How much does an LMS cost?
-The SaaS model is now pervasive and learning management systems are predominantly ‘cloud’ based on servers within a data centre. In the SaaS pricing model, the subscription fees are usually based on user numbers and includes the hosting and ongoing maintenance costs in one monthly fee. You can check out our pricing for WorkPlan LMS here.
Once you have a subscription for an LMS, there are some ongoing costs that you need to consider as well. Whether there are ongoing costs or not depends on your requirements and the vendors service models under the subscription agreement. I will look at the most common ongoing costs.
Key takeaways on the differences of an individual contributor and being a manager
-One of the biggest challenges in becoming a manager is learning how to trust your team enough to delegate and let go. As an expert, an employee is usually self-reliant to get things done. As a manager, you learn that you can’t do everything alone. A manager has to learn how to communicate her vision, set clear goals and performance standards—and then, hand the task or project off to her/his team.
Here are some key takeaways on the differences between being an expert or individual contributor on a team, and being a manager.
6 Strategies to Maximise Employee Onboarding Success
-Effective onboarding enhances employee experiences, making employees feel more comfortable into their new workplace faster. Effective onboarding also boosts employee engagement and reduces employee turnover, which leads to long-term success and productivity for the organisation.
Here are 6 strategies for utilising learning experiences to onboard new employees efficiently and effectively.
Build a self-directed learning culture with your LMS.
-Learning Management Systems (LMS) are a powerful tool to promote a culture of self-directed learning. I have included some of the features in an LMS that will help you achieve self-directed learning on behalf of your people and organisational culture.
Use your LMS to build a culture of innovation and creativity.
-A Learning Management System (LMS) can play a pivotal role in building innovation and creativity within your organisation by providing a flexible environment for continuous learning and collaboration. In our client community, we have achieved remarkable improvements in developing and sustaining an innovation culture with our WorkPlan Learning LMS.
Transforming Employee Engagement: The Power of Enhanced Learning Experiences in an LMS
-In today’s competitive business landscape, employee engagement is more than a buzzword—it’s a critical driver of success. At WorkPlan Learning, we believe that an engaged workforce is a productive workforce. Our Learning Management System LMS is designed to provide personalised, flexible, and data-driven learning experiences that align with your employees’ career goals. Discover how an LMS can be the key to unlocking your team’s full potential and fostering a culture of continuous improvement.
Choosing the Right Training Method: A Team Leader’s Guide
-Discover how to empower your team leaders and managers with the right training methods to align team objectives with business goals. Learn about the strengths and limitations of various training methods, including presentations, hands-on techniques, team-building activities, and e-learning options. This guide helps organisations optimise their training strategies to foster growth, enhance collaboration, and drive success across the entire organisation.
Managing Psychosocial Risk with an LMS: Five Key Areas of Impact
-Managing psychosocial risk can feel like walking on a tightrope.
Leveraging a learning management system like WorkPlan Learning can be a powerful tool to manage and mitigate these risks. Here are 5 areas where WorkPlan Learning can have a positive impact on managing psychosocial risk.
Prospecting Success: How to analyse your competitors
-Productive teams result in successful people and organisations. Here are ways to proactively address 4 common team challenges: fostering trust; dealing with conflict; identifying the challenges; aligning team activities with objectives.
7 Tactics to Identify Potential Buyers
-Data and analytics are key to providing accurate insights into your sales team performance, market trends, and customer behaviour. These insights are the bedrock for enabling sales managers and directors to make better strategic and tactical decisions to continuously improve performance.
Four Common Team Challenges and How to Address Them Proactively
-Productive teams result in successful people and organisations. Here are ways to proactively address 4 common team challenges: fostering trust; dealing with conflict; identifying the challenges; aligning team activities with objectives.
6 Tactics for Boosting Sales Performance with Data Insights
-Data and analytics are key to providing accurate insights into your sales team performance, market trends, and customer behaviour. These insights are the bedrock for enabling sales managers and directors to make better strategic and tactical decisions to continuously improve performance.
Change Management is a Contact Sport
-Change management is not something a firm can impose as a detached ‘implementation’ without seriously jeopardising the culture and ongoing viability of the organisation depending on the scope of the change. There are four big benefits that illustrate the importance of change management. There are more, but these four are the ones I find most impactful and easy to observe in an organisation.
