Clients are looking for business-led L&D solutions, says Ara Ohanian, CERTPOINT’s Chief Happiness Officer and CEO.
The Learning Marketplace is in the midst of a significant shift – with changing client expectations, shifting requirements for Content, Systems and Services and a large dose of “Hype”. This month, Elliott Masie hosts an interactive 60 minute conference call focusing on these changes/evolutions/revolutions and how they are changing the nature of buying in the learning marketplace.
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.
The popularity of Moodle as an academic learning platform is now migrating into the corporate market too. But built originally for an academic audience and learning model, what’s the reality of Moodle’s usage and suitability for corporate learning? ‘Insights Into Corporate Moodle’, a new report by Elearnity, exposes the reality of how Moodle is actually being used in corporate organisations, and analyses the implications for corporate adopters.
Global learning technologies innovator CERTPOINT Systems and learning thought leader Charles Jennings, Duntroon Associates, have identified five key trends impacting the way people learn in today’s borderless world.
How technologies like Cloud computing, Software As-a-Service (SaaS), and Mobile, drive companies decisions when selecting an E-Learning platform? A brand-new University Research study focuses on Learning Management System (LMS) adoption criteria and 2012 E-Learning trends.
A new report released today reveals the impact on corporate customers and competing vendors of the recent billion dollar acquisitions of talent management providers SuccessFactors and Taleo by SAP and Oracle.
At its recent symposium event, leading organisations including Lloyds Banking Group, BT, Rolls Royce and Shell agreed that the Learning Management System (LMS) remains a priority for corporate learning in 2012.
Webanywhere, a provider of corporate learning platforms, in association with Professor Jeff Gold, Professor of Organisational Learning at Leeds Business School, has published a white paper that explores the differences between leadership and management and considers various approaches for developing leaders and managers.
A new survey from GoodPractice highlights key industry changes during past 12 months.
Towards Maturity, the not-for-profit benchmark practice, today announces a significant and valuable extension to its internationally recognised research services. It is launching two new report ranges: Sector reports and In-Focus reports.
Elearnity, Europe’s leading learning analyst, is publishing its first series of Vendor Perspectives. These new reports provide the only in-depth, independent analysis of learning technology vendors with a UK/European focus.
Blue Eskimo’s annual work and salary survey highlights the effects of the current economic situation on the majority of companies and workers in the sector.
Blue Eskimo, the learning industry’s recruitment specialist, has released the 2011 results of its annual work and salary survey.
The Training Associates, the largest provider of training delivery solutions and trainers on-demand, announced the release of their new white paper version of Staff & Contract Instructors: Costs, Comparisons & Considerations, as authored by Victor J. Melfa, Co-Founder and CEO of The Training Associates.
Time is running out to take part in Blue Eskimo's learning and development sector 2011 Work and Salary Survey ~ Over 600 L&D, training and e-learning professionals in the UK have already completed the survey, which is open to all UK-based L&D professionals until 2nd December.
Richardson's The Lighter Side of Selling II is a fun look at real stories, anecdotes, and other events that sales professionals have experienced during an actual Sales Meeting.
The UK's leader in learning and development recruitment, Blue Eskimo, has just launched its annual salary and work survey.
This dramatic change in buyer behavior has forced companies to reevaluate the way they train their sales teams to engage prospects and existing customers. This new paradigm is the focus of Richardson’s new eBook, The Roadmap to Scalable and Sustainable Sales Transformation.
The third GoodPractice UK Learning Trends Index has just been released and shows increased stability in the UK Learning and Development sector. Conducted in conjunction with Reed Learning and INL Consultancy, the aim of the Learning Trends survey is to help learning and development professionals stay up-to-date with the state of their industry and the key issues their peers are facing.
Project management training and development specialist, Project Agency, has revealed that, in a survey of over 1,300 people who have attended its project management events, over 52 per cent believe that the roles, responsibilities and levels of authority relating to their projects are unclear.
In what way is training changing because of the new technologies based on Cloud Computing and the potential of the social channels and web 2.0? What new tools are being made available to those involved in training? The Docebo (market leader in E-Learning services and solutions for large firms and organisations) Newsletter "2011 Learning Technology Trends" with insights from Gartner (market leader amongst IT analysts) is attempting to provide answers to these and other questions.
