Companies are taking note of eLearning and revamping their strategy and talent pool to generate higher levels of employee engagement. Want to know how you can transform your training department to become an eLearning generating machine helping your HR team rock it and lower costs and boost productivity?

It's a common phrase to say "learn by playing." Different communication theories confirm this. Games make us produce dopamine, a brain chemical that increases learning and stimulates our state of attention. eLearning experts believe that games and playing need to be part of a course for adults to learn effectively. As a result, learning games are a necessary part of great eLearning these days. Without them, your courseware wouldn’t be so engaging...“They are fun, competitive, rewarding, interactive, and attention-grabbing. Traditional training is…not any of those” says Steve Boller from Bottom-Line Performance Blog.

Stop us if this sounds familiar. You get into your eLearning tool and poke around. The features are interesting. The options are many. And yet, at the end of looking around, you still don't know how to use it. Many tools are not intuitive enough and require extensive training for creating eLearning courses.

Don't waste another day trying to figure out what the heck to do to get your learners engaged and actually expecting them to remember everything you present them in every course. This post will cover one main concept that will lead you to successful eLearning design: "chunking information”.

Learners have always been pretty hesitant to jump in head first with taking eLearning courses. What usually happens with eLearning? They end up leaving the course because content does not impart plausible information such that learners feel the problems they encounter in their workplace are addressed realistically by the learning. That means a whole lot of wasted time. What a bummer. Specially, how many times, have students taken courses or training they end up believing is irrelevant and meaningless. Well, take that experience and NEVER apply it in the eLearning projects you develop.

Sales training definitely can be a major challenge for HR and Training Managers. Companies are selling new and different products each day and new employees or dealers come on board constantly. Therefore firms are always looking for the best way to train sales staff quickly and effectively. But, furthermore, they are looking for a faster time-to-market delivery.

Before start creating your course, think for a moment ... what is the purpose of the project? What do you expect from it? Probably you would think ... that my staff understands the best sales strategies, that employees feel identified with the company’s mission and vision, that they learn the correct procedure to create a new product, or that they know the best customer service techniques, etc...

The reasons why we decided to develop an eLearning course may vary depending on the context in which we are. But many companies often make the decision because they detect certain areas where employee performance does not meet the expected standards. For this reason, it becomes necessary to train employees to transform attitudes, skills, expectations or paradigms, and thus improve performance.