July 29th, 2010 by Robin Green

How can training work to benefit your organization’s bottom line? Powerful LMS managerial training for new managers, whether they are new to your staff or not, could be the force that jump starts not only your manager’s new role but also your organization as a whole.

New managerial blood in an organization is a good time to inject fresh ideas into projects, develop better ways to guide leaders using LMS tools, and boost staff satisfaction in the workplace.

However, one common problem with those who are new to an organization in a managerial position is that they may feel the need to impress. The result is that they talk more than they listen. If this trend goes unchecked, it almost always causes problems within an organization. An LMS course on skills for new managers can prevent these problems from arising in the first place.

Nurturing a healthy relationship between all staff–especially between employees and their manager–is all about sincere and open ears on the managerial end. It’s related to the Kaizen Japanese business practice I’ve written about before: a philosophy that includes all employees, from the CEO down. It involves a company-wide practice of making changes and monitoring results, which allows adaptations in the company’s policies and processes as new improvements are suggested.

A simple rule of thumb for new managers: Listen more, talk less. With a little bit of training and practice, a new manager can learn to become someone that employees can approach comfortable, admire and respect. Listening builds trust and conveys openness to employees’ concerns and new ideas. Good listeners are viewed not only as being caring, but also wise.

Coggno is now offering a free trial for management training program creators on its learning management system. Create an online course for free, whether it be for internal use, for inclusion in Coggno’s E-learning Marketplace, or for outside syndication on hundreds of websites.

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July 22nd, 2010 by Robin Green

Are you a new manager? Starting your new position may prove more difficult than you imagined. Suddenly you have new responsibilities to the people around you, and you must learn how to strike critical balances in your work policies and interpersonal relations. An LMS course can help, but so can some simple practices.

Practice tolerance and think outside the box. One mistake that new managers often make is to try to change everything. Remember, just because the way someone does something isn’t the way you’d do it, doesn’t mean it’s wrong. Decide what is worth changing and what is just different.

This leads into a second good practice for new managers; avoid showing everyone who is in charge. If you may have just been promoted to manager, you might feel that you know everything there is to know about your area. However, you still must learn how to manage other people, so be sure to listen to those in your group and ask for the input when you need it.

Third, take time to get to know the people you are managing. Even if you have worked beside these people for years, that doesn’t necessarily mean you really know them. Find out what’s exciting or interesting for them, how to motivate them, and what concerns they may have. If you get to know them as individuals, you will be able to more effectively manage them.

One recent poll showed that over half of new managers received absolutely no formal training before beginning the job. If you’re a new manager, be proactive in your own training and transition process. Pick up a course on an online learning platform like Coggno. Free courses include a Sample Negotiation Presentation, Conflict in Workplaces, and L19-Influence. For new managers there are courses such as 6 Steps to a Successful Start as a New Manager, which offers practical tips and strategies to help new managers successfully move into their new leadership role.

Coggno’s LMS combines state-of-the-art tools with quality content to provide managers and all students a memorable and effective learning experience. Coggno is now offering a free trial for management training program creators on its learning management system. Create an online course for free, whether it be for internal use, for inclusion in Coggno’s E-learning Marketplace, or for outside syndication on hundreds of websites.

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July 15th, 2010 by Robin Green

In the long run, the experience of training for a new job is critical for brand new staff. Many elements will later be heavily influenced by staff’s training experience, including staff morale and general attitude in the workplace, confidence in the company and its managing skills, pride and contentment in being a part of the company, and efficient work habits.

Engaging and effective training can make all the difference in the world in relation to these elements. That’s why it’s so important to design strong learning management system training; so that you get it right the first time. How can you get it right the first time using LMS tools?

In the words of Edward Bulwer-Lytton: “The best teacher is the one that suggests rather than dogmatizes and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.” If your training is created and conducted online, you have all the tools you need to let your training inspire its learners. In the training, when you’re introducing a new topic, use this model. Organize and construct your learning material in a way that doesn’t simply feed information to your learner, but presents a problem and provides the tools to help the learner solve it himself. Learning is doing.

