Informal Learning: The 80/20 Rule
Research shows that at least 80% of all workplace learning is informal in nature. Unfortunately, our experience indicates that the typical organization spends 80% or more of its learning and development budget on formal learning activities, which account for less than 20% of the learning that occurs in the workplace. In today’s economic climate, this disconnect is more apparent than ever before. As training and HR professionals, we need to step outside of our comfort zone to leverage the most strategic informal learning practices, providing training resources to our organizations at the point-of-need, when and where they’re needed most. Download Business Training Library's white paper, "Informal Learning: The 80/20 Rule," and learn how to integrate, manage and leverage informal learning activities to create a more seemless workplace learning environment!


Creating a Competency-Based Training Program
The challenge of building a new employee training program or improving an existing program can be a daunting task for any training or human resources professional today. All too often we are forced to make our plans without a full understanding of the organization’s overall business goals and objectives, and what we end up with is a “one-size-fits-all” training curriculum or a program that is too limited in scope to impact business results. There's never been a better time to meet your training needs more effeciently and accurately, given today's down economy. Download Business Training Library's white paper, "Creating a Competency-Based Training Program," and pinpoint your organizational training gaps and challenges!


Why Employee Development Matters
In today’s information economy, effective use of knowledge is the key to sustainable competitive advantage. The most successful organizations understand it is vital to tap the knowledge of their employees, and engage them to use their knowledge in creative ways to help solve the organization’s problems, exceed customer expectations, and propel them to the top of their industry. The challenge, of course, is how to effectively utilize and grow employee knowledge. A key component is effective employee development programs. Download Business Training Library's white paper, "Why Employee Development Matters," to learn more about utilizing employee development resources to acheive high performance results!


Is Rapid e-Learning In Your Toolbox?
A recent study by ASTD found that 70% of Fortune 500 companies cite a lack of trained employees as their biggest barrier to sustained growth. Most companies lack either the time or money needed to provide quality training and development resources for their employees. Trainers today are seeking high-speed deployment of critical information, known as rapid e-learning. Using a rapid e-learning or authoring tool, allows you to easily and affordably create custom content to support your existing training efforts – such as off-the-shelf courses and instructor-led training – creating a blended learning experience for your employees. Building a custom e-learning course from an authoring tool template can provide significant savings in both development time and money. Download Business Training Library's white paper, "Is Rapid e-Learning In Your Toolbox?" to learn more about making rapid e-learning a critical component of your e-learning and development successes!

Building Bench Strength: Trends in Leadership Development
Organizations nationwide are facing an unprecedented lack of management talent. As baby boomers retire, and technologies and globalization are changing the marketplace, many companies are investing as much as 30% of their total training budgets in the area of leadership development. This white paper takes a look at the lessons learned from leadership development initiatives that have failed, as well as the best practices of the most successful leadership development programs. Your organization can use these strategies to ensure that you'll have qualified people in place when these dynamic business challenges arise. Download Business Training Library’s white paper, “Building Bench Strength: Trends in Leadership Development,” which outlines the trends and best practices used in the most successful leadership development programs.

A Guide to Evaluating Multimedia Training
So you’ve made the decision to use multimedia training resources as part of your overall training strategy. You can take the low cost route and purchase generic off-the-shelf products, or you can expend more of your training budget on your own development. But do you know how to tell the difference between high quality multimedia and multimedia that is substandard (it may do the job but not as well)? Download Business Training Library’s white paper, “A Guide to Evaluating Multimedia Training,” which outlines what research tells us about multimedia training and the criteria used by training professionals in selecting multimedia resources.


A Guide to Identifying Good Training Content
Welcome to the wonderful world of training content. It seems like vendors are popping up everywhere, especially in the web-based training market. Deciding which content to buy and which to avoid can be as confusing as buying a used car, and unfortunately, it's just as easy to buy a lemon. Now for the good news: whether you're in the market for Instructor-Led, Computer-Based, Web-Based or any other type of training materials, there are a few things you can look for that are more reliable than kicking the tires. Download Business Training Library’s white paper, “A Guide to Identifying Good Training Content,” to direct you through the process of selecting the right training content provider!


Build It & They Won't Come: Best Practices for Implementing e-Learning
As many of you may have already figured out the hard way, when it comes to bringing e-learning into your organization for the first time, it’s much more than offering up a bunch of courses to your employees and expecting them to dive right in. Download Business Training Library’s white paper, “Build It & They Won't Come: Best Practices for Implementing e-Learning,” to direct you through the planning, deployment, marketing, and on-going management of your e-learning program to ensure that when you build it, they do come!


Blended Learning Solutions for Smaller Companies
Studies show that blended learning is now a cutting-edge concept in training, which organizations interested in increasing the effectiveness of both their e-learning and instructor-led training programs cannot afford to ignore. Download Business Training Library’s white paper, “Blended Learning Solutions for Smaller Companies,” to find out how to successfully blend formal and informal learning in your organization.


Using ROI to Make the Business Case for Training
If you view training as an investment then take the extra steps and measure the impact of that investment on your business. Download Business Training Library’s white paper, "Using ROI to Make the Business Case for Training," to learn more about how we’ve helped other organizations go through the process of determing the ROI on their training programs.