Companies are finding themselves navigating the "next normal" and strategizing how to accelerate business success in a post-pandemic world; while the workforce is like nothing we've seen before, and leaders are faced with new challenges that are both unique and complex.  Organizations must create a workplace that is positive, motivating, and consistent.  You can have the best, most efficient, and customer-friendly processes in the world, but they will fall apart if your team lacks motivation, is not engaged, or doesn’t work well together - the one thing that customers are certain to remember is their interaction with your employees.  

Learn techniques for creating an inclusive presentation, including: Helping everyone in the audience to feel comfortable Knowing your audience and their various situations Visual techniques that represent a variety of people Becoming an advocate and sharing your opinions

In today’s disruptive business environment, it’s crucial for enterprises to champion cutting-edge learning platforms that keep their workforce ahead in the race. And undoubtedly, the key ingredient to every enterprise learning initiative is content. 

What if the face-to-face classroom was no longer a training delivery option? Imagine bringing your facilitation and training expertise to the virtual classroom with such high levels of interactive, collaborative engagement that your learners clamored to participate. As organizations pivoted to the virtual learning space this past year, training programs were rapidly repurposed for virtual delivery. However, many people hoped that things would get back to normal soon. Now it’s clear that virtual instructor-led training is here to stay. And it’s our job to make sure that engagement, collaborative learning, long-term retention, and performance improvement are the result.

OK. You are a designer, developer, and L&D leader.  You do your job because you are good at writing, graphics, software, projects, or you have mastered instructional design and technologies. But you have no clue what matters in your business. Your boss says, "We want training quick and useful." And the boss does not tell you why and how. Consequently, your learning and training programs are off-target, off-mark, and do not hit what the boss wants. Your boss is unimpressed. You are exasperated.

Ready to rock and roll with Adobe Captivate? Participate in a 90-minute hands-on workshop by Dr. Pooja Jaisingh and learn to create an exciting eLearning course that hits all the right notes! The best part? Create your own short project and earn a certificate of participation. As a token of appreciation, we are also handing out gift vouchers for each of the first 100 projects submitted. 

Join us for a collaborative brainstorm and exploration of what’s hot for learning professionals and how you can level up your skills as well as your organizations road map in learning. As a participant you will be able collaborate, share and discover what teams are doing as well as new technologies and techniques that can help you creating new learning experiences. You’ll walk away with a series fo resources, links and tools to check out to reboot your learning today.

This is a follow up to Mike’s incredibly popular Super Simple Slide Design session. Learn how to make simple yet engaging and professional slides quickly. Mike shares new, innovative designs that you can easily make—when you know how. Using the latest trends, discover tips, tricks, and techniques to developing amazing slides.

Writing your first book is not easy, but it can be done.  While many of us have the "great idea" inside of us, we either don’t think we have the time, or we don’t know where to start.  Pete Blank, MHR, CSP, has self-published two books and co-authored a third.  While it’s not making him rich, there is a certain amount of gravitas that comes with being a published author, and that is good enough for him!

Do your salespeople sound great in role play, then fall apart on a sales call?  It does not matter if you have the perfect sales script - scripts only work if you give the prospect their lines and tell them exactly what to say and how to say it.  If you can do that, your salespeople will be just as effective on sales calls as they are in your sales meetings.  Instead of worrying about developing the "perfect sales script," focus on coaching your sales team for conversational fluency.  

After a decade of proving its value within higher education, the "Flipped Classroom" model debuted in the workplace in 2019. Since then, however, organizations have quickly adapted to using real-time video conferencing tools like Zoom, Webex, and GoToMeetings, particularly in the areas of training and employee onboarding. How then, should organizations be using a flipped-classroom approach in today's environment?

Sales enablement is an emerging profession that is quickly approaching a crossroads with significant ramifications. Like our training and HR counterparts before us, practitioners of sales enablement face a choice of being viewed as an overhead expense or an essential business partner that provides value as a critical piece of the organizational growth engine.  

Join Frank Pietrantoni and Rebecca Davenport from the Office of Health Professions Education at Nebraska Medicine/UNMC as they share their recipe for adaptive learning that combines a little bit of xAPI and a dash of SCORM, and then mixed together in an LRS and LMS.

Discussions about diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) are center stage in many organizations. This conversation is not new-it’s just that DEI is a topic on which attention ebbs and flows. When inequities and bad behavior risk or damage individual or organizational reputation, microscopic focus ensues. When things seem to rock along smoothly, focus moves elsewhere. Organization leaders pledge hundreds of millions of dollars to commission studies, launch training sessions, and hire consultants and diversity czars. But is it working? Some experts argue that, despite decades of hand wringing, costly initiatives, and uncomfortable conversations, organizations have, apart from a few exceptions, fallen far short of their goals.1   vvvvvv

Whether played by teens, adults or in corporate team-building programs, an Escape Room is a perfect way to test your wits in a race against time. Throughout the world the fascinating world of Escape Rooms is popular and growing! According to S. Nicholson’s study on escape rooms, they involve teamwork, communication, and delegation as well as critical thinking, attention to detail, and lateral thinking. 

Discussions about diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) are center stage in many organizations. This conversation is not new-it’s just that DEI is a topic on which attention ebbs and flows. When inequities and bad behavior risk or damage individual or organizational reputation, microscopic focus ensues. When things seem to rock along smoothly, focus moves elsewhere. Organization leaders pledge hundreds of millions of dollars to commission studies, launch training sessions, and hire consultants and diversity czars. But is it working? Some experts argue that, despite decades of hand wringing, costly initiatives, and uncomfortable conversations, organizations have, apart from a few exceptions, fallen far short of their goals.1  

The COVID-19 pandemic has forced organizations to move their learning and development offerings online. The digital transformation of learning has had advantages for workers now able to access learning and development online, at their own pace, and from their own homes. However, the maddash approach to migrating existing face-to-face content to a digital format without time to intentionally cultivate a desired digital learning experience has left some learners and organizations with the impression that online learning is not as effective or engaging as face-to-face.

Are you asking the right questions at the end of your eLearning course? Are these questions closely tied to the learning objectives? Do you include application-based questions in the assessment?  If the answer to any of these questions is ‘No’ or ‘Not sure’, join Dr. Pooja Jaisingh, as she talks about the best practices for writing effective assessment questions for your eLearning courses.  

Organizations in the top tier of employee engagement outperform their peers by 147% in earnings per share and have a 90% better growth trend than their competition. However, only 36% of U.S. workers are engaged, which means the vast majority sleepwalk through the day giving you zero discretionary effort.  vvvvv

PowerPoint has a wonderful new presentation option called Live Presentations. You can share a deck with your audience and they can each have a personalized experience with subtitles, multi-language translations, reactions, and feedback. It’s a terrific way to share content, whether remotely or even in-person.

Over 60% of daily tasks are about problems that have no clear answers. They are exceptions from routine tasks and they require different skill sets. Unfortunately, traditional training and learning designs are limited to instructions and memorization of content. Instructions are useful when problems are specific and known. They are ineffective in problems that require more critical thinking. 

Using illustrations is one of the prominent ways of creating visuals for eLearning courses. There are a lot of stock photo websites from where you can download and use these illustrations and vector graphics.  

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We have reached a pivotal moment in the learning industry—particularly for training companies—as a result of digital transformation. Digital learning has proven to be an effective and efficient way to consume training and scale your learning program. It’s safe to say that if you are resistant to transforming, your business will become obsolete.