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3 Things Guaranteed To Improve Your L&D Impact (According To Data)
We analysed HowNow’s top 50 customers with the highest engagement to identify how elite L&D teams drive
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Podcast | How To Build A Learning Ecosystem
A message to all L&D teams: People are learning with or without us… but that doesn’t mean
Sana Labs Review: Features, Pricing, User Insights And More
What is Sana Labs? Sana Labs creates a single home for learning, bringing live collaborative sessions and
Pluralsight Review: Features, Pricing, User Insights And More
What is Pluralsight? Pluralsight is an online learning platform that helps individuals and businesses develop their tech
Juno Journey Review: Features, Pricing, User Insights And More
Considering Juno Journey for your company’s L&D efforts? You’re in the right place! In this review, we
Podcast | Becoming A Great Place To Work-Certified Company
Great Place To Work-Certified companies are up to four times more successful at attracting, retaining, and engaging
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The 7 Best Project Management Resources
Project managers have a lot on their plate! Whether it’s building the relationship needed to motivate and
HowNow Is Flexified! The Full Scoop From Our Employee Survey On Flexible Working
As L&D specialists (and good humans in general), we don’t need any reminders that flexible working can
Why We Wind-Down At 2 PM Every Friday
✋ Hands up if Friday afternoon isn’t your most productive time of the week? Whether it’s the
Podcast | 9 L&D Life Hacks From Leading Consultants
Give us one hour, and we’ll give you lessons from more than 40 years in L&D! That’s
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Podcast | Human-Centric Learning Experiences And Using AI In L&D
More people Googled AI content in February than any month EVER! And it’s starting to knock on
How L&D Pros Can Build A LinkedIn Content Strategy
There’s a lot that L&D pros can learn and borrow from marketing! Like building a LinkedIn strategy
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Podcast | How To Build A Search-First Learning Culture
56% of employees struggle to find resources and documents while working remotely. And when they’re scattered in
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Podcast | Performance Measurement: Are We Getting It All Wrong?
Whether it’s measuring outcomes without understanding how we got there or shoehorning people into old-school performance models,
How To Build A Lean Learning Sprint
In a fast-changing world, we need to solve business problems quickly and create content that delivers this
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Podcast | Translating Learning Science Into Day-To-Day L&D
Learning science: great in theory, often difficult for us to apply to daily L&D activities… UNTIL NOW!
LinkedIn Learning’s 2023 Workplace Learning Report: 8 Things Every L&D Pro Needs To Know
It’s like Christmas morning for L&D people! LinkedIn Learning have published their Workplace Learning Report for 2023
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Podcast | Getting Into (And Smashing) Your First L&D Role
🤝 Thinking about transitioning into your first L&D role? 😀 Maybe you’re new to a role and
The Do’s and Don’ts of Mentoring and Coaching
This is a guest post from our friends over at Guider, giving you the simple do’s and
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Announcing Our Series A: HowNow Raises $5 million To Make Meaningful Learning A Part Of Everyday Work
We’re super excited to share that HowNow has raised a $5 million Series A from Mercia and
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3 Ways To Prove Your L&D Impact
Would you care how much time employees spent on a course if it had a measurable influence
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Podcast | What’s L&D’s Role In Tackling Climate Change?
A third of staff are willing to quit over weak climate action! And yet sustainability rarely makes
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The ICE Framework: L&D’s Impact, Confidence And Ease Idea Scoring System
In a world that’s changing as fast as this one, L&D needs to solve business problems quickly.
