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?

We all know how important clear goals are to management. We sometimes forget they’re not enough. If you want an employee base that brings their best, they need more than goals - they need access to resources, and they need to be able to perceive their own progress along the way.

You can keep taking your best guesses on how best to engage your team, your bosses and your customers ... or you could understand the science behind what really makes the difference. The science of the brain is the cutting-edge of the art of management. The Neuroscience of Engagement webinar shares insights and strategies that help us raise our game.

eLearning and most technology assisted learning are data dumps or glorified PowerPoint presentations. Even those we call as gamification and virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) solutions try to force learners to learn content - but not how to learn or think critically and creatively. The consequence of the lack of thinking in learning is that many workers are unable to deal with problems at work that require dealing with exceptions, deviations, uncertainties and rapid change of knowledge and skills. Most training stops in learning content. What is needed is for learners to "think critically."

Best practices for experiential learning programs are evolving. How can you initiate, or improve upon, this proven method? This session will address: What is experiential learning? When to employ it … and when not to:             o   Participants are proficient in their own area but need better context, execution experience             o   Cost of employee error is high (participants can’t ‘experiment’ on the job)             o   Colleagues need to get to know each other (global, siloed, departmentalized)             o   When to employ it -- Experiential learning generally takes time and is not optimal for simply teaching                   a single technical subject (how to do lease accounting, how to prevent computer hacking)

Microlearning - if you're not doing it already, getting started can seem daunting. In this session, we'll take a look at how 2 microlearning thought leaders faced the toughest challenge yet: create a microlearning program for L&D professionals with no time, and no budget.

"The writing is the hardest part."  That’s a frequent comment when L&D professionals discuss how we develop training materials. How do you find words that resonate with your learners—words that say enough but not too much—creative words that are "corporate" too—words that keep it simple while building complexity?

Employee engagement and recognition are the most important human resource issues in organizations today. Employees of different backgrounds spanning four generations have a direct influence on the customers they serve daily. As such, it is important for employers to maximize the full potential of their workforce with proper forms of recognition within a platform of engagement. Learn how to create a culture of engagement and recognition, regardless of the size or type of business you are in.