Video is a great way to engage your audience in a more engaging, dynamic, or emotive way than can be achieved with standard content alone. Or it can save you a lot of time when trying to explain complex concepts. PowerPoint can be a great way to create your own custom video, with easy content creation, simple ways to animate things and bring them to life, and great tools to add narration or music. It’s superb for explainer videos, but also high-impact videos, video text, or annotated interviews.

Engaging learners is the essential challenge that faces designers of eLearning. Regardless of content or technology, there is no hope to create meaningful and memorable experiences that create performance change unless designers can reliably and actively engage the learner’s mind in true learning events. And that translates into designing INSTRUCTIONAL INTERACTIVITY.

Learning and development can no longer be limited to sitting back and watching PowerPoint slides or reading a training manual riddled with bullet points. Training professionals need to find better ways to engage the audience for a better learning experience and higher levels of retention of the information. Enter interactive training content! This form of content requires a high level of interaction between the trainer and the employee and elevates your training programs to new heights.   

A growing trend in training across industries, emotional intelligence (EI) is a key skill for both personal and professional success and well-being. EI is the ability to understand and manage emotions and leverage that understanding to foster healthier relationships, bolster workplace performance, and lead a more fulfilling, purposeful life. By analyzing these attributes using a scientifically validated tool such as the EQ-i® 2.0, we can better understand individual differences and help others grow their emotional capabilities.

Animation is more than a Saturday morning cartoon—it's a powerful medium for engaging and teaching audiences of all kinds. With animation, you can quickly create visuals that break down complex concepts into simple, easy-to-grasp ideas.

What would your revenue look like if you could clone your top producers? Better yet, how much would you grow if you helped your top producers identify at least one area on every call where they could improve?  How confident are you that you know exactly what your salespeople are saying during sales calls and demonstrations?  Do you have a system to provide feedback?  Even without being on every call or in every meeting?

Adaptable to both formal and informal virtual learning needs, video helps your team increase training quality, engagement, speed, and effectiveness, all while significantly lowering program costs. With the rise of video as an essential remote workplace tool, we’ll help you narrow in on 5 key video strategies that will get you fast results.

When creating eLearning at speed and scale, it can be easy to let visual design standards slip. But visual design in eLearning matters. It improves the learning experience, helps keep learners engaged, and provides a much-needed lift to unexciting (or old) learning content.  

Every day, your leaders and workforce are faced with countless bits of information while making decisions that range from the pragmatic to the strategic. As they confront more and more information—requiring them to act quickly while considering varying perspectives—they’re primed to rely on biased thinking.

For centuries, teachers and trainers have relied on games to increase the interactivity, engagement and retention rate of their trainings. In fact, we can safely say that games are one of the oldest and most effective learning strategies known to mankind. Therefore, the ability to develop meaningful eLearning games is a must for all eLearning developers.  

Microlearning is one of the newest and fastest ways to upskill talent. By its nature, microlearning is more effective, easier and faster to produce. It gives your team bit-sized, just in time training modules when they need it most. Attend this eye-opening session and discover how to turn learning objectives into easy to understand, remember and adopt learning modules with PowerPoint.

Leaders are challenged to manage change, transform teams and processes, and build talent - all without the benefit of in-person work with their teams. There’s never been a better time to be an improviser - they think on their feet, embrace change and stay positive - all characteristics shared with high performing teams as well.

Discover how to build training video games in a matter of hours and without writing a single line of code.

People buy from people they trust . . . and they trust people who are authentic. 

It’s almost Halloween. Let’s conjure up the training tricksters, presentation poltergeists and meeting monsters that spark terror in the hearts of most stalwart trainers, facilitators and team leaders: the creatures of the classroom.

How would your virtual participants describe the overall learning experience in your online classes? Is it a seamless experience or do you have technical challenges? Do you avoid using breakout rooms because they seem complicated?

In this session, Kirsten Rourke will introduce two examples of branching content. She will cover a simple way to make basic branching and how to use Adobe Captivate's advanced features to create custom experiences. The session will also include course planning, resources, and best practices for designing branching content with user-driven navigation.

Business has evolved. Workforces have evolved. Remote workforces have fundamentally transformed how we work. What was once a perk - work from home is now an essential way of how we get stuff done. The once vaulted in-person communication skills needed to bring complex projects to fruition are a thing of the past. To stay competitive, L&D leaders must reconsider how they build and scale great teams. 

The first step in creating top sales coaches is recognizing that most sales managers do not invest enough time coaching their salespeople.  And worse, when they do coach their sales team, they often focus on short-term results rather than mid-to-long-term development.  Top performing sales managers spend at least 50% of their time coaching salespeople and do so in a consistent, structured fashion that drives individual improvement for each team member.  

Join us for an early Halloween SCARE.     In this session, we will face the unlucky demons by using our positive plucky energy. We’ll practice together the magical powers of emotions, including how to NOTICE and CHOOSE before your reptilian brain takes you down.  We’ll discuss how to avoid the bad luck of taking other peoples’ negative vibes and find the magic that lets you see other people’s negative energy without it landing on you.

All too often compliance training takes up too much time, is costly to implement, and is not optimally designed. Worse yet, learners forget up to 75% of what they learned within 30 days. Rather than viewing compliance metrics as "check the box" for completion, compliance goals need to be reoriented to focus on proficiency and performance. 

We seem to know what "experience" is. But we fail to create experiences that impact results.    Learning Experience (LEx) beliefs, practices and tools are distinct from the usual ADDIE (Analyze, Design, Development, Implement and Evaluate) methods. Experience is learning by discovery. ADDIE tends to be learning by instruction. The biggest challenge in designing Learning Experience Projects that impact performance is that we tend to use instruction toolkits, skills, and mindsets - not discovery and experimentation.  Furthermore, we have yet to evolve as designers into being architects for experiences. Naturally, there is a disconnect. This results in frustration. 

Want to find more leads with less competition? Your happy clients have the key - their referrals! Create a referral program for your business then get your whole company using it. Referrals are one of the quickest ways to fill your pipeline and close faster than any other lead but how do you reward people who refer you?

Michael Bungay Stanier was named #1 Thought Leader in Coaching in 2019, and he is the author of the best-selling coaching book of this century: The Coaching Habit.