Why You Should Automate Your ILT Administration

Industry gurus tell us that the future of training and development is learning in the flow of work. Some even talk about learning in the flow of life, making learning a lifelong quest. We see new stats about the efficiency of online learning... read more

 

Posted by Vamsi Krishna Jan 17,2020

Transforming Learning into a Strategic Business Function

Your executives want results, impact, and organizational growth; your people want content that engages them personally. It’s your job to deploy a learning program that does both. But in circumstances like these, balancing the two with inadequate... read more

 

Posted by Vamsi Krishna Dec 18,2020

How to Create a Collaborative Approach to Measuring Learning Impact

For delivering learning content, L&D has the luxury to choose from a list of modalities. Be it mobile learning, micro-learning, or even an ILT, each modality offers its own benefits over the other. But you prefer the one that provides long-term... read more

 

Posted by Vamsi Krishna Dec 08,2020

Driving Digital Transformation with Learning Analytics

Many learning conferences this year, called digital transformation, a fundamental necessity for organizations. L&D teams across organizations striving hard to help organizations embrace their digital future. But to ensure it, they must undergo a ... read more

 

Posted by Vamsi Krishna Dec 03,2020

Why Organizations need a Culture of Continuous Learning?

A 2019 Gartner report on top HR priorities brings out that 66% of the HR leaders consider building critical skills and competencies for the organization as their topmost priority. Growth in technology is rapid that skills become obsolete in no... read more

 

Posted by Vamsi Krishna Dec 01,2020

How to deploy SumTotal Advanced Reporting?

Are you getting ready to implement Sumtotal Advanced Reporting? Is it the first time? Or Are you just looking to enhance your reports? In either case, you need to decide upon many things. You should have been generating a large amount... read more

 

Posted by Vamsi Krishna Nov 09,2020

A Recap of Cornerstone Convergence Unbound 2020

When work and life co-exist under the same roof, you lose touch with time. You bustle all day to meet your commitments but you can't tell what day it is. Despite the freedom and accessibility, you're often stuck without progress. It’s the same story ... read more

 

Posted by Vamsi Krishna Oct 16,2020

Are You Ready for Cornerstone Convergence 2020 Unbound?

You may say, 2020 is the year of crisis and survival for many organizations. But it's also the year of learning and transformation. Just in months, your HR people went from managing talent to mitigating a global crisis by ensuring workplace safety... read more

 

Posted by Vamsi Krishna Sep 11,2020

LMS or an LXP: Choosing the Right Learning Technology

When a new tool inspires a trend in the learning technology market; It is sure to intrigue your curiosity. So, before you get your hands on it, you must know: If it's better than the one you're using now? Can it resolve your longstanding... read more

 

Posted by Vamsi Krishna Aug 21,2020

How to Ensure Social Distancing in the Workplace

It's been 6 months and more, COVID-19 continues to impact, keeping us uncertain about its end. It’s the new normal that we have been learning to co-live with the virus, following the safety precautions brought forth by government and health... read more

 

Posted by Vamsi Krishna Jul 01,2020

Learning from Skillsoft Perspectives 2020

The world is at a standstill, with lives and livelihoods at stake. While everyone is worried about health, family, and economic security; leaders are working hard to learn resilience, sustain the business, motivate employees, and ensure everyone’s... read more

 

Posted by Vamsi Krishna May 15,2020

7 Steps to Data-Driven Learning Strategy

Seven out of ten times, the first budget to be cut when budget freezes happen is the L&D budget. It's not because companies don't value learning. It's because they lack enough evidence to support the request. Of course, your smile... read more

 

Posted by Vamsi Krishna May 11,2020

Are you ready for Skillsoft Perspectives 2020?