The second GoodPractice UK Learning Trends Index has just been released and delivers positive news despite the ongoing need to reduce overall costs. Conducted in conjunction with the INL Consultancy, the aim of the survey is to help learning and development professionals stay up-to-date with the state of their industry, and the key issues their peers are facing.
Corporate Academies have been an established trend in enterprise learning for some time. Many organisations are now adopting them as a strategic vehicle to deliver business alignment and more holistic development strategies. However, many others have seen their academies initiatives wither and die.
Blue Eskimo, the specialist recruitment company for training and e-learning professionals, has completed its annual 'training and e-learning industry salary and work survey'. The results will be published in an article in the next issue of Learning Technologies Magazine and Blue Eskimo is exhibiting at the forthcoming Learning Technologies event in London on 26-27 January where it's staff will be on hand to discuss the findings with employers.
Richardson has compiled some of the funniest, scariest, and most exciting sales travel tales into a new eBook, The Lighter Side of Selling.
Blue Eskimo, the UK's leader in recruitment for the training, e-learning and learning technologies sector has just launched its annual salary and work survey.
e2train's new white paper will help learning and HR professionals maximise value when they implement one of the 'new wave' systems to manage learning, performance and talent functions. Entitled, 'Ten steps to implementing your 'new wave' learning and performance management system', the paper offers an easy step by step guide to getting the best from these systems. An extract of the paper and a free download of the paper is available at http://www.e2train.com/landpms-extract
The Performance Solution is extremely proud to announce that we have released the first issue of our brand new research journal: “The Performance Solution: A Research Journal of Coaching, Mentoring, Supervision and NLP”.
The IITT consultation with 3,000 Learning and Development professionals will be announced at the Training 2010 conference
In the UK workplace younger managers receive three times more paid-for training than their older colleagues who rely more on informal learning
Blue Eskimo, the specialist recruitment company for training, learning and e-learning professionals, has published its 2009 work and salary survey. It shows that learning professionals are working harder than before and are being paid less but there are signs that the worse may now be over.
Blue Eskimo, the specialist recruitment company for training, learning and e-learning professionals, is reporting an increase in the proportion of temporary contract roles versus permanent roles in the UK's learning industry.
Blue Eskimo, the specialist recruitment company for training and e-learning professionals, is currently running its annual salary and work survey, which will provide a valuable insight into the economic condition of the learning sector.
Elearnity, Europe’s leading Corporate Learning Analyst, today announced its latest research on the impact of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) on the Learning & Talent Systems market.
by Peter ten Hoopen and Fons Trompenaars - Publisher Wiley 2009, Book Review by Doreen Coull.
Richardson releases new research report, The Technology Industry: Sales Trends and Strategic Initiatives.
The British Institute for Learning & Development (the BILD) and The Training Foundation have collaborated to complete what is believed to be the UK's most extensive survey of qualified L&D practitioners.
The UK's comprehensive review of Learning Technologies at work - Businesses are demanding much more from learning technologies in the downturn but are failing to prepare themselves to take advantage of the opportunities available
Blue Eskimo, the specialist recruitment company for training, e-learning and technology recruitment, has just released the results of its Work and Salary Survey 2008.
We all know that these are tough times - but is the current economic climate impacting on salaries in the training sector? Blue Eskimo's 2009 Salary and Work Survey could provide the answer.
Richardson (http://www.richardson.com), a leading sales training and consulting firm, today announced the release of a new sales improvement article, Five Keys to Building Client Trust and Questions to Ask Yourself.
The cost to the UK economy of poor use of email is estimated today in the tens of billions. Research undertaken by Expert Messaging found that the typical office computer user could free up 41 minutes per day if they used email better. Taking into account only the salary cost of this lost time produces a figure of £38 billion, more than the GNP of Nigeria and 172 other of the world's economies.
Training administration is learning & development’s top priority for outsourcing, according to a new survey which shows that large organisations want to offload this time-consuming work in order to redeploy staff onto higher value activities.
A new white paper from Global Knowledge, Europe's leading provider of learning services for IT and management professionals, throws into doubt the perceived wisdom that neutrality enables managed training services providers to deliver greater benefits to customers.
