Make Learning Stick By Using Cognitive Load Theory in Your Training

Cognitive load theory helps explain why some training works and some doesn’t. Use these strategies to help participants commit learning to long-term memory.

Web 3.0, the Metaverse, and Employee Training

Web 3.0 and the metaverse are coming. What do technologies like VR and augmented reality mean for your employee training program?

How to Recruit, Train, And Retain Employees During The Great Resignation

It’s been a challenge to recruit and retain employees during the Great Resignation. Here’s how to gain and keep their loyalty.

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Mental Health Training for Employees and 9 Tips for Self-Care in the Workplace

Providing mental health training for employees is a great way to set them up for success. Here are our best tips to help them flourish.

How To Create Construction Safety Training For Employees

Construction jobsites are one of the most dangerous places to work. Here's what you need to know to build your construction safety training program.

Industry 4.0 And The Future Of Training Workers

Knowing how to train employees for this next generation of work is critical. Here’s what industry 4.0 means for the future of training workers in your industry.

Hearing Conservation Training For Employees: What To Know

From topics to rollout, here’s what you need to know to get started when building your hearing conservation training program for employees.

Your Guide To Fire Safety Training For Employees

Fire safety matters no matter what your occupation is. It could literally be the difference between life and death. Here’s your guide to workplace fire safety training.

The Future Of Digital Performance Support For Employees

Digital performance support offers everything you need to meet (and support) employees right where they are. These are the features to look for.

How To Create Effective Food Safety Training For Employees

Find the food safety training topics to cover in your program, as well as examples of free courses to work from while you’re building your program.

How To Build A Diversity, Equity, And Inclusion Training Program

More than just teaching tolerance, DEI training helps to build a workplace that is safe, supportive, and truly inclusive. Here’s how to build your program.

What Is Product Education Training? Examples And Ideas

From sales support to customer production education training, here is how to roll out this type of training program (along with examples)!

How To Build A Safety Inspection Checklist: 5 Steps

Whether you already have a paper-based checklist or are starting from scratch, here are five steps to build a digital safety inspection checklist for your teams.

7 Adult Learning Styles And Best Practices To Follow

Research has shown that not everyone learns the same way. Consider these most common adult learning styles as you design your employee training.

xAPI: How To Use In eLearning And Major Benefits

xAPI in eLearning is the next level of user experience tracking if you develop training for employees. Here’s what you need to know.

How Does Adaptive Learning For Employees Work?

Adaptive learning technology uses AI or other tech to appropriately scale training materials and complexity for your employees. Here’s how.

How To Achieve Accessibility In eLearning: 4 Principles

For Global Accessibility Awareness Day, we’re sharing four of the major design principles that can help you make your eLearning accessible to all.

Synchronous Vs. Asynchronous Learning: Pros And Cons

Which type of training is best: asynchronous vs. synchronous? Here’s what you need to know, including pros and cons for both methods.

Your Guide To Cognitive Load Theory And Learning

Cognitive load theory has a direct impact on how employees can learn and retain information. This is why it's so incredibly important to employee learning.

How To Manage eLearning Localization For Global Employees

Localization is a crucial tool for building global brands, by building eLearning resources that are tailored to one particular place or culture. Here’s how.

How To Transition In-Person Training To eLearning: 9 Steps

Is it time to convert your instructor-led materials into an eLearning program that employees can do wherever they are? Here’s how to get started.

How Can AR Training Help With My Employee Training?

AR training is one of those far-off sci-fi ideas that’s already here, allowing you to design a more effective employee training plan right now. Here’s how.

15 Best Practices And Virtual Training Tips For Trainers

Need to better support your remote workforce? Read on for 15 virtual training tips for trainers as they transition from the classroom to the screen.

How To Effectively Use Content Curation For Learning

Here’s how to use content curation for learning to more effectively train your employees, from a variety of sources.

8 Signs Of Burnout At Work In Employees (And How To Manage It)

Employee burnout is at an all-time high. Here’s what you can do to support your employees, and signs of burnout at work to watch for.

