Coggno Learning Management System (LMS)

Use Your E-Reader to Take an Online Training Course

coggnolms — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 01:00:27 +0000

You love your e-reader; you can read the latest fiction or whatever tickles your fancy without having to lug a book around with you. Plus, downloading books is much cheaper than buying them.

Did you know that you can download online training materials to your e-reader? Yes, if you can bear to part with the latest mass-market thriller (we all need our guilty pleasures, don’t we?), you can get the training you need to get ahead in your job. Now, you don’t have to worry about carrying around weighty binders full of training materials, you can download them onto your e-reader and peruse them at your convenience.

The next time the boss threatens to send you to some backwoods location for training, suggest online training courses. You won’t have to stress about inconvenient traveling, and you can read your materials wherever, whenever you want. You can enjoy your books and learn something new.

Online Training Courses: Workplace Safety without the Grim Reaper

coggnolms — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 01:16:03 +0000

How many workplace safety videos star the Grim Reaper? That black hood and scythe are about as ubiquitous as that open file cabinet drawer and pencil on the floor. Instead of scaring your employees into complying with safety regulations, ask them to rediscover their common sense by giving them online training for workplace safety.

Common sense dictates that your employees will absorb more information if they can access it when it’s convenient for them. No more wasteful travel to take part in safety seminars in one central location. Now, you can give your employees access to Webinars, live streaming events, and videos that they can watch when they fit in to their busy schedules. Workplace safety should always be a priority, but it can be hard to stress when everyone is so busy.

Keep the Grim Reaper away both literally and figuratively with online training courses.

Stay One Step Ahead of Federal Regulators with Online Training for Company Safety Compliance

coggnolms — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 00:40:57 +0000

Stop chasing those pesky federal regulators and avoid fines and penalties by turning to online training for workplace safety compliance.

These days, it can be extremely difficult to get everyone together in one place at one time to facilitate important company safety seminars. Let’s face it; every type of company is invoking cost cutting measures for anything and everything, including training. Online training makes it ridiculously easy to remain complaint with federal safety regulations, while giving employees the opportunity to obtain necessary training at their own pace.

Online training gives employees the opportunity to take part in Webinars, Podcasts and other types of online conferencing without having to travel or take time away from important tasks. Finally, safety compliance training is fun and convenient, not to mention inexpensive. Employees avoid aggravating travel, and companies save money. What’s better than that?

Before those federal regulators come knocking, investigate online training for company safety compliance. It’s one less headache you’ll have to deal with.

Using Online Training Courses to Maximize Human Resources Efficiency

coggnolms — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 03:53:16 +0000

The current state of unemployment means companies are receiving more than their share of new applications and resumes and thus the need for online training is at an ultimate high. This means the human resources department is always busy attempting to choose the right people to fill open positions. If they continue to use the old method of screening new applicants instead of utilizing online training courses, they will be constantly reviewing resumes, setting up interviews and doing preliminary testing without knowing which applicants are suitable for the position or positions that are open.

The human resource department needs to utilize online training and online training courses that will increase their efficiency and allow them to choose the best people when they are recruiting. Making the right choice is essential in order to save money on recruitment, selection and training. In order to hire those whose skills will allow the company to generate the highest profits, they must look to modern technology.

Using Online Training Courses to Maximize Human Resources Efficiency

coggnolms — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 01:00:33 +0000

With the current state of unemployment companies are receiving more than their share of new applications and resumes. That means the human resources department is always busy attempting to choose the right people to fill open positions. If they continue to use the old method of screening new applicants, they will be constantly reviewing resumes, setting up interviews and doing preliminary testing without knowing which applicants are suitable for the position or positions that are open.

The human resource department needs new and innovative methods that will increase their efficiency and allow them to choose the best people when they are recruiting. Making the right choice is essential in order to save money on recruitment, selection and training. Using online training is both cost-effective and time-sensitive because there is no need for employees to sit down and write out answers that need to have someone manually evaluate the knowledge of the person taking the test.

In order to hire those whose skills will allow the company to generate the highest profits, they must look to modern technology.

