Speexx, the leading global provider of online communication skills training, has called for global organisations to capitalise on greater talent development and mobility, and is offering a number of online guidelines and whitepapers to HR and L&D professionals worldwide.
Richardson, a leading sales training and strategy execution company, in partnership with SellingPower Magazine, today launched a new research report: 'Content Marketing and Sales Effectiveness, Establishing a Cohesive, Two-way Stream Between your Sales Team and Marketing Department'.
Online training provider, Virtual College, has passed the milestone of delivering online learning to over one million learners; Company forecasts further growth for 2013.
Guests of LEARNING LIVE to gain a fascinating insight into business critical technologies as Spencer Kelly signs up as keynote speaker for the 2013 event on 11-12th September 2013
Epic is proud to announce that it has been chosen by Edxus Group and IBIS Capital as a finalist in the EdTech 20 ranking which lists the top 20 e-learning companies in Europe. The finalists are judged in terms of innovation, scale, market impact and revenue growth over the past year by an industry-leading panel.
RPS named to 'Top 20 Training Outsourcing Companies' list for 6th consecutive year.
Trainers Bryan O’Connor and Andy Fox recognised by VMware in its 2013 vExperts list
RPS recognized for Catapult™ rapid learning content management system's innovative translation and localization capabilities.
A new report shows that laptops and mobile phones are now far and away the most popular new learning devices in Africa – while, despite the hype, tablets are still lagging, only being used regularly by 20% of eLearning practitioners.
Following its acquisition by Lattanzio Group, eXact learning solutions (ELS) has become a wholly owned subsidiary of Lattanzio Learning.
Tata Interactive Systems’ Customer-Centricity Learning games developed for Cigna won Gold in Best eLearning Design category.
Organisations can’t afford to stand still – and neither can the L&D managers that support them. Acclaimed learning technologies expert Laura Overton will be explaining why benchmarking is so critical to Learning innovation - and ultimately business success - in a webinar on 14 June.
What are the 10 most disruptive sales technologies? Jim Brodo, SVP of marketing at sales performance improvement innovators, Richardson, takes a look at the top disruptive technologies in sales and marketing.
Why Cross-Selling Fails: The Ultimate List is a new blog post from leading sales training company Richardson that begins to build out a critical list of why reps struggle to cross-sell.
Epic has announced the expansion of its digital learning resources offering, including HD video, infographics and animations.
DB Schenker Logistics has implemented NetDimensions Learning to establish a central learning platform for more than 62,200 employees in 2,000 locations around the world.
There are 800,000 people with dementia in the UK, and this number is set to rise to one million by 2021. Dementia Awareness Week, running from 19th-25th May, aims to promote awareness and understanding of this challenging condition.
NetDimensions has appointed two new senior executives: Jill Mahony as Chief Human Resources Officer and Don Hernandez as Chief Sales Officer.
Upside Learning announced the release of the new version of its revolutionary Mobile Learning platform, Upside2Go, today. The all new Upside2Go, with features like SCORM 1.2 complaince, Learning Plan, Secured (HTTPS) Communication, File Manager and many more, is one of the best performance support tools for on–the–go learners.
NetDimensions has been named a finalist in two categories at the 9th Annual Best of Elearning! Awards.
Early Bird tickets are now available for LEARNING LIVE 2013, the leading conference and networking event dedicated to workplace learning professionals.
Reed Learning, a leading global learning solutions provider, is hosting an event to explore the impact of learning and development best practice on organisational objectives. An exclusive event with leading L&D speaker Donald H. Taylor.
Leading online training provider, Virtual College, is making its online First Aid courses available at no charge to coincide with Adult Learners’ Week.
DuPont Sustainable Solutions has launched a new safety orientation training program, Hazard Awareness: Ready Day One, which provides a practical overview of hazard communication, personal protective equipment and emergency response.
Leading Business English Development Provider Encourages Faster Time to Competency and Increased Workplace Performance by Incorporating Gamification Techniques and Behavioral Science Principles into its Product Suite
Business English Learning Solution for Global Companies Honored as Best Corporate Learning/Workforce Development Solution
Rapid development in online and mobile gaming continues to evolve and grow among users. Dario Priolo’s new blog post, No More Playing Around: The Pros and Cons of Gamification, reviews some of the benefits and challenges of Gamifaction in sales training.
accessplanit has reached the shortlist for two categories - Small Business of the Year and Change for Growth - in the North & Western Lancashire Chamber of Commerce Best in Business Awards.
In a survey ahead of Elearnity’s annual Symposium event on the 14th May, involving enterprise organisations such as Aviva, BT, Lloyds Banking Group, Shell and Vodafone, it was clear that the integrating talent, performance, and development workflows is becoming more of a reality in major organisations.
