UniGroup

UniGroup, the parent company of United Van Lines and Mayflower Transit, needed to deliver training to hundreds of agents across the country in a consistent, timely, and cost-effective manner. See how they used Skillsoft tools to develop custom content for their unique business.

Length: 2 pages

ADP

Read how ADP uses Skillport to deliver just-in-time learning. Skillport is working in tandem with Saba, which serves as their enterprise human capital management system (HCMS). This is a great example of how a client has gotten to market quickly with a very complex program by making smart "buy versus build" decisions.

Length: 4 pages

Carrington Holding Company, LLC

Carrington Holding Company, LLC needed to implement a compliance and business training solution to reach more than 1,800 associates nationwide. Carrington's aggressive growth model required a much more scalable training solution than a traditional classroom-training model. In addition to compliance, Carrington needed to onboard new employees with effective, consistent and engaging training.

Length: 2 pages

Datatel

Datatel(R) provides colleges and universities fully-integrated administrative software systems and e-marketing solutions that effectively process transactions, conserve resources, improve constituent services and provide for sustainability. As an organization dedicated to servicing institutions of higher education, it makes sense that Datatel would invest in learning for its employees. Datatel sought one solution to meet learners' varying needs across a geographically dispersed workforce. Skillsoft's quality courseware, mentoring services and 'round the clock online support. Today, Datatel offers 1,200 Skillsoft courses via Datatel's LMS for all 550 employees nationwide, servicing remote and on-site employees.

Length: 2 pages

FM Global

FM Global worked with Skillsoft to develop custom courses covering a variety of topics such as fire prevention, boiler maintenance and preparation for floods and hurricanes. The courses have been localized into seven languages and are delivered through Skillport.

Length: 4 pages

Capgemini's Marijke Dekker

In her previous role with CapGemini, Ms. Dekker didn't work with us directly and wondered why there were so many learning assets. Now in a role where she works with various business partners, she appreciates that no matter what learning needs emerge, Skillsoft has something to meet the need.

Length: 00:00:34

Catapult Technology's Katie Cawood

Catapult's Katie Cawood prepared for her PHR certification exam using only Skillsoft resources (and passed!). She believes her experience has set a good example in the company and built credibility for elearning and Skillsoft within her organization.

Length: 00:01:10

Davenport University's Lynda Cribari

For Davenport University, Skillsoft is the way to go when it comes to an affordable way to address the budget cuts that many organizations are dealing with now that challenge them to do more with less.

Length: 00:00:38

Hitachi Consulting's Jennifer Crowfoot

Hitachi Consulting developed a custom course that replaced a two-day classroom session. This elearning module helped them save on travel costs and billable hours, earning the organization a 200% ROI on their learning investment.

Length: 00:00:58

Ricoh's Cherie Risoldi-Hubbell

Ricoh's favorite thing about Skillsoft is how much content we have and how easy it is to find the right content at the right time.

Length: 00:00:38

General Stan McCrystal: What Every Leader Must Possess - Empathy and Perspective

Empathy means understanding the other person's perspective-your employees, customers, suppliers, the media. Try to see things through their eyes. Empathic people make the best decisions. Don't be afraid to say you don't know, and seek advice.

Length: 00:02:00

Tammy Erickson: Managing Generation X

Gen Xers are people in their 30's and 40's. They make good leaders because they tend to think about options; they keep doors open. They are also excellent parents, which helps them balance personal commitments with work priorities.

Length: 00:03:00

QuickTalks: Jonas Ridderstrale: Engaging and Reenergizing your Team: Investing in Psychological Capital

To truly engage employees, you must tap into their emotional side in addition to their intellect. Intellectual capability is associated with only 28% of high performance; psychological factors explain more. Confidence, for example, explains 38%. Add hope, optimism, and resiliency and it becomes clear that psychological capital is as important as intellectual capital. The best employees possess not only high skill but also high will: skill + will. A different leadership style is needed to energize both skill and will. Pamper your employees as you do your customers.

