Upskilling employees is a top L&D priority in 2024. Yet, only 25% of executives feel their training measurably improves performance.  

Great slides make bad handouts and great handouts make terrible slides. Stop developing dense, text heavy slides or creating separate handout files. Instead, save time by making one file that includes your incredible slides and pro level handouts. Mike Parkinson shows you how to do it without losing your speaker notes. Simplify your job and turn heads with your next PowerPoint project. Sign up now for this high energy, mind-blowing session.  

Selling is the fuel that drives our business growth. It's both an art and a science.  

Following the initial Plan, Create, Deliver webinar, let’s now go a little deeper in the creation phase to help you leverage two of PowerPoint’s interactivity tools: Zoom and triggers. After this session, you will understand how to create and use the various Zoom features to create interactive content. You will also learn how to use triggers to easily access extra content on demand.  

No one should buy sales training just to check a box. Organizations invest in sales training to achieve better sales results. Period. So how do you know if the training you are about to invest in will hit the mark?  

Are you tired of seeing learners struggle to retain information in traditional training?  

AI is rewriting the rules of business, even as enterprises themselves struggle to implement it. Executives are intrigued by AI's potential, but they often question how AI can truly work for them. Where can AI generate real business value? Where does - and doesn’t - it have tangible use cases? How can teams be set up to effectively deploy and manage it for long-term success?  

This. Changes. Everything. Of course we're talking about artificial intelligence. But instead of focusing on the art of the perfect prompt, we're going to level up and talk about the implications for artificial intelligence on you, your career, your team, your learners, and your organization. If we're really getting ahead of ourselves we might even look at a societal look at how these changes affect the world of work.  

The first comprehensive ISO standard on L&D metrics was published in June 2023 and many are now beginning to adopt it. This standard provides guidance for the selection and reporting of 52 key L&D metrics for large organizations and 19 for small/medium-sized organizations. The standard also includes definitions and formulas for the recommended metrics as well as illustrations of the use of many of the metrics in simple tables.  

This past year was one of significant disruptions in technology and budget for leadership development, according to the Annual Leadership Survey conducted by Training magazine and Wilson Learning Worldwide.  

The use of AI in the workplace is exploding and your employees’ ability to discern fact from AI hallucination is increasingly imperative. Without critical thinking skills, we face a danger where falsehoods will negatively impact workplaces and consumer interactions.  

How can you make eLearning more powerful, relevant, engaging and responsive to your learner's needs? When you have no new budget for an AI recommendation engine, or a XR based game or such - what are some solid, instructional design based tactics that can be used to level up a self-paced eLearning course?  

Struggling to stand out, connect with, and be remembered by sales prospects?    

Now available to all Microsoft 365 users, Cameo just might be the answer to your dreams if you have wanted to better integrate your virtual self with your slides. Cheaper than using a mixer and easier than Open Broadcast Software, Cameo takes your camera output and drops it right onto your slide.  

Many managers are uncomfortable hearing or using the word "love" in the workplace. But, given the employee "defections" of the last year, maybe it’s time they got over it. Both research and experience dedicate that if employees don’t feel valued, appreciated - dare I say "loved"? - they will eventually leave. Or worse, they will quit, but stay!  

Join us for the webinar "Beyond Content: The Rise of AI in Transforming Learning Modalities," where we'll explore the revolutionary impact of AI on professional training and development. In this session, we will explore how AI-driven technologies are right now moving beyond mere content creation to redefining how learning content is delivered and experienced. From personal tutors and performance support, to sophisticated simulations, we’ll discuss the integration of conversational and experiential AI that is setting new standards in training and development, making learning more personalized, dynamic, and effective.  

Have you attended a few humdrum webinars or virtual training sessions that were so monotonous or uninteresting you found your attention wandering to that unfinished project on your desk? If you’re asked to facilitate or train virtually, wouldn’t you rather have learners clamoring to attend your online sessions instead?  

The future of extended reality (XR) just arrived. Join us for a demo-packed session to learn how industry leaders onboard, upskill and reskill their workforce with virtual practice spaces that mirror their real-life workplaces: 

During every journey, there are pivotal moments where you remember the person, place, and time when you learned something that changes the course of your journey. There are seven pivotal moments from Steve’s journey shared in this workshop that will help you in your leadership practice. 

Following the previous Plan, Create, Deliver webinar, let’s now go a little deeper in the planning phase to help you leverage two of PowerPoint’s masters, so your presentation file works harder than you have to! After this session you will understand how to put the Slide master to work and the right way to customize it to avoid problems. You will also learn how to easily customize the Notes master so you can use it for handouts and your speaker notes.  

Recent research shows that manager and peer involvement in training can dramatically improve effectiveness, in some cases by more than 75 percent! However, there is a problem. Manager coaching is at an all-time low, and the shift to more remote training methods has limited peer engagement.   

Within a group, people will participate more to avoid letting down their peers. Even if someone doesn’t want to be in training, he won’t punish his partner. When learners work together as partners or team, it can bring out their best. They may not be motivated to please the trainer, but they are motivated to come through for their partners who are counting on their cooperation. Discover how to motivate learners with activities you can make your own.  

In today’s hybrid and remote workplace, virtual meetings and presentations can inflict a mind-numbing combination of death by Powerpoint and Zoom fatigue that leave your attendees disengaged, distracted and desperate for it to be over. The solution? Adding simple live drawings to your online meetings breaks the monotony and illustrates your points clearly, so your audience understands, remembers, enjoys, and implements your trainings better.  

Learn to develop an end-to-end evaluation strategy using the same tools, processes, and templates that Google does and apply them to your organization with the guidance of a Google subject-matter expert and your peers. You will develop the skills to draft evaluation questions that are tied to your business use cases, map them to the behaviors and indicators that will answer those questions, and create the instruments necessary to track those metrics. With those tools, you'll have an evaluation strategy to inform your data-driven decisions and influence your stakeholders.