DuPont Sustainable Solutions has released a new training program that takes a personal approach in helping drivers avoid distracted driving.
Learning Pool’s promotion to Platinum Partner for Totara LMS means that it will be able to deliver an enhanced learning service to its customers. Learning Pool was one of the early adopters of Totara, a custom distribution of Moodle, and this recognition comes on the back of a number of successful implementations of Totara in local government and the hospitality industry within the UK.
On Monday the 12th November, Minister of State for Trade and Investment Lord Green visited Epic to meet with the company and celebrate its efforts in international growth. Thanks to its success in international markets, Epic was chosen by the UKTI as just one of two companies to be visited by Lord Green.
The Training Associates™ (TTA ™), the largest provider of learning and development consultants, announced the hiring of Karen Medeiros as its Recruiting Manager.
The advent of the economic crisis coupled with innovative technological developments are forcing businesses to navigate their way through uncertain territory. Technology has enabled us to connect, to create new models for business, and to exchange knowledge instantly, but it has also created new challenges: we are increasingly vulnerable to sudden incidents outside of our direct control. How can businesses deliver competitive advantage in a VUCA world – one which is characterised by Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity and Ambiguity? What strategy should businesses employ to ensure the effectiveness of their workplace learning strategy? And could the field of behavioural science hold the key?
Raytheon Professional Services LLC (RPS), a subsidiary of Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN), has been named to the 2012 “Top Learning Portal Companies” and “Top Workforce Development Companies” lists by Training Industry, Inc.
Epic and Pareto will host ‘The Future of Driving High Performance Sales Teams’, a brand-new event that focuses on how to leverage learning technologies for effective sales development. The event will take place on the 5th December 2012 in London.
CERTPOINT Systems is hosting a webinar with Johanna Sadoudi, Founder & CEO VITAMINDS and David Wentworth, Senior Learning Analyst, Brandon Hall Group about whether social learning can succeed alongside the LMS.
Virtual College, a leading provider of e-learning in the UK worked with Lincoln Integrated Domestic Abuse Services (LIDAS) to produce and release the 'Choose to Stop' app.
Global e-learning provider, EssentialSkillz, has announced its new channel partner program 'Reseller Pack' aimed at businesses in the health and safety sector.
On Saturday 2 November, Kilmarnock College in Scotland held their annual Graduation and Awards ceremony for the 2012 graduates. This was the last graduation for the College before the merger with other colleges in Ayrshire and the assumption of a new name. For each of the College’s departments, an award is given out each year to one student who has excelled.
Allied Electronics has successfully implemented the NetDimensions Talent Suite in order to maximize the efficiency of the training and development department, increase employee engagement, and ensure compliance with industry and governmental mandates.
~ The Trainer of the Year Award (sponsored by APMG International) recognises the most successful and consistent IT Service Management Trainer ~
On Friday 2 November eCom staff accompanied by clients celebrated the new office launch at Dickson Street.
NetDimensions and Cegos today announced a partnership that will allow NetDimensions to distribute the 200 e-Learning Solutions by Cegos modules worldwide.
Raytheon Professional Services LLC (RPS), a subsidiary of Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN), has been awarded a contract to manage apprenticeship programmes across the U.K. for Cable&Wireless Worldwide (CWW).
Worldwide leader in IT and Business Training expands its Business Transformation Portfolio.
Are you a ‘Frankenboss?’ That's a mean boss who terrorises his or her employees, or whose behaviour closely resembles that of a half-brained monster? The Ken Blanchard Companies’ Randy Conley says that if any of these describe your leadership style, you might want to take a look in the mirror and examine the face that’s peering back at you – are there bolts growing out of the sides of your neck?
With an estimated 10 African countries featuring among the world’s fastest growing economies, Africa’s status in the global economic landscape is set to change dramatically. Indeed, innovative new technologies combined with a pioneering spirit to improve lives are already changing the way Africans learn, work, play, think and imagine. But are the changes to education and skills development systems sustainable? How are African youth shaping their identities and navigating different learning spaces with these technologies? And are new technologies fundamentally disruptive to tradition? These are some of the key questions that will form the focus of eLearning Africa 2013, which takes place from 29th to 31st May at Namibia’s Safari Conference Centre in Windhoek. The call for proposals is now open and will close on January 11th 2013.
Kallidus (formerly e2train), the leading provider of learning and talent management solutions, today announced that it has released version 9.2 of its award winning Kallidus Learning Management System (LMS). Kallidus LMS is part of the modular Kallidus Learning & Talent suite which brings together learning, performance management, talent management and succession planning to provide customers with flexible end-to-end solutions for improving business performance.