Length: 00:03:00

Quicktalks: Shawn Achor: Creating Positive Team Environments

Praising people is important, but how you praise matters more. Instead of praising outcomes like report cards and work products, praise the process. This shows that behavior matters. Praise the process that leads to the desired outcomes.

Length: 00:03:00

QuickTalks: Lynda Gratton: Raising Performance and Collaboration in Virtual Teams

What it takes to be successful in a team that is co-located is not the same as what it takes to be successful in a virtual team. Virtual teams are more likely to be motivated and energized if they have a great task that pulls the team together. Second, after a virtual team has worked together for a while, relationships begin to break down. To counter this, face-to-face or video-enabled meetings should be scheduled from time to time, to pull the team together.

Length: 00:02:00

Engage for Success with David MacLeod, Chair of the Taskforce on Employee Engagement

Employees are often considered an organisation's best asset, yet many companies fail to recognise the importance of employee engagement and well-being. In this unstable financial climate, where every penny is being counted, an employee who is satisfied with their job and excels with their workload is invaluable.

Presenter:

David MacLeod, Chair of the Taskforce on Employee Engagement

Date/Time: 05/22/2013 - 12 p.m. BST

Shift from Getting to Giving: Provide Exceptional Value and Sell More

Best-selling author, Bob Burg, author of The Go-Giver and Go-Givers Sell More, offers a sales approach that helps you sell on value, rather than price, and be viewed as a resource rather than a commodity. During the webinar, we'll discuss how to shift your focus from getting to giving, putting others' interests first and continually adding value to their business that ultimately lead to significant and very profitable returns.

Presenter:

Date/Time: 05/28/2013 - 12 p.m. EST

Conversations in Leadership: Josh Linkner

IThrough Disciplined Dreaming, Linkner shows you how to create profitable new ideas, empower all your employees to be creative, and sustain your competitive advantage over the long term. Linkner distills his years of experience in business and jazz as well as hundreds of interviews with CEOs, entrepreneurs, and artists into a 5-step process that will make creativity easy.

Presenters:

Josh Linkner, CEO and Managing Partner of Detroit Venture Partners

Shawn Hunter, Executive Producer Skillsoft LDC and 50 Lessons, Skillsoft

Date/Time: 05/02/2013 - 12 p.m. EST/9 a.m. PST

Leadership Programs in Healthcare; a Panel Q&A Session

In Leadership in Healthcare: Essentials Values and Skills, Second Edition, Carson F. Dye suggests that it's imperative for the healthcare industry to take action by investing resources and time into leadership programs to ensure that the "new generation of leaders will make the significant inroads and positive contributions needed for high-quality patient care and service to our communities."

Presenters:

Patrick Veroneau, Founder Emery Leadership Group

Barbara Monegan, Director Talent Management and Organization Development, Christiana Care Health Systems

Ben Quintana, Program Manager for Leadership Development at St. Luke's Health System

Date/Time: 04/16/2013 - 12 p.m. EST/9 a.m. PST

Conversations in Leadership: Jennifer Kahnweiler

Introverts may feel powerless in a world where extroverts seem to rule, but there's more than one way to have some sway. As Jennifer Kahnweiler shows in her book, "The Introverted Leader: Building on Your Quiet Strength", introverts can be highly effective influencers when, instead of trying to act like extroverts, they use their natural strengths. Register for the webinar to learn how to use those strengths to challenge the status quo, provoke new ways of thinking, effect change and inspire others to move forward.

Presenters:

Jennifer Kahnweiler, Ph.D. author, speaker and executive coach

Shawn Hunter, Executive Producer Skillsoft LDC and 50 Lessons, Skillsoft

Date/Time: 04/02/2013 - 12 p.m. EST/9 a.m. PST

From Capitalism to Talentism: How technology, social media and online education has created the Digital Enlightenment

Cash used to be King, today Talent is King. Lucian Tarnowski will talk about how digital and social media has created a fundamental shift in the way organisations and talent communicate together. He will introduce talent engagement best practice as well as the latest trends around social learning.

