What do you do when you have to lead a virtual presentation but your heart is beating out of your chest and your world is spinning a mile per second? And all you can feel is the overwhelming urge to vomit. And your biggest concern is to avoid peeing your pants. Your friends might be full of good intentions as they try to calm you down and say to you "Don’t be Nervous." But is calm the right state of mind for a presentation? And can you make yourself not be nervous? The answer is "no" to both. Nerves are your fuel; nerves can be your friend.

Have you been tasked with showing the value of a major soft skills initiative, such as leadership development, onboarding, or change management? Participate in this interactive program to learn the critical elements for evaluating programs where the desired outcomes are not strictly numeric in nature.

There are many variations in customizing the Player in Articulate Storyline. Creating a custom Player for your organization or multiple custom Players for various departments within your organization. Saving your custom Player theme is easy and then you can export it and share it with other co-workers.   

You would not be in training and learning design and delivery if you are not already a GREAT STORYTELLER. Inherent in what we do is understanding the human mind and behavior. We know people. What moves them? What makes them change their minds? But often we lose this great storyteller skills. We get drowned with PowerPoints, ZOOM, eLearning, authoring tools, platforms, etc.  We forget that at the heart of a trainer and learning expert lies the innate desire to persuade others with great stories. 

The impact of the Covid-19 Crisis is obvious. It is changing the world as we know it. According to Bob Pike CPTD Fellow, CSP, CPAE - so what? Control is an illusion. It is not the situation that counts as much as how we respond to the situation.

Organizations have long since recognized that there is a skills gap that needs to be addressed to remain competitive. With so many options for employee engagement, upskilling and professional development rapidly changing from day-to-day. Where does one even begin?

Many sales professional’s world were turned upside down, seemingly overnight. Field salespeople that had spent years honing their face-to-face selling skills were now charged with learning how to prospect and sell in a world gone virtual. Inside salespeople were experiencing deal slippage and frozen budgets.

Learning practitioners seldom receive requests to help organizations teach programming skills or learn how to repair computers. On the other hand, it’s likely that hardly a day goes by without a request from someone to help put together a leadership training, or to help a team become better communicators.

No instructional designer ever sets out to purposely create barriers to learning. But we all see the world through our own lens, and that means we may be innocently excluding important groups of learners. In this session, we’ll take a step back and shine a light on hidden assumptions and biases that could make your learning less inclusive--and therefore, less effective.

Be in-the-know on fading practices, latest trends and the future of training. Join Becky and be part of the conversation on how to embrace changes in the training industry and not be left behind. Explore where we’ve come from, what stopped working, and what needs to happen next to meet the rapidly changing demands businesses like yours will face.  

Sales and marketing alignment is important in the best of times. Today, when teams are working remotely in the midst of a pandemic, it’s absolutely critical.  

If you’ve been creating eLearning interactions using the simple actions in Adobe Captivate, now is the time to upgrade your skills and start using advanced actions and variables to build custom interactions.

The recent increase in remote work has accelerated many organization’s Digital Transformation initiatives. Most employees prefer the flexibility and autonomy they get from working remotely. Companies are also realizing the benefits of a remote workforce. They are no longer restricted to talent within their own cities and are no longer confined to their offices as long as they build a resilient, cohesive technology ecosystem and company culture to support this shift.

Soft skills programs should perform and deliver results just like other learning programs. If the program is designed to drive business impact, then it should drive business impact. From the impact, the ROI can be calculated. Professionals involved in soft skills programs must be prepared to step up to the challenge of showing the value of major programs and initiatives, not only when impact and ROI are requested, but ideally before the request is made. Five levels of outcomes exist for every soft skills program, which represents a chain of value (reaction, learning, application, impact, and ROI). The challenge is to decide which programs are evaluated at impact and ROI.  

Discover how to create full-screen images for your slides using almost ANY photo you already have. Instead of wasting time searching for the perfect image, use these Photoshop magic tricks inside of PowerPoint to create it instead. This makes for great title slides, divider slides, and content slides.

Click and reveal interactions are quite common in Adobe Captivate.  We will look at two ways of creating great looking click and reveal slides with forced navigation.

Connecting with prospects in today’s climate requires a creative approach to events. Join prospect-attraction authority Kendra Lee and create a blueprint for planning and hosting webinars that attract new prospects and start conversations during these turbulent times. She’ll share how to create and promote a webinar that attracts prospects and digitally engages your community during turbulent times.

We all know video is powerful for individual learning. And, we all know culture is powerful in creating organizational agility, continuous learning, and employee engagement. But what happens when you put the two together, and start using video as a lever to move the culture?

Across industries and functions, soft skills are a clear differentiator in individual and team performance. They are both rare and valuable because they typically require real experience (mistakes, failure and reflection) to master and apply on the job. But how can learners practice high-stakes interpersonal situations in a safe and efficient fashion? Powered by a blend of AI and live human interaction, human-in-the-loop VR simulation has become the ideal way to gain essential skills in the workplace. It combines true human intelligence with AI in order to unlock empathic potential in your workforce and ensure organizational readiness to perform. Practice is authentic and spontaneous while cost-effective and scalable. 

An alarming number of organizations report that the half-life of a typical skill is continuing to dwindle. In a landscape of ever-escalating training requirements and ever shrinking lifespans for training content, how do we leverage the subject matter experts that we have more effectively?

Human error happens and complex technical systems break. They cause havoc in operations, materials, people, etc. and the subsequent bottomline. The inclination is to play the "blame game" and asking "who is at fault" and "who should be penalized." The problem with this approach  is that it does not address the true picture of why people make mistakes or why complex technical systems break down. The "pointing of the finger" approach wastes energies and valuable learning time. 

This webinar will use the classic claymation, Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer, to explain talent mobility and explore many "what if’s" about talent and potential in the workplace that may, in fact, be right under our noses: What if Santa saw Rudolph’s potential from the start? What if Rudolph was more confident and felt like it was ok to share his uniquenesses?

In these times, it is necessary to go beyond diversity and inclusion (D&I), it should be more than just a policy. In fact, research shows that employees who feel their voice is heard are more likely to perform their best work.  The results of this year’s American Management Association (AMA) Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging Survey confirm that simply having a diversity & inclusion policy in place does not effectively solve the problem of discriminatory practices, whether deliberate or unconscious. A successful culture of belonging requires leadership commitment and involvement, an ongoing practice of inclusion, recognition of unique talents and accomplishments and an environment that fosters respect for openly and authentically sharing thoughts.   

Sales kickoff season is here. Do you know what your meeting will look like this year? Pre-pandemic, you flew your team in to celebrate past successes, train, and motivate everyone for the next twelve months.