Continuing to strengthen business development team, Upside Learning has onboarded Kamal Lambaa to fast-track company’s growth in APAC.

Upside Learning, a leading service provider of end-to-end digital learning solutions for Fortune-1000 companies across the globe, has appointed Kamal Lambaa as AVP – Business Development. Kamal will be leading sales for the APAC region, strategizing and planning the overall sales action.

Kamal is an enthusiastic sales development professional with over 20 years of diverse experience BFSI, FMCG & Retail sectors. He has contributed to various roles in sales, trade marketing, marketing & sales development with P&L responsibility. Kamal has worked with multi-cultural teams across Asia & Middle East regions, contributing to business with his experience and applicable business solutions. He has worked on business transformation projects in sales, learning & OD functions. Having contributed to the L&D field with his array of experience, he is able to add value and provide relevant solutions for most of the business scenarios, with appropriate customer focus & stakeholder management both within and outside the organization. Kamal has also lead many L&D and OD initiatives to enable the frontline teams to perform better, his initiatives are across the learning mediums to maintain a healthy mix of “clicks & bricks.”

Amit Garg – Founder & CEO of Upside Learning, commented, “Kamal is a great addition to Upside team bringing not only his industry expertise but also his passion for developing & empowering people. His extensive experience and strong relationships will nurture business growth by forging strong partnerships in the APAC region enabling us to explore newer opportunities and deliver better customer experience.”

About Upside Learning

Since 2004, Upside Learning has consistently delivered best-in-class custom learning solutions to organizations worldwide. The focal point has been to help customers deliver real outcomes by helping them achieve performance improvements that are aligned with their business objectives. Upside Learning aims to make a real impact on organizational metrics and behaviors by supporting organizations to bolster their core teams.

With experience in offerings such as Virtual Instructor-led Training, Bespoke Learning, Learning Consultancy, Performance Support Aids, eBooks, or Game-based learning, Upside Learning strives to add value to every learning solution it creates.

Upside Learning aims to go beyond the ordinary and predictable with their mantra of ‘Go Beyond’. As part of the ‘Go Beyond’ initiative, Upside Learning nudges its internal teams, customers, and the entire L&D community to treat every learning initiative as an enabler of employee performance. The ‘L&D Go Beyond Podcast’ is a significant and noteworthy part of this initiative, which features workplace learning leaders from across the globe sharing their insights and experiences. Over the years, Upside Learning has won more than 90 awards and accolades (including several Brandon Hall Group Excellence awards).

Learn more about Upside Learning at: www.upsidelearning.com

Upside Learning Solutions, a leading provider of Custom learning solutions has been listed in the Training Industry, Inc’s – Top 20™ Custom Content Development Company Watch List and Top 20™ Training Outsourcing Company Watch List for the year 2020 yet again. This is the fifth time that Upside Learning has been recognized as a leading Content Development Company.

Selection to the 2020 Training Industry Top 20™ Custom Content Development Company and Training Outsourcing Company Watch List was based on the following criteria:

• Industry visibility, innovation and impact
• Capability of developing and delivering multiple types of content
• Depth and breadth of subject matter expertise
• Company size and growth potential
• Strength of clients and geographic reach

“The companies selected for this year’s Custom Content Development and Training Outsourcing Watch List represent specialized and emerging organizations that use innovative tools to create interactive and immersive custom solutions,” said Danielle Draewell, market research analyst at Training Industry, Inc. “These companies assist clients all over the world with a wide range of learning needs.”

Amit Garg, CEO & Founder – Upside Learning Solutions said “It is a great feeling for every one of us at Upside Learning, we feel delighted to be featured among the Top Custom Content Development and Training Outsourcing – Watch List, offering the best-in-class learning solutions, These two back to back accolades are a testament to the capabilities of our 150+ learning specialists who strive to Go Beyond and design engaging Learning solutions for our clients.”

About Upside Learning

Upside Learning is a leading provider of custom learning solutions to organizations worldwide. They help their customers deliver real outcomes by helping them achieve performance improvements that are aligned with their business objectives.

By making the effort to Go Beyond at each step of the designing process, Upside Learning aims to make a real and sustainable impact on organizational metrics and behaviours by supporting organizations to bolster their core teams, be it operations, sales or human resources.

Upside Learning provides consultancy for crafting effective learning solutions, custom eLearning, responsive and mobile learning, performance support, translation and localization, video and animations, and instructor-led trainings.

In its 16 years, Upside Learning has won 48 awards (including 19 Brandon Hall Excellence Awards) and several accolades.

