As the holiday season is upon us, we find ourselves reflecting on the past year and those who have helped to shape our business. It’s been quite a year for the Go1 team! 

We thought we’d look back at some of the highlights of the past year.

Early this year we officially opened the doors to our new HQ in Logan, Australia. We are incredibly happy to be a part of such a diverse and growing community! 

Our co-founder Vu Tran thanks the Council for the opportunity to help boost Logan’s entrepreneurial credentials. “We’re thrilled to be able to give back to the community and boost the number of successful start-ups and scale-ups with support and mentoring capabilities."

Investment Attraction Incentive Fund lures four businesses to Logan

We've had some amazing articles come out in the press over the course of this year 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!

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

The 25 best start-ups to work for in Australia, according to LinkedIn

Go1.com launches scholarship program for brokers

UK targets Aussie tech firms for post-Brexit economy

Top 30 best-funded Australian startups 2019

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

Docebo Makes E-Learning Content Access Easy with All-New Docebo Content

Go1.com increases reach and speed using Salesforce

At Go1 we believe in bringing the learning community together so that we can all share our knowledge and help everyone to improve the way that they learn and train their team.

Our meetups are for learning and development professionals who want to discuss best practices, strategies, and innovation in learning design, delivery and instructional technology. This year we appeared in Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne for our Learning & Technology Meetups. We discussed why HR & L&D managers should learn leadership skills in order to influence, impact and engage staff learning. 

We also explored learning and development on a budget - how to build learning momentum in your organisation and develop your people on a tight budget. 

This year we held our very first Client Forums across Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne. Attendees had the opportunity to hear directly from the Go1 team about product innovations and what's in store for the future. It was amazing to see so many people from a range of different industries come together to share their strengths and challenges in the L&D space!

GO1 Client Forum May 2019

We'll be hosting even more meetups and client forums in the new year and invite you to get involved in the conversation. You’ll be sure to walk away with some fresh solutions that you can start applying in your workplace straight away! Keep an eye out in the new year for more information.

Helping organisations improve their learning culture

Throughout the year, we’ve partnered with many businesses to help them improve the way they deliver and manage their employee training.

We teamed up with Amicus to redefine and re-energise their employee training program, with the aim of improving the way learning and development was being delivered across the organisation.

We also helped Bohme address their training needs and continue to drive success in the company.

We provided Bentleys with the perfect solution for the company’s learning needs, allowing them the freedom to promote a culture of knowledge sharing within the firm.

Working with Surrey County Council, we were able to tackle the challenging task of providing every staff member with regular opportunities for learning and development. 

We look forward to sharing more case studies with you in the new year, so you can see first-hand how Go1 is helping companies to deliver improved learning to their teams.

At Go1, we partner with the world’s top training providers, to bring you up-to-date specialist training for your industry. This year was no exception! 

Packt - the very latest AI, machine learning, data science and web development online courses.

Charles Bloe Training - online and face-to-face training courses, suitable for healthcare professionals including nurses, paramedics, doctors, clinicians and pharmacists.

UNSW Edge - innovative range of legal and CPD training resources. 

This year, we’re proud to say that Go1 Premium has grown to include more than 62,000 courses! 

Thank you for reading and sharing our highlights from the year – it's been a big one and we're looking forward to an even bigger 2020.

We'd like to take this opportunity to thank all our customers, partners, readers and followers for your ongoing support throughout the year. We hope that 2019 has been just as memorable for you, your colleagues and your loved ones. 

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Go1's UK Customer Success Management team recently attended BridgeCon Europe 2019, held in London on the 20th of November. 

BridgeCon brought together 300+ HR professionals from across Europe to discuss employee development, design thinking, high-impact learning, and talent and leadership development. Here, Lexi Partell, Customer Success Manager, shares her highlights and insights from the event.

Hosted by Instructure and Bridge, the BridgeCon 2019 conference focused on engagement in L&D and employee development, with a wide range of speakers and panellists who are at the top of their fields. 

The opening note to the conference set the scene for the day with some impactful statistics centred around employee retainment and the relationship with training. 

Of those who responded to a recent Bridge survey, 50% didn’t believe that their company supported L&D unless they as learners, specifically provided the tools. A further 98% said that L&D would heavily impact their desire to continue working with a company. It opened up an interesting conversation around a company centric vs an employee centric learning model for the rest of the day.

A panel led by Kimo Kippen featuring Kate Matthews from Citi, Catherine Allen from Ella’s Kitchen, Wim Focquet from DPD Group and Marie Helson from Hello Fresh approached the topic “Creating Effective Employee Development Environments.” 

The panellists spoke about their focal points for 2020 being employee retention, how to collaborate successfully as a global business and growth in an uncertain market. Employee retention was a familiar theme that emerged in regards to change management and fostering a psychologically safe environment. 

With the average workforce now consisting of 5 generations, discussions also centred around how HR/L&D can enable their workforce to share knowledge and develop their staff, ensuring this speaks to all generations.

After hearing from two panels, it became apparent that whomever owned the learning space needed to walk the walk and own the mistakes that happen. Coincidentally, the learning experience extends to actually implementing the type of environment that fosters L&D.

As the HR and L&D landscape continues to change and the demands from the workforce become more concentrated around learning on the job, it is obvious that the pivot from traditional learning has happened. For those that are left behind, they will be in danger of potentially losing a good workforce. 

