Why 60% of New Hires Are Underperforming at 90 Days?
Why 60% of New Hires Are Underperforming at 90 Days? Most L&D and HR leaders cannot answer that question without opening a spreadsheet, making three phone calls, and spending a week they do not have. The audit notice arrived. The date is confirmed. And somewhere between your HRMS, your training platform, your physical files, and […]
Cut Your L&D Admin Time by 50%: What That Looks Like in Practice
Cut Your L&D Admin Time by 50%: What That Looks Like in Practice If you are a one- or two-person L&D team, you already know the feeling. It is 4pm on Thursday and you have spent the day on things that had nothing to do with learning. You updated a spreadsheet with the week’s completion […]
Your Compliance Audit Is in 6 Weeks. Can You Prove Every Employee Is Certified?
Your Compliance Audit Is in 6 Weeks. Can You Prove Every Employee Is Certified? The average new hire costs your organisation ₹30 lakh in lost productivity before they reach full output. Most organisations do not know this. The ones that do are the ones designing onboarding to fix it. The average enterprise time-to-full-productivity across all […]
Enterprise LMS Implementation: How to Roll Out a Learning Management System Without Losing Your Team
Enterprise LMS Implementation: How to Roll Out a Learning Management System Without Losing Your Team Signing an Enterprise LMS contract is the easy part. Getting thousands of employees across departments, regions, and business units to actually use the platform is where most enterprise LMS implementations become challenging. An Enterprise LMS implementation is fundamentally different from […]
What Is Employee Onboarding? The Complete Guide to Getting New Hires Productive Fast
What Is Employee Onboarding? The Complete Guide to Getting New Hires Productive Fast You have a limited window to get new-hire onboarding right. Most organisations spend that window handing over a laptop, completing paperwork, and sending a stack of PDFs. The cost of getting it wrong can be significant. BambooHR’s 2023 onboarding research found that […]
LMS Features Checklist: The 15 Must-Have Features Before You Buy in 2026
LMS Features Checklist: The 15 Must-Have Features Before You Buy in 2026 There are over 600 LMS vendors on the market in 2026. Every one of them will tell you their platform has the features you need. This checklist tells you what to actually look for, and how to verify it before you sign. 98% […]
What Is Learning Experience Design (LXD)? How It’s Different from Instructional Design
What Is Learning Experience Design (LXD)? How It’s Different from Instructional Design Most corporate training is designed to cover content. Learning experience design is built to change behaviour. That difference explains almost everything about why one works and the other doesn’t. For decades, the dominant model for creating corporate training was instructional design: analyse what […]
What Is Skills-Based Learning? Why Companies Are Ditching Job Roles for Skill Maps
What Is Skills-Based Learning? Why Companies Are Ditching Job Roles for Skill Maps The job description is dying as the unit of workforce development. Something more precise, more useful, and more honest is taking its place: the skill. Nearly eight in ten HR managers globally, 79%, say their company is now adopting a skills-based approach […]
What Is 360-Degree Feedback? The Complete Guide for HR Leaders in 2026
What Is 360-Degree Feedback? The Complete Guide for HR Leaders in 2026 The annual performance review is dying. And 360-degree feedback is filling the gap, but only when it’s done right. Across organisations in 2026, HR leaders are grappling with the same set of questions: How do we give managers development data that’s actually honest? […]
Upskilling vs Reskilling: What’s the Difference and Which Does Your Organisation Need?
Upskilling vs Reskilling: What’s the Difference and Which Does Your Organisation Need? Upskilling and reskilling are used interchangeably in workforce planning conversations. But they solve entirely different problems, and confusing them sends L&D budgets toward the wrong targets. The stakes for getting this right have never been higher. 59% of the global workforce will need […]
AI Coaching vs Human Coaching: What Actually Works for Corporate Learning in 2026
AI Coaching vs Human Coaching: What Actually Works for Corporate Learning in 2026 If your organisation has a training budget, you are likely wrestling with a critical question this year: do we replace our traditional coaching spend with AI, augment it, or ignore the trend entirely? Ignoring the shift is no longer an option. The […]
Why Your Employees Forget 70% of Training Within a Week, and How to Fix It
Why Your Employees Forget 70% of Training Within a Week and How to Fix It You’ve spent months designing a training programme. The facilitator delivered it brilliantly. Completion rates hit 94%. Your CLO is happy. Six weeks later, a field manager tells you the team is still working exactly the same way as before the […]
The Advent of the Learning Scientist — Part 1
The Advent of the Learning Scientist — Part 1 As a theoretical physicist, I was building neural networks decades before the current AI wave. I was trained to propose ideas that might be wrong and then trained as a Six Sigma Master Black Belt in GE to eliminate variance from processes that were. Most enterprises […]
Standard Chartered–Sadguru Eye Care Education Academy Launches in Chitrakoot to Train 20,000+ Eye Care Professionals
Standard Chartered–Sadguru Eye Care Education Academy Launches in Chitrakoot to Train 20,000+ Eye Care Professionals Chitrakoot, Madhya Pradesh, Shri Sadguru Seva Sangh Trust (SSSST) and Standard Chartered have jointly launched the Standard Chartered–Sadguru Eye Care Education Academy in Chitrakoot, Madhya Pradesh, a major new investment in India’s eye-care workforce. The academy has set out an […]
What Is an AI-Powered Learning Platform? How It’s Different from a Traditional LMS
What Is an AI-Powered Learning Platform? How It’s Different from a Traditional LMS Every LMS vendor now claims to be “AI-powered.” Here is the harder truth: almost none of them can prove that their training actually works. In this guide, we break down exactly what an AI-powered learning platform is, how it differs from a […]
LMS for Professional Training and Coaching Needs
The users of Nuveda’s proprietary CALF™ LMS platform may be found in various industries and functional domains. One such domain is Professional Training and Coaching. These trainers and coaches use different online learning platforms to impart their programs to learners located across the world. What are some of these platforms? The choice of platform depends […]
Blended Learning and Microlearning
Blended learning is a method of imparting learning that combines in-person instruction with online learning activities. It integrates technology with traditional classroom methods to enhance the learning journey. The highlight of a blended learning approach is the ability for a learner to self-pace and hold control over their experience. This could involve online discussions, instructional […]
Musings on Personalized Learning
Personalized Learning Musings on Personalized Learning Balasubramanian Krishnan | Feb 01, 2024 | 3 min read Recently I spoke to the regional head of HR for a large multinational tech company based in the USA. While she was very confident that they had some of the best learning tools & courses in the market – […]
How the world of Learning & Development is changing
Learning & Development How the world of Learning & Development is changing Balasubramanian Krishnan | Jan 31, 2024 | 3 min read The Old World of Learning & Development You know how it goes: -> Run Induction & Onboarding Programs -> Consult with HR Business Partners & provide Learning Solutions -> Measure Compliance & Outcomes […]
Employee Onboarding Perspectives and Metrics – Poll
Poll When a new employee joins a company, it is very instructive to understand the various perspectives of the different stakeholders in this employee’s journey and the entire employee experience. The Employee Perspective (Let’s call him John): I’d like to know more about what the company does, who I work with and what I need […]