Learning & Development Resources
At Judge, we are dedicated to supporting your organization’s growth and success through continuous learning and professional development. Our curated collection of resources offers valuable insights, industry trends, and practical advice tailored to meet the unique needs of your business. Whether you’re looking to enhance your team’s skills, stay ahead of the competition, or explore innovative strategies, you’ll find the resources you need right here. Dive in and empower your workforce with the knowledge to achieve excellence.
Pushing the Boundaries of Compliance Training Design
Compliance training has a reputation problem. For too long, it’s been seen as a necessary evil, and something to get through as quickly as possible. But what if you could transform compliance training from a chore into an engaging,…
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Balancing Breadth and Depth for Effective Leadership Development
When designing leadership development programs, L&D professionals are constantly juggling the need to cover the basics while also diving deep into specific skills. The challenge lies in being strategic enough to handle the big picture, yet focused enough to…
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AI as a Tool, not a Threat: Enhancing L&D Effectiveness
“Make it new.” These three simple words from the poet Ezra Pound encapsulate one of humanity’s most remarkable abilities: the power to combine existing ideas into something fresh and innovative. As learning and development (L&D) professionals, we’re…
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Unlocking Efficiency: How Dynamic Resourcing Takes the Hassle Out of L&D Talent Acquisition
Ask any learning and development (L&D) leader and they’ll tell you that finding the right talent for learning projects can be a real headache. One day you need an experienced instructional designer, the next a top-notch graphic artist. And…
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Agile Design in Learning and Development: Where Theory and Practice Meet
Today’s learning and development (L&D) teams are under pressure to deliver learning solutions that not only keep up with change but also drive it. Agile L&D development has gained traction in some circles and industries, suggesting a potential shift in learning design. But can agile methodologies truly transform L&D, or is it just another buzzword in our relentless chase for innovation?
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Leveraging AI to Create a Training Course of the Future
A provider of broadband telecommunications and technology training needed to enhance and update its educational offerings. Due to limited bandwidth and internal capabilities, the company partnered with The Judge Group to leverage its AI competencies to design a “course of the future” and rapidly produce high-quality learning materials.
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Transforming Technical Content into Engaging Learning: The Power of AI and Rapid Prototyping
Technical content is a double-edged sword: it’s the backbone of innovation, but it’s also a training nightmare. Dense, complex, and constantly changing, technical content is a challenge that keeps learning and development (L&D) teams up at night. …
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AI-Powered Competency Profiles: A New Era for Learning and Development
Creating comprehensive competency profiles is a daunting and resource-intensive task — one that many learning and development (L&D) professionals know all too well. It often involves months of analysis, stakeholder input, and iterative revisions, leaving talent teams stuck in…
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Leveraging Virtual Reality to Create Immersive Learning for Government, Aerospace, and Defense
The Challenge: Condensing a Curriculum A branch of the military had the challenge of condensing an existing eight-day, instructor-led training (ILT) course about aircraft maintenance scheduling into a more interactive five-day, immersive training program. The main learning goal was to…
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Solving Real Estate Compliance Needs Through Dynamic Resourcing and Instructional Design
A leading real estate services company partnered with Judge to implement a dynamic resourcing approach to updating customer engagement materials to remain industry compliant. The company achieved legal compliance and operational continuity through flexible staffing and cost-efficient project management.
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Elevating a Manufacturing Company’s Retail Leadership Skills and Competencies
The American-based retail arm of a multinational manufacturing company partnered with Judge to revolutionize its leadership development, creating a program that embeds essential skills early and supports continuous leader growth. This strategic collaboration resulted in a tailored curriculum, fostering leadership unity and enhancing internal promotion capabilities.
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Transformative Learning Program Initiative for a Leading Electric Utility Corporation
To enhance learning across three subsidiaries, a prominent electric utility corporation partnered with Judge Learning Solutions to conduct an in-depth needs analysis and design an effective integrated learning program. This initiative aimed to elevate learner experience, optimize training and operational resources, reduce seat time, and enhance customer satisfaction.
