Yes, many agree that lecturing in webinars can quickly become boring and kills learning. But what could be a better alternative? More teasers and warm-ups? Additional break-out sessions? How about more exercises and activities?

The Myers-Briggs Company has shown that the relationship between leaders and employees can impact employee sentiment and well-being. Additionally, strong relationships between leaders and employees can promote a sense of inclusion where differences, diversity of thought, personality types, and life / work experiences can thrive. Leaders are central to creating and driving a culture of inclusion for supporting employee relationships and realizing the potential and value of diverse individuals and teams. But what are the leadership behaviors that promote inclusion, and build strong relationships with employees? It all starts with self-awareness and a practical, committed approach to becoming a more inclusive leader.

You may have been hearing more about learning science of late. Why? Are there reasons we should be concerned with learning science? Aren’t our instructional design approaches sufficient?  

Trends happen for a reason, and you’ve probably been training your clients on how to be virtual, how to manage remotely, and how to use Zoom.  But as you’re wrapping those sessions up, remember: The job of a training resource & consultant isn’t just to deliver what clients ask for today, but to teach them what they need for tomorrow. In 2021, that means helping them fight the temptation to settle into the "new normal" of the moment, instead supporting them as they equip themselves to flex into the next normal after that - and the one after that.

Virtual teams are here to stay. Soon, many companies will return to the office, but with smaller footprints and more flexible work-from-home policies that—while convenient—will make live team communication more complex than ever before. 

No matter what "going back" looks like, the return to work will mean facing a world that looks dramatically different from the one we left behind in March of last year. Conversations that were once taboo are now okay, gaps in our training needs are growing, and core internal communication channels aren’t working.

If there’s one thing the pandemic has taught us, it’s that we can do virtually anything—virtually. Virtual communication is ubiquitous, cost-effective, and convenient, and it’s here to stay. Zoom in particular has gained enormous traction, although many of us admit we’re also Teams-tortured, ex-Webexed, over-Skyped, and, frankly, Burned Out.

Often, when designing elearning courses, a simple animation is more effective in capturing attention and explaining a concept than a static illustration. Camtasia is great for creating quick and effective animated videos and it is more than just a video editing tool. Whether you need animated Intros or Outros for your videos, or an explainer animation for your elearning course, Camtasia is easy to learn and use.  

Webcams on or off: Do you have a preference? Many people do! In this webinar, we’ll present the findings of a recent survey of learning professionals focused on webcam practices and perceptions. Learn about how our perceptions and use of webcams have developed during the pandemic, and the webcam practices, norms, and woes that surround our use of this important learning and communication technology. A research brief summarizing the findings will also be available to attendees at the time of the webinar.

Are you like many instructional designers and trainers who are being asked to meet the growing training needs of hundreds of employees and customers? Even if your team is able to support this increased demand, they likely won't have adequate time to close the loop and analyze the effectiveness of the content you meticulously crafted. This can lead to a slippery slope, wherein teams continuously create and share training content without knowing the true impact on their audience. 

According to Fortune magazine’s list of the "100 Best Companies to Work For in America," 81 percent of workers in companies on the list report that they work in a fun environment. In fact, the variable of "fun" is the most distinguishing variable between those companies who make the list and those that do not. Employees at the best companies are having the most fun and if you make fun part of your work culture, your employees will fare better as well since fun is a proven driver of productivity, results, creativity and better relationships.

Virtual and hybrid events are complex machines with lots of moving parts. Internal friction between those parts can degrade the experience for learners, presenters, and hosts. We identify common sources of friction and how you can address them to make your next event a smooth running machine.

There’s a lot of advice "out there" around leading and developing salespeople. But irony is that most advice is focused on improving half of this word: sales. Sales forecasting, sales pipeline management, sales metrics. What’s missing is the last half of the word, which is people.

"Color," a word that many take for granted. A design element that is a key part of all visuals and embraced to a theoretical level by graphic designers, but an element that is often misunderstood or misrepresented by those outside of the graphic design space.

Built-in vidcam and crappy microphone? You can do better   Are you waiting for services like Zoom and Teams and all the others to offer tools to make you look better, sound clearer, and be more charismatic? That would be a pretty neat trick. But you can do better than connecting your notebook and yammering on. Way better. And let’s not kid ourselves, virtual presenting will be with us long after Covid - in our offices and in our spare bedrooms.

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.

For adding narration to your eLearning courses, you need to change your writing style a bit to make it sound more natural to the ears instead of the eyes. Though the general writing principles are the same for on-screen text and narration, there are some nuances that you need to take care of when authoring the voice-over scripts.  

A killer start-to-finish approach to making AMAZING presentations quickly. Mike shares tips, tricks and tools from his newest book, A Trainer’s Guide to PowerPoint: Best Practices for Master Presenters. Learn how to improve understanding, recollection and adoption using three simple techniques.

It’s time to make your job training online easier. And there’s no better or more effective way than putting people in charge of their learning with interactive techniques. In this session, Becky will model effective use of the most common tools across online platforms. Experience the difference in energy, engagement and fun—and see how easy it is to incorporate these tools into your training.

Are you struggling to get the supervisor involvement that is necessary to have effective training programs? Attend this webinar to find out the one, game-changing question that will generate the support and involvement required for your programs to impact on-the-job performance and create meaningful results.  

During turbulent times like this, you hear many people talk about the "resistance to change" and how this phenomenon impairs an organization’s ability to rapidly adapt and respond.

Research shows that way too many multiple-choice questions have serious writing flaws that damage assessment quality and validity, making the data from these questions hard or impossible to interpret. Poorly written multiple-choice questions can cause serious problems for participants and organizations, so we need to avoid them!    

Marketing has played an escalating role in learning and development programs and solutions for the past few years. Organizations have begun to integrate substantial marketing strategies and tools to ensure more comprehensive compliance, promote upskilling programs, track customer education initiatives, and promote organizational positivity toward change management initiatives.

Remember last year?  Well, don’t forget because it’s not over yet.  Everyone made up in their minds, that come 2021, we’d be back to normal.  Of course, that is not happening as quickly as we’d hope.  It seems the likelihood that we go back to 2019 NORMAL is zilch.  We are all in a continuing giant change, and change is always tough.