Although there can be countless adoption gaps found throughout your company’s various department, it is most evident whenever technology is involved. You might not realize, but each employee (including yourself) interacts with an average of 10 different technologies every day and are subjected to 30+ company changes every year. This gets overwhelming and fosters resistance to change, […]
Learning Strategies
Three Ways to Impact Skills Retention in the Workplace
There are three principles to remember when you are implementing user adoption in your workplace. 1. The Edgar Dale principle – the Nature of Involvement. The principle stated that after only a 2 week period, we tend to remember only: 10% of what we read (text), 20% of what we hear (audio), 30% of what […]
Don’t Risk Confusing Retain with Train
Having a wrong objective can easily lead to a wrong result. This is often the case whenever companies engage employees in knowledge transfer of new systems or processes. A project implementation team’s goal is often to ensure that everyone “goes through the training”. Success is proclaimed when completed. But there is much more. Training is […]
Making it Stick: How to apply “The Science of Successful Learning” to the workplace!
“People generally are going about learning in the wrong ways.” State Peter C Brown, Henry L. Roediger III and Mark A. McDaniel, authors of Make It Stick. “But there’s a catch: the most effective learning strategies are not intuitive.” After Roediger and McDanirl, along with a team of 9 others, won an award for “Applying Cognitive […]
The Next Generation of LMS Training – Learning Retention Systems (LRS)
Modern Learners are overwhelmed, distracted and impatient. They are untethered, on-demand, collaborative and empowered. What does this mean for your employees? First and foremost, this means that your employees need shorter learnings that work within their busy schedule and focus on long-term recall for better outcomes and realization of profits. Traditional Training was prominent in the Industrial […]
The Five Minute Microlearning World
Who could ever remember a life without Mobile computing. First came the car phone, then remote computing. Next it was Blackberries, and today it’s smartphones. We can reach out to anyone, anytime and get replies in minutes. What a wonderful life. Almost! Psychologists are discovering that we now live in a five minute world. It’s […]
A CEO’s Key Role is Their Biggest Challenge
Surveys of CEO’s identify organizational change as their most important role in a company. They also rank employee adoption or change as their leading problem. Today’s business landscape rewards organizations that are nimble, move quickly and adapt to market needs. Since user adoption is the linchpin of all successful change projects, no matter the size, […]
Bridging the Ever-Growing Skills Gap
In 2017, the number of unfulfilled Canadian IT jobs will reach 71,000. This is a 24% increase from the estimated 54,000 jobs that are currently unfulfilled today (IDC report). Since technology is such an imperative and ever-growing part of a Company’s Efficiency, Growth and Innovation, it is essential for education to really focus on encouraging […]
A Short History of Learning
Since the dawn of mankind, people have been engaged in transferring knowledge or skills to one another. While the original need was to teach survival skills, today organizational training has become the dominant driver for skills transfer. Organizations are in a constant state of change adapting to meet the needs of an ever-evolving environment. Whether […]