Arriving in April, the New Year rush is over and sometimes your employees can start to lose their steam –  and then their productivity lowers. 

As a Human Resources Manager, you are responsible for many factors which can directly improve employee productivity; managing your recruiting, ensuring your employees bring diversity to your organisation, and encouraging employee engagement. 

You are also able to equip your employees with their own tangible skills and strategies to improve their efficiency with our training. Go1 Global Premium has a range of content topics that can support employees to be more efficient in the work they do. 

Check out this month's Course Category series, to find the courses we think can support your employee's productivity best.

Addressing Low Productivity with the Right Training

Employee productivity is vital to your business’s success, but productivity is complex and often misunderstood. Common misconceptions around productivity are that it is helped by employees spending more hours sitting in a cubicle or that multitasking is the answer. 

Productivity should mean helping your staff work smarter and assisting them to bypass barriers to efficiency. Growing a productive workforce is complex and there are opportunities to improve efficiency just about anywhere in your company. It is worth investing into a highly productive team as you can lower overhead costs and increase revenue, and your organisation can enjoy faster time to market for products and higher customer satisfaction. As you will see, this month's suggested courses span a variety of topics, as no one solution can help staff be more productive. 

Project management: delegate and plan to be your most productive 

New projects take more than just an idea to get off the ground – there are a lot of moving parts for it to be successful; including a strategy, planning and execution. By working smarter, rather than harder, you’ll be able to leverage your existing resources more effectively. With Go1's project management courses, employees can gain a head start in the process and ensure that your projects are completed on time and to exacting specifications. Our Go1 project management training highlighted this month will help employees learn how to manage a project and overcome the challenges to efficiently run the process from start to finish.  

​​Don’t let everyday tasks derail your productivity

Amongst all the data on barriers to productivity, one topic stands out the most: time management. Somewhat the invisible culprit, business as usual tasks can quickly derail productivity. Changing the way we do our work to improve our productivity is hard, as the processes have become habit. However although it may have worked in the past, changing your process today could make you more productive. Go1's training on time management techniques can help your employees work smarter, not harder, by giving you strategies to focus on high priority tasks by better managing your time and eliminating the time wasters in your day. 

Problem solving and productivity work hand-in-hand

One of the most valuable skills you can have in the workplace is the ability to solve problems – clearly, calmly and effectively. Being able to think critically and solve for problems is important, but often in workplace it requires this to happen at lightning-fast speed! Consider sharing problems with your co-workers. The more time you spend trying to solve for a problem the harder it becomes and your mind stalls – why not ask someone how they would solve the problem to spark your creativity. Reframe the challenge or task at hand based on your past experience – this can help your mind draw on previous innovative ideas much more quickly than you would think. With our Premium highlights this month, learn how to improve your problem solving skills and be empowered to make informed decisions faster and solve problems more efficiently.  

 Come back next week to find more Go1 courses available in Global Premium that address this month's topic of productivity. 

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Learn about the Go1 content that can help your staff to work smarter not harder!

Course category of the month - April: increasing employee productivity   

At Go1, we aim to provide only the best content available so that you can meet your training needs. That is why we are very pleased to announce our new partnership with Global Vision Media, an industry-leading provider of innovative, cost-effective eLearning solutions. 

Global Vision Media is an award-winning company with a rich history and experience. With 20 years of expertise in the areas of instructional design, content development, learning management systems and talent management systems, their aim is to help their clients to measure the return on their training investment and to achieve maximum learning efficiency and effectiveness.

Global Vision Media has a suite of seven AU compliance courses which are particularly aimed at local councils. Global Vision Media has won two Australian Institute of Training and Development awards over the last 10 years, making them an ideal partner for Go1 in the Australian workplace compliance space. All courses are short, clear and concise and very easy for all employees to complete.

Occupational health & safety for employees

Occupational health & safety for managers

Equal employment opportunity for employees

Equal employment opportunity for managers

Workplace bullying & harassment for employees

Workplace bullying & harassment for managers

Go1 makes it easy for businesses to train their staff, with the world’s largest compliance, professional development and general training marketplace. You can now find all of Global Vision Media's courses available in Go1 Premium. 

Learn more about the courses available from Global Vision Media here 

Go1 announces new partnership with Global Vision Media 

 We are excited to welcome content creator ViaUp to the Go1 Premium library. 

ViaUp is an Australian e-learning creator who specialises in crafting engaging learning experiences through their e-learning content. They bring their content to life, to create corporate learning that resonates.   

