As learning professionals, we need to be able to talk about what we are doing and why it is important. Educating our audiences about ourselves and our mission is as important as providing them with the right learning opportunities and tools for them to grow and achieve superior results.

Bringing experiential learning into the organization can only be beneficial to all concerned – the staff will have an easier (and more fun) time while they learn and customers will benefit from the interaction with well-instructed, engaged representatives of the business.

The spacing effect is a perfect example of how much more effective learning becomes once we better understand the human brain. It’s up to corporate learning specialists to harness the potential of these neuroscientific findings and use spaced repetition to turn learning from isolated events to ongoing journeys.

High-quality content is a must in any successful training program, but keep in mind that the means you use to deliver that content are equally important. Let’s see a few online tools that will help you design the best training materials and boost learning outcomes!

Since online training classrooms don’t involve face-to-face interaction with trainers and colleagues, people tend to feel disengaged and eventually quit classes altogether. Learning is not supposed to be a lonely pursuit. Let us see what a trainer can do to bring back the “human touch” in the virtual classroom!

Genuine behavioral change requires a personal epiphany and even though instructional designers always try to create some powerful ‘a-ha!’ moments in learning materials, they are not the same for all participants. Here’s what organizations have to understand about the intricacies of bringing about behavioral change in their employees.

Training adults should take into account the time factor and identify strategies that work with busy learners. The 5As model that Kimberly Devin explains in her book “Same Training, Half the Time: Delivering Results for Busy Learners” might be a useful tool for training designers.

Many progressive businesses are leveraging social learning to foster corporate training and collaborative learning. While the requirement for training that supports specific learning outcomes is growing day-by-day, there is a need to create social learning platforms.

Storytelling can be used as one of the many strategies included in a training course. Case studies, branching scenarios, games, and videos will be more engaging if they are designed with a strong narrative approach in mind. It is a wonderful tool that can help you build a better, more powerful connection between you and your attendees. It will help you speak to them, not at them.

A lot of employee training programs tend to woefully miss the point. They’re boring. They’re complicated and cumbersome. The problem is that they’re created with little regard for how people actually learn. To address that, you can actually draw inspiration from a rather unlikely source: video games.