Learning & Development
- 6 Courses | 4h 29m 11s
- 12 Books | 36h 39m
- 10 Audiobooks | 38h 39m 58s
Explore how successful organizations adopt cultures of continuous learning and development to support their business goals. Developing a continuous learning culture in the workplace takes time and effort, but it pays off in the end. You'll see how, in a continuous learning environment, every team member is aligned with your business's goals.
COURSES INCLUDED
Managing Employee Development
Smart companies have learned that supporting continuous learning and self-development among employees reaps dividends in productivity and employee retention rates. As a manager, you're responsible for developing people, which includes developing talent in your direct reports. In this course, you'll learn about the benefits of developing employees and assessing how their development needs can be addressed through organizational learning. You'll then learn how to prepare for and conduct a development meeting that includes the necessary development plan characteristics and support for your employees.
7 videos |
23m
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Learning from Failure and Success
Failure is trendy. Every day you can read about failure being celebrated for lessons learned. People are encouraged to fail as fast as they can, with buzzwords exhorting "Fail Fast," "Fail Big," and "Fail Often." But while you certainly can learn from failures, you can also learn powerfully from successes. The key is to take advantage of all your experiences to learn essential lessons that will help you prosper in the future. In this course, you'll learn methods to glean growth and learning from any experience, and to identify each stage of the success cycle to make that happen. You'll also examine actions that allow you to learn from setbacks or even mistakes, and how to use your successes to inspire and guide you to future triumphs.
6 videos |
22m
Assessment
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Developing a Mindset of Growth and Learning
You might think the term "growth mindset" refers to the growth of an organization, or even economic growth. While the effects of a growth mindset ripple throughout the business, it starts with an individual believing they are capable of growing, evolving, and learning. In this course, you'll learn how a growth mindset manifests, and why it can make life and work better in many ways. You'll also learn tools to build your growth mindset, challenge the fixed mindset thinking that can mire you in negativity, and employ resilience techniques to help you maintain an attitude of possibility, learning, and growth even in the face of setbacks.
6 videos |
24m
Assessment
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Talent Development and Transformation: Learning (and Leading) for Today and the Future: Session Replay
This is a recorded replay of the Talent Development and Transformation: Learning (and Leading) for Today and the Future Leadercamp Live session that ran on January 21st at 2 PM ET led by Benny Ramos, Solution Principal, Leadership & Business Solutions at Skillsoft. With rapid changes in technology demands and uncertainties related to the global pandemic, organizational growth hinges on employees with the right behavioral and technical competencies. Though digital transformation creates tremendous opportunities to address many challenges in our current time, it requires people to leverage the investment in these technologies, and leadership development which is agile and innovative to maintain engagement and morale. Join this session to gain insights into: • A look at what is driving the need for upskilling and reskilling. • Why planning for new leadership and business mindsets now is so important • How to build a successful development program in the digital era
1 video |
1h 27m
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Talent Development and Transformation: Developing the People You Lead: Session Replay
This is a recorded replay of the Talent Development and Transformation: Developing the People You Lead Leadercamp Live session that ran on January 20th at 2 PM ET led by Luisa Golgini, Senior Customer Success Manager at Skillsoft. Luisa is joined by Dr, Tan Morales, Global Vice President of Talent Transformation at Equifax. Learning and development is a life-long journey. It enables us to adapt to an ever-changing and evolving world by evolving our mindsets and capabilities. Individual and team development must be a priority for individuals and teams when seeking a competitive edge in the marketplace. This session will help you learn: • Motivational factors and actions for developing your team and managing their performance • Overcome common myths about development, and how to mitigate the challenges leaders face in developing their people • Coaching principles that will guide you in helping your team members reach their full potential
1 video |
1h 30m
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Positive Atmosphere: How Organizational Learning Drives Positive Change
If your organization creates a positive learning culture that focuses on developing people, it will not only weather difficult times better than most, but will flourish in an ultracompetitive global market. In this course, you'll be introduced to organizational learning and its benefits to your organization. You'll examine the role of training, knowledge management, and technology in developing employees, and learn about the pivotal role of the continuous learning. By exploring the essential elements and indicators of a self-development culture, the course prepares you to assess your current workplace and determine how conducive it is to learning. Developing talent will increase your competitiveness and create more satisfied, goal-oriented employees - which leads to a more profitable organization.
7 videos |
20m
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BOOK SUMMARY
Thought Leadership: Prompting Businesses to Think and LearnLaurie Young's Thought Leadership provides an end-to-end analysis of a key practice that she believes is responsible for numerous ground-breaking inventions, from the copy machine to carbonated water. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
11m
By Laurie Young
Book
Developing Human Capital: Using Analytics to Plan and Optimize Your Learning and Development InvestmentsProviding case studies in which major companies applied human capital analytics to guide people decisions, this is a guidebook for collecting, organizing, and analyzing the data surrounding human capital so you can make the most of your employees' potential.
3h 41m
By Barbara Beresford, Gene Pease, Lew Walker
Book
Six Steps to Moving Your Training OnlineHelping you develop an engaging, interactive, and effective virtual classroom experience, this book will show you how technology has changed the world for L&D professionals and learners; how to adapt to the virtual classroom as an L&D professional; six steps to moving face-to-face training to online training; and more.
22m
By David Smith
Book
Revolutionize Learning & Development: Performance and Innovation Strategy for the Information AgeWill illustrations, vignettes, and sidebars that highlight the author's advice and expertise, this practical book lays out crucial background knowledge, conceptual frameworks, and practical steps for transforming learning and development so that it has the greatest return for businesses.
