Instead of giving up on its struggling president, one organization chooses to invest in her development, and collects a worthwhile return. More »

Career Development , Senior Leaders & Executives

Assessment , Coaching and Mentoring , Leadership Development , Skills Gap

Stephen Hart, a corporate trainer specializing in recruitment and management training, read about Twitter in a computer magazine. He questioned the value of the "microblogging" tool and its 140-character messages. Yet he was curious and signed on. After a month of dippi... More »

Learning Technologies

Informal Learning , Social Learning , Trends

Cognitive load theory is an instructional theory based on our knowledge of human cognitive architecture. Instructional design that does not take human cognitive architecture into account is likely to be random in its effectiveness. The theory assumes that one has a limi... More »

Learning & Development

Designing Learning , Intermediate-level Content , Training and Development - General

Designing e-learning can be a costly and time-consuming activity. The traditional ADDIE process for design is comfortable for many designers and project managers, but it rarely creates truly engaging and instructionally interactive applications. Instead, most e-learning... More »

Learning & Development , Learning Technologies

Designing Learning , E-Learning , Innovation , Training and Development - General

According to a report by Triple Creek Associates called "Impact of Web-Based Mentoring on Productivity and Effectiveness," 88 percent of respondents agreed that their productivity and effectiveness at work increased due to e-mentoring experiences. Eighty-eight percent o... More »

Human Capital

Beginner Level Content , Coaching and Mentoring , Skills Gap