ViaUp courses are developed with the fundamental principles in mind, that organisations can achieve their missions, if they ensure employees understand and appreciate the importance of:

ViaUp content is created in collaboration with leading subject matter experts, to ensure the learning material is relevant and at the forefront of discussions on the subject. 

Their content is delivered via rich and interactive video and immediately upon enrolling in a course, you will experience extraordinary interactive learning of a quality unlike most other animated e-learning videos. 

ViaUp has five courses available in Go1 Premium: 

The Bullying, Harassment and Discrimination course, is short course which offers the toolkit employees need to help themselves and their co-workers to identify and then respond in the right way, to inappropriate behaviour in the workplace. Read more about it here. 

Driver Safety course, with more employees driving for work in different capacities, being safe on the road is incredibly important. Make sure you know how to keep yourself and others safe when you’re behind the wheel. Read more about it here. 

Office Ergonomics, is course to empowers organisation to identify and address the causes of poor office ergonomics by providing them with information that enables them to correctly set up and utilise their office workstation. 

Alcohol and Other Drugs course, enables organisations to identify and address the risks involved when somebody chooses to show up to work under the influence of alcohol or other drugs. By addressing these risks, and dispelling some of the myths surrounding the topic, people will be empowered to prevent incidents and support their colleagues.

You can now find these ViaUp’s courses, plus a more coming soon including a course on Stress, Anxiousness and Anxiety! 

ViaUp available in Go1 Premium and are accessible in all regions however the content was created for an Australian market.  

Want access? Sign up for Go1 Premium today!

Go1 welcomes our newest Content Partner: ViaUp

BRISBANE, 25 FEBRUARY, 2019:  Go1, the world’s largest onboarding, compliance and professional development platform, has signed a new partnership with one of the world’s leading digital learning specialists Kineo.

The partnership enables Go1 users to purchase the best of Kineo’s elearning courses or packages directly through Go1's Marketplace*. 

Kineo was founded in 2005 and quickly grew a global footprint including Australia, New Zealand, UK and the US. As part of the City & Guilds Group, a global collective of learning first businesses who are celebrating their 140-year anniversary, Kineo is dedicated to preparing people for the future of work. 

Go1 offers more than 500,000 courses and reaches 22 million users through its platform and integrated partners. Go1 CEO and co-founder Andrew Barnes says the partnership will further drive eLearning in the APAC region and globally.

"Kineo and Go1 share a philosophy of making learning accessible and engaging. We’re delighted to make their courses available through the Go1 platform. We now offer well over half a million courses created by experts, from first-aid training through to university-led courses," Mr Barnes says.

Kineo has a wide range of professional training courses and the only provider to have endorsement by the National Safety Council Australia Foundation (NSCA). Look out for added value benefits with NSCA co-branded digital credentialing coming soon to 30 work health safety course titles. 

The most popular Kineo courses cover workplace safety:

1.     Bullying and Harassment for Employees

2.     Work Health and Safety Fundamentals

4.     Identifying, Reporting and Responding to the Abuse of Older People in Care

6.     Equal Employment Opportunity for Employees

8.     Infection Prevention and Control

 Find more information on the Kineo courses here. 

The partnership will also see Go1 and Kineo working together to support clients looking for an enterprise platform solution, in particular Totara. 

Kineo’s Head of Strategic Alliances, Craig Parr, added that the company is tremendously excited about the potential the partnership brings and making their courses accessible to Go1 users. 

"As a City & Guilds Group business we're part of a powerful global group, leading the way in skills development, technology and credentialing. However, at Kineo we couldn't do what we do without the help of great relationships – with our customers and delivery partners like Go1." 

Together Kineo and Go1 are united by a single purpose - helping people and organisations develop skills for growth. 

“We are working together to offer end-to-end digital learning solutions to customers around the world," said Craig Parr.

* Kineo courses will not be available through the Go1 Premium subscription and are to be purchased separately. 

To access Kineo's elearning courses, get in touch with one of our team members today. 

New high-quality, professionally endorsed courses now available

Go1 adds 88 new courses with Kineo partnership 

The content spotlight this week is on Mind Channel's course called Communication Skills (Part 1 and 2). 

The Communication Skills course might be bite-sized but it offers a variety of practical communication tips. In a total of six minutes, your staff can take away five CLEAR tips to improve communication skills in both their professional and private life. 