36 eLearning Statistics: 2021 Key Insights To Shape Our Year

As we move into 2021, these are 36 eLearning statistics that will shape this year and our efforts in the employee training industry.

8 eLearning Trends And Predictions For 2021

When it comes to eLearning trends, 2021 promises to call many traditional ways of thinking into question. These are our predictions for 2021 trends.

How To Build A More Effective Employee Training Plan In 2021

From a training needs analysis to ongoing assessment, this is you can develop a more effective employee training plan in 2021.

6 Tips For Navigating COVID-19 And Office Holiday Season

If you’re looking to bring some cheer into the winter holidays, here are our tips for navigating COVID-19 and office holidays, safely.

7 Steps To Create Your Employee Development Plan

Need to help your employees and company grow? Read on for seven steps to create your employee development plan, from roll-out to reporting.

How To Create Safe Lifting Training For Employees (And A Free Course!)

Here’s how to create and roll-out safe lifting training for your employees, along with a free safe lifting training online course that covers the basics.

How To Create Domestic Violence Training For Awareness And Advocacy

Domestic violence training can help gatekeepers recognize warning signs of domestic violence and provide them with support to get the right help fast.

How To Develop Effective Suicide Prevention Training

You might not think that suicide prevention training is something that you need in your field of work, but suicide prevention is everyone’s business.

How To Create Ladder Safety Training For Employees (And A Free Course!)

Here’s how to develop and roll-out ladder safety training to your employees, along with a free ladder safety training online course that covers the basics.

Diversify Your Training: Why Inclusion Matters And How To Do It Right

How can you truly and immediately diversify your eLearning employee training materials? Here's how.

Designing Virtual Instructor-Led Training? Here's 5 Tips To Get Started

Virtual instructor-led training keeps your workforce informed and engaged. These are our tips to get started with your own virtual instructor-led programs.

How To Support Gender Inclusion In Your Workplace

Here’s what it means to move beyond the binary, with actionable tips on how you can create a gender inclusive workplace immediately and in your training resources.

Heat Safety Training This Summer Can Keep Employees Safe

Workers are at increased risk for heat-related illnesses—and even death—during summer. Heat safety training can help. Here's how to roll it out to your employees.

How Upskilling Can Drive Your Employee Development

With entirely new technical fields and disruptive trends flooding the market, digital upskilling is more important than ever. Here's what you need to know.

COVID-19 Office Safety: How To Prepare Your Workplace

From transmission reduction to sanitation and flexible work routines, our guide covers the latest research in COVID-19 office safety.

10 Tips For Managing Remote Teams More Effectively

Managing remote teams requires a different approach than managing employees in real life. Here's how to do it effectively.

How To Measure Employee Engagement: 7 Steps

Measuring employee engagement requires time and effort, but it is worth both. Here are seven steps for how to measure employee engagement.

How To Roll Out PPE Training To Your Employees

PPE training can save lives. These are the topics your training should cover and your guide on how to roll it out to employees who needs it.

12 Examples Of Corporate Sustainability Initiatives To Inspire Your Goals

Want to lessen your company's environmental impact? Here are 12 examples of corporate sustainability initiatives from 2020 to get you started.

L&D Can Drive Corporate Sustainability Initiatives: Here's How

Small changes today can lead to bigger changes tomorrow, all in service to protecting our world (and your business).

How To Motivate Employees: 5 Forward-Thinking Approaches

How to motivate employees to get on board with your vision for the future? Here are five creative ways to motivate your employees that work.

10 Best Practices For Training Remote Employees

From handling immediate training needs to building your community culture digitally, these are the best practices for training remote employees.

Hard Skills Vs. Soft Skills: Examples And Definitions

Hard skills vs soft skills isn't an either/or proposition. It's a both/and package worth cultivating in employees. Here's your guide to these two skillsets.

Five Tips for Surviving Work at Home with Kids

How do you keep things running when you unexpectedly have to work from home?

Beyond Facebook: Social Media Training For Today's Employees

This is how to get started with social media training for employees in 2020, from topics to cover to training frequency.