The provision of excellent customer service has never been more important within the social housing sector and Virtual College's Housing e-Academy, is holding a series of free networking events across the country to highlight the value of good customer service and how to comply with various regulatory guidelines. An accompanying online Customer Service course will be available shortly.
NetDimensions Continues European Expansion and Opens Office in Munich.
LPI Capability Map to provide de facto skills tracking for learning professionals as well as a ‘common language’ for the workplace learning sector.
ECCI Group has implemented NetDimensions Learning to serve as its platform for delivering Managed Services to clients in Asia Pacific.
The challenge of “video as the new language of learning” will be tackled head-on at this year’s ONLINE EDUCA BERLIN (OEB), the largest global e-learning conference for the corporate, education and public service sectors, which takes place at the Intercontinental Hotel in Berlin from 28th to 30th November.
The Training Associates ™ (TTA ™), the largest provider of learning and development consultants and solutions, has been recognized by the Small Business Administration (SBA) as a Mentor for their Mentor/ Protégé program with an aligned protégé.
DuPont Sustainable Solutions announces the release of Forklifts: Inspect, Recharge, Refuel, a new safety training program that goes beyond operational forklift safety training and reviews the steps for forklift inspections, engine refueling, and battery charging.
The Training Associates ™ (TTA ™), the largest provider of learning and development consultants and solutions, partners with the CompTIA Creating IT Futures Foundation to provide instructors for their IT Ready Program.
With a view to helping organizations in better decision making and adopting mobile learning, Upside Learning has announced a webinar that will bust the most common myths related to this domain. Titled, ‘Busting 7 Mobile Learning Myths’.
4-Hour Single-Source Course from Chapman Alliance and Xyleme Offered Free Under Creative Commons; Available in Print, Web and Mobile Outputs.
Brandon Hall, Charles Jennings, Donald H Taylor, Mike Morrison examine the dramatic changes impacting business in two day event.
E-learning expert, Brightwave, reports over 40% growth for the second consecutive year and celebrates with a new work space in their central Brighton office.
IMC, one of Europe’s leading e-learning providers, joins Towards Maturity’s growing international Ambassador Programme.
The UK’s leader in learning and development recruitment, Blue Eskimo, has just launched its annual salary and work survey.
The Human Resource (HR) Summit will take place for the 19th time on the 10-12 October 2012 in Brussels.
NetDimensions and OpenSesame announced a powerful partnership and platform integration. This partnership will enable NetDimensions’ millions of users to search for, purchase, and deploy training courses within the NetDimensions Talent Suite, instantly.
Learning Nexus, one of the UK’s leading online learning publishers and solution providers, is proud to announce that it has launched its new solution, Freeshare, specifically benefiting the public and not-for-profit sectors around the UK.
Global Health and Safety E-Learning provider, EssentialSkillz, has released a new E-Learning course aimed at Fire Marshals and Fire Wardens.
Off the back of a customer survey, Learning Nexus, a leading e-learning content producer in the UK, has released the first of its sector specific e-learning courses, for the Housing sector.
Tata Interactive Systems discusses how Tin Can may be the future of the e-Learning industry.
Raytheon Professional Services LLC (RPS), a subsidiary of Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN), announced that it achieved a Grade 2 rating from the Office for Standards in Education, Children’s Services and Skills (OFSTED) for its UK apprenticeship services. This is the first time that RPS’ apprenticeship programmes have been inspected by OFSTED, and the Grade 2 achievement immediately places the company and its services among the top UK vocational training providers inspected.
DuPont Sustainable Solutions, producer of award-winning training solutions that help protect lives, develop competencies and empower employees, has been named to the Top 20 Learning Portal Companies list by TrainingIndustry.com.
Prominent UK charity the Youth Hostel Association (YHA) has chosen Enable by Virtual College as a Learning Management System to help extend its training provision across its workforce.
DuPont Sustainable Solutions has released Slips, Trips and Falls: Split Second Safety, a new training program that introduces the “split-second safety” blueprint to help employees avoid slips, trips and falls.
Richardson, a leading global sales training and sales strategy execution firm, today announced that three of their clients have been recognized with Gold and Silver medals by the Brandon Hall Group’s annual Excellence in Awards for Learning, Talent Management, and Sales and Marketing Awards.
Kallidus (formerly e2train), the leading provider of learning and talent management solutions, will be unveiling its new corporate branding at stand E50 at World of Learning on 2nd and 3rd October 2012. The company will also be showcasing its enterprise wide modular software solutions which integrate learning, performance, talent management and succession planning as well as its content development and consultancy capabilities.
