In this session, Jim Johnson outlines the qualities you should be mastering in your LMS to support the most complex businesses. If you manage learning programs within a highly-regulated industry, you are responsible for ensuring the safety of your employees, the data of your customers, and the reputation of your company. 

Learn a content strategy to ensure that you are curating, creating, sharing and engaging on the right content and attracting the right ideal customer persona.

The software industry is embracing Agile project management and there is much that we in learning & development can learn from them. Whether you’re using SAM, LLAMA®, Scrum or still exploring your options, there’s a lot to be learned from Agile teams in the ways that they manage their relationships and communications with the business in order to deliver their work on time, in budge and in line with expectations - even as those expectations evolve throughout the project.

Humans have evolved to learn through stories. Are you stuck on where to start with telling a story that can drive your content? Look no further than the last movie you watched or novel that you read! What made that story successful? What did you remember?  

Have you ever felt like a fraud in your field of expertise? Do you feel like you have to constantly do more to look like an expert? In this webinar, Audrey Cavenecia, Chief Content Officer and award-winning Podcast Producer for Pete Carroll, explores the feelings associated with imposter syndrome and translates imposter syndrome in simple words for anyone who wants to know how it feels.  

Survey results from the Workforce Institute indicate that 87% of employees report a high level of inclusion at their company when there’s a strong culture of recognition.1 Of those surveyed, nearly one-quarter said that they’re not recognized frequently enough. A Gallup report found that, when recognized, employees are five times more likely to feel connected to their company’s culture and four times as likely to be engaged. A recent Achievers survey revealed that 48% of leaders said their culture has deteriorated since the start of the pandemic because of lack of employee input and their failure to connect with remote employees.

Too many presenters focus on how their presentation is going to LOOK, and not enough to how it SOUNDS.  Can you blow people's minds with just the words you say? It turns out that presenters can learn a lot from songwriters. Songwriters create beautiful music using writing techniques to ensure that what they create sounds great, long before they think about creating the music video or stage lighting.  

Mind-mapping is a visual brainstorming technique you can use to tap into the power of the brain, look at a subject in its entirety and organize around key learning objectives.

The real reason Q4 stresses your sales team is… Standard prospecting tactics stop working. Your sales reps quickly fall into a pattern of self-defeating thoughts like prospects don’t have budget. Or, it’s year end. Decision makers are too busy to talk.

Description Thankfully, both the ethical and practical value of DE&I has become more widely recognized. But the extent to which an organization is fundamentally and culturally receptive to DE&I improvement is less often explored and less frequently addressed.

The 21st-century workforce is unique; people have endless options for learning in the ways that best meet their needs. Yet many of the design and development models in L&D seem dated. That’s where Design Thinking comes in. It’s a modern approach to creative problem-solving that’s iterative, collaborative, experimental and fun.  

Feedback contributes to improvement, productive changes, effectiveness, clear direction, an open culture, and, ultimately, success. Yet 95% of managers are unhappy with their performance review/management system and 59% of employees polled said that performance reviews are not worth the time. We are on a mission to change those perceptions!  

Join CompTIA’s Chief Technology Evangelist, Dr. James Stanger, as he outlines the key skills that business require as they strive to differentiate themselves from competition and move forward with confidence. Dr. Stanger will also discuss the unique learning tactics that organizations worldwide are bringing to bear as they empower the workers today.

The L&D specialists of today must have their mindset, skills, and knowledge rooted in understanding the business problems they are to help solve with training. Sadly, many of them focus on the training activities and not on the outcomes that impact the results that are needed. Consequently, their training efforts reflect poor results and are undervalued by top management. 

Leaders expect your learning efforts to do more with less; do it better; and to do it faster. They also expect learning to deliver business-value results while minimizing disruptions to operational processes. In this unique session, participants will explore how to integrate e-learning and the proper use of learning technologies with the context of the Lean business methodology known as Lean learning.

Does your sales training work? Are people paying attention? Our sales teams are so overloaded, we need to reach them quickly and effectively.

In this interactive session with virtual learning expert Cindy Huggett, you will learn exactly how to set up, facilitate, and manage small group virtual class activities to create an engaging participant experience. You'll see how to create teams for group involvement and how to use breakout rooms for collaboration. You’ll discover new and creative uses for breakout activities that you can immediately apply in your virtual classes.

Culture Change: Coaching leaders to manage diverse teams join us as we discuss one of the most critical features of the building and sustaining a diverse and inclusive organization--developing and coaching cultural competence in your managers so they can lead and develop diverse teams. As we know all too well, there can be many advantages, as well as many challenges to managing diverse teams, and together we will unpack how to coach managers to maximize the opportunities and advantages inherent in leading diverse teams. 

What if you had unlimited energy capable of self-generating as much as you needed, on demand, whenever you wanted it?  How would your life change?

Why are most virtual meetings still so awkward, unmemorable and ineffective? Because no one is born knowing how to talk to a camera! Like an actor going from stage to screen, being successful in a new medium requires new skills.  Fortunately, screen actors have spent decades developing techniques for connecting, engaging and influencing others through the camera. In this session, actor and author Julie Hansen shares the top actors’ secrets for more engaging and successful virtual meetings from her award-winning book, "Look Me In The Eye: Using Video to Build Relationships with Customers, Partners and Teams."

Walt Disney liked to proclaim, "It all started with a mouse." Although it is true that Mickey Mouse was Disney’s breakthrough, it actually started with the people who made the mouse. The Disney philosophy, likewise, doesn’t start with customers. It starts with motivated castomers™. The Disney formula is simple: Great leaders deliver satisfying employee experiences; motivated employees deliver satisfying customer experiences; satisfied customers become loyal and spend more money; profits increase.

Does your current learning technology give you the data you need to crack the case for eLearning success? Does it leave you insightful clues about what’s working, what’s not, and what your learners need to succeed? Or is all of that a mystery to you, a case yet to be solved?

As a leader, you’re barraged with problems every day, and sometimes it’s easier to take the path of least resistance. You don’t speak up because it might rock the boat. You procrastinate on a decision or don’t try that new idea because you’re afraid of failure. Or, you don’t invite feedback because you might not like what you hear. In these moments, you’re missing opportunities, you’re wasting money, and you’re eroding your team members’ trust.

Choosing the right content for a diverse workforce of learners is time-consuming and difficult. How do you navigate all the choices out there? What content will resonate with different learning styles and increase engagement? How do you identify the right content for the right audience at the right moment?