Mind Channel has effectively structured their course to focus on a handful of common examples of workplace communication skills, that generally any staff member will need. The importance of these skills are outlined alongside a good example of how to display the skills effectively within the workplace, to help provide a clear learning outcome to put into practice. 

Course highlights: Mind Channel's content will help employees become more impactful communicators and build better relationships through communication. They do this by structuring the course around an acronym - CLEAR. Five skills that lead to great verbal communication. 

Learning takeaway: Make your requests powerful. You can do this by providing clarity in your request, whilst ensuring you give your employees an avenue to choose. 

Mind Channel is one of Go1's providers who specialise in bite-sized microlearning. They create short, fun, bite-sized microlearning videos for the modern employee - perfect for mobile, tablet and desktop.

With more than 60 soft skills and professional development microlearning videos in the Go1 Premium library, Mind Channel is a great provider to rely on if your looking for short and sharp videos. Mind Channel is highly recommended for its production and animation quality and is well received by learners. Mind Channel content comes in English and Portuguese!

*Mind Channel content is available to all Global Go1 Premium content subscribers. 

Want more details about Communication courses?

Take just six minutes out of your day, and improve your communication skills!

Course of the week: Communication Skills 

At Go1, we pride ourselves with partnering with the best content creators in the world. We also strive to provide our customers with the highest quality training content available in the market. For these reasons, we are excited to announce our brand new partnership with The Career Academy.

The Career Academy is an online education provider that ensures you step into their courses with your dream job in mind, and step out with your dream job in sight. All the while receiving comprehensive study support and valuable training that can be tailored to fit your busy life.

The Career Academy specialises in training for accounting software, such as Xero and Myob, and their certificate in Xero is now available in Go1 Premium. This certificate is a long course which covers off all the essential topics staff need to learn to be proficient in Xero software. The Career Academy are one of the most reputable Xero training providers in the market, consistently updating their training to reflect changes to software, new features and best practice.

Xero Bank Reconciliation & Managing Accounts

Want to gain access to The Career Academy's training? Sign up for Go1 Premium today! 

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Go1 and The Career Academy announce new partnership

The content spotlight this week is on Interaction Training's course called Basic Written Communication for the Workplace. 

The types of communication that occur in the workplace range from a simple hallway conversation or telephone chat to formal written documents, meetings and presentations. Interaction Training have a catalogue of communication courses that cover all formats and mediums different people use to communicate in different ways in the workplace. 

Basic Written Communication for the Workplace is the course of the week, because it focuses on skills to help ensure your written communication best conveys your intended message. The course effectively balances the teaching well with practical exercises, to actually help to improve your written communications.

When building out a workplace communication learning program, written communication is often the first topic Human Resource Managers will include. Go1 Premium offers a variety of courses to help improve your written communication skills. This course is one of our more popular because it covers all the aspects required to improve writing (including your messaging and grammar) and is applicable to any format of writing undertaken in the workplace. 

The course contains a single interactive module which has an expected completion duration of one hour. The module is divided into different sections, which Interaction Training views to be the key components of written communication. 

The Writing Process = planning, writing, revising 

Grammar and Punctuation = commas, quotations, apostrophes  

Specific Document Tips = email, letters, memos, proposals

Each topic concludes with "practical exercises", which are essentially several quiz questions to affirm your learning. 

"Whenever possible, use an active voice rather than a passive voice because an active voice is always more compelling and immediate. For example: Mary hit the ball is preferable to: The ball was hit by Mary."

"Try to use short, declarative sentences and bullet points or lists rather than long, rambling sentences. As a general rule, if a sentence is longer than 30 words, then it is too long!"

Interaction Training is one of Go1's content providers that specialises in interactive files. The Interaction Training courses are tailored to an Australian audience, particularly the compliance content, however their Ready2work category of content provides general and varied content applicable to international learners. Ready2work targets the skill gaps of people entering the business world. Go1 is very excited to be able to make this content available to you, as it comes from subject matter experts and is great for Small - Medium Businesses. 

*Interaction Training content is available to all Global Go1 Premium content subscribers. 

Enrol in this course to develop skills that will allow you to get your message across to others as well as understand the message being presented to you. 

Course of the week: Basic Written Communication for the Workplace 

As we continue to expand our ever-growing content library to include the best content from across the world, we are excited to announce that Go1 has partnered with The Australian Red Cross to deliver First Aid and CPR in-person training.

The Australian Red Cross is one of Australia’s most recognised and trusted brands, delivering services, training and support to Australians for over 100 years. They are committed to building a better society based on people helping people and they support and empower people and communities in times of vulnerability.

