This webinar will teach some of the most innovative ways to use feedback to drive training And talent development. During this webinar we will teach some of the most innovative ways to not only provide instruction and how to deliver feedback that is accepted yet also how to develop employee feedback acceptance strategies to maximize training serving as a training reinforcement tool.

Only 16% of buyers say that sellers convey value effectively when selling virtually. Is your remote sales team missing the mark?  The answer lies in the insights from recorded sales calls.

Is your organization struggling to hire, promote and retain women leaders? Are you overwhelmed with the responsibility of getting your women’s initiative off the ground or have you launched and failed once or twice?

Ready to rock and roll with Adobe Captivate? Learn to create an exciting eLearning Course that hits all the right notes! Just take part in a 90-minute hands-on introduction by Anita Horsely to take your eLearning journey to new dimensions. What’s more, earn a valuable certificate upon creating your own short project.

Studies reveal today’s employees want best-in-class skills training and career development. Indeed, training matters more than ever as we continue to battle the COVID-19 pandemic.

Advancements in technology have brought many incredible, useful tools to the workplace, including mobile devices that support immersive technology. Augmented Reality (AR) is transforming training programs across all industries, and the benefits to both employees and employers are limitless. These are the types of results companies like GE and Boeing have seen after utilizing AR with their training:

There are myriad styles of delivering instructor-led training online. What can we learn from these various approaches about the use of web cameras, the approach to delivery, and the application of technology? Should the virtual classroom be led by the News Anchor, the Podcaster, the Airplane Pilot, the Technology Guru, the Energizer Bunny, or the Guide on the Side?  Explore these six delivery styles, identify their strengths and weaknesses, and enhance your approach to virtual facilitation.

The era of rep-centric sales enablement has arrived. Are you prepared? Learning and content capabilities are merging. Technologies like conversation intelligence and AI-powered coaching can provide deeper insights and better, more scalable sales support than ever before.

Now more than ever, learning managers are required to build training programs that are agile, adaptable, and scalable in order to effectively support employees in today’s professional landscape. Although many organizations are slowly returning to a sense of normalcy and resuming business operations full force, many policies, procedures, and even workplace cultures have been redefined or are still being redefined, and it’s crucial your teams feel prepared and supported as your company evolves.

We have access to a plethora of websites to get free and/or licensed stock photos. You can download and use them in your eLearning courses. That’s the easy part. The real problem arises when you are not sure how to edit these downloaded images so that there’s no stark difference amongst the images, in terms of design elements, color balance, image type, composition, content, and so on.

Emotions are on rebirth (Tomaso, 2018) in science research, social media, communications, and education and learning (Lisa Fieldman Barrett, 2017). Through decades, the Learning and Development (L&D) practices have been biased in logical content instruction and minimized the role and contribution of emotions as science. Consequently, learning lessons are devoid of emotional connections, feelings, and affective methods. This is apparent in boredom and burnout in face-to-face training, eLearning, and webinars. (Also, see Clark Quinn, 2021)  

Are you struggling with finding an efficient and effective way to create all your organization’s training content? Learning and development professionals are already feeling the urgency, and now many face the new challenges of how to scale training initiatives to meet the demands of a remote workforce. Like many organizations, you may be holding on to a lot of great video training content from synchronous training sessions you held on Zoom or other video conferencing solutions but aren't sure how to manage them or share them on-demand in a more discoverable way.   

Sometimes, when we are forced out of our comfort zone, we can begin to see things differently. We have that opportunity here in front of us as we reconsider how we talk about, seek, develop, and evaluate talent.

As a result of the COVID-19 crisis, many executives predict the global economy may continue to suffer indefinitely. Consequently, budgets will be cut—making it difficult to secure approval for many projects.

So many sales organizations operate with front-line sales managers "doing their own thing." It's like a free-for-all. Here's a pro-tip: the best-performing sales management teams work cohesively as an aligned, well-oiled machine.

Engaging webinars and training sessions are more important than they’ve ever been. For presenters and trainers, this raises the bar for cutting through the noise, getting attention, and creating an experience.

Employers are consistently looking for employees that can advance the organizational charter and help it achieve their goals with innovation and creativity. Individuals with a unique set of advanced skills are a primary ingredient to helping organizations reach their financial goals. Similar to wealth building - skills-building and formation happens over the course of a lifetime.   

Ready to rock and roll with Adobe Captivate? Learn to create an exciting eLearning Course that hits all the right notes! Just take part in a 90-minute hands-on introduction by Dr. Pooja Jaisingh to take your eLearning journey to new dimensions. What’s more, earn a valuable certificate upon creating your own short project.

Interactivity and learner engagement go hand-in-hand. But when accessibility enters into the eLearning equation, do you have to throw all the fun interactions in eLearning authoring tools out the window? Or do you have to double the work and create a completely separate accessible course? Not at all!  

Does your organization speak the language of skills? Do you have a plan to roll out skills-based development to your people? Can your managers use skills-based learning to support their workers?

Everyone knows that microlearning is short, but brevity is only one element that makes microlearning so appealing to users and learners everywhere. Other elements include the learner’s context—how and when they engage with the material—and hyper-focused, curated content. Finding the right balance is difficult—sometimes it means kicking your instructional design process up a notch. We’ll share principles and practices to help your microlearning evolve.

The times they are a changing (as the song goes)…and so are some leadership development trends and best practices in response to tremendous challenges in the last year. Sparked by the COVID-19 pandemic, spending on leadership development decreased as many organizations diverted funds to convert in-person training to virtual learning, Training magazine’s 2021 Annual Leadership Development Survey Report found. Social justice concerns helped to vault Diversity and Inclusion from 12th to third on the list of highest-ranked priority skills.

This presentation is about the practice of Instructional Design (ISD) in the real world today and how it is being modified and used to produce training solutions to help meet business needs (problems or opportunities) for organizations as well as the needs of individuals attending the training program.  

Because we all deserve a do-over If you are a golfer, your favorite word is "mulligan." That’s when you hit a dreadful shot, usually into a forest or a lake, and you drop a second ball at your feet and essentially proclaim, "that one didn’t count." You then hit again and go on your merry way, a happier camper for it.