Xcelus Online Compliance Training Video Recognized as One of This Year’s Best Training Videos Xcelus, LLC, a leading provider of online training videos, was announced as a finalist in the Video category in The 2014 American Business Awards, and will ultimately be a Gold, Silver, or Bronze Stevie Award winner in the program. The training [...]
PRESS RELEASE - For Immediate Release Xcelus, LLC Wins Again at The 35th Annual Telly Awards Provo, UT – April 21, 2014 – Xcelus LLC (www.xcelus.com), a leader in corporate learning solutions, received top honors in the 35th annual Telly Awards for their corporate training video, The Protocol – A Climbing Metaphor. Xcelus, LLC was recognized [...]
There is a common phrase thrown out in business that says, “The medium is the message.” The phrase is meant to emphasize how a message meaning can change depending on the means by which it is conveyed. The same is true when it comes to video composition. The composition you choose to use may either [...]
By guest blogger - Austin Dressman The past couple blogs have covered the rise of the millennial generation, their behaviors and how best to educate them on important issues. In the corporate world, there are many instances where training is needed. From company policy to compliance issues, your new age employees need to be in-the-know [...]
Training Millennials by guest blogger Austin Dressman What are the common reactions to corporate training courses? They are boring, long-winded, already common sense, old, out of touch, and/or straight out the early 90s. That’s what most millennials said about the corporate training courses they have sat through over the years. We recently surveyed a group of [...]
Millennial Matters by guest blogger Austin Dressman There is a group of people that is talked about by corporate executives more than any other: Millennials. This rising generation of young professionals makes up both the incoming workforce and the main target audience of marketers. And they aren’t going away anytime soon. Companies have been researching [...]
At Xcelus, we produce a number of screen recording training courses for our clients. Our clients also do a lot of self produced screen recording courses. Screen recording is a great way to show how software works or to provide training tips using a Subject Matter Expert's knowledge. Prior to any using any screen recording [...]
Just how influential is video in a training course? Let’s take a history test: Think about everything you know about the Apollo 13 space mission. OK, now where did you go in your memory to recall the Apollo 13 space mission? Classroom Textbook? Newspaper Article? Walter Cronkite on the CBS Evening News? Or was [...]
To tell a story, it all starts with Aristotle - Ethos Pathos, Logos Five Things Instruction Designers can learn from Screenwriters about Training Motivation Aristotle developed three keys to effective writing: the artful application of ethos, pathos and logos – the use of character (or credibility), logic (or reason), and emotion respectively. An excellent [...]
