Many trainers and learning professionals are now rushing to use ZOOM for the rapid transfer of their classroom workshops online. But in the hustle and bustle, we focused too much on the urgency of getting things done instead of getting things done the right way. We are then left with ZOOM sessions with Zombie learners. Yes, we have the content and all the materials, but no learning is taking place.

For years, storytelling has been used to pass down history, customs, rituals, and legends. Because a good narrative can tap into our emotions, we’re more likely to remember the story. By weaving narrative and curriculum together, we can provide our learners with an experience that can not only entertain them, but improve retention.

As we all know, salespeople absolutely love to win and hate to lose—and think they can win every deal. Sales management might say, "I love to win as much as the salespeople, but only if it’s the right business!" Sales managers well know the hot pursuit of a win can backfire when salespeople go after deals that aren’t profitable and, frankly, may not be winnable.

Creating a learning culture within your organization is an ongoing process. So, is there any single technology that can transform your culture? A unique technology that can finger snap you from a non-learning-friendly culture to one that promotes and celebrates L&D? The answer is "no". However, there are some technologies that can provide an architecture for your L&D culture. In other words, there are L&D technologies that can help you develop a learning-friendly culture easily!

Introducing a new and improved Adobe Connect. The latest version is a significant milestone for Adobe Connect and includes features that we’re incredibly excited to bring to our customers.

When you are speaking to executives about training initiatives, to get approval or update them on progress, you need to use visuals that effectively communicate the information they need to make decisions. 

Compliance is an essential part of HR, but it is always the bare minimum and should be assessed and analyzed as part of an overall culture strategy. Issuing a policy that says "We don't discriminate" is not the same as a comprehensive inclusion and diversity program.

Selling is hard enough - don’t make it harder by ignoring your customer’s buying journey.  Sales strategies that take into consideration how customers go through their buying journey will lead to winning more sales. 

Many leaders worry, especially now, that trying to emphasize positivity and happiness will make them look out of touch — and rather than helping their people, it will backfire. The great temptation is to wait until the crisis is over and things are back to normal before talking about such topics.

While there’s no doubt that we’re getting better at delivering engaging virtual sessions, the question we’re still asked every day is ‘how do we deliver meaningful learning at distance, especially now that we’re no longer using face-to-face delivery?’

How do you ensure installation of learning for your front-line leaders and management team?  No matter the modality, there needs to be a process of engagement in place that ensures successful implementation.  Through an engagement matrix, AMA will outline the necessary steps to ensure a successful transfer of skill development as it aligns to recognizing managerial competence within your organization.  AMA will share best practices on how to ensure the probability for success in a virtual learning environment.

You've shot an awesome video for the upcoming training initiative, but what is the best way to get your video into an eLearning course on your LMS?

World health concerns have changed the way people work and how they can engage in training and development. So what does this mean for how we teach people and evaluate learning effectiveness? If you believe that simply adapting your training to a virtual format is enough, you are on the path to perish.

Reinforce learning by harnessing the power of interactive video! Increase engagement and provide opportunity for learners to test their knowledge by incorporating interactions and questions at pause points during an interactive video.  

Who you are and why the rest of the world should want to do business with you is one of the most important keys to your success--it’s all about your personal brand! But like anything else, care must be taken to ensure that it is properly developed, maintained, and refreshed as needed.  

You’ve worked endless hours (including nights and weekends) prepping for this training session. You’ve set up the room (physical or virtual), welcomed participants and successfully started your session. Then it happens. The dreaded "problem children" start to emerge.

Coupling instructionally sound content with appropriate graphics helps in providing an incredibly amazing learning experience! It instills a new life to the content you are covering in an eLearning course.

Did you know that 35% of all U.S. adults visit YouTube first to learn something new*? Video continues to grow in popularity as the preferred medium for learning.

Many experts estimate 90 % of top performers have a high EQ (Travis Bradberry) and according to workplace strategies for mental health stated 91 % of managers & leaders stated they needed to improve their emotional intelligence.

You have something important to teach people, but they're not paying attention. And surveys have shown that only 25% of course material actually improves learners’ performance. Why aren't people learning from or engaging with your coursework? Turns out, it's likely because you're not letting people fail enough. In this session, award-winning instructional designer Scott Provence discusses the surprising studies and research that shows how we actually learn more when we get things wrong.  

We face today with uncertainty and volatile work environments. Workers have to emotionally adjust to new remote conditions and rapid changes in work expectations or learning static content. The usual information-dump method - does not help better performance or empower workers to face today's challenges. Furthermore, the platforms that support this method are restrictive and confining Thus learners’ learning quickly becomes irrelevant to the business demands.  For example, as we remotely train about policies, products, skills and processes and compliance topics, the "content and knowledge only" type of learning is no longer sufficient.  

The global pandemic has clearly made a significant impact on Learning & Development teams for organizations around the world. The acceleration of long sought programs to virtualize educational experiences is at the heart of most responses to the epidemic.  We asked eight hundred CLO's and Directors of Learning how their organizations were handling the virtualization in the context of the pandemic.

Creating accessible online courses provides an opportunity for people with disabilities to learn successfully. Additionally, developing compliant courses reach a larger more inclusive audience, and it can be a legal issue. In the US, Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 requires that government and educational organizations make learning accessible (including eLearning). eLearning developers need to take into consideration creating eLearning that is accessible to people who are blind or visually impaired, deaf or hard of hearing, physically disabled, and developmentally disabled.

Budgets are tight in this new pandemic economy. If you’re in charge of training a sales team, you know how hard it is to justify any new investment in your program these days.