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How To Drive and Sustain Innovation With Learning and Development Training

IdeaScale

Recent research suggests that some key learning and development (L&D) strategies hold the answers you’ve been searching for. Innovation and training? Having a well-strategized innovation strategy is the key to maintaining your company’s competitive advantage. They go hand-in-hand. Build Safe Spaces To Let Ideation Flourish.

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How the Food Industry Is Using Cross-Training to Boost Service

Harvard Business Review

Cross-training employees on a variety of tasks can be a powerful tool for improving operations, as well as for attracting and retaining workers. When employees are cross-trained to perform a variety of both customer-facing and non-customer-facing tasks, they can adjust their work depending on demand and business needs.

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Crowdsourced Innovation: Three Things I Learned

IdeaScale

During my first two weeks as a Marketing Intern for IdeaScale, I learned about how the business world operates, particularly how an organization uses crowdsourced innovation with tools such as IdeaScale. Every company says they want to be “innovative” and some of them use “crowdsourcing” to do so. But what do those words really mean?

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How Data Collaboration Platforms Can Help Companies Build Better AI

Harvard Business Review

There are three immediate challenges for companies that want to train fine-tuned AI models: 1) they require extensive, high-quality data — a scarce resource for many enterprises, 2) third-party AI models can include problematic biases, and 3) training fine-tuned models with users’ personal data may result in privacy violations.

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5 Reasons Leaders Invest in Language Training

It can create international trade, build partnerships, and grow company revenue, but language barriers often stand in the way of such progress. Luckily, there is one very simple and effective solution: language training. Improved training and development for new hires. An increase in employee engagement.

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The Failure of Innovation Training

Innov8rs

The macroeconomic climate is battering companies around and leading to budget cuts across the board. Companies are focusing on the core business and cutting funding to anything viewed as risky or not of immediate value. Having the best AI writing assistant on the market is useless if you work for an ice cream company.

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How to Make Your Training Stick: 7 Methods to Transfer & Sustain Learning

CMOE

In the latest 2021 Training Industry Report , conducted by Training Magazine, results indicated that U.S. training expenditures rose nearly 12 percent to $92.3 A fascinating study conducted by American Express found that the key difference in achieving high performance after training was the transfer climate.

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9 Warning Signs Your Employees Need Language Training

Most global companies are diverse in perspectives, backgrounds, and yes, language. Learn the 9 warning signs your employees need language training today! Language barriers can compound existing communication problems, often resulting in business losses.

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Designing For Engagement: Revive Your L&D Strategy with Gamification, VR, and More

Speaker: Stephen Baer - Chief Creative Officer, ELB Learning & Luke Talbot - Chief Product Officer, Userlane

With the emergence of AI-enabled coaching and teaching platforms, companies are being inundated with new training modalities that promise a bright future for eLearning. But how do you choose and implement the right technology for your company? What an exciting time for L&D professionals! Video coaching programs.

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Measuring Innovation Performance

Download this eBook to learn about the 5 basic principles that guide every successful innovation process. Why do only a third of the organizations worldwide have formal innovation metrics in place despite accepting that innovation is critical to survival?