2h 31m
By Clark N. Quinn
Book
Measuring ROI in Learning & Development: Case Studies from Global OrganizationsRepresenting settings and cultures from around the world including India, Australia, Canada, Germany, and other countries, as well as the US, this book describes the improvements made to L&D programs as a result of evaluation.
5h 57m
By Jack J. Phillips, Patricia Pulliam Phillips (eds)
Book
Kirkpatrick's Four Levels of Training EvaluationPresenting a powerful training evaluation methodology, this book provides innovative concepts, principles, techniques, and case studies that will help you to better train people, improve the way you work, and, ultimately, help your organization meet its most crucial goals.
3h 42m
By James D. Kirkpatrick, Wendy Kayser Kirkpatrick
Book
Building An Innovative Organization: The Role of Training and DevelopmentExamining innovation in organizations solely from the point of view of training and development (T&D), this report explores how key drivers of innovation are measured, the type of programs requested by business partners, and the programs organizations offer.
31m
By ASTD Research
Book
5 Critical Conversations to Talent Development: Tips, Tools & Intelligence for Developing TalentWith case studies of conversations in practice and sample questions to promote dialogue, this practical book describes five types of conversations that can help employees, managers, and talent development professionals align their goals and future plans and make better decisions.
25m
By David Clutterbuck, Julie Haddock-Millar
Book
The Learning Challenge: Dealing with Technology, Innovation and Change in Learning and DevelopmentFeaturing case studies and interviews from a range of high profile practitioners, this book defines the role of the new learning leader and illuminates the practical implications for creating and implementing a learning strategy for the 21st century.
3h 45m
By Nigel Paine
Book
Virtual Training: The Art of Conducting Powerful Virtual Training that Engages Learners and Makes Knowledge StickThis book is the definitive guide to delivering virtual training that engages learners and makes new skills and behavioral changes stick. Jeb Blount, one of the most celebrated trainers and authors of our generation, walks you step-by-step through the seven elements of effective, engaging virtual learning experiences.
3h 11m
By Jeb Blount
Book
Multimedia Learning, Third EditionThis edition provides an up-to-date and systematic summary of research studies on multimedia learning, supplemented with complementary evidence from around the globe.
9h 3m
By Richard E. Mayer
Book
Understanding How We Learn: A Visual GuideThe book explores exactly what constitutes good evidence for effective learning and teaching strategies, how to make evidence-based judgments instead of relying on intuition, and how to apply findings from cognitive psychology directly to the classroom.
3h 20m
By Megan Sumeracki, Oliver Caviglioli, Yana Weinstein
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AUDIOBOOKS INCLUDED
AUDIOBOOK SUMMARY
Thought Leadership: Prompting Businesses to Think and LearnLaurie Young's Thought Leadership provides an end-to-end analysis of a key practice that she believes is responsible for numerous ground-breaking inventions, from the copy machine to carbonated water. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
21m 15s
By Laurie Young
AUDIOBOOK SUMMARY
Developing Employees Who Love to Learn: Tools, Strategies, and Programs for Promoting Learning at WorkDeveloping Employees Who Love to Learn provides an engaging and thorough look at why continuing education for employees matters, and how to implement it in your business. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
9m 23s
By Linda Honold
AUDIOBOOK SUMMARY
Learning for the Long Run: 7 Practices for Sustaining a Resilient Learning OrganizationLearning for the Long Run explores practices that help organizations adapt to the fast-paced and ever-changing business world. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
22m 3s
By Holly Burkett
AUDIOBOOK SUMMARY
Changing on the Job: Developing Leaders for a Complex WorldIn Changing on the Job, author Jennifer Garvey Berger presents ways to measure growth and offers advice on how to sustain change. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
13m 9s
By Jennifer Garvey Berger
Audiobook
Gamify: How Gamification Motivates People to Do Extraordinary ThingsThis audio edition shows gamification in action as a powerful approach to engaging and motivating people to achieving their goals, while at the same time achieving organizational objectives.
5h 18m 4s
By Brian Burke
Audiobook
Learning to Succeed: Rethinking Corporate Education in a World of Unrelenting ChangeThis audio edition insists that an integrated model for corporate education is critical to building agile and resilient learning organizations that will survive in our fast-evolving business landscape.
5h 6m 33s
By Jason Wingard
Audiobook
The Successful Virtual Classroom: How To Design And Facilitate Interactive And Engaging Live Online LearningThis audio edition offers trainers proven techniques tailored specifically to engage live online audiences.
6h 15m 32s
By Darlene Christopher
Audiobook
What Great Trainers Do: The Ultimate Guide to Delivering Engaging and Effective LearningThis audio edition is a one-stop resource for reliable, repeatable learning results, and provides a proven structure for dynamic workshops along wit surefire strategies for blending course content with fluid interaction.
9h 52m 28s
By Dorothy Grover Bolton, Robert Bolton
Audiobook
Training In Motion: How to Use Movement to Create Engaging and Effective LearningThis audio edition explains how movement enhances learning and introduces a unique and highly effective way to energize an audience and increase retention through simple body-focused techniques.
3h 47m 47s
By Mike Kuczala
Audiobook
Helping People Change: Coaching with Compassion for Lifelong Learning and GrowthThis audio edition will forever alter the way all of us think about and practice what we do when we try to help.
7h 13m 44s
By Ellen Van Oosten, Melvin Smith, Richard Boyatzis
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SKILL BENCHMARKS INCLUDED
Growth Mindset
Growth mindset means that you can learn quickly, adapt to change, and improve personal and organizational performance by addressing your own strengths, weaknesses, and developmental needs. This benchmark evaluates your understanding of this topic. Being aware of potential knowledge gaps allows you to better understand your current competency and areas for improvement, so you can find suitable content and curate your own learning path. The courses recommended at the end of this benchmark can help you fill potential gaps in your knowledge.
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