Industry Publications

Below are 25 thought leaders in the eLearning industry that we’re following right now. Note: these are organized in alphabetical order by last name.

It happens to all of us. That moment in our lives where we stop looking for inspiration for a moment, take a step back and realize that inspiration, in fact, comes to us.

There’s a revolution going on in corporate human resources departments, and the much-hated annual performance review is in the cross-fire.

You should be excited to get up every day and go to work, just as you look forward to your weekend activities and seeing your friends and family.

The technology employed to deliver learning and development within organizations has grown increasingly varied and complex. The cloud, social tools, mobile technologies, and other advances have opened up a host of opportunities for new learning experiences—so much so that exploring new technologies has become the top L&D priority. Exploring new and different technologies surpassed even developing a learning strategy as the top focus over the next 12 months, according to Brandon Hall Group’s just-released 2016 Learning Technology Study.

As Yahoo's Marissa Mayer was preparing to outline a cost-cutting plan to shareholders Tuesday during its earnings announcement -- one that included cuts to the struggling company's workforce -- a former employee filed a lawsuit alleging that the company's performance review system was discriminatory and violated federal and state laws on mass layoffs.

A new study reveals that 95% of companies admit to recruiting the wrong people each year. Here’s how to avoid making their mistakes.

Some 36 percent of organizations say their leadership development practices are still below average or poor, according to Brandon Hall Group's 2015 State of Leadership Development Study of more than 500 organizations.

While leadership development earns a top spot year after year after year on organizations' talent priority lists, 36 percent do not have a formal leadership development strategy, according to 2015 Brandon Hall Group’s State of Leadership Development Study.

Training Magazine featured Brandon Hall Group's Senior Learning Anaylist, David Wentworth's latest research article titled

Training Magazine featured Brandon Hall Group's Talent Acquisition Anaylist, Kyle Lagunas' latest research article titled "New Hire Onboarding as a Driver of Employee Engagement."

Brandon Hall Group's Chairman and CEO, Mike Cooke, sat down with Steve Boese and Trish McFarlane on the HR Happy Hour Show to talk about what analyst firms do and how HR leaders can be helped by the advisory services they provide in addition to the research.</p>

Learning & Development (L&D) has come of age. No longer seen as a cost center on the margins of an organization, L&D has taken center stage as a mission-critical part of the enterprise, according to Brandon Hall Group’s 2014 Learning & Development Benchmarking study.

Learning management system (LMS) solutions are underperforming in the eyes of the organizations that use them, according to an annual LMS Trends Survey conducted by research/analyst firm Brandon Hall Group.

View The Bill Kutik Radio Show to hear CEO Mike Cooke discuss his opinions on the analyst industry

The debate over the existence, causes, and extent of a skills gap in the U.S.—and around the world—continues to rage. A barrage of research (see http://trainingmag.com/content/bridging-skills-gap) seems to indicate a growing skills gap, while Peter Capelli, professor of Management and Director of the Center for Human Resources at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, wrote a book last year focused on debunking the premise behind the U.S. skills gap. He asserted that most companies were simply not willing to pay enough or unwilling to give new employees the opportunity to obtain the required skills.

As CLOs and learning professionals strive to make learning more personal and meaningful in the era of big data, reconciling the jump in the amount of data out there with the need to make learning individualized and delivered at just the right time and in just the right way remains challenging.

Mike Cooke at Lunch with DriveThruHR @MikeCCooke visits with @bryanwempen @williamtincup & @thehrbuddy about what is keeping them up at night.

2013 is here, and the business community is poised and ready to take advantage of a year filled with possibilities - a year in which the impact of social, mobile, and cloud is no longer a question of when but how much? A year in which words such as data analytics, contextual information, and adaptive engagement models will become just as important to the talent and learning communities as they’ve become to the marketing and sales functions. A year in which business performance is redefined and the role of Leadership, Sales, Marketing, Learning, and Talent all will be re-evaluated. It is a year of new directions.