Do you enjoy traveling? When you haven’t been to the airport in a while it can be an exciting experience leading up to the flight. But then you arrive at the airport and the reality of travel beats you down. Some airports are worse than others. And to be fair, it’s not always such a […]

"The classroom is still king in terms of spending, despite ever-increasing options that are seen as more effective.” This is one of the top findings in Brandon Hall Group’s 2016 Training Benchmarking Study.   Instructor-led Training Lives On The death of instructor led training has been greatly exaggerated. There is more than one report that has […]

One of the biggest events in NASCAR is the Daytona 500. The race is 500 miles of cars driving in a circle. I know it doesn't sound very exciting, but I would encourage you to watch it this weekend. Even if you only watch for 15-30mins it will be a learning opportunity for you. Of course […]

Is virtual reality defined by the tech or the experience? Is new high tech equipment a prerequisite for a virtual experience? Could reading a good story be a low tech virtual reality experience? Could listening to a symphony conjure up a VR experience in your mind? Does the experience NEED to be in 3D? If […]

I’ve been working in this industry for almost 25 years, but like everyone, the other 25 years were also spent in the learning industry: elementary school, high school, college, etc. As I get older, new professionals fresh out of Ed Tech programs look younger and younger. I’m glad they don’t carry the baggage of industrial […]

Curation is a trending topic getting a lot of attention in the training and learning and development industry. But why? What’s happening in business, which makes some believe curation is a problem? Is the training department best suited to solve this perceived problem? Even if you’re in a large Fortune 500 enterprise with the luxury […]

Are you a training professional working in the UK? I hope you're attending LearningTech 2017. Litmos has a much larger presence at the Learning Technologies conference in London this year. Stop by booth Q17 and say hi to the amazing Litmos staff. Join us for our session "Succesfully shifting to the cloud" presented by Richard Kerridge, Global Process […]

The HCMx awards event happened last week. HCMx is the Human Capital Management Excellence conference produced by the Brandon Hall Group. And this year it was in beautiful Palm Beach Gardens, Florida. Litmos Shares Success and Knowledge at HCMx Litmos was honored to accept multiple awards at this event including a gold award for Best […]

Every month I contribute a short video segment as the US correspondent for LearningNow.TV. For January, I compiled a brief recap of my experience at CES2017. I did not focus too much on the training/learning potential of these gadgets in my report. However, I think it's important to note that I did not capture these moments […]

In case you’re still wondering if VR is more hype than reality, you might be interested in new products that add interactivity to the mobile VR experience. What is interactive mobile VR? Great question. The technologies are advancing so fast it’s hard to keep up. So, let’s talk about the different tech that makes this […]

In the world of corporate training, hardware is a complicated issue. Training departments are reliant on IT and other departments to make hardware decisions. Training managers adjust their strategies according to the hardware purchases, processes, and policies required by the business.  Only in very rare instances do training departments buy specific hardware to support training […]

The Litmos team had fantastic team at ATD TK this year. They showed off enterprise learning that works, and everyone enjoys using. The event had over 1000 people attending in Las Vegas. I caught a couple keynote sessions, hung out in the Litmos expo booth, and presented a collaborative VR tool called Immerse Learning. I […]

The Consumer Electronics Show is held in Las Vegas the first week of every year. It's over 150,000 people flooding the convention center, hotels, casinos, and streets for 4 days. To speak of this event as an insane exercise in logistics is an understatement. It's a crazy experience, but a fantastic look into the future […]

Don’t expect better results from your training programs if you aren’t willing to change how you think about corporate training. If you have specialized in online learning or eLearning for your entire career, it’s time to get back to the human side of your chosen profession. Get back into the classroom. And if you’ve always […]

The annual sales kick off, or SKO, meeting is an important event for every sales organization. It’s an important time to get your sales reps together to learn, collaborate, influence, and motivate. Traditionally, the SKO is where many goals are expected to be met in only a few days. And there is always the risk of […]

Ah yes. The annual December tradition of crystal-balling the coming year is alive and well. And who am I to be the Grinch and sit this one out. I'm all in on 2017! 2017 is going to be fantastic for training, learning and development. And no, I don't believe that I just jinxed it. Some […]

Usability and Ease of Use Ease of use means having incredibly successful usability. When your product is easy to use that means the developers put a major focus on usability. And when usability is a primary factor in software development, that software will have great usability. Imagine your favorite software application. Have you ever wondered […]

It's the end of the year and, in case you've missed the most popular blog posts throughout 2016, I've compiled the top 5 for you here. The act of reflection is a major learning theme for me this year and reviewing the year's blog posts is a great reflection exercise. You end up wondering why […]

Introduction to Scaling Up Knowledge The creation of media content is how we scale up the sharing of knowledge. When 1:1 training becomes impossible we capture the wisdom of subject matter experts in media. Sometimes we write it out in text, and support the ideas with images and pictures as well. We can use audio […]

If you don't work in the government, or with a company that does, then you've probably never heard of I/ITSEC. Most people just refer to it as ITSEC. It's a huge military training conference held in Orlando, Florida. 2016 is the 50th anniversary of ITSEC and so it seemed like a good year for me to go […]

Welcome to Part 3 of this year's holiday wish list for the corporate training professional. If you want to catch up, here is Part 1 & Part 2. And here is last years Video Gear Post. I still believe video to be the most useful medium for the 21st century training professional/team. Video is cheaper […]

The Trainer's Emergency Kit is your goto bag for everything you need as a corporate training professional. You may not find all of these items necessary, but there are some aha! items that I don't even have in my bag yet. I asked for input on twitter and you can find the responses, and those […]

The holidays are a great time for sharing and gift giving. This holiday series of lists is always specific to the training professional. Throughout the year, I keep an eye out for new items and I'm reminded of classic items that never go out of date. These lists may offer you ideas for yourself or […]

In the training industry the term content means different things to different professionals. For instructional designers, the "content" is the information that needs to be delivered via the training solution. Instructional designers define objectives based on audience, business needs, and other factors. Based on the objective and desired outcome instructional decisions are made on what […]