There are many ways to wreck a PowerPoint slide. Behold these before-and-after gems from some of the worst train wrecks we've ever seen.

Good visualization improves understanding, recollection and adoption. Poor or no visual communication impedes learning. Make your job easier. Use clear, compelling designs to achieve your learning objectives. No design skill needed.

Let's face it: many of us obtain the knowledge and data we require to complete our work by using the internet. This informal learning trend is unlikely to change soon, so training professionals need to find a way to address it. Some are threatened by this reality; others have been tasked with quantifying and evaluating it.

First, panic ensues. Then comes paralysis. These are the usual responses of workers and organizations when crisis situations emerge.  

Are you managing a remote sales team? Our "new normal" of canceled meetings and travel restrictions means face-to-face sales are impossible.

This interactive webinar is specifically for sales managers and executives who are constantly negotiating and influencing their sales team to perform at the highest level (or conducting some of their own sales). It will be split into three parts:

You are just getting started with creating eLearning courses and have learned how to add different slides, add objects, and apply some transitions and effects to them. You have also learned how to convert the objects to buttons and trigger some actions on clicking the button. Now it’s time to take it a step further and learn how to create drag and drop interactions using Adobe Captivate.

"To make a mistake is human, but to blame it on someone else is… even more human."   Much of what’s happening in our organizations today is nothing more than a thinly veiled blame game.  Colleagues gather in post mortem meetings to "find out what went wrong." Managers use goals and accountability as weapons to dole out punishment when things change unexpectedly.  And sooner or later, we all find ourselves accidentally contributing to a culture of duck-and-cover as we create ever more complex forms of the argument that "I did my part, I can’t control everything."  

In this session, we will take a very prevalent term in our industry, "reskilling", and introduce it to a very new and trending term, "creator-centric". Can you imagine rebuilding your learning culture around the learner as the creator rather than the recipient of the content? It will happen but instead of it happening to your organization, make it happen for your organization.   

Prior to mid-March 2020, approximately eight million people worked from home in the US. With stay-at-home orders around the world, hundreds of millions have suddenly been added to the previously small pool of workers who are commonly considered remote employees. In the face of that dramatic shift, companies are left scrambling to re-imagine work, asking employees accustomed to working from an office to instantly evolve into a remote workforce.

Adopting remote-work opportunities delivers positive changes to critical business metrics, such as reduced expenses, increased productivity and engagement, and decreased turnover and attrition.  

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, authored by Stephen Covey, is one of the most inspiring and impactful bestselling books ever written, having sold more than 40 million copies in 50 plus languages, resulting in profound personal and organizational effectiveness for readers worldwide. It’s transformed the lives of heads of state, presidents, CEO’s, educators, students, parents, and millions of people of all ages and occupations who have accessed its principles, paradigms, and processes in their effort to achieve extraordinary results. It continues to guide and propel generations of readers toward change.  

Everyone uses PowerPoint and everyone finds it both annoying and irritating. Especially the repetitive tasks, or times when you cry out in frustration that it can’t do something. Oh, and that’s not to mention 508 compliance issues, which are incredibly difficult to overcome in PowerPoint. But, you can change things by using add-ins for PowerPoint - magical tools that give you superhuman abilities to do things at light speed, or even things you couldn’t do before.

As companies stare down the challenges of an ever-expanding remote work environment, many are struggling to rapidly adapt the best practices needed to scale and support their remote training effor

Only 44% of HR professionals report that employees in their company give discretionary effort (energy above and beyond what is needed to keep their job).[1]   A leader’s role is to engage others to commit their full energy to the creation of value.  In some organizations today, based on the data, it feels like employees have unplugged from their energy source.

While sky-diving does provide some excellent examples of opportunities to master skills, in this session we will explore several facets of skills commonly explored in the process of training adults for the workplace.

Creating an impact from training is a challenge that learning professionals have grappled with for many years. Join Will Thalheimer as he shares his new research report on Learning Transfer, in conjunction with Emma Weber, Learning Transfer Specialist, who will share her expertise on how to put these ideas into practice. 

While there has always been a need to show the value of projects, today, there is even greater pressure to show value in terms that executives appreciate. Sometimes that pressure comes before an investment is approved. Other times, there is a need to forecast an ROI based on participant perception of program content. Occasionally, it is important to determine value of a program based on the predictive validity of test data. And, now and then, forecasting ROI on improved proficiency with critical skills is a useful pursuit as it helps demonstrate value in mathematical terms, when those all-important business measures are unavailable.

In his new book, Blindspots: The Hidden Killer of Sales Coaching, sales coach, trainer and author (The Funnel Principle) Mark Sellers exposes a universal problem facing sales leaders - they all have blindspots.  The fundamental problem with blindspots is they prevent leaders from creating emotional connections.  As a result, leaders don’t get everything their people have to give, and performance and results are compromised.    

With the nation-wide move to have employees work from home to limit social distancing in response to the Coronavirus pandemic, many managers are faced with virtually managing their employees for the first time. Already 50 percent of today’s employees work virtually as of 2020 and many more would like to. Thirty-six percent of employees would give up a pay raise for the ability to work remotely; forty percent would be willing to take a pay cut for that option.    

Flexible work systems have been in operation for years, but now that so many workers are being forced to transition to work-from-home arrangements because of the novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak, it’s imperative to be as prepared as possible to deliver results while working remotely. With today’s advancements in technology and digital tools and resources readily available, it’s suggested that many employees can now work in any place, at any time, with no problems. The primary goal is to plan your work and work your plan to achieve results. The secondary goal is to continue remote working when the panic is over.

Coronavirus is causing many businesses to re-think how they do training and forcing L&D professionals to rapidly move to more virtual and online solutions. How are businesses facing these challenges?

Video is a unique beast. It’s more engaging than a training manual, but sharing it on your LMS (or worse, on YouTube) can create problems. It helps you scale your training worldwide, but every new recording is a pain to produce. And it would be ideal for just-in-time learning, if only it could be effectively searched.

Branding ourselves as thought leaders and subject matter experts is foundational to driving new business opportunities from LinkedIn.