The 90/20/8 rule of adult attention states that learners are fully alert and attentive for the first eight minutes. By 20 minutes, their attention dips, and by 90 minutes, it crashes. What’s more, e-learning must be precise, easy to assimilate, and relevant to the employee's job to be effective, and yet too many e-learning solutions still consist of lengthy, boring, one-dimensional PDFs and videos. “Adults, in the workplace, need and want to improve their knowledge and skills, but not at the expense of completing their tasks, or achieving their KPIs, or giving up their personal time,” said

We all know how social media gamifies communication by offering immediate, vivid, and quantified evaluations of our conversational success. These game-like features are responsible for much of social media’s psychological wallop. Social media is addictive, in part, because it feels so good to watch those likes go up, and in the background, we know that the platforms’ scoring mechanisms bring with them another very game-like aspect: a clear and unambiguous ranking.

The success of an organisation rests on the quality of its leadership. Leaders––whether within teams, departments, or c-suite––set the tone, culture, and ultimately the success of your organisation. Jocko Willink and Leif Babin, in their book Extreme Ownership, explain that there are no bad teams, just bad leaders. “Leadership is the single greatest factor in any team’s performance. Whether a team succeeds or fails is all up to the leader. The leader drives performance—or doesn’t.”

It’s no news that modern businesses are choosing e-learning over traditional training and, in the process, may be losing touch with the learning models traditionally guided by a training professional. Enter the Instructional Designer (ID). An Instructional Designer ensures that online learning is seamless for employees, and that knowledge is acquired in digital ways, without an instructor

The basics of Instructional Design

Every CEO, team leader, HR manager and L&D specialist, no matter the industry, wants to ensure the courses they develop to upskill and reskill their employees will not only keep them engaged and riveted, but also serve its objective of ensuring the right skills are learned and applied in their organisation. After all, a skilled and confident workforce is the force you need to meet your business goals and succeed in a competitive and challenging world.

"In 2020, many businesses were unable to provide much-needed training to their teams, as they didn’t have the right training solutions". Their inability to pivot to digital training solutions, resulted in severe delays in skills development and knowledge transfer. This skills deficit had a significant impact on a business,” said Michael Gullan, CEO of G&G Advocacy™. “What’s more, employees with perfect skills often move on or retire, before skills transfer takes place.