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Judge Learning Wins Coveted Brandon Hall Group Excellence Awards
The Judge Group, an international leader in business technology consulting, learning and development, managed services, and talent solutions, is pleased to announce that its learning division, Judge Learning, has won three coveted Brandon Hall Group awards for…
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Emotional Intelligence: The Key to Building Resilient and Collaborative Workplaces
Think of the best manager you’ve ever had. What made working for them so enjoyable? Were they patient? Did they help you realize your career goals? Consider five qualities that made your best manager memorable. Now, think…
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The Four Cs to Consider When Selecting an Organizational Change Management Partner
Here at The Judge Group, we know that organizational change management (OCM), while a catalyst for growth and opportunity, can be disruptive and complex to manage for every person, process, and piece of technology involved. We have worked extensively…
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Designing Training for the Pharmaceutical Industry
Designing training for pharmaceutical clients reminds me of teaching college freshman English – you must take complex, nuanced topics and translate them into engaging learning that is easy to understand and apply.
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3 Common Challenges Change Management Professionals Face With Executive Sponsors (and How to Overcome Them)
Change management professionals know that executive sponsorship can make or break a transformation effort. Even if you have an enthusiastic executive sponsor on board, your efforts can still sputter and stall if they're not the right executive for the job. Here are three common challenges change management professionals face with executive sponsors and how to overcome them.
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Strategies to Help Unlock Organizational Change Management Budget Constraints
35% of business transformation and change management professionals say their most pressing concern this year is "budget constraints" If budget is your biggest hurdle, it can seem insurmountable: Either you have the money, or you don't. But there are strategies to make use of the budget you have to continue moving forward.
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Professional Learning Experts: The key to successful upskilling and reskilling
To wrap up our blog series on the value and benefits of upskilling and reskilling employees, we will discuss the importance of utilizing learning and development (L&D) professionals for training programs.
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Build vs Buy: The ROI on building up your employees
Upskilling and reskilling employees are cost-effective strategies to fill skill gaps and retain current employees in lieu of hiring new ones. In this three-part blog series, we’re discussing upskilling and reskilling, and their many benefits to businesses.
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Investing in Upskilling and Reskilling to Retain Talent
Upskilling and reskilling are cost-effective strategies to fill skill gaps and retain current employees in lieu of hiring new ones. In this three-part blog series, we’ll discuss upskilling and reskilling, and their many benefits to businesses.
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Judge Learning Solutions Named to 2022 Training Industry Top 20 IT & Technical Training Companies List
The Judge Group, an international leader in business technology consulting, talent solutions, and learning and development, is pleased to announce that its learning division, Judge Learning Solutions, has been named to the 2022 Training Industry Top 20™ IT Training Companies List.
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Judge Learning Solutions Joins AWS Training Partner Program to Help Organizations Build AWS Cloud Talent
The Judge Group is pleased to announce that its learning division, Judge Learning Solutions, is working with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to offer AWS Training to learners throughout the United States and elsewhere around the world.
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Energy Provider Seeks Organizational Change Management for Internal Communication Software Migration
A leading Fortune 100 competitive energy provider with multiple locations and divisions began piloting Microsoft Teams for calls, chats, and meetings in preparation for the eventual decommissioning of its current business communications platform.
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Instructor-led Training for Energy Company's Business Consultants
A multinational energy company looked to deploy a new business management process for its team of consultants. The training was developed so that the consultants could more effectively help their clients – convenience store and gas station owners and operators – grow their individual businesses.
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Multi-Year Learning Plan for Enterprise-Wide Agile Transformation
One of the world’s largest diversified financial services companies needed to train and educate its employees as part of an organization-wide Agile transformation.
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Enterprise Learning Solutions for Successful EMR System Conversion
After acquiring a new hospital, a leading network of health care providers in the Southern New Jersey region needed to convert its new facility to the Siemens Soarian Clinicals electronic medical records (EMR) system. The company enlisted the help of Judge Learning Solutions to assist with the conversion.
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Bringing Crisis Alert Technology to 268 Schools with Enterprise Learning Solutions
A company that provides technological safety solutions via a crisis alert system previously handled new client training internally. But as the demand for their technology increased, so did the company’s need for a partner to help manage and deploy a temporary workforce to meet demand.
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The Importance of Using L&D Recruiters for Your L&D Staffing
When determining which staffing agency to use for Learning and Development (L&D) staffing, you may think the background and knowledge of the recruiters are unimportant. We are here to tell you when it comes to L&D, background and knowledge are…
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Judge Secures Spot as Global Financial Services Company's #1 Ranked Vendor
The Judge Group engaged a leading global financial services firm, one of the largest banking institutions in the U.S., as an IT staffing partner. Within one year, and against eight legacy suppliers, Judge established itself as the company’s #1 ranked vendor.
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Judge Learning Solutions Receives Seven Brandon Hall Group Excellence Awards
The Judge Group is pleased to announce that Brandon Hall Group has again recognized its learning division, Judge Learning Solutions, for its exceptional learning development programs. Judge was awarded three Gold and four Silver Brandon Hall Group Awards in 2022.
