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What is a Learning Consultant?

A learning consultant is a person who has professional experience designing curricula and training programs to improve the performance of employees at all levels. Learning advisors collaborate with businesses on every step of the learning experience to create and implement a specialized training program. They create unique training assignments and administer them personally to ensure ...

Exploring IT Change Management Best Practices

IT change management best practices are important for improving a company’s performance. Changes in a company’s information technology infrastructure library, or ITIL, have a major impact on how customers interact with that business and how that organization operates. For example, moving all of a company’s collaborative apps to the cloud will change the daily workflow ...

What is Change Management Consulting?

In the business world today, change is not only inevitable but happens much quicker than has ever been possible. Technological advancements and the rise of globalization have forced companies to continuously adapt to new trends in order to stay relevant in their respective market. Change management consulting is a tool modern companies can use to ...

Social Learning Theory in the Workplace

Many enterprises are abandoning more traditional learning methods in favor of social learning strategies that utilize online learning, mentorship and social learning. Executives are finding that social learning is an easier and faster way to change undesirable behaviour, build a positive and productive work ethic and enhance employee skills. While there is still a need ...

What Is Resource Capacity Planning?

Enterprises are dealing with a highly volatile market in 2021, and resources are scarce. With resources being the most expensive elements of any business, it’s important that enterprises manage their resources carefully and efficiently. Many businesses don’t have  dedicated resource capacity planning tools, being forced instead to use legacy systems and old fashioned legwork to ...

Helping Employees Adapt to Remote Work, Our New Reality

Are you answering the most important questions when it comes to helping your employees cope with their new realities? Expert consultant, Shelina Pabani, explores this and more.

Benefits of Working from Home and Working from Home Efficiently

What are the Benefits of Working from Home Working from home is becoming an increasingly popular option for businesses of all sizes. There are many benefits of working from home for both employers and employees. The following article will outline some of the benefits of working from home as well as go over working from

How to Modify a Position to a Remote Role and How to Ensure Employees Are Effective in the New Virtual Role

SLP would like to share some tips on how to transition your team to remote work.

Remote Work Policies – Drafting Remote Policies

What is a Remote Work Policy? Many companies from different industries are now realizing that offering more flexible work schedules and allowing remote work can offer many advantages. Remote work policies are employer-employee agreements that clearly outline when and how team members can work from different locations instead of coming into the office. Having a

Adobe Flash: Twilight is Upon Us.

After a run spanning over two decades, we are now in the last chapter of a long goodbye to Adobe Flash.

Project and Time Management: Helping Customers Help You Meet Their Deadlines

You can look at any professional field and you will find deadlines. Deadlines are a necessary tool to ensure work is completed in a timely manner. Deadlines might feel like the “bane” of your customer’s existence, but with the proper support and structure, deadlines do not need to be panic-inducing. When putting together deadlines and

Blended Learning – What is the Right Balance and How to Add Micro Learning with In-Person or Online Learning

There is no official definition or universally agreed-upon meaning of blended learning, but it is a term that generally describes the combination of online learning, traditional in-person learning, and independent study time. Blended learning goes beyond simply using computers for learning and toward a fundamental change in the way people learn. Many people call blended

UX vs Visual Design

When you set out to create a new website, app, game, or almost any digital product you will need designers. Designers are responsible for giving a digital product its structure, form, and appearance. There are many different types of designers, each focusing on one element of product design. To people outside the design industry, user

Designing Training in Agile Projects: How to Work With Tight Deadlines and Turnaround Times

The Agile methodology was originally created for software development. Since its formal establishment in 2001, the Agile method of project management has expanded beyond software development. Now Agile can be applied to most projects regardless of industry. While Agile project management can be highly effective, it must be implemented correctly. To best use the Agile

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  • Instructional Design
  • Virtual Work

What is a Learning Consultant?

A learning consultant is a person who has professional experience designing curricula and training programs to improve the performance of employees at all levels. Learning advisors collaborate with businesses on every step of the learning experience to create and implement a specialized training program. They create unique training assignments and administer them personally to ensure ...

Exploring IT Change Management Best Practices

IT change management best practices are important for improving a company’s performance. Changes in a company’s information technology infrastructure library, or ITIL, have a major impact on how customers interact with that business and how that organization operates. For example, moving all of a company’s collaborative apps to the cloud will change the daily workflow ...

What is Change Management Consulting?

In the business world today, change is not only inevitable but happens much quicker than has ever been possible. Technological advancements and the rise of globalization have forced companies to continuously adapt to new trends in order to stay relevant in their respective market. Change management consulting is a tool modern companies can use to ...

