Adding interactions to your eLearning courses can make them interesting and engaging for learners. But it can be time-consuming, and to some extent, challenging as well.  

Compliance courses are the first line of defense for companies to comply with regulatory demands. Over time, billions of dollars have been invested in compliance courses. Unfortunately, most of the compliance learning stop at just "checking for completion" and don’t help to truly impact avoidance and savings from possible catastrophic events - for example, deaths, loss of customers, damaged equipment and many others.   

98% of companies say they offer employee development tools, but only 26% of employees say they see their companies programs as being effective. How do we better connect our learning and development programs to create the experiences employees seek? Join us to discover the latest insights into what today’s employees are demanding--like career planning, fulfillment through connections, belonging and goal attainment. Then learn more about the best practices and tools needed to create effective employee development programs.   

Infographics are great tools to convey complex information in an elegant way. They can be the basis of engaging classroom training, interactive eLearning, or intuitive resources. And you can repurpose them for sales, marketing, HR, and conferences. But, creating a good infographic can be hard. You don't want it to just be nicely designed bullet points. To be effective, it must tell a story.

You want to be more coach-like. Your organization is expecting it, and you can see how this will elevate your leadership to the next level. But it's difficult. Even with the best of intentions, you slip back into telling people what to do: it just feels faster and easier to do it like that. 

"Restructure." What a scary word, especially when you’re the one managing the process. The reality is, restructuring your team might be one of the most rewarding things you do in your career. You have the opportunity to reinvent your team and make their daily lives easier and more productive.

Authoring an eLearning course from scratch can be a daunting task with myriad of tasks like designing the user interface, screen layouts, interactions, and choosing the color scheme, images, characters and icons to go with it. And then hours and hours of developing the animations and interactions!  

When hiring a salesperson, things are not always what they appear. They’re quick to tell you about the companies they’ve worked with or all the contacts they’ll bring. They may even have some positive numbers from their past. You might think you’re hiring a rainmaker, but if you’re not careful, all you'll get are storm clouds. 

It’s Q4. Your sales team is down to the wire, looking for last-minute opportunities to close. But prospecting and closing business around the holidays presents a challenge. What can your sales reps say to get people to take their calls, agree to meet, and close a sale with only weeks left in the year?

"Work Made Fun Gets Done" The FISH! Philosophy shows you and your management team how to create a culture where people can’t wait to come to work and be their best--a culture with people looking to make a difference for their customers and each other. A culture that nurtures flawless execution of work, promotes teamwork and is fulfilling and fun. The FISH! Philosophy is based on the book FISH! and the fishmongers at the World-Famous Pike Place Fish Market in Seattle, Washington. The fish market is one of the most profitable retail spaces in America. Yet it is located right near three other fish markets that sell the same fish for the same price. The market doesn’t trade on product or price; they trade on creating unique customer experiences. The fishmongers at the market work in a culture where they bring passion, energy and enthusiasm to work every day.

Micro-credentialing is a great way to track upskilling and certification for learners within organizations. This session will cover how micro-credentialing supports ongoing professional development and personalized learning pathways as it pertains to progress, accomplishments, and skills. Learn how other organizations are leveraging open badges to address the skills gap challenge.

You may be thinking, "A goldmine? Where is my goldmine?"  Have you created a website, blog, newsletter, manual, marketing materials, photos, audio/videos?

It’s almost Halloween. Let’s conjure up the training tricksters, presentation poltergeists and meeting monsters that spark terror in the hearts of most stalwart trainers, facilitators and team leaders: the creatures of the classroom.  

With quickly evolving technologies and a consumer-centric culture that can find, purchase, and receive what they need within 24 hours, learning professionals need to keep pace. We can't expect our workforce to learn how to repair a leaky pipe on YouTube within minutes at home and then come to work to view a 90-minute eLearning module to find out about a software update. But what's more, today's workforce wants to know WHY they need to learn, they want context, they want to know the purpose.

Agile learning carries the promise of producing more skilled, efficient, and effective sales teams. Yet because it can be difficult to quickly assess its business impact, sales leaders often underestimate the ROI potential of putting an agile model into place. Most limit their tracking of sales training activities to easy-to-gather activity metrics like usage or adoption, or how a recent training directly contributed to closing a deal.

What makes training stick? What makes any presentation transformational? How do you give attendees an experience, rather than just a training presentation? Learn 5 BIG ideas that you can incorporate into any training.

In most disciplines, Adobe Photoshop is the defacto standard when it comes to image editing and creation. This mature product has a lot features built-in that have made it the most popular tool for eLearning professionals. However, it can be difficult to keep up with some of the newest features in all the releases. There are filters and features built into Photoshop that a lot of eLearning professionals don't know about.  

Poor listening skills, which often manifest as a lack of empathy, are at the core of most workplace conflicts. Whether it's leadership, HR, sales, or customer service, many assume that emotional intelligence is an inherent skill and can’t be taught. New VR technology is proving otherwise.

Join Lou Russell and her friends for a different kind of webinar.  We’ll be having a party, playing games, building treats, celebrating ghosts, and telling scary training stories. 

People are fractured. Our audience must navigate competing, often real-time demands with fewer resources. Efficiency becomes critical. For this reason, participants lose interest and refocus on other problems—if they aren’t engaged. That is a big problem because no one learns if they aren’t engaged. 

There’s now an amazing array of innovative learning technologies and media approaches available, but each comes with a different value set for our learners and organizations. Some seem exciting, most seem complex, and some just sound like hype. Do you ever wonder if, and how, you should be using them? 

In today's fast-paced world, rapid development can be the key to your e-learning success. Rise allows you to create beautiful, responsive courses using just a browser. Courses look gorgeous on PC, tablet, and phone with NO programming knowledge needed! In my first session, you saw the basics of how to create and publish beautiful and engaging e-learning using Articulate 360 Rise. The perfect tool for the accidental e-learning instructional designer! In this session we will pick up where we left off and tackle a few of the more advanced features of Rise.  

Your employees are distracted, burnt out and overwhelmed! But you need to train. Games are the solution. Gamified training engages learners, increases attention, improves confidence and, ultimately, drives success. The Game Agency has invited Harry Friedman, Emmy® Award-winning Executive Producer of Jeopardy!Ⓡ and Wheel of Fortune to discuss how the Jeopardy! format is perfect for assessing knowledge. Christina Lorenzo of CHEST will demonstrate how she uses simulation games to train pulmonologists.

We've heard stories about how artificial intelligence is taking over all kinds of industries, from legal to aerospace. Fear not, the Jetsons aren't about to fly off with your training department. But there are some ways that AI can help you deliver a more customized, curated learning experience to your employees.