Utilizing Gamification in Making Training More Engaging

Posted by Jason Silberman on Posted in Gamification
A strategy that is gaining increasing adoption recently – in training and in many other fields – is gamification. This concept has been broadly applied into several domains already, including websites’ design, and it is expected to change the employee training environment as we know it. For previous posts on gamification, click here.   What…

Some L&D Articles / Blog Posts That You Might Have Missed This Week

Posted by Jason Silberman on Posted in Learning and Development
Hey everyone.  HOT here.  Really hot. A big week in the news worldwide, but I’ve got you covered with some of the L&D articles and blog posts that you may have missed. Hope you have a great weekend! With that said, here are 4 articles from this week: eLearning: It’s Time for a Reboot (Wired Magazine)…

Importance of “Pre-Training Event” Activities in Gaining Employee Engagement

Posted by Jason Silberman on Posted in Employee Engagement
This is a guestpost by David Zahn is the President of ZAHN Consulting, LLC, the first in a 3-part series.   The Importance of “Pre-Training Event” Activities in Gaining Employee Engagement If Senior Executives and Human Resources Professionals were able to eavesdrop on their employees when they were talking about their frustrations with the company, one of…

New Paper Calls for Adapting to Learning Changes

Posted by Jason Silberman on Posted in Organizational Learning
This was interesting to me. L&D teams must redefine their role to resolve a growing tension between how individuals want to approach learning and how organizations want to deploy it, according to a new white paper from Hemsley Fraser, the learning and development company. ‘Learning is Changing’ highlights the fundamental changes that have occurred in the…

Forget Me Not – Critical Steps to Making Employee Training More Memorable

Posted by Jason Silberman on Posted in Workplace Training
Benjamin Franklin said once “Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.” Employee training professionals have to constantly overcome different challenges faced during employee training sessions, perhaps the most pressing being the retention rate of learners. Many of heard the “20 percent statistic”, that is that learners only…