Success at work often comes down to difficult conversations. Do you wish your learners had a safe way to learn by doing? Imagine the possibilities for leadership, sales, and customer service if your learners could practice high-stakes interpersonal skill. With immersive VR, it's now possible to deliver such training at scale. Powered by a blend of AI and live human interaction, mixed reality VR has become the ideal way to gain essential skills in the workplace. It combines true human intelligence with the consistency, customizability, and scalability of AI, unlocking potential in your workforce and ensuring organizational readiness to perform.

Getting your presentation design off to the right start is essential. PowerPoint templates and masters are the underlying force that ties all your slides together, but so often they are ignored and forgotten.

While L&D departments have been working hard on microlearning, engagement, and other important priorities, something's been brewing just out of sight, and it's exciting. What if learners could access their LMS and participate in learning experiences and simulations via verbal commands and responses to the learning materials? Think of artificial intelligence (AI) interfaces similar to Amazon's Alexa and being able to experience and respond to instructional experiences through voice interaction integrated with learners' mobile devices.  

During this webcast for specific strategies will be taught illustrating coaching strategies that drive talent and how that talent improvement can save organizations money. Often, coaching is viewed as this extra item managers should do time permitted when in fact coaching is now being realized is a great talent and retention tool along with tremendous financial benefits.

There’s much research that shows people remember more from training when visuals are used. Yet you, and everyone else, always experience bullet point hell in most courses.

When your workforce is spread across 100+ locations across the country and beyond, effectively delivering impactful learning experiences can seem like a daunting challenge. That’s why it was critical for USA TODAY NETWORK to implement a world-class talent development solution that would help the organization achieve four key business goals:

We use dozens of metaphors daily to communicate with others. Metaphors are powerful in imparting information and knowledge. But how do we use metaphors in learning design, systems and solutions?  

The end of the year is a traditional time to recognize employees, but how you recognize them will define the difference between boring and exciting, between ineffective and engaging, and inspire greater performance in the coming year.  Join Dr. Bob Nelson, multi-million copy bestselling author (1501 Ways to Reward Employees, The 1001 Recognition & Rewards Fieldbook+) and the world's leading authority on employee recognition, rewards and engagement to discuss creative ways you can recognize your employees this holiday season that goes beyond a glass of eggnog at the holiday office party. 

Join Lou Russell and her friends for a different kind of webinar. We'll be having a party, playing games, building treats, celebrating all holidays of December and spreading peace and love (yes, Lou was a teen in the 70s).

A diabolical aspect of overload and busy-ness is that it always feels like our fault. Your talented team may continuously feel a sense of free-floating guilt; like if they could only find the right podcast or filing system then the tidal wave could be tamed.   That’s not what our research shows, we studied busyness, and we found no less than thirty-three unique sources of pressure each cascading down one upon the other and eventually onto you. These forces are in fact combatable through the power of organizing a professional culture around a simplification mindset and then using that context to enter a new level of organizational logic.

Are you new to learning and development, or perhaps coming from a world of training and starting to consider the need to deliver and track training online for the first time. Whether you are new to eLearning or just new to tracking the data from learning, the mysterious and often awkward world of the Learning Management System (LMS) can seem daunting and impossible to navigate.

Are your sales reps operating in a crowded marketplace where prospects are more rapidly becoming more knowledgeable and competitors more aggressive?  In environments like these, it's easier than ever for your sales team and product messages to get lost in the noise. 

By now, it’s more than likely that you know that each time you use your phone, computer or tablet, whatever app you’re using is collecting data about you and how you use that application. This is exactly how platforms, such as Netflix, serve up suggested content based on your past viewing activities.

If you think finding a needle in a haystack is difficult, try finding an e-learning program that holds people’s attention and affects behavior change. Now there’s a challenge! We know too much lecture is a no-no, yet most live-online learning programs are lecture heavy and interactive-light.

Traditional video has become an important and engaging component of training programs. That said, while it’s a fantastic tool for learning, it is still often limited to the linear path or story that it shares. People can watch video, but they can’t control it themselves. But what if L&D professionals created a more immersive world for learners by giving them the ability to explore anything and everything around them? That more interactive video experience is possible now with 360-degree video.

Searching for a way to make those videos more engaging? Trying to stop rampant cheating among trainees? Join Adobe eLearning Evangelist, Dr. Allen Partridge for this step by step session to learn how to use Adobe Captivate 2019 to rapidly produce amazing training in a fraction of the usual time. Quickly converting video projects into engaging, interactive projects that enhance learning and improve retention.

PowerPoint graphs and charts are an excellent way to show information visually, allowing an audience to see the trend or result straight away.  

Artificial intelligence-based robots are already being "trained" by instructional videos in industries such as food services and manufacturing. And thanks to consumer products such as Amazon’s "Alexa," workers are not only comfortable with, but embrace interactive chatbot technology. Tech-based organizations and educational institutions are partnering to create these edu-bots. And it’s coming to the corporate training world.

Wait, what? Engaging compliance training? Compliance learning is traditionally seen as a laborious, boring and painful process that learners must endure. But it doesn't have to be!

Learn the importance of investing in front-line people leaders, who, when well prepared, can help you bring your business to the next level.

Problem - Employees are going overboard, leaving companies at a faster pace than ever before. You work so hard to recruit the right talent and yet 1/3 of employees quit their jobs in just the first six months! One major factor in this is lack of great onboarding.  Companies fail to realize the need to reinforce the "buying decision" - yes, onboarding is a key time for new associates to determine if they made the right choice or not.

Sales and Marketing teams exist in highly competitive, ever-shifting environments. Determining your teams’ focus can be a game changer and help set the stage for immediate and long-term WINS.   

One of the biggest challenges faced by organizations is generating consistent buy-in from trainees in the face of constant distractions and competing priorities. There are a variety of methods that can be used both to communicate the importance of training materials to the team, and to increase their likelihood to complete and retain the ideas and information from the training.

The virtual environment is rapidly changing, and participant expectations are high. Are you keeping up with new ways to communicate and connect with your audience? Are you presenting yourself as a virtual professional?