Have you noticed that some online presenters facilitate their sessions with such passion and skill that it’s a pleasure to participate? You wouldn’t think of multitasking because they command your attention and engage interest. They masterfully manage the web platform, create a powerful learning experience, keep it "up close and personal," and make it seem as if you are in a collaborative classroom.  

Learn how to make simple yet engaging and professional slides and do it fast. Often, we have to make presentations with very little time and money. Using the K.I.S.S. principle, discover tips, tricks, and techniques to developing amazing slides using the latest design trend: simplicity. Less is more in this session.

Are you just getting started with Adobe Captivate? Looking for some solid foundations to build your eLearning content? Join Dr. Pooja Jaisingh for this fun and easy introduction to Adobe Captivate for first time eLearning developers. You'll get a simple introduction to the software - aimed at helping you get started with creating eLearning courses.

Thought leaders (from John Dewey to Jay Cross to Seymour Papert to Jane Hart to Roger Schank) advocate for more informal learning. If you are inclined towards informality, are you certain about what it is and what it means for your enterprise? What about the far less popular and overwhelmingly more prevalent, formal learning? What are these forms really and in what circumstances are they most appropriate?

Despite economic conditions, unemployment levels, or any other business factor imaginable, your best employees - the ones you need most - want one thing from you, plain and simple: to support their growth and development. Study after study confirms that development is the single most powerful tool managers have for driving engagement, retention, productivity, and results. Yet, HR leaders know that career development is frequently the thing that gets sidelined unless or until the organization demands that some form be submitted during regular review cycles.

As organizations globalize and transform themselves for a connected, 24/7, just-in-time world, online learning has risen dramatically in importance. And over the last few years, no learning medium has grown faster than online video.

This presentation will offer practical yet credible advice on how learning leaders should go about the process of building a business case to formalize learning analytics into the L&D organization and budget. The session will cover critical tools and techniques to establish relevancy for learning measurement and positively create a culture supportive of L&D measurement.

Is "doing more with less," resulting in burned out employees? Are you finding it difficult to keep employees engaged?

Everywhere you look, eLearning content is begging to be captured and put online. Every time an expert gives a lecture, an executive keynotes a conference, a techie gives a chalk talk, a product manager briefs a sales team, or a manager hosts an orientation, valuable content is being created. The trick? How to capture, enliven, deploy, and track it for internal or external audiences. New online tools make it easy to capture your organization's best presentations and most engaging storytellers, turning them into rich, interactive learning content that's available 24/7 from any browser or mobile device.

The e-learning or live virtual class is animated and interactive, but are participants applying what they learn? This webinar will show you the latest research on e-learning and live virtual design practices - what works and what doesn’t work to make the e-learning stick. Based on Barbara’s new book Making Elearning Stick, you will learn research-tested techniques you can begin using immediately, with any training topic, to increase transfer to the job.

Do you have the nimble mindset to keep pace with today’s rapidly evolving environment? Learn how to build your thinking agility to break through the noise, make sense of shifting requirements, quickly adjust your approaches, and put together the best solutions for your learning challenges.

There is lots of buzz about "gamification" and game-based learning over the last year. Why should your organization consider adding it to your talent development strategy? This webinar may provide the key to igniting the performance of your workforce in 2013!

In a new Training Magazine webinar, Dale Carnegie Training reveals results of its cross industry, in-depth study of 1,500 employees to explore engagement in the workplace. The research reveals several surprises and five practical approaches managers can use to increase employee enthusiasm, empowerment, confidence and value to their organization.

Today, 10,000 Baby Boomers retired in the U.S. On average, they have 35 years of experience each, across every type of job in your organization. Tomorrow, it happens again. And the day after, until 2030. That means every day, 350,000 years of experience just left the workforce, an unprecedented departure in business history.

This session will focus on how to keep your learners actively involved and engaged in the virtual classroom. You will learn 10 distinct strategies to drive interactivity and focus learner attention in order to deepen their retention.

As organizations continue to expand globally and training budgets continue to decrease, developing effective learning programs has become a significant challenge. Learning management systems and basic online learning tools have fallen short in providing an engaging learning experience, resulting in a need for more effective training programs.

Get a sneak preview of a couple of the sessions Lou will be teaching during Training 2013. This free webinar is an hour-long overview on Strategies to Combat Scope Creep and some of the Fatal Mistakes All Learning Developers Make.

You know them. You’ve sat through them. You’ve felt the pain. Training so lecture laden that you wish you had a magic wand to make it all go away! Well, NOW you can! We’ll show you how to use your powers for GOOD and change up how you write activities so that your learners will be engaged instead of disengaged.

Businesses are witnessing an epidemic: the lack and loss of experience in employees. In the past, U.S. Government Accountability Office (USGAO) data showed , that for every 10 employees, 7 are experienced and 3 are new. Today, this is reversed; 6 are new and 4 are experienced. The problem impacts the profits and performances of all types of organizations.

In this webinar, you’ll learn research-based principles and practices for using PowerPoint to train more effectively, meaning that your trainees will understand more clearly and remember longer what you tell them. This webinar will also demonstrate the interactive features of PowerPoint. You’ll discover ways to use animation and personas to tell stories and portray scenarios. Practical step-by-step examples of slide makeovers will show you how you can create dynamic and engaging slides.

In surveys, employers consistently say that verbal communication is the most important skill they want in their employees. For internal meetings and sales, presentation skills are essential. But how do you train employees to improve these skills?

The convergence of visual design, neuroscience, artificial intelligence and storytelling provides eLearning designers and developers an opportunity to "teleport" the learners’ minds. This trend presents eLearning designers with a strategic advantage to provide solutions that can be solved with visually interactive story learning.

Do stories in eLearning have to be true? How much can you embellish? What you should never lie about? Authenticity is a characteristic that builds or destroys trust in the learners’ minds or hearts. Learners know when a story is fabricated or when they are true. This impacts believability and applicability of the learning ideas. It becomes a crucial problem in eLearning design, because learners only interface with what we show and tell electronically.

How do we develop eLearning content that teaches content yet is also short, concise, snappy, fast and instant? The demand for fast, rapid, instant and on-the-go learning plague eLearning designers, developers and leaders. Many of us are still stuck with the very old and antiquated "data dump" and "learners must learn" paradigms. We are shackled by our design philosophy. Yet, we are forced to comply with the new affordances of mobile tools, faster Internet connections to cater to busy and overloaded learners.