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The 80/20 Reality of Partner Programs

Most partner programs accept the 80/20 reality as inevitable, where a small percentage of partners drive the majority of revenue while the rest remain inactive. But this imbalance is not a talent problem, it is a design problem. When certification is based on completion instead of demonstrated selling ability, and activation is treated as a byproduct of recruitment, ecosystems stall. The companies that outperform are the ones that rethink enablement, shifting to performance-based certification, scalable assessment, and systems that ensure partners are truly ready to sell. When you activate more partners, you do not just improve participation, you create a more predictable pipeline, reduce revenue concentration risk, and turn your channel into a reliable growth engine.

Why Traditional Partner Certification Fails and What to Measure Instead

Partner certification was built to create consistency at scale, but in today’s channel ecosystems it often fails to reflect real readiness. This post explores why certification has become a lagging indicator and what channel teams should measure instead.

What Is Partner Readiness and How Should Channel Teams Measure It?

If you lead a mature channel or partner program, chances are you already invest heavily in enablement. You have an LMS. You [...]

Why Partner Certifications Don’t Guarantee Channel Readiness (And What Actually Does)

Your partner just passed their certification with flying colors. They aced every multiple choice question. They can recite product features in their sleep. So why are they still struggling in front of actual customers? The uncomfortable truth is that traditional partner certification programs are really good at one thing: confirming that someone consumed information. What they don't do is prove that a partner can actually perform when it matters.

Why Top Channel Partners Are Leaving (And How to Keep Them)

You just lost your best partner. Not to a competitor, exactly. They’re still in business, still serving the same customers, still active [...]

Scale Partner Certification Without More Headcount

Struggling to scale partner certification with a lean enablement team? This post shows how asynchronous, AI-powered video assessment removes scheduling bottlenecks, delivers instant feedback, and increases partner certification completion rates, so you can certify more partners faster without adding headcount.

Reducing Partner Certification Risk: Why Proof-Based Credentials Matter

Traditional partner certification can create false confidence: partners pass exams but struggle in real customer demos. This post explains how proof-based credentials and performance-based assessments create verifiable partner readiness, reduce brand and compliance risk, and meet modern enterprise procurement expectations with consistent standards and audit trails.

How to Improve Partner Revenue Through Better Certification Programs

Traditional partner certification programs often boost completion rates without improving real-world performance. In this post, you’ll learn how performance-based certification and AI video assessment help close the gap between “certified” and customer-ready, improve deal velocity, reduce support burden, and increase partner-sourced revenue.

Keeping Your Data Safe

In the world of technology, trust is everything. When you use a digital platform, you’re placing confidence in that company’s ability to [...]

Mastering the Enterprise Buying Motion: Turning Pilots into Business Cases That Win

Here’s the thing: in enterprise sales, the tech can be flawless, but you can still lose. It’s rarely the software or the [...]

Eric Nelson Joins Bongo’s Board of Trustees, Bringing Extensive SaaS Expertise to Drive Global Impact

Bongo, the leading video and AI platform that verifies revenue-driving behavior at scale is thrilled to announce the appointment of Eric Nelson [...]

Celebrating a Season of Wins: Bongo’s Recent Awards & Recognitions

At Bongo, our mission has always been clear: empower organizations to validate skills and scale feedback through video and AI, without losing [...]

From Knowledge to Action: Strategies to Ensure Learners Apply What They Learn

Learning isn’t just about knowing—it’s about doing. It’s not just the what or the how; it’s the why. This principle has never [...]

Listen Now: Customer Ed Nuggets Podcast – How AI and Video Boost Skill Verification

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Bongo Strikes Gold and Silver at the Learning Technologies Awards

At Bongo, we strive to redefine the boundaries of learning technology. This year, we are thrilled to announce that Bongo has won [...]

Scaling Observational Assessment in Learning Environments

Observational assessment is an essential tool for evaluating real-world skills and behaviors. From academic settings to corporate training, it provides insights that [...]

Seeing is Believing: The Power of Observational Assessment in Education and Training

In the quest to create effective learning environments, assessment plays a pivotal role. Traditional methods like tests and quizzes are often used [...]

The AI Advantage You’re Overlooking: Beyond Content Creation and Quizzes

Pop quiz: How’s your institution using generative artificial intelligence (AI)? A – Creating course content B – Generating quiz questions C – [...]

How to Fast Track Speed to Skill for Your Employees

Today’s workplaces have a need for speed. The relentless pace of technological advancements requires leaders and teams to adapt, learn, and execute [...]

