For too many frontline managers, that's the entire leadership development experience. The manager leaves, the top performer gets promoted, and they're expected to figure out the rest on their own. With little time for formal development, it's no surprise that 67% of frontline managers say they're making it up as they go and 41% question whether accepting the promotion was the right decision. Traditional leadership development simply doesn’t fit the realities of frontline operations.  

Everyone talks about blended learning, but few do it well or at all. Too often it falls into "we know we should do that" bucket of tasks for the overloaded L&D and training professionals.   

Traditional L&D often measures success by the amount of training delivered. But for frontline employees, more content doesn’t always mean better performance. Deskless workers learn between tasks, not during scheduled training sessions, so learning has to fit the pace of work. See how organizations like Jack in the Box are redesigning training around that reality and deploying digital learning platforms such as Echo360 to create learning experiences that are accessible, engaging, and importantly measurable.

Ever had a trainee ask you that? Lenn Millbower has, but it wasn’t because of him. It was because of the application of his Learnertainment® methodology. The problem with most training programs isn’t the content. It’s activities that feel phony, pointless, and manipulative. Conversely, well-developed and appropriately integrated activities, ones that feel playful and engaging, are things of beauty. They fit. They flow. They’re fun. And learners respond with enthusiastic participation. Then, most importantly, they pay attention, And when they pay attention, they learn.

Most AI demos show a paragraph of text getting generated and stop there. That is not what building a course looks like. The real work is everything around it, structuring the content, writing the scenarios, designing the interactions, and making it all hold together as something a learner would actually want to go through.  

Whether you are training a team, pitching a prospect, presenting a marketing message, calming an upset customer, or guiding a difficult discussion, the words you choose shape what people understand, trust, remember, and do next.

AI Access Is Not AI Readiness Giving employees access to AI doesn’t mean they’re ready to use it. Organizations can provide the tools, licenses, policies, and prompt libraries—and still see employees hesitate, misuse AI, distrust its answers, or struggle to apply it to real work.

The all-star team is back. Dr. Karl Kapp, Dr. Ellen Wagner, and Dr. David Metcalf join host Dr. Anders Gronstedt for another sharp, opinionated look at what is reshaping learning and development. 

Great meetings don’t just inform—they transform. This session explores how to design multiday experiences that create emotional resonance, deeper connection, and genuine momentum. Learn how thoughtful pacing, intentional storytelling, and human-centered structure can elevate your in-person or virtual gatherings from functional to unforgettable.

Only 11% of L&D professionals can prove learning ROI with quantitative data. Why is it so difficult to connect training with measurable business results? iSpring's 2026 ROI research reveals the gaps, and shows how data, business KPIs, and line-manager involvement can change the picture. Discover the key findings from The ROI Playbook 2026 by iSpring.

AI is changing instructional design, but perhaps not in the way the headlines suggest. As training becomes easier and cheaper to produce, the real shift is where L&D teams’ time, expertise, and judgment create the most value. In this ebook, award-winning instructional designer Tim Slade, in partnership with We Are Learning, looks beyond the AI hype to explore three shifts reshaping L&D: the changing economics of training production, the growing importance of human judgment, and AI as a new form of organizational capacity and capability. Use this ebook to rethink where your team creates value in an AI-enabled world... spending less time simply producing content and more time solving the right problems, experimenting, and creating impactful learning.

At this point, you've learned to work with generative AI. You write a prompt, read what comes back, refine, and go again. Agentic AI harnesses like Claude Code, Copilot Cowork, and OpenAI Codex,  breaks that rhythm. An AI model acting as an agent doesn't wait for your next instruction. The AI model plans, acts, and carries multi-step, complex work to completion while you look on. That changes how tasks are completed: less typing, more scoping. Less doing, more deciding what to hand off to AI in the first place.  

Learning designers are under pressure to create more engaging learning experiences faster. This webinar shows how vibe coding can help you move from idea to interactive prototype using AI as a practical build partner.  

Your expertise alone doesn't determine your opportunities but your visibility, credibility, and reputation do. Drawing from more than two decades of experience building trusted brands, communities, and customer loyalty, personal branding strategist Lauren V. Davis shares a practical five-step framework that helps professionals become the people others remember, trust, and recommend.  

You’ll learn about one trade association’s award-winning initiative to develop cradle-to-grave training for a critical role in the trades. You’ll learn about the high-level discussions that led to the initiative’s first phase, targeting frontline workers in their first 90 days on the job, and explore samples from the finished course.  

Traditional assessments often measure knowledge retention but the most effective assessments drive learning, reinforce skills, and provide actionable insights. In this webinar, we'll explore how to design eLearning assessments that go beyond scoring to create meaningful learning experiences and measurable business impact. You'll discover practical strategies for aligning assessments with learning objectives, creating engaging question types, delivering constructive feedback, and using assessment data to continuously improve your training programs.  

AI is everywhere, but where does it fit in your virtual training? In this interactive webinar, author and virtual training expert Cindy Huggett will cut through the noise and share three specific ways you can incorporate AI into your virtual classes.  

Your people may be showing up. But are they truly engaged, inspired, and energized? If engagement feels flat, turnover is rising, or your culture has lost its spark, this webinar is for you.

It’s easy to see how Instructional Story Design works for interpersonal skills and even required training, but aren’t technical skills different? Software, machine operations, safety and other types of technical training seem straightforward. Do they really lend themselves to storytelling?   

If you’re a Sales Leader, Training Manager, IT specialist, Team Member or Consultant, this one’s for you!"  

Watching a course is one thing. Knowing what to say when the moment gets awkward? That takes practice.   BizReady gives employees a safe place to put new skills to the test with AI-powered roleplays and personalized feedback—so they can build confidence before the real conversation happens.   Explore the BizReady playlist and practice moments that matter—from speaking up as a bystander to leading with confidence and building healthier communication habits. For busy HR and L&D teams, it’s a smarter way to reinforce learning without adding more live coaching to your already-packed schedule.  See how BizReady turns "I learned it" into "I can actually do it."

A surprising amount of instructor-led training happens outside the LMS. While the LMS manages learning, much of the work required to deliver ILT and vILT still happens elsewhere. Coordinating instructors, resources, schedules, and change often becomes a balancing act managed through spreadsheets, email, and disconnected tools. In this Brandon Hall Group eBook, you’ll explore: Where hidden costs and inefficiencies often originate Where leading organizations are finding opportunities to improve training operations How organizations are managing training more effectively beyond the LMS Get the eBook to understand what's making training harder than it needs to be, and see what many organizations are already doing to improve it.

Every learning project begins with a blank page. Some people open Storyline. Others launch ChatGPT. The problem isn't where you start—it's that most of us begin building before we've fully designed the learner experience.

Proven strategies that drive team and customer buy-in up to 98%. What if a single, easy-to-learn speaking skill won over customers? Would it be worth mastering? How about as many as can be squeezed into a one-hour session?