Jhana vs. Skillsoft Percipio (Skillport)

If you are growing quickly and need to give first time people managers a resource to learn the basics this is a good tool. If you have established leaders this is not a good tool for them. It covers the basics and ABCs of people management and does not go much further than that.

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For open source content it is excellent, over 16000 learning assets to work with. In this case, you allow learners to search and select what they need, when they need it, and how it supports their learning style. There are also uses cases where you need to curate a channel (compliance, DEI, etc.) where you can guide the learner and audiences to the content and track completion

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• There are weekly articles that are sent out
• There is info on just about any HR topic there is
• There are activities and exercises that can be done

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• It provides most books in audio and eBook options.
• You can download books for reading offline.
• There are thousands of books available and they are constantly adding to their list.

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• The articles are very surface level
• It is hard to make it valuable in a specific situation. One size does not fit all.
• The exercises don't seem totally flushed out

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• Skillport's user interface is relatively dated compared to many of its competitors.
• While the content library is large, much of the content appears to have come from at least 5-10 years ago.

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Books 24x7 is a useful tool for growth, knowledge sharing, and overall intellectual health within the company. Our company has been very forward thinking in offering this to every employee. As a result, people have been able to grow in areas they may not have previously explored because of the free access to resources they may not have bothered with before they had free access to them.

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Skillsoft Percipio (Skillport) is easy to understand. Students didn't need much of an effort to understand how to use it, where to find the content, how to pass each course. It was also great that Skillsoft Percipio (Skillport) has this direct link to LinkedIn so the user can post their acquired skills on their professional history.

Me and my other employees frequently reach out to support to address issues and they always help us in a timely manner. They are willing to work with you to solve and issue and are always available for help at any time. We haven't run into any instances where our problems didn't get solved.

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I have not used any other products like Jhana and I am not sure of what else would be out there. So it is hard to explain how Jhana has stacked up. I would image it stacks up well against anything else. My guess is that other tools feel a lot more corporate.

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I haven't used any other online training system except for Skillport, and I wasn't the person who selected it. However, our organization usually uses pretty decent technology when it comes to training, and I trust that they felt this was the best choice for our organization versus the alternative options

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• It costs money for users that don't really use it
• It quickly gives a resource to new managers
• It is something for HR to use with new managers

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• It was a fantastic additional product to feature with our instructor lead offerings.
• We were able to capture learning sales even if they didn't have the training budget for custom courses.
• It reduced travel cost for instructors/or participants.

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