Provide practical training through simulated real-life situations. Training for a role in a service team, for example, is something easily designated to your learning management system, with video tools, simulations, and audio tools like those used by Coggno, to create situations where an employee must deal with a customer. Some learning management systems are even bilingual or multi-lingual, providing a variety of built-in languages to personalize each employee’s training.

Coggno is now offering a free trial for training program creators on its learning management system. Create an online course for free, either for internal use,  for inclusion in Coggno’s E-learning Marketplace, or for outside syndication on hundreds of websites.

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July 7th, 2010 by Robin Green

The FIFA World Cup Tournament, now in its last week, has been a source of both excitement and disappointment for many people. And, depending on where you are in the world, it may have also been a source of inconvenience in the work place or outside. If your staff are both trainees undergoing learning management system training and also football fans, you may have experienced absenteeism during the last few weeks.

In Buenos Aires last Sunday, I was at the supermarket working halfway through a long grocery list, when it was announced (at 2:00 pm, an hour before the Argentina vs. Mexico game) that the store was closing, and would reopen in about three hours. I respectfully stopped short on my list and grabbed only the essentials.

But this kind of thing happened at all levels in this city–from pilots to office workers calling in sick for days when their favorite teams would be playing. And perhaps it happened at your company. So how can you deal with football fever-induced absenteeism?

Remember, just as in football, flexibility is important not only for learning management system training, but for your management strategy as a whole. In football, flexibility improves ease and grace in movement, saves energy, and allows a greater range of motion. These are all benefits of flexibility in the workplace as well.

Flexibility is a must for strong learning management system training, management structures, departmental coordination, and employee relations in any company.

Allow employees to view important matches on TV in the staff room or other common area at work. Play a radio broadcast covering the games over the PA system to employees on the shop floor. Encourage employees to wear their team’s shirts on game days, and bring in flags and banners for their teams.

To be a good coach or manager, in the words of John Wooden, you must “Make sure that team members know they are working with you, not for you.” One way to do this is displaying flexibility during this special, once-every-four-year event.

Coggno is now offering a free trial for training program creators on its learning management system. Create an online course for free, either for internal use,  for inclusion in Coggno’s E-learning Marketplace, or for outside syndication on hundreds of websites.

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July 1st, 2010 by Robin Green

In designing and improving your learning management system training, we can use the world’s most exciting tournament, the FIFA World Cup, as an example of great training in action. Consider the fact that during the World Cup, players are thrown into a new environment (most have never played together before) and must learn to work as a team in a short amount of time.

Sound familiar? This is exactly the situation in which your new employees find themselves while undergoing training to work for your company. The World Cup players already know the rules of soccer, of course, but they must also learn together the shared tactics that will lead their team to victory. They require training that not only helps them develop and learn these tactics, but that facilitates the creation of a sense of team unity which will lead to their success.

Collaboration and team spirit, with the sense of a common goal, are the secret to company success. They are the key elements in an increasingly global and service-oriented business world. Likewise, they are a must in training.

In learning management system training as well as product development, teams should be composed of a loose group of individuals working together to achieve a common goal within the company. These may be a group of individuals with different backgrounds, cultural identities, education, and language abilities.

HR managers become coaches, motivating employees, and not only teaching, but showing their team the roles they should adopt. In a recent study by a European company, it was reported that more than 80 percent of participants believed they learn day-to-day skills more effectively from their peers and leaders. Showing rather than just teaching permits staff to bond, since team members learn from each other’s strengths and weaknesses, abilities and experience. In this way, employees understand when and how to best tap into their team members’ expertise in a more significant and lasting way.

Coggno is now offering a free trial for training program creators on its learning management system. Create an online course for free, either for internal use,  for inclusion in Coggno’s E-learning Marketplace, or for outside syndication on hundreds of websites.

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