What is Microlearning?

Learning at work is all about getting better at what you do. And if there’s one thing we know about getting better at your job, it’s that results don’t arrive all at once. Improvement at anything worthwhile happens gradually.

Why Millennials Love Microlearning

Across the business landscape, a new generation of worker is taking over. Millennials are already the largest plurality in the workforce, and by 2019, they’ll be over 75% of it. “In the next 10 to 15 years, we’re going to have the greatest transfer of knowledge that’s…

5 Reasons Quality Beats Quantity in Training Content

In the Internet age, information is limitless. Everything your employees need to know is out there on the World Wide Web. But who has that kind of time? Forcing your employees to CTRL F their way through search results in order to find…

Snapchat, Millennials, and the Micro Revolution

In the past few months, the mobile messaging app Snapchat has been generating buzz unlike any it has before. Despite years of high engagement and growing usership, Snapchat has only recently shed the bad reputation with which it had long been…

How One Trucking Company Saves $900 Per Driver With Smarter Training

Kim Beck-Hermes is the Director of Training and Development at Mesilla Valley Transportation, a large trucking company based in the Southwest United States. Speaking with Kim, you can tell she enjoys her work —…

Professional Development in 60 Seconds: Microlearning For Senior Leaders

Scores of books and blog posts offer theories on effective leadership development. But effective leaders themselves remain in short supply. Today, top executives need greater global fluency, a sharper mind…

7 Things Every L&D Leader Can Learn From David Bowie

David Bowie is gone. It chills me just to type. He was so…not human. How could he be dead? Facing the strange indeed.

Get New Managers Up To Speed With Microlearning

Becoming a first-time manager is a thrilling step in just about any professional career. It’s also one of the scariest. Suddenly, a whole new world of questions surfaces. How do I deal with issues between co-workers? How can I motivate my team…

Here’s What Comes After the LMS

This is the fifth and final entry in a series examining the place of learning management systems in today’s L&D landscape.

In this blog series, we’ve talked about why the learning management system (LMS) is widely disliked. We’ve demonstrated the…