At one time or another we have all procrastinated. Every day in the business world we are faced with so many tasks to do. What procrastination means is to keep putting a task off for as long as possible.

We have all done it at one stage in our careers we put of creating that excel spread sheet or that PowerPoint presentation, we lose focus and it’s all done in the last minute which is the biggest cause of low productivity in the workplace.

“I'll do it later’’ we have all heard that in our office, putting a must do task off for a certain amount of time because it may be dull, boring complicated or all three. So, there are a few different types of procrastinators here;

1. Unmotivated
2. Indecisive
3. Unorganised
4. Easily distracted

Identifying the reasons why you procrastinate

Here you must look at why am I putting this task off for so long. Is it that the project is too hard, do you need help, and why are you procrastination so much.

Many factors come into play here. You could be stressed, have strong emotions, time of personal crisis, financial worry, are you a type of ‘Yes’ man/woman who takes on way too much work? These are factors that can contribute.

The solution to some of the above factors can be as easily as having a mental health break, exercising and taking care of your body, making sure you get enough sleep, eating healthy and watching your weight. Even avoiding coffee may help. People think coffee is great but it only reaps short-term benefits.

A particular matter that has helped me is using focusing techniques like mediation. It is very important to take time out and to recharge and refresh yourself.

Beat Procrastination by getting motivated

Sometimes we all can get a lack of drive with a certain task, we are only human after all. I found using positive or negative visualisations to help you get it done. Asking yourself what will happen if I don’t get the report done? My boss will be very unhappy with me. On the other hand, visualise the presentation going well, the clients loving it and making heaps of commission.

Here, I think it is of vital importance to learn how to break the task down into bite sized chunks.

Also, you must reward yourself when the task is complete. Go see a movie or go to a new restaurant. Rewarding yourself is very important.

Beat procrastination by being more decisive

“I’ll do it later ” this ladies and gentlemen is the motto of a Procrastinator.

We do this because of a fear of failure and we over analysis the situation. Here we must learn to be brave. Focus in getting started and don’t get overwhelmed, take the first step and go forth from there. What can really help here is setting milestones and deadlines for yourself and reward yourself where appropriate.

Beat Procrastination by organising your time

We often tackle the easy tasks first ‘low hanging fruit’. Then we put off the important task till later in the day. What is so important to remember here is the fact that we have more energy in the morning than what we have in the afternoon. So, taking advantage of the time of day when you have the most energy is the most productive way to get that hard task done first.

Start all the tasks you hate first, and another great idea is to start a task list off when you finish work for the following day before you leave the office.

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Overcoming procrastination; admitting is the first step

In September 2004, Governor Arnold Schwarznegger signed into effect AB1825, an assembly bill which created requirements around sexual harassment training for Californian employers and employees.

Recently, we published an article detailing ‘What Californian Businesses Need to Know About AB1825What Californian Businesses Need to Know About AB1825What Californian Businesses Need to Know About AB1825’ which goes over the nuts and bolts of the requirements. In essence, employers and companies with over 50 staff must provide a total of at least two hours of sexual harassment training to their supervisors.

The introduction of AB1825 was the first of many steps taken by the state of California in order to combat issues within the workplace focused around harassment and discrimination. Such training is now common place throughout several states including Maine and Connecticut, which first led this initiative in 1991 and 1992 respectively.

However, recently a number of updates and amendments have been made to these bills to ensure training meets the needs of today’s modern society.

In 2015, California introduced the AB2053 amendment which updated the mandatory training for teams to now also cover anti-bullying training in relation to this type of misconduct, in addition to the anti-harassment training which was previously required.

Most recently the Transgender Work Opportunity Act – Senate Bill (SB) 396 was established. As part of California’s SB396 update, employers’ anti-harassment training must also cover training around gender identity and sexual orientation. All Californian businesses over 50 staff in size must be compliant with this as of 1 January 2018. 

It’s clear to see that governments are making changes that adapt to the progressive society we’re living in, and the difference of individuals within them. Whilst legislation has been the driver catalyst for this training, modern employers are rolling out this training across their entire teams nationwide, in order to educate and empower their teams.

