Professional education has advanced from the days when everyone sat in a conference room and listened to boring lectures they promptly forgot by the time the class was over. Technology has transformed our ability to craft more engaging and personalized learning strategies that help learners retain more knowledge. In this post, we'll discuss why the personalization aspect is so important and what some methods are for achieving it.

Most training companies offer brilliant in-person options. But, you saw the writing on the wall. You knew the world was moving digital. You knew you needed to invest in a learning management system (LMS). Now, you’re worried your LMS isn’t helping you expand your market reach as expected.

Today, technology touches every aspect of our lives. We order on smartphones from our cars. We choose our groceries sight unseen. And, we even host virtual birthday parties.

Modern professional associations exist to establish standards of knowledge and excellence and to develop learning pathways that permit members to acquire, develop, and perfect that knowledge and achieve that excellence. 

Circa 1998, we were admonished, “Don’t get in strangers' cars, especially if you met them on the internet.”

There’s no such thing as a full-time PHR preparation course. Aspiring PHR certificants can’t just pull themselves out of the workforce for a few weeks or months to devote themselves to study. If they want to prepare for a PHR certification, they’ll have to make time to do so in-between meeting the demands of their full-time jobs and answering the responsibilities of their full-time lives.