Are you taking steps to be at the very top of your field? By expanding your industry knowledge around learning trends, training modalities, brain-science, and delivery tools, you can advance faster. Explore four learning tracks that can lead you to professional certifications and new opportunities.

It's not as intimidating as it sounds! Many organizations are becoming global, and that means your L&D team may eventually span multiple countries and time zones. Managing a global team efficiently requires some change management on the part of L&D leadership. If you are preparing for such a change, this session will provide tips to help you: Facilitate efficient global communication and project planning Structure team meetings so they provide maximum value Create follow-the-sun workflows and recurring tasks that ensure team coordination Structure major global training initiatives Organize a training calendar and course catalogs that cater to multiple worldwide audiences This session is the first part of the three-part "Structured for Success" series facilitated by Adobe's Senior Learning Evangelist, Katrina Marie Baker.

In an age where our executives want everything cheaper, faster and yesterday, we need to do some explaining when the go-to solution to training is, "Just throw it on-line." Whether you conduct classroom training (ILT) synchronous (VILT) or asynchronous training all three, this pragmatic, hands-on session will provide you with tools and techniques to maximize your learners’ on-line or classroom experience.  

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.

As your business evolves into an intelligent enterprise, you’re facing new challenges.  New technology.  Evolving ways of doing business.  More customer data than ever before. When you, your team, and your business are facing these challenges, you need some added support to prepare for transformation that lies ahead.

Deliver Personalization at Scale While Maximizing Learning Impact Today’s learners want meaningful, personalized learning experiences tailored to their interests and needs, both personally and professionally. And yet, organizations are struggling to deliver personalized learning at scale while aligning learning strategy with organizational objectives.

Google Slides is a great presentation development tool that you can get completely for free. But is there such a thing as a free lunch? Can you create credible presentations with Google Slides? Yes, yes you can. Not only that, but you can produce amazing presentations with Google Slides.

Most leadership training and learning are based on the "Look at me" or "Look at them" emulation of best practices. In the real world, learning to lead is about a mixture of skills, attitude and depth of perception. It is challenging and difficult to learn in classroom or in emulation, simulation or lecture and exercises. In this session, Ray will show you experience-based learning using 10 real-life situations that challenge, provoke and inspire learners to learn how to lead.

In this next chapter in our continuing WhiteSpace webinar series, Heather Sager tackles the pernicious problem of meetings and how they gobble up talent capacity and time to work.

Virtual reality training is an amazing way to provide realistic immersion for your learners, and now it's incredibly easy to create this experience with Adobe Captivate 2019. This approach is perfect for orientation, simulations, location and product training. Join Dr. Pooja Jaisingh to learn how to create interactive virtual reality based training using Adobe Captivate.

In the blink of an eye, video has become the go-to medium for delivering employee training at scale. However, while working with video has traditionally been complex, expensive, and time-consuming, recent advances have dramatically simplified the process of capturing, managing, and sharing it.

It's time to tell the world about your award-winning training! How does your organization stack up? Applying for Training magazine's 2020 Training Top 125 awards program will benchmark the excellence and effectiveness of your employee training and development.

The perception of learning programs in your organization is a fundamental factor in determining the success of those initiatives. That perception begins with past experiences, and if you are working to enhance and improve outcomes, that sometimes means you have a big uphill climb just to encourage participation. Learning programs and initiatives can benefit from many of the principles of effective change management - among those is the importance of effectively communicating the importance and purpose of the program - from the perspective of the participants.

Across industries and functions, soft skills are a clear differentiator in individual and team performance. They are both rare and valuable because they require real experience (mistakes, failure and reflection) to master and reach higher on Bloom's taxonomy. But how can your learners practice high-stakes interpersonal situations in a safe and efficient fashion?

Research shows that as much as 90% of professional learning is informal and experiential, taking place out in the world and not in a classroom. It's what people do every day in their personal lives when they access content from sites like Google, YouTube, Yelp, and TripAdvisor. Yet companies are ignoring how employees intuitively learn and forcing them to train in the exact opposite way.

The transition from individual contributor to manager can be a daunting task. A survey by CEB, now Gartner, revealed that more than 50% of new managers fail. Balancing new responsibilities while learning how to lead former peers is a common challenge that most first-time managers struggle to overcome.

Those of us who want to keep our jobs and reputations need to protect our clients from risks, including running afoul of copyright and trademark laws - like "Fair Use" - when creating training materials.

Research shows that the virtual classroom offers certain natural benefits and barriers. To get the best outcomes when using the virtual classroom, you need to design to maximize the benefits and minimize the barriers. With Deeper Learning At Work experts Patti Shank and Karen Hyder, you'll learn what research tells us are critical strategies for deeper learning in the virtual classroom.

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?

UberEats and McDonald's now use drones for food delivery. Alexa and Google Assistant are now regarded as significant "assisting companions" for both home and office. These are just examples of business and operations digitalization happening across all industries including government and non-profit entities.

It's no secret that it's an employee's job market. With U.S. unemployment rates hovering below 4%, it's harder than ever to hire the talent you need today—and harder still to hold onto the people you have. Take control of the situation! Build a Culture of Recognition & Engagement where employees want to work for your organization because they feel connected to your mission, valued by their managers and supported by everyone—from co-workers to top management.

Fast forward eLearning as the new update to Adobe Captivate (2019 release) offers ease to beginners and speed to professionals, for creating everything eLearning, using just one tool.

Every year U.S. companies spend more than $90 billion dollars on training and development. Yet training managers continually feel pressure to do more with less — to achieve ever-more impactful results without corresponding increases to budgets.

Learners don't always want to sit through a formal training course, or, more usually, simply don't have the time. Microlearning is a great way to deliver just what people need, when they need it, to maximize effectiveness. But, as a learning professional, how do you create it?