~ IT and Business Skills leader’s survey shows customers now see alternative modalities as the business norm and an increasingly important part of the delivery mix ~
Arriva Trains visited Praxis42 at the Safety and Health Exhibition and were looking for a workstation training and assessment solution that was simple to use, fully editable by them, easy to deploy and had good management reporting metrics.
Kallidus, the leading provider of learning and talent management solutions, has expanded its talent management capability with a range of new talent consulting services.
North West housing provider Adactus has stepped up its abuse awareness training following the case review into the death of ‘child U’ in September 2011. Recommendations published earlier this year, revealed that child U’s mother had extensive contact with front line housing staff from Adactus, as well as other agencies.
Virtual College’s Lean Healthcare Academy has released a three-day Lean Office training course to improve efficiency and productivity in the NHS.
The Northern Devon Healthcare NHS Trust has successfully implemented the Kallidus Learning Management System (LMS) from Kallidus, a leading provider of learning and talent management solutions. The new easy-to-use system provides a ‘one-stop-shop’ learning and development portal for almost 4,500 employees as well as supporting individuals with their CPD (Continuous Professional Development) needs.
The sun has arrived this week along with a fresh new look accessplanit website. The updated site features an easy flow navigation, engaging relevant content and of course a fresh new look bringing it in line with the many changes at this fast growing software company.
Richardson partners with Firmwater to deliver their award-winning online sales training, Richardson QuickSkills™.
Kallidus, the leading provider of learning and talent management solutions, has achieved the prestigious Investors in People (IiP) accreditation.
TrainingIndustry.com’s tenth annual global survey reveals TIS’ supremacy in the Training Outsourcing industry.
Marta Goliszek wins Tata Interactive Systems’ ‘LEARNow™ Learning Design Challenge’. The contest was thrown open to all learning designers in UK and Europe to create a five-minute learning nugget on ‘How can I get my CEO to become (even) more interested in training’.
Ongoing research by Europe’s leading learning and talent analyst, Elearnity, is finding that in at least one third of organisations are failing to make a positive impact with their Learning Management Systems. The results are taken from current research into customer satisfaction levels of learning technology solutions and services across the UK and Europe – which is open for further contributions from corporate organisations until 3rd May 2013.
In the recently released eLearning Guild Research Report 'How Mobile Learning Is Done', Epic’s Director of Learning, Imogen Casebourne, examines nine international case studies on mobile and multi-device learning.
GlobalEnglish Corporation (www.GlobalEnglish.com), the leading provider of on-demand solutions to advance the Business English proficiency of global organizations, today issued a report with the results from its 2013 Business English Index (BEI) and Globalization of English (GOE) research.
The average age of a manager when they first receive leadership training is 42, yet they become a manager, on average, aged 33. Meanwhile, less than ten percent of employees under the age of 30 are provided the opportunity to participate in leadership development.
This year, for the first time, The Learning and Performance Institute (LPI) is inviting speaker proposal submissions for the Institute’s annual conference, LEARNING LIVE that is taking place at 200 Aldersgate, St Pauls, London on 11 and 12 September, 2013
Raytheon Professional Services LLC (RPS), a subsidiary of Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN), has delivered the launch training program for the Chevrolet Trax Urban Life Vehicle, the first training event conducted under a multimillion dollar contract to manage dealer training for General Motors Korea Company (GMKC).
Ecclesiastical Insurance has chosen Kallidus, the leading provider of learning and talent management solutions, to deliver an integrated solution for learning, performance and talent management.
Epic and Towards Maturity announce that top compliance experts Charles Jennings and Simon Brown will join the brand-new event ‘LearningNow: why won’t they comply?’ as guest speakers. Facilitated by Towards Maturity’s Managing Director Laura Overton, attendees will participate in interactive discussions that examine the real issues faced when developing compliance content, before gaining a practical insight on how to employ learning technologies to reinvigorate compliance training. ‘Why won’t they comply?’ will take place on the 1st May in London.
On 24th & 25th April, Upside Learning will be at the CIPD HRD 2013 Conference & Exhibition to be held in Olympia, London. This will mark the company’s 3rd consecutive year of participation in the UK’s leading event for L&D professionals. Upside Learning’s focus area for the event this year will be eLearning on iPads.
To help improve the quality and efficiency of foundation level learning, Jarvis Training Management now uses online learning material from Virtual College’s Apprenticeship e-Academy.
DuPont Sustainable Solutions has launched It’s Not Working: Workplace Etiquette, a new training program that reviews the six simple rules of office etiquette and helps organizations address a growing issue in the 21st century workplace.
Kallidus, the leading provider of learning and talent management solutions, has agreed a new partnership deal with Jenison, a leading creator of high quality off the shelf e-learning resources.