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Podcast | How To Build A Global Talent Strategy: Find, Attract And Develop
Global hiring doesn’t mean rolling out one job advert to every single country! It means building a
The Importance Of Upskilling and Reskilling (It’s Not What You Think)
Want to know what most articles on this topic get wrong? They act as if the reason
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Podcast | Realistic L&D Trends For 2023
Does it matter if L&D teams learn less than others? Just how much is legacy tech holding
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Six Tips For Building An Effective Onboarding Plan
There is something fundamentally wrong with the way most companies do onboarding! How do we know? We
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Leadership Team Development: Five Simple Rules To Follow
What we do as a leadership team matters! How we speak to each other, the help we
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Podcast | How To Build Award Winning Onboarding
AND Digital won Onboarding Programme of the Year at the 2022 Learning Awards. After this episode, we’re
How To Upskill Employees: Lessons From Amazon, Uber, KFC, And More
The irony is that we often upskill effectively by learning from our peers and colleagues. And yet
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How To Get People Sharing Knowledge In The Workplace (Four Simple Ways)
If you’re not sharing knowledge internally, you’re missing a trick! Not only are you failing to build
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HowNow Named In GetApp’s Top 10 LXP Category Leaders For 2022
We’ve had a pretty good year at HowNow, from our first full Team Retreat to launching HowNow+
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Seven Takeaways From LACE Partners’ HR Shared Services Trends 2022 Report
How have HR shared services evolved post-pandemic? The latest LACE Partners pulse survey had the answers, they
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Podcast | Leading And Learning In Flat Organisations
Flat hierarchies, often celebrated because they’re great for employees. But what do they mean for leaders and
We Need To Talk About Your Return On Investment For L&D!
🪑 Does a bum on a seat count as a return on your investment? 💯 How about
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Podcast | HR Trends EVERYBODY Needs To Know For 2023
People don’t value friendships at work anymore! Did you know that? We didn’t until we read the
Five Marketing Techniques To Amplify Your L&D Message
Direct-to-consumer brands are reinventing fairly mundane products off the back of engaging and exciting marketing! Whether it’s mattresses, tooth brushes
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Podcast | Why Audio Content Is Underserved In L&D And How To Fix It
Audio content is underserved in L&D, but it doesn’t have to be! Assemble You’s Richard Ward joined us this week to discuss…
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5 Steps To Becoming A Knowledge Sharing Organisation
😤 Fed up of losing knowledge every time someone leaves your team? 🤦 Worried about all the great information that’s
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What Is An LXP? A No-Waffle Answer To A Pretty Simple Question
Do you care about the learner experience? The people on the front line and trying to overcome challenges, learn new
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Podcast | Ask Nelson Anything – Performance Conversations, Legacy Tech, Free Trials And Flexible Working
Why is every performance conversation a chance to spot learning opportunities? Does competence breed confidence?
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How We’re Improving Accessibility To Provide Better Learner Experiences
It ain’t easy being green! It might be one of our (some say iconic) brand colours, but
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Want To Be A Better Manager In 2023? Follow These 4 Leadership Trends
It’s not an easy time to be a leader! And that’s because it’s not the best moment
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The 7 Skills Every Successful People Development Professional Needs To Develop
Nothing against soft skills, they’ll absolutely help you become a great people development or L&D leader. But
Podcast | Learning Culture Already Exists! What L&D Does With It Matters Most
If there’s one takeaway from this conversation, it’s that learning cultures are about a lot more than
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23 Statistics Every HR And L&D Pro Should Know For 2023 (All Published In 2022)
The post-pandemic lull didn’t last long! We’re now entering an economic downturn that makes life more difficult
L&D Trends 2023: 7 You Have To Hear For The New Year
If there’s one trend we’ve all overlooked, it’s that L&D teams have been massive hypocrites for a
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Develop Leadership Skills In Employees Through Everyday Habits
We’re living in an age of flatter hierarchies! And that’s often something to be celebrated, especially when
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Podcast | 5 Golden Rules For Creating Great Learning Content
No tricks, no clickbait – this episode really gives you 5 rules to take away and apply
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LXP vs LMS: 5 Reasons Learning Experience Platforms Win Every Time
Experience versus management - that’s all it really comes down to. Countless articles on this topic try
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Workplace Trends 2023: Build A Better Approach Based 2022’s Best Research
If you think coming out of the pandemic in 2022 means we’re in for an easy ride
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7 HR Trends 2023: Read These And Win The Year Ahead
If you’re looking for HR trends and predictions based on the best reports published in 2022, this
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Podcast | How L&D Teams Can Do More With Less In An Economic Downturn
Between hiring freezes and high-profile redundancies, L&D has another opportunity to steer businesses through difficult times… IF
