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 […]

Before reading this post, please take a few minutes to read Part 1 for important context and info on why emotion is so important to learning and why Emotional Intelligence needs to be considered in learning design. Enjoy, and then meet me back here! ~~~ Emotion in Learning (Part 2) Lead a horse to water.  Here's […]

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 […]

*This is a guest post from our featured blogger Ant Pugh. If you are looking to invest in an LMS for your organization, you may be wondering where you can find enough content to keep your audience coming back for more. In this article we’ll take a quick look at five sources of online learning. […]

"80% percent of life is just showing up" - Woody Allen We love to make jokes about why taking attendance is so useless. But showing up is important. If you are still creating courses, then it just makes sense to know who showed up. And showing up applies to courses delivered in a classroom as well […]

Let's get real about compliance training. We hate it! Not only do we hate taking compliance training courses, but we hate building them even more. There. I said it. Oh! Hello Mr. Elephant sitting in the room! Would it be okay if we called you Compliance Training just for today? Yea, I know you've been […]

  I often find myself in conversations about developing training courses. They are always fun but inevitably contain the comment, "yea, but we can't do that because this is a compliance course".  I've even found myself adding "...unless your developing a compliance course" at the end of statements during my presentations. As passionate proponents of LEARNING, I […]

In any organization, there are multiple types of mandatory staff training. These training fall on a continuum from how to perform specific job functions to a certification course in CPR. One of the most critical types of training in any business or organization is compliance training. What is Compliance Training?   Compliance training provides employees […]

Our release today has seen a few very exciting changes roll out, one of which is the addition of certificates to the Litmos LMS. Completion Certificates So, first up, you can now add a certificate to any course you build in Litmos. This will then be issued to the learner as a PDF upon successful […]

On 18 October 2010, new guidelines for Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) and Emergency Cardiovascular Care (ECC) will be published by the American Heart Association (AHA). The latest CPR and ECC Guidelines came out in 2005, so over 4 years of research has gone in to the updated guidelines. According to AHA documentation the '2010 AHA Guidelines […]