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What Does an LMS Consultant Do?
The essential platform needed to deliver and track training is an LMS. Selecting and procuring the right LMS can be a big investment but is a vital aspect of any training strategy. An LMS consultant can play a pivotal role in ensuring an LMS aligns with strategic goals and operational needs. But what exactly does an LMS consultant do, and how can their expertise be leveraged for optimal results?
Why Companies Educating External Audiences Need to Think Like a Product Manager
When you’re educating external audiences— whether that’s partners, customers, or stakeholders — remember to involve more than just delivering content. To truly succeed, your organisation needs to adopt a product mindset, which views your learning programs as products that can deliver measurable value. Adopting this approach ensures the program is competitive, scalable, and aligned with both your user and business needs.
5 commonly underused LMS features to explore before replacing your platform
When setting out a new digital learning strategy, how often do we start with the assumption that an existing LMS needs to be replaced? What if a series of improvements could also deliver the results we need?
4 top hacks to make your learning budget work harder
In a difficult financial climate, budget limitations and cuts will be very much in the air for L&D. But don’t despair! For those who follow the Way of the Fox there is always opportunity to work smarter and get more bang for the learning buck. In this post we lay out four foxy hacks that can help you get more value for your learners out of a static or even decreasing learning budget.
Top 3 tips for choosing the right learning platform
With over 800 learning managements systems (LMS) and other elearning platforms on the market, choosing the right one can be a nightmare. But taking a smart, structured approach will give you a far greater chance of avoiding the pitfalls and selecting the right digital learning system to meet business and organizational needs. We lay out your key decisions.
How consumer tech trends affect corporate training & learner expectations
Here we look at how consumer tech trends affect corporate training and learner expectations. Everyone is going to have to embrace agility and adaptability to survive.
The 5 essential stages of a digital learning transformation
When developing a digital learning transformation strategy, there are so many tools, platforms and new technologies out there it can be difficult to know what your business needs and where to start. Here we look at the building blocks and the transitions you'll go through.
LMS or LXP?
The challenge is with a plethora of learning platform vendors out there (each with impressively long lists of product features) and so much talk of the LXP vs the LMS, how do you choose?
This explores the key differences between a traditional Learning Management System (LMS) and a Learner Experience Platform (LXP), providing some guiding questions to help you differentiate which you might need. Or whether, in fact, you need both.
How to choose the right Learning Management System (LMS)
So, you’ve identified a need for a learning platform to deploy and track learning, but with hundreds of products out there, from an LMS to an LXP (Learner Experience platform), it can be hard to know where to start. This guide will take you through 10 steps to help define your requirements and choose the right learning platform for your needs.
Why ‘sleeping on it’ is such a brain boost for learning & creativity
Sleep can boost your memory and creativity, make you slimmer and more attractive, ward off colds and flu, lower your risk of diabetes, heart disease and stroke, protect you from cancer and dementia, extend your life expectancy and make you feel happier, less anxious and depressed – and it’s totally natural, completely free and available to us all (except perhaps for new parents).
4 ways to build a loyal, committed and engaged team
To ensure that you’re inspiring your staff to be passionate and loyal brand advocates ensure that you’ve attracted the right staff who fit your company culture and values, that you’ve engaged them from day 1 through onboarding, that you’ve invested in their ongoing training and development to retain and nurture your top talent, and that you’re developing your rising stars with the appropriate tools and support to be great leaders.
10 ways to develop a culture for learning in the workplace
Have you ever worked somewhere that didn’t invest in their staff and their development? Rubbish isn’t it? Where you and your colleagues felt overstretched, undervalued and your skills weren’t being developed. Where your potential remained untapped and you knew that you could do so much more, not simply for yourself, but to the benefit of the organisation you worked in. It didn’t exactly inspire and motivate, did it?
The first 2 digital learning projects you should be planning right now
Implement a new learning platform (or replace your old one) and convert your legacy training into engaging up-to-date digital learning. Depending on your learning strategy (which we can help you define) you might want to have a blended approach which adopts a mix of delivery methods most suited to the content (and your staff). Think of it as your learning recipe; some face-to-face classroom type training, a dollop of eLearning content, a handful of synchronous webinars and a spoonful of bite sized videos. Make it tasty and your staff will keep coming back for more and you won’t have to force them to the table.
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