On the 1st October 2012, the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) new Fee for Intervention (FFI) cost recovery scheme will be introduced in the UK. Health and Safety E-Learning company, EssentialSkillz, say that training staff is key for companies to keep their house in order.
Tata Interactive Systems (TIS), the world’s leading developer of learning solutions, has won 10 Brandon Hall Awards in the last 4 years.
National online training provider and specialist in Lean Healthcare, Virtual College, is to hold its 5th Lean Healthcare Academy Annual Conference and Awards event at the Marriott Hotel in Leeds on Thursday 7th February 2013.
DuPont Sustainable Solutions’ Miracle on the Hudson: Prepare for Safety program won the Occupational Health and Safety magazine’s (OHS) 2012 New Product of the Year Award for On-Site Training category.
Westboro, MA – September 26, 2012 ‐ The Training Associates ™ (TTA ™), the largest provider of learning and development consultants and solutions, announced the hiring of Trish Arnold as their Government Sales Consultant.
Award Recognizes GlobalEnglish Customers Capgemini and Unisys for “Best Use of Blended Learning” and “Best Results of a Learning Program”
The Training Associates ™ (TTA ™), the largest provider of learning and development consultants and solutions, has been recognized by Inc. Magazine as one of the fastest growing private companies in America on their annual “Inc 5000” list with a ranking of 1979 out of 5000.
We’ve all had them, those ‘un-leaderlike’ moments when we feel we let ourselves down. Whether it’s in our public life, our work life, or our personal life, even the best leaders have been guilty of getting it wrong at one time or another.
Many commentators and analysts agree that, increasingly over the last few years, the training industry has been changing.
Ambassador programme funds Europe’s largest learning technology benchmark study.
One of the UK’s largest business learning providers, pledges support to Towards Maturity’s Ambassador Programme.
Xyleme LCMS 3.7 builds content ready for personalization.
DuPont Sustainable Solutions announces the release of HazCom: In Sync with GHS, a new training program that explains the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (OSHA) revised HazCom standard. The standard now incorporates the United Nations’ Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labeling of Chemicals (GHS).
eCom Scotland will be in the spot light, exhibiting at the Scottish Learning Festival, SECC, Glasgow.
CERTPOINT Systems hosts Bersin webinar - Ara Ohanian and Josh Bersin examine the business impact of learning technologies across audiences.
#LEARNINGLIVE reaches the number one Twitter trending topic in the UK as thousands of people share the event content
NetDimensions opens its annual global user conference, Next Steps 2012, in Chicago on September 20th.
With the business world becoming increasingly ‘global’ and with English now well established as the international business language, learning English as a second language is becoming vital for those who want to further their careers.
A record number of delegates are set to pack out the conference and exhibition for LEARNING LIVE 2012.
Blue Eskimo, the specialist recruitment company for training and e-learning professionals, has received accreditation from the Learning & Performance Institute for the third year running.
2012 Tata Interactive Learning Forum (TLF) Will Launch Talent Development Reporting Principles (TDRp).
Information Transfer has changed its name to Acteon Communication and Learning. We’re making this change to better convey the positive impact we are delivering for our clients.
The exclusive, by-invitation only, Tata Interactive Learning Forum invites thought leaders and decision makers from the Learning and Training industry to share ideas, innovations and insights
e2train today announced that it is changing its name to Kallidus. The name change, which comes into effect at the end of September, is part of a rebranding effort which reflects the company’s growth and transformation and conveys its learning, performance and talent management capabilities and solutions approach to consultancy, technology and service excellence.
Industry leading Health and Safety E-Learning provider, EssentialSkillz, has received approval from RoSPA for a further 5 of their E-Learning courses, bringing their list of RoSPA Approved courses to 10.
The Training Associates ™ (TTA ™), the largest provider of learning and development consultants and solutions, announced the hiring of David Derezinski as a Sales Consultant.
Join Xyleme and Bryan Chapman on September 12th at 10am MDT for “Developing Single-Source Learning: An Online Workshop with Bryan Chapman." It’s never been more critical or strategically important to deliver your learning content on demand to any device or application, making single source something you need to look into!
Introducing CoastalFlix™, the new video streaming solution that enables employees to experience compelling DuPont content via any web-enable device.
e2train, the leading provider of learning and talent management solutions, today announced that its revenues for the financial year ending June 2012 are up 31% on the previous year. This is the eighth year in a row that e2train has shown annual profitable growth, with the company’s operating profits up 80% on 2011’s year end results.
Following the rapid International growth and Channel strategy, Docebo signed a brand-new collaboration agreement with Verum Group, a leading IT company located in Uruguay.
