Upside Learning Solutions, a leading provider of custom learning solutions has been listed in the Training Industry, Inc’s – Training Outsourcing Companies Watch List yet again. This is the fifth time in a row that Upside has been recognised as a leading training outsourcing company.

Trainingindustry.com compiles a list of the top learning providers worldwide every year after thorough analysis of the capabilities, expertise and experience of each company considered.

Upside Learning has been recognised particularly on these counts:

• Innovative service offerings
• Ability to provide services on a global basis
• Profile of clients

This accolade coincides with the Launch of Upside Learning’s new campaign ‘Go Beyond’ which will highlight challenges faced by the LnD and urge them to Go Beyond learning solutions that just ticks-the-boxes. The campaign also invites the LnD community to share their experiences and challenges with the hashtag #LnDGoBeyond for a wider discussion. More details on Go Beyon can be found here: https://upsidelearning.com/what-is-go-beyond/

The new eBook ‘Compliance Training: Stop Ticking the Box’ from Upside Learning aims to help organizations solve the Compliance Training conundrum.

Compliance training has long been notorious for being the unavoidable ‘dull, drab, boring mandate’. To both organizations and employees, the ‘why’ of compliance training largely reveals ‘must have’ and ‘have to do’ undertones. Perceptions take a while to change, but it’s sustained, incremental efforts that can help favorably shape those perceptions—even change them in the long run.

Thinking about the ‘tick the box’ mindset, or the ‘have-to-get-done-with-the-compliance-training’ mindset, the current landscape of and perceptions within compliance training as an L&D domain was explored. The result is an eBook in which the author’s Neeti Sudumbrekar and Amit Garg’s observations and thoughts on compliance training are presented.

Here are some immediate questions that formed the foundation and the theme of the eBook.

• Regarding Key Drivers :How is compliance training currently perceived by organizations and employees?Why are compliance training programs infamously known to be ‘boring’?
• Regarding the ChallengesWhat are the pain points for both groups (organizations themselves, and employees), based on the challenges identified?
• Regarding the PossibilitiesHow can the learning experience of compliance training programs themselves be improved?

As an attempt to answer these questions through the eBook, some industry examples are also presented, along with a few examples from Upside learning, and a possible framework that may help the design decisions towards crafting custom learning experiences in the compliance space.

The eBook brings out the key factors one can optimize, with a fresh outlook towards compliance training, looking into compliance as a culture. With the required attention to the learning environment, the available infrastructure, and the tone of messaging, the effectiveness of such programs can be taken up several notches. The eBook is available to download from Upside Learning’s website.

Upside Learning – known globally as the best place for great learning solutions – is now also recognised officially as a Great Place to Work!

The Great Place to Work® Institute (India) has recently announced awarding of Great Places to Work – Certification to Upside Learning for building a High-Trust, High-Performance Culture™. Amit Garg – Founder & Director Learning Solutions said, “It is an honor to be recognized as a great place to work for our culture that values innovation, team work, and a spirit to Go Beyond each and every time to deliver great experience for our customers. Of all the awards and accolades we have won, for me personally this is the sweetest one.”

As part of this assessment, Upside Learning employees took an anonymous survey which assessed people related management practices using Great Place to Work® People Practice Culture Audit© Framework and measured the perceptions of the employees using Great Place to Work® Trust Index© Employee Survey.

Upside Learning scored a brilliant 72 on the TRUST INDEX© Score which is an average of five dimensions of the Great Place to Work® Trust Index© Model which are:

• Credibility of management ™
• Respect for people
• Fairness at the workplace
• Pride
• Camaraderie between people

About Great Place to Work® Institute

Great Place to Work® Institute is a global management research and consulting firm dedicated towards enabling organizations achieve business objectives by building better workplaces. Great Place to Work® Institute works with over 7000 organizations globally every year to help them assess, change, learn, and share.

