If you asked 100 employees what the worst type of training is, what do you think they would say? Answer: required training. *ba-dum-tss* Seriously though, the overwhelming answer would be compliance training. Compliance is typically so packed with boring policies and regulations that there’s no room left for engagement. Fear not, there is a way…
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You Need To Be Learning From Your Training Analytics
You know your learners are learning something from your courses. After all, that’s what you created them for in the first place. But the real question is: are YOU learning anything from them? Your training analytics can tell you a lot about your courses. You can determine how well or *dare we say* poorly they…
5 Great Reasons to Move Your Onboarding Training Online
You’re hiring new employees. You’re (hopefully) training those new employees. But are you being efficient about it? There have been lots of studies that link quality onboarding to not only employee success, but also their tenure. Employees who participate in a structured onboarding process are more likely to succeed at their job and more likely…
Your Policy Training Stinks! Try Something Better.
This is the first article in our ongoing series focusing on real-world case study projects. Each month we’ll look at a project from 2 perspectives: an Instructional Designer / Developer and a Manager / Program Administrator. Each article will highlight what you can take away from the project, to use in your own work. This first…
A Tale of Two Seminars: FUN Compliance Training and Virtually Real Conversations
For six years now, ThinkingKap has been speaking at the Chicago eLearning and Technology Showcase, and this year was no different. In addition to the TK booth we had set up, we presented two separate sessions: Fun Compliance Training – More Than Just Checking The Box and Maximize eLearning Engagement by Converting Narration Scripts into Interactive Dialog….
10 Awesome Training Engagement Techniques from the Last Year
Wow! As we mentioned yesterday, it’s been a LONG time since we blogged, so it feels good to stretch our typing fingers and re-enter the interweb once again. We may have taken a hiatus from blogging, but everything else has been full steam ahead here at ThinkingKap. So, to jump start our return, we thought…
Instructor-Led Training
What You Can Expect Sadly, the standard ILT experience we see with many clients is one of two unfortunate training experiences. The first is a monologue presented by a SME know-it-all. This person is going to bombard you with everything they know in a frighteningly boring and hard to follow format, with tons of information…
Corporate Training Consulting
What You Can Expect We provide specialized expertise no matter your corporate education consulting needs. You see, we’re a training company that understands the same business constraints that you have developing training, because we face them every day. We understand project management, keeping up with the latest technology, and the need to watch the bottom…
How Training is Like Boot Camp (and How it Isn’t)
When it comes to training, there’s nothing more intense than boot camp. Since the days of ancient Sparta, almost every society on earth has used brutal initiation to turn average citizens into warriors. One look at history, and it’s pretty hard to ignore the results. More recent times have shown the application of boot camp’s…
Training Lessons from the Developing World
What can we learn from schools in the developing world? You’re probably used to seeing this question the other way around. That’s because we rarely look at people we perceive as less fortunate and ask, what are they doing right? But a closer look at a classroom without technology, or even furniture, demonstrates the essence…