Aligning Learning to Business Goals – Leveraging a Learning Management System
-Aligning learning to business goals is L&D’s top focus area for the second year in a row, according to the LinkedIn Workplace Learning Report 2024. Leveraging a Learning Management System or LMS that integrates learning to business goals and team objectives can transform employee effectiveness and productivity.
Personal Growth Mapping: 5 Strategies to Elevate Your Team Leadership Skills
-Personal Growth Mapping can be an essential strategy to elevate your team leadership capabilities. Personal Growth Mapping is a continuous journey of self-improvement. By committing to growth mapping your team leadership skills, you not only enhance your own capabilities but also inspire and uplift your entire team. To help you get started, WorkPlan offers a set of 11 growth mapping surveys covering all aspects of team leadership absolutely free.
6 Strategies to Effectively Manage a Sales Team
-These six strategies are a great start to being an effective Sales Team Manager. You can get started by creating an action plan to put these strategies into action.
WorkPlan has an extensive catalogue of online Sales Training modules to help you develop as a sales professional. Our Sales Leadership and Management Program is comprehensive and includes 12 learning modules.
Make 2024 the year to nail your training and onboarding process!
-How prepared is your team to turn learning into action in 2024?
Discover how WorkPlan Learning can be your secret weapon in harnessing the power of rapid learning and action in your organisation.
2024 is the year to smash your sales targets and significantly grow your business!
-2024 is the year to smash your sales targets and significantly grow your business!
WorkPlan is here to help you make it happen. Our Sales Excellence program is the sure-fire path to attracting more prospects and closing more deals. Sales Excellence gives you the knowledge to build repeatable, predictable sales success in your business regardless of what you sell.
The 12-week Sales Excellence program combines best in class online learning modules with a weekly coaching call to help you stay on track and apply your learning in your business quickly and efficiently.
Is lack of delegation holding your organisation back?
-Employees today want a manager who can help them learn, grow and develop in their role and as a person. Today’s workplace requires that managers take a coaching approach to be the best manager. Managers have several key areas to concentrate on when adapting their methods to adopt a coaching-oriented style.
5 Things Employees Expect from Training
-Modern employees have higher expectations from their training, and therefore your chosen elearning software, when entering a new workplace or upskilling.
How to Support Volunteer Training and Development with a Not-For-Profit LMS
-WorkPlan outlines how an LMS can streamline volunteer training at your not-for-profit.
The Future of Business: The Rise of Collaborative Learning Solutions
-The history of LMS and how it is changing the face of online collaborative learning.
Best Practices for Implementing an LMS Across Multiple Locations
-If you’re looking into investing in a franchise LMS, here are some best practices for making sure you get the most out of your training.
How WorkPlan Learning Supports Change Management
-WorkPlan Co-Founder, Brian Clark, shares insights about how WorkPlan Learning Support Change Management.
How to Develop an Online Training Course for your Business
-WorkPlan explains how to develop an online training course for your team.
5 Ways your Small Business can Benefit from an LMS
-WorkPlan provides 5 ways an LMS can improve training in your small business.
How Collaborative Learning Builds Engagement in Organisations
-Brian Clark, WorkPlan Co-Founder, shares the benefits and a few example activities of collaborative learning.
A Simple Way to Capture Knowledge and Skills in your Organisation
-Brian Clark, WorkPlan Director, explains how you can most effectively capture and share skills in your workplace.
Biggest Challenges Facing L&D Professionals
-WorkPlan Director, Brian Clark, shares his thoughts on 3 big challenges that L&D professionals are experiencing based on real conversations he’s had at recent events.
How WorkPlan allows for Collaborative Learning in the Workplace.
-Three ways that WorkPlan Learning provides effective, collaborative learning solutions for your workplace.
Choosing the right LMS for your Not-for-Profit Organisation
-If you’re in the market for a collaborative LMS for your Not-for-Profit, there are a number of points you need to consider.
Creating an Effective Change Management Plan
-Brian Clark, WorkPlan Director, shares a simple guide he uses to create a change management plan.
5 ways to engage employees using scenario-based training
-5 essential tips you should consider when creating scenario-based training, and how you can use an LMS for this type of training.