Whether you’re in California, Connecticut, or Maine – at Go1 we have a number of courses that are in full compliance with AB1825, AB2053, and SB396 – with a variety of course lengths available should you wish to offer a shorter course to those not in supervisory positions too.

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California sexual harassment compliance – are you up to date? (AB1825 + AB2053 + SB396)

When you’re creating online learning content, you need to make sure it’s available to all learners. This means making your content accessible to everyone, including users with hearing, vision or motor impairment.

Whether you’re developing an eLearning course or any other form of online training materials, accessibility is a very important part of the design process.

Do you feel confident that you have a basic understanding of web accessibility, and why it’s so important in online learning?

Here are some things you need to know about accessibility, so next time you’re creating an eLearning course, you won't be excluding any members of your learning community.

Accessibility challenges the barriers that affect a person’s access and contribution to the web. This includes all visual, auditory, physical, speech, cognitive, and neurological disabilities or impairments that make it difficult or impossible to use online content.

The internet is an important resource in many aspects of life – including education and learning. It is essential that online learning content is accessible to all, while providing equal opportunities to people with disabilities.

Accessibility also benefits older people with changing abilities due to aging, or those with English as a second language. Or even temporary disabilities like a broken arm. It provides ease of access to the internet for each and every user.

Web accessibility guidelines also form an important aspect of making sure your content is compliant.

In fact, in many industries, accessibility is a legal requirement – so it’s imperative that your business meets compliance in this area.

If you’re working in the learning industry, you need to be aware of these laws when preparing training materials. Take the time to learn about accessibility guidelines and how you can evaluate your current programs for compliance.

Accessibility is about making your web content more accessible to users with impairment or disability, allowing them to better navigate your website or learning materials.

So how do you make sure your training content is accessible to every learner?

Audio and video content can be difficult for learners with hearing or visual impairments to access, so providing transcripts for audio and video content helps.

When incorporating video content into your eLearning course, make sure it has closed captioning. It is best practice to always turn captions on. This will benefit learners with hearing impairments, as well as those students whose first language is not English.

Visually impaired people may use screen readers to listen to, and navigate through, online items. You should be using Alt Tag descriptions and text for your online images, to assist visually impaired learners.

You can also provide course materials in alternate formats, such as large print, Braille, and electronic or audio formats.

Make Content Accessible from the Very Start

Maureen Orey, author of Successful Staffing in a Diverse Workplace, has this advice for eLearning professionals.

“The time to begin thinking about accessibility is not when you are testing your course in the pilot phase.”

She says it’s important to integrate it into the early stages of the design process.

“Keeping accessibility in mind from the start will save you time and money.”

Orey also considers accessibility a critical part of “working to create a culture of inclusion (not just compliance)” – an excellent point.

There are many ways to practice accessibility with your learning content, and these are just a few factors that will help make your content accessible to as many people as possible.

For best practice guidelines and tips, take the time to learn more about web accessibility and universal design practices. Your learning content will be more effective, compliant and highly regarded when you pay attention to accessibility.

Wearable tech is no longer limited to just something you wear on your wrist. Creative technicians are finding a wide variety of new uses for wearable tech as it is being invented. Employee training is just one of the many new fields that is enjoying the benefits of the latest types of wearable tech.

Wearable tech can help you improve your employees' performance and increase retention rates by creating an immersive, realistic and interactive training experience. And better trained employees are better employees.

How wearable tech can create a better training experience for your employees

Instead of sitting behind a computer watching a video and answering questions, employees can literally "step into the story" and interact with virtual characters. Best of all, you get to watch and see how they do. In addition, rather than having a standard set of questions you ask all employees to answer uniformly, you can load different scenarios for different employees.

Instead of simply reading materials about an upcoming product, employees can view it in 3D, interact with it and pull up specs as they are doing so. The more familiar your employees are with a product, the more confidently they can present it to your consumers.

Cell phones and tablets put a great deal of product information right at the fingertips of your employees on the sales floor or out on a sales call. Wearable tech, however, offers the same benefits but leaves their hands free.

