The workplace is evolving, and the future is human. As technology continues to automate tasks, prioritizing human connection at work is more important than ever. To help you prepare for the changes we foresee heading into 2025, the Arbinger Insitute has put together its second annual Workplace Trends Report. The 2025 edition of this report delves into the critical role of people-centric leadership, fostering a culture of genuine connection, and creating a sense of purpose. Get your copy now!

Executive summary: At the edge of the cliff — The overwhelming challenges of today’s workforce Psychology research shows that when we face an overwhelming number of challenges, it’s easy to lose hope and feel helpless. In reality, today’s employees are faced with more challenges than ever before, and while some of the variables are outside employer control, that doesn’t make the situation any less difficult for the workforce. For example, headlines abound focusing on the business risk of losing high-performing employees, and a recent PwC report indicates that the second wave of the Great Resignation could be just around the corner. Not only that, but for yet another year, Gallup and other reputable organizations indicate that employee engagement remains stagnant, costing employers upwards of nine trillion dollars annually in lost productivity. It's an overwhelming series of challenges for employers as they attempt to support a productive and capable workforce. What options exist to help drive engagement and retention while giving each employee a sense of progress in their skills and work? In a new research study of 2,000 global learners, the team at Lighthouse Research & Advisory partnered with Adobe to uncover some of the aspirations, needs, and priorities of workers, and one clear opportunity stands out as an option to combat this variety of challenges—a culture of learning based on autonomy and opportunity.

As your network of channel partners, resellers, and other third parties increases, managing product training doesn’t get any easier. However, establishing a plan for distributing training content is essential to ensuring your products are properly understood, marketed, and sold. This guide provides technical considerations to help you build a plan for distributing training content across a variety of systems. You’ll learn: What to consider from a technical point of view before starting How to create a content distribution strategy across the ecosystem Ways to streamline your training content management How to ensure each learner has access to the latest, most up-to-date version How to gain insights into course usage to inform strategic decisions

As you start adding more components, your ecosystem becomes more complex, and you may find yourself bombarded with more tools than you can manage, more content than is useful, and more data than you know what to do with. Whether you’re building your ecosystem from scratch or working in a complex one, this guide will help you better understand the learning tools and technologies available and how to design a practical, scalable ecosystem. This eBook will help you:  Discover common tools and platforms Organize your ecosystem Manage content across various platforms Prepare for introducing new components Plan for reporting and data

Whether you create and sell off-the-shelf training or you design custom eLearning content, one thing’s certain: Distributing your content can be challenging. You want to deliver training that’s compatible with multiple systems, manageable for admins, and easy for learners to access. In other words, content distribution is just as important as actually creating that content. But with so many options for managing and delivering your courses, what’s the right solution for you and your client base? Good news! It’s all in this free eBook, Setting the Standard: An Introduction to Content Distribution.  What you’ll get inside:  A primer on eLearning standards like SCORM, xAPI, and more Meaningful insights into which standard is right for your goals Best practices to distribute your content more efficiently Four ways to distribute and sell your content, including hybrid solutions How 3 companies used centralized content solutions to reach larger audiences

This guide is your go-to resource for creating impactful retail training. You’ll learn to spot and fix major mistakes retail businesses make when training their frontline employees and discover how to build an effective, results-driven online training strategy with an LMS.

Managers are essential to employee engagement, with Gallup reporting that our relationship with our manager accounts for 70% of the variance in team employee engagement. We know that good employee/manager relationships are necessary - but how do we build them while ensuring that we're still supporting growth and encouraging improvement? Feedback is one of the strongest pillars of any employee/manager relationship - the slowest to build and the easiest to crumble. Check out our Guide to Coaching Conversations for tips on building strong employee/manager relationships and giving feedback that changes both parties for the better!

Are you struggling to keep your training engaging with the same old Powerpoint slides? Would you like to know tips and techniques that can make even the most boring of PPT courses into immensely captivating learning experiences? This guide has just that! Download the guide and learn how to:  Create courses that can impact revenue by up to 30%  Improve learner engagement by 100%  Double your course completion rate!

Your one-stop resource for using role-plays in corporate training. This is a comprehensive guide to role-plays produced together with Clark Aldrich, a top expert in educational simulations. You’ll learn all about different types of role-play trainings, discover how to create them even without any tech know-how, and find out how to use them effectively for employee training. Download this guide to discover: What a role-play simulation is and how it works Benefits of role-plays for corporate training 5 types of role-play simulations How to create engaging role-plays

Many experts estimate that 44% of workers’ skills will be disrupted by 2028. The WEF reported that skill sets for jobs have already changed by 25% since 2015. The workplace is evolving quickly due to hybrid work, artificial intelligence, generational shifts in leadership, and more. How can organizations keep up with the responsibilities of upskilling and reskilling employees in the face of such rapid change?  Read our ebook all on Personalized Skills Development and learn:   how to determine the skills gap in your own workforce   how to create a skills development program that benefits your employees and your organization   how other organizations are approaching upskilling and their priorities in training