Effective performance management in government agencies (or the public sector in general) can be challenging due to the size, complexity and multi-layered nature of government organizations.
OKRs, or Objectives and Key Results, is a goal-setting system used by organizations like Google, Spotify and Twitter, to set measurable goals within the performance management process.
Corporate e-learning exploded last year from being an (almost) optional training tool, to the complete “toolbox” that every corporate training program relied on.
After the biggest Totara release ever in October 2020, when we launched Totara’s Talent Experience Platform, we've moved from a yearly release cycle to a six-monthly cycle.
The traditional approach to setting employee performance goals is for the manager to establish several goals at the start of the year with scant input from the employee.
An instructor, manager or colleague probably spotted your potential at some point and pushed you towards training that propelled you to the next level.
Your opinion of an employee’s work is valuable, but it can only go so far. In reality, many managers don’t work directly with their staff, and may not have an accurate impression of their performance.
Federal government agencies are in the fortunate position of having a lot of very skilled, very experienced talent. However, the pandemic has cast a spotlight on skills gaps in government agencies, and the US federal government is no different.
While our Totara Academy team are busy creating our new platform for learning professionals, we wanted to find out more about what they're up to. This time, Senior Visual Designer Matt Stokes explains how he creates animations for e-learning.
Whether you call them employee performance check-ins, sit-downs or one on one meetings, frequent conversations with staff have a powerful effect on employee experience management and productivity.
The complexity, time, cost and resources required to upgrade your software will depend on a variety of factors including whether your site has been customized - either via plugins, with changes to the core system or by an integration with another system
In the past, the only thing that differentiated large and small organisations’ approaches were the per-learner cost of their technology and a rigid focus on compliance.
COVID-19 has caused a huge change in how many of us are working and learning. As a result, you might be asking yourself what you need going forward? An LMS or an LXP?
The positional and organisational hierarchies functionality allows you to build a picture of your organisation within your Totara site, but many organisations don’t have a structure easily represented by a single framework and often have informal re