5 Questions to Ask to Create a Perfect Strategy: Question 5
-In this part, we will be exploring the question ‘what management systems do we need?’.
Change Management: Nothing Will Change Without Communication
-Change Management: Nothing Will Change Without Communication
5 Questions to Ask when Creating a Perfect Business Strategy: Question 4
-5 Questions to Ask to Create a Perfect Business Strategy – Question 4
5 Questions to Ask when Creating a Perfect Business Strategy: Question 3
-5 Questions to Ask to Create a Perfect Business Strategy – Question 3
5 Questions to Ask when Creating a Perfect Business Strategy: Question 2
-5 Questions to Ask to Create a Perfect Business Strategy – Question 2
5 Questions to Ask to Create a Perfect Business Strategy: Question 1
-5 Questions to Ask to Create a Perfect Business Strategy – Question 1
Part 4: Evaluating and Analysing Your E-Learning Course
-Part 4 of our e-learning course creation series
Part 3: How to Develop and Implement Your E-Learning Course
-Part 3 of our e-learning course creation series
Part 1: How to Plan for an Effective E-Learning Course
-Part 1 of our e-learning course creation series.
An LMS Implementation Story
-We discuss what the Post-Digital Transformation Age could mean for your business, and how WorkPlan Learning can help.
4 ways you can use WorkPlan eLearning Collaborative LMS to level up your Training
-We discuss what the Post-Digital Transformation Age could mean for your business, and how WorkPlan Learning can help.
How to Reduce Employee Turnover Using An LMS
-We discuss what the Post-Digital Transformation Age could mean for your business, and how WorkPlan Learning can help.
Completing a Training Needs Analysis will set you on the path to growth
-We discuss what the Post-Digital Transformation Age could mean for your business, and how WorkPlan Learning can help.
What is a Collaborative Learning Management System (LMS)?
-We discuss what the Post-Digital Transformation Age could mean for your business, and how WorkPlan Learning can help.
Workplace team building & Group Exercises
-In this article we will answer a few commonly asked questions on why your current LMS might not be working for you and how to modernise and upgrade your learning management to the advantage of your organisation.
How to Modernise Your Learning Management System (LMS)
-In this article we will answer a few commonly asked questions on why your current LMS might not be working for you and how to modernise and upgrade your learning management to the advantage of your organisation.
How WorkPlan Learning Can Help Your Business Navigate the Post-Digital Transformation Age
-We discuss what the Post-Digital Transformation Age could mean for your business, and how WorkPlan Learning can help.
How Consultants Use WorkPlan Learning To Grow Their Practice
-WorkPlan Learning is designed with tools and features that make it a great fit for consultants seeking to improve their delivery of services to their clients and differentiate themselves from their competitors.
Employee Retention Amid The Big Resignation
-“The Big Resignation” has swept through the United States, and has already started to take a hold of the Australian workforce. Learn how to keep your employees engaged in our latest blog.
Employee Engagement vs. Enablement: 4 Things That You Need To Do Right Now
-Now, the discussion surrounds what is known as ‘employee enablement’ and if you don’t know what that is, you’re already behind the 8-ball. So, let’s get into it.
Stay Engaged With Customers & Clients During The Holiday Period
-Creating content ahead of time and staying relevant with your clients is a key component of bolstering your presence during the holiday season. Read on for our top tips to stay relevant with clients over the holidays.
Why HR Managers Are Shifting To The Employee-Centric Workplace
-The role of the HR Manager is starting to shift its focus back to its roots – ensuring that employees are also happy and comfortable at work.
How To Help Your Team Find A Sense Of Purpose In Work
-Did you know that 70% of employees feel their sense of purpose is defined by their work? Read on to learn the tools to help your team find a sense of purpose at work.
Top 10 Picks of 2021 for L&D professionals– Must Reads and Must Listens
-Learning never stops. Here is a must-read list of books, podcasts and videos that will elevate your mindset as an L&D professional.
Building a Learning Ecosystem: 3 Steps To Follow
-A natural ecosystem is a biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment. Similarly to a biological ecosystem, a business exists on similar fundamentals.
What are the learning (or L&D) priorities in 2021?
-Here, we explore the Learning and Development priorities trending in 2021.
Are You Still Using Emails To Manage Your Workflow?
