Now is the perfect time to review your L&D for the year and look ahead to your 2024 plans. Whilst chatting with our MD Blake Henegan, here are some themes that have appeared prominent to us throughout 2023:
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Training outsourcing can offer several cost-saving benefits for businesses. Here are some potential areas where cost savings can be achieved:
1. Infrastructure costs:
Physical space: Outsourcing training eliminates the need for dedicated training facilities or classrooms, saving on rent, utilities, and maintenance costs.
Equipment: Training providers often have their own equipment, reducing the need for the organisation to invest in additional training resources.
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Training outsourcing, also known as learning or training business process outsourcing (BPO) or managed learning services.
Training outsourcing involves hiring external organisations to manage and deliver training programmes for your employees. There are several reasons why businesses choose to outsource their training activities:
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Staying on top of business compliance is crucial for the success and sustainability of your business. Here are some strategies to help you maintain compliance:
By proactively addressing compliance and integrating it into your business processes, you can reduce the risk of legal issues, financial penalties, and damage to your reputation. Regular monitoring, training, and adaptation to regulatory changes are key to maintaining compliance in a dynamic business environment.
Celebrating National STEM Day in the workplace can be a great way to promote STEM education and engage employees in activities that highlight the importance of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.
Here are some ideas for how you can celebrate National STEM Day at work:
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This guest blog post is written by one of our approved companies for cybersecurity training.
Artificial intelligence (AI) and deepfakes are hot topics for employees in all industries, not least for recruitment and training professionals.
As it develops, AI is changing the future of HR, allowing professionals to streamline work processes and supporting decision-making processes. At the same time, employee training is benefitting from the AI revolution, with L&D teams harnessing its powers to create engaging, personalised training programmes and to analyse the effectiveness of existing training.
But what about the dangers of AI for HR and L&D teams? In particular, how can AI and deepfakes be leveraged by cybercriminals to manipulate HR processes, and how can we defend ourselves against them?
In July 2022, the FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) released an advisory warning of a new social engineering technique in which fraudsters are using fake identities to steal company data[1].
Seems pretty standard, I hear you say – what’s new about this?
Well, while identity theft has been around for as long as you can remember, the difference here is that the fraudsters are using deepfake technology to misrepresent themselves in employment interviews. Their aim is to successfully navigate the recruitment process to commit cyber attacks.
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) can help with cybersecurity in various ways, enhancing the overall security of organisations. Here are some key ways AI can assist in cybersecurity:
Threat detection and prevention:
AI can analyse large volumes of data in real-time, identifying patterns and anomalies that may indicate a security threat. This includes recognising known attack signatures and behaviour indicative of new and emerging threats.
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This time last week we were excitedly heading to Birmingham ahead of World of Learning at the NEC in Birmingham. Is the stand good..check..do we have enough brochures…check…goodies..check…comfortable shoes and a smile..check, check!
What a wonderful two days it was as well meeting people passionate about L&D from different organisations – it certainly had a great feel all round as a place to meet and learn.
We met with so many people keen to find out what was new on the L&D market, some with an idea in mind of what they’re looking for, some still shaping their ideas with this event being key to their strategy development.
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Yesterday our MD Blake Henegan spoke at World of Learning at the NEC in Birmingham about “Unlocking the benefits of centralised training spend.”
Here’s just some of the benefits discussed at the event:
Procurement departments often want to use managed learning services for several reasons, including:
1. Cost efficiency: Managed learning services can help organisations streamline their learning and development processes, leading to cost savings. By outsourcing these services, companies can avoid the need to hire and train their own learning and development staff, which can be expensive.
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