New technology has drastically changed the way we learn, and employers are incorporating it frequently to more effectively engage their learners and reduce the time and costs of training.  In the coming year, we’ll continue to see companies rapidly adopting new, innovative forms of learning. 

The market is changing fast, and jobs are being reinvented every 3-5 years. The problem is, we can’t go back to school every 3-5 years because it’s time consuming and expensive. Combined with people’s changing workplace expectations, we find ourselves in a new working world with a different set of employee engagement challenges.

Wouldn’t it be great if you could create training material quickly and easily without having to spend a whole lot of time and money designing your assets from scratch, or having someone do them for you? Have no fear: Kid Captivate is back for another, more advanced round of Adobe Captivate 9 magic. 

If you're a busy mentor, trainer, manager or leader, then developing a strong coaching habit can help you work less hard and have more impact.

Gallup and others claim that in spite of an improved economy, only 32% of your employees are engaged!  This webinar can best be described as a paradigm shift in engagement circles... and based on feedback, you might experience your own personal journey of self-reflection and self-discovery. You'll gain a better understanding of how you can help leaders boost engagement within their organizations through greater personal accountability at the employee level.

In this training, presentation expert and PowerPoint MVP Ellen Finkelstein will model engaging webinar training for you while showing you the principles so you can use them yourself. There are many advantages of webinars over live training but one disadvantage is how easy it is for people to multitask. 

Join Jesse Novak in exploring the possibilities of Gamification and creating a fun learning culture in your organization and knowing why this works.

The main skill of trainers and designers is to impart knowledge. But reflect upon this: Do you simply explain content and bore learners to death or do you generate enthusiasm and engagement with a story? How do you distinguish what your true style is?

As organizations strive to address their clients’ critical business issues, T&D professionals play a vital role in creating and implementing talent development solutions for their organizations. In a recent study by Deloitte LLP, human capital strategy is seen by many CEOs as one of the top priorities for growth, presenting an exciting opportunity for learning professionals. To address this crucial role of connecting talent development to an organization’s complex growth strategies, T&D must strategically go beyond the need expressed by one person, one department, or one executive and help to define what the business truly needs. After all, no one needs training . . . they need the outcomes of training.

Whether online or in the classroom, you’ve felt the pain. Training so lecture laden that you wish you had a magic wand to make it all go away!  

How can you strategically innovate your training so that your learners develop new knowledge faster, become more deeply engaged, and have a greater impact? Emerging technologies are providing many new and different approaches for designing and delivering training ... but where to get started?

Learning analytics is changing learning and development (L&D) departments dramatically, and the departments that effectively leverage analytic processes will create substantial competitive advantage for their organizations.  This webinar focuses on defining new measurement needs and describing new analytic solutions that can dramatically boost the impact of talent development programs.  John will share insights based on CEB research and best practices formulated while deploying world-class learning analytics tools.  

In 2013 TechSmith ran a study with 1900 participants to learn more about video viewer preferences and what attributes make for effective videos. During 2016, TechSmith conducted follow-up research to see how these views have changed over the last several years as video has become more prevalent and more widely used.

An effective learning management system (LMS) engages your workforce, reduces training costs and elevates skills to maximize productivity. But if your system isn’t optimal, it’s not delivering these benefits.

Opening channels for collaborative communication is critical in today’s ever-changing work place.  Employers and managers risk drowning out valuable input and alienating employees if they simply push information out and dictate direction.  However, providing and managing invitations to participate can be challenging.  In other words, moving from monologue to dialog is necessary, yet difficult.  You must balance presenting clear information concisely - that is, commanding the room -- with facilitating input and innovation - in other words, collaborating creatively.

Scenarios have been with us for so many years. Yet, a significant number of designers and trainers use these as a memorization tool or branching exercise. They forget that scenarios are supposed to recreate life situations.

Leadership support is critical to the success of a training program, but many are challenged in building that bridge and actually gaining the support that is necessary.

The 2016 Online Learning Conference is nearly here! The conference is loaded with great keynotes, xFactor experiences in Chicago, in-depth certificate programs, diverse breakouts, hands-on clinics and lots more.

Join Jesse Novak as he covers all the existing and new features in Adobe Captivate Prime.     

Join Dr. Allen Partridge, Sr. Adobe eLearning Evangelist, to learn how to set up and manage Adobe Captivate Prime LMS, in just 90 minutes. During this session, you will see a quick demonstration of adding users, creating modules, and assigning courses to the learners. You will learn how to leverage the gamification elements, badges, learning plans, certifications, and learning programs in Adobe Captivate Prime, to foster a learning culture in your organization. You will also learn about the unique learner experience and the different reporting and tracking options available in this self-service LMS.

If modern technology is so groovy, why do so many webinars put people to sleep faster than "The Monotone Silence" Symphony? Often, instructors neglect their participants’ learning needs. In this fun and interactive session, Pluth models activities and principles that convey content through a webinar format while keeping learners engaged, no matter the size of the audience. You’ll get to the CORE of Webinars with Super Closer, Openers, Revisiters, and Energizers.

Is your virtual classroom viewed as just a cost-cutting measure? Prior to 2013, the SAP sales organization utilized virtual and blended learning, but without an integrated strategy. Learn how in 2013 they introduced GCO University Virtual Live Classroom program, serving over 15,000 sales and sales-related employees globally and changed from a perception of "yet another online training program" to a core value in learning plans with an integrated approached and consistent, quality instructional design.

Once upon a time, learners attended full-week workshops. They had others who backed them up so they could be fully focused on the learning.  When they returned, their boss and team expected them to be competent in the new things learned, and begin using them immediately. 

Just a year or so ago, inclusion meant ensuring equal representation related to gender, ethnicity, race, and sexual orientation. But today, driven by the large numbers of millennials in the workforce, inclusion has come to mean something different. Increasingly, employees are calling for cognitive inclusion (CI), or the full acceptance of the whole person and their unique set of attributes and perspectives within the organization. In this interactive webinar, we'll explore recent research documenting the rise of CI and provide strategies for taking your inclusion strategies to the next level.