The world has come to a halt. The pandemic has altered the course of our lives and businesses. Many organizations are clueless about their future and are searching for ways to blend in. To help organizations understand the demands of our next... read more

 

Posted by Vamsi Krishna May 05,2020

Bridge the Gap Between Raw Data and Insights with Chasma Analytics

Data is not just data anymore; it is the fundamental currency of the digital world. Companies mine their data in search of vital insights into their business. In the past few years, data has grown at a rapid pace, amassing ever-larger volumes. Yet... read more

 

Posted by Vamsi Krishna Apr 01,2020

How SumTotal LMS dashboards boost learner engagement

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Posted by Vamsi Krishna Nov 19,2019 Categories: Chasma Editor

Optimizing Learner Experience with Engaging Learner Dashboards

The introduction of dashboards and widgets in SumTotal was a giant leap forward. You can now transform the user interface from menus and lists to a personalized, visual experience your people would love to repeat. Dynamic, flexible and... read more

 

Posted by Vamsi Krishna Jul 10,2019 Categories: Chasma Editor

How Chasma Event Eases the Burdens of Instructor-Led Training Administration

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Posted by Admin Jun 12,2019

3 Ways a Chatbot Can Improve the Onboarding Experience

O.C. Tanner’s report on onboarding shows that one in five employees leave a job within the first 45 days. Most of the disengaged employees shared that they received little or no proper training during their onboarding. Not having an onboarding... read more

 

Posted by Vamsi Krishna Dec 12,2018

How chatbots can improve HR communication and drive efficiency

How much time does your HR staff spend looking for information? How much time do they spend answering the same, repetitive questions, day after day? And…how much time do your employees spend looking for information before they give up and call... read more

 

Posted by Vamsi Krishna Dec 03,2018

6 ways to improve learning engagement with learner-centric dashboards

In today’s workplace where career development is a top priority, your learners need a learning experience with an easy-to-use interface—one that provides instant access to information and hassle-free navigation. Learning Dashboards are crucial in... read more

 

Posted by Vamsi Krishna Sep 05,2018

Are you ready for SumTotal 18.2?

The SumTotal 18.2 release is coming with exciting features every L&D pro has been waiting for –new features for learner-centric design, mobile-friendly learning, and support for social and collaborative learning. Here's how SumTotal 18.2... read more

 

Posted by Vamsi Krishna Jun 21,2018 Categories: Chasma Quale

How Dashboards Boost Engagement in Your SumTotal LMS

Chasma Place, is an independent source for solutions that will help you keep pace with changes in the way your people work without ripping and replacing your existing systems. read more

 

Posted by Vamsi Krishna Jun 18,2018 Categories: Chasma Editor

Chatbots in HR: Not Just for Self-Service

Chatbots are making their way into HR. At the beginning of this wave of change, we predict chatbots will change the relationship people have with HR technology. As the application of this technology matures, it will fundamentally alter the... read more

 

Posted by Vamsi Krishna Jun 13,2018 Categories: Chasma Lexy

How You Can Increase Business Sustainability with Customer Training

Three years ago, industry analysts were telling us that by 2020 the customer experience would become the primary competitive differentiator. It has already happened. Today, customers expect more information than ever before when they make a... read more

 

Posted by Admin Jun 07,2018 Categories: Chasma Editor

How Adaptive Learning Can Overcome the Real Skills Shortage

The 2018 Deloitte Human Capital Trends report handed learning and development organization a big challenge. Contrary to the view of the doomsayers in the press, the rapid adoption of artificial intelligence, robotics, and automation in the workplace ... read more

 

Posted by Admin Jun 04,2018

5 ways a chatbot can help your people improve their skills

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Posted by Admin May 30,2018 Categories: Chasma Lexy

Why You Need to Automate Your SumTotal Update Testing

In our 18 years of working with SumTotal customers, one of the most troublesome yet most preventable mistakes we have seen is a failure to test regular updates. It’s easy to overlook. You may assume that QA engineers test everything. SumTotal’s... read more

 

Posted by Admin May 24,2018

Why Your Learners Aren’t Engaged and What You Can Do About It

Even the best organizations have a hard time engaging their end-users in learning programs. In a recent Aberdeen Group report Zachary Chertok wrote that 71% of best-in-class organizations have that trouble. The Learning Engagement... read more

 

Posted by Admin May 21,2018

7 Benefits of Automated LMS Update and Upgrade Testing

Posted by Admin May 17,2018

Will chatbots replace the H in HR?

