Read the white paper to know how ToolBook handles various Authorware functionalities using features like book wizard, catalog, actions editor and more.

A Learning Management System (LMS) designed to deal with a variety of CE requirement scenarios can provide the framework needed to efficiently and confidently track compliance. In addition, an LMS that is part of a broader integrated talent development suite can not only track CE progress, but also serve as a platform from which you can effectively oversee a full range of learning and performance management tasks.

Although the process of managing and tracking continuing education is complex, the SumTotal platform provides a robust set of capabilities that deal with these challenges by enabling you to:

• Reduce...
  >> Download now]]> Unannounced Joint Commission surveys have made the need for continuous compliance a daily expectation. But talent management in a healthcare organization goes beyond evidence requirements and readiness for surprise inspections: It’s also about ensuring quality and safety for health care consumers through highly proficient, conscientious caregivers.

  Read the white paper, “Talent Development in Healthcare,” to find out how talent development works simultaneously with compliance management to align and manage goals, perform clinical competency assessments, enable targeted skill and competency development, design and track vital continuing ed curricula and credits, and provide a direct flow into compensation planning. Detailed scenarios will give you a complete picture of how you can not only ensure readiness for an unannounced survey, but also move beyond compliance to complete, unified talent development.

  You’ll ...
  >> Download now]]> Optimizing Business Practices with an LMS Huge Cost Savings & Competitive Edge for Small and Medium-Sized Businesses Regardless of company size, operating a business in today’s down economy is like walking a tightrope. To keep from falling, small and medium-sized businesses (SMB)—like their larger competitors—must strike a balance between cutting costs and increasing customer retention and acquisition.
  
  In order to remain competitive and provide superior customer service with real business impact,many SMBs are adopting talent development solutions comprised of learning and performance management systems. These systems can work together to help reduce redundant costs, avoid the high expense of non-compliance, increase customer satisfaction, and improve sales force effectiveness by enhancing employee performance.

  
  >> Download now]]> Download the white paper to find out how to avoid five of the most common, and costly, errors when embarking on a succession planning initiative.

  You’ll learn:

  • How a lack of alignment between the succession plan and company goals can derail the initiative
  • How to budget your time to account for upfront planning activities
  • How having a strong follow-up after the kickoff is critical to your success

  “Succession Planning: Five Costly Errors to Avoid” is written by SumTotal’s own HR pro, Richard Oyen. Richard has spent more than 20 years in Performance Management working with companies like Oracle and Walgreens.

  
  >> Download now]]> Download the white paper to find out how to improve on your employee compensation practices, and the five critical steps to help maximize your efforts.

  You’ll learn:

  • Why it’s important to align compensation with performance
  • How to eliminate opportunities for error
  • How mixing in alternative incentives can stretch your budget dollar
  
  >> Download now]]> As the annual performance appraisal process fast approaches, the thought of the work that lies ahead can be one of fear, apprehension, dread, or all of the above. Employees — particularly managers — continually procrastinate the task, and you may find this out the hard way when you realize at performance appraisal time just how few performance discussions took place during the year. It’s never too late, though, to look for ways to make improvements now — and smooth your way toward next year’s cycle.
  
  >> Download now]]> The Enterprise Learning Value Chain helps you understand business imperatives, identify high-impact learning initiatives, and outline the measurable ROI these initiatives can deliver — despite hard economic times. Download this white paper to learn how to keep the value of your talent development programs front and center, and ensure your organization’s economic strategy leverages learning to its fullest.
  >> Download now]]> Download the white paper to find out how to leverage competency models for strategic Talent Development.

  You’ll learn:

  • How to prioritize and focus your competency management project.
  • How to make the leap from core competencies to proficiency level assessments.
  • How your competency model drives performance management, career development, and succession planning.

  “Ten Best Practices for Successful Competency Management” is written by SumTotal’s own HR pro, Richard Oyen. Richard has spent more than 20 years in Performance Management working with companies like Oracle and Walgreens.

  
  >> Download now]]> Web 2.0 technologies are making it easier than ever for businesses to unlock tacit knowledge and make it globally available among their employee populations. Social networking, wikis, blogs, mobile technology, and online communities present knowledge-sharing and just-in-time learning opportunities that, in many businesses, still remain untapped. While this is frustrating for early-adopter employees in late-adopting companies, Web 2.0 learning has proven to be a gold mine for companies who leverage it well.

  What you will learn:

  • How Web 2.0 has shifted gears toward social learning
  • How informal learning drives business benefits
  • Real-world examples of informal learning solutions
  
  >> Download now]]> SCORM (the Shareable Content Object Reference Model) is a set of standards that helps ensure your learning content will “play” on any compliant LMS. Download this white paper for a high-level explanation of SCORM and the ways in which SCORM-compliant technology can help your organization optimize its investment in talent development solutions.
  
  >> Download now]]> Learn 10 things HR can do to ensure alignment.

  How aligned is your organization? Companies that manage goal alignment well boast significant productivity and profitability improvements. And while performance management technology can help provide the tools you need, it can’t do all of the work for you. SumTotal HR expert Richard Oyen takes you through ten steps that can save you time and expense and help you drive better organizational alignment.

