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.  

Come join us for a free one-hour session packed full of valuable tips from three of the most dynamic and effective practitioners in the business today and a free preview of the insights they'll be providing at the TechLearn conference.  Did we say free???  Don't be late!

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.

If you're not yet where you want to be in your life and career, what's holding you back? Most of us know the steps we need to take to move up to the next level, but often something gets in the way. And quite frequently that's obtaining "permission" to succeed. The hold-ups can come from many sources; let Dr. Cindy McGovern help you navigate these internal channels, and challenge the inner voices that govern our lives. Whether your biggest goals are professional or personal, Dr. Cindy's strategies will make your permission mission a successful one.  

Are you developing and deploying learning with the most efficient process possible? Agile development is no longer just for software developers; it’s being rapidly adopted in the Learning and Development industry because it’s proving to be more effective!    

"There’s an app for that!" Are you adding variety to your training with apps like Turning Technologies, Vevox and UMU? There are so many free add-ons you can use to effectively poll, assess and expertly handle Q&A during online training. Becky will share a few of her favorite tools she uses to make sure communication is a 2-way street on every webinar.    

The global pandemic, caused by Covid-19, has forced many people to work from home. In fact, of all U.S. workers, 56 percent could do all or some of their work from home. According to Global Workplace Analytics (GlobalWorkplaceAnalytics.com), it is estimated that:

It’s been over 12 months since our lives were turned upside down by COVID-19. A significant change has been our sudden increased reliance on technology, allowing us to connect virtually with our family, friends, and colleagues all over the world.

Google Slides is the new kid on the block in presentation software, but it’s also one of the most capable tools out there. With so many now using G-suite for ultimate productive collaboration, and with the increased importance of slideware in online communication, it’s important to know how to use Google Slides to create impressive and engaging decks that communicate effectively. Come along to this masterclass to see how to revamp your slides to make them amazing.

In this session, you will be working in virtual teams to learn more about leadership by applying different leadership facilitation techniques to your own practice.