Soft skills programs should perform and deliver results just like other learning programs. If the program is designed to drive business impact, then it should drive business impact. From the impact, the ROI can be calculated. Professionals involved in soft skills programs must be prepared to step up to the challenge of showing the value of major programs and initiatives, not only when impact and ROI are requested, but ideally before the request is made. Five levels of outcomes exist for every soft skills program, which represents a chain of value (reaction, learning, application, impact, and ROI). The challenge is to decide which programs are evaluated at impact and ROI.  

Discover how to create full-screen images for your slides using almost ANY photo you already have. Instead of wasting time searching for the perfect image, use these Photoshop magic tricks inside of PowerPoint to create it instead. This makes for great title slides, divider slides, and content slides.

Click and reveal interactions are quite common in Adobe Captivate.  We will look at two ways of creating great looking click and reveal slides with forced navigation.

Connecting with prospects in today’s climate requires a creative approach to events. Join prospect-attraction authority Kendra Lee and create a blueprint for planning and hosting webinars that attract new prospects and start conversations during these turbulent times. She’ll share how to create and promote a webinar that attracts prospects and digitally engages your community during turbulent times.

We all know video is powerful for individual learning. And, we all know culture is powerful in creating organizational agility, continuous learning, and employee engagement. But what happens when you put the two together, and start using video as a lever to move the culture?

Across industries and functions, soft skills are a clear differentiator in individual and team performance. They are both rare and valuable because they typically require real experience (mistakes, failure and reflection) to master and apply on the job. But how can learners practice high-stakes interpersonal situations in a safe and efficient fashion? Powered by a blend of AI and live human interaction, human-in-the-loop VR simulation has become the ideal way to gain essential skills in the workplace. It combines true human intelligence with AI in order to unlock empathic potential in your workforce and ensure organizational readiness to perform. Practice is authentic and spontaneous while cost-effective and scalable. 

An alarming number of organizations report that the half-life of a typical skill is continuing to dwindle. In a landscape of ever-escalating training requirements and ever shrinking lifespans for training content, how do we leverage the subject matter experts that we have more effectively?

Human error happens and complex technical systems break. They cause havoc in operations, materials, people, etc. and the subsequent bottomline. The inclination is to play the "blame game" and asking "who is at fault" and "who should be penalized." The problem with this approach  is that it does not address the true picture of why people make mistakes or why complex technical systems break down. The "pointing of the finger" approach wastes energies and valuable learning time. 

This webinar will use the classic claymation, Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer, to explain talent mobility and explore many "what if’s" about talent and potential in the workplace that may, in fact, be right under our noses: What if Santa saw Rudolph’s potential from the start? What if Rudolph was more confident and felt like it was ok to share his uniquenesses?

In these times, it is necessary to go beyond diversity and inclusion (D&I), it should be more than just a policy. In fact, research shows that employees who feel their voice is heard are more likely to perform their best work.  The results of this year’s American Management Association (AMA) Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging Survey confirm that simply having a diversity & inclusion policy in place does not effectively solve the problem of discriminatory practices, whether deliberate or unconscious. A successful culture of belonging requires leadership commitment and involvement, an ongoing practice of inclusion, recognition of unique talents and accomplishments and an environment that fosters respect for openly and authentically sharing thoughts.   

Sales kickoff season is here. Do you know what your meeting will look like this year? Pre-pandemic, you flew your team in to celebrate past successes, train, and motivate everyone for the next twelve months.

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.