Foster collaboration, recognition, and growth in the year ahead

Find the hidden Kiwiana essentials so the Opti-Kiwis can enjoy their Christmas get-together!

Surprise and delight your new employees, and make them early ambassadors for your company.

Onboarding your employees has never been so easy.

Check out these AI tools to improve your content output!

How workplace learning promotes business growth

Awesome means the same thing in every language

A critical lesson from recent events

Supercharge your learning content creation with AI

Building a robust learning strategy in a hybrid business environment

Navigating the secular labour shortage and utilising L&D effectively to retain existing employees.

Follow the ADVANTAGE approach for creating accessible and absorbable learning!

It's your decision, either invest in your workforce or witness a talent drought in your organisation.

Employee happiness is at an all-time low. Find out which industries are hit the hardest and what you can do to mitigate worker woes.

Training your workers not only keeps them safe, but saves the country billions of dollars.

And how is your business being impacted by it?

Take a look at our SKOM diagram to assess what needs attention within your workforce to better improve performance.

The benefits of using animation within eLearning and how we utilise animation to captivate learners and simplify content.

Are you making the most of video for impactful learning? Why video is important for training your employees and how you can use it.

Content doesn't translate to results, why is that? Creating content for the sake of absorbable learning, not content for the sake of content.

If you’re still finding it really hard to hire skilled people, do you know why that is? It might not be what you think.

Investing into your people, for mutual benefit.

Mapping out the capabilities of your company's roles to design a development pathway for your employees

How we are using Artificial Intelligence to maximise efficiency and improve productivity

Meri Kirihimete!

We know that the research shows the first three months for our new employees are critical.

Do you need to address an area of learning and performance, but don’t know where to start?

How confident are you that everyone understands the company’s policies, and knows what is expected of them?

Sussan was super delighted to receive these awards from her entrepreneurial peers.

Enhance your onboarding with better employee induction. Read more about the impact of effective employee induction on business performance.

Develop more engaging eLearning with scenario-based learning. Talk to Optimism about how to get real results using this approach.

Engagement means different things to different organisations or people but, above all, it comes down to people enjoying coming to work – and, as a result, contributing to high performing teams and stronger business results.

What is scenario-based learning and how can this improve your business performance? Find out more with Optimism.

How often do your people switch off from the responsibilities of work? What’s their work life balance like? How’s their mental and physical health?

Choosing between bespoke and off-the-shelf eLearning solutions is getting far harder, with off-the-shelf ones getting more tech savvy and certainly more widely spread.

You invest heavily in learning for your people; workshops, courses, eLearning and more. Your people give good feedback, say thanks for the lunch, score highly in the quiz...

When your L&D feels bitsy, fragmented, ad-hoc, or reactive, it can be hard to know how to get out of that cycle.

We’re all used to being able to find the information that we need within seconds and at the touch of a button.

Discover the benefits of eLearning for Health & Safety Compliance Training. Cost-effective eLearning modules tailored for your workforce.

The word ‘guidance’ might be used in many contexts, but its meaning when it comes to safety is HUGE.

Top tips on how to provide a great onboarding experience for your employees. Engage and boost productivity with expert induction strategies.

Join Louise as she gives you a snapshot of what micro/espresso learning is and what it can be used for.

Embrace the future with augmented reality. Discover the next big idea and unlock insights on AR's potential with Optimism.

What is mLearning? Find out more about how mobile learning can benefit your company and help your employees enhance their performance.

Find out more about the Health & Safety Work Act and the move towards "Prepare and Prevent".

Watch out for these 5 common pitfalls when creating Health & Safety eLearning. Engage your employees in Health & Safety training for a safer workforce.

What is espresso learning? We break down information into small learning chunks and use learning activities to develop knowledge and fill skills gaps.

Optimism shines again with another award. Discover our award-winning insights and innovations.

Optimism wins the Silver Award for Best Interactive Scenario at the LearnX Impact Awards in 2016.

Partnering with Coastguard Boating Education, Optimism received the Silver Award for Best eLearning Development Company in the 2015 LearnX Impact Awards.

Optimism was awarded overall Winner of the eLearnz Award in New Zealand.

Is your company fully covered for Health & Safety? Discover comprehensive solutions and expert insights.

Victorious again - Optimism celebrates another triumph. Explore our award-winning insights and innovations at Optimism.

Our free 10-minute induction review checklist will help you complete a quick check of your induction process to find any gaps in your current process.

9 key benefits of eLearning and how this can help your organisation, compared to more traditional methods.

Discover the three key aspects of effective eLearning. Elevate your understanding of impactful online learning.

At the NZATD Conference 2018, we asked "How do you currently measure the business impact of your learning initiatives?”

At the NZATD Conference 2018, we asked "What’s your top tip for ensuring business impact of your L&D initiatives?"

At the NZATD Conference 2018, we asked "Which technologies are you investing in, over the next 12 months?"

At the NZATD Conference 2018, we asked "Got an LMS? What's one thing you like about it, and one thing you don't?"

At the NZATD Conference 2018, we asked "Specifically, how do you keep your finger on the pulse of learning technologies?"

Optimism NZ is working with NGO Flame Cambodia to help the women in Cambodia’s slums to start and grow their own micro-businesses so that they can feed their families and communities.

Stop the cost of careless induction. Discover the impact of ineffective onboarding and uncover expert insights to enhance your employee induction process.

Simplify employee induction with the Induction App. Enhance onboarding and engage your team from day one.