As more and more companies are hiring remote workers, wearable tech gives you the opportunity to provide the exact same training for on-site workers as for remote workers.

When an employee needs management assistance, wearable tech allows managers to give face-to-face assistance without ever leaving their desk. And that includes being able to interact with customers. Instead of having to be in three places at once, wearable tech allows you to interact in three different situations within a matter of seconds.

Employees in training often make mistakes which you sometimes can't correct until well after the fact. Feedback features on wearable tech allows you to deliver a small vibration to their wrist to alert them immediately when they are doing something incorrectly, without embarrassing them or drawing a customer's attention to it.

Instant messaging is helpful, but when an employee steps away from their desk, they also leave behind the ability to respond instantly. Wearable tech frees employees from being tethered to their desks while still being able to engage in real-time digital messaging.

Prior to reading this article, your first association with VR headsets might have been to gaming or you might have related smartwatches primarily to fitness training. However, as you can see, these innovations are finding entirely new purposes in the business world. Wearable tech relies immensely on the simplicity of its usage. In addition, by making it a part of employee training, you could provide learning that is not limited by time or space, which opens a world of possibilities. If implemented correctly, it could take your business to a whole new level.

Now that you know how wearable tech can generally be of use to your business, here are a few devices that show the most promise in employee training and engagement right now. 

VR - or Virtual Reality - headsets are on the cutting edge of wearable tech. They are what allows your employees to become fully immersed in a fully realistic experience or exchange. By watching your employees actually engage with virtual clients, customers or consumers, you can help them understand how to act, react or respond in almost any situation they might encounter. This not only helps your employees, it helps your clients and consumers.

VR headsets can also help you train employees on job-specific tasks, such as proper fast-food techniques or even how to properly check oncoming traffic for delivery drivers. The great part about VR is that if trainees do something improperly, there are no accidents, no medical bills or rate hikes in your liability insurance.

Google Glass headsets work something like VR goggles, but instead of being fully immersed in the VR experience, the virtual world is essentially "laid over" the real world. Training can still be simulated the same way as with VR goggles but Google glass headsets offer even more versatility because they can also be worn when interacting with real clients.

With Glass Enterprise Edition trainers can also collect data from the wearer than can provide valuable data to help trainers give more accurate feedback. This includes things like the employee's level of attention to the client and whether or not they make direct eye contact or when they become distracted while driving. This data can help trainers offer important feedback directly related to the trainee's actions and interactions.

Smartwatches are the most readily available wearable tech, but they are also the most limited in terms of tailored learning programs. However, they are the least distracting and show the most potential for providing real-time access to critical information while still keeping an employee's hands free for other things. While VR Goggles or even Google Glass Headsets make for a great training experience, smartwatches make the best transition from the training room to the real world.

These are just three of the wearable tech products currently available and some of the potential uses for them. There are a wide range of products currently in development however, many of which may make a better transition from the training room to the real world. Even the tech that exists right now, however, is making for a better, more immersive training experience, which helps both employees and employers. 

Jasmine Williams covers the good and the bad of today's business and marketing. When she’s not being all serious and busy, she’s usually hunched over a book or dancing in the kitchen, trying hard to maintain rhythm, and delivering some fine cooking (her family says so). Tweet her @JazzyWilliams88.

Employee training is just one of the many new fields that is enjoying the benefits of the latest types of wearable tech. Learn more here!

How wearable technology is revolutionizing training

Everyone has heard of motivation but not everyone knows exactly how to find it or what motivates different people. To really understand motivation and motivating, you need to start with the basics.

So what is motivation? Motivation can be described as the reason behind people’s actions, desires and even needs. It is key to find what motivates different people in the workplace and use these motivating factors to achieve an end goal which will be beneficial for both the employee and the organization.

Regardless of the industry or vertical if you will, managers across the board face a common issue in keeping employees motivated. Having motivated employees can be a key factor in whether or not an organization is successful, nothing can drain a culture quicker than a group of employees who are not motivated and have lost interest in the work they are doing. This is why today a push for leadership to maintain motivation levels high is a priority, a motivated employee is one of if not the most important assets an organization can possess.