  You’ll learn:

  • The ten most important things to consider before you embark on organizational alignment
  • The role HR should play in the process
  • How to avoid common pitfalls, such as planning a multi-tiered rollout to help goals work their way down an organization
  
  >> Download now]]> How Web 2.0 technologies move Talent Management from buzzword to bottom line.
  
  Forward-looking companies are beginning to develop talent that is aligned with their business by tapping into online communities-known collectively as Web 2.0 technologies-such as blogs, wikis, and social networks. Find out how Web 2.0 is morphing traditional talent management into a more sophisticated, collaborative method of cultivating employee skills.
  >> Download now]]> Just like large enterprises—many of whom are your competitors—you also face the challenges of aligning, developing, engaging and retaining your employees. However, your status as a Small- to Medium-Sized Business (SMB) presents unique obstacles along the way. Although you have a less complex IT infrastructure, you likely wrestle with a tighter capital budget. You might have a smaller training staff—yet you must achieve faster time-to-value so you can outrun larger competitors.  

  How can SMBs meet their companies’ specific needs and still keep pace with enterprises? The answer lies in selecting the right learning management system (LMS) from the right vendor. Not only do you need a comprehensive and functional solution, but you also need scalable deployment options that accommodate your unique requirements. 

  What you will learn in this white paper:

  • Specific Learning & Development challenges ...
    >> Download now]]> This paper explores the reasons why talent development can best be served through a unified approach to learning and performance management. A unified strategy calls for an integrated suite that enables your learning and performance systems to work logically, cohesively and symbiotically.

    With this approach, you can gain greater functionality, reach your objectives and, in turn, deliver better business results—including improved compliance readiness, higher revenues, and increased customer satisfaction.

    
    >> Download now]]> Effective career and succession planning can save businesses tremendous amounts of money. The problem? Convincing management that the need for planning is real, and that expenditures are justified. You need hard numbers if you want to present your case successfully.

    Through the use of basic mathematical formulas, this paper will help you hammer out dollar figures and gain new insight into how your organization is dealing with employee turnover and hiring processes. As a result, you’ll be better equipped to construct a business case for career and succession planning—one that executives will both hear and heed.

    
    >> Download now]]> Developing content for small mobile devices makes a lot of sense — the adoption of these devices around the world is just tremendous. Mobile learning is growing at a rapid clip as well. Business professionals are embracing mobile learning on all sorts of devices.

    As mobile connectivity continues its broad global reach, corporations are actively investigating how to deploy learning to mobile professionals. At SumTotal, we have released an update to our content authoring product ToolBook that enables the production of mobile learning for the Apple iPhone; with support for additional mobile devices to follow. While SumTotal obviously hopes the majority of corporations use ToolBook to create mobile learning, our intention is to provide helpful information to our industry, as a whole, on how to create effective learning for mobile devices.

    
    >> Download now]]> Adobe announced it will not continue development of future Macromedia® Authorware® from Adobe releases, so the current Authorware users have been exploring alternative authoring options. This white paper considers some of the reasons current Authorware users as well as eLearning developers in general should consider combining SumTotal Systems’ ToolBook with Adobe® Captivate® software and Adobe Flash® Professional software for a complete content authoring solution

    Read the white paper to know how ToolBook handles various Authorware functionalities using features like book wizard, catalog, actions editor and more.

    
    >> Download now]]> As portable communication devices proliferate and on-the-go workers hit the road in record numbers, mobile learning capabilities are ripe for growth. Not surprisingly, the learning management industry is taking heed. That’s because mobile learning—also known as “m-Learning”—is about more than the ability to move around. It’s about truly leveraging technology advances to build a more competent workforce and a greater talent development strategy.
    
    >> Download now]]> This white paper discusses the forces of change affecting the performance management component of a talent management strategy, the impact these changes will have on organizations, and recommendations to help organizations prepare for these changes.
    
    >> Download now]]> Employee performance management offers much more than just taking the pain out of a paper process. Organizations that take a unified talent development approach use performance management as a development springboard, ultimately retaining talent, developing leaders, and reducing turnover costs.

    Learn how the convergence of learning and performance management can help your organization get the most out of its workforce.
    

    
    >> Download now]]> In the current war for talent, succession planning is your insurance that your top employees don’t become the solution to another organization’s talent shortage.

    You’ll learn:

    • The 7 key steps to getting started with an effective succession planning strategy;
    • How to prevent voluntary terminations and ensure that strategic positions have ample bench strength.
    
    >> Download now]]> Users have wielded their unique power to significantly impact today's top five learning technology trends. This new white paper explores those trends, looking at factors such as Web 2.0, mobile learning, and changes in the mix of blended learning. In addition, we discuss next steps to help your organization strategically select new technology in order to unlock its full potential.
    
    >> Download now]]> >> Download now]]> >> Download now]]> >> Download now]]> >> Download now]]> >> Download now]]> >> Download now]]> 1. The best way to assess how an LMS can positively affect your business by focusing on improving one process.
    2. How to calculate an LMS’s real cost of ownership.

    This can be assessed in either a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solution or a traditional software purchase model.
    >> Download now]]> >> Download now]]> >> Download now]]> >> Download now]]> >> Download now]]> >> Download now]]> >> Download now]]> >> Download now]]> >> Download now]]>