As a small business owner or trainer, if you use an online training software system it's important to monitor employees' learning activities. If your online training software makes these completion reports available in Excel format, you can easily use filters to quickly check employees' progress toward completion.

Did you know you can manage and train employees using charts and graphs to tell business stories? Years ago I read a book, Managing by Storying Around, that dramatically changed my thinking about managing and working with employees. I learned that stories usually are more effective in training and coaching employees than emails, memos or newsletters.

“Colors have meaning,” design experts say. Are you using the right colors when designing online training modules for employees?

When creating PowerPoint presentations for employee training, do you like to mix it up and use a variety of fonts, type sizes and colors to make the information look interesting? It’s a common practice, but one that can distract employees and cause them not to pay attention to the information or take it seriously. Here are four tips to help you use fonts to create effective training modules.

Online training is a great way to coach and teach employees the knowledge and skills they need to do their job and support your business. But you need to make the training modules interesting and entertaining to capture associates’ attention and help them remember what they hear. Follow these simple tips to help you record audio for online training modules.

A common complaint about employee training is that it’s boring and irrelevant. Research shows that employees are strongly interested in coaching and training, but they want the information to be short, appealing and fit their job. Review the following tips to improve employee training for your small business.

Small businesses are discovering the benefit of online training software for employee training. The right software can make it easy to create modules to coach employees and teach them important information and skills they need to do their jobs and help the business reach its goals. Designing modules with a mix of color, interesting text, graphs, videos, and audio can make the training material interesting. But incorporating the right photos into modules can make content memorable. Consider eight tips for choosing the right photos.

Small business employees who work well with others often are tasked with the job of employee training. While they are willing to help out, they may be unsure about the best ways to connect with employees and how to teach and train workers effectively. The good news is that accidental trainers don’t need to be professional teachers. Here are eight tips for success.

Employees want continuous learning experiences, but a Microsoft Corp. study found that people generally lose concentration after eight seconds. So how can you capture employees’ attention to teach them about your mission, brand, and products? Training experts say the solution is to use microlearning online training.

Do you consider employee training important to your business success? Or, is it something that you continually put off doing?