Best Websites for Training Skills Resources

  • Training Day
  • Training Day is the blog of Training Magazine, perhaps the premier publication in the L&D industry. Written by the Training Magazine staff (primarily senior associate editor Margery Weinstein), Training Day posts about once a week and tackles timely issues such as communication, team building, and leadership.

 

  • Training Industry’s blog
  • Training Industry is a digital-only site devoted to all things training. Its blog features posts from a variety of contributors and guest bloggers. The site allows you to filter by topic (including technologies), and it is well maintained, meaning you’ll see several new posts per month.

 

  • Three Truths About Millennials and Workplace Learning
  • It may be tempting for an organization to focus its L&D efforts on catering to the perceived “new characteristics” of Millennials, but doing so might ignore the bigger picture. This article shows how to reframe the conversation about Millennials in the workplace

 

  • How to Create Award-Winning Training Solutions
  • Many of our clients care about awards and would like to have the prestige that comes from having them attached to their training efforts. But if you’ve never submitted for an award before, how do you know your learning solution is award-worthy? And what do you need to include in the submission to draft a winner?
  • Charles Jennings
  • Charles is a leading authority in learning, development and performance, and an expert in the 70:20:10 model. His excellent, detailed blog covers a range of topics relating to workplace performance. Charles is also the Director of the Internet Time Alliance consultancy, where he and other L&D leaders including Jay Cross, Harold Jarche and Jane Hart offer advice on new ways of working and learning

 

  • Nigel Paine
  • Nigel’s wealth of L&D experience comes from working with organisations of all types from SME’s to corporations and governments, including over four years leading the BBC’s Learning & Development operations. An accomplished author, speaker and facilitator, his blog covers leadership, innovation, learning and technology.

 

  • Performance Mapping: How to Get Results with Training by Marty Newey
  • Are you designing training with the end in mind? At Allen, our instructional designers have developed a performance model which helps designers align business goals directly to recommended learning activities.

 

 

  • Train the Trainer Podcast
  • In addition to our training courses we have also produced a series of podcasts which allow you to discover first hand how effective our training is. These podcasts are short snippets taken from actual training courses where our trainers discuss topics, tips, techniques and strategies with our course delegates and give you the listener, a real insight into the world of training the trainer.