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7 creative ways of onboarding new employees: Lessons from real companies
If somebody tells you that a branded pen, notebook or t-shirt is a creative way to win
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HowNow’s 2022 Team Retreat
From 5-9 September 2022, HowNow is officially OOO. This year’s annual team retreat takes us to Antalya,
Podcast | Why L&D Keeps Solving The Wrong Problems With Matt Bradburn
Pouring your heart into a learning initiative, only for it to go down like a lead balloon
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Overcome the 7 employee onboarding challenges that ACTUALLY prevent productivity
If we’re in agreement that the primary goal of onboarding is to get someone settled and productive
Why Gamification Alone Won’t Solve Your Learning And Development Woes
What most people won’t tell you is that gamification isn’t a magic wand – it’s not a
Podcast | Future Skills Winning L&D Leaders Are Going To Need
The demands on L&D teams seem to be higher than ever and always evolving! That’s because they
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Want Easy And Engaging Compliance Training? HowNow Helps You Do Both!
Getting employees to complete compliance training is the workplace equivalent of trying to give a dog a
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Plugging your leaky bucket: Stop losing valuable knowledge today
In the era of exponential change we’re living through, no company has time to re-learn the
Why your employees want to learn on demand (and how L&D can get it right)
Make no mistake, we’re living in the era of on-demand. Think about the services you use every
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Our new and improved HowNow Dashboard is here
If good things come in threes, great things must come in fours! Because we’ve completed redesigned the
Hybrid Compliance Training: Four Rules For Rebuilding In The Hybrid Working Era
Compliance is like a failing relationship at most companies! Two unhappy parties, plodding through a process
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Meet HowNow+ The best learning content, one single subscription
Stop us if either of these situations sound familiar: You sign up to a content library, only
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Meet HowNow’s new brand: How and why we undertook a refresh
Show us a startup founder whose brand wasn’t one of the last things on their list, and
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Closing The Engagement Gap: The Biggest Learning Barrier You Hadn’t Thought Of
Ask most people or L&D teams why they’re not learning, and they’ll probably tell you it’s a
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Learning Technologies 2023 Survival Guide: How to get the most from the conference
When people ask if a conference was good, we almost feel obligated to say yes… Why? Because
LifeLabs Learning Workshop: Three Tools For Building A Learning And Growth Culture
When your company’s growing fast, it’s tempting to take a short-term view on learning and development. Or
Should L&D control spend or give people learning budgets?
Learning and development teams can be pretty protective over the purse strings. And you can’t really blame
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Podcast | The intersection between tech and performance with Filip Lam
In a demanding environment where you’re scaling quickly and hiring fast, it can sometimes feel like everything
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Leadership Skills For New Managers: 7 Ways To Build Them
It’s a classic challenge in fast-growing companies. Your headcount is catching up with how quickly you’re evolving,
Podcast | The Essential Components of Impactful Learning with Emma Lloyd
Would you bother delivering a learning experience to employees if you knew it would have absolutely no
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Leading With Impact: Start With The Awareness Gap
Our intentions when we behave a certain way and how those land don’t always match up! Luckily,
Podcast | Design Thinking and L&D with Sarah Stevenson
A phrase we always hear getting thrown around in the L&D space is ‘putting the learner first’,
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How to identify knowledge gaps: Answered in 5 minutes
How do you know what you don’t know? It’s not some kind of ancient proverb, but
Podcast | Navigating the Relationship Between L&D and HR with Lauren Cunningham
L&D and HR – a match made in heaven, or a marriage of inconvenience? Whatever opinion you
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How to improve mental health at work: Expert tips for better employee wellbeing
94% of employees recently stated they were feeling stressed! That’s why the workplace mental health conversation is
Podcast | Applying Marketing to L&D with Hannah Waddams
Picture this – you’ve spent weeks crafting an unforgettable learning experience, finally engaging employees in an exciting
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Should I curate or create learning content? Answered in 3 minutes
If we’re going to answer this in three minutes, we best get our skates on! The
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Building a learning culture in a hybrid working world
At a time when we’re spending roughly two-thirds of our week working from home and the rest
Podcast | Leveraging Technology to Enrich Learning with Jeni Brown
L&D in the hybrid world of work has its challenges, but also lots of opportunities! In this
Train them and they WON’T leave! Why upskilling retains employees
There’s no doubt that you’ll have seen this clichéd quote at least once before: “What happens if
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Build learning experiences that solve business problems in 4 steps
It might sound like the L&D equivalent of ‘if a tree falls in the woods’, but
Building a continuous learning culture? 8 honest questions you have to ask
Think about how much our work worlds change. New products launch, companies move in new directions,
Podcast | 6 Things to Prioritise when Implementing your L&D Strategy
We’re shaking things up in this episode as we’re joined by HowNow’s very own Head of Customer
Should I upskill people or hire new talent?