Chasma Place, is an independent source for solutions that will help you keep pace with changes in the way your people work without ripping and replacing your existing systems. read more

 

Posted by Admin May 14,2018 Categories: Chasma Lexy

How a Learning Portal Can Engage Your People in Learning

It’s no secret that most organizations have difficulty engaging their people in learning. An Aberdeen Group report recently found that 71% of organizations have that disconnect.1 Employees are not the problem. Research firm Towards Maturity has... read more

 

Posted by Admin May 07,2018 Categories: Chasma Editor

How Your Customer Portals close the Gaps in Your Customer Experience

The customer experience is becoming the most critical differentiator among competitors. Customers evaluate purchases as much or more on value and service as on price. B2B customers want fast responses to their questions and concerns. If they... read more

 

Posted by Admin May 03,2018 Categories: Chasma Editor

Transform your learner experience and process delivery in Sumtotal with Lexy

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Posted by Admin Apr 26,2018 Categories: Chasma Lexy

A Simple, Low-Cost Way to Connect Your SumTotal LMS to ADP

We would understand if a Chief Learning Officer who uses a SumTotal LMS in an organization where ADP is the system of record for employee information might wonder why SumTotal can’t automatically connect to ADP. After all, ADP is the world’s... read more

 

Posted by Admin Apr 23,2018 Categories: Chasma Apps

Chatbots in HR: AI for people, not robots

Rereading Zachary Chertok’s article about artificial intelligence in human capital management reminded me of why we do what we do. Chertok explained the tug-of-war going on between Wall Street and the human capital technology market. Wall Street... read more

 

Posted by Admin Apr 19,2018 Categories: Chasma Apps Chasma Lexy

Is Your HR Information Security Policy Ready for Appified Workplace?

As HR leaders adopt new ways of delivering technology, they find that ripping out and replacing their HR systems is often not the best option. If you need to enable people to work together, replacing your existing platform with one that has a... read more

 

Posted by Admin Apr 17,2018 Categories: Chasma Apps

How AI in HR can save time and drive efficiency

The moment you log into your office mail, you see subject lines like… Immediate requirement in Sales team Immediate update required for new hire training New Compliance Deadlines this month The Coffee Machine is broken! Before you can get... read more

 

Posted by Admin Apr 12,2018 Categories: Chasma Apps Chasma Lexy

Are You Ready for your HR Virtual Assistant?

Chatbots have arrived in HR, and we are celebrating. After three decades of chasing the user experience dream, we may finally have someone (or something) that won’t complain about doing “HR stuff.” Before we automated HR, we had armies of people ... read more

 

Posted by Admin Apr 09,2018 Categories: Chasma Lexy

Implementing HR Software? Don’t overlook the testing budget

In HR software implementations, testing is too often an afterthought. Shiny new processes and configurations get attention, and tedious grunt work gets treated, well… like tedious grunt work. But testing is one of the most important functions,... read more

 

Posted by Admin Apr 05,2018 Categories: Chasma Apps Chasma Quale

The Robots Are Coming to Your LMS --- And You’re Going to Love It

Back in the dark ages of LMS software, when it's sole purpose was to make L&D efficient, we didn’t pay much attention to “user experience.” Thousands of people made a good living by being proficient at operating clunky software. Those skills... read more

 

Posted by Admin Apr 02,2018

Why You Should Automate Your H-1B Public Access File

Even with recent improvements in electronic processing of nonimmigrant visa applications, the pain of manual paperwork and records for H-1B and related visas remains with us. Employers must print and sign the Labor Condition Application (LCA) (Form... read more

 

Posted by Admin Mar 28,2018 Categories: Chasma Apps

6 ways to make SumTotal LMS landing page more interactive with learner-centric dashboards

Chasma Place, is an independent source for solutions that will help you keep pace with changes in the way your people work without ripping and replacing your existing systems. hbspt.cta.load(1751195, 'a7a2a059-34da-4e36-a919-148f987f14f8', );... read more

 

Posted by Admin Mar 22,2018 Categories: Chasma Apps

6 low-cost ways you can improve the employee experience in your HR applications

Chasma Place, is an independent source for solutions that will help you keep pace with changes in the way your people work without ripping and replacing your existing systems.

