You’ve been asked to choose a language training program. Do you go old school with face-to-face instruction or empower your employees to learn online? Perhaps you’re adding language training for the first time. Or rethinking your current program. Either way,…
How many language training vendors does your company use? Even uncovering that simple fact can take a bit of legwork if your employees are located around the globe. Once you’ve found your answer, a smart followup is to audit all…
Lately I’ve been using my messaging tools a little more than usual. I’ve realized I can’t get through a single workday without a quick check-in from a teammate, or a status report on a specific project. This is exactly how…
When it comes to successfully administering any online language training program, learner performance measurement is critical — and there is no shortage of key success metrics to fall back on. Whether you are leaning on performance metrics like employee retention…
Language learning is more accessible than ever, thanks to technology. That’s true when someone is learning for personal or business use, or both. As a young professional, I’m interested in understanding my generation’s perspective on language learning. My approach is…
The last two weeks have felt like an eternity. For many of us, social distancing, quarantines, lockdowns, and isolation have become the new normal. The sudden and significant changes have made me and my team revisit our plans, the things…
Flexible learning has been around for a long time, but do we understand what it means? Flexibility is not lackadaisical. Training should adapt to learners’ lives and not the other way around. Laptops and phones with stable internet connections are…
Your organization has made the call to move its employees from offices to working from home. How can you help your team make the switch smoothly? To assist newly remote team members from the start, consider sharing these very sensible,…
Whether your employees love it or hate it, job site collaboration is non-negotiable. With so many moving parts, shifting deadlines, and high-stress work situations, and let’s face it, high employee turnover, each member of your crew relies on others daily…
Disclaimer: While these insights are written for the UK, they are widely relevant to a global language learning audience. Yes, that’s a clickbait headline but I’m not ashamed of it because it’s true. I’ve been to a few trade shows…
On the modern job site, your construction employees are becoming increasingly diverse. Diverse in culture, perspectives, working styles, and oftentimes, diverse in language.
Not long ago I took my very first Rosetta Stone Live Tutoring session. My current language learning software includes group tutoring, though I was the only one attending this session. And you know what that means—nowhere to hide. I do speak…