Hold onto Your Hats!
If you work in the training profession, hold onto your hats! The winds are blowing in your favor in 2022. As the world comes off the COVID lockdowns, the return to work is going to bring with it many changes that are going to keep training departments and training providers busy. Here are our predictions …Read More
Annual Gift Giving Guide
It’s that time of year when we search high and low for something meaningful to give to others and ourselves. Finding that “perfect something” can be so stressful! To help make your lives easier, here are some gift ideas, based on some of our favorite purchases from the year:
For Your Inner Scientist: If you …Read More
Lights, Camera, Action!
Over the past year, we have all become familiar with online meetings. So familiar have we become that a new term has emerged: Zoom Fatigue. We have all experienced that feeling of being exhausted after being on back-to-back web-meetings with the camera on. Yet, despite this common feeling, we are often asked, “Should we leave …Read More
What Kind of Car Are You?
September means many things to many people: It’s the start of fall, the beginning of the school year, one of the best months for buying cars (according to car experts Edmunds.com), and the start of “serious job hunting” after some summer fun.
This seems like the perfect time to ask yourself: Are you a Porsche or …Read More
Upcoming Free Webinar on Converting Your Classroom Training!
#COVID-19 has changed the way training professionals deliver courses—escalating worldwide demand for #onlinelearning. IFC’s #GrowLearnConnect (GLC) program aims to #upskill learning and development specialists, enabling them to convert their learning courses for virtual settings.
Join GLC’s upcoming #webinar ‘Creating the 24/7 Classroom’ where I will introduce proven strategies that training professionals can leverage to ensure that their #selfstudy learning course is effective and engaging.
The webinar provides an overview …Read More
CLS Wins Award!
Every year, the International Finance Corporation (IFC) (a member of the World Bank Group), awards its Knowbel Prize to recognize IFC project and non-operations teams who deliver high-impact knowledge-sharing services to clients. This year, IFC’s GrowLearnConnect (GLC) platform, which Comprehensive Learning Solutions supports, won an award for its COVID-19 Response Webinar Series.
COVID-19 impacted businesses around …Read More
Reach Out and [Almost] Touch Someone
June’s warmer weather, the increase in the amount of people who have been vaccinated, and ridiculously high levels of pandemic-fatigue, are causing people to start socializing again. After more than a year of quarantining, we humans are itching for social contact. Social contact is critical for more than just our mental health; it is important …Read More
Smells Like Team Spirit
Managing teams is always a balancing act: How do you get team members to work independently and cooperatively at the same time? How do you get team members to do what is in their own best interest while also doing what is in the team’s best interest?
The COVID-19 pandemic has added a few new wrinkles: …Read More
Thinking Inside the Box
“Thinking outside the box” means to think creatively for a new solution to an old problem. It was a creative metaphor when it first emerged in common use in the late 1960s. Fifty years later, the expression has become a cliché.
When it comes to converting training for the online environment, webinars are quickly becoming the …Read More
CLS Expands Its Global Reach
On April 29, Karen Feeley, President of Comprehensive Learning Solutions, was the featured speaker for the Ask the CEO webcast series, sponsored by the National University of Science and Technology’s Professional Development Center in Pakistan.
Even before 2020, workplace learning had been making the shift from classroom-based training to a blended approach using more digital learning experiences. The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated …Read More