You asked for it, and we’re giving it to you. New PowerPoint tips, tricks and application uses. Stand out in your next meeting or training session and amaze your colleagues with new skills. This interactive webinar is a must for any PowerPoint user.

Deciding to use skills can be an important and strategic part of enabling your organization to understand where your bench strength is strong and where you may need to train.  Having skills can help to do this but where do you start?  

Technology has not only impacted the way we think, it has also shifted into high gear how we receive and consume information. This plays out across all divisions of business, and sales and service organizations are no exception. Embracing new technologies, and accommodating personal learning styles, generational expectations, and varying skill levels, requires a comprehensive learning approach -- one that combines traditional and modern modalities that fit your company, your team and your culture. 

According to a recent CSO Insights’ study, 60% of participants report a ramp-up time of greater than or equal to 7 months. In 2003, this number was only 40%.

Valentine’s Day may be coming, but many organizations are not feeling the love when it comes to their learning technology. In fact, according to Brandon Hall Group’s 2016 Learning Technology Study, 44% of companies are actively looking to replace their existing learning management system (LMS).

The modern employee has 1% of their week to focus on training. What can they do with that roughly 24 minutes a week? Turns out, a lot.

Many learning professionals say: "I’d love to add stories and storytelling in my lessons, but they are long, tedious and hard to do, not counting the fact that it’s costly."

Delivering a live training session or presentation may only be one responsibility among the many that you as a subject matter expert, manager, or trainer have in your organization. So when it is necessary to share you expertise and help develop the skills of others by conducting live training, are you using the "spray and pray technique" - spraying your participants with information and praying that it sticks?

Does your onboarding program leave your employees energized and excited? Or do they see it as a boring required chore? Would you like your new hire onboarding to be more interactive and engaging?

Effective training faces an uphill battle when individuals are unready to learn and content is not optimized for the audience.  In these circumstances, not only do you risk wasting precious training time, but the overall training objectives simply may not be met. 

Go to any bookstore and look for the leadership section.  There are a ton of resources for growing leadership because it is TOUGH WORK.

LinkedIn is rolling out it biggest design change in its 14-year history. If you don't have it yet, you will soon.  Join LinkedIn expert Kurt Shaver as he reveals the new features along with which of your old favorites are disappearing. 

Gamification, Microlearning and digital motivation are the hottest topics in learning, but they require good design, especially if repetition is to be implemented. The good news is that new tools are available that enable the flexibility to implement gamification and microlearning in ways that align with scientific research on learning—including in mobile-learning applications. 

Join Dr. Allen Partridge for this practical session including demonstrations and samples of popular gamification techniques to make your eLearning courses more engaging.

What if the training you deliver in the virtual classroom was so vibrant and compelling that people clamored to attend your sessions? Your ability to connect with, engage, and stimulate the thinking of your participants is directly linked to your understanding of the neuroscience of learning. Our brains ignore what is predictable and boring. This webinar explore the brain’s needs for novelty, contrast, meaning, and emotion to capture and keep attention online. Increase novelty by creatively using relevant games and problems. Enhance contrast by incorporating a variety of facilitation techniques. Build meaningful connections with collaborative, social learning approaches. Harness learner emotion with storytelling frames.

When's the last time you looked something up on YouTube? ...Don't you think your Learners might be doing this too? In the last decade, YouTube has given us TED Talks, Khan Academy classes, explainer videos, tons of bite-sized science, and taught us how to fix pretty much anything. But the platform's features are ever-changing and not well understood by those in the professional learning field. Even while we personally enjoy its content, many of us still regard YouTube with fear, and miss out on all the opportunities it presents.

More companies are demanding shorter and faster learning from trainers, designers and virtual presenters.

Ever feel like a rubber band that’s ready to pop? Then YOU must be a department of one! The good news is that you CAN do it. Learn strategies and tips to help move you from feeling "over done" to "can be done!"

Since the first Training Conference was held 40 years ago, almost everything has changed--especially learners brains being so overload that they now expect "just-in-time, just-for-me, just-enough learning". In this highly interactive webinar, Ann Herrmann-Nehdi will share highlights from her upcoming session at Training 2017 drawing on more than 35 years of research on thinking and learning, along with new studies and real-world examples, to show you how to build engaging "just for me" learning experiences - especially webinars--while extending the learning cycle using brain-friendly approaches. You’ll discover how to artfully navigate learner needs to keep ahead of a changing world while facing an ever increasing load on their brains.

How often have you attended really boring webinars? And when did you last participate in a truly engaging webinar and said, "Wow, I was engaged and time flew by quickly"?

Given the nature of today’s workplace, instantaneous access to information, and pressure to meet the ever-escalating expectations of customers & shareholders, leaders juggle an unprecedented number of priorities.  Productivity and performance. Costs. Employee engagement. Quality. Scarce resources. Retention. Yet, research suggests that if leaders can address one key priority particularly well, the rest follow.  And that ‘meta-priority’ is career development.  Study after study links career development to employee satisfaction, engagement, retention, productivity, and even revenue and profitability. 

Employees who understand the science behind personal change:   Accelerate their careers Secure their job Save struggling relationships Lose weight, get fit and stick with it Become financially stable Break free of addictions

"I have no time for learning and training.", "Must I attend this training?" We hear the complaints of learners. But what are we doing about it? Many studies and experts tell us that training and learning must focus on improving performance. However, performance improvement has always been a nebulous or difficult goal to achieve through training and learning programs. Bersin by Deloitte has released a recent study showing that training programs rank the lowest in the list that learners use to obtain knowledge to improve work. The highest source of knowledge is from connections within the organization.

PowerPoint is the basis for much of the training material you use, and yet it’s text-heavy, dull, and boring. See how you can revolutionize your presentations and other training material using visuals, diagrams, and animated sequences, with some helpful how-to guides, and a collection of awesome PowerPoint tricks, plus a free PowerPoint toolkit to kick start your efforts for everyone that attends.