Renew Commitments to Yourself and your Body

coggnolms — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 17:03:27 +0000

It’s that time of year again; a moment for reflection and action. For many people, the new year signals an opportunity to renew dedications to projects, loved ones, work, or other areas of one’s life. And as we know, it’s also an important time to renew or develop commitments to oneself.

During the new year many people set plans in motion to improve the quality or change the direction of their own lives. One of the most common ways that people go about their self-improvement projects is with the body: becoming more physically active and improving one’s diet.

The key is to have a strategy. Among the strategies of losing weight and becoming a fitter and more mobile person, taking an online LMS course is a great option for many people. There are many benefits to online fitness programs. First, well-designed programs help individuals to begin a workout and diet plan that has been researched and proven to provide results. All too often, individuals set out on their own without any guide, and the consequences can be negative. Without information on how to balance one’s diet, gradually increase workout activities, and other basic fitness program tenets, individuals run a huge risk of injury or setting themselves up for failure. We all need guidance, and LMS online programs can provide that.

Smarter Training with Commuter Tools

coggnolms — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 14:40:06 +0000

Why all this audio training craze? Last week, due to my own personal discovery of online tools (which are available to anyone seeking knowledge or the means of providing it), I was able to complete a book that would have otherwise taken me about two weeks. That’s if I worked for about 2 or 3 hours a day, in the traditional sit-at-your-desk-and-read style. However, with my audiobook of Don Quixote, I completed the task in just 4 days.

LMS training courses could benefit from this kind of gap time. Book I of Cervantes’ masterpiece is about 500 pages, or 18 hours of audiobook. Instead of spending each night reading the old text, I took advantage of my 45-minute bike commutes downtown every morning and afternoon. I listened to the audiobook while I cooked, while I cleaned my apartment, while I bought groceries.

Podcasts and audiobooks are a pedagogical tool not used widely enough in today’s education system, from youth to adult learning. With LMS platforms for employee online training, podcasts are extremely easy–and fun–to create.

See Related Post: Enriching the Gaps with LMS Podcasts

Skip the Books: LMS Performance Management

coggnolms — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 20:54:24 +0000

If you poke around in the business section of your local bookstore, you’re bound to find an assortment of books on management and perhaps even more specifically, performance management.

Learning not only theory but how to actually implement good performance management in your office or other workplace has the potential to save your organization time and energy wasted in employee turnover. Books can give you theory, but not the physical tools to organize and practice more effective management. This is where LMS performance management courses come in.

What an LMS course in performance management gives you is that interactive learning experience, which has many benefits including the simple fact that it’s faster and simpler than reading a book. In addition, its dynamic and interactive nature makes the information more likely to stick in your brain long-term and likelier to totally transform your management practices. The non-interactive nature of books prevents them from having this same function.

You probably already know some tenets of good performance management, but perhaps you don’t know how to actually implement those ideas.

Coggno is now offering a free trial for performance review training 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.

Because I Helped to Wind the Clock: LMS Performance Review Tips

coggnolms — Sun, 19 Sep 2010 20:18:52 +0000

Surveys report that managers also harbor a strong dislike for performance reviews, oftentimes because an organization’s employee performance development is often lacking. Oftentimes, supervisors have a difficult time remembering the major achievements of each employee in a given year, let alone their goals, development, and other contributions.

Successful organizations are the ones whose employees have a sense of “we”. It’s like what the poet William Butler Yeats once wrote: “Because I helped to wind the clock, I came to hear it strike.” People want to feel useful to and part of an organization, and recognized for their contributions. A one-sided lecture based on vague ideas about each employee (this is some managers’ idea of a performance review) is likelier to do much more harm than good for employee development.

A learning management system (LMS) can help solve this problem. LMS performance management removes the focus on the performance review itself. Instead, it places an emphasis on the whole picture, beginning to end, of performance management and improvement strategies. These include employee training and cross-training, dynamic lessons and assignments, employee performance improvement, performance development, comprehensive feedback and performance feedback.

Doing is Learning: LMS Tips for Strong Training

coggnolms — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 21:51:53 +0000

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?

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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