This is the first article in a series about learning ecosystems (LEs). Using a milk-before-meat approach, we’ll lay the groundwork for the following discussions by giving a general overview about what a learning ecosystem comprises, why it is important to … Read More
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Sales Challenges – Part III
Quota Challenges & How to Overcome Them
To meet today’s sales challenges, it’s critical to recruit and retain highly qualified and motivated salespeople. Retaining a solid sales team requires paying attention to what is important to each sales person. Salespeople leave their jobs for a number of … Read More
Sales Challenges – Part II
Preparing Your Team for the Future of Virtual Sales
In a world of ever-changing consumer needs, the only thing that stays constant is change. As you’re reading this, people are buying and selling items in new ways not yet conceived by marketers today. The future of sales will be … Read More
Sales Challenges – Part 1 – A Quick Review
Sales teams today face a variety of sales challenges that their predecessors never had to worry about. This increasing number of challenges have been evident to those involved in the industry over the last ten years. Sales cycles are longer, … Read More
People Analytics – Part III – How to Leverage Analytics to Enhance Talent Strategies
Once an organization has determined the type of data it should track to form the best business strategies, the next step is securing the right tools to get the data. In the virtual training industry, the only virtual learning software … Read More
People Analytics – Part II – Talent Data Every Trainer Needs
One of the most important aspects of making data-driven decisions in any industry is to figure out what data is most relevant and will make the biggest positive impact on operations. It does little good to track employee PTO history, … Read More
People Analytics – Part I
‘Analytics’ has become a real buzzword in the business lexicon recently. Everyone is talking about ‘data analytics,’ ‘business analytics,’ ‘predictive analytics,’ etc. The word ‘analytics’ can refer to both the “systematic computational analysis of data or statistics” or “information resulting … Read More
Is Remote Working a Requirement to Recruit & Retain Critical Employees?
In April of 2021, nearly four million Americans quit their job in search of better opportunities. Part of this was a search for better pay in the economic downturn, but part of it was in response to the conversations about … Read More
Is Remote Working A Passing Trend or the Future of Work?
At the onset of the COVID -19 pandemic, many employees got sent home to protect their health and safety. At the time, it was unclear how long this state of working would last as the uncertainty around COVID-19 testing, its … Read More
Virtual Experiential Learning
This last article about experiential learning focuses on virtual options for experiential learning. Research suggests that experiential learning captures attention, develops expertise, and leads to better learning outcomes than a theoretical approach. With these advantages, the need to provide hands-on … Read More