We are excited to have been recognised as one of the best startups to work for in Australia by LinkedIn.

This is the second consecutive year Go1 has been named in LinkedIn’s Top Startup in Australia list. 

LinkedIn Top Startups is an annual ranking of the hottest startups to work for around the world. The list is compiled by LinkedIn’s editorial team through a combination of proprietary platform data and editorial expertise to spotlight new and fast-growing companies that are attracting attention and recruiting top talent.  

Go1 co-founder Vu Tran said the award recognises Go1’s priority in its people and culture – vital ingredients for being a great place to work.

"We’re delighted to get this award from LinkedIn. It’s recognition of the effort everyone has and continues to put in to make Go1 a supportive and rewarding company to work for,” Mr Tran said. 

“We’re hopeful this award will help us to continue to attract the best talent in Australia and internationally as we expand and create more alliances with partners that share our workplace philosophy. 

"One of our key practices is supporting employees to advance themselves. Pursuing targeted and relevant training is important not just for individuals but also for the success of the organisation. Enabling people to run their own training agenda and go beyond their core training has big benefits for everyone,” he said.

Employee wellbeing and mental health are top priorities at Go1, where staff are encouraged to maintain a healthy balance between work and their private lives.  

"A safe, supportive workplace means healthier employees, better performance and productivity. Awards such as LinkedIn Top Startups are very important for raising awareness of how important a supportive work environment can be, both for attracting new talent and retaining talent. This is all the more critical given the global skills shortage, and the challenge many startups face in attracting the right people," Mr Tran said. 

Go1.com makes it easy for businesses to train their staff, with the world’s largest compliance, professional development and general training marketplace. By providing a single platform that extends from first aid training through to degree bearing courses, Go1 makes it easy to find and compare the best training options available. The marketplace features over 500,000 courses and other learning items created by local and international experts. Customers include SEEK.com.au, Oxford University, State and Local Governments and St John Ambulance.

Since launching in 2015, Go1 has grown to be a world leader in online learning and education. Local and overseas investors include Y Combinator, SEEK, M12, Tank Stream Ventures, Black Sheep Capital, and Our Innovation Fund.

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Go1 named one of LinkedIn's 2019 Top Startups in Australia 

Welcome back to our monthly round up of all things Go1! We've had some great articles come out in the press that you might find interesting, so we’ve put together this round up of links for you to read over. We encourage you to catch them now if you missed them earlier, or re-read them to see if there’s more you can learn! 

LiveTiles share price higher after announcing partnership with Go1.com

Via Dynamic Business featuring Scott Cooper, VP of Marketing at Go1

Go1.com and Rosterfy set to redefine global training and workforce management in new partnership

Via Logan City Council featuring Go1 co-founder, Vu Tran

News Xtend partners exclusively with world’s largest workplace training marketplace Go1

Via News Corp featuring Go1 co-founder, Andrew Barnes

Stay tuned for some more amazing things to come in September!  

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Let's take a look back at some of the great things Go1 has been involved with in August 2019. 

Dell and Microsoft pour millions into A.I. start-ups that are reshaping the workforce

Via CNBC featuring Go1 co-founder and chief operating officer, Chris Eigeland

JobReady partners with Go1 to deliver a new generation of learning

Via JobReady featuring Go1 co-founder and CEO, Andrew Barnes

Via Dynamic Business featuring Go1 co-founder, Vu Tran

Investment Attraction Incentive Fund lures four businesses to Logan

Via Jimboomba Times featuring Go1 co-founder, Vu Tran

Stay tuned for some more amazing things to come in August! 

Let's take a look back at some of the great things Go1 has been involved with in July 2019. 

The Go1 team is proud to announce that our amazing customers and partners have won seven awards at the 2019 LearnX Live Awards! The prestigious awards highlight the impact of Go1’s eLearning solutions for our customers and partners and proves eLearning can deliver fantastic results for businesses.

