Organizations that leverage learning beyond traditional on-boarding and compliance training reap the rewards of a more engaged, more skilled and more productive workforce. But, getting today’s distracted, impatient and busy learners to participate in learning activities isn’t easy. In fact, according to Bersin, 64% of employees aren’t even aware of what is available in their LMS.

In this new workshop, which is based on sales principles in Selling to the C-Suite and social selling strategies from The New Handshake: Sales Meets Social Media, professional salespeople learn to integrate the use of social selling skills and business intelligence tools into the sales process to develop, maintain and leverage relationships with C-Suite executives. 

Have you ever needed to: Implement complex systems or functional upgrades? Train thousands of users? Develop what feels like endless content? Set up and maintain costly live training environments? Support rapidly changing processes and training material? Adhere to stringent language and data privacy requirements? Implement just-in-time training?  

Employee work patterns, development preferences, and access to technology, along with the ever-changing and accelerating business climate, have altered how employees obtain new knowledge and skills.

Thiagi continues to explore techniques for making training design faster, cheaper, and better. In this session, he demonstrates how to locate existing content resources (both archived and live) and wrap them inside effective and engaging learning activities. This approach saves the time and resources that are unnecessarily wasted in rediscovering the training content. By using validated templates for the activities, this technique also speeds up the design process.

Does your LMS leave your employees dazed and confused?  Are you struggling to capture the attention of your global employee base?  Would you like your training to be more interactive and engaging?  Join this webinar to learn 7 best practices for using virtual learning environments to:   Provide a more intuitive, engaging training experience Add social and mobile learning to your training arsenal Use gamification to attract and motivate your learners

Simplifying learning content cuts learning curves and speeds up performance on the job. However, most complex, technical and compliance learning content remain to be inaccessible for learners to use and learn from. Consequently, learners grow frustrated and waste their time and energy trying to learn complex ideas. In this webinar, you will understand the rules of simplicity by using RULES in designing and delivering content.

Companies spend huge sums to develop leaders, but neglect their writing. For many, writing will be the roadblock that prevents them from advancing. The truth is that as a leader, you spend precious time making your e-mail messages and reports reflect your hard-earned leadership skills. Are you using the latest writing strategies to distinguish yourself as a leader and influence corporate culture? Are you modeling reader-centered writing to drive outcomes—to make writing an asset rather than a drain?

Video is a unique beast. It’s more engaging than a training manual, but it’s a pain to record and produce. It helps you scale your training worldwide, but it can bog down your corporate network. It’s a great solution for mLearning, except when it’s incompatible with employees’ devices. And it’s ideal for just-in-time learning, if only it could be effectively searched.

All roads lead to an executive.  Have you ever had to share information with an executive and wondered if what you put together was effective?  Whether it’s a funding decision or communicating the value of a training program, it’s critical to be able to effectively communicate information to tell your story.  The methods you use to communicate can make or break your message and potentially impact your results.

The Kirkpatrick® Model is the most-used training evaluation model in the world. This does not, however, mean that it is always implemented correctly. What does misapplication put at risk? The image that training holds in many organizations, the future of your training department and, ultimately, your job.

Barbara Giamanco, one of the first evangelists of leveraging social media in sales, wakes you up to the reality of selling in today’s digitally driven marketplace. Buyer behavior has changed with CEB reporting that customers do early stage research on products, people and companies 57% of the time before engaging sales. This shift in buyer behavior and expectations heightens the need for salespeople to implement a social selling strategy to achieve measurable results. The problem is that many sellers are using social selling tactics to short-cut the selling process leading to wasted time and no solid ROI.

This webinar looks at how long it takes to create elearning courses. What are the main factors which drive development schedules and extend or compress timescales?

Are you tasked with creating a certification program? Training Magazine’s Annual Salary Survey trends say that 24% of survey respondents intend to create a certification for their employees, leaders, suppliers, vendors, or customers.

Many learning specialists and leaders have very limited time to plan and organize regular and scheduled formal coaching sessions. Instead coaching is done in micro events - as needed, as it happens, in conversations and usually in combination with Web tools and mobile devices. In these situations, micro-coaching becomes the only link between learners and workers and their leaders or trainers. The success of micro-coaching, therefore, leads to better performance.

If you are just getting started in eLearning, or just starting to need to track and report the results of quizzes and learning interactions, the world of Learning Management Systems and other solutions for course deployment and tracking can seem overwhelming. Join Dr. Allen Partridge, Sr. Adobe eLearning Evangelist, for this kinder and gentler introduction to basic concepts in Learning Management. 

Join Dr. Pooja Jaisingh, Sr. Adobe eLearning Evangelist, to hear about her experiences at Training 2016 Conference about the new learning trends, session highlights, expo buzz, and being a part of the technology test kitchen. She will also discuss why storyboards are a must for creating eLearning courses and how you can save tons of time by starting with a storyboard instead of jumping right into eLearning course development.

Delivering learning to employees is only the first key step in improving performance. Employees have to retain the gains in knowledge and skill, or the time, energy and effort that went into the program was for nothing - wasted.

Does your personal expectation of learning align with how you learned 10, 20, or even 30 years ago?  Of course not.  Because you are a modern learner!  You have a choice in how you learn, and so do the learners you're developing and designing training content for.

Learning trends sound great conceptually; yet provide a myriad of challenges when putting them into action.  Come join us for this very unique event where you are part of the experience, either creating and/or observing application of important learning innovations, including:

The #1 challenge salespeople face is getting to their decision-makers quickly. Seasoned reps recognize that getting a meeting before clients know they have a need is even more critical. Some people say it takes seven to 12 touches to reach prospects. Is that how you want your team spending their time?

What happens when you fit every employee in your company into one of two divisions: sales or sales support? Suddenly, everyone knows his or her "real" job is to create customer and coworker experiences that drive sales. This shift in perception will drive every decision your employees make. Michael Houlihan and Bonnie Harvey built the iconic Barefoot Wine (a top global brand) using this simple business structure. 

As L&D professionals, we strive to create and implement learning and development solutions that equip leaders, managers, and individual contributors to perform at their best. Despite the fact that we know training events on their own aren’t enough to ensure lasting performance improvement, it is easy to get caught up in the pressure to push out programs quickly while neglecting the factors that dictate whether the learn­ing will improve performance. Genuinely enhancing individual and organizational results requires leveraging best practices for successful implementation.

This event featuring coaching thought leader Tim Hagen will cover very specific strategies associated with the art of engagement. Participants in this session will emerge understanding the Four Levels of Engagement and how training leaders and their managers utilize these principles to foster greater trust, talent development, and employee retention.