Got Proof? How to Ensure Your Credentials Hold Value

A 3-Point Checklist for Skill Mastery Validation The demand for upskilling and reskilling has never been more critical. Within a decade, it’s [...]

Why Practice Plus Feedback Makes Perfect

It’s generally believed that to become better at something one must do it often. Just learning about it isn’t enough. That is [...]

6 Leadership Skills That L&D Teams Say Are Essential

Employee enablement is a critical factor for organizational success, and learning and development teams can play an important role in helping employees [...]

Why Employee Enablement is Essential for Engagement

Two of the most essential components of successful organizations are employee enablement and employee engagement—basically, how empowered and motivated your team members are to do their job.

The Limits of ChatGPT: Why AI Will Never Replace Human Performance

As an AI language model, ChatGPT has become increasingly popular for its ability to generate text quickly and accurately and has been [...]

The Myths and Truths of Skills Assessment in Corporate Training

Skills assessment is increasingly popular as companies strive to ensure their employees have all the necessary skills and knowledge to succeed in [...]

Right-skilling: How to Effectively Train Your Team Members

Right-skilling—the process of tailoring corporate training to the specific needs of an organization—is a name that is relatively new for a concept [...]

Don’t Fear ChatGPT: How AI Can Help With Corporate Training

ChatGPT is a term that is quickly becoming popular within the corporate world—and not always with great response. While some are quick [...]

6 Ways to Overcome Sales Objections in Your Next Training

Sales objections are a part of any sales job and can be a tricky obstacle to overcome, but with the right strategies [...]

Coaching For Mental Health: The Impact On Employee Wellness

How coaching can better the mental health of your employees Employee coaching has long been known to have a positive impact on [...]

5 Easy Steps for Overcoming Objections in Sales

Overcoming objections in sales is an essential part of any sales process, yet it can [...]

5 ways to transform learning behavior for your team

Learning and Development are critical areas within any business, and being able to enhance how team members learn and retain information can help a business improve its bottom line, as well as establish a corporate culture of learning.

Is Your Team Ready to Sell? Ensure Your Sales Team is Enabled for Success

Sales readiness is a critical part of revenue generation for any company, but determining if a team is ready to sell or not can be difficult. Here, we lay out six ways to gauge your team’s sales readiness.

3 ways video assessment fosters community in online courses

Six Reasons Why Feedback is Essential to the Sales Learning Process

How critique from a coach can help you get better, faster As much as we may hate to admit it, the reality [...]

How to be an effective coach for sales teams

Six tips on building effective coaching for sales teams Sales teams are dynamic and ever-changing, so it’s important to keep your sales [...]

4 Learning Habits to Transform Your Sales Effectiveness

It’s no secret that professional development and learning are critical to career success, whether you’re in sales or any other field. The [...]

How Lifelong Learning Enhances Employability

Success in today’s workforce requires continuous skill development, and it’s vital for professionals to focus on more than technical abilities. Your current [...]

Seven Qualities of a Successful Leader

When you think of someone with leadership skills, do you see someone who carries your group to an A+ in your business [...]

Static vs. Functional Video

Many instructors leverage video to boost student engagement and supplement the content they’re teaching, but these are typically static videos. In other [...]

How Cross-Cutting Skills Drive Career Advancement

A degree from a reputable college or university might earn you a job, but employers agree that cross-cutting skills are the key [...]

How to authentically assess learners’ comprehension in online courses

How to authentically assess learners’ comprehension in online courses eSchool Media featured an article written by Josh Kamrath, CEO of Bongo. Kamrath explains how to authentically assess learners’ comprehension in online courses. [...]

Achieving Metacognition and Retrieval with Video Assessment

From the perspective of Desiree Donnell, a special education teacher at Vista Innovation and Design Academy, it’s often difficult to assess why [...]

The Importance of Developing Communication Skills Before Graduation

New graduates might have a diploma, but that doesn’t necessarily mean organizations think they’re “career ready.” According to data from two National Association [...]

How Personalized Learning Helps Maximize Employee Development

Note: This post first appeared in D2L’s blog on August 16, 2018. All good managers strive to lead high-performing teams, but a winning culture [...]

Why Personalized Employee Development Is More Effective Than Annual Reviews

As the corporate world adjusts to a new generation of workers who value professional development opportunities and other growth factors, it is [...]

How to develop soft skills in the digital age

[eCampus News featured an article written by Jeff Lewis, Ph.D., the founder and chief of Bongo Learn, formally YouSeeU. He outlines 5...]

