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

As learning designers, trainers, teachers, or facilitators, we want our content to stick with participants. Retention has always been a goal and we know that actively engaging with course material is key, but how do we incorporate evidence-based strategies to make learning stick? Retrieval practice is one of the most well-researched learning  strategies, but for an individual learner outside of a course it feels like hard, uncomfortable work with delayed results. That’s why learners resort to ineffective self-study practices such as highlighting material, or rereading their notes.  

Put an end once and for all to slides filled with bullet points! Microsoft PowerPoint MVP Nolan Haims will take you into his design process for approaching text-heavy slides without resorting to tired bulleted lists. Learn how professional designers approach PowerPoint, create dynamic slides, and minimize word count through software techniques and design strategies.  

Organizations often design customer interactions along multiple touchpoints. However, even when the individual touchpoints can have high satisfaction scores, an excellent customer experience can only be achieved when the cumulative experience across the entire journey is positive.  Customer learning that accompanies customer journey across multiple touchpoints can often make it easier to help organizations create seamless transitions from touchpoint to touchpoint.  

Believe it Or Not. There are faster, easier, and more highly interactive authoring tools than Captivate and Storyline  

With the acceleration of change in today’s world, companies lacking strong skills training programs will find themselves falling behind. It’s no longer viable to simply hire your way out of a skills gap. Find out how continually training staff can increase employee retention, improve productivity, grow revenues, and prepare your organization to react nimbly to the changes ahead.  

Virtual classrooms have dominated training delivery for a few years. Still, one of the challenges with virtual classrooms, or any digital learning, is that many people are trying just to replicate a physical classroom experience: webcams, open microphones, and not adapting to make the most of the technology. The other big challenge is in our own approach to understanding how current training and learning skills convert to work well in the virtual classroom.  

The quality of your eLearning can directly impact profitability and business outcomes. Pretty pictures and slides are rarely enough to move the bar.   

While there has always been a need to show the value of our investments, the current economic climate has created an even greater demand for talent development professionals to prove the value of their programs, projects, and initiatives. Executives, funders, and sponsors can be heard saying, "Show Me the Money" before considering a new program, leaving program owners faced with the challenge of credibly and rationally forecasting the ROI to secure project approval.  

The term "Influence" has been so overworked these days.  It doesn’t mean having a million followers on Instagram.  It does mean having a specific set of skills you can learn, practice and master to "up" your game - your Influence "Quotient".  

New data privacy laws. Headlines about layoffs and economic turmoil. Distracted prospects.   

We will discuss the different types of assessments that can be used, the advantages and disadvantages of each, and the design process for creating an effective assessment. We will also explore the importance of appropriate feedback in assessment design. We will look at the use of technology to deliver assessments, and the role of analytics in assessment design. Finally, we will discuss how to use assessments to measure the impact of learning and development initiatives.