Themen

Staff Appreciation Audit

Positive Trend in Employee Recognition

Milton Keynes (UK), March 2016 - Employers have capitalised on "good will" at the start of 2016 by better recognising staff members for their efforts, according to findings from a new survey from award-winning performance-improvement agency P&MM.  The survey was conducted among 1,435 employees across 52 UK organisations between January and February 2016. It revealed that 87 percent of staff felt appreciated by their colleagues and 85 percent by their direct managers. However, the data also suggests that senior leaders are lagging behind in their recognition efforts, with only 57 percent feeling appreciated by senior management.

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Guide

Better Health and Safety Practices in the Workplace

Milton Keynes (UK), March 2016 - P&MM, an award-winning performance-improvement agency, has released a new guide that reveals workable strategies for driving better health and safety practice in the workplace through advanced reward and recognition techniques. The document is entitled "An advanced guide to health and safety recognition in the workplace". » MORE

Latest Report

Independent Report Identifies the World's Top LMS

Craig WeissSimi Valley, CA (USA), March 2016 - A thorough, independent analysis of 690 of the world's leading learning management - and related - systems (LMSs) has identified the top performing fifty. Published by eLearning 24/7, the report is a key tool for LMS buyers and is the work of the internationally known corporate online-learning-industry analyst Craig Weiss. For the last two years, Craig has been named the most influential person in the world of corporate online-learning-technologies in an independently produced industry list. » MORE

E-book

How to Use an LMS to Reduce Staff Turnover

Glasgow (SCL), March 2016 - A learning-management system (LMS) can save the average business a great deal of time and money, according to the results various research projects brought together in an e-book by Create eLearning. » MORE

Essential Skills

Ken Blanchard's First-Time Manager

Guildford (UK), February 2016 - The Ken Blanchard Companies®, a global leadership-development and management-training company, has released First-time Manager, its new training programme built on the time-tested secrets of The New One Minute Manager. » MORE

Fourth Annual Survey

Speexx Releases Global Research Results on Corporate L&D

Armin HoppMunich (GER), January 2016 - Speexx, a global provider of corporate online language training, has released initial findings from its fourth annual survey of HR and L&D professionals. The survey reveals that flexible learning, big data, and better employee communications are recognised as key enablers to align learning more closely to business requirements. The results will be available as a white paper and infographic at the Learning Technologies show in London, 03-04 February 2016. » MORE

eLearning Guide 2016

The Current Trends and Future of eLearning

London (UK), January 2016 - Following the success of its Unconscious Bias whitepaper, Marshall eLearning is making a follow-up resource available: The Guide to eLearning in 2016. In this eLearning guide, L&D professionals will find everything needed to understand current best practice, how eLearning can be used to improve the performance of staff with an organisation, and strategies for planning training and development programmes. » MORE

Report

The Secret Learning Life of UK Managers

Edinburgh (SCO), January 2016 - A GoodPractice/ComRes report of 500 senior managers in the UK has produced some startling results. For example, it revealed that UK managers do not care how good their learning resources are; they are still going to use Google first because it is easy. » MORE

Latest Annual Rankings

Top Ten eLearning Movers and Shakers lists

St. Albans (UK), January 2016 - Now in its seventh year, the latest annual lists of the "Top Ten" most influential people in the corporate eLearning sector in the World, North America, Europe, the UK, and Asia-Pacific contain the names of 39 people. Of these, 26 are men and 13 are women. » MORE

Benchmark Study

Seventy Percent Failing to Improve Business Productivity

Laura OvertonLondon (UK), November 2015 - Only three out of ten organisations are achieving improved productivity and engagement from their L&D initiatives, only two out of ten have seen improvements in the learning culture of the organisation, and only four out of ten are achieving increased efficiency as a result of their training strategies, according to the 2015 Towards Maturity Benchmark Study. » MORE