Change is the name of the game these days in business. Just consider your professional resolutions at the beginning of January this year. Things went fine for a while, business as usual, as people say...
Things to consider when designing training to upskill remote workers
A version of this post was origianlly published on February 13, 2019 in TrainingZone. With geographical distance becoming more of an inconvenience rather than an insurmountable obstacle, companies eve...
CYPHER Copilot: Your sonic screwdriver for course creation
In our last post, we introduced CYPHER Copilot: The ultimate course creation companion. In this post, we’ll show you how easy and fun it is to create great courses with Copilot. An important tool on t...
Introducing CYPHER Copilot: The ultimate course creation companion
In the ever-evolving world of learning and training, finding more efficient and effective ways to create courses is paramount. As trainers, educators, and teachers, we understand the challenges that c...
What is competency-based Learning? Part 2: Assessment and demonstration of competency
In the first part of this series, we discussed a different, better, and more effective way to learn: competency-based learning. This next post is about the assessment and demonstration of competency u...
What is competency-based learning? Part 1
If you’re trying to create an amazing learning management environment for your organization, CYPHER offers a different, better, and more effective way to learn called competency-based learning. Compet...
11 Reasons why employee training fails
If you’ve been in the corporate learning field long enough, odds are you have witnessed a training program that failed despite its great premise. Even organizations with a sound system in place someti...
5 Use cases of training automation you should know about
I believe that adding a bit of automation in our lives can significantly improve the way we live and work. Whether we’re talking about automating our finances, paying bills, buying groceries, or house...
5 Great online tools for spicing up your training materials
Training materials are one of the main means to deliver new content and educate learners. Most trainers use PowerPoint presentations and PDF files on a daily basis, they are even experts at designing ...
5 Tips on email writing to ensure your L&D information gets read
Any L&D specialist working in a large organization will list at the top of ‘challenges faced everyday’ the ever present gaps in communication. These happen for a number of reasons – sometimes the over...
The art of training — Is it really art?
I, personally, am all for art for the people. I love art (well, at least the one I understand, I have to admit there’s a lot of the modern artistic expression I don’t really get). Still, I think we te...