Social Learning Theory in the Workplace

Many enterprises are abandoning more traditional learning methods in favor of social learning strategies that utilize online learning, mentorship and social learning. Executives are finding that social learning is an easier and faster way to change undesirable behaviour, build a positive and productive work ethic and enhance employee skills. While there is still a need ...

What Is Resource Capacity Planning?

Enterprises are dealing with a highly volatile market in 2021, and resources are scarce. With resources being the most expensive elements of any business, it’s important that enterprises manage their resources carefully and efficiently. Many businesses don’t have  dedicated resource capacity planning tools, being forced instead to use legacy systems and old fashioned legwork to ...

Benefits of Working from Home and Working from Home Efficiently

What are the Benefits of Working from Home Working from home is becoming an increasingly popular option for businesses of all sizes. There are many benefits of working from home for both employers and employees. The following article will outline some of the benefits of working from home as well as go over working from

Project and Time Management: Helping Customers Help You Meet Their Deadlines

You can look at any professional field and you will find deadlines. Deadlines are a necessary tool to ensure work is completed in a timely manner. Deadlines might feel like the “bane” of your customer’s existence, but with the proper support and structure, deadlines do not need to be panic-inducing. When putting together deadlines and

UX vs Visual Design

When you set out to create a new website, app, game, or almost any digital product you will need designers. Designers are responsible for giving a digital product its structure, form, and appearance. There are many different types of designers, each focusing on one element of product design. To people outside the design industry, user

Designing Training in Agile Projects: How to Work With Tight Deadlines and Turnaround Times

The Agile methodology was originally created for software development. Since its formal establishment in 2001, the Agile method of project management has expanded beyond software development. Now Agile can be applied to most projects regardless of industry. While Agile project management can be highly effective, it must be implemented correctly. To best use the Agile

  • All Topics
  • Change Management
  • How To
  • Instructional Design
  • Remote Work

What is a Learning Consultant?

A learning consultant is a person who has professional experience designing curricula and training programs to improve the performance of employees at all levels. Learning advisors collaborate with businesses on every step of the learning experience to create and implement a specialized training program. They create unique training assignments and administer them personally to ensure ...

Exploring IT Change Management Best Practices

IT change management best practices are important for improving a company’s performance. Changes in a company’s information technology infrastructure library, or ITIL, have a major impact on how customers interact with that business and how that organization operates. For example, moving all of a company’s collaborative apps to the cloud will change the daily workflow ...

What is Change Management Consulting?

In the business world today, change is not only inevitable but happens much quicker than has ever been possible. Technological advancements and the rise of globalization have forced companies to continuously adapt to new trends in order to stay relevant in their respective market. Change management consulting is a tool modern companies can use to ...

Social Learning Theory in the Workplace

Many enterprises are abandoning more traditional learning methods in favor of social learning strategies that utilize online learning, mentorship and social learning. Executives are finding that social learning is an easier and faster way to change undesirable behaviour, build a positive and productive work ethic and enhance employee skills. While there is still a need ...

What Is Resource Capacity Planning?

Enterprises are dealing with a highly volatile market in 2021, and resources are scarce. With resources being the most expensive elements of any business, it’s important that enterprises manage their resources carefully and efficiently. Many businesses don’t have  dedicated resource capacity planning tools, being forced instead to use legacy systems and old fashioned legwork to ...

How to Modify a Position to a Remote Role and How to Ensure Employees Are Effective in the New Virtual Role

SLP would like to share some tips on how to transition your team to remote work.

Remote Work Policies – Drafting Remote Policies

What is a Remote Work Policy? Many companies from different industries are now realizing that offering more flexible work schedules and allowing remote work can offer many advantages. Remote work policies are employer-employee agreements that clearly outline when and how team members can work from different locations instead of coming into the office. Having a

Adobe Flash: Twilight is Upon Us.

After a run spanning over two decades, we are now in the last chapter of a long goodbye to Adobe Flash.

Blended Learning – What is the Right Balance and How to Add Micro Learning with In-Person or Online Learning

There is no official definition or universally agreed-upon meaning of blended learning, but it is a term that generally describes the combination of online learning, traditional in-person learning, and independent study time. Blended learning goes beyond simply using computers for learning and toward a fundamental change in the way people learn. Many people call blended

UX vs Visual Design

When you set out to create a new website, app, game, or almost any digital product you will need designers. Designers are responsible for giving a digital product its structure, form, and appearance. There are many different types of designers, each focusing on one element of product design. To people outside the design industry, user