How to Conduct a Training Needs Assessment
Training needs assessments help you pinpoint performance problems that need to be solved and identify the best solution, whether that’s training, a different intervention, or some combination of both.
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The Frustrated Facilitators' Guide to Great Remote Meetings
With 50% of employees expected to work remotely from next year, mastering remote meetings is fast becoming a critical skill. As in any meeting, you need to get together to get something done: to make decisions, present ideas, collaborate creatively...
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How to Convert Customers to Brand Evangelists
A brand evangelist is far more than just a satisfied customer. They are tireless promoters of your business who make advocating for your brand a way of life.
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Going Beyond Course Improvement!
During this training, you will learn how to present and create recommendations regarding course design, technology, and instruction delivery options. As we discussed in the intermediate version of this course, the first step in any process is to generate a...
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Define and Build Your Skills
We each bring a unique skill set to the workplace; the challenge is defining those skills and determining how to apply them creatively. This path will share some tips and resources to maximize your skills for today’s workplace. This content...
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Jump in the Driver's Seat and Start Designing!
This learning path is for anyone who is interested in designing engaging and effective training. It is meant to give you a high-level overview of the instructional design process. Newbies and pro's alike will be able to benefit from these...
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How Improving Your Grammar can Benefit Your Career
You see an exciting job opportunity online and you are thrilled about the opportunity to apply. The posting asks that you send your resume and cover letter in an email. This is your chance to make a great first impression....
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Personal Budgeting Basics
Let's be honest. The word "budget" doesn't usually elicit happy feelings. Every time you try to stick to one, you end up spending more than you expected. You're fed up and ready for a change. Have no fear! In this...
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Pivot Your Training Style to Increase Learner Effectiveness
This path will discuss how to adapt instructional content and delivery methods for different learner levels and learning types; and alternative methods for determining training effectiveness. We will explore the different ways that people learn and how to deliver content...
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3 Essential Steps to Evaluate Any Training
You finished the training design. The trainer delivered the training. The learners enjoyed the learning experience and some of them described the training as "life-changing". Congratulations! Your hard work paid off. But wait, really? How can you prove it? If...
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Resume Writing for Smarties
We create them all the time and they hold our futures on their pages, yet they are so difficult to get just right. Your resume is either too old, too modern, doesn't provide enough detail, or simply doesn't showcase your...
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Working With Subject Matter Experts
This learning path will guide you through the process of engaging a SME, preparing for the interview, actively listening to their questions and responses, and providing feedback throughout the process and at the end of the project.
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Start your Learning Development with a Needs Assessment
You're excited to start on the new learning project that your boss, or your client, wants you to complete. Before you start the conversation about the content, you'll need to learn about the organization, the audience, and the goals to...
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How to Manage Gaps on Your Resume
Deep breaths! It is going to be ok. We all have them for some reason or another, know you are not alone. Whether you have a gap in your work history because you were sick, needed a break from working,...
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Set Goals for Your Project
Your project’s goals will define what you get – so they should state clearly and without ambiguity what you want. Or, more precisely, what the project’s sponsors and key stakeholders want. Your job as a project manager is to ensure...
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Grammar: The Keys to Better Understanding the Structure and Syntax of English
When studying a language grammar is the foundation of fluency. Grammar is the structure and system of English consisting of syntax, rules, forms and morphology. Grammar is also the key to speaking and writing more clearly, professionally, and intelligi...
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Giving Effective Feedback for Better Instruction
Effective feedback is crucial for improving communication, enabling educators to reach their full potential, and ultimately for better instruction. Feedback, however, is sometimes difficult to define and is often confused with advice or praise. Wh...
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Get Connected: LinkedIn 101
Learn the basics of using this powerful platform to drive your job search and boost your network.
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Conducting a Training Needs Assessment
Training has evolved from simply checking completion boxes to a more comprehensive way an organization can ensure their learners have the necessary skills to complete their job and showcase their potential. A 'Training Needs Assessment' is so valuable because your...
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Improving Courses and Beyond!
