Problem: Experiential exercises require such a long time to prepare and to conduct that no time is available for debriefing. Solution: Use a jolt! Participate in different activities, each conducted in a few minutes and giving you a long-lasting wake-up call. Learn about the advantages of using brief simulations called jolts. Locate several ready-made jolts and create your own. Master a powerful model for debriefing to maximize team learning.

This concept taps into the reality we've been working on that allows a learner seamlessly flow through the learning experience from desktop to smartphone to tablet to TV whenever the time or mood suits them. Apps are now available on virtually every electronic device we touch and use in our daily lives, and cloud computing models enable the ability to synchronize and manage the learning experience on whatever device best suits our environment and mood.

The ADL Mobile Learning Team recently released a mobile version of their mLearning Guide on the web and in various mobile platform stores. Join the webinar for discussion on the single development for deployment on multiple devices and choices made in development. Lessons learned will be shared.

Storytelling has always been an important leadership competency. Current research in narratology, cognitive sciences, knowledge management, and ethnography indicates that intervention is essential for creating and communicating meaning out of our experience. "Interactive Storytelling" integrates this ancient leadership practice with 21st century technology. Facilitated by two professional storytellers, this session will help you learn powerful principles of storytelling through experiential activities, demonstrations, and discussions.

With the 2012 Training Top 125 application due in less than two months, join Training magazine on Thursday, August 4, for this complimentary, first-ever Webinar that can help boost your score or earn you placement on the list for the first time. Plus, you'll discover how to make the most of your Training Top 125 ranking.

Starting this year in the U.S, 10,000 people a day are turning 65, and will continue to do so for the next 19 years. With a big dip in the Gen X population behind the Baby Boomer group, a natural conclusion is that we will need to get the newest workforce, Millennials -- also called Gen Y -- up to speed pretty quickly. And what is their number one preferred method of learning? Mentoring.

What is the best way to design instruction for today's technology tools and for the creation and delivery of e-learning? What tools are most effective for delivering what types of training? This session highlights how organizations are leveraging Smartphones for performance support and mobile learning, how game-based learning is being designed to teach everyone from firefighters to sales reps to call center employees and how quick searches and meta-data are changing the landscape of how employees learn and their information expectations. Join Karl Kapp, author of four books on the topic of the convergence of learning, technology and work as he explores some of the research, thinking and examples of learning technology in action.

Today's leaders require a wide variety of skills to lead effectively, and it is up to learning professionals to use the most-up-to-date methods available to develop those skills. Research has shown that experiential learning is one of the most effective ways to keep participants engaged and active throughout the learning process. This webinar will explore a variety of high-impact activities, jolts, and interactive learning strategies that have been specifically chosen to teach and apply some of the most critical leadership competencies our evolving leaders need.

To foster a learning environment that builds upon formal learning, engages employees and creates competitive differentiation, organizations must embrace and support learning wherever it occurs. To do so, we need to provide the tools and technology that enable this to happen, as well as an understanding of how the role of learning professionals is evolving to support learning beyond the classroom.

This webinar takes a look at the next evolution of the Web and what it means for the learning function. We will present data on the differences between high- and low-performing organizations in terms of how they approach these new technologies.

"Social learning" and "informal learning" are among the training industry's hottest phrases these days. But there's so much confusion over what they mean, and what they mean to those of us in the business.

Do you know how Gamification can boost learning effectiveness? Gamification is the application of theories in gaming,its attendant rewards and its motivational impact. It has caught the attention of both learning designers and elearning developers because gamification presents new opportunities to raise the learner's engagement and learning applications. But how to make it a practical enhancement to the elearning design is a mystery.

This presentation will provide an overview of Talent Development Reporting Principles (TDRP). It is ground breaking work that is targeted at having more meaningful dialogue with finance executives and is modeled after Generally Accepted Accounting Principles. Like financial statements there are similar reports for talent development investments. The session will go through the background, data sets and the outcome, efficiency and effectiveness statements that are revolutionizing how human capital professionals provide executive level reporting and link learning to business results.

The transition from buzz word to trend to standard can sometimes happen in a blink of an eye. With more companies and organizations recognizing the value of social learning, we are fast on our way to a major shift in learning. The emergence of social media has enabled us to capture what we do quite naturally, LEARN. With technology, this dynamic leaves a digital footprint that makes learning viral positively infecting performance and ultimately increasing ROI. Unfortunately buying a social learning platform, although an important first step, doesn't ensure success of this learning approach. The Roadmap to Social Learning is a guide to connecting the people, technology, and goals to a social learning strategy.

Join Training magazine on October 4 for this complimentary Webinar, sponsored by Knoodle, and learn about cost-effective, quick, and easy strategies for creating and implementing on-demand learning in your small or mid-size organization.

Can you relate to any of these? You leave work exhausted and more behind, you're juggling so many different things that any minute you may drop them all, you are both the project manager, developer and entire team on most of your projects except for the occasional other who never returns your emails, there is no end in sight to the insanity... The current state of frustration in our workplaces is killing productivity.

he identity of leadership has changed. While traditional competencies such as integrity, vision, judgment and people development are still relevant, new business challenges with today's rapidly fluctuating global market require looking beyond the conventional. Organizations must be agile, they must be able to adapt and leverage technology to create an environment that allows high performers to grow professionally and, ultimately, develop new skills that will lead businesses into the future.

The lecture method is the most ridiculed training technique because it involves passive learning on the part of the participant. In contrast, Interactive Lectures involve the participants in the learning process while providing complete control to the instructor. These activities enable a quick and easy conversion of a passive presentation into an interactive experience. We will explore different types of interactive lectures that incorporate built-in quizzes, interspersed tasks, and teamwork interludes.

Learning specialists and leaders are shy to admit that we learn a lot more from our errors and omissions than from our well-intended plans. Our failings are humorous, ridiculous, and stupid - but we profit a lot from them.

How many times we have we all come up with 2 or 3 or 4 resolutions and said, "This time I'm going to do it!" - but we still don't make them happen. Once the original enthusiasm fades, we lose our drive, we don't stay on task and we're right back where we started. But now we're even more frustrated because once again, we didn't follow through and accomplish our goal.

Very often the best source of training content is the group of participants themselves. However, asking the group to "talk among yourselves" results in chaos. A way to enable effective sharing of best practices among cohorts is to use an effective combination of structure and spontaneity. In this webinar we will explore a special type of training activity that facilitates mutual learning and teaching among participants. We call them structured sharing activities, because they provide a flexible strategy that creates a context for a dialogue among participants based on their experiences, knowledge, and opinions. We will share several structured sharing activities, and we will give you the resources to develop more.

Leading critics of technologies like Sherry Turkle (author Alone Together) and David Brooks (author of The Social Animal) and suggest that the abundance of technologies, while there are great benefits, also forces people to imbed gazillions of knowledge and information, but failing to process the information into useful and valuable to impact performance.

When hiring a new employee or promoting someone from within, most organizations look for experience appropriate to the position and responsibilities. Although skills are an important part of the requirements, experience often trumps skills because it is essential that the candidate be able to utilize those skills in context applying both experience and critical thinking to the situation.

Are you under pressure to cram too much content into your elearning? In this webinar, you'll learn a quick way to replace dry information with creative, high-energy activities.