The LearnX Live Awards is an international awards program that recognises multiple fields within talent management across the corporate, education and public-service sectors. Each year the Awards uncover incredible projects and solutions that deliver best practice and business value.

Congratulations to our award-winning customers and partners:

Best Learning & Development Project - Customer Experience: 

What a wonderful recognition for all their hard work and efforts as they continue to do good things. Go1 is excited about the eLearning projects our team are helping to develop for our customers and partners now and in the future!

For more insights, subscribe to the Go1 newsletter to stay on top of all the latest L&D trends. Or, you can book a demo today to find out how Go1 can help with your team’s learning needs.

Go1 customers and partners at the 2019 LearnX Awards - Go1

Go1 customers and partners make an impact at the 2019 LearnX Live Awards

As of July 1st 2019, the New Aged Care Quality Standards will be in place. The Aged Care Quality Standards will apply to all aged care services including residential care, home care, flexible care and services under the Commonwealth Home Support Program. 

With eight new standards, a stronger consumer focus and clearly articulated care and service expectations, now is the time to familiarise and educate yourself with the new standards. To help you prepare and meet the new standards, Go1 has partnered with Australian training provider Aged Care Learning Solutions to bring you all the online training courses you need to be ACQS compliant. 

Subscribe to Go1 Premium and you’ll get instant access to high-quality training content from Aged Care Learning Solutions, including a series of new learning resources which reflect on each individual standard from the point of view of the consumer. 

You’ll also have unlimited access to a range of training materials from other top content providers, offering courses on topics such as nursing, infectious diseases, and mental health, plus soft skill training including leadership, communication, and more. As a one-stop training shop, Go1 Premium provides you with everything you need to help employees to improve their skills and provide quality care to residents. 

If you're interested in finding out more, come chat with us in person at the following events:

Governance in Aged Care: 29th-30th May, Sydney

Strengthening the Aged Care Workforce: 4th-5th June, Sydney

Aged Care Tech Forum: 18th-20th June, Melbourne

Quality in Aged Care: 27th-28th August, Sydney

Remember, all Australian aged care providers will be monitored and assessed against the new standards from July 1st 2019.

Are you ready for the New Aged Care Quality Standards?

Share your ideas and opinions with Go1's Research Group. 

Go1 is building a Research Group, where we can connect with you and learn from your experiences with the product. 

If you want to talk about all things Go1 then join the Go1 Research Group today!

As Go1 grows and our product matures, we want to continue to keep creating great experiences for Go1 users globally. This Group is a place for Go1 users (Admins and Learners) and non-Go1 users alike, to tell us what they think of Go1 and more generally of the Learning and Development industry today. 

To become part of the Go1 Research Group, start by filling out this short questionnaire. We are using the questionnaire to collect information from you that will help us match you to the right research studies!

If you are a match to one of our research studies, you will receive an email invitation to participate. Research studies include interviews, usability tests, surveys and more. 

Every study is different! We’ll give you all the details you need, so you can decide if you want to join. We might ask you to be part of discussions during planning the stages of new features, trialling beta interactions or taking a usability test run by our research team.

By being part of the Research Group, you will have the chance to connect one-on-one with the Go1 Research Team and watch our product grow. You'll also get the inside scoop on what we are working on and some research studies will offer incentives! You'll find out more via the study invitations. 

Have any questions? Send a message to research@go1.com 

We'd love it if you could join us on this journey! Start by taking the questionnaire!

We want every bit of your feedback so we can keep creating great experiences for Go1 users globally!

Go1.com raises over $30 million in Series B round led by Microsoft’s venture fund M12

Featuring Vu Tran, co-founder of Go1 via Startup Daily

Go1's Dan Fish shares his highlights from the Microsoft Future Now conference

Featuring Dan Fish, Director of Strategy & Partnerships at Go1 via Medium

Advance Queensland Recipients Go1.com reaches new heights

Stay tuned for some more amazing things to come in May!  