Upside Learning rated consistently as the Top Learning Solutions provider globally, recently won three LearnX Live! Awards. These Awards recognises Upside Learning’s ability to leverage learning solutions and supporting technologies in order to deliver value and significantly impact business results. Amit Garg – Co Founder and Director, Learning Solutions said “We are elated on winning top honours at LearnX Live! Awards, this accolade reinforces the belief of our team to Go Beyond at each and every step of creating learning solutions that deliver great experience for our customers, eventually resulting in business impact”

This year’s winning entries under the Learning and Development category were submitted jointly by Upside Learning and its clients.

Platinum Winner – Best Learning Model – Bespoke/Custom – The Trades Union Congress & Upside Learning

This entry, submitted by the Trades Union Congress (TUC), is called ‘TUC Education’. It is a solution that combines a mobile app and an online portal to facilitate the delivery of self-paced digital learning on mobile devices, to learners who are members of the TUC’s fifty affiliate unions. Since many of these learners work in areas that lack proper IT infrastructure and stable connectivity, the app enables tracking and reporting of the learners’ progress and performance, even while being offline. The data is later synced with a central database, when the app is online again. The TUC also sought to eliminate the learners’ dependency on LMS registration. The app thus allows learners to register and login using their Facebook, Gmail or any other valid email accounts. The online portal allows TUC admins to manage users and content, while also making the data of all users accessible to them.

Gold Winner – Best eLearning Design – eLearning Design Technology – The New York State Psychiatric Institute & Upside Learning

The Shared decision making (SDM) module is developed for behavioral healthcare providers to increase their knowledge about SDM and to encourage its use. Shared decision making (SDM) is an evidence-based practice that involves individuals receiving care and their healthcare providers working together to make important decisions about clinical care. It is a process in which clinicians and individuals receiving care work together to make decisions and select tests, treatments, and care plans based on clinical evidence that balances risks and expected outcomes with patient preferences and values. This approach is often underutilized in healthcare specifically. Anticipated outcomes include increased knowledge about the use of SDM, which in turn will lead to patients’ increased commitment to their care. This course uses an innovative, mind map-style framework, role play examples, character illustrations, infographics, to model to the students how SDM should be implemented.

Silver Winner – Best eLearning Project – New eLearning Adopter – ISS A/S & Upside Learning

This winning entry is called ‘Living Service with a Human Touch’. It is a modular eLearning program developed to augment and support an existing ISS workshop-based training–‘Service with a Human Touch’, which was itself earlier designed and conceptualized by ISS to highlight how employees could develop and live a culture of customer-centricity and service excellence. Clear and concise by design, the foundational content of the workshop itself lent itself well to being visualized through rich ISS-specific visuals, animations and interactivity, to be easily comprehensible for a global learner base. Development of the program assets and page design was reflective of the pulse of ISS and represented the service culture throughout.

The end result is a SCORM-compliant eLearning program with rich visuals and interactive content, modularized to convey the key message around five customer expectations to enable learners to live the service culture.

About LearnX Live! Awards

The LearnX Live! Awards are an international awards program that recognises multiple fields within talent management across the corporate, education and public-service sectors. Each year the Awards uncover incredible projects and solutions that deliver best practice and business value. We then share many of these experiences with the wider community during FuturistiX Live! Summit & Awards Show, incorporating the LearnX Live! Awards Show. Our objective also is to shine a light on the talented teams involved in these works, and the enterprises that support them. The awards are open to any organization, small or large, from anywhere in the world. The Awards have been in operation since 2008.

Upside Learning’s expertise in developing custom content and engaging learning solutions that deliver real outcomes to help organizations achieve performance improvements aligned with business objectives has been recognized by the win at this year’s Brandon Hall Group’s Human Capital Management Excellence awards.

