Project Management and Methodologies are really twins separated at birth. A smart and busy project manager knows the benefit of leveraging a standard development process methodology as a 'cheat sheet' to determine the tasks needed for a project to be successful.

As a Human Resources executive, trainer, and consultant Ralph Jacobson used many of the conventional approaches to leadership and change management training. He found most did little to help the organization achieve its strategic objectives. Despite billions of dollars spent on leadership training, employee engagement surveys suggest low morale and followership. Authors such as Pfau/Kay, Gary Hamel, Barbara Kellerman confirm the assessment.

What's a positive deviant? Researcher Jerry Sternin discovered that, "In every group there are a minority of people who find better and more successful solutions to the challenges at hand. Even though they have access to exactly the same resources as the rest of the group, their uncommon practices or behaviors allow them to flourish".

Whether you are developing a new course, selecting a new LMS or thinking about developing a mobile app you'll need to understand what's involved in designing and delivering content on mobile devices from smartphones to tablets to hybrids, this webinar will provide a overview of what you need to define, how to sketch out concepts, prototyping and testing your ideas and then how to deliver. You'll learn about apps vs web apps and understand which works best.

While our world is becoming increasingly more interconnected through cyberspace and international airports, success in global business requires more than a passport and a plane ticket. Success in global business is a function of people - those with an ability to operate effectively in intercultural and multicultural situations—people with cultural agility.

You slave away at designing your training programs. You struggle to get people excited, enrolled, and in the ‘seats’. The program commences and everyone gives you awesome feedback. You feel successful. Then the momentum dies. How do you keep training excitement alive? How can you boost pre-training anticipation and post-training involvement?

This interactive session is effectively designed to highlight best practices to create, maintain, enhance or even revolutionize a company’s culture in all areas of the business. Jim Knight, former Hard Rock Training executive and now Founder of Knight Speaker, will discuss key strategies to transform any organization’s culture, regardless of the current state of the state.

The virtual learning environment is heavily focused on the visual (the way most learners best take-in information) and the auditory (the way learners are least able to take-in information). Given this dichotomy, the instructional design process must be adapted to ensure that learners come away with concrete learning outcomes not simply "information".

Need to take your training from ho-hum to Oh YEAH! But not sure where to start? Look no further! Through hands-on activities, this session will teach you how to use several easy and quick techniques to make your training more fun, interesting and effective.

As HTML5 is gaining ground as a standard for rich browser based applications, training departments now face the challenge of converting their legacy flash based elearning to HTML5. The steady inroads made by iPad as a tool for corporate content consumption has left many companies with no option but to move towards HTML5. So what should you watch out for when you either build content using HTML5 or migrate your flash content to HTML5?

Learning is best achieved when learners are pushed to the edge and provoked to think and make decisions. Scenarios can effectively engage and draw them into the learning process. However, these can be costly and challenging to develop. After hours of toil, you may still end up with weak and unappealing scenarios.

The subject matter experts in your organization are in demand. The more they know, the more they're asked to share that knowledge. And the harder it is to do their "day job".

New technology, virtual and decentralized workforces, and changing employee preferences are just a few of the challenges facing training departments as they adapt to the changing workplaces of tomorrow.

Gone are the days of top down leadership - the pace of change makes this model obsolete. Today leaders at every level are needed to drive innovation and profitability which create subtle, but significant shifts in how we view employee performance.

Sometimes discarding or letting go of seemingly efficient LMSs which significantly fail to meet business needs, provides a fresh start and changes the game to produce far better returns. Studies have shown that companies are systematically changing LMSs into newer and better suited learning systems to support newer learner needs and business demands.

Your company as well as many others are suffering from "expertise drain" or loss of "experienced workers." There is difficulty in getting new employees to fast track toward expert performance. Training functions are expected to help fix this problem. However, just like schools and universities, most of our training and eLearning courses are curriculum driven and task specific, far removed from the need for rapid expertise development.

In this session, we'll discuss the essential steps needed to build a learning measurement strategy to sustain a practical and scalable measurement process. The session will also explore the key elements to build the measurement culture including leadership, skills, tools, and technology. Real-world examples of measurement strategy in practice will be provided.

Gamification should be thought of as a design sensibility and not merely a digital tool. It is a thought process and a methodology to think about engaging and motivating learners. While a result of gamification is often fun, the ultimate outcome behind developing a gamified approach is increased engagement and motivation.

You’ve heard of employee engagement, but how do you take it from an idea to an actionable plan? Training is pleased to partner with Bob Kelleher for the virtual book launch of his latest work, Employee Engagement for Dummies! From the author of Louder Than Words and Creativeship comes this all-inclusive, step-by-step guide to all things employee engagement.

Chance are, you didn’t dream of becoming a designer of elearning when you grew up, did you? Most of the working instructional designers in the elearning business got here by accident. So now that you’re here and doing this work, how can you become a more intentional practitioner? We’ll take a look at four key areas to focus on in order to become a well-rounded elearning designer, talk about ways that you can take your practice to the next level, and share some quick tips for better elearning design.

The complaints are familiar: Traditional means of managing organizational knowledge - in reports, status meetings, and standard operating procedures - just don’t work very well. We amass piles of documentation yet can’t find what we need when we need it, we find out too late that a task was already accomplished, better, by someone in another organizational silo, we spend hours never finding the information we’re looking for.

If implemented correctly, e-learning can positively impact any organization. But so much of the e-learning created and invested in today relies on technology, and focuses on content instead of the learner and improving performance - the result - boring e-learning and wasted budgets!

As elearning developers we often get caught up in designing only what we know from experience. Same holds true with elearning developers using Articulate Storyline. The more you know, the more options and ideas become evident to solving instructional design challenges. The more you know about variable programming in Storyline, the world opens up to unlimited design possibilities.

The digital skills gap is hardly news to American workers. Of the more than 200 million adults in the US digital workforce, only one in ten consider themselves very proficient with the digital tools they use every day. As companies move quickly to adopt new cloud-based platforms, such as Microsoft Office 365, Google Apps, and Adobe Creative Cloud, as well as new types of tools for marketing, analytics, communications, and more, employees and managers are hard-pressed to fit digital skills training into jam-packed schedules and tight budgets.