It depends. But one thing we can agree on is that doing nothing is definitely not
Podcast | Launching an L&D Function with Artheka Sivaharan
You’re the first ever L&D hire in a startup and you have a complete blank slate to
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7 creative ways of onboarding new employees: Lessons from real companies
If somebody tells you that a branded pen, notebook or t-shirt is a creative way to win
Tools, plugins and extensions that’ll drive accessibility in your L&D efforts
User experience is a term that gets used a lot in workplace learning, and rightly so!
Podcast | Supporting Employees to Become Autonomous Learners with Sara Frasi
In this episode of L&D Disrupt we’re joined by Sara Frasi, Senior People Partner L&D at Native
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Nine simple tips for a better onboarding experience
Even if you have the best onboarding experience in the world, there’s still that early doubt about
Podcast | Scaling L&D in High Growth Organisations with Deb Gallo
Deb Gallo, Learning & Development Director at SentinelOne, joins us on this episode of L&D Disrupt to
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Setting effective onboarding objectives for successfully welcoming new employees
Think that the hard work is done once a new hire signs on the bottom line?
Employee Mentoring: Five Winning Approaches For Your Team
Employee mentoring is a bit like a legendary film with a bunch of awful sequels (think
Podcast | Serving the Internal Customer with Doug Ellin
In this week’s episode of L&D Disrupt we speak with Doug Ellin – People Partner L&D at
How SailGP implement values-driven L&D and global people development
Maintaining a values-driven business can be tricky when you have a remote team. It’s a problem that
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Webinar recording | The State Of Sales Training In 2022
61% of salespeople feel underappreciated, let’s make sure that’s not the case in 2022! From thriving in
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Podcast | Harnessing the Power of Knowledge Sharing with Lavinia Mehedințu
Lavinia Mehedințu, Learning & Development Content Curator at Offbeat, is our podcast guest this week. There’s no
The Purpose Of Mentoring Has Changed, Here’s Why
Today’s workplace may be almost unrecognisable versus a few short years ago, but one of the oldest
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What we learnt this year! 11 L&D and people development lessons from the HowNow team
Self-reflection is our secret weapon when it comes to personal and people development! But if we don’t
Podcast | Creating and Scaling a Progressive Company Culture with Tina Phillips
Creating a progressive company culture is a challenge in itself, but once you’ve nailed this, how do
Podcast | Implementing Agile L&D with Patrick Mullarkey
Agile L&D, you’ve probably heard of it, but what the hell does it actually mean? In this
L&D Disrupt is launching this November!
The learning and development space is constantly transforming, but are you evolving with it? We’re incredibly excited
What not to do in 2022: 17 L&D pitfalls, mistakes and bad habits to avoid!
