Talent Systems

Employee Engagement: Emerging Trends in Learning and Talent Management Systems

We’re seeing more and more attention being given to the life cycle of talent management – starting even prior to on-boarding – as well as throughout an employee’s career.   Aligning and integrating a workforce to corporate strategies was discussed by Karl-Heinz Ohler, VP of Learning & Talent Management for Hertz at our recent ELCE show, and we’ll be discussing all…

Links to Top 72 Product Finalists in Best of ELearning! Awards

The Reader’s Choice Awards for the 2012 “Best of Elearning! Awards” are listed below, along with links to each company’s website.  As this is a pretty large list of vendors, I thought it would help as a quick index to top learning and e-learning tools if I provided you with the links.   You’ll see everything from LMS/TMS’s to content,…

Meet Me at the Water Cooler

Hopefully this will be an “ahha moment” for you, as it was for me.   Here’s the question that led me on this quest for a valid (ROI) justification:  “Why would you want to invest in a social learning network for your enterprise?” There are two primary statistics that stand out for me when I think about behavior in the workplace. …

What’s Next? Enterprise Learning! Summit DC & Alexandria, VA by Keynote Jay Cross

The Enterprise Learning! Summit DC focuses on how executives can build smarter organizations. Over the 2 day conference, executive can access 66 experts, across 16 sessions and 20 sponsors. Executives should attend the Summit to share, network and learn from top learning leaders, analysts and experts. The Enterprise Learning! Summit will be held March 20th & 21st at the Old…

5 Things You Must Do at a Learning (Or Almost Any) Conference

I had the pleasure of attending Training 2012 last week in Atlanta, GA. It was great to see such an event come to my own home city (and it made for easy travel arrangements as well).  The event was held and the expansive Georgia World Congress Center which I’ve visited numerous times for many events from concerts and conferences to…

3 Ways to Make Mobile Learning Stick

According to recent research, use of mobile devices for learning in the US has increased from 9% in 2007 to over 20% in 2010. Generally speaking when you look around an airport, restaurant or local coffee shop you are likely to see a large majority of the people in your viewing area using a mobile device of some kind, be it a tablet, phone, e-reader or other smart device.