Let's take a look back at some of the great things Go1 has been involved with in April 2019. 

We are well and truly into the year now and there have been no signs of slowing down for Go1! We've had some great articles come out in the press that you might find interesting, so we’ve put together this round up of links from the month of March for you to read over. We encourage you to catch them now if you missed them earlier, or re-read them to see if there’s more you can learn! 

Microsoft's M12 global VC arm backs Australian start-up Go1

Global Investors Kick $30M Into Brisbane Startup

Featuring Scott Cooper, VP of Marketing at Go1 via Dynamic Business.

Three ways you can empower women in the workforce

Featuring Liz Hardie, Growth R & D at Go1 via Australian Women Online.

March was a great month, however we are looking forward to an even better April! So stay tuned. 

Let's take a look back at some of the great things Go1 has been involved with so far in March 2019. 

A monthly round-up of all things Go1: March edition

Go1's Social Impact Manager Cameron Cliff has put together a great wrap up of this year’s SXSW conference. Here, Cam shares his highlights from the event and his thoughts on the need for more inclusive design and aiming for impact.

Truly focusing on people takes time that modern businesses don’t have. 

The solution - ongoing, diverse education for workers combined with inclusive design and aiming for impact. People need to understand an issue, have access to education to upskill themselves to take effective action on a case-by-case basis, involve their customers in the design process and then tie their work to a real world impact. 

South by South West 2019 was all about learning and impact.

SXSW is all about collision; a gaze into a future where music, film, interactive technology and education all come together. It’s a place where flocks of nuns with dogs promote an Amazon series alongside teenage girls stamping out sexual harassment. It’s also a place where change makers in every industry get their start or make major announcements (Twitter, Foursquare, Dropbox, Facebook, Google, Amazon… to name a few).

Go1 was privileged to attend this year’s SXSW as one of Westpac’s Businesses of Tomorrow and showcase itself to the world at Australia House with G’Day USA. As well as a global trend towards life long learning, we noticed a core problem across every business sector.

1. You’re designing for people, so act like it.

The question to every panel, the demand from every judge -“tell me about your impact.”

Putting people at the centre of your business, your product, your marketing… it’s everywhere and it couldn’t come soon enough. Human Centred Design or people centric design has been around for years and it’s starting to catch on in a big way. But, like all big trends, it’s in danger of becoming another tick box rather than a genuine design philosophy. 

Whether it was discussions about the millions that workplaces are losing because of their failure to spark curiosity (the Death of Curiosity and Innovation, Elliott Hedman) or asking if empathy has left us in our quest to appear relevant rather than be relevant (Is the Age of Empathy Dead?, Martha Cotton), empathy has become a thorny problem for nearly every business. To be truly empathetic, people need to take the time to understand issues, to talk to people and understand their problems and this is directly at odds with the fast growth mentality of modern businesses. More than this, true empathy often isn’t rewarded in today’s work cultures, leaving workers stressed out, depressed and anxious as they lose the connection between their work and its impact on the world. 

Throughout SXSW it became apparent that organisations that design without empathy are building enormous houses of cards, ready to fall at any moment. There needs to be a return to education as a way of working and understanding as a way of working and this means taking time… but how do we do this in a smart, scale-able way?

girl-alliance provided a teen showcase that many adults can learn from when designing learning.

Diversity matters (and people are damn tired of saying it). It’s also the natural extension of people centric design. You’re not putting people at the centre of your business unless you embrace and work with the different people who will be using your product. Too often you have businesses who don’t have a diverse workforce designing for diverse communities, and then wondering why their product doesn’t succeed. More than that, there’s a massive education gap, with most workforces being afraid to embrace diverse communities because they don’t have the education to know how to approach those communities or what those communities need. 

girl-alliance was a surprise stand out for us as it echoed this principle to the core. They had teenage girls create a framework for understanding the messy spectrum from flirting to sexual assault (with highly qualified facilitators guiding them). They then turned that into a cheat sheet of what people thought wasn’t ok, how not ok it was and who to talk to about it, creating a solution for teens by teens. This was then echoed by major brands.

