Organizations can now access emotionally impactful DEI training from SunShower Learning through the OpenSesame catalog Portland, OR â 23 February 2021 â OpenSesame, the elearning innovator, announced the addition of SunShower Learning to its popular OpenSesame Plus subscription to further expand the curated offering of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) training. SunShower Learning is the… Read more »
Global organisations can now access Management Pocketbooksâ clear, concise and inspirational learning guides as elearning courses from OpenSesame Portland, OR â 18 February 2021 â OpenSesame, the elearning innovator, announced the addition of Management Pocketbooks to its popular OpenSesame Plus subscription to add accessible, micro-courses on a wide range of topics for managers, leaders and… Read more »
Global organisations can now embed learning in their workplaces with Skillshubâs brain-friendly and action-oriented courses Portland, OR â 28 September 2020 â OpenSesame, the elearning innovator, announced the addition of UK-based publisher Skillshub to its popular OpenSesame Plus subscription, expanding its curated library of engaging business, sales and leadership courses. Skillshub leverages the most up-to-date… Read more »
Do you want your entire organization to be creative? Here are three lessons from someone who has been doing it for forty years. Â Invest in your core principles for the sake of your employees, your product and your customers. If your company has the word âinnovativeâ or âcreativeâ in its vision or values statement, folks… Read more »
To develop the skill of being creative, you need to think in three ways. Divergent thinking. Exploring lots of possibilities. Generating ideas that are novel, new, ridiculous, foolish-sounding, weird, goofy, exciting. Combinent thinking. Combine ideas across areas of knowledge. Connect ideas that seem to be unrelated to the problem you are working on to generate… Read more »
Global 2000 enterprises can now leverage Big Thinkâs courses to become âsmarter fasterâ through actionable lessons from the worldâs greatest thinkers and doers Portland, OR â 10 August 2020 â OpenSesame, the elearning innovator, announced the addition of Big Think to its popular OpenSesame Plus subscription, bringing a wealth of content from some of the… Read more »
Recently, we announced our partnership with one of the most notable content brands in the world, TED. TED Talks like The power of vulnerability by BrenĂŠ Brown or How great leaders inspire action by Simon Sinek (giving us one of our favorite metaphors, âthe golden circleâ) have inspired us as individuals with new ideas and… Read more »
TED@Work is a brand new learning program from TED launching July 1 with OpenSesame, helping enterprises challenge, inspire and motivate their workforces with ambitious, bold and now actionable TED ideas. Portland, Ore. â 1 July 2020 â OpenSesame, the elearning innovator, announced a strategic partnership with TED to premiere TED@Work, a new product suite for… Read more »
Enterprise organizations can now leverage training with high entertainment value to develop their future leaders  Portland, OR â 31 January 2020 â OpenSesame, the elearning innovator, announced The Jeff Havens Company has been added to its popular OpenSesame Plus subscription to expand its curated library of business skills, safety, and compliance courses. Global 2000 companies… Read more »
Global 2000 enterprises can now leverage more engaging compliance training in multiple languages Portland, OR â 20 December 2019 â OpenSesame, the elearning innovator, today announced a partnership with Traliant, a provider of award-winning sexual harassment elearning courses, to expand its offering of interactive compliance training within the OpenSesame Plus subscription. Enterprise organizations leverage the… Read more »
The Learning and Development world is such a busy and vibrant sector to work in that it can be difficult to keep up with industry-wide conversations. Fortunately, there are dozens of podcasts to keep you up-to-date on the move, no matter your role or level. Take a look at GoodPracticeâs picks for top five L&D… Read more »
Fraud can be costly for your organization, so it is important to educate your employees on what constitutes fraud and what red flags they should look out for. In 2018, fraud cost companies more than $7 billion in total losses with a median of $133,000 in losses per case. For 22% of cases fraud caused… Read more »
What’s the leader’s role? There’s no doubt that the further a person crawls up the corporate ladder, they should be spending more time thinking and less time doing. It’s a very important mindset to understand that thinking is not doing nothing. It might not seem like you’re busy but it’s an essential part of a leader’s role. We… Read more »
Well, if some recent, devastating cyber attacks are any indication, it may be todayâs phishing vector of choice. Just a few weeks ago, the city of Baltimore was hit by a massive ransomware attack from a virus called âRobbinhood.â The hackers demanded $76,000 from the city as ransom for the data they stoleâin keeping with… Read more »
OpenSesame hosted more than 200 customers, course publishers and LMS companies at its annual user conference 11-12 September in Portland, Oregon. This year’s conference centered on themes surrounding future skilling and developing leaders for a 21st century workforce, leveraging learning technology advancements in machine learning and artificial intelligence, maximizing elearning utilization, finding training budgets and… Read more »
I know the world is changing. I know people donât talk on the phone anymore, and it wouldnât surprise me to learn that teenagers send digital kisses to each other to save themselves the trouble of having to do the actual work of making out. And I know the way you do business is changing,… Read more »
Global 2000 enterprises can now leverage elearning content as interactive and engaging as in-person classroom training Portland, OR â 30 August 2019 â OpenSesame, the elearning innovator, announced the addition of Bigger Brains to its popular OpenSesame Plus subscription to broaden its curated library of business skills and software training courses. As enterprise organizations shift… Read more »
So you want to come up with a new strategy. Maybe things are OK but you think they could be better â or perhaps things arenât so good and you want to turn that around. Maybe you sense your industry changing and want to stay ahead of the curve. There are a million reasons you… Read more »
Hiring people is exhausting. You have to write the ad, screen out all the crazies, conduct a bunch of interviews, realize in the process that you werenât 100% at screening out all the crazies â and then, after all that, you finally make your choice and revel in the knowledge that youâve found the best… Read more »