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How to drive sales and brand advocacy with a Pro Deal programme
Retail staff greatly influence consumer purchase decisions and can improve brand image, leading to customer loyalty to your organisation. Employees should be given the chance to experience products, allowing them to provide personalised recommendations which are more authentic. After all, it is rare for staff to endorse items they know little about and have never
How to effectively return employees to work
The UK government is beginning to ease COVID-19 restrictions across England, allowing most businesses to reopen. This will see millions of people going back to work. But with so much disruption caused by the pandemic, employees might have concerns about returning. More than half of workers are still reluctant to go back to the office
Maximizing Your Training: A Guide to Evaluating Effectiveness
Training is a key part of any organisation. It doesn’t just enable employees to do their job, but it plays a role in determining how productive and efficient an organisation is. For this reason, it’s important to be both clear on what the goals of any training are before it’s implemented and to evaluate training once it’s complete to determine how effective it has been.
How to improve employee engagement with learning
Employee engagement is essential in running a successful business. Increasing staff engagement leads to higher efficiency and productivity, which in turn can generate greater profits. According to research, companies with highly engaged employees outperform their competitors by 147%!
How to prepare your workforce for the future
Rapid changes in technology mean that the work environment is constantly evolving and organisations have to prepare for, and embrace, a digital transformation.
Infographic: How to prepare your workforce for the future
Moving towards the future, corporate businesses are witnessing how quickly the work environment is evolving and the implementation of new technologies that are improving the way they operate and learn.
Infographic: Measuring improved performance with assessments
Organisations spend a lot of time and budget training their employees in a variety of fields, including compulsory training such as compliance or health and safety, and specific areas such as sales and product knowledge. Commonly, training involves assessment to confirm whether the information has been successfully learnt by employees and can be applied in the workplace.
Is ‘Engagement’ the elephant in the room?
The issue of employee engagement has been a popular conversation in recent years in the Learning and Development community, as employers are constantly seeking new ways to improve commitment in the workplace. The 2017 Trends in Global Employee Engagement Report, which covered more than five million employees at over 1,000 organisations around the world, showed that less than one quarter of employees are highly engaged and in a single year, employee engagement globally dropped from 65% in 2015 to 63% in 2016.
Measure training effectiveness for sales
An interview with Deborah Bees, Matrix
Microlearning: The benefits of bitesize
As modern workplaces become busier and increasingly reliant on technology, our attention spans are growing shorter. In fact, the average human attention span is now shorter than a goldfish’s! As a result, many of us are seeking out content that is brief and easily digestible in both our professional and personal lives.
Retail staff training: How to get new employees up to speed
Retail staff are the face of your business. They determine whether a customer has a positive in-store experience, resulting in customer satisfaction, or a negative one, leading to customer churn. Therefore, it’s important that new employees can get up to speed with company procedures and product knowledge in order to provide the best customer experience.
Return on investment: make learning rewarding
Calculating the return on investment for training can be challenging as the benefits and outcomes can be difficult to measure. Training can be a significant investment for any organisation when all the factors and associated costs are calculated. So it’s important when requesting a budget to deliver any kind of training that you can demonstrate a healthy and measurable return on investment.
Reading about it is the easy part
See what daily retrieval practice looks like running on your own training content.