John Sweeney and the team from the Brave New Workshop were standing-ovation crowd-pleasers at last year’s Training 2020 conference. They’ll be back at Training's 2021 conference (Feb 8 - 12) but they are excited to invite you to this special one-time webinar.  Research shows that stress is not something that happens to us, rather it is our response to circumstances and events. In this highly entertaining and interactive session you will learn simple ways to discover that stress can be your friend, explore what you can learn from the stress you experience, This session is all about YOU as a whole person—at work, home and play!

Make professional, movie quality effects using PowerPoint. Learn tips, tricks, and techniques to make the impossible. From beautiful effects to cinematic animations and everything in between. Share your stunning presentations in person, virtually or export your slides for use in other software. Do not miss Mike’s latest jaw-dropping session.

Come join us in 2021 as we help TMN members learn about the many tools available to help increase our ability to create engaging virtual learning. 

Digital transformation has impacted nearly every aspect of our lives, from how we consume entertainment to how we purchase goods. It has changed the way we communicate, the way we do business, and how we learn. Now, eLearning software is on the brink of "eating" professional learning, radically changing the way we deliver and consume education and training programs today.  

Salespeople need action oriented online training that quickly develops skills. This is true around new hires, new services, and new market conditions. Short Sims are learning scenarios that speak the action- and goal- focused language of sales people. Clark Aldrich will present real world examples of how quick-to-develop Short Sims are empowering training groups to empower sales organizations. 

The need to train remote employees using video has rapidly grown in importance. For the training departments and managers who need to implement it, video-based training offers new opportunities for increased remote employee performance and job satisfaction. 

We now live in a virtual & non virtual world. People have gone through an incredibly stressful 2020 so what are some creative strategies to facilitate learning through training & coaching that drive talent and build positive mentalities. This webcast will teach five innovative strategies for 2021 training.

What are the trends to engage today’s modern learner with short attention spans and a high-drive towards immediately applicable skills? How is today’s learner changing, and what can we do as internals and externals to serve them exceptionally well? And how have the past 12 months reshaped learning, development and people performance, from both a short-term and long-term perspective?   

Your customers are looking for you online—can they find you? About 70% of the customer journey is complete before they engage with your sales team.

When designing an eLearning course, our main emphasis is on crafting the content correctly. Coupling it with well-crafted graphics will instill a new life to your instructionally-sound content.

At a time when resources may be tight but demand is high, we need to work more creatively with the tools we have. Or, at a minimum, succinctly describe why you need something else and the value it will bring. In this session, listen to L&D tech experts and practitioners as they provide you with a new way to think about the tools you have and learn how to turn that "learning stack" into the "learning ecosystem" that meets your objectives, supports the culture you want, and achieve goals.

Much of training is on skills and rules. So, when workers face problems their capacities are limited. They should be well-equipped to handle the unexpected, unknown and challenges never seen before. Workflow Thinking breaks the dependencies on skills and rules to do unbounded thinking - empowered to fix, solve and improve work issues.  

Remote learning is here to stay, as is the Zoom fatigue that many learners experience. The importance of compelling content is becoming ever more apparent, but trying to do that with the same tools you’ve always had can be hard, right?

While Learning Management System (LMS) is a familiar enough term, the Learning Experience Platform (LXP) is something new for many. Unfortunately, LXP's can be seriously lacking when it comes to enterprise support and support for traditional LMS functionality. Adobe has bridged that gap with the latest release of Adobe Captivate Prime, adding LXP experiences to a more conventional LMS platform. But what does it all mean for you and for your learners?  

Virtual training and webinars are unfortunately known for their technical breakdowns. Ask anyone what they dislike about learning online and the answer is usually that it's boring, it's not engaging, and there are too many technical problems. The first 10 minutes of live online sessions is often spent on struggles to get everyone connected and making the audio work. Identifying someone to be your virtual producer (or someone who performs that role) will transform not only the way you run your online training, but also how you and your attendees feel about them.   

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.