Analytics are generally used to market and attract new customers to your brand. Big Data can also help you determine how your corporate learners are faring and if the online training content is on target. In this article, I’ll share six tips to measure online training with the help of LMS metrics. How To Measure […]

It’s St Patrick's Day weekend and millions of people around the globe are about to get their green on and go “Irish for a Day,” even if they don’t have a drop of Irish blood. Not an issue! That’s part of the fun. St Patrick’s Day is celebrated in more countries around the world than […]

The aviation industry is facing a major personnel shortage. According to Boeing’s 2018 Pilot and Technician report, airlines will need 790,000 commercial pilots and 890,000 new cabin crew members in the next 20 years. This is a concern for several reasons, including the fact that airline positions require a lot of training. Commercial pilots, for […]

In our increasing drive for data, we’re inclined to want to know more information from people. The move is to evidence-based decision-making. And, increasingly, we have tools that make it easy. Surveys are one powerful tool. You likely have a feedback capability built right into your LMS or if not, you can use a third-party […]

You’re a sales manager, and your sales team needs training on a specific aspect of their jobs. Your organization intends for this training to be just-in-time learning — if they need a little help, they take a learning module in your LMS, and then they return to what they were doing in the CRM, and perform […]

The secret behind learning design? Emotion. You know the old saying:"leave the emotion out of it." I'm here to advise you to leave the emotion in, at least in regard to creating your training programs. Training at its core, is a change management effort, with any training program something needs to change. A skill needs to […]

Once again, it's time to start worrying about a new generation coming into the workforce.  In fact, the worrying has already begun. A recent study showed that managers are not excited to welcome Generation Z, which has already begun to enter the workforce. They're voicing concerns familiar to anyone who has ever read a think […]

Litmos LIVE is in the bag! The event was a huge success and we absolutely loved being able to interact with so many of you in-session and one-on-one in the Networking Lounge. We hope you enjoyed the event as much as we enjoyed hosting it. On-Demand Access With more than 40 sessions offered during Litmos […]

Happy Halloween! And Feliz Día de los Muertos to our friends in Mexico and Latin America! Before you get decked out in full zombie costume to take the kids trick or treating, or to take yourself to a super spooky party, please take a few bone-chilling minutes to make sure you’re not scaring your learners […]

Videos are memorable, entertaining, and visually engaging, which makes them the perfect addition to your external sales team online training. But how can you use these powerful online training tools to increase profits and retain your top talent?                    How To Use Videos In External Sales Team Online Training Your external sales staff needs to […]

You work so hard on your learning programs! It’s difficult work that requires constant attention, great flexibility, and ongoing learning for yourself as the discipline rapidly evolves and becomes increasingly digital and mobile. We at Litmos recognize the hard work that you do on a daily basis and believe there’s no more important function within […]

It's an oft-quoted saying in IT: 80 percent of customers only use 20 percent of the features in the software they've bought. This may sound like an exaggeration, but let's do an experiment: how many of your phone's features and pre-installed apps do you actually use? How many more would you be using if the […]

Training can be really fun. We get to talk about topics that enrich people’s jobs and lives, such as customer experience training that improves the flow of business and soft skills training that enhances human interactions. These subjects allow us to be creative and even a bit playful in discussing the value of corporate learning […]

In today’s business environment, challenges come fast and furious. Too often, the learning function finds itself continually putting out fires, rather than planning for the organization’s future. The digital transformation that many companies are looking to make is only exacerbating this situation. Learning needs to get ahead of the curve and help the organizations get […]

It may be argued (or mythologized) that the best salespeople in the world are stereotypically ambitious, self-starters who will sell, sell, sell no matter what. However, the research and real-world outcomes show that most salespeople, in fact, benefit substantially from ongoing training. It keeps them not only abreast of the latest product information, but also […]

Today’s customers want information now. Often that information needs to come from a customer-facing sales or service person. Since they’re literally the face of your business, make sure they’re equipped with the very latest product training at all times. And, make sure you don’t bog them down for long periods of time -- training can […]

The remote workforce is growing.  Numbers from Gallup show that 43 percent of employees work remotely at least some of the time, and according to Globalworkplaceanalytics.com, the number of employees who work remotely has grown by 140 percent since 2005, nearly 10 times the rate of the rest of the workforce. That number does not […]

Do you struggle to align your learning strategy with the larger goals of your company? Do you feel like learning lives in a silo? If so, you're not alone. While all organizations need to develop and deploy multiple strategies, learning can sometimes fall outside the standard scope of strategies that make it up to the […]

There is no denying that people simply access information much differently than they did just a few short years ago. Organizational learning has been a bit slow to adapt, but the shift is underway. Organizations are beginning to expand the ways they deliver learning and are focused on bringing learning into the everyday workflow. I […]

At recent learning conferences and L&D industry articles, the term "emotional intelligence" has popped up quite frequently. In the learning world, we have lots to say about measurable skills, meeting compliance check boxes, and other tangibles, but where does this soft competency of emotional skill fit into the mix when it comes to leadership and […]

It's inarguable that the past few years have revealed rapid changes in corporate learning. Forces such as accelerated speed-of-business, new technologies such as Augmented Intelligence, and an increasingly mobile and dispersed workforce have forced many companies to reassess and change their former game plans. We've seen the shift from strictly, internally "pushed" training to more […]

It's the holiday season, so hotels, cruise lines, and other event and lodging businesses are abuzz with travelers seeking the perfect seasonal stay. To make their holiday bright (and have them return next year) everything needs to be right, from the lights to the trees to the kids activities to the eggnog station in the […]

You've still got a couple of weeks to set your New Year's resolutions, so be sure to add this one to your list: Be a hero at work! Save your people from boring learning that at worst feels like torture and at best lulls them to sleep. Give them the ongoing gift of training and […]

Artificial intelligence is a term that comes with a lot of baggage, thanks to popular culture. From Asimov to Westworld, machines that act and think like humans are a mainstay in science fiction. In reality, however, there are limits to what artificial intelligence can do: machines don’t make good decisions on their own, and they’re […]