During this training, we will review how to build professional relationships with Subject Matter Experts (SMEs), the true meaning of Best Practices, the value of alignment, and what active and accessible learning means. You will review select articles covering a...
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Recognizing High-Potential Employees
"Organizations with stronger leaders can show twice the revenue and twice the profit growth." according to SHL Talent Measurement. Your employees are valuable resources and assets for your organization. As such, they are one of the main d...
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Mastering Public Speaking
We all know the feeling. You have to get up in front of an audience, and it can be nerve-wracking knowing how to present the right information, with a clear set of slides, in an engaging way. We have all...
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Professionalism 101: How to Make Yourself Irreplaceable at Work
This course focuses on how to become irreplaceable at work by exhibiting the qualities that employers love to see in their employees. Of course, there’s obviously no guaranteed behavior that will help you keep your job in all situations, but...
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To Report, Or Not Report. That is the (Accounting) Question.
Financial discrepancies are going to occur, intentional or not, it is important to report and correct the inaccuracy as soon as it is discovered. Checks and balances are in place to prevent discrepancies, but there are times when they can...
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So You Accidentally Became an Instructional Designer?
This path is designed to help anyone who is interested in a career in Instructional Design or like many Instructional Designers, fell into it by accident and now you need to answer the question "What the heck am I doing?"...
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Define Your Next Project
Think of your Project Definition as the foundations of your project. As with a building, it doesn’t matter how robust the framework is nor how well you build the structure. If your foundations are not right, the building will fail. So,...
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A How- To Guide for Effortless Team Goal Setting
Whether you’re managing a team of 100 or team of 1, you want to be an effective leader and coach, one that can both motivate, influence, and inspire the people you work with. A critical component to leading a team...
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Training and Budgeting: Managing L&D Costs
Hiring new employees is costly, developing your learners is also costly. (Not having a well-trained staff is a disaster!) So, when you coordinate essential training and development endeavors...it's priceless! The reality is you can't afford NOT to train your employees....
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Writing Essentials
Writing is an essential skill for business today. Most people are terrible at it. This course provides an overview about why writing is so important for your career. This course is for anyone who wants to gain tips and suggestions...
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Learning Analytics: Understanding the Metrics that Matter
Learning analytics are the practices to prove and improve the impact of learning programs on outcomes. We can use surveys, tests, and on the job performance metrics to show that training is making an impact on business goals like sales,...
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Developing Measurable Learning Objectives
Can you remember sitting in a training or class and the instructor is all over the place? Conversely, can you imagine leading a training or class and you have no sense of direction, helplessly hoping something sticks? Enter Learning Objectives....
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Essentials of Instructional Design
Trainers should deliver content that has a clear message, is impactful and actionable, and most of all, is useful and relevant to your learners. Also, you have to consider all of your tools and methods to engage your audience.
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How to Close Your Project in an Orderly Fashion
Closing your project is the last of the Eight Steps to a Successful Project. But it’s important to close your project down in an orderly fashion, so let’s take a look at what’s involved.
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You Resolved Your Customer's Issues. What's Next?
A customer presented you with an issue. After several minutes of back and forth, you solved it. The hard part has been accomplished. Whew! But now, you've hit another wall. What should you do after the customer issue has been...
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How to Curate Content on Catcat
This learning path will assist you, even if you are simply a learner at this moment, in curating content to build an engaging learning path on Catcat's platform.
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The Nuts and Bolts of Accounting
Accountants help organizations maintain order within their numbers. Remaining in the black and keeping your books up to date is a way to ensure your organization's future growth.
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How to Create a Social Listening Strategy for your Brand
Companies are scrambling to maintain an authentic, emotional connection with their audience and social media provides several avenues for which they can make this happen.
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amazing.community workshops
Couldn't make the meeting? Missed the live virtual session? No worries! Recordings and associated materials for amazing.community events can be accessed here.
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Emerging Leadership
"Emerging Leadership" is a great crash course for anyone moving into a leadership position. There are four short videos based on interviews I've conducted with business professionals in diverse industries.
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