It’s in our nature to be positive! That’s why when New Year rolls around, we normally focus
22 LinkedIn L&D experts who’ll fill your feed with knowledge in 2022
The world of work is changing so fast that many of us struggle to keep up! We
21 L&D statistics published in 2021 that will help you win 2022 and beyond
If there was ever a year to sit on the edge of your seat and wait
Continuous learning at work: the benefits and behaviours of learning organisations
Do you ever feel like sprinting to a finish rather than enjoying the process? We’re increasingly
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Leadership Trends For Successful Managers
Now more than ever, people need effective leaders! The situation we expected to pose a few
5 workplace trends for 2022: What you need to know for a successful year
A year ago, this kind of article would be full of buzzwords like ‘the new normal’ and
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Why employee development is the key to driving people and businesses forward
Stand still, and you’ll probably get left behind! Whether we’re talking about a single person or
How To Build, Create And Launch Your Shiny New Learning Platform
How do you know if your learning platform is worth the investment you’ve made in it? If
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Employee onboarding: The complete guide for fast-growing companies
Your company’s growing, new people are joining the team at rapid speed, and it’s pretty useful
6 L&D trends you’ve got to know for 2022
2022 is going to be a big year for L&D! 2020 and the COVID pandemic really
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2022’s must-read customer success trends (five to follow for a successful year)
2021 was one of those blink and you’ll miss it years! The problem is, when you’re managing
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5 HR trends you should be paying attention to in 2022
Understatement of the year award incoming, but 2020 and 2021 changed the way we work forever. But
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Five 2022 sales trends for winning reps, hitting targets and closing deals
We want you to be more deal closer than sales poser in 2022, someone with the skills
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Leadership Development Training For Managers At All Levels
Not every great leader planned to become one, but they’ve probably been on the receiving end of
A winning L&D strategy looks like this (how to build and create yours)
Who knew that skills were perishable? It’s one of those uncomfortable truths we overlook, but the
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Leadership Development Plan: How To Build A Great One
Management isn’t something you just decide to do. Rome wasn’t built in a day, as they say,
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How To Develop Leadership Skills: The Only Template You Need
Are some people just born to lead? Perhaps. But is that to say that if you
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HowNow named in Training Industry’s 2021 Top 20 Learning Experience Platform (LXP) Companies list
It’s a good news day at HowNow HQ! We’re thrilled to announce that we’ve been named a
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HowNow shortlisted for L&D Supplier of the Year at The Personnel Today Awards 2021
When the award tagline is “celebrating the best in HR” and you’re shortlisted for L&D Supplier of
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Training and development: Why forward-thinking companies need to add learning to the mix
We’re not trying to break up that famous training and development duo, but it’s about time
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The 7 best Thrive LXP alternatives
Not sure if you’ll thrive by moving to Thrive? Hesitant if this is the LXP you really
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How sharing best practices can supercharge your company culture
It’s time to give best practices a brand refresh! They’re not just old folders to be
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Podcast | How The Pandemic Changed Customer Success with Angela Guedes
It goes without saying that customer success has changed since the pandemic, but the better questions are
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Managing customer relationships in the hybrid working era
Saying the customer success rulebook has been ripped up is a massive understatement. In the past couple
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Podcast | How Moving To An OKR Model Improved Purpose, Culture And Measurement at TomTom with Jacqueline Gay
Why would a company move from KPIs or that standard goal-setting model to objectives and key results?