So how has Skillsoft addressed the issue of motivation effectively?

They have put together a great mix of tips and ways to both find what motivates employees and keeping employees motivated. The content is well structured and easy to follow, great way for anyone in a leadership position to gather insights into the methodology behind motivating employees.

Motivation can be broken down into two main categories, extrinsic and intrinsic. Maslow is most well-known for mapping these out in the hierarchy of needs (Maslow’s pyramid), basic needs which motivate us are usually referred to as extrinsic and as you move up the pyramid the needs become more complex and are known as intrinsic motivations.

When one’s intrinsic motivators are known they can be used to great affect and employees can be greatly motivated under the right leadership.

Involving, validating, and developing employees

Simple ideas or concepts but they are easily overlooked or forgotten, bringing it back to the basics ensures a great workplace environment. Creating a feeling that all belong, making employees feel appreciated and ensuring personal development is a focus through goal achievement all ensure motivation is maintained at a high level amongst employees.

Leveraging motivation through workplace systems

Workplace systems are not just a way to monitor and critique employees, they can be powerful motivators if used in the correct manner. Linking systems to an individual’s motivators can ensure personal growth, up-skilling and outline a path for career progression.

No two employees will be the same in terms of motivating factors, although it may be a difficult task, leaders need to dig deep and understand each individual on a person level. By linking company objectives to personal motivators employees will feel they are achieving what is important to them while working towards a company objective.

Everyone understands that having employees motivated is crucial, When you introduce better practices to understand individuals the benefits for the organisation can be endless.

With ‘Motivating Your Employees’ you can have everyone feeling like personal goals are being met while achieving company goals as a whole.

One of the biggest questions once completing a training module or course is always how effective was this or did I actually learn something. Not to worry, a great way to measure this is provided. A simple exercise sums up the course and tests the knowledge that has been acquired to ensure that the content matter has been understood and attained.

With Employees motivated and morale high there is no limit to what can be achieved in any organization. So now with motivating your employees this can be achieved and the tools are at your disposal.

Did you know that having a bad work-life balance is one of the number one reasons why people quit their jobs?

There’s no doubt that the working world is a more fast-paced environment these days. There’s simply a much bigger focus placed on “overnight” success and achieving milestones quickly and more frequently.

Whether that’s businesses coming out with new products or simply growing their customer reach, everyone wants things done now. 

Of course, this means that employees often face bigger workloads and naturally a lot of people don’t switch off and get enough ‘me time’ when they leave the office as a result.

There’s more to life than just working. Now, we know you want your employees to work hard, but hear us out on this one. When your employees don’t have a good work-life balance, it can be detrimental to your business. Then everyone suffers.

Having a work-life balance is crucial for maintaining good mental and physical health. Let’s face it, work gets stressful a lot of the time, which means that employees can feel under pressure and overworked during the week.

There’s big workloads and difficult interactions with customers that can weigh you down. This gets worse if employees don’t know how to cope with this level of stress and this constant pressure can increase the risk of suffering from stress-related diseases, as well as mental issues like depression.

Nobody wants to be the cause of employee unhappiness or for their jobs to have an effect on their health.

In addition, when you work this hard constantly with no time for rest and reward, you can reach a burnout. This is a fatigue that you can’t shake and mean performance at work dips.

Not only does this have a negative effect on the person suffering it, but it also has a negative impact on the work they’re doing. It can affect your motivation to get things done, your ability to do your job properly and also bring down your overall productivity.

Your employees might spend long hours in the office even after it closes, but this doesn’t mean they’re getting more things done. This affects the whole team and it’s important you find a way for employees to feel in control.

Not having a good work-life balance can also make employees feel resentful towards you as an employer and unsatisfied with their workplace. This is what leads new and experienced employees to seek a new place to work. This is the last thing that you want!

But, there’s something you can do to prevent all of these things from happening and affecting your business. As an employer, you’ve got to encourage healthy habits and good work-life balance.