Posted by Admin Mar 19,2018 Categories: Chasma Apps

Drive learner engagement with user-centric training dashboards

Chasma Place, is an independent source for solutions that will help you keep pace with changes in the way your people work without ripping and replacing your existing systems. read more

 

Posted by Admin Feb 28,2018 Categories: Chasma Apps

Measure Learning Impact on the Business with Smile Sheets

In a previous article, we discussed the possibilities of using the same tools we use for an end of course assessment for measuring the impact of learning. Today we want to expand on that idea to show you some of the ways you can evaluate learning... read more

 

Posted by Admin Feb 26,2018 Categories: Chasma Analytics

Measure the Impact of Learning with the Tools You Have

For years, industry leaders have been encouraging L&D to align itself to business and to measure and report on the impact of learning. We must admit, we spend lots of time on that soap box ourselves. But if we take the latest ATD learning... read more

 

Posted by Admin Feb 22,2018 Categories: Chasma Apps

What You Can Expect in the SumTotal 18.1 Update

We’ve enjoyed following the blogosphere as gurus declared the LMS dead and raved that it was “no longer the center of learning” — only to see SumTotal Learn become the single point of entry for any learning. APIs(application programming interface)... read more

 

Posted by Admin Feb 19,2018 Categories: Chasma Analytics Chasma Apps Chasma Quale

How You Can Get Instant Operational Insights in Workday® Reporting

Even though we are in the digital age and companies all over the world are using advanced analytics, almost all of business intelligence for day-to-day operations is operational reporting. But without a robust library of reporting tools that... read more

 

Posted by Admin Feb 15,2018 Categories: Chasma Analytics

Why Integration Is the Starting Point for HR Digitization

If you are wondering when and how you will catch up to the rest of the digitized HR world, you are not alone — but you may be wrong about your self-assessment. In what may be an indicator of the state of digitized HR, in 2016, Gartner estimated... read more

 

Posted by Admin Feb 07,2018 Categories: Chasma Apps

What a Well-Designed Learner Portal Can Do For Your Training Sales

If you use your learning management system to sell training, marketing is an important part of what you do — but you could be overlooking your most useful marketing tool. For marketing analytics, you can use the same tools as every other... read more

 

Posted by Admin Jan 31,2018 Categories: Chasma Apps

How Chatbots Can Reduce Your Support Overhead in Your SumTotal LMS

When you manage a learning management system for multiple audiences inside and outside your company, things can get complicated — and no matter how user-friendly we make our software, our users must still point and click their way to the resources... read more

 

Posted by Admin Jan 29,2018 Categories: Chasma Apps Chasma Lexy

Build Trust in HR Reporting with Relevant, Role-Based Dashboards

The noise about people analytics has reached such a fever pitch it reminds us of the first chapter of Douglas Adams’ Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. We paraphrase the opening scene, where the nasty, bureaucratic Volgons announce they are about... read more

 

Posted by Admin Jan 18,2018 Categories: Chasma Analytics

4 Tips for Creating User-Friendly Dashboards in HR and Learning Applications

One of the ways many HR and learning software vendors adapt their applications to the new world of data and analytics is to provide self-service dashboard design tools. Many Data Visualization dashboards and HR Analytics dashboards feature the same. ... read more

 

Posted by Admin Jan 15,2018 Categories: Chasma Analytics

How AI Can Help You Improve the Learner Experience

In the 1960s, artificial intelligence was in the domain of well-guarded supercomputers and data bunkers. Today, it is everywhere around us, and we interact with AI in some form when we are working, shopping, traveling, or relaxing at home. Just a ... read more

 

Posted by Admin Jan 09,2018 Categories: Chasma Lexy

How AI in LMS improves your learning process and drives efficiency

Corporate learning is becoming entirely digital, driving learning into the flow of work. The way your people learn is never the same. Technology which you’ve been using may become outdated. There are many things that need your attention and... read more

 

Posted by Admin Jan 04,2018