Are we there yet? Kids get restless and eventually stir trouble from the backseat on long road trips. In the same way, participants wonder Are we done yet? when they’re kept to the "backseat" on webinars. But with the right techniques, you can harness your audience into the driver’s seat for an exciting virtual training. In this session you’ll identify difficult online training behaviors and specific strategies to minimize, redirect and cleverly overcome them without breaking a sweat.

OH YES! I hear and answer these questions almost every day. Some questions are basic, others are difficult. But most come from the same root causes. As the saying goes, "The ship has sailed without them". A lot has changed in Learning and Development philosophy and principles, but many continue to ask old questions.  More often,  the cause is that many who asked these questions have not changed their assumptions. However, the consequences of not finding answers to the thorniest questions and applying the solutions impede learners’ ability to learn, contribute, and have passion in what they do. Unanswered questions damage our capacity to design, develop, and implement training and learning. 

Snagit is a simple yet immensely powerful screen capture and recording software. With its many features, Snagit has found a place in a wide variety of organizations and workflows. Snagit is used to facilitate visual communication, create documentation, provide feedback, create video tutorials, and much, much, much more.

What does a successful blended learning approach look like in 2022? Or in 2025 or 2030, for that matter? According to 2022 data from Pew Research Center, more workers today say they are working from home by choice rather than necessity. Among those who have a workplace outside their home, 61 percent say they are choosing not to go into their workplace, and 38 percent say they’re working from home because their workplace is closed or unavailable to them.

When crafting eLearning materials, many people use a storyboard to help the client begin to visualize the created content and shape the script. Most people use only one storyboard style, but using multiple types can solve a variety of client communication issues.

In our last session, How to Accelerate Sales Effectiveness and Build Champions, we explored how to use technology & automation to train sales teams at scale.  

With so many metrics in your organization, how do sales leaders determine the best sales metrics to track? In my work with clients, I see varying degrees of maturity when it comes to implementing and tracking metrics. The truth is that what you put focus on as a sales leader determines your team’s success and the organization’s overall sales growth.

We all know that we learn from experience, not just what happens in a classroom. And the global pandemic has shown us that whilst the learning can be virtual, it can’t just be a presentation with no interaction. Live online learning specialist Jo Cook draws on her near-decade of experience in the virtual classroom to highlight how experience design can make your sessions hit the learning mark for your attendees, and for you too!  

Sales as a function is changing. In a recent report by Gartner, 80% of all B2B sales transactions are predicted to happen over digital channels by 2025. Moreover, 20% of B2B companies will see revenue coming from multi-experience sales channels. Consequently, sales effectiveness is emerging as a top priority across organizations worldwide, following market share capture.

Join Kirsten Rourke in a hands-on workshop in which she shows how to quickly create compliance and soft skills courses with Adobe Captivate. 

In the last decade, videos have become the most consumed content format. It's in the best interest of companies to take advantage of the video content wave. But have you adopted video content effectively? And have you been able to adopt video content at scale?

Corporate training plays an essential role in maintaining employee engagement and the success of a company, and the evolution of the workplace has highlighted the need for effective learning and development (L&D) programs. With the shift to remote and hybrid business environments, your training program needs to adapt as well - yet L&D leaders battle with limited resources. In order to keep stakeholders invested and advocate for budget, L&D leaders must demonstrate their role in strategic innovation and illustrate how they support business objectives in a competitive market.

A skilled facilitator can make or break the success of a hybrid learning event. Hybrid learning - classes that have a mixture of in-person and online audiences -- is the new norm for many organizations. Facilitators are being asked to accommodate learners in multiple locations at the same time.  

"Before we understand our patients, we need to understand each other." From frontline nursing students to veteran administrators, team members across a healthcare system need to collaborate seamlessly to deliver patient-centric experiences at scale. It has become progressively more difficult for 7 generations of healthcare workers to stay on the same page given obstacles like language barriers and proliferating new technologies from robotics to electronic medical record keeping systems.

In this interactive session, the ageless Lou Adler will address the challenges of finding great candidates and hiring for anniversary date rather than start date head on. His view is that being more efficient and weeding out unqualified candidates is a strategic non-starter. Instead, he advocates an "attract the best" talent strategy that involves spending more time with fewer, but far stronger and more diverse people.  

As the world continues to accelerate and change in the face of huge environmental, technological and cultural shifts, the need for upskilling and reskilling has grown in importance. No one can stand still in their existing roles, and changes in the world of work and how we work mean that we all need to be learning if we want to survive.

Virtual and remote work is here to stay. Find out what it takes to successfully manage virtual workers, learn the pitfalls and successful tools and techniques other organizations are successfully using on this topic, and increase your confidence for effectively getting work done through workers who are not in the office.  

Did you know that the visual design of eLearning and slides has a big impact on learner success? Well-designed materials can motivate learners, improve comprehension and assist retention. If you need a rapid way to improve your eLearning and training slides, join this webinar to learn the power principles that will have the biggest impact on your designs. We'll look into ways that you can apply each principle for maximum success. The goal is to quickly increase your visual design skills as much as possible in one hour.

While there has always been a need to show the value of projects, the current economic climate has created even more pressure to show value in terms that executives will understand. In many cases this means projecting the value before it is implemented. The expression "Show Me the Money" is now demanded in many cases before a project is even considered, leaving the project team with the challenge: "How do we forecast the ROI in a credible and rational way to secure the project approval?"

Executive presence, the ability to inspire, influence and empower others is a vital leadership skill - whether communicating face-to-face or remotely. However, believing that executive presence is conveyed the same way to a live or virtual audience is not only inaccurate, it’s costly.  

Do you know why DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) training has become a front and center hot topic? According to the Center for Disease Control (the CDC), 1 in 4 Americans identifies as having at least one disability or impairment. Just imagine - if one-fourth of your learners cannot access your content, the economic impact could be significant.

How many times have you found and/or kept a superior performer .?   According to Careerbuilder, 3 out of 4 small business employers have hired the wrong person.   74 % say they have hired the wrong person for a position.  It turns out that employees ‘think’ they can pick the best, but most don’t really know how to find and hire new candidates.

This webinar will teach the five foundations of building a coaching culture that leads to greater talent development and retention. 5 levels of a coaching culture are very easy to understand and require organizational persistence to execute.

Once we dig out from this pandemic, we will be able to get back to normal presenting and normal PowerPoint practices, right?