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Podcast | How To Supercharge Your Teams with Pam Hamilton
Just because we sit in the same room or department, that doesn’t make us a team! In
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5 ways to drive sales productivity through learning
You might be sick of the sight of productivity! For a while, there seemed to be an
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How to create great learning content that actually drives learning | Advice from the experts
Ever Googled something and ended up on an article from ten or more years ago? It’s
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The Mentor Mentee Relationship Has To Be A Two-Way Street
Imagine you’re stuck in a lift with a bunch of geniuses. Maybe Microsoft magnate Bill Gates
Podcast | Measuring Learning’s Impact With The L&D Detective – Kevin M. Yates
What’s the impact of our learning and development efforts? Has training fulfilled its purpose? And why are
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Collaborative Leadership: How To Drive Shared Success
You’ve got geniuses all over your organisation, whether you’ve realised it yet or not! And it’s
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Podcast | Using The 5 Moments Of Need Framework For An ‘Apply First’ Mindset – Bob Mosher
For too long learning has been about giving people new and more information, but it hasn’t been
How to achieve self-directed learning in the workplace (benefits, challenges and tips)
By the time we’ve entered the workplace, a lot of our perceptions around learning have shifted
Podcast | Joining A Fast-growing Scaleup As Director Of People – Valerie Mann
When you’re joining a fast-growing scaleup as the Director of People, where do you start? How do
How to get people using your learning platform | Advice from the experts
Comparing them to horses probably isn’t the best place to start, but it’s a similar situation to
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Podcast | What Does Hybrid Working Look Like In A Post Pandemic World? – Tushar Agarwal
When you’re running London’s largest online marketplace for flexible office space, the COVID-19 work from home orders
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Making sure virtual onboarding doesn’t feel like the second-best option
Virtual onboarding should never feel like a watered-down version of what’s on offer to employees joining
The biggest myths and misconceptions about learning platforms (LMS, LXP & more)
When it comes to learning at work, we’re all products of the environments and offices we’ve tried
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Five ways you can increase digital adoption and use of your learning platform
Build it and they will come… is sadly not always true when it comes to digital adoption.
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Podcast | Building A Learning Mindset – Toby Newman
Why do so many organisations find it so difficult to establish and build their desired mindset? In
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The 7 best Absorb LMS alternatives
Obviously, you've not been fully absorbed by Absorb! Otherwise, you wouldn't be here! Whether you've already tried
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Podcast | Connecting Forward-thinking Employers With Gen Z Talent – Esther O’Callaghan
How difficult do you think it is for young people leaving education to find employment? Educators don’t
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Employee Coaching And Mentoring: Use It To Drive Development
What do the Karate Kid, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Luke Skywalker, Frodo Baggins and that Chef
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Podcast | Growing Your Team From 30 To 100 People – Kevin and Laure of Livestorm
If you’ve had to onboard remotely or shift your culture with everyone working from home, you’ll know
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Leadership Courses: 11 Tips For Building Great Ones
Behind every great leader, there’s a great leadership course. Well, that’s not entirely true, but hopefully
Ditch the social media squares and learn a new skill for £500 a month
As social media continues to become an ever-present part of our lives, it’s easy to take for
Podcast | How To Structure Modern L&D Teams That Drive Performance – Ross Stevenson
Should we even be describing it as L&D? You might have more open and productive conversations with
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How to create job aids that get the job done!
If you want to know the full story of what a job aid is, you’re in the
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Podcast | Does HR Need To Say No More? Shared Services And Being Bold – Emma Leonis
If HR just said no a little more often, could they prioritise better? What if they shared
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Podcast | The Three L&D Elephants In The Room – Paul Matthews
Do L&D professionals need to accept that L&D’s not always the answer? Yes! And that’s not even
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We’re launching a podcast! Meet 99 Problems But Work Ain’t One
Work’s changing, and it’s happening fast! The question is, are you changing quick enough to keep up?
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British workforce is disconnected and lonely – yet majority want to continue WFH in some capacity
Everyone should be able to progress their skills and knowledge so they can reach greater heights professionally!
