What Marcus Lemonis of CNBC’s ‘The Profit’ Can Teach Us About Training

If you’ve never seen the CNBC TV show The Profit, here’s a quick summary: Serial entrepreneur Marcus Lemonis invests in struggling small businesses he believes in. He then works alongside the owner(s) to get the business back on its feet—with the hope of making money for both parties in the long run. But whenever Lemonis…

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How mLearning Revolutionizes the Training Industry

As of October 2014, Pew Research reported that 64% of adults own a smartphone, and 42% own a tablet. This trend of increased reliance on mobile devices doesn’t appear to be slowing, either. Another study reported that employers using mLearning grew from 15% to 29% between 2011 and 2012. Thanks to mobile technology, on-the-go Internet…

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Does Your Compliance Training Suck?

If your compliance training course produces a collective sigh–don’t worry, most do. These “check the box” type trainings really struggle to hold the learners’ attention. So today, we’re here to help you figure out how to make it suck less, or maybe even become awesome. What do you know about it? When we were tasked…

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Using eLearning for Cultural Training

Cultural training is a common exercise for companies who are expanding internationally. Sometimes these international relationships come as a result of acquiring existing businesses across the globe, or sometimes they arrive in the form of new partnerships with businesses in other countries. In order for these relationships to be successful, teams need to gather an…

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eLearning Solutions for the Biggest HR Training Obstacles

Training departments often fall within the HR realm, and they’re responsible for making sure everyone within the company is educated on both internal and external processes. That’s no small feat. Each year, these departments plan and coordinate many different training courses aimed at keeping the workplace safe, productive, and seamless. So, as you can imagine,…

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10 Reasons You Need Employee Training via eLearning

Proper employee training is essential for the success of your business. But training takes time. And it takes money. So how do you improve the efficiency of your employee training operations and maximize your bottom line while still delivering the proper education your team needs? More and more organizations are turning to eLearning. In fact,…

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How We Developed an Effective Salesforce Training Course

With complex tools that have many features like Salesforce, there’s a large learning curve for new users. Not only to they have to figure out how to navigate the software, but they also have to use it correctly (so there are no errors that result in lost sales or damaged relationships.) So when a client…

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How do I Increase Engagement in my eLearning Training?

If your organization has a required annual training session for employees, you are probably fairly familiar with the collective groan. The trouble with these repeat trainings is that when the course and its material doesn’t change each year, employees come to dread their eLearning courses. It’s like being forced to watch an educational program you’ve…

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