Seismic Learning vs. TalentCards

If you are onboarding new employees or consultants and you have a complex product, solution, or your business is layered and complex, this can help distill down the layers into basics so that new team or partners can build their knowledge base up the right way. This ensures they are learning what needs to be learned, and not what they surmise or assume, which can be incorrect and cause issues down the road - this is especially sensitive in our field. Training of all kinds can be done easily with this tool.

Incentivized

TalentCards is very well suited for field based, hands on roles where people need quick access to information. For us, that means technicians who are mobile all day and need short training, refreshers, or job aids they can pull up on their phone right before or during a job. It works especially well for onboarding, SOPs, safety reminders, and knowledge reinforcement over time.
It is less appropriate for long form, deep training that requires extended focus, discussion, or complex assessments. If you need multi hour courses, heavy compliance training, or classroom style learning with facilitation and interaction, a traditional LMS or instructor led format is a better fit.

Incentivized

• Open to feedback and ideas and constantly innovating and iterating on their product to serve new needs that arise
• Making me feel like more than just a customer: They aren't transactional and focus on building the relationship and making me feel heard.
• Extremely easy to use product so building content takes little time, and I can leverage other subject matter experts to build content as well.

Incentivized

• Easy to Use
• Has both a Free Version and a Trial Version to test
• Great for teaching important steps when learning new material

Incentivized

• Media import (audio, video) are still in infancy. Reliability of uploaded content isn't 100%.
• The Events function lacks some features that are more built out in other platforms.
• Reporting interface has a bit of a learning curve, but overall isn't bad.

Incentivized

• The AI functions could be smoother and more tailored to the brand.

Incentivized

Worried about its acquisition by Seismic and hope that they don't change the product or the terms drastically.

Incentivized

It's completely simple and intuitive, anyone can pick it up. The hardest part is looking for a save button and finally figuring out you don't need one. We don't provide training for users and never have complaints. For creators, we provide best practices, but using Lessonly itself requires nothing .

Incentivized

The learner experience is excellent. Technicians can get into the mobile app quickly, navigate content easily, and find what they need without training. For a field workforce, that is where usability matters most, and TalentCards does that very well.
Admin usability is solid, but it is browser based, not app based. All content creation, user management, and reporting require a desktop or web browser. The interface itself is intuitive once you are there, but it is not something you can realistically manage from a phone.

Incentivized

The support team is very friendly and eager to help you learn the ins and outs of Lessonly. They can set up training for large groups or send links in a chat for individual help. They are quick to respond and if one person doesn't have the answer, they will collaborate with others to help find the answer.

Incentivized

I felt some of these products had more features than were necessary and needed for our team. Some of them were limited on the number of content creators that were allowed which to me forces you to use one or two people to create content where I would rather see it done by key members of each department.

Incentivized

They don't compare, it is two different products, but Jira helps manage products and keeps a virtual to-do list. While TalentCards is something that can be added to Jira's list as a scheduled learning session. I haven't used any product close to TalentCards before. We were looking for different ways to learn together and this software really fit the bill.

Incentivized

• We've had an increase in quality overall as a company, as we are able to continually train our employees outside of our New Hire Training program.
• We've seen stronger communication as we are able to send out material to our stylists about products, policies, procedures, etc. and they are able to provide us with feedback. After all, it is their tool for learning and we want to know the best way to provide that information to our Team Members.

Incentivized

• Easy to add info as it becomes available
• Great way to learn important info in small doses
• Perfect for small businesses

Incentivized