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?

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.

Program managers of coaching initiatives report an 18% increase in the number of coaching programs evaluated to ROI over the past five years - and the numbers are growing. No longer is it acceptable to spend vast amounts of money of coaching programs and initiatives. Executives at all levels want to see results - including the financial ROI.

Juggling multiple learning projects with multiple players while trying to do your REAL job makes you FRANXIOUS (frustrated and anxious).

Chunking, miniaturizing and boiling down content to fit into short and quick lessons for eLearning and mobile learning are difficult tasks: How does one know what content keep and throwaway? Furthermore, traditional content design assumes that learners must learn all the content. The challenge is that it leads to bloated, long, boring and costly eLearning and impossible to deliver in mobile learning.

What’s the ROI? This is a familiar question people ask about almost any activity these days, including conferences. Individuals selecting a conference and managers funding attendance, often ask, "What’s the ROI for this conference?" Although the financial calculation is not necessarily what is desired, the concept of value received compared to cost is the issue.

What is peak performance? Identify peak performance in yourself and the trainers who work for you. Develop your training skills improvement plan based on 100 Training Clinic instructor behaviors and activities in ten competency areas. Become a peak performer in the classroom or on-the-job.

Making the decision to exhibit at a conference is difficult these days. The cost of exhibiting continues to increase. Exhibit budgets are often difficult to justify. Top executives and financial executives are demanding more accountability. In some cases executives are suggesting that if you can’t show the value of exhibiting, you shouldn’t participate. While this is extreme, unfortunately, this trend is spreading. Conferences and exhibitions have come under close scrutiny about the value added.

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?

PowerPoint's gotten a bad rap. Sure we've all had to sit through hours of boring presentations. But is that PowerPoint's fault? With the right skills, PowerPoint's one of the best multimedia applications out. Join Tom Kuhlmann as he shares ways to get more our out of PowerPoint.

Based on empirical research, Dr. Robert Epstein, one of the world's leading experts on creativity and innovation, will summarize 10 practical techniques for spurring creativity and innovation in an organization on an ongoing basis, such as using a "shifting" technique for teams and making sure that all assignments and goals are stated in an "open-ended" fashion.

Most of today's problems are due to a failure to communicate. Today's leaders require a wide variety of skills to communicate effectively, and it is up to learning professionals to use the most-up-to-date methods available to develop these skills. 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 communication competencies and concepts that we all need.

What’s the ROI? This is a familiar question people ask about almost any activity these days, including conferences. Individuals selecting a conference and managers funding attendance, often ask, "What’s the ROI for this conference?" Although the financial calculation is not necessarily what is desired, the concept of value received compared to cost is the issue.

What are the leading benefits & barriers to implementing social learning? Jeanne Meister, Partner of Future Workplace and best selling author of The 2020 Workplace: How Innovative Companies Attract, Develop & Keep Tomorrow's Employees Today co-author is joined with Glenn Scott (Global Leader - Technology-Enabled Learning) of P&G to discuss benefits and barriers to social learning.

Do you feel at times you have to cram too much content into short lessons? Your boss wants the training and learning to be instant, short, fast and cheaper and your learners have no time. So the tendency of the designers is to compact and squeeze big content lessons. The problem is that learners can't learn instantly compacted lessons. However, instant learning happens by using experiences and stories and embedding the content.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.