Fresenius Medical Care has selected NetDimensions Talent Suite for a rollout to 30,000 employees in 24 countries in EMEALA (Europe, Middle East, Africa, and Latin America). NetDimensions successfully completes validation for 21 CFR Part 11 and EU GMP Annex 11 requirements.
Health and Safety E-Learning provider, EssentialSkillz, will be showcasing new developments for 2013 on stand E80 at the Safety & Health Expo from the 14th to 16th May.
GlobalEnglish Corporation (www.GlobalEnglish.com), the leading provider of on-demand solutions to advance the Business English proficiency of global organizations, announced today that its software has been selected as a finalist in the software industry’s premier CODiE™ Awards.
The Ken Blanchard Companies is hosting a webinar on 24 April for those managers feeling stressed and struggling to cope at work. While it might seem impossible to do even more with less, there are still ways to meet increasing expectations in a time of diminished resources.
Prejudice against those experiencing mental health problems is rife. In one study, 58 per cent of people felt unfairly treated by mental health staff. Yet one in four people will experience significant mental distress at some point in their lives. Now Saffron Interactive is helping Amnesty International Ireland produce a remarkable e-learning course to change things for the better.
Richardson's new blog, Testing the Follow-up on Content-based Marketing Campaigns identifies some of the gaps, effectiveness, and growing misalignment of sales and marketing regarding the follow-up and nurturing of content-based marketing leads.
Richardson's new blog, Testing the Follow-up on Content-based Marketing Campaigns identifies some of the gaps, effectiveness, and growing misalignment of sales and marketing regarding the follow-up and nurturing of content-based marketing leads.
NetDimensions recently established NetDimensions (Australia) Pty Ltd in Sydney and will showcase NetDimensions Talent Suite at Australia’s largest learning and development gathering, the 2013 AITD National Conference from April 10-11 in Melbourne.
Reed Learning, the UK’s leading learning solutions provider, is crossing the border and has its sights set on international expansion
Blue Eskimo, specialist learning and training recruitment provider, is aligning its services with the Learning & Performance Institute’s Capability Map.
NetDimensions Talent Suite among Finalists for Best Corporate Learning/Workforce Development Solution Category at SIIA 2013 CODiE Awards
Upside Learning’s webinar, ‘New LMS Evaluation: A 9 Step Guide’, to be held on 3rd April, will help organizations to conduct the LMS selection process in an organized manner and avoid the common pitfalls.
Reed Learning demonstrates its commitment to providing top quality customer service via the internationally-recognised standard for quality management.
Kallidus, the leading provider of learning and talent management solutions, will be speaking and exhibiting at the CIPD HRD Conference and Exhibition 2013, at Olympia, London on 24-25 April 2013.
CERTPOINT is hosting a webinar on March 26 where Brandon Hall Group’s Stacey Harris and David Wentworth will examine best practice in measuring learning effectiveness with Big Data.
Epic and Towards Maturity team up to host the first in the series of three ‘LearningNow’ events. Each free event will invite attendees to explore and tackle key L&D issues of the day during an interactive and practical workshop. These events offer attendees the opportunity to connect, contribute and learn by aligning benchmark findings, workplace process and best practice. The first of the three events, ‘Why won’t they comply?’, will take place on the 1st May in London.
The German eLearning Award 2013 for the eRecruitment category was presented to Tata Interactive Systems (TIS) and PricewaterhouseCoopers AG (PwC) for their successful joint project, Web-based Training – ‘PwC Transaction Services Induction’
eLearning design doesn’t have to be complicated, says Tom Kuhlmann, the world’s leading instructional designer. He’ll be inspiring delegates at an annual Masterclass in London in May, with practical ideas to create great resources.
Quotes from Sir Winston Churchill were much in evidence at the official launch of APMG-International’s certification scheme in Facilitation skills. The scheme, which aims to teach candidates how to design, apply and use specific processes and tools in order to increase the success of programmes and projects, was launched at the Cabinet War Rooms – Churchill’s underground headquarters in Whitehall during the Second World War.
Richardson, a leading global sales training and strategy execution company, has been named to the list of TrainingIndustry.com’s top 20 Sales Training Companies. This marks the fifth straight year of inclusion on the list for Richardson.
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va., March 18, 2013 – DuPont Sustainable Solutions announces the release of HazCom for Healthcare: A GHS Overview, a new training program that educates healthcare employees on the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (OSHA) revised HazCom standard.
Next generation learning expert Brightwave renews its sponsorship of the E-Learning Awards with the launch of a new initiative to investigate how diverse industries, technologies and corporate perspectives are influencing how we learn for work today.
Little Book proves popular in the Learning Technologies and Learning and Skills 2013 exit poll. The book combines punchy design with contributions from L&D's best-known thinkers and Reed Learning's experts.
