Effective, positive communication is the single biggest driver of success for business teams. New research in the fields of neuroscience and positive psychology is showing the incredible ripple effect positive communication can have on employee engagement, productivity, and happiness at work.

Only 44% of employees believe their employer does a good job bringing new employees into the organization. Onboarding is the process of transforming a new hire into a fully functioning, integrated member of the team. Proper onboarding provides not only the ‘rules of the road,’ but also clear expectations in terms of behavior and interaction with management, customers, and other employees.

Joe Ganci will be presenting his very popular and always updated session, The Coolest Adobe Captivate Tips on the Planet, at Training 2015. There he will talk about more than 25 great tips to enhance your instructional design using Adobe Captivate. Now, not only a sneak peek to Joe's session at the conference but a chance to see Joe go in depth on four of his most popular tips, directly in Captivate. This is not a PowerPoint presentation, it's a demonstration using the tool. You don't need to know Captivate to attend this session but if you do, all the better! Joe will also set aside some time to answer your questions. Don't miss this!

Join us for a Power Hour and build a personal strategy for growing your own emotional awareness and regulation.  

This session is about the three sides of a successful consulting practice and the often undervalued role the business side for being profitable and sustainable.   You will learn the importance of using business acumen to support your practice expertise.

This session is about finding your market niche so you stand out in the noise of established players, wannabe’s, and has-been’s. You will understand the importance of branding yourself in ways that distinguish you in the market place.

This session is about the folk lore and implications of different legal structures including partnerships, sub S corporations, sole proprietorships, and non-profits as they apply to operating a successful consulting practice.  You will understand the importance of asking the right questions when working with your lawyer, banker, and accountant.

This session describes different types of insurance including business liability, professional liability, and auto and their implications as they apply to operating a successful consulting practice. You will understand the importance of asking the right questions when working with your agent.

This session is about how contracts are structured and the implication of terms and conditions as they apply to operating a successful consulting practice. You will understand what your client’s procurement office is really wanting in its agreement with you and what you can negotiate.

In this fast-paced, interactive webinar you’ll explore how to put the point back into PowerPoint. From high-tech to low-tech ideas, experience different ways to make this tool work for you.

So you're exhibiting at Training 2015. So are hundreds of others. Two things are required for an extremely successful exhibiting experience - focus and clarity. Focus asks: What are you paying attention to? Clarity asks: How well do you understand it?  

This session is about how to find clients and help clients find you. You will understand how to identify, develop, and use channels to help you be sustainable in difficult times.

While webinars have become common place in both learning and marketing, the parade-of-slides-with-disembodied-voice format is getting old. Isn't it time we reinvented the webinar? What can we learn from the success of the "flipped classroom" model that's sweeping the world of education?

Like it or not, marketing training is part of the job! Identify a variety of ways to improve support of learning interventions and attendance at training events. Build alliances and a presence in your organization. Meet organizational needs, rather than put on events that have marginal participation. Fully utilize ALL marketing techniques from networking to navigating the digital world. Make your "marketing job" manageable, effective and fun! Learn practical tips and tricks.

Jim Lundy of Aragon Research will present the evolving social learning landscape and discuss how leading organizations are taking steps to embrace these trending themes. Jim will discuss the evolution of video for recruiting, learning and knowledge capture. He'll highlight the benefits of embracing social learning and collaboration to transform the traditional LMS into a strategic asset used daily for both internal and external needs. Finally Jim will describe how mobile is transforming learning by providing access to information anytime and anywhere.  

What is behind social learning, mobile learning, AppleWatch, and other Internet tools?  These "access- anytime-anywhere"  tools and solutions are MICRO-LEARNING. It is  micro feedback, micro-application, micro-goals, micro-games, micro-exercises, micro-search and other micro forms. Micro-learning is an ubiquitous part of our day to day learning, but we don’t notice them. They are "hiding in plain sight", blending with the background of our daily grind.

In today’s dynamic and multi-generational workplace, employees have high expectations for their leaders and their organizations. They’re looking for organizations and leaders who not only operate to make a profit, but are driven by purpose.

Subject matter experts (SMEs) are great resources to deliver skillful presentation material. But SMEs have their own strengths, weaknesses, and issues. How can you utilize their strengths and minimize weaknesses to obtain the best results?

A LOLA is a Live Online Learning Activity that transforms boring webinars into dynamic interaction. In this walk-the-talk session, learn to increase and improve interactivity in your virtual classrooms through the use of five new types of LOLA.  Use textra games to add something extra to textual content on the screen. Use Assessment-Based Learning Activities to integrate diagnosis with just-in-time training. Use instructional magic to intrigue your participants into mindful learning. Combine storytelling techniques with the case method. Use optical illusions to encourage metaphorical exploration.

Why do many of our eLearning and training programs get stuck in memorization and testing rather than the application of learning in actual job situations?

L&D functions that focus on the right learning metrics successfully double or even triple the level of impact that their learning programs have on the organization. This session will focus on 4 underutilized metrics: Scrap Learning, Predictive ROI, Net Promoter Score, and Manager Support Rate.

Investment in training for many organizations often results in a roller coaster effect: a temporary improvement in performance, followed by declines or learning plateaus. According to research published in Learning Solutions, 80% of what employees learn is forgotten within 30 days. Battling this up and down cycle has become a constant challenge for trainers. How do you replace incremental and fleeting increases in knowledge with lasting fluency that learners can call upon in real performance situations?

Is your company ready to launch a new product? Your sales and support reps might not be. If the product is complex, your customers might not know how to use it, either. Training is a critical part of every product launch, as it helps employees and customers in a variety of roles and locations build the knowledge and skills they need to sell, service and use the new product effectively.

For the trainers and participants,  webinars are great, until the trainers simply "yack" at learners. That’s when learners start multitasking and therefore, do not learn from the sessions.