Books, articles and white papers

Articles   Books  

How to Become the Next Learning Leader
As learning leaders, it’s up to us to find ways to capture the hard-won experiences of Baby Boomers before they retire from the workforce. Simulations just might hold the key.
By Michael Vaughan

Selling Simulations to Stakeholders
Looking for ways to build consensus for simulations among key stakeholders within your organization? Here are four tips for crafting a compelling business case.
By Kevin Himmel

A New Way of Identifying Top Talent
Using simulations to reach beyond training.
By Michael Vaughan

Managing Virtual Teams
Three tips for teaching managers to lead virtual teams.
By Beth Zadik

Generational Learning Preferences: A Primer
E-learning preferences often break down along generational lines. Knowing these preferences and understanding their roots are essential to creating e-learning that resonates with your audience.
By Stephen Kirkpatrick

Designing E-learning for Multiple Generations … as Easy as 1-2-3
How do you design e-learning when your audience consists of multiple generations? Here are three solutions that work.
By Brandon Fleisher and Kevin Himmel

E-learning Preferences At-a-Glance
A look at how each generation prefers its online learning.
By Brandon Fleisher and Kevin Himmel

 

End of Trianing The End of Training: How Simulations are Reshaping Business

By Michael Vaughan, CEO and President, RLS

With his book, The End of Training: How Simulations are Reshaping Business, Vaughan presents a clear and concise guide to understanding the game-changing impact of simulation training platforms in the workplace. He explains what makes good simulations work and details the best practices that have helped organizations successfully implement enterprise-scale simulations.

The book also explores the future of simulation training and examines the advancements that experts anticipate will revolutionize simulations–and workforce learning–in the years to come.
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Hard Truths, Costly Lies: Working Truths About the Power of Meaning and Truth in the Workplace

By J. Stephen Kirkpatrick, Ph.D., Co-Founder, RLS

In Hard Truths, Costly Lies, J. Stephen Kirkpatrick explores the human behavioral roots of productivity declines in the American workplace and offers practical approaches to fostering employee motivation and organizational esprit de corps to drive enterprise-scale business growth and build meaning and accountability into the workplace. 
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White papers   Case Studies

How Business Modeling Works
What are business models and how do they work?
By Mike Vaughan and Rod Walker

Understanding Business Simulations
What exactly is a business simulation?
By Mike Vaughan and Kevin Himmel

Simulations Bridge The Gap
The role of business simulations.
By Mike Vaughan and Kevin Himmel

The Cost-Effectiveness of E-learning
How e-learning cuts training costs and delivers effective learning at the same time.

The Value of E-learning
How to prove that e-learning works.

Information Sharing: Virtual Teams
Tips for building impactful virtual teams.

 

RLS learning programs have been implemented successfully in hundreds of organizations, small and large, across a wide variety of market sectors:

Expanding the firefighting mission

Helping those living with a chronic disease

Preparing for “Boomer” retirements

Training fishermen to safeguard protected species