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?

In this webinar, Scott Blanchard, bestselling business author and Executive Vice President with The Ken Blanchard Companies takes an inside look at the latest research on hiring, training, and developing leaders.

If you are new or with some experience in instructional design, it is highly probable that you have been learning from very old ideas about training and learning. These are traditional learning habits, costly processes and antiquated skills. Before you embrace and unknowingly take the plunge, consider today's business realities that are considerably different from that of 5, 10, 20 or even 50 years ago. May I recommend that you take a fast-forward approach to today's instructional design demands and challenges. Be current. Stay relevant. Add value. Benefit from the rewards.

Wherever we are in the learning and talent development space, we are performance consultants, with or without the "performance consultant" label. This session explores how performance consulting has been integrated into the learning and talent development field. It will also define specific roles, particularly in the four major phases of the learning and talent development cycle.

Is your learning and development budget missing some zeros? This session is for you. Sadly, Oprah isn't going to attend and give everyone a new bank account. But you will get boatloads of budget-stretching ideas from your colleagues during this interactive session. You can still provide a great learning environment, even if you're running short on funds!

Voice user experiences, like Alexa, Google, Cortana, and Siri, becoming as prolific as laptops, smartphones, and tablets. Learning professionals need to start exploring ways to effectively incorporate voice technology into the learning ecosystem. Designing for voice interaction can be intimidating because the tech is so new. How do we translate our existing skills in order to create engaging voice learner experiences?

There is a lot hype these days about "Modern This" and "Modern That." What does Modern Selling even mean? And what is Modern Learning? And how can you get past the hype and combine these modern maxims to improve sales performance and deliver profitable growth for your company?

In order to design, develop, and deliver effective learning experiences, we need to understand who our learners are - what their learning goals are, what learning preferences they have, where they go to learn, and what challenges they face when learning. We also need a way to articulate these characteristics of our learners across all teams involved in the design process.