All posts by Emily Decker

With your new translation partner now on board, here comes the fun part, translating your L&D content so it works for your global audience.

The world has transformed in a matter of months. In response to Covid-19, we’ve all had to change the way we live, socialise and work. L&D teams are under pressure to not only develop and update learning and training content, but translate it for international teams. It’s more important than ever to communicate with our

My experience working with our L&D clients is that they’re all united by one goal: to improve learner engagement and positive learner outcomes. Whilst great artists might have years to work on their masterpieces, L&D teams do not. You’re under pressure to not only create engaging learning programmes, but translate and deliver it internationally, all

Translated learning and training programmes, when done badly, are like listening to someone retell a joke when they’ve forgotten the punchline. It’s difficult to understand, frustrating to deliver and underwhelming. When done well, L&D content should be just as engaging regardless of the language it’s consumed in. That’s why it’s so important to take considered

As a Learning and Development team, creating and delivering learning and training programmes is what you’re great at. But when working in an international company you have the added challenge of developing programmes that perform on a global scale. You need to develop programmes and then translate the content – sometimes in many languages –

With so many different authoring tools on the market, it can sometimes be hard to know which is the best fit for creating your eLearning content – and that’s even before translation is thrown into the mix!

Providing consistent training for a global workforce is no easy task. The more countries you need to engage with, the more hoops you need to jump through to deliver engaging eLearning content.

Working with eLearning agencies who support organisations across many different sectors, I find they are often united by the same challenges.

Don’t let language barriers affect the success of your L&D programmes! Have a look at this infographic that shares some interesting stats and facts about languages and employee engagement.