Why aligning L&D with business goals means changing the process
If you’re really going to align your L&D strategy with business goals, it’s going to take more
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How to move seamlessly between learning platforms
Ever heard of the saying ‘when you fail to plan, you plan to fail’? Some phrases
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The evolution of sales techniques: the modern rep’s role and tech-driven change
Technology has changed the way we do everything, and sales is no exception. Yet sales has had
Unified Search: Find all your resources in one slick results page
You know why everybody loves buffets and all-inclusive holidays? Because they can find everything they want in
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How to fuel a culture of remote learning and development
Working from home isn’t all sunshine and rainbows. For every person that’s ramping up the productivity
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Set Recurring Dates for your repeating courses, content and compliance training
The days of just you and your spreadsheet fighting to keep everyone up-to-date with compliance and repeating
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Successful employee onboarding with a learning platform: getting up to speed faster
If you didn’t know any better, you’d think a spreadsheet or series of calendar invites was
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The 7 best Cornerstone alternatives
Nobody puts Cornerstone in the corner! Wait, that’s not completely right. If you’re here, then you might
Building a learning brand people buy into | A step-by-step guide
You’re standing in a supermarket with a shelf of similar-looking soft drinks in front of you,
Taking a modern approach to blended learning | Everything you need to know
Everyone knows what blended learning is these days, right? You take the offline and the online
Understanding HR’s relationship with L&D: Collaboration, differences and skillsets
When it comes to the workplace awards season, it’s pretty easy for HR to make a clean
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Why employees should control their learning and development budgets
Spending more on learning doesn’t necessarily mean more learning will happen. There, we said it! In
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How People Leaders Can Create Effective Learning Strategies | The Definitive Guide
When it comes to your L&D strategy, you’ve got two options: do things the way they’ve
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The Future of HR Shared Services | Whitepaper summary
Is HR Shared Services simply a behind the scenes function? Supporting the administrative side of things and
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Why we’re donating to Room to Read this Christmas
In normal years, we’d have probably sent a beautiful box of something sweet or favourite tipples to
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HowNow named in the HolonIQ Europe EdTech 100
Finally, a little bit of good news has arrived right at the end of 2020! HowNow has
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We help you measure skills in HowNow! Here’s how we do it
Having the skills to pay the bills sounds great, but people often ignore the hard work that
5 ways HowNow helps you learn in the flow of work
How much do you get done in just 1% of your average working week? Probably not that
The (lack of) evolution of the LMS and how it caused its downfall
Who do we want to make life easier for, the administrators or our learners? During the
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The 7 best SAP Litmos alternatives
We’ve not got a crystal ball, but we’re guessing that you’ve either used SAP Litmos or had
The 7 best LearnUpon alternatives
Looking at LearnUpon? Maybe you’ve already given it a go and decided it’s not the learning management
The 7 best Degreed alternatives
Degreed not what you need? Or has someone planted the seed that there’s a better way to
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The 7 best Docebo alternatives
So, Docebo’s caught your eye but it’s not quite captured your heart? That’s okay, learning love at
LMS for corporate training? You’re better off using a learning platform!
Have you ever walked into a shop for one thing and left with something even better
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Your ‘gets to the point’ employee onboarding checklist (updated for 2022)
A lot of onboarding checklists feel longer than the process itself, breaking down each day and
Choosing a learning platform? Ask yourself these questions | LMS or LXP
You’re either taking the plunge into your first learning platform, or your current system feels like
5 reasons why talent development is so important [updated for 2023]
Your greatest asset is your people – it’s one of those business clichés that actually holds
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Compliance training + e-learning = happy employees and employers (updated for 2022)
We were all so busy moving our learning content online and making it an engaging experience that
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What is digital adoption? Benefits, challenges and tips for success
Technology can only make people and processes more efficient if the platforms are fully understood and adopted.
How learning in the flow of work drives productivity and engagement | the definitive guide
Without sounding like a bad Cher tribute act, what if you could learn back time? If
What is learning content? A 2020 analysis of how we got here
In the simplest terms, learning content describes resources used to develop the skills and knowledge that
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We’re now ISO 9001 and 27001 certified
We’ve gone from isolation to iso-elation, because we’re excited to announce that HowNow is both ISO 9001
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What is a job aid? How do they create effective employees?
If your people are going to be effective in their job, they need access to the right
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A winning HR tech stack needs these 9 tools | Free PDF guide
Building your dream HR tech stack is a lot like online dating; you’ll find people with a
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There’s no I in Teams, but you will spot our H
That’s right, Microsoft Teams is the latest platform to receive the HowNow integration treatment! The small and
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5 HR trends you need to know for 2021
Let’s spare a thought for everyone who wrote 2020 predictions about HR, L&D and anything else really.