This year’s winning entry under the Learning and Development category were submitted jointly by Upside Learning and New York State Psychiatric Institute. The details of the award is as below:

Best Advance in Custom Content:

Bronze: The Shared decision making (SDM) module is developed for behavioral healthcare providers to increase their knowledge about SDM and to encourage its use. Shared decision making (SDM) is an evidence-based practice that involves individuals receiving care and their healthcare providers working together to make important decisions about clinical care. It is a process in which clinicians and individuals receiving care work together to make decisions and select tests, treatments, and care plans based on clinical evidence that balances risks and expected outcomes with patient preferences and values. This approach is often underutilized in healthcare specifically. Anticipated outcomes include increased knowledge about the use of SDM, which in turn will lead to patients’ increased commitment to their care. This course uses an innovative, mind map-style framework, role play examples, character illustrations, infographics, to model to the students how SDM should be implemented.

On this win Amit Garg Co-founder & Director – Custom Learning Solutions said “It’s a moment of pride for us to win this year’s Brandon Hall. It is feels great to be recognized for our expertise in developing high-quality custom content that delivers business impact for our customers. I’d like to congratulate the entire team at Upside Learning for their efforts and attitude to Go Beyond each and every time to deliver great learning solutions”

The Brandon Hall Group HCM Excellence Awards program recognizes achievements in the performance improvement domain. This prestigious award is presented annually by the Brandon Hall Group, a leading research firm that empowers excellence in organizations. The program invites entries from solution providers with innovative programs, cutting edge technologies and services that have helped organizations improve their performance and achieve measurable results.

Upside Learning is a leading provider of learning solutions and services to organisations worldwide. Their focus has consistently been to help companies improve performance through engaging learning solutions.

Upside Learning are experts in custom eLearning, mobile learning and performance consultancy. They provide end-to-end design and development services, from consultancy and solutioning to multi-device testing and post-roll out support. Over a span of 13 years, they have won over 42 awards and recognitions for their engaging learning solutions.

Upside will be present at the ATD TechKnowledge conference in San Jose on the 24th and 25th of January, 2018. Visit them at booth 118 for a chance to get to know them and see how they can be of service to your company’s training efforts.

The campaign aims to bring forward the challenges that the LnD community face and how the fraternity needs to Go Beyond learning courses that just “ticks-the-box”

With businesses facing the ever-increasing threat of modern disruptions, workplace learning takes even more importance to help organisations face new challenges. For the LnD community, this presents a good opportunity to rethink their learning solutions and do more than what just ‘ticks the box’.

To address this need and to mark the completion of its 15 years, Upside Learning announced a new campaign “Go Beyond”. The campaign aims to discuss the challenges faced by the LnD community and deliberate on how – ‘the way’ learning solutions are designed – can evolve for the future. For the campaign, a hashtag #LnDGoBeyond is being used so that the LnD community can use it while sharing their thoughts making it easier for everyone to search and follow the discussions.

To know more about what Go Beyond means, please visit this link: https://upsidelearning.com/what-is-go-beyond/

Upside Learning, a leading service provider of end-to-end digital learning solutions for top notch companies across the globe has announced the opening of its new office in Singapore.

To expand its footprint across the APAC region, Upside Learning has announced the opening of its new office in Singapore, Upside Learning’s presence in Singapore will in being closer to their large base of customers in Singapore, Australia and other APAC countries to help to serve them better.

Amit Garg, Founder and Director of Upside Learning, commented, “We are delighted to open an office in Singapore, as it gives us a chance to closely work with our long standing customers and also the new ones that we have started working with. I am confident that by being in Singapore, we will be able deliver better service to all our clients.

Upside Learning has also on-boarded Venkatesh Chandramowly AVP – Business Development for APAC region
Venkatesh has extensive experience in workplace learning domain. His strategic and “hands on” approach in assisting organisation to understand, design, deliver and improve technology enabled solutions has helped many a clients to achieve their desired learning objectives.

Having worked with digital learning and technology providers in APAC region for many years, Venkatesh has a deep understanding of learning challenges that the L&D community faces and how to innovate solutions to tackle them.