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Skillsoft Leadership Development Program

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What is Skillsoft Leadership Development Program?

Skillsoft offers their Leadership Development Program, with a number of course offerings featuring scenarios and model behavior, reflection exercises and other curricula to train learning or first-time managers.

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What is Skillsoft Leadership Development Program?

Skillsoft (NYSE: SKIL) aims to deliver transformative learning experiences that propel organizations and people to grow together. The Company partners with enterprise organizations and serves a global community of learners to prepare today’s employees for tomorrow’s economy. Skillsoft offers access to blended, multimodal learning experiences that help learners build skills, and help organizations to grow a more capable, adaptive, and engaged workforce. Through a portfolio of content, a platform that is personalized and connected to customer needs, technology and an ecosystem of partners, Skillsoft aims to drive continuous growth and performance for employees and their organizations by overcoming critical skill gaps and unlocking human potential.

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Skillsoft offers their Leadership Development Program, with a number of course offerings featuring scenarios and model behavior, reflection exercises and other curricula to train learning or first-time managers.

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The most common users of Skillsoft Leadership Development Program are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Skillsoft learning solutions have been widely utilized by organizations to address various learning needs and improve business operations. Users have found Skillsoft's content to be valuable for a range of programs, including on-boarding, functional skill development, professional skill development, and leadership development. One of the key benefits is the ability to seamlessly integrate Skillsoft content with custom-developed programs, resulting in a blended learning experience that meets specific organizational requirements. With a vast library of courseware, users have access to a wide range of content, allowing them to acquire knowledge and skills in diverse subject areas. The instructional design and quality of Skillsoft's products have consistently received praise from users and reviewers, further enhancing their credibility. Additionally, Skillsoft's compatibility with all devices ensures flexibility and accessibility for users, enabling them to learn whenever and wherever it is convenient for them. Furthermore, the option to customize products from Skillsoft's library allows organizations to tailor the learning experience to their specific needs. This level of customization has been highly appreciated by users and customers, who have recommended Skillsoft to academic institutions and other organizations in India. Overall, Skillsoft has proven to be an effective tool for organizations looking to provide high-quality learning solutions that cater to their unique requirements.

Wide range of topics: Many users have expressed appreciation for the wide range of topics covered by Skillsoft. This allows them to explore various areas of interest and enhance their skills in different fields.

Curated content: The knowledge portals offered by Skillsoft, such as Management Development, Six Sigma, Professional Foundations, Sales, etc., provide curated content that is meaningful and relevant to the learning experience. Some users have found this feature valuable in accessing high-quality resources.

Diverse learning media: Skillsoft's use of various learning media, including eLearning courses, books, book summaries, and videos, has been seen as a positive feature by reviewers. It caters to different learning preferences and individual needs.

Outdated and Boring Courses: Some users have found that some of the courses offered by Skillsoft are outdated and boring. Although Skillsoft has been gradually updating them, this issue has been mentioned by a significant number of reviewers.

Price Adjustments for Developing Countries: Several reviewers have suggested that Skillsoft should adjust their contracting and pricing to be more in line with the needs of developing countries and third-world nations. This adjustment would make it more accessible and affordable for users in these regions.

Lack of Attractiveness to Millennials: Skillsoft needs to do more to attract millennials with their courseware, as mentioned by a number of users. By incorporating elements that appeal to this demographic, such as interactive features or gamification, Skillsoft can better engage younger learners.