Virtual College is fast approaching its one millionth online learner milestone and is running a competition to celebrate this amazing achievement.
Kallidus, the leading provider of learning and talent management solutions, today announced that renowned author and industry thought-leader David Clutterbuck will be the keynote speaker for its Talent Breakfast Seminar to be held on 26 March in London.
Elearnity, Europe’s leading learning and talent analyst, is launching a new research programme to evaluate customer satisfaction levels of learning technology solutions and services - from the people that actually use them. Corporate customers across the UK and Europe are invited to rate the learning technology solutions they are using within their organisation. The results will be published later in 2013, with the long term aim of providing a year on year view of learning technology customer satisfaction in Europe.
First Pacific Leadership Academy (FPLA) has implemented NetDimensions Learning to build strategic learning solutions that provide high-quality training programs for future business leaders in the Philippines.
The Learning and Performance Institute (LPI) agrees to host Elliott Masie’s Learning Directions event in London on 16th April 2013.
Kallidus, the leading provider of learning and talent management solutions, is rolling out a new series of public training courses designed to help training professionals and e-learning developers create engaging content in-house, using the latest most popular authoring tools and techniques.
After a record breaking 2012 for sales, EssentialSkillz have started 2013 with the launch of their new web site and some exciting plans for the coming year.
Getting the right apprentices into the most appropriate apprenticeships is a major issue for many colleges and training providers.
The Upside Learning team has released an infographic that explains how the Mobile World and the Changing Workplace together indicate a need and, at the same time, a Great Opportunity to move towards Mobile Learning.
Learning Pool, the fast growing e-learning company, has pulled off a major coup by appointing Ryan Adams, former lead web developer for BBC Online to head its specialist mobile app division in Belfast.
The City & Guilds Accredited Productive Leader e-learning programmes will be launched at the Healthcare Innovation Expo, Excel London on 13th & 14th March. Virtual College is optimistic the addition of the on-line Productive Leader e-learning programme will continue to make a meaningful contribution towards the Government’s £20billion efficiency savings needing to be found by 2014.
Proven, SaaS-based Learning Technologies will Expand the Infor Human Capital Management Suite.
Global performance improvement solutions provider GP Strategies Corporation (NYSE: GPX) is pleased to announce the publication of the third edition of Leading Out Loud by thought leader and business partner, Terry Pearce, and the accompanying Leadership Development Program updated by GP Strategies’ BlessingWhite division.
NetDimensions has acquired eHealthcareIT in line with its strategy to become a premier global provider for talent management solutions for highly-regulated industries.
International experts are warning that an avalanche is heading towards traditional education. According to Sir Michael Barber, chief education strategist of ICT specialists Pearson, "an education revolution is coming" which offers "opportunities to transform outcomes for learners everywhere".
Channel 4 and next generation learning expert Brightwave has created a digital learning portal dedicated to helping internal sales teams achieve best value for their airtime customers.
Tata Interactive Systems’ TLDF (Tata Interactive Learning Disability Forum) partners with K.E.M. hospital, Mumbai and Citi Academy for Special Education (CASE), Mumbai to co-host the Forum for Learning Disabilities – 2013.
goFLUENT, a leading provider of Business English training which works with many of the Fortune 500 companies around the world has commissioned – and now published as a whitepaper – research into the key trends and best practices of blended language learning (BLL).
Toby Harris from Saffron Interactive and Dan Church from Transport for London will this Thursday explain an award-winning forty minute e-learning course on mental resilience which delivered a £7.8 million return on investment. The webinar will introduce the concept of ‘me-Learning’ and what it means for long term behavioural change.
LLC chose accessplanit to work in partnership with them to develop a software solution with the capability and functionality to enhance their external course offering and to manage internal training with particular focus on reducing compliance risk.
Join Epic at the eLearning Network’s first big event of the year: ‘You’ve got to be in it to win it – the eLearning Awards Showcase’. Epic’s session will explore why the organisation’s top-to-bottom transformation led to them winning five eLearning Age Awards, including the coveted E-Learning Development Company of the Year.
Geely, one of the top ten automobile manufacturers in China, has selected the NetDimensions Talent Suite for a global learning and talent management solution to support the company’s growth in the automobile industry.
DuPont Sustainable Solutions has developed a new workplace safety training program that discusses standard protocols on the handling, inspection, and maintenance of various personal protective equipment (PPE).
Learning Pool, the fast growing e-learning company, is delighted to announce that it has been selected to showcase its technology at the new, multi-sector, networking event ‘Innovate UK’. The joint venture from the Technology Strategy Board and UK Trade & Investment unites the highly successful Innovate and TechWorld events and will showcase cutting edge innovation from across the UK.
goFLUENT, a leading provider of distance Business English training, is hosting a webinar on “The Importance of English Testing in Corporations”.
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