Last week our CEO, Ara Ohanian, delivered a keynote speech at Europe’s leading 2012 Learning and Technologies Conference revealing key characteristics of a new generation workforce “The Millennials”. He said that to remain competitive organizations need to transform training for this new demographic.

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Learning and development will change in 2012. This will be more than an incremental change. It will be a qualitative shift to a new approach.

That new approach can be summed up in one word: performance.

For too long, Learning and Development has focused on its own efficiency. How many courses could the department deliver, to how many people, over what period? And far too often the department physically separated itself from the rest of the organization – in the basement, or even in a separate building.

This will change in 2012, but strangely the shift will only bring us back to the most natural way of learning: from each other, at work.

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How much should it cost to use a Learning Management System (LMS)?

If your answer to this question is “the license fee”, you might be in for a surprise. Not every LMS is the same, and many involve costs beyond the original license fee. Many disenchanted organizations can tell you that selecting an LMS is more than just finding software with all the requisite features.

CERTPOINT’s latest white paper, Selecting an Enterprise LMS: The Intangible Factors, looks into this in detail. The paper also considers one other vital factor to bear in mind when buying an LMS.

So, what are the hidden costs of choosing the wrong LMS, and what else should you consider?

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What are the 5 things everyone wants to know about Learning Management Systems (LMS)? At CERTPOINT Systems we may just have found out.

In recent weeks, CERTPOINT has had the pleasure of partnering with Brandon Hall to present a series of webinars. From implementing mobile learning to replacing and existing LMS, many issues of vital importance have been explored in depth.

However, it was clear from attendee feedback that certain topics were of intense interest – which questions were the most frequently asked?

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Things are changing fast in the world of Learning and Development (L&D), but sometimes it seems we’re oblivious to the fact. It’s almost as if we’re ostriches – our response to an oncoming threat is to bury our heads in the sand rather than face it.

Soon that won’t be an option.

Once L&D’s work was simple and predictable. Training was a schedule of events, part of the calendar. Following an initial period of intensive induction training, employees received regular training measured in days or even in weeks per year. Today, this isn’t an option. Given how fast information flows and changes, the business demands faster ways of keeping employees up-to-speed.

The worrying news for L&D: increasingly the business is not turning to L&D for skill and knowledge support, but doing it alone, using social media and other tools.

The result is a challenging environment for L&D. CERPOINT Systems’ new white paper highlights three key ways that L&D can respond to these challenges and thrive.

What are the three ways in which L&D must change?

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Right now things are changing fast in the world of learning technologies. At a time when learning and development departments are increasingly told to do more with less, that could sound like bad news. When you are focused on working harder and improving efficiency, you have less time for planning and contemplating the big picture.

To take some of the load off for you, at CERTPOINT Systems we’ve identified what we think are the three key learning technologies issues that should be on your radar, three areas where L&D must prove itself over the next 12-18 months:

• Social learning
• Mobile technology
• Budgets, value and alignment

Are these threats or potential opportunities for L&D? Our free white paper suggests practical ways to make the most of these trends within your organisation. In fact, at a time when L&D is under more pressure than ever before, the potential offered by exploiting these trends is huge.

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