As we know, the most important component of a company are their employees. Studies have shown that most barriers that lead to employee attrition are people related. Replacing a lost employee is far more costly than training and inspiring leaders and employees while they are on payroll. Helping leaders and employees to understand how to improve their skills to improve their impact on organizations is a key component that is often over-looked.

When people’s heads are down, "performing, performing, performing," where can learning fit in? If there is no room for learning and development (L&D), then performance will soon suffer. An organization’s success is dependent on their employees’ skills development and continuous learning opportunities.

What if you designed virtual training sessions that were so engaging and effective people clamored to attend? With the pivot to remote work, web and video conferencing have become essential tools in the learning professional’s tool kit. Are you ready to move beyond stale slide presentations and boring chat discussions to develop truly engaging learning experiences? Learn how to leverage your participants’ need for practical, relevant content that is immediately applicable to their jobs. Recognize how to increase effective collaboration in virtual training sessions. Design challenging case examples that people want to solve with their peers.  

Video conferencing continues to fuel remote training, but is it really the best tool to use for all of your learning and development needs? Distributed teams require information in the flow of work, and repeated live training has put significant pressure on team schedules and bandwidth.

In this webinar, we will provide you with the essentials for converting traditional classroom training to the virtual classroom. Learn how to leverage the virtual classroom as a tool to maximize your training reach and address the immediate need to shift to virtual classroom training. 

You can't improve what you can't measure. With a growing emphasis on upskilling and reskilling in the training industry, learning leaders are challenged with effectively evaluating skills gaps.  For an accurate evaluation, though, assessments should mirror the real-world environment, be relevant to the learner's job role, and evaluate specific skills at the task level.  

During this webinar, five specific coaching models will be taught that can be applied to today's workplace. The five coaching models will be specific techniques and strategies applied to five of the most common workplace challenges today.

Pivot with Passion: Darkness to Light As Leaders, it is our responsibility to walk bravely with darkness and light.  Now that we are mechanically doing the same old workshops, conferences and meetings with mostly online delivery, the darkness is beginning to close around us. Here’s an interesting fact about going from light to darkness:

DESPITE PANDEMIC CHALLENGES, L&D PROFESSIONALS ARE MANAGING TO CREATE A NEW TRAJECTORY BASED UPON HELPING PEOPLE INSTITUTE POSITIVE HABITS AND LEAN INTO SOCIAL CONNECTION. Two decades of research by Training 2022 keynote speaker Shawn Achor, and others, show that the greatest competitive advantage in the modern economy is a positive and engaged brain—especially during crisis and suffering. The more positive the brain becomes during challenges, the more capable it is to proactively adapt to changing circumstances and recover from stress, anxiety, and trauma.

"Hybrid" is the word that describes the unpredictable environments required to present your sales demonstrations. As you navigate the changes occurring in workplaces, you may have felt unprepared for handling a physical audience along with a virtual audience. Have you ever discovered that a key buyer was at the conference table at the conclusion of your sales presentation? Have you been caught flat-footed when asked to present virtually to an on-premises team? Have you found it difficult to engage both the face-to-face and virtual audiences at the same time?

One-way facilitation, where virtual trainers ask one question and move on to the next subject, is like the - Hi!, Hello, and Good-bye!" - conversation. The virtual trainer signals to the learner that the learning is bound to be shallow, most likely lacking depth, expectedly boring, and possibly a total waste of time.  For virtual learners to be engaged, we need to facilitate penetrating and in-depth conversations. We want learners to be glued to your session - all ears, excited, and anticipating the end of the session so they can quickly apply ideas.

Workforce Management estimates that companies spend a combined $8 billion on diversity and inclusion training annually. At the same time, Human Resource Management Journal reports that diversity and inclusion consultants earn a combined $400 million to $600 million annually in consulting fees alone. Diversity and inclusion consultants make an average base pay of $70,657 a year and up to $107,000, according to Glassdoor. But are these investments paying off? Some experts argue that, despite decades of handwringing, costly initiatives, and uncomfortable conversations, organizations have, apart from a few exceptions, fallen far short of their goals.  

Before the pandemic, companies spent large amounts of effort on creating a vibrant, productive, and fun company culture. It was used as a barometer for hiring people that were a "culture-fit", as a tool for recruiters to lure talent with the glam of in-office amenities, for keeping employee satisfaction high, and to foster better communication and collaboration between teammates. With teams now being scattered across the globe, and many teams permanently implementing a remote workplace, it’s a challenge for HR and L&D teams to find new ways of fostering culture virtually.

Turn ugly, unprofessional slides into professional designs quickly. Transform those boring, "been-there-done-that" presentations into something you are proud of using these simple, yet effective solutions. Make your job easier. Be the hero. Attend this session to see how to do it.

Spend a week with high-performing sales professionals and you’ll find a common theme. They plan and intentionally invest in the right prospects, clients, and sales activities. They’re both strategic and tactical, and they over-achieve in their sales results.

Go beyond points, badges, and leaderboards - you’ve heard that for years - and NOW it is time to DO IT! Why not use all the mechanisms and strategies that make games exciting and addictive to sustainably drive employee engagement, learning, and performance?

There comes a point in learning experiences when merely presenting content no longer works. It is like a nail that is blunted at the endpoint. No matter how much you hammer, it does not penetrate the surface. In effect, learning results in diminishing returns.

Adding interactivity to your eLearning courses can make them interesting and engaging for learners. It gives them a chance to access the information if and when they need it. It also helps them practice and test the skills they’ve learned in the course.

One of the most difficult challenges for virtual trainers and presenters is knowing when to stop lecturing.  When should they allow learners and participants to reflect and find reflection moments of the ideas? Lecturing means bombardment of too much content. Consequently, participants are zoning out, shopping at Amazon, tending to their pets, organizing their vacation, or doing other tasks. They keep missing the opportunities to learn and apply ideas. 

Did you know that several organizations keep proving that immersive learning gets better results than traditional training strategies? From higher retention to improved muscle memory, there are dozens of reasons to embrace virtual reality—and getting started is much easier than you think!

We will open Photoshop to learn some of the skills eLearning creators need to know. This workshop will explore selecting content, fixing flaws in images, accessing filters, and talk about the new issue with true 3D within a Photoshop document. You will also be shown how to optimize images to be delivered over the web and displayed on mobile devices. 

In an environment of nonstop meetings, there are few tools as indispensable as the icebreaker. If you’ve tried to run meetings with Zoom, Google Meet, or other video conferencing software, you’ve probably noticed screens can impose a distance that is challenging to overcome. When participants don’t feel engaged, meetings are less productive. But when you deploy the right icebreaker at the start of your virtual meeting, you help participants get mentally in the room, connect with one another, focus on a common goal, and  get energized to contribute.  

Recent changes in today’s business landscape led to distinct challenges by different Industries. Industries such as Healthcare, Automotive, Retail, Banking & Financial Services, Public Sector, Manufacturing - are all required to adjust to the ever-changing needs of today’s businesses. The L&D community are key pillars in identifying methods to support these business challenges.

A new generation of real-time, spatial, 3D, immersive, and embodied computing can now be deployed on high-quality VR headsets that cost less than an airline flight. If it hadn’t already, the workplace is moving to the workspace. The metaverse is upon us and it has a profound impact on the learning industry.