Sales training and enablement is tougher than ever before. Whether your sales force is across the street or across the country, you’re working overtime to support your team.  

Forget Photoshop and pricey stock photography—you already have everything you need to create professional looking image-centric slides in PowerPoint.

US companies spent 15 billion on sales training in 2018 according to LinkedIn’s State of Sales Report. For companies who didn’t focus on management training to make that training stick, they likely lost up to 13.5 billion of that investment to the Forgetting Curve- where up to 90% of new information is lost within a week of their training ending.

In this webinar, Clark Aldrich will discuss his new book, Short Sims, A Game Changer.   Short Sims are quick, engaging, "learning to do" online learning content.  They are how online learning may have evolved if PowerPoint had never been created.

Do you need to quickly convert your traditional classes to the virtual classroom? Are you wondering how to translate your classroom activities to the online environment? Are you looking for creative ways to maximize virtual classroom tools? And get ideas to create interactivity and engagement in your virtual classes?

As stress mounts from the uncertainty of the times and major shifts are brought about by the coronavirus - trainers, coaches and designers find ourselves in a dilemma. 

Looking for a way to accelerate sales results, but can’t get buy-in for new tech? Sales readiness technology helps you directly impact the bottom line by targeting activities that move the needle: training, onboarding, coaching, and in-field productivity.

Whether you are trying to determine if a retail sales representative can properly manage displays, or a fast food employee can correctly fill orders, there are tons of skill demonstration activities that can be used to validate that learned skills / competencies are being executed in accordance with expectation. But what is the best approach? How are training teams accommodating such skill demonstrations, and how do teams both track these custom bits of evidence and handle the submission of that evidence into a common repository.

As organizations contemplate options for re-entry, a lot of questions emerge. How can everyone remain safe? What if someone gets sick? When is the right time to go back? Should we even re-open the office? With companies like Twitter and Google opting for their employees to remain home for an extended period of time or even indefinitely, it can be hard to know what’s best for your organization.  

The modern learning era is about sharing knowledge with people all the time. However, there is a need to ensure that people have the knowledge and skills to do their job and perform at a high level. The rise of mastery-based learning solves this and is a trend that can’t be missed.  

We’ve reacted fast to the new virtual working environment. Congratulations—we’re pretty good at delivering virtual classrooms! But now our learners need more profound engagement, and our clients are demanding ever more power from learning. How do we respond?

Videos are the best and easiest way to learn about new content and skills. But they are inherently passive, with no opportunity for learners to interact with the content. 

Whether it’s an online meeting, a presentation via webinar, or live online training, engagement is the main question on everyone’s mind: Will it be worth my time to attend, or will it be an opportunity to check email instead? Furthermore, is it effective learning? How do you make sure that your learners interact with the experience and are really learning?

When it comes to eLearning solutions that facilitate flexible and dynamic Learning and Development, the Learning Management System (LMS) is typically at the center of the learning ecosystem. However, with over 800 learning platforms in the market, choosing the right one can be a daunting task. When evaluating learning platforms, organizations have to ask a multitude of questions with the main one being: which LMS will best support my organization’s needs now and in the future?    

Make winning sales presentations. Learn the tricks the pros use to get audience agreement and sell a product, solution or idea. Use the latest behavioral psychology and neuromarketing techniques. Use what you learn during class to make a clear, compelling presentation that gets buy-in and improves your success rate. It’s easy—when you know how to do it.

The United States is in a crisis. The Corona pandemic now combined with protests in our streets are shaping what will become the new normal for organizations. Many of our first responders and front-line employees have friends and family members who have been directly impacted by these events.

Advanced and Shared actions in Adobe Captivate allow you to customize your courses to provide personalized and best possible experience to the learners!

Nowadays, there is a rush to convert classroom or face-to-face sessions to remote learning. While this is a great opportunity for many in the L&D world, it is also uncharted terrain for many. The dash to comply presents risks, failures and disappointments from unrealistic expectations.

Just like any good work person knows the tools of their trade, its vitally important as trainers and coaches we understand which behavioral assessment tool best fits the required need.

Discover the three phases of leadership Walt Disney went through to become the wise leader we remember and discover how the leadership lessons he learned, and that Walt Disney World still follows, can improve the performance of your organization’s leaders.  

Organizations face a range of challenges in today's ever-changing competitive landscape. Keeping up in L&D with today's thinking and needs presents its own challenges. Ideally, L&D should be a highly strategic capability for growing people and the business, yet many impediments exist. Items to overcome often include perception of learning itself, having an organizational culture of learning, and organizational perception of the L&D function for creating business impact and value.

Has your sales team gone from in-person to virtual selling overnight? Selling while physically distancing is a new approach for many teams. It means big changes for your field sales reps and for sales managers.

Adding animations, effects, and transitions to your eLearning courses can make your courses stand out. Join Dr. Pooja Jaisingh to learn how to leverage this functionality in Adobe Captivate 2019 to add subtle animations to your eLearning courses. During this session, you will learn how to add externally created animations, and create native animations using the different types of effects and transitions available in Captivate. Along the way, learn about some tips and tricks to make the most of effects.

Setting up a template for your eLearning project gets you on the right foot for the rest of your course development. Creating a consistent, branded template will ensure that all your content looks the part and functions well, and save you precious time. But Articulate Storyline templates can be an easy stumbling block for the uninitiated.