-Check out our latest blog to discover the role of emails in managing workflow, and whether companies can better utilise their resources with project management tools.
Automation: An Essential Guide For Small Businesses
-Automation has helped business owners worldwide run their company smoothly and more effectively than ever before. Thanks to management systems and algorithmic technology, businesses of any size can transform into more profitable enterprises.
4 Top Features of WorkPlan Learning for your team
-Regardless of title or position, every team member deserves access to new learning opportunities. Read our blog to discover the 4 Top Features of MyWorkPlan for Your Team.
The Easiest and Most Difficult Place to Start Your Strategic Planning
-Read about collaborative learning and ideas about how to implement collaborative learning in your business when creating a strategic plan.
Must Know: How To Run an Engaging Online Meeting
-Workflow systems are a good component to have in place for any business, but they’re even more crucial when managing a remote workforce. Read on to find out more.
6 ways to harvest a positive culture with a remote workforce
-Workflow systems are a good component to have in place for any business, but they’re even more crucial when managing a remote workforce. Read on to find out more.
A Complete Guide to Effective Remote Hiring
-As a company with a remote workforce, there will inevitably come a time when you have to hire a new team member. Or perhaps that time is already upon you and that’s why you’re here.
Have you noticed a shift in your workforce? The new normal for Australian work culture
-As a business owner, you’re likely used to basing your business strategy around ‘likely outcomes’ and ‘usual trends’ but with the current circumstances, all sense of predictability seems to have been thrown out the door. Read on to learn how to adapt and use this to your advantage.
It’s Time to Turn the Outdated Learning Management (LMS) Models on Their Head
-There are 3 main indicators when it comes to identifying an outdated LMS and we’ve outlined them below.
Innovative Businesses: Xero
-It’s the buzzword that business owners love to hate: innovation. When it comes to innovative businesses, Xero has not dropped the ball on maintaining its competitive edge thanks to the driving force behind the platform; the people.
Grow Your Business With WorkPlan Learning
-MyWorkPlan is a platform that enables staff to stay engaged, motivated and productive through the use of training and ongoing learning, collaboration and client engagement. Read this blog to find out how MyWorkPlan can encourage your staff to maximise their productivity.
How to Maintain Relationships with your Remote Work Team
-It’s been scientifically proven that there is a direct correlation between the strength of workplace relationships and the productivity of the team. Having a remote workforce doesn’t make this fact any less true or relevant.
Working From Home – How To Maintain Productivity
-Maximising your team’s productivity whilst unable to be face-to-face can have its challenges, but with the right tools in place, you could find yourself ahead of your competitors. We’ve compiled a list of our best tips for keeping your team morale high
Are SMART Goals the Best Way to Motivate and Develop your Team? Probably Not.
-Learn about visual goals and how they help us to set and achieve our goals.
Why Employees with a Growth Mindset are so Valuable
-Read our latest article to learn about the massive advantages of hiring employees with a growth mindset.
Innovative Businesses: Atlassian
-When it comes to fostering an innovative work culture, Atlassian is really at the top of their game right now and we think that most organisations could learn a thing or two from their practices and values.
Innovative Businesses: Canva
-No matter the industry you’re in, if you’re a student or just curious about design, it’s likely that if you’ve been tasked with a project that requires some visual flair, you’ve heard of Canva.
The Importance of Saying ‘No’ as the Boss
-Leadership comes in many different forms but one thing that remains the same is the ability to see the long-term organisational goals and staying on track to reaching these. Find out why saying ‘no’ could be the most efficient way there!
How Useful is a Uni Degree these Days in Securing a Job?
-Read about the benefits of studying a degree to progress within your career.
We have all the puzzle pieces for you to help you achieve your business vision
-Read about the different puzzle pieces which are necessary to build your company vision
Productivity Hacks
-Productivity in a business or workspace is vital in keeping an organisation functioning, yet we still often forget to focus on those things which promote a productive workforce.
Don’t Leave Any Team Members Behind
-Often within companies, businesses and offices, there’s a mindset of ‘what happens if we spend time training the staff and then they just leave?’ There’s a fear of wasted time, energy, resources and money. However, we believe that the question you should be asking yourself is, ‘What if you don’t train your staff and they stay?’
