Top Tools For Professional Development

  The world is changing and only adaptable individuals have the means to recover for overhauls of this change. Organisations and employees are being tasked to find ways to learn new development in workplaces from new onboarding processes to remote career development. This has prompted the need for effective learning and development teams (L&D) to provide the support and training required.

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While most organisations have some training activity in place, face to face training may have to take a backseat for now as organisations turn to online learning tools that can support a remote workforce. L&D professionals can opt for the following top tools that organisations can adopt to increase professional development.

• CIPHR LMS

CIPHR LMS is a cloud-based learning management system (LMS) with an award-winning user experience. It helps organization to pick out content suitable for workers­. Management teams create their own learning resources, select from a library, or curate content from a variety of sources. To increase engagement, CIPHR LMS admits gamified learning, which promotes healthy competition and achievement between workers. Leaderboards can be set up to track what teams or individuals are hitting learning goals and award badges to record breakers. As well as being available as a standalone product, the tool can be integrated into any other management software. This means a single and transparent database for all workers’ activity is made available via the development tool.

• Digits

Digits’ LMS solutions, called glo learn, caters to the more complex requirements of enterprise users. It is highly configurable with user and management flows, to meet your learning objectives. It introduces visual elements to make learning engaging to help guide learners comprehensively.

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Digits’ glo provides analytical insights that include custom reports and dashboards with a skills analysis module to assess current competencies and close the skills gap.

• Articulate 360

Articulate 360 provides organisations with the independence to make custom, interactive courses. This is powered by a feature called Storyline 360 to build interactive courses for any device. It has a huge library having contents of over seven million course assets, including photos, templates, characters, videos, icons. The tool also includes a review app to view courses and provide feedback in a browser.

• Camtasia

Camtasia provides video recording tools as well as independence to author contents. Camtasia comes with pre-built video templates to reduce authoring time as well as pre-built assets, so professionals can edit videos however they want. It also has free music to give your training videos suitable background music or sound effects. The video editing tools are very easy even for a layman.

• iSpring

Without required prior training, iSpring, professionals can rapidly author learning content. The iSpring Suite can help turn PowerPoint presentations into more interactive content, by adding quizzes or videos. iSpring has a content library, which includes 450 slide templates, 65,000-character images, and 1,025 location images. It can also serve as a marketplace for professionals to sell their course content. Organisation learning and development is a complex task that requires a diverse skill set. Great L&D pros should not only be skilled with adopting instructional tools but must acknowledge the need to encourage a learning culture within an organization. Featured Image Source: Softfamed 

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This article was first published on 31st August 2021

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