Learn more about Upside Learning at: www.upsidelearning.com

Upside Learning has won Two Bronze for Best Advance in Custom Content at the 2020 Brandon Hall Group Human Capital Management Excellence awards

Upside Learning, a leading service provider of end-to-end digital learning solutions for Fortune-1000 companies across the globe has won the two coveted Brandon Hall Groups Bronze Award for excellence in Best Advance in Custom Content. The winners are listed here. The Brandon Hall Group’s Human Capital Management Excellence awards are a testament to 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.

This year’s winning entries under the Learning and Development category were submitted jointly by Upside Learning and its clients. The details of the awards are as below:

Best Advance in custom content:

Bronze: ISS and Upside Learning Solutions developed a fully responsive module, for viewing on desktops and laptops, tablets, and smartphones. The aim of the Information Security module is to help employees and subcontractors be aware and alert of the consequences in case of failure to observe information security practices, and avoid information security threats by following organizational policies and best practices. This module also serves as the foundation of a communication strategy of regular monthly reminders on Information Security best practice and constant vigilance to malicious actors and potential threats. This module accommodates various interactivities, videos, questions and it is going to be developed in 20 languages to cater to ISS’ global presence and to maximize participant understanding.

Best Advance in custom content:

Bronze: Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Upside Learning Solutions developed a training program for Sales Representatives that will help them conduct effective initial conversations with customers around transforming their I.T. operations with HPE’s software-defined infrastructure solutions. Under a single framework, this program makes various learning resources and a comprehensive self-assessment available for internal HPE sales personnel and external partner sales personnel. It made available on desktops, laptops, tablets, smartphones and it encapsulates Videos, 2D Animations, a Gamified challenge, and sound effects that make this program responsive and interactive.

Amit Garg – Founder & CEO, Upside Learning Solutions said: “We’re truly delighted to win two Brandon Hall awards this year. It is an honor for us to be recognized for our expertise in developing high-quality custom content that delivers measurable results for our customers. I’d like to congratulate the entire team at Upside Learning for their spirit to Go Beyond and create learning solutions for a business impact.”

“Organizations around the world highly value Brandon Hall Group Excellence Awards – so much so that we received a record number of applications in the middle of a global pandemic,” said Rachel Cooke, Brandon Hall Group COO, and leader of the HCM Excellence Awards Program. “The awards provide valuable recognition and validation of best practices in all areas of HCM at a time when they have never been more important to both employers and employees.”

Award entries were evaluated by a panel of veteran, independent senior industry experts, Brandon Hall Group analysts, and executives based upon the following criteria: fit the need, design of the program, functionality, innovation, and overall measurable benefits.

About Upside Learning

For over 16 years, Upside Learning has consistently delivered best-in-class custom learning solutions to organizations worldwide. The focal point has been to help customers deliver real outcomes by helping them achieve performance improvements that are aligned with their business objectives. Upside Learning aims to make a real impact on organizational metrics and behaviors by supporting organizations to bolster their core teams.

With experience in offerings such as virtual Instructor-led Training, Bespoke Learning, Learning Consultancy, Performance Support Aids, eBooks, or Game-based learning, Upside Learning strives to add value to every learning solution it creates.

To support its specialized offerings, the company has dedicated infrastructure, including the Testing Lab (which can handle virtually any browser and hardware combination), R&D, and a fully responsive content framework. In its 16 years, Upside Learning has won more than 52 awards (including several Brandon Hall Excellence Awards) and many accolades.

Learn more about Upside Learning at: www.upsidelearning.com

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.

For years, the Brandon Hall Group, a HCM research and advisory services firm, has been running the Excellence Awards Program, which is also called the “Academy Awards” by Learning, Talent and Business Executives. The Excellence in Technology Awards recognise successfully deployed, cutting-edge, innovative eLearning programs, strategies and technologies that have achieved measurable results. Its under this award category that Upside Learning’s Framework for Responsive eLearning Development (FRED) has been honoured with a Silver for Best Advance in Unique Learning Technology this year.

FRED is an innovative HTML-based reusable Framework that helps develop responsive learning and performance support interventions on multiple devices seamlessly. With an existing library of 20+ templates, FRED allows for creation of multilingual eLearning that is configurable to give SCORM- or Tin Can compliant output.

FRED comes out victorious after being evaluated by an international panel of independent industry experts, Brandon Hall Group’s senior analysts, and their executive leadership team. The judging was based on the following criteria: design of the solution; functionality; usability; innovation; and overall measureable benefits.