7 Effective Talent Development Strategies For 2020

These talent development strategies can help you identify and nurture your employees’ skills to build a better workforce.

Why We Can't Forget Contractors And Freelancers For Our 2020 Training Initiatives

Why independent contractor training is increasingly important and steps to design a thoughtful, practical, and thorough contractor training program.

How To Develop Change Management Training For Leaders In Your Company

Change management training for leaders can help your employees better manage transitions. This is how to set up a training program in your company.

11 Insights Into Employee Engagement Research From 2019

Read on for the top learning research articles on employee training and development and workplace engagement in 2019.

Build A Better Employee Retention Program With Training: 6 Strategies

You can’t expand and grow your business if you’re constantly training new staff. Build a better employee retention program through training with these tips.

10 Low (Or No!) Cost Employee Training Programs That Really Work

Regardless of industry or size, your employees need training. Here are ten low- or no-cost employee training options that really work.

10 Topics To Include In Your New Manager Training In 2020

These are ten topics to include in your new manager training (and why this type of training is still vitally important in 2020 and beyond).

How To Empower Your Employees With Crisis Management Training

How well would your employees respond to a crisis in the workplace? If the answer is “not very well,” it’s time to develop crisis management training. Here's how.

What Should We Expect For The Future of Corporate Training In 2020?

As we near the end of 2019, it’s time to look forward to what’s next in the future of corporate training. Here's what you can expect.

How To Roll Out ADA Training For Managers And Employees

ADA compliance isn’t just good practice – it’s the law. These are the topics your ADA training needs to cover for both employees and managers.

What Is Mental Health Training And How Could It Help My Team?

Whether you work with educators, librarians, or other public-facing employees, this is what your mental health training programs should include.

Your Step-By-Step Guide To Better New Hire Onboarding

Here’s your step-by-step checklist for better new hire onboarding, from your entry-level employees to key management positions.

How To Create LGBTQ Diversity Training That Promotes Equality

Want to create a more inclusive work enviroment? Read on for five actionable steps to start with when creating your LGBTQ diversity training initiatives.

11 Powerful Leadership Training Activities For Employees In 2019

Leadership training for employees can be engaging, thought-provoking, and truly productive when it comes to building teams. Here's how.

When To Use eLearning: 5 Times It Makes The Most Sense

These are five times when to use eLearning and some instances when it may be better to look to other training tools.

Your Guide To Cyberbullying Training For Teachers And Schools

Cyberbullying training for teachers can help create a safe, supportive environment for all kids--even after school hours. This is how to roll out this type of training.

How To Identify Training Needs Of Employees: 8 Ways To Start

Knowing how to identify training needs of employees is the foundation on which your entire training is built. It makes sense to get it right. Here's how.

How To Create A Better Healthcare Customer Service Training Program

Not sure where to start with healthcare customer service training? This is how to build your customer service in healthcare training from the ground up.

12 Tips For Creating Accessible eLearning Programs For Employees

How to create accessible eLearning programs that comply with WCAG and Section 508 standards and give employees the tools they need to do their jobs.

How To Create Better Cyber Security Training For Managers And Your C-Suite

Cyber security training for managers can affect the overall success (or failure) of your company. Here's what you need to know.

How To Keep Track Of Training For Employees

Make sure your employees are on track, in compliance, and keeping up with all of their training. Here's how to keep track of training right.

How To Train Employees On a New System Or Technology: 5 Tips

Not sure how to train employees on a new system or technology? Here are five of our favorite tips for doing it effectively and hassle-free.

Your Guide To The Future Of Augmented Reality In Corporate Training

Here's what we can expect when it comes to augmented reality in corporate training in the years to come, along with examples of how it's already being used today.

6 eLearning Myths We Need To Completely Leave Behind In 2019

We all know eLearning is a growing industry and what may have been par for course in 2014 is no longer a best practice. In 2019, these are the six eLearning myths we can leave completely behind.

How To Develop Emotional Intelligence Training For Employees

Emotional intelligence training for employees and your managers provides many benefits, both in and out of your workplace. Here's how to train for it.