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Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We needed an off-the-shelf solution to provide leadership training. Since we were a small company with an undersized L&D team, we did not have enough manpower to develop programs ourselves. Skillsoft Leadership Development Program bridged our content gap so that we could provide a rich experience to our employees in an appropriate timeline.
  • Variety of content types
  • A lot of Topics
  • Well developed eLearning programs
  • I was not a fan of their LMS
  • Their price point was hard to manage on a tight budget
  • A lot of their eLearning looked the same.
This provider is great if you are looking for a turn-key solution to take the place of creating your content. Also, it is a great tool if you already have existing content but want to offer a wide variety of topics that you did not have in the past.
  • variety
  • scrom compliant
  • ebooks
  • It increased employee engagement with professional development
  • Managers were able to put professional development training on performance evaluations
They seemed to be more on top of relevant topics and experience. BizLibrary was nothing more than a massive resaler. Whereas Skillsoft Leadership Development Program offered defined paths and topics that we could easily match to career progressions. It also seems to be much more user-friendly. Their customer service also stood out.
Michael Pieri | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Skillsoft Percipio (SLDP and Business Expert collections) as a MOOC (open source content) for our leadership communities, depending on the users learning style they can search, find, and consume assets that work for them (courses, videos, books, book summaries, etc.). Whether users are looking for micro learnings or more complex learning options, they are all there. We have over 16000 learning assets to work with.
  • Search on learning titles
  • Search on learning type
  • Admin functionality
  • Ability to curate
  • Some of the "studio" videos seems too structured
  • Older content may not get replaced
Great for aspiring and new leaders who simply need to search and find content. Both desktop and mobile work great!
  • Mobile app
  • Admin tool
  • Role ID
  • Employee development
  • Employee engagement
  • Retention
When it comes to leadership dev, SLDP is deeply specialized for this audience.... we like the ability for users to search and find what they need when they need it.
Michelle Braun | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We used Skillsoft across the entire firm to provide eLearning training to our employees.
  • I really like their library of leadership videos where leaders share their best practices. They're short and easy to use in a variety of settings (e.g. trainings, business meetings, etc.).
  • I find Skillsoft to have strong customer service. They do a very good job of listening to your needs and advising a variety of solutions within the given parameters.
  • N/A. I was quite happy with them as a provider.
In addition to a strong leadership video library, Skillsoft has good training on management, performance management, etc.
  • While we didn't calculate an exact ROI, we found Skillsoft to be a positive investment.
I used Skillsoft before discovering lynda.com at my current firm. Both have strong offerings. lynda.com has broader offerings and seems more technically oriented.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We are currently utilizing Skillsoft as part of our library/learning program for corporate accounts. It addresses the issue of having a platform to provide the necessary training for our customers. It has been merged within our website so customers are still able to benefit from some of our more internal products as well.
  • The platform provides an extensive amount of learning material that our customers can take advantage of such as books, courses and practice exams.
  • The Skillsoft platform can be used on your desktop, laptop and tablet formats which make it accessible at anytime.
  • The magnitude and detail of the reporting that Skillsoft provides is great. I have yet to come across a scenario where the information i sought was not available.
  • From an Administrative standpoint, assigning anything within the platform is extremely simple and does not require any prior knowledge to use.
  • The platform does have room to improve their response time for assistance. Depending on the issue an internal "help team may be required"
  • They removed what was called "knowledge centers" which could be summed up as an accumulation of books, courses, exams, practice exams, articles and basically any asset within the platform surrounded by a particular subject. This was a great benefit to some of our customer. It was a one-stop-shop but now you would need to search independently for all of those assets.
  • Because the platforms library can be customized its a bit of a struggle to have certain assets changed or modified within Skillsoft. You basically are on their time when it comes to updates or any major changes you as a customer would like to make.
If you had an individual, group or a multitude of groups that you would need to train, this platform can work wonder and minimal time to do this as well. You can basically assign your whole company a list of things at the same time rather than assigning each person each individual asset. There would be a scenario when reporting is unexpectedly requested and its needed in detail so you can easily in minutes grab a report off all individuals/groups, what assets they started, stopped, when and where they stopped, if they completed something etc. Rapid reporting is my favorite part.
  • I don't see really any negative ROI for Skillsoft. It's maximized training for my company and the others we service. I do not know the exact numbers but even with the minimal issues we have with the platform, the individuals who control the platforms purchase speak highly on its cost minimization.
lynda.com is still used at internally along with Skillsoft mainly because much of our staff are visual and gain a lot from the bounty of videos and courses lynda.com has to offer on an array of subject that are not always as technical to the library we posses in Skillsoft.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It is intended to be used across the whole organization, but only a few progressive departments use it. I use it to supplement courses. For example in a teambuilding course, instead of buying a book, I might compliment the course with a book from SkillSoft, or assign a reading from a book from Books 24x7.
  • Access to Books
  • Large Inventory of Courses
  • Anywhere Anytime access
  • Voice Narration for US. Some areas don't respond to other accents.
  • Easier names for reports, easier access to reports.
Appropriate as a compliment to other training. SkillSoft is NOT to be the be all end all of training. NO training is. It is not appropriate without an assessment of what the employee needs to improve upon.
  • We are not fully utilizing it due to lack of human resources. It could be better, but there is little time to devote to it.
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