How Video Assessment Unlocks Online Coaching

An organization’s professional development opportunities have always played a role in attracting top talent and retaining employees, but they have become even [...]

How To Demonstrate Your Soft Skills In An Interview

Landing an interview always feels great (you are one step closer to getting the job!), but it’s important to remember that even [...]

So, Why Bongo?

As many of you have heard, YouSeeU unveiled Bongo, the company’s new video assessment platform, at SXSW EDU last week. Our team [...]

3 Ways Video Enhances The Assessment Process

Traditional assessments serve an important purpose, but it’s difficult to evaluate every competency on paper. Video assessment platforms enhance the evaluation process [...]

3 Reasons Why Experiential Learning Should Be Part Of The Curriculum

Educational institutions do a great job of teaching facts and figures, but many students don’t get the chance to put that knowledge [...]

Why Video Is The Key To Developing Learners’ Communication Skills In Online Education

As the foundational skill for all other soft skills, communication plays a significant role in the success of nearly every professional. Regardless of [...]

4 Ways To Encourage Collaboration In An Online Classroom

Students work independently to complete the majority of their coursework, but most instructors still make a concerted effort to promote collaboration whenever [...]

3 Ways To Better Assess Learners’ Skills & Knowledge

The majority of educators agree that assessing what learners understand is a critical part of the learning process. Unfortunately, this is where [...]

5 Soft Skills You’ll Need In Any Career

5 Soft Skills You’ll Need In Any Career There’s a reason most companies don’t offer someone a job based on their [...]

Feedback: The Sidekick To Employee Success

Annual performance reviews are the corporate world’s equivalent to final exams. No one seems to [...]

Developing Lifelong Learners Through Self-Assessment

Learning doesn’t just stop when students graduate from school and enter the workforce. The most successful [...]

Three Keys To Engaging Students In Online Courses

Many students gravitate towards online instruction because it enables them to digest information and complete coursework on their own time, but there [...]

3 Phrases Central To Authentic Assessment

Implementing authentic assessment into a course often requires more time, resources, and planning than traditional assessment methods, especially if technology is lacking. [...]

How Group Projects Help Students Develop Leadership Skills

Most students dislike group activities for one of two reasons: either they don’t [...]

Why Specific Feedback Is So Important

Whether they’re playing video games or managing a multi-million dollar company, people use feedback to [...]

3 Bad Communication Habits to Avoid at Work

3 Bad Communication Habits to Avoid at Work Soft skills are very important to success in the workplace. One of the major [...]

Communication: The Foundational Skill For All Other Soft Skills

Sales meetings, product demonstrations, and basically all other business discussions have one thing in common — they involve interpersonal communication. Communication, or [...]

3 Ways To Facilitate Peer Review

Most people agree that peer review benefits both students and instructors, but there are still challenges when educators try to implement this [...]

How To Incorporate Soft Skill Development Into Your Classes

Higher ed institutions tailor their curriculum around the core competencies of a certain discipline, but these learning standards often neglect one crucial [...]

Using Video To Authentically Assess Students

Many articles speak to the benefits of using interactive video to engage learners, but some instructors also utilize this medium as a [...]

What Separates Leaders From Managers?

Some of the best managers are also good leaders, but that doesn’t make the terms interchangeable. [...]

Memorization vs. Application In The Classroom

At one point or another, every student spends a night cramming as many facts and figures into their brain as they can [...]

5 Tips To Improve Your Public Speaking Skills

Most people feel something between mild nervousness and overwhelming anxiety when it comes to public speaking. There’s just something about talking in [...]

4 Ways To Maximize The Impact Of Your Feedback Online

In a traditional classroom environment, students can usually speak with an instructor or their peers directly if they have questions regarding feedback [...]

How Great Communication Skills Alleviate These 4 Stressful Workplace Situations

How Great Communication Skills Alleviate These 4 Stressful Workplace Situations Having relevant expertise in your chosen field is obviously necessary for success, [...]

Why Instructors Should Promote More Peer Review

The phrase ‘faster isn’t always better’ wasn’t intended to describe the ongoing assessment debate in education, but it certainly applies. Standardized tests [...]

Why Authentic Assessment Matters

How do you know if a student is learning? It’s an important question for instructors and institutions to address, but the answer [...]

5 Soft Skills You Must Demonstrate In An Interview To Land The Job

5 Soft Skills You Must Demonstrate In An Interview To Land The Job Resumes, cover letters, and portfolios are necessary to attract [...]

What are soft skills?

Here at Bongo, we are all about soft skills. Our video technology is purpose-built to help assess [...]