8 Ways To Develop More Effective Ethics Training For Employees

Here are eight ways to develop more effective and engaging ethics trainings for employees in your workforce.

Your Guide To Effective Ergonomics Training Courses For Your Employees

Ergonomics goes far beyond watching your posture. This is how to create the best ergonomics training courses for your employees (and why it matters!).

What's The Real Cost of Training New Employees?

Read on for the real cost of training new employees, how to reduce that cost, along with risks of not giving your employees the training they need.

How To Get Employees Excited About Training: 10 Ways To Motivate Them

Knowing how to get employees excited about training is the key to improving employee satisfaction (and business success!). Here's how to motivate them.

8 Benefits Of Blended Learning In The Workplace

There are many benefits of blended learning in the workplace. Here are eight of the best.

6 Major Benefits To Cross-Training Employees

Provide a major boost to your workforce's productivity, performance, and bottom line with cross-training. Here's why cross-training employees is so important and how to get started.

5 Benefits Of Experiential Learning In The Workplace

Experiential learning can revolutionize how companies train their employees and develop leaders from within. These are the major benefits of experiential learning for your workforce.

This Is Why Healthcare Cyber Security Training Is So Vital

Attacks on personal data through healthcare providers is on the rise, which is why healthcare cyber security training is so vital. Here's how you can deliver the training your employees need to prevent data breaches.

How To Develop And Train For Soft Skills In The Workplace

Workers with soft skills training are 12% more productive, which translates into a 256% ROI. Here's how to develop soft skills in the workplace effectively.

How To Reduce Training Friction For Today's Employees

Every employee needs training, but many will unfortunately resist it because of time or other factors. This is how you can reduce training friction for your employees.

How To Find The Best LMS For Your Small Business

Using an LMS for small business takes the guesswork out of employee training. Here's how to find the best one for your small business.

How To Start Your Restaurant Managers Training Program

You know restaurants don’t run themselves; here’s how to train your people to run them even better with a dedicated restaurant manager training program.

4 Things Your Cyber Security Training For Beginners Must Cover

Cyber security training for beginners is a crucial element of any employee training program. Here's what to include in yours.

How Understanding Adult Learning Theory Helps Us Create Better eLearning

Adult learning theory is the data-backed way into the minds of adults. Understanding it can help you create better eLearning opportunities for your employees. Here's how.

How To Develop Diversity Training That Is Actually Effective

A forty-year study of diversity training has found that some types of diversity training do work – when it’s done right. Here’s how.

How To Create The Best Corporate Finance Training Program

Corporate finance training goes beyond keeping employees up-to-date on developments in the world of finance. Here's what it needs to include.

The Top 11 Types Of Microlearning For Your Employees

Microlearning is quick, accessible learning that offers your employees information when they need it, where they need it. But, just like all forms of training, different types of microlearning allow you to meet your varying goals.

How Can I Create My eLearning Courses Faster?

It takes 71 hours to create a one-hour eLearning course. Developing an eLearning course takes time, but there are ways to speed up the process without compromising quality. Here's how.

Where Should Small-Medium Businesses Start With eLearning?

It's possible for small-medium businesses to find sustainable and affordable eLearning solutions to train employees. From assessment to ongoing audits, here's how to get started with eLearning for your SMB.

How To Conduct A Training Needs Analysis

Conducting a training needs analysis is your first step for developing a successful employee training program. This is how to get started.

How to Train Your New Employees Effectively

It’s a common mistake that even successful businesses make: not formally training new employees. Here's how to train your new employees effectively with a new hire training checklist.

6 Tips For Developing The Most Effective Corporate Sales Training Program

When you're developing your employee training for the year, it's easy to lump the sales team into your wider net of corporate training. But, doing so can be a recipe for disaster (and unfinished courses). Here's how to create effective corporate sales training.

What Are The Major On-The-Job Training Advantages?

Easily applicable, no wasted time, and it makes good (money) sense, along with other major advantages of on-the-job training. Read on to learn more.