On winning the prestigious Brandon Hall award, Amit Garg, Director & Co-founder of Upside Learning, said, “It’s a proud day for us and FRED. After having been in the making for over 12 months, imbibed with our learning from numerous HTML5 and responsive eLearning programs done over the years, in just 11 months since its release, FRED has won the most prestigious award in the eLearning industry! This in itself is an incredible feeling! We envision FRED to win many more awards, and help various organisations develop Responsive eLearning easily.”

Earlier this year, FRED had been recognised as an early adopter of the Tin Can API under ‘Authoring Tools’ category. More information about FRED is available at:

https://upsidelearning.com/pressrelease/upside-learning-leads-the-field-in-innovation-recognised-as-an-early-adopter-of-the-tin-can-api-for-fred/

As the countdown to Europe’s leading showcase of organisational and technology learning, Learning Technologies 2015 begins, Upside Learning invites L&D professionals to share their most pressing challenges pertaining to multi-device learning.

The participant to post the most pertinent challenge stands a chance to win the ‘highly sought after’ conference pass (valued at £1099). The pass entitles the winner to the 2 day conference, to be held on 28^th and 29^th January at Olympia Central, London, which is touted to be ‘the must-attend conference’ for all learning and development professionals. With a huge array of sessions to choose from, including keynote addresses, cafe sessions, panels, case studies and theory presentations, the winner will get a chance to listen to, and interact with, some of the leading thinkers and practitioners in workplace learning, gaining practical guidance for his/her challenges today, as well as insights into the big picture of learning tomorrow.

Upside Learning will be publishing answers to the challenges submitted on their blog (www.upsidelearning.com/blog). Alternatively, participants can also look forward to having their challenges addressed by Amit Garg at Upside Learning’s stand (# 146).

At the stand, visitors can also take a look at:

• UpsideLMS, the best value, responsive Learning Management System
• Framework for Responsive eLearning Development (FRED), enabling faster and more reliable development of Responsive eLearning
• Multi-device Testing Lab, for thorough testing of Multi-device eLearning projects.

To participate and earn a chance to a free pass at the biggest L&D Exhibition & Conference, interested individuals can use #UpsidePass via Twitter and submit their multi-device challenges on or before 12^th January 2015.

More information about the event can be found here – http://www.learningtechnologies.co.uk/

Upside Learning, a leading provider of learning technology solutions and Learning Technologies 2014’s number 1 company for ‘the most profitable conversation’, will be exhibiting and presenting at Learning Technologies 2015 in London on the 28^th-29^th January. Apart from being an enthusiastic participant, Upside Learning is also a LSG sponsor this year.

Learning Technologies, co-located with Learning and Skills, is Europe’s leading showcase of organisational learning and the technology. With more than 7,000 visitors, 150 free L&D seminars, 250 exhibitors, two exhibition halls packed with the latest learning technologies, innovation and best practice. It provides a unique and exciting environment for all those involved in workplace learning.

In line with the growing usage of multiple devices for learning and training in workplaces, Upside Learning’s theme for Learning Technologies this year is ‘Learning in a Multi-device World‘. At its stand # 146, the proud sponsor will play host to some innovative, multi-device learning technology solutions like:

• UpsideLMS, our best value, responsive Learning Management System
• Framework for Responsive eLearning Development (FRED), enabling faster and more reliable development of Responsive eLearning
• Multi-device Testing Lab, for thorough testing of Multi-device eLearning projects

Visitors can see and experience the solutions first hand, view a demo, check out some pre-designed courses and discuss their multi-device training challenges with Upside Learning’s team.

Amit Garg, Co-founder and Director of Custom Learning Solutions of Upside Learning, will be presenting two learning sessions in the course of the two-day event. The first session, titled ‘Learning in a Multi-device world‘, to be held on 28^th January 2015 at 11:00 AM in Theatre 3 will touch upon the various challenges and solutions of delivering learning in today’s multi-device world.

The LSG session, ‘The why and how of moving your eLearning to HTML‘ on 29^th January 2015, 2:15 PM at Theatre 8, will address the shift of eLearning from Flash to HTML; providing insights on moving your eLearning, both existing and new, to HTML.

Apart from being rated as the number 1 company for “the most profitable conversation“, visitors at LT 2014 had rated Upside Learning as the 5^th company (of the 250+ there) whose material they remembered putting into their show bags!

Interested individuals can set an appointment by emailing on uk.sales@upsidelearning.com.