Sure, you can make little adjustments around the office, such as team meetings, regular breaks and making sure everyone leaves on time at the end of the day.

But, one of the best ways to encourage your employees to have a good work-life balance is to provide them with the resources they need to learn about how they can do this themselves.

You can do this simply with a good online e-learning course from Go1 Premium. Here you’ve got access to thousands of amazing courses that will allow employees to improve their skills and learn how they can have a better work-life balance.

Once they’re finished, there won’t be any groans on Monday morning when they’re back at their desks – instead there will be that proactive attitude that says they’re ready to get started

Having time to get outdoors, enjoy some rest and spend time with friends and family will let employees have some downtime that will mean they’re refreshed and clear-headed, ready to work hard and enjoy their job again. That’s what every employer wants, right?

Plus, there’s lots of skills you can learn in your daily life that your employees can bring back to the office. Downtime allows employees to gain life experience and knowledge from other people around them. This gives them another dimension to bring to the table at work.

So, it’s important to motivate and teach your employees to work hard, but also to play hard too. Let’s introduce you to our favorite work-life balance course from Go1 Premium that you need for your office.

This Go1 Premium course is suitable for your whole team and it’s going to help employees learn more about enjoying a healthy work-life balance and how it can be achieved.

In addition, the content educates your employees on how having this balance is important individually for their health and happiness, as well as for the productivity and progression of the whole team.

With the help of this course, employees can get back on a track to success and find ways of managing any stress they encounter through downtime. This is a way to make sure employees want to stay at your business for the long haul.

Of course, some people start off on the right path and are motivated to change their ways. It’s like new year resolutions – everyone starts off well, but by the end of January, they are burnt out.

So, from the beginning, you’ve got to get employees on board with the course and teach them, so that not only do they want to have a work-life balance, but so they maintain a work-life balance moving forward.

A good work-life balance is becoming increasingly more important in today’s business world. Through this Go1 Premium course, you can make sure that employees learn how they can enjoy a successful working life, without sacrificing the things that they love.

Did you know that millennials look for a strong team culture when they’re searching for a new career and place to work?

No one can deny that teamwork is an important element of success in every walk of life. Whether you’re playing sports or working at a large company, there’s always an advantage to collaborating with other people and supporting each other in any way you can.

A strong team culture is now more important than ever in the business world and a lot of businesses are underestimating just how much it matters.

Millennials that are entering the workforce are looking for more than just a big salary and good vacation time when it comes to a new job. Employees want to join a business that promotes teamwork where they can feel connected to company values, as well as their colleagues.

That’s where you come in. You control the direction of your business and this means you can decide what you want to offer your employees in terms of collaboration opportunities.

That means you want to make sure that your business promotes a strong team culture so that you can attract qualified and experienced talent to your company.

How can you do this? Well, it all really starts with the employees you already have. You’ve got to build your strong team culture from the inside out -that way you can grow.

Now, a lot of people think we’re talking about the physical environment of the workplace. There are theories that believe brightly painting office walls in bold colours can promote creativity and having games in the break room will boost the morale of your employees.

There’s nothing to say that these little things might help some employees. But, one thing’s for sure, it won’t benefit the majority. 

For a real team culture, it all starts with changing the outlook of your employees and the way they view the workplace in their minds and this means the best way you can promote a strong team culture in your business is through training. This way you can develop the right employee mindset and encourage a common outlook on teamwork.

In particular, we’ve got an amazing online e-learning course through Go1 that you’ve got to check out. We strongly feel this is the right starting point for creating a strong team culture.

This course from Go1 is exactly what you need to educate your employees all about the strong team culture you’re building in your business.

The content focuses on how team culture capitalizes on team member’s strengths so that everyone can come together and share knowledge and collaborate successfully.

This e-learning course is around 30 minutes, which makes it perfect for employee training. Plus, you can use exclusive tracking software to see who has completed their training and how they’re progressing with the content.

In addition, there are thousands of other courses through Go1 you can use to build on your strong team culture. This is a great way to maintain the values and culture you are creating for the long haul.