Elearnity, Europe's leading Corporate Learning Analyst, today announced the results of an in-depth research project into the role and value of learning content management in corporate learning, with participation from a range of leading corporates. Elearnity's research strongly indicates that large organisations need coherent strategies for producing and managing learning content that are geared to the needs and structure of their business. Findings from the research are summarised in an Executive Viewpoint paper, now available from Elearnity's Research Knowledge Centre.
Learning & development teams are increasingly turning to managed learning service providers as they try to address talent shortages without losing control or increasing headcount, according to a new white paper from KnowledgePool.
A quarter of all training is wasted because delegates do not get the chance to apply their learning and they are not adequately supported by their line manager, according to a new Kirkpatrick Level 3 benchmark study from KnowledgePool, the managed learning services company.
Electronic performance support systems (EPSS) offer the double-edged advantage of increasing workers' productivity while reducing training costs. They free up precious time and resources for innovation, process improvements and employee development.
Learning Light (LL), a non-profit organisation, seeking to establish itself as a Centre of Excellence in the use of learning technologies in the workplace, has concluded the first stage in its major research programme to map trends in coporate e-learning. The initial survey aimed to discover the types of e-learning research that interest, and are of importance to, those working in corporate e-learning.
Elearnity, Europe’s leading independent Learning Analyst, today announced the availability of the Elearnity Knowledge Centre; free of charge, on-tap market intelligence and analysis for corporate learning and e-learning leaders and practitioners. Uniquely orientated towards a UK/European corporate audience, the Elearnity Knowledge Centre provides a wealth of information including a continually updated, structured archive of market news, together with analysis, articles, presentations, and reports from Elearnity on key learning and e-learning issues and trends.
The influence of e-learning is continuing to spread throughout the UK economy and more and more people are becoming involved in its purchase, delivery and use, according to the eLearning Network (ELN) - the UK's foremost professional association for users and developers of all forms of e-learning.
Some 150 of Europe's top exponents of e-learning met in London this month to discuss the industry's key trends and issues. Organised by global e-learning pioneer TATA Interactive Systems (TIS), attendance at the conference - the Tata Learning Forum - was by invitation only.
e2train has produced a FREE white paper on the business benefits of implementing a Learning Management System (LMS).
The Training Foundation’s Director of e-Learning Clive Shepherd was in a buoyant mood last night after collecting awards in two categories at the glittering World of Learning Awards gala dinner. The highlight of the evening saw Shepherd honoured for making an Outstanding Contribution to the Training Industry.
A need for pre-sales advice and doubts about the accuracy of product information and pricing are key factors keeping value-added resellers in the United Kingdom information and computer technology (ICT) channel from making greater usage of electronic commerce and trading, according to the findings of a new survey released today by the Computing Technology Industry Association (CompTIA).
Organizations investing in security training and certification for their information technology (IT) personnel are less likely to experience major security breaches, according to a recent study on IT security by CompTIA, the Computing Technology Industry Association.
Browser-based attacks are surging and may pose the next significant security threat to information technology (IT) operations.
Information Technology (IT) managers believe their companies benefit financially and operationally by having a high percentage of CompTIA-certified employees on their staffs, according to the findings of a recent survey conducted by the Computing Technology Industry Association.
eLearnity, Europe’s leading independent Learning Analyst, announced some challenging conclusions from its Learning Scorecard collaborative research project. The project researched best practice in measuring and proving the value of corporate learning with seven major corporate employers and has led to some challenging conclusions regarding current training evaluation practices, and current thinking adopted by corporate training functions.
eLearnity, Europe's leading independent Learning Analyst, today announced an in-depth collaborative research project into measuring and proving the value of learning within major corporations.
Small and mid-sized businesses are prepared to invest in converged voice and data networking solutions that will allow them to reduce communications costs, boost employee productivity, and quickly adapt to changing business conditions. That's one of the key findings of a new study from CompTIA, the Computing Technology Industry Association.
BrightWave is producing an article for its customers about how style and subject matter have become more important than 'learning' in many e-learning programmes. The article is being made available on an exclusive basis to the media; publications with an interest in publishing it are invited to contact BrightWave.
The first survey into the salaries, benefits and development plans of the UK's IT training community has been launched by the Institute of IT Training.
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