How To Head Off The Beaten Track Safely
-Running a business is stressful, and sometimes you just need to get away from it all. Forget the boardroom meetings and the company strategy and head on a trip to somewhere new and exciting that will help you gain a bit of perspective. Sometimes this adventurous attitude is what’s missing from your business.
WorkPlan is not your average Learning Management System
-Have you ever started a new job and been forced to sit through a dreary ream of health and safety videos? Or does your place of work have an annual, online policy update quiz? In recent years, learning management systems have become somewhat of a benign, box-ticking exercise for HR, when they truly have the potential to be a much more effective tool. WorkPlan have decided that it’s time to take action and fulfil this potential.
How ‘Little’ Business Issues Can Become BIG Issues Without You Noticing
-Often, when you have a never-ending ‘to-do’ list that never seems to get any shorter, it’s easy to overlook the seemingly minor issues within your company. However, these little issues, when left unattended can, very quickly, evolve into a significant and potentially unsolvable problem for you, your staff and your business.
Why having the right equipment for your hike is key
-Whether you plan to be on the trail for a few hours or a few weeks, it is imperative that you have the right equipment for your trek. Though it is possible to foresee weather changes for a day-hike, it could be a baffling task when planning for a multi-day trek. There’s a wide range of circumstances to consider when packing your equipment to ensure you’re prepared and supported.
Managing a multi-generational workplace
-As Baby Boomers stay in the workplace for longer, and Gen Z’s are beginning to enter, businesses are seeing one of the widest age ranges in history. Managing a multi-generational workplace comes with a raft of issues that business owners and managers haven’t had to deal with before.
10 Hacks for Better Work/Life Balance
-Managing your time and headspace so that you aren’t too exhausted to do the important things is the first step in better work/life balance.
Reinvent Meetings for Creativity and Engagement
-It is possible to transform the paradigm that all meetings are wasting valuable time and contribute little to the organisation and its people You can reinvent your meetings to boost creativity and engagement. It just takes a bit of innovation.
High Performance Culture and Alignment
-Leaders of organisations around the world understand the strategic need to build capabilities in their organisations to remain competitive. There are many methods used to build capabilities and on-the-job training remains very common. Strategy that is designed without learning is seriously flawed.
Strategy Without Learning is Flawed
-Leaders of organisations around the world understand the strategic need to build capabilities in their organisations to remain competitive. There are many methods used to build capabilities and on-the-job training remains very common. Strategy that is designed without learning is seriously flawed.
Disruption in Accounting: Building Advisory Services
-There is no doubt accounting firms are under pressure for both fees and service delivery. This can be considered disruption. There are a few reasons for this pressure and it will only intensify. Here are some reasons…
The CEO is stuck. Which way out?
-Feeling stuck. Feeling tired at the end of the day. Feeling frustrated more easily and more often. This is how one of my new clients described her personal situation during our first project meeting. This CEO was stuck and could not get enough head space to find a way out of it.
Strategic Execution vs Performance Management
-Some businesses confuse performance management and execution of strategic objectives. It appears that more companies use performance management processes than businesses that have execution processes designed to achieve strategic objectives.
How do performance management and strategic execution differ?
Strategy in the age of urgency
-There are some organisation and culture shifts you and your leadership team may want to consider when developing your strategy.
What contributes to workplace stress?
-In April 2018, Canada Life Group Insurance released a study showing that workers’ productivity is badly impacted by stress and anxiety in the workplace. The study shows office workers are impacted most severely.
How to create a value driver tree
-The value driver tree is a tool used to identify the root cause of an issue. In our case it is used to identify causes of business issues. The value driver tree is also known as a fishbone analysis.
Is your LMS blocking strategy execution?
-The learning management system (LMS) should be a primary support tool for ensuring strategic execution is successful. A business that is focused on strategic execution needs all people to be working on the right tasks at the right time.
Productivity has nothing to do with the latest app
-Productivity has nothing to do with the latest app. It is all about you and your behavioural style that will determine how productive you are. There is no shortage of productivity experts promoting the latest and greatest productivity apps.
A small team creates a revolution
-An accounting firm was having trouble making a decision at senior partner level to move forward with a series of our programs. Believe it or not one of the issues they identified was poor decision-making processes! In the end, we proved that a small team can create a revolution in culture change.
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