Through a strong team culture, everyone can work together to reach a common goal. This will have a massive impact on productivity where not only is the workload being shared with multiple employees, but it also allows everyone to bring different skills to the table to achieve the best outcome.

When everyone pitches in and there’s good communication in a team, employees will feel like they have the confidence to share ideas, as well as ask questions. This all means that tasks can be completed more efficiently and more effectively, as everyone can brainstorm and support each other.

This then leads to new ideas and innovation in your company. Every boss wants new goals and accomplishments, right?

Of course, where there is a strong team culture, employees can feel accepted and connected with their colleagues. Good working relationships are crucial to good business and somewhere that encourages people working together creates a better environment for everyone.

What’s more, this will mean that employees are more engaged and happier with their career. Your company can enjoy having better employee retention and millennials that are applying to your company can see what benefits you can bring to their life.

Nobody wants to be in an office where its’ dog eats dog and they feel like everyone is in competition again each other – it’s all about building each other up!

So, it’s never too late to start creating a strong team culture in the office. One of the easiest and fastest ways to begin is by choosing online e-learning courses through Go1.

You can leave your employees to learn all about the advantages of a strong team culture and what they can become a part of in your business.

Believe it or not, most people have an incredible memory, they just don't know how to use it. Other than repeating something multiple times, most of us have never been taught memory techniques that really tap into the power of the human brain.

By completing Skillsoft’s course on Improving your Memory Skills, you'll learn basic memory principles and learn how to use them to memorize and recall almost anything, including speeches, passwords, faces, and lists.

As someone who is terrible at remembering a person’s name right after I have met them, I thought this would be an ideal course to gain some tips on how I might better remember a potential customers name that I want to work with, I believe it will definitely help.

This course is ideal for anyone and everyone looking to improve their memory and recall and covers some key objectives on improving your memory skills. Taking just over 20 minutes, this course can really save you a lot of time trying to remember some simple things in life.

Repetition - Easy really, repeat something over and over again or just the next day, the following week and then month.

Exaggeration – I liked this one, by exaggerating the story either by making it bigger, smaller or even funny -  it really does help to remember it.

Imagery – If you associate an image you want to remember, it forces you to focus.

Focus – basically no multi-tasking. By concentrating on what you are doing or wanting to remember you will have a better chance to memorizing it.

Basically, a brain shortcut to help you remember something.  Quite an old technique, but one that’s still around as it obviously works.

Identify the steps of the memory palace technique

Memorizing lists by using places that you are very familiar with.  Improving your memory skills will show some great examples of using rooms around your house to help you remember things on your “to do” list.

Some very simple but fantastic tips to avoid those awkward situations when you forget a person’s name.  After watching this part of the course, I think I will forever remember ‘Bendy Wendy’.

Recognize tips for memorizing text that you’ll later need to recite from memory

From saying it out loud, reading it backwards or making mistakes, the key thing is repetition.  But repetition is time and something we all lack.  This section of the course really helps improve how you remember text you will need to recite later.

Create strong passwords that are easy to remember

After watching this, I don’t think I will need to write down my passwords anymore and I may even be able to produce stronger passwords also.

In conclusion, if you're looking for methods and techniques to improve your memory, as someone with a self-proclaimed terrible memory, I can highly recommend Skillsoft’s Improving Your Memory Skills course as a great course to help any person improve their memory skills.

The Go1 team are pleased to announce the release of the below updates to the Go1 Platform which have been developed over the period from January to March 2018.  Moving forward, to keep you up to date with our improvements we will be producing monthly release notes which will be available within the first 10 days of each month.

Please remember if you have an suggestions for improvements or new features, please do not hesitate in contacting our team so we can help out.