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How innovative companies train their employees (Google, Amazon, Uber & more)
Have you ever wondered how Google share knowledge and create their own learning culture? Where the
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Zoom-in? Marvellous! We now integrate with Zoom
It’s the app that introduced us to lockdown virtual quizzes and phrases like “you’re on mute”, and
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How to conduct a learning needs analysis: a step-by-step guide
At the heart of the learning needs analysis is a pretty straightforward concept, understanding which skills need
You don’t need an LMS for your small business, you need a learning platform
Your business might be small but we bet you’re dreaming big! However, increasingly competitive industries and
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Are you onboarding remote employees in the right way? (Updated For 2022)
Is your remote onboarding process going to be smooth and enjoyable or a lonely and difficult
How AI-based learning platforms drive personalisation and development
Artificial intelligence (AI) is so ingrained into our daily lives now that we rarely notice when it’s
A learning experience platform is not an LMS! So, what is an LXP?
The way you consume video and audio is personalised, social and online, so you should be able
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Building a business case for a learning platform (LMS & LXP) | The definitive guide
If you’re putting together a business case for a learning management system or learning platform, then your
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What makes good learning content? 8 tips for success
It’s pretty easy to argue that learning is only as good as its content. It determines
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7 reasons why knowledge sharing is important
Knowledge might be power, but it’s much more powerful when it’s shared! If only one person
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How to improve your knowledge base? Make it collaborative
Using a knowledge base always feels like a bit of an anti-climax, doesn’t it? You search through
Everything you need to upskill team members and get it right
Upskilling is much more than just plugging the talent and skill gaps in your team, it can
9 Tips For Creating Engaging Learning Experiences [updated for 2023]
Are you worried that you’re delivering bad learning experiences? You’re probably not alone. If you search
Coursera’s Global Skills Index 2020 summary: Everything you need to know
Let’s face it, this report couldn’t come at a better time. We’re looking at a vastly different
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Integrate with Slack and never look back
Slack is where work happens, so you shouldn’t have to leave it to find, share and save
Highlighting and annotating content: helping you learn and recall knowledge
Think back to your school or university days, you had all your notes written down or a
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The 6 key principles of creating a small private online course (SPOC)
When Toby Newman joined us to discuss the fascinating topic of creating small online private courses, we
20 essential learning and development statistics from 2020
Before you read on, why not check out our updated L&D trends list for 2022! 2020 could
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Reboarding your employees: 7 tips to improve their experience [updated for 2023]
There are two ways to look at reboarding your employees: this could be a pain in
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5 questions to ask your people to track their progress
Tracking progress is an amazing way to help your people and get to the bottom of how
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Lauren Cumming of Fixflo on connecting customer success teams with the knowledge they need
Lauren Cumming started the Customer Success (CS) team at Fixflo, a market-leading repair and maintenance management solution
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Nuno Paiva das Neves from SafetyCulture on creating and measuring customer success
With 20 years of experience, Nuno Paiva das Neves has always been passionate about communicating with customers
Adam Davies from GymShark on developing people in times of crisis
We caught up with Adam Davies, People Development Manager at one of the fastest growing companies in
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Angela Guedes from Typeform on onboarding, training and customer success
We catchup with Typeform’s Head of Customer Engagement Angela Guedes about training customer reps and delivering a
5 reasons you should give your team a learning budget
Sometimes a learning or training budget can seem like a luxury. However, without one, your business can
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Support your furloughed employees
Until last month I can’t ever remember using the word furlough and to be honest, I’m not
5 reasons companies fail to retain talent
Retaining talent is a hot topic in HR at the moment, since it’s so expensive to
8 ways to drive employee engagement
In any organization, driving employee engagement is crucial. The more engaged employees are in their work, the
How L&D can be used to drive business results?
Everyone knows that Learning and Development can drive business results and push you ahead of your competitors.
Why not upskilling your team is more expensive than upskilling them
We all know that upskilling our workforce is one of the quickest and easiest ways to see