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Noise Awareness Becomes Engage in Learning’s Latest Health & Safety Programme

Noise Awareness is the latest addition to the Engage in Learning range of health & safety e-learning programmes.   Becoming the 21st title in Engage in Learning’s health & safety portfolio – one of six equally well-stocked portfolios from the UK-based firm - the Noise Awareness programme reveals that: Loud noises account for some 20% [...]

By | July 3rd, 2018|Categories: Business, Learning Technologies, Lifestyle|Tags: , , , , |0 Comments

How to be ‘The Admirable Subordinate’

‘The Admirable Crichton’, originally a 1902 stage play by J.M. ‘Peter Pan’ Barrie and, subsequently, the subject of several films, explores a reversal of fortunes which sees a family servant become a natural leader. But, when circumstances change again, the servant is happy to relinquish the leadership role for that of a servant.   L&D [...]

By | June 29th, 2018|Categories: Business, Learning|Tags: , , , , , , |0 Comments

Engage in Learning GDPR programme breaks customer and user records

Some 300 UK-based organisations bought - and tens of thousands of individual learners throughout the EU completed – Engage in Learning’s GDPR online learning materials in the run-up to this regulation coming into force on 25th May.   According to Chris Horseman, Engage in Learning’s Managing Director, the GDPR programmes – available in various languages [...]

By | June 26th, 2018|Categories: Business, Learning, Learning Technologies|Tags: , , , |0 Comments

L&D Challenges With Contingent Workers

  Contingent workers – people with no implicit or explicit contract for ongoing employment – now account for up to 40 percent of the US workforce, depending on the definition you apply. They can include independent contractors, self-employed individuals, freelancers, interns, temporary agency workers and individuals working via online platforms.   In the UK, there are some [...]

The Total Cost of Work

Experience suggests that, when faced with a need to cut costs, chief financial officers (CFOs) tend to respond by laying off workers.   Initially, that might keep HR professionals busy – but such a strategy hints at longer-term organizational problems.   Indeed, Paul Lalovich argues that, before getting rid of workers, CFOs should calculate the [...]

Engage in Learning helps remove Unconscious Bias in dealing with others

To help people make the most appropriate decisions when it comes to working with others – and/or recruiting, promoting and managing them – Engage in Learning has launched a video-based, interactive online learning programme on ‘Unconscious Bias’.   Engage in Learning’s Managing Director, Chris Horseman, explained, “To ensure that all workers give of their best [...]

By | May 14th, 2018|Categories: Business, Learning Technologies|Tags: , , , , |0 Comments

Engage in Learning launches learning materials to help prevent card fraud

Some £58bn was spent via credit and debit cards in the UK in April last year - some 6.8 per cent more than was spent in April 2016 - according to the UK’s Office for National Statistics.   While this might appear to offer increasing opportunities for card fraud, these opportunities are being minimised by [...]

By | May 8th, 2018|Categories: Business, Learning Technologies|Tags: , , , , , |0 Comments

Christopher Pappas distils LMS marketing expertise into an e-book

Selling more of your product more cost-effectively is a key goal of any producer and distributor. A new e-book aims to help learning management system (LMS) producers and vendors do just that.   The e-book - Build The Buzz On A Budget: How To Promote Your LMS Online And Boost Profits – offers guidance on [...]

By | February 20th, 2018|Categories: Business, Learning Technologies|Tags: , , , , |0 Comments

Gustaf Nordbäck appointed CEO of Financial Times | IE Business School Corporate Learning Alliance

Financial Times | IE Business School Corporate Learning Alliance (www.ftiecla.com), a leading global provider of customised corporate learning programmes for large corporations, has appointed Gustaf Nordbäck as its Chief Executive Officer.   Nordbäck has a successful track record in the learning sector. He joins FT | IE Corporate Learning Alliance from DigiExam, a digital assessment [...]

Five Predictions for Global Learning and Development in 2018

This year, the five annual predictions for the global Learning & Development sector from Financial Times | IE Business School Corporate Learning Alliance follow the general view that technology – in the forms of machine leaning, artificial intelligence (AI) and augmented reality (AR) – will be a dominant force.   But it won’t all be [...]