What does blended learning mean in today’s learning landscape, and how is it being used? What guidance or tools are available to help you select the right delivery methods and the most appropriate instructional strategies?

Despite strong efforts in many organizations, women continue to be poorly represented in top leadership roles worldwide. This means many businesses are failing to reap the well-documented "gender dividend." So what are all these well-meaning companies doing wrong?

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.

For all its hype, e-learning will never be successful without a supportive climate for learning, strong management support, a defensible business case and a training organization that isn't reticent about learning online. Learn why e-learning succeeds only when it is backed by an organization-wide e-learning strategy.

The world of training is changing. The days of all day workshops and seminars are quickly behind us. Employees need to be developed but there is little time allowed for the old traditional ways. This is where the world is changing and NOW has never been a better time for trainers to build their Value! This webinar will teach specific ways to develop employees into willing learners that accelerate the training and coaching process.

Unnecessary interruptions are consuming 28 percent of a knowledge workers’ day. Knowledge workers indicate in survey results that 40% of their time is spent on irrelevant activities. In today’s world of unlimited information, technology and opportunities, why is it that people are finding themselves more "buried alive" than ever before?

Coldwell Banker recognizes the importance of succession planning and developing new leaders. To accomplish this, they have developed an intensive one day skill and behavior assessment program to identify and qualify new Sales Managers. To expedite manger readiness, Coldwell Banker is also developing a precision based personalized training program based on an extensive competency model.

Is your learning organization seen as a cost center or a strategy enabler? No matter what organization you’re in- change the game - stop being measured and limited by your budget and tie the business investment into value.

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.

If you’re a CLO or training leader you realize there are times when your clients are just checking-the-box and a death by PowerPoint is what they want. Part of being a leader is having a track record for results and - knowing what battles to pick. This means you can identify projects, initiatives, and curricula that really must - deliver results. And, you can develop sponsors who value the investment and are open to collaborating on a genuine training solution.

Coaching is that tool that really helps training professionals integrate into the mainstream of the organization’s business imperatives. There has never been a better time to adopt coaching as more and more research and case studies illustrate the impact training professionals can have with the use of coaching.

Most learning approaches are top to bottom, mandated and driven by leaders, trainers and learning specialists. This is an old production and content oriented model where the training departments must produce content for learners to consume. In today's economy, this is costly, slow and often times late.

When you ask an SME, "What should learners learn from the content?", the response is usually "all" or "everything". This is the OLD RELIGION where the data is "compressed and dumped" for learners to learn. This is costly and detrimental to the performance of workers.

This workshop will provide practical strategies for building workforce courage so workers can become "opportunity seekers". A step-by-step approach for using courage to improve performance and counteract the negative impacts of workplace fear will be introduced. When everyone is working with more courage, the entire organization is transformed for the better. Research shows that courageous workers seek out leadership opportunities, step up to challenges, offer innovative ideas, passionately embrace change, and are more productive. In short, courageous workers get work done!

Need to train people on using software applications? But you’re not sure if you want a video or interactive tutorial. Have no fear because Articulate Storyline makes the process super simple by offering the best of both worlds in software simulations.

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.

Successful organizations understand that people are their most important assets. When high-performance businesses understand employees’ core skills and development needs, they’re more likely to achieve superior results. But building out a dynamic learning culture that really understands your employee needs is not a simple task.

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.

You know that games can be beneficial in helping learners retain what they learn. Of course, games can also distract from the content, so you must plan carefully what kind of games to include in your learning.

What participants look for in training are Ah-Ha! moments: the rare moments of inspiration and insights that help them understand and apply the learning ideas. Ah-Ha! moments don’t occur by accident, though. They are byproducts of well planned, highly motivational, and engaging design learning and training events.

Is there such a thing as "instant learning"?Experts in mobile and social learning say that there is increased prevalence that learners retain and learn by increments of knowledge and use them as frequently and quickly as they can. The method is "recursive learning" - small building blocks of learning with close proximity to work applications. In most situations however, the difficulty for trainers, eLearning and mLearning designers is that courses and lessons they develop are more driven towards the "completeness" of knowledge transfer rather than the "immediate application" of knowledge.

Most videos in training and elearning are talking heads, lecture-type presentations or demonstration of a product or process. Case in point: your training director suddenly decides that it is good for the CEO to present an idea.

Creating a sustainable company in a world of unprecedented technological advances, globalization and shifting economic drivers is one of the greatest challenges facing decision-makers today. Fostering this environment requires that companies invest their time in a series of interrelated priorities.

Successful leadership involves managing one’s self and relationships with others to move toward a specific business goal. The role of a leader is to grow others: help people grow their skills, knowledge, and confidence to develop leadership themselves in a real, practical context.