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The Help You Need to Design a Learning Game
Gamification can not only make learning fun, but it can also increase motivation, strengthen learning retention, and improve problem-solving skills. But designing a game may be a bit intimidating if you haven’t done it before.
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Custom Training for Manufacturing Company's Simultaneous Software Applications Adoptions
An American manufacturing company providing silica sand products and solutions for manufacturing, building, industrial, and recreational use needed training designed and implemented for three company-wide proprietary software application adoptions.
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eLearning Course Development to Standardize Client's Customer Service Practices
A multinational bakery manufacturing company looking to invest in a more standardized, modern training program for its frontline employees faced a tight deadline.
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Workplace Mindfulness Training: The Judge Difference
Learn what makes The Judge Group's workplace mindfulness training program different than others.
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Custom Mobile Training Application
A distributor of the world’s top luxury wine, spirits, and beer brands turned to Judge Learning Solutions for help designing a custom learning solution for over 2,000 commercial drivers tasked with using a new application to meet the requirements of the Federal Electronic Mandate system.
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The Keys to Successful Organizational Change: Understanding the Cost of OCM
Exploring the cost of Organizational Change Management and how much budget should be set aside for OCM.
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The Keys to Successful Organizational Change: OCM Consultants Drive Positive ROI
When looking at any organizational change plan, anticipated return on investment (ROI) is a key factor in choosing to implement a change or not. In this blog, we look at the ROI on OCM consultants and how they can help with your next change.
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The Keys to Successful Organizational Change: Engaging an OCM Consultant
Of all the challenges the pandemic has brought since 2020, changes in the way we do business have been significant. Whether that means preparing for a hybrid or 100% remote workforce, updating systems to support a remote workforce, or other structural realignments, change is upon us. In this blog we are looking at why engaging a change management consultant is helpful in preparing for change.
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Workplace Mindfulness Training: Improving ROI through healthy, happy employees
The workplace can be extremely stressful at times. Looming deadlines, demanding bosses, difficult co-workers, and lofty expectations represent only a few things that contribute to employees’ increased stress levels. In this blog, we discuss the benefits of mindfulness training and how it can positively impact your bottom line.
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Standardizing a Major Home Improvement Company's Operations
In order to centralize their supply chain, a major home improvement company organized a system of distribution centers, but lacked efficient and standardized operational procedures.
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Is Training the Answer to Performance Gaps?
In this blog, a Judge Learning instructional designer discusses the use of a training needs analysis and how it drives the four basic questions to determine if training is indeed helpful for overcoming performance gaps.
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Custom Learning for U.S. Home Builder to Improve Company-wide Sales Training
An American home building and real estate company needed to upskill the presentation and facilitation skills of their employees through a custom learning solution.
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Standardizing Supply Chain Operations Training for a Major Food Service Distributor
An American food service distributor struggling to standardize their supply chain operations required managed learning services to address their change management and training needs.
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Instructional Design: What I Learn from Learning Objectives
Learning objectives are incredibly important when constructing instructional designs. In this blog, one of our instructional designers discusses why objectives are so important to the process.
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Supporting Global BioPharma Leader's Organizational Change Management Efforts
A global biopharmaceutical leader in therapies for orphan diseases and underserved conditions in hematology, immunology, and oncology was being spun off from its parent company to form a new standalone entity. With 17,000 employees and products in more than 100 countries, the company turned to Judge to help with organizational change management (OCM) capabilities for over 26 systems during the transition.
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The Most Important Instructional Design Question: Who Are Your Learners?
Good training begins with good information and good information comes from great questions. In this blog, one of our instructional designers takes a look at the two most important questions she asks when designing instruction.
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Mindfulness Training: Combatting turnover and increasing mental health amongst employees
Embracing mindfulness has been a response to recognizing the importance of supporting mental health in the workplace and is practiced by many Fortune 500 companies.
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Custom Leadership Training for Pharma Company Executives
A biopharmaceutical company with a focus on innovative research partnered with Judge Learning Solutions to design and develop a custom leadership training program for its senior employees.
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eLearning Design – I Didn't See What You Did There
When the design for instructional eLearning materials is done well, the design itself is rarely noticed. Instead, it magnifies the content and eases the learning process.
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Sr. Director - Learning Strategy, Judge Learning Solutions
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Sr. Director - Custom Learning, Judge Learning Solutions
