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 […]

Are you offering your customer service team the resources they need to keep your customers loyal? In this article, I highlight eight skills that are often overlooked in customer service online training. Customer Service Online Training: 8 Overlooked Skills To Consider Your customer service staff deals with any number of challenges every day, ranging from […]

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 ATD 2017 International Conference and Expo in Atlanta is THE place to be May 21-24! This is an awesome event with tons of info-packed sessions, so be sure to come prepared to learn the latest trends and best practices to design, deliver, and measure your learning programs. We’d love to hear what you think […]

How do I turn my current live classes into e-learning? This is a very common question from many new LMS customers. Many companies adopt an LMS expressly to overcome the challenges they have with live training. When customers ask me this question, I first ask them if they are sure they should take their classes […]

The Big Picture of Learning The bigger picture of learning in the organization goes beyond courses. Frameworks like 70:20:10 as promoted by Charles Jennings, and Modern Workplace Learning as represented by Jane Hart, suggest that most of the valuable learning doesn’t come from courses. I don’t disagree; it is not that courses aren’t valuable, but we […]

I've launched a few LMSs in my career.  And I've heard about many, many, more implementations. In my early days you really had no choice but to spend hundreds of thousands, if not millions, on a hardware/software solution supported by your internal IT department. But that all changed with cloud technologies and the massive shift […]

Congratulations to the entire Litmos Team! The SIIA announced the finalists for their annual CODiE awards and Litmos was chosen in the following categories: Best K-12 Course and Learning Management Solution "Recognizes the best digital learning environment/system designed for K-12 educators to manage curriculum-based content, student access and use, diagnostic and remediation programs, data management […]

There isn’t really one clear definition for online training and there are even more names for it: online learning, computer based training, eLearning, mLearning, distance learning, self-paced learning, asynchronous training, and the list goes on… What we do agree on, is it happens online. The type of online training that we’re talking about is a […]