I think the main question that was left hanging for all of us was - whose responsibility is L&D? Is it the executive team, line managers, HR or L&D; or is it, in fact, the collaborative workforce itself? 

Each company will be different but it seems that learning centric organisations such as Amazon and Google are both leading the field in their market and are also attracting and retaining top talent, enabling them to grow themselves and others, while remaining at the top of their game.

Go1's Lexi Partell and James Frappell at BridgeCon 2019. 

Go1's Lexi Partell, Customer Success Manager, shares her highlights and insights from BridgeCon Europe 2019.

Go1's Lexi Partell shares her highlights and insights from BridgeCon Europe 2019

We are excited to announce that Go1 content is now LIVE in Docebo! 

Docebo Content, an all-new learning content solution available directly within the Docebo Learning Platform, is filled with a complete course catalogue full of off-the-shelf and mobile-ready e-learning courses, without the need for third-party integrations or licences. 

“With Docebo Content we wanted a partner with an international presence that isn’t just a content vendor, but one that provides solutions to content needs,” said Mirko Puliafto, Product Director at Docebo. “Go1 achieves this by aggregating top-notch content, across a range of topics, from the best providers around the world. The team at Go1 shares a number of core values with Docebo, including a commitment to innovation, particularly in the areas of Artificial Intelligence, to make enterprise learning experiences more engaging and memorable, and therefore more effective.”

“The partnership will help bring quality, impactful learning to a wider audience,” Go1 co-founder and COO Chris Eigeland said. “Go1’s library of high-quality courses on Docebo Content will enable a new level of autonomous learning in the flow of work by encouraging learners to browse and select courses for themselves at the push of a button and start learning immediately. Continuous, impactful learning benefits both companies and their staff, and is a key competitive advantage for any organization.”

Every free Docebo trial comes pre-loaded with 20 free courses hand-picked by industry to give administrators a feel of the potential Docebo Content can provide. Existing Docebo customers will also find 20 free courses pre-loaded into their existing platforms.

Docebo Content will be available in two plans to satisfy the needs of learning programs of all sizes.

Docebo Content 50 includes 50 tokens to allow administrators to personally select courses relevant and pertinent to their learners.

Docebo Content 700 provides complete access to the entire Docebo Content catalogue.

Selected courses can be seamlessly imported directly from the catalogue into the Central Repository (CLOR) as learning objects, or as courses directly into the Course Management area of the platform.

Learning administrators can provide full visibility to the entire catalogue enabling a new level of autonomous learning in the flow of work by encouraging learners to browse and select courses for themselves at the push of a button and start learning immediately.


Trusted by more than 1,600 companies in 68 countries, the Docebo Learning Platform brings together the enterprise LMS you need, the social learning experience your learners want, and the power of Artificial Intelligence to make learning your competitive advantage.


Go1 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.

Go1 and Docebo team up to bring quality, impactful learning to a wider audience

Go1 is excited to announce three new courses from the Blue Ocean AcademyTM, the official blue ocean learning provider under the Blue Ocean Global NetworkTM.

If your business is like most businesses, you’re competing for a greater share of shrinking demand. In the face of today’s global trends and technological developments, this cutthroat competition is becoming fiercer. It’s a red ocean and it’s getting bloodier all the time.

But it doesn’t need to be this way. Apple, Facebook, Amazon or any great company you can think of didn’t succeed by imitating what others in their industry were doing; why should you?

With the right strategy, you can shift to a blue ocean of uncontested market space.

Making a blue ocean shift is about creating new demand rather than competing for existing customers. You need to identify your noncustomers: buyers that don’t buy into your industry, product or service yet.

You also need to identify the pain points your industry imposes on buyers and get a clear picture of how they limit the appeal and size of your industry.

These three courses are your essential introduction to understanding and applying blue ocean concepts and methodologies, and setting you on route to a blue ocean of uncontested market space.

 Blue Ocean AcademyTM have partnered with Go1 and Premium content partner ViaUp, to deliver three short, engaging and interactive courses that will show you how to systematically create blue oceans of new market space.  

The Blue Ocean Global Network (BOGN) is a community of expert blue ocean practitioners founded by world-renowned Professors Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne, the authors of Blue Ocean Strategy and Blue Ocean Shift. 

BOGN have played a very active role in the development of each new course, making sure that each module is full of high quality case studies and interactive elements that allow people to see real world applications of blue ocean strategy.

The new courses are in the form of micro-modules that take people through specific aspects of blue ocean in easy to understand, bite-sized chunks.

Navigating the Blue Ocean
In just ten minutes, you will understand what blue ocean strategy is, how it differs from a red ocean approach, and how to navigate both oceans to discover exciting new business opportunities.

Looking to the Horizon and Beyond Existing Demand
This course has been designed to help you understand how you can create new demand by looking at noncustomers of your current industry.

Mapping the Course to Exceptional Value
Perfect for those trying to reach new customers, this course helps you to understand how to uncover and create exceptional value for buyers by identifying and addressing pain points those customers have within the market.

Get started with blue ocean courses now and transform your business through the proven tools and methodology of new market creation.

These 3 courses will show you how to create new demand and stand apart from the competition

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.

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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

Via News Corp featuring Go1 co-founder, Andrew Barnes

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

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

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!

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!

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