7 Crucial Safety Topics To Include In Your Employee Training Program

What makes an employee safety training program particularly effective? Start by covering these key workplace safety topics that are applicable to almost every industry.

How To Prevent Workplace Violence: 7 Steps To Take Right Now

Workplace violence is not something we can ignore as business leaders. Here are steps you can take right now to prevent violent incidents in the future.

Your Guide To HIPAA Compliance Training For Employees

The goal of HIPAA compliance training is to protect your patients, not just fulfill a regulatory requirement. This is how to roll out HIPAA training for employees that works.

How To Create Effective Cyber Security Training For Your Employees

If an employee touches a computer, they need cyber security training. Here's how to make it actually worth their (and your) time.

Building A Strong Foundation For Training With Solid Learning Objectives

Ready to create a strong foundation for your eLearning initiatives? Learn the basics of creating solid learning objectives from industry experts.

Rethinking Online Sexual Harassment Training After #MeToo

Effective online sexual harassment training means more than sitting employees in front of a screen and saying, “Don’t do it.” Here's how to make it effective.

How To Make A Successful Vendor Selection | Ask Yourself These 5 Customer Service Questions

Do you have an advocate on your side, or someone who's going to disappear at 2 PM on Friday afternoon? How to choose a vendor based on customer service standards.

12 Neuroscience Breakthroughs That Will Help Improve Your Training

What we learned about the brain and training in 2017, and how to apply it to your employee learning programs.

How Geofencing Can Revolutionize Your On-The-Ground Employee Training

Geofencing technology is increasingly providing cutting-edge and immediate access to on-the-ground and mobile employee training. This is how it works.

Capturing Millennial Employee Attention In a World Where We Work from Anywhere

You can capture millennial employees' attention by knowing what drives them, what you can learn from them, and how to capture their attention in a world where we work from anywhere.

Gamification In eLearning | What Works And What Doesn't?

Gamification in eLearning is only as successful as the planning behind it. Here are five ways to make gamification in the workplace effective.

It's Time To Move Your Training To HTML5, Because Flash Is Super Dead

From massive security scares to clunky frights, it's time to switch your outdated Flash courses to HTML5. Here's why and how to get started.

How-To Create Nobu Quality eLearning Experiences Using Visual Design Guidelines

Quincy Conley, a Learning Scientist, explains how we can apply culinary lessons to create enchanting and quality eLearning experiences for our employees.

How To Make A Successful Business Case For eLearning Development

You know that eLearning can provide your company with the best training, but you have to convince your boss. Concerned? We've got it down to ten major steps.

EdgePoint Announces Partnership With PinPoint Workforce, The First Mobile-Native Learning System

At EdgePoint Learning, we're thrilled to announce our new partnership with PinPoint Workforce, the world's first mobile-native learning and compliance system.

12 Of The Biggest Benefits Of eLearning For Employees

Saving money and employee time? These are only two of the many benefits of eLearning for your workforce. Read on to learn more.

What Is mLearning, Or Mobile Learning?

mLearning isn't just eLearning designed for mobile phones and tablets. It uses the advantages of mobile devices to open up huge potentials for training your global workforce. Here's how it works.

Top 10 Types of Employee Training Methods

From eLearning to instructor-led training to simulations and more, this is your guide to the best types of training methods for your workforce.

25 FREE Tools To Create Your Custom eLearning Courses

Find over 25 free eLearning authoring tools to create your custom courses in 2019. We also break down the 6 steps for creating the best learning programs.

Instructor-Led Training vs. eLearning

Instructor-led training is the traditional, formal version of training that takes place in a classroom, while eLearning can be taken at anytime from an internet-connected device. Read on to learn more.

Sales Training Best Practices

Two of our specialties here at EdgePoint Learning are business skills and sales training.

How to Work with Subject Matter Experts

Sometimes the hardest part of any training, instructional design or technical writing job is gathering the right information from the right people.

Quick Tips for Localization

In this global economy where companies have offices all over the world, sometimes your courses will need to be translated and localized.