Go1 Assessors and Course Creators now have a more complete ability to manage and track learner progress. Key features of this improvement capability include:

ability for course creators to define target completion date rules or benchmarks for a course, module, or a specific learning item within a course

ability for due dates on new learner enrollments to be automatically generated based on the completion date rules for the course / module / learning item

ability for assessors to manually update expected completion dates for learner enrollments

ability for the system to automatically calculate the percentage (%) complete and learner status against due dates

creation of a new My Teaching Overview that provides summary information about user activity, including quick links that allow the assessor or course creator to click through to detailed reports

improvements to the enrollments report to show enrollments grouped by course and to show status, progress and days ahead or behind of the enrollments in relation to their due dates

improvements to the assessment report to display it on its own tab and to show date submitted and date marked

changes to reports to allow the use of due date, progress ; date submitted and date marked in custom reports

ability for learners to see more information about how they are progressing against the suggested completion benchmarks for a given course, module or learning item

The videos below provide an overview of this functionality.

As we know from your feedback, many of you embraced the new awards capability when we released it in January. Based on your feedback we have made a number of enhancements to these features, to improve its flexibility and to better meet your business needs. These enhancements include the ability:

to include another award inside an award (in addition to a course or a stand alone learning resource)

for award creators to specify whether they are happy for their users to submit external learning records (including attachments) against an award

for award creators to specify whether external learning records need to be "moderated" or reviewed before they are attributed against an award

for award creators to specify assessors for an award

for awards assessors to be able to validate and "pass" an external learning record

to track all points accumulated under an award - past the point of completion

for award assessors and award creators to log external learning records on behalf of a user

to view awards reports at a summary and detail level (which includes all child awards, courses, stand alone learning resources or external learning records)

The videos below provide an overview of this functionality. Further improvements to awards are planned, please provide feedback or suggestions via product@go1.com

Content providers who sell content via Go1 now have the option to have an Content Provider Administer dashboard, which includes information and statistics relating to their content sales, to be enabled for their portal:

ability to view a statistics on total income, new users, enrollments and new courses for a given period: today, this week, this month, this year

ability to view a bar chart of enrollments for a given period: day, week, month, quarter, year

ability to view a payments report of all purchases completed on the portal

ability to create and manage coupons for use when purchasing a course or standalone learning resource that was created on your portal

The videos below provide an overview of this functionality. Please contact product@go1.com if you wish to have these optional features enabled for your portal.

Anyone creating reports in Go1 now has the ability to use some advanced reporting methods to present summary report data:

ability to create a pivot table display from select reports

ability to specify values for inclusion within the pivot table report display

ability to list a unique value to display within the pivot table report, resulting in a matrix report display

In Q1 Go1 has welcomed two new content partners - Catalyst and Skillboosters - all of which are available in Go1's Premium Subscription offering. Go1 is also incredibly proud to announce we have partnered with world-leading eLearning company Skillsoft, providing over 320 of Skillsoft's courses in our Premium offering.

Catalyst is an Australian training and learning company who provides online, face-to-face and blended learning options through Go1. Go1 is proud to offer Catalyst's specialised First Aid training, which goes beyond basic First Aid and teaches students skills in treating patients who suffer Burns, Trauma Injuries, Allergies, Diabetes or Strokes. Go1 is also pleased to offer Catalyst's compliance training which is a must for every Australian business.

Skillboosters is a UK-based microlearning company specialising in fast-paced, high-impact and engaging video content. Go1 is particularly proud to announce this partnership to our UK customers, who will be pleased to know that Skillboosters can address their businesses compliance requirements through their short-form microlearning content. Skillboosters also has several foreign language courses - available in Spanish, French, and even Finnish, for businesses with multi-lingual employees.

Finally, Go1 is excited to announce our partnership with global leader in training and learning, Skillsoft. Through this partnership, Go1 is now offering over 1000 Skillsoft courses via the Go1 marketplace, and 320 of Skillsoft's most popular courses in our Premium subscription. Skillsoft has a diverse course offering, ranging from PRINCE2 training through to basic soft skills and Microsoft Office Suite training. Businesses can take advantage of this diverse offering to construct effective, engaging and tailored learning pathways for their employees, training them in everything from the soft skills necessary to flourish in a modern workplace, through to specialised project management methodologies such as PRINCE2, ITIL and Six Sigma.

The quality of Skillsoft's content is undisputed, and we are already beginning to see incredible uptake of Skillsoft's courses from Go1 customers.
