. The 2024 Future of Professionals report, by Thomson Reuters, is an annual survey of more than 2,200 professionals working across legal, tax, and risk, and compliance fields globally.

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Report

Young Workers Demand More from Employers

London (UK), July 2024 - A new Workforce Readiness report from Cornerstone, in partnership with Lighthouse Research, has uncovered a concerning lack of confidence among UK employees. Nearly half (45%) of those queried said they do not think they have the right support and resources to adapt to changing work conditions.

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eBook

How Skills Intelligence Drives Business Performance

Raleigh, NC (USA), May 2024 - In our rapidly changing world, the traditional approach to skill development - based on role and hierarchy - must evolve. The key to driving business performance is a skills-based talent strategy, but changing your talent strategy isn't easy.

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An International Comparison

(Open) Educational Resources around the World

Oslo (NO), November 2023 - The book (Open) Educational Resources around the World is a collection of the full country reports and working papers created by the COER members from the countries that were included in the study, which was undertaken in the context of research project EduArc on Distributed Learning Infrastructures for OER and Digital Learning Content in Higher Education.

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VPAT® Report

Gomo Deepens Its Commitment to Accessibility

Brighton (UK), November 2023 - The accessibility of Gomo-created, outward-facing learning content has been evaluated in a new Voluntary Product Accessibility Template (VPAT) audit. The resultant report found that Gomo's features conform to a wide array of success criteria, allowing users to understand the areas Gomo supports. This process has highlighted the platform's many accessibility successes and given a clear sense of direction for Gomo's onward commitment to providing technology that's accessible to every learner.

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Benchmarking Report

Significant Opportunities, as Well as Notable Risks for Marketing Teams

London (UK), November 2023 - New research published by the training body Target Internet, in association with the Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM), reveals that core digital skills marketers rely on have improved but that the growing demands of new and evolving technologies are contributing to a skills gap across the majority of industries.

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A Mirror for the Industry

Insights Media Launches Research Roundup Series

Bath (UK), November 2023 - Specialist L&D content agency Insights Media has launched its new Research Roundup service for learning teams. Every quarter, Insights Media will focus on an important learning topic and identify between four and six relevant pieces of research, pulling out key data, comments, and action points. It will conclude each Research Roundup report with its own action points - topics that L&D teams can take from the research to inform their thinking and practice.

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Overview

Handbook of Artificial Intelligence in Education

Brussels (BE), August 2023 - The widespread arrival of ChatGPT and other generative AI tools has brought AI into the spotlight in many areas - including education.  Governments are concerned about the immediate and long-term effects on employment, and teachers are worried that their jobs may be at risk and that students will use such tools to cheat in assessments. These fears have clouded the fact that AI has proved an effective classroom assistant for many years and that each progress in AI can translate into one for the field of education.

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