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Stress Awareness
Stress Awareness Month 2021 Stress Awareness Month has been held every April since 1992. This is a month designed to raise awareness of stress including its causes, the detrimental effects it has on our physical and mental health and the ways in which we can help...
The Benefits of e-Learning laid out
It’s easy to forget now, but as the turn of the Millennium approached there were many fraught with worry about how our technology would hold up. The dreaded ‘Millennium Bug’ threatened to wipe hard-drives, blow out communications and see us running for cover as a...
How IT can help improve EQ…and that means business performance
For those of you who ever wondered about your level of emotional intelligence: if you can convince someone of an idea in such a way as to make them think they thought of it; your EQ is high. Citing just one example…. We all know the value of soft skills: the ability...
Training Systems: A mini-guide on how to make the upgrade
When undertaking anything new in life, it’s always those first steps that are the hardest. Those inspiring individuals who, having never set foot in a gym in their lives, sign up for a marathon will tell you that running the marathon itself wasn’t the biggest...
Shadow IT: HR and Training – It’s your turn
If you’re unfamiliar with the term, you are forgiven for thinking ‘Shadow IT’ might refer to something ominous, something a bit ‘Dark Webby’. After all, things that move and operate in the shadows are rarely wholesome. Camel spiders, for example, live most of their...
Gamification within e-Learning: How to introduce it and why
Of course, we’re kicking off this piece with the assumption that you the reader, knows what gamification even is. And there is no shame in not knowing, because although it’s been around for a while, it’s only recently that the concept has begun to make serious inroads...
Virtual reality and e-Learning: How long before the two are a standard L&D combination?
A brief history of VR With the recent high street shelf-clearing explosion of VR headsets such as the Oculus Rift and Valve StreamSight, it’s tempting to think of VR technology as a new concept. Even those familiar with the apparatus might be surprised to learn just...