Microsoft held an inclusive design masterclass on redesigning their XBox controllers for and with different needs, alongside Google’s inclusivity and diversity focus throughout SXSWedu and UNICEF’s panel on disrupting poverty. At its heart, everything came back to measuring social impact and how this fed into the heart of every business.

HBO & Game of Thrones engineered a booked out blood drive with the Red Cross.

There is a new phrase rocking around that is shorthand for rethinking drivers for success to include inclusive design, community and outcomes - social impact. The startups announcing their product launches at SXSW, the panels by big brands like the Hollywood majors on their new streaming platform Quibi… the question that kept popping up was what is the impact of this? How will you measure its success AND its sustainability?

We’re rethinking ROI to include social impact (thank you Harmony for talking to this so clearly). What this means is asking, how does my product actually help people and how can every process of that product being made have a positive impact? That’s what builds sustainability. This takes a huge amount of education to achieve, it includes life long learning and upskilling, easily available tools and ongoing discussions with communities and customers. But it is vital for any kind of ongoing success today.

You could say I leant towards this because it was a core focus of my PhD and is a core focus of my work here at Go1 managing our Social Impact. But it was the question that has plagued everyone going forward at SXSW this year. These days it’s easy to reach millions of people if you have the cash. What’s difficult is making those millions of people reach out to you and that won’t happen unless you have a meaningful, lasting impact with your work.

We’re actively pursuing this with how we create education offerings here at Go1 and have some exciting new projects to announce on the horizon from our Social Impact team. For a start you can now access training from the incredible Fitzroy Academy on Social Impact on Go1. We spend more than half our adult lives at work and we’re excited to use that time to create safe, mentally healthy and green workplaces that have a positive impact on the world. 

Bonus: Our COO Chris meets a little AI companion

Impact is the future of eLearning (SXSW 2019)

Calling all Learning Designers! Enter Bloom’s Happiness Learning Project eLearning module competition and be in the running to win $1000USD – while using your skills for good!

Bloom is an award-winning learning technology company, passionate about user experience, design and learning outcomes. This month, the Bloom team have decided to use their skills, talents and connections to make a difference to those living with anxiety. 

Anxiety is the most common of all mental disorders, currently affecting about 1 in 13 people – 7.3 % globally. With many employees experiencing anxiety in the workplace, wellbeing training is a crucial component of any corporate training program. 

Workplaces that prioritise mental health have better engagement, reduced absenteeism and higher productivity, while people have improved wellbeing, greater morale and higher job satisfaction.

Enter the Bloom Happiness Learning Project

To help support those who are affected by anxiety at work, Bloom are coordinating a competition for Learning Designers globally to co-create eLearning modules that will improve wellness at work, supporting those learning teams who want to support those affected at work. 

By entering Bloom’s ‘5 ways to wellbeing at work’ eLearning module competition, you’ll be in the running to win $1000USD, with possible ongoing passive income. The winner will provide their module at no cost to any organisation or individual who wants it. 

From April 31st, the winning module will be made available on the Go1 learning platform, free to enrol in as part of the Go1 Social Impact suite. 

Organisations are also encouraged to keep up-to-date with the Bloom Happiness Learning Project. 

If you are responsible for wellbeing training at work, you will know most eLearning suppliers will charge between $15,000 – $30,000 per module. Simply head over to the Bloom website and register the details of your organisation. When the winner of the eLearning module competition is announced you will receive the SCORM file – for free! 

Go1 is delighted to be involved in the Bloom Happiness Learning Project and to provide sponsorship of the winning prize. 

The competition launched this week on 20th March, to coincide with the celebration of International Day of Happiness around the world. 

Go1 sponsors Bloom Happiness Learning Project 

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