The dedicated conference group represents a unique opportunity to explore differences and share global best practice
Indra, a global technology, innovation, and talent company, has successfully rolled out NetDimensions Talent Suite to its employees around the world.
e2train today announced that it has been shortlisted for four prestigious E-learning Awards this year. The E-Learning Awards recognise industry excellence and are organised and presented by e.learning age and judged by an independent judging panel.
The agreement will see all members of The Charity Learning Consortium gain Learning and Performance Institute membership
NetDimensions has been named among the Top 20 Learning Portal Companies for the third year running by TrainingIndustry.com.
On the 16-17th of August, Forth Valley College in Scotland held their ‘Focus on Learning Summer Conference’ at the Falkirk campus, during a busy period a week before student inductions. Ken George and Debbie Fairman of Learning Nexus were invited to support the conference, and demonstrate what schemes, resources and assistance are available to them, their students and external contacts regarding learning.
Virtual College is celebrating reaching a staggering 750,000 unique online learners, an increase of quarter of a million on this time last year. One of the UK’s leading online training providers, Virtual College continues to buck the economic trend and now boasts a team of over 80 at its offices in Ilkley, West Yorkshire.
Upside Learning will be presenting a learning session titled ‘Key Decisions to Make in Mobile Learning Implementation’ on 30th August at LearnX Asia Pacific 2012. Targeted at organizations planning to incorporate mobile learning in their training mix, the session will be presented by Amit Garg at 11 AM AEST.
Learning Nexus Ltd is always striving to make sure that content for its courses is not only relevant and up-to-date, but meets the legislative needs that it knows are important to its customers.
NetDimensions and Peak Pacific have been chosen to support Finnair Flight Academy in delivering quality training services to its customers and partners.
eCom Scotland, a leading provider of eAssessment solutions will be exhibiting and hosting a workshop at eAssessment Scotland. Once again the conference will be held at the University of Dundee on Friday 31 August 2012.
NetDimensions is once again a finalist in two categories at the annual Best of Elearning! Awards for the second consecutive year.
Richardson's expanded blog covers all aspects of sales and sales management and share current thinking on today’s most critical revenue-generation strategies and challenges.
In the “old” days, events were designed months ahead of schedule, locking in speakers, topics and even room assignments. Learning 2012 is blowing up that model by moving toward a Real-Time Design and Elliott Masie has a Day by Day Countdown Blog to track that design in process.
Richardson, a global sales training and strategy execution company, has launched Richardson QuickCheck™, a proven new approach to reinforcing learning. Richardson QuickCheck™ is an e-mail-based program that leverages your salespeople’s mobile devices in order to deliver daily, bite-sized learning.
e2train, a leading provider of learning and talent management solutions, is delighted to announce that its 81Boxes application technology has been awarded Plynt Certification for Application Security. Kallidus Talent and Succession (81Boxes) is an easy to use, smart suite of talent management and succession planning software for HR professionals and senior managers.
Global Health and Safety E-Learning provider, EssentialSkillz, has launched a new Training Needs Analysis tool that simplifies the process of identifying training requirements and enrolling staff on courses.
On Friday the 6th of July, First Wessex Housing Association was the proud recipient of the British American Tobacco Award for Commitment to Education and Training at the South Coast Business Awards 2012.
Raytheon Professional Services LLC (RPS), a subsidiary of Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN), announced that Michael Ross, a graduate of the automotive apprenticeship programme run by RPS for Vauxhall Motors, was recognized for his outstanding achievements in the IMI Awards, the UK Institute of the Motor Industry’s annual competition.
Docebo proudly announces that its Docebo Cloud learning management system has been selected as “Best of Elearning! 2012” finalist in the SaaS category
Clients are looking for business-led L&D solutions, says Ara Ohanian, CERTPOINT’s Chief Happiness Officer and CEO.
Enzyme and Docebo renewed the agreement on partnership and collaboration that both had already initiated and maintained since 2010.
PC Passport for beginners is one of The Scottish Qualifications Authority (SQA) premier ICT qualifications and is perfect for those candidates who want to learn how to use computers, or to improve their existing knowledge. With a new look and courseware to suit the technology that we engage with in every day life, this course inspires and engages the learner.
A recent survey by the Learning & Performance Institute (LPI) has provided evidence that there has never been a greater opportunity for L&D functions to contribute significant value-add to their organisations. At the same time, however, resistance to delivering change, due to budgetary constraints and other factors, has never been greater. This “perfect storm” necessitates the development of a roadmap for L&D managers to successfully navigate through these choppy waters.
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