Presenter:

Lucian Tarnowski, Founder and CEO of BraveNewTalent.com

Date/Time: 03/27/2013 - 12 p.m. GMT (UK)

Finding Big ROI for Skills Training at SMBs

Do you understand the importance of employee development but have a hard time making a hard-numbers business case? In this webinar, we will put ROI of elearning into the context of the SMB market, discussing typical ROI criteria that align to SMB needs and share case study examples of businesses driving powerful impact through elearning.

Presenter:

Laura Rexford, Client Loyalty Manager, Skillsoft

Date/Time: 03/12/2013 - 12 p.m. EST/9 a.m. PST

Five Fallacies About the Role of Learning Content in Talent Management

As larger vendors begin assembling the pieces of an end-to-end human capital management platform, their focus has largely been on the integration of learning management system (LMS) functionality into the overall process. But focusing only on the underlying technologies misses a key point around the business impact of learning content. This is fostering a number of fallacies in organizations, typically outside the L&D organization which has a deep understanding for the role learning content plans in driving true behavioral change.

Length: 5 pages

Scrap Learning Guide

Ensure your learners get the most out of your training programs--learn how to reduce "scrap learning," training that's delivered, but not applied on the job. These simple tips help you maximize your learning ROI.

Length: 4 pages

Skillsoft New Hire Training Program: A Case Study of Onboarding New Sales Talent

Skillsoft's blended learning program for new sales new hire training is a model of efficient and effective onboarding. The program has resulted in bringing new salespeople up-to-speed more quickly, and at lower cost, than traditional approaches. This paper describes in detail how the program has been designed and implemented to achieve outstanding business results.

Length: 9 pages

The Skillsoft Learning Growth Model

The Skillsoft Learning Growth Model describes the predictable stages that all companies go through as they progress from their initial elearning implementations to enterprise-wide, strategic elearning.

Length: 17 pages

Getting Started with elearning

The face of corporate learning has changed. It is no longer possible to develop your human capital with a single approach. Today's corporate environment calls for out of the box thinking, incorporating the benefits of many types of learning to benefit your company's single biggest investment - your people. Evaluating the ever-growing corporate learning solutions that are available enables you to obtain full benefit from your learning programs, by selecting the range of learning resources that best match your strategic corporate goals.

Length: 14 pages

Aberdeen Report: Alignment and the HR Business Partner

This Analyst Insight, based on data from the January 2012 HCM Trends and October 2012 Learning and Performance studies, will define the HR business partner role, and offer guidance on developing this critical organizational capability.

Length: 6 pages

The Engagement / Performance Equation

This Aberdeen Group study looks at 438 organizations to determine which strategies, tools and processes designed to improve engagement and performance are most effective and offers recommendations on how to use them to increase employee retention, leadership bench strength, customer satisfaction and profitable growth.

Length: 27 pages

Mobile HCM - Workforce and Talent Management on the Move

This Aberdeen Group report examines mobile technology, the new frontier in talent and workforce management. Organizations are starting to recruit via smartphone, schedule shifts via text message, deliver multi-media learning via mobile device, and update performance reviews from online portals accessed through handheld devices. With all these new options, organizations need to understand how to utilize mobile learning technologies in the most effective way to increase efficiency and address the needs of an increasingly dispersed and diverse workforce population.

Length: 29 pages

Skillsoft's inGenius™ - A Strategic Response to the Future of Learning

Gain insight into a new approach to social learning that builds on existing elearning platforms and resources to create a new layer of business value. This Aberdeen Group report provides an understanding of high-level drivers behind today's social learning initiatives: improving employee performance, productivity and customer satisfaction.

Length: 6 pages

Bersin - Next Generation Leadership

In this report, we outline how corporate leadership development programs are evolving and we show how the changing portfolio of one leadership development solution provider, Skillsoft, is proof of this evolution. We also share an example of how one company, Emerson Electronics, is utilizing a next-generation solution to achieve its leader development and business goals.

Length: 25 pages