Skillsoft announced today that Elearning! readers have selected the company as the Best Leadership Development winner and Best IT Content winner in the 2012 Best of Elearning! Awards, the exclusive readers’ choice awards program for e-learning products and services.Read more
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What Is a Learning Organization
We receive so much valuable content from our customers, partners and internal subject-matter experts. On Thursdays, we thought it would be fun to do a “throw back” and bring back an older post that was valuable to our audience.Read more
Survey Reveals Executives Are Receptive to Online Learning But Lack Understanding of Options
Skillsoft today announced the results of a survey that reveals the vast majority of senior executives are open to using technology in a development context, but they lack an understanding of the current online learning options that are available to them.Read more
The 7 Deadly Skills of the Perfect Leader
Employing and retaining strong and capable managers is becoming increasingly difficult as there just aren’t enough candidates with the right skills or levels of experience. Figures released by the 2012 National Management Survey, carried out by the Chartered Management Institute, showed that 59 per cent of employers were struggling to recruit the right calibre of manager in 2011.Read more
Establishing Learning Program Metrics and Aligning Communications
Successful training programs come in all shapes and sizes but no matter what the contract value, audience size or product(s) sold, all programs have one thing in common — they’re evaluated by the company’s stake holders to determine its success.Read more
Skillsoft® Books24x7® expands offering with HarperCollins partnership
By Pam Boiros
What do best-selling authors Geoffrey Moore, David Rock, Dan
Ariely, Jeanne C. Meister and Karie Willyerd all have in common? They are all HarperCollins authors whose
business titles will now be available in the Skillsoft Books24x7 BusinessPro™
collection along with many other highly-regarded authors.Read more
The 7 Skills of the Perfect Employee
Replacing a member of staff is a costly and lengthy process. In fact it can cost as much as a year’s salary to replace an employee.* But with businesses investing serious amounts of time and money on recruitment, how can they make sure that any new recruit is going to add to the long term success of the business?Read more