Joanne Etmanski
VP, Learning Strategy, GEVC
With more than 30 years’ experience in learning and development, Joanne Etmanski is a sought-after learning design strategist and digital learning expert. As VP of learning strategy at GEVC, Canada’s longest continuously operating digital learning solutions company, Joanne has offered her insights and guidance to hundreds of organizations in the private, public, post-secondary, and not-for-private sectors to help them and their audiences keep pace with changing workplaces. A regular columnist for the Learning Guild’s Learning Solutions magazine, her “Pivot” columns have had an unwavering focus on improving the quality of digital learning solutions‚Äîby keeping human considerations top of mind.
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Pivot: Missing the Mark on Quality eLearning
L&D is missing the mark on quality eLearning because employees view it as an unpleasant experience. Management oversight and quality controls can help.
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Pivot: Look to YouTube to Improve Training
L&D leaders should look to YouTube to improve training. Successful YouTubers have habits that L&D can mimic when designing and delivering training.
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Pivot: Tone and Its Role in Training Effectiveness
How we speak to employees in eLearning courses is important. L&D leaders must pay attention to tone and its role in training effectiveness.
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Pivot: Improve Your Internal Learning Culture Undercover
To build a strong internal learning culture, go undercover for a day like the CEOs on the reality television series Undercover Boss.
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Pivot: Shifting the Focus to Our Internal Customers
All too often, companies forget about pleasing their internal customers, aka their employees. Savvy L&D leaders must pivot, shifting the focus to them.







