Retaining existing talent is second only to recruiting new talent on the current list of biggest CEO concerns [Fortune/Deloitte, Fall 2022].  

What could go wrong? Everything or nothing, as this session vividly demonstrates through a creative combination of comedic act and presentation analysis.  

A font can make or break your presentation. Legibility and professionalism are critical. After we get geeky, I share the latest trends and I show you how to make amazing slides with simple typography tips and tricks. We make eight designs using simple and clever techniques. You can use what you learn immediately to make your job easier. Do not miss this insightful and valuable session.  

"I'd like to give you some feedback...."   These might be the seven most dreaded words one could imagine! However, effective feedback that is given to support and encourage improvement becomes fuel for growth.

If you aren’t tasked with creating accessible courses already, expect it! When 1 in 4 learners self-identifies as an adult with functional disabilities (according to the CDC), creating Section 508 and WCAG-compliant courses is in demand.  

When it comes to performance management, 95% of employees are dissatisfied with their company’s performance evaluation process, and 90% believe that it doesn’t provide accurate information. With the overwhelming majority being so dissatisfied, it’s easy to see why accountability is an issue in today’s workforce.  

More than 58% of employees prefer to learn at their own pace and ‘on-demand’, according to a McKinsey study. With people development shifting from formal classroom contexts to self-directed learning models, personalization has a major role to play in driving learning from a one-size fits all to a customized segment-of-one approach.

Most businesses understand the power of video. They want to use more video in their communications, but get stuck on how to operationalize it. While video is essential for engaging today’s stakeholders, scaling video creation across the organization is hard, time-consuming, and expensive. In this session, Vyond’s Head of Product Marketing, Enrique Olives, will discuss how intelligent video creation utilizing AI-driven features can improve audience engagement and drive business results.  

Have your DEI efforts lost momentum? Reignite them with Nova's 30-Day DEI Jumpstart: A four-week guide to kick off your organization's diversity, equity, and inclusion goals. The guide provides content, resources, and discussion questions wrapped around weekly themes to activate your teams for maximum impact.  

What’s the number one issue facing L&D professionals today? It’s "Scrap Learning," a term that describes the gap or wasteland between training delivered and not applied back on the job. Said differently, it’s the flip side of training transfer. You might be wondering how big the problem is. According to several research studies, estimates range between 45 and 85 percent. These percentages make it a critical business issue because it wastes both money and time, two precious organization resources. 

While Learning Experience Design is rightly praised as the successor to traditional instructional design, there is some consternation about just what it entails. Some think there’s nothing new, others view it as a panacea. In this session, we’ll take a particular view of it, and then elaborate on some important elements that frequently are missed yet are the essential missing pieces.  

Have you ever had this conversation with an SME (subject-matter expert)?  SME: "This needs to be in the course."  You: "I’m not sure it does." 

Content often isn't enough when it comes to improving human performance. It is critical that your learning experiences take into account content and the context which can be unlocked using learning experience design. Join us to learn more about tools and approaches that can help you design effective learning experiences.  

Augmented reality (AR) is a widely used technology in games, marketing, and everyday apps, but what about learning and development? Where do you get started? How should you use it? We will answer these questions through discussion, hands-on development, and interaction in this session.  

We are currently living in an uncertain economic climate, and companies are feeling the effects of the global recession. While everyone is trying to survive and minimize losses, it's important to remember that a company's culture can make or break its performance in tough times. Having a culture that is resilient and recession-proof can go a long way in ensuring your business's success.  

Whether or not you consider yourself a techie, this is a must-attend session for you. Every L&D person now wonders how ChatGPT would aid and enhance their design, methods, technologies, and their tools. ChatGPT is the most recent, December 22, 2022 release, of OpenAI.com's - a conversational interaction with A.I.

This webinar will teach specific questioning skills that support training while driving employee performance. During this webinar we will teach questioning skills that drive awareness and action in the following areas:

Find a mirror and take a good, hard look in it. Who’s staring back at you? What does that person stand for? And how does that person fit within a company or organization? It’s time to find out once and for all by discovering the power of your personal brand.  

Zoom… it’s so 2020. Or is it? Collectively, we’ve certainly become better at it, but do we have the multifaceted communication skills we need to lead a virtual meeting? When it comes to commanding the room, many trainers have presence, polish, and passion. When they talk, trainees listen. They move, they connect, they exude charisma. However, when Zoom arrived on the scene with a capital Z and technology leveled the playing field, things changed. Any talking head can light up a square, but compared to stand-up training, commanding a Zoom is an even greater challenge. A total of 300 million people a day are Zoomed out; monotony and lethargy creep in easily.  

If you are responsible for delivering successful hybrid training events, you know it’s not as easy it looks. Of course, you could just video a live event for later playback and call it a day, but you want to reach both your in-person and your virtual audiences in real-time and allow engagement for everyone.  

If you’re using PowerPoint all the time, then you need add-ins in your life to make things quicker, easier, and better. And if you’re not using PowerPoint all the time, you’ll want to.  

Dr. Mercer will show you how to consistently + scientifically hire "Superstar" sales reps - who are both (1) Highly Productive + (2) Low-Turnover.   

Only 25% of executives believe that training measurably improves business performance. And with nearly half of all employees worldwide in need of upskilling or reskilling by 2025—it's clear the way we evaluate and train no longer aligns with the realities of the business world.  

Join this All-star panel of visionaries as they explore current and emerging trends in Metaverse Learning: Professor Karl Kapp, Director of the Institute for Interactive Technologies at Bloomsburg University Professor Tony O'Driscoll, Research Fellow and Academic Director at Duke University Professor David Metcalf, director of the Mixed Emerging Technology Integration Lab at the University of Central Florida’s Institute for Simulation and Training Moderated by Dr. Anders Gronstedt, President of the Gronstedt Group