Go1 customers can now learn first aid and mental health first aid through a nationally recognised Red Cross course.

If you’re an employer ready to invest in first aid training for your staff, Go1 can make this process a whole lot easier for you. Make your training process quick and easy by getting in touch with one of our Training Assistants. Go1’s Training Assist service will source your face to face first aid training, reducing any hassles associated with finding and booking training for your teams.

The Go1 Training Assist is free for anyone to use. Follow 3 simple steps and get quotes for your next training program without lifting a finger!

Go1 and the Australian Red Cross join forces

As we continue to expand our ever-growing content library to include the highest quality content from across the world, we are very excited to introduce Cegos as the latest content partner to join Go1.

Cegos is a European content provider specialising in soft-skills training, with a massive library of courses which can be accessed in 14 different languages, including Spanish, French, German, Japanese and others. With its international culture and French origins, the Cegos Group is both a keen observer and a dedicated player in the world of work and business. For nearly a century, Cegos has supported companies in their plans to transform and grow, advancing the personal and professional development of individuals worldwide.

In today's workplace, learning and development has become a key driver of competitiveness in the face of accelerated technological change in the working world.  With its teams, clients and partners, Cegos rises to these challenges by offering “much more than knowledge”.

Go1, the world’s largest onboarding, compliance and professional development platform, is excited to have Cegos come on board as a content partner. Together, we will take an innovative step towards unlocking positive potential in workplaces.

With a great coverage of soft skills training, covering every soft skills topic imaginable, Cegos is an excellent tool to use with large multinational businesses with offices and learners in multiple countries. Cegos training is currently available via the Go1 Marketplace and can be quoted for upon request.

We have 200 of Cegos' training courses available in the Go1 Marketplace, get started today!

One of Go1 Premium's most popular content topics is Communication. The Go1 library offers a variety of content to help ensure all the components of your workplace communication are working together. Check out this month's course category series, to find the right communication course for you.  

Typically when you think of communication in the workplace, you think of having the skills to avoid and/or mitigate conflict. Yes, those skills are important, but they only form one part of good communication skills. To maximise your employee communication skills, your learners require training in written and online communication, face-to-face communication, as well as learning communication skills to manage specific situations such as conflict, client relationships and/or project management - plus much more!

Why should you include communication courses in your training program?

Most people can agree workplace communication is very important to a business. Good communication ensures staff productivity, job satisfaction and staff morale. Communication serves two essential functions in every organisation; first, it disseminates the information needed by employees to get things done, and secondly, it builds relationships of trust and commitment.

When you browse the content tagged as communication in the Go1 library, you might notice there is a lot of content covering a lot of different topics. Traditionally, when training employees on communication, Learning and Development focuses on the "words." However, communicating is more than that and includes the writing as well as courses that cover non-verbal communication, listening, communication via social media, and more. 

Focus on including content that can firstly up-skill users in better sharing information (be it face-to-face or via an online means). Having the right skills and techniques can help sharing and knowledge collaboration, especially these days in the workplace employees are now communicating via emails, social media and other written means. Without the right skills, it can easily lead to misunderstandings. Help your staff make sure the messages they share are understood correctly, by including courses on written communication. 

Additionally, arm your staff with the appropriate skills to manage relationships and team work. Communication between departments and team members is essential for productivity, collaboration and accountability. This can be a broad-brush content area, but we suggest focusing on (at least to begin with), the common skills employees always need. These are areas such as managing difficult conversations, how to use the right body language, and how to ask the right questions. 

Depending on your business type, communication skills are critical to sales success. Here, you might also include communication content that is specific to customer-facing employees. This is a content area in itself, and should be in addition to your internal communication content, for the staff that are on the front line. 

BizLibrary is a premium provider with content available to all Go1 customers (aside from those in the US). If you need a reliable provider to cover all your workplace communication content - this is the provider for you! Their philosophy is "Better communication among employees creates a better workplace in all areas." BizLibrary has curated different series of communication content to help your learners communicate in a variety of situations. 

The Business Etiquette Series is worth enrolling in. It focuses on communication via different mediums such as social media and email. With 144 courses in Go1 Premium tagged as communication, they have a variety of learning items that cover the diversity of communication skills employees need to be successful in the workplace. Courses such as their  High Impact Communication Series offer action tips for your learners to takeaway and instantly improve both their writing and public speaking.  

Come back next week to learn about some different Go1 providers who also have quality communication courses we think you should enrol in!

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