Millennials are infiltrating the workforce while managers and older generations are scrambling to understand and work with this fascinating group. The phrase "What’s up with the kids these days?" is not a new one, but with millennials, there seems to be an entirely new set of challenges and opportunities. By 2015, Millennials will outnumber Boomers in the workforce - Are you ready?

Using the book, "Story Impacts Learning and Performance" as a point of reference, Ray Jimenez will share how he uses engaging stories and Articulate StoryLine to author"What if I die today?" - Story Impacts eLearning Exercise.

Big data is not just for the IT department. What are some of the insights we can gather from big data that will affect how you plan your HR and Learning Strategy? How do you set up your learning initiatives to contribute to additional insights on performance in your organization?

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.

More than 70 percent of U.S. employees are either disengaged or neither engaged nor disengaged, according to a recent Avatar HR Solutions survey. Lack of engagement quickly leads to lackluster results, productivity losses, and low organizational morale.

Can you really drive organizational and individual performance through the art of coaching? Yes, you can! But it’s not easy, and it requires commitment, strategic thinking, empowerment, and action—on the part of the participant, the coach, the manager, and the Training function.

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!

Coaching is growing and growing. It’s finally here the ultimate opportunity to extend our value and brand as training professionals. Managers who coach extend the value of training and can be measured in terms of great organizational value. Far too long has gone by where the training professional has had to fight to quantify and validate our existence. Coaching has changed that!

Are you considering virtual instructor-led training (vILT) but aren’t quite sure how to get started…or whether your organization is even ready? Join us for this session and you’ll learn what to expect from vILT, including its pros, cons and critical success factors.

Walt Disney once proclaimed that the gap between entertainment and education is an old and untenable viewpoint. The entertainments Disney created were both informative and enjoyable—unlike many learning programs. When engagement and learning are aligned, as Disney did, the result is magical; participants pay attention, they absorb information, and they change behavior.

Since the early days of "creativity training" and "problem solving," brain research has vastly enriched our understanding of the human mental process. New research findings with very practical, down-to-earth applications may well revolutionize our understanding of the ways people think, learn, and perform. Functions like social intelligence; emotional intelligence; practical intelligence; cognitive preference; neuroleadership; design psychology; and subliminal impacts of color, language, and narrative are opening up new ways to approach teaching, learning, and development.

Today, organizations are dealing with a unique set of challenges while also having even greater opportunities for innovation. At the same time, we now have at our disposal an "alphabet soup" of learning and business methodologies - ADDIE, HPT, BP, Six Sigma, LEAN, AGILE - and an expanding toolkit of formal, informal, social, virtual and mobile technologies and approaches. So, what does this mean for how we design, develop and implement efficient and effective learning solutions?

There’s much frustration with the limited range of interactivity found in eLearning programs. Arbitrary multiple-choice and true-and-false questions, even when masquerading under flashy game-like interfaces, fail to engage learners’ attention. Worse yet, they usually fail to teach. Too often designers feel bound by the limits of actions available to the learner—senseless button clicking, random dragging, confusing entries. But, even working within the constraints of low-level authoring tools, it is possible to design eLearning activities that will engage, motivate, and captivate the learner’s imagination and enhance post-training performance.

In today's diverse workforce, four generations must contribute to business results every day. Yet age-based stereotypes can cause workplace conflict and place your team at risk for problems such as weak relationships, poor collaboration, decreased engagement, and damage to bottom line results.

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.

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.

Teamwork is an essential component of organizational productivity. Today's leaders require a wide variety of skills for high performance teamwork, and it is up to learning professionals to use the most-up-to-date methods available to develop these skills.

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.

This session directly addresses the need to develop and implement real-time employee training assessment strategies specifically designed to meet targeted business objectives. Utilizing an actual high-tech, consumer electronic Fortune 100 company renamed 'Orange Inc.' as a session case, participants discover how a company with exceptional customer support is driven in part by their focused training and employee assessment strategy.

Even experienced trainers at one time or another find themselves standing before groups whose dynamics are all over the board. Wouldn’t it be great to have the tools to regain control of the room every time? Everyone has an opinion, varying learning styles must be taken into account, and you’ve got to delineate difficult questions being thrown at you at warp speed. How do trainers handle these challenges in an effective, enthusiastic manner?

What Comes Before Happiness? This was the essential question that the data posed to happiness researcher Shawn Achor. While recent advances in neurobiology and scientific methods have clearly demonstrated a link between happiness and success; the question they had NOT answered was: "Why do some people move toward a more positive state quicker and more easily than others?"

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.

Your GOAL is to keep your learners focused, engaged and learning during your online training sessions. PROBLEM: We, as online trainers, are not keeping attendees busy enough. They are multitasking because they can.

As enterprise organizations expand to support a globally dispersed employee base, developing effective learning environments that can be delivered anywhere, anytime becomes a significant challenge. Implementing learning management systems and basic online learning tools has fallen short in providing an engaging learning experience that ensures the effectiveness of enterprise training programs.