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?

As senior business leaders focus on shrinking performance gaps and skill shortages to execute upon business strategies, they’re also driving their L&D functions to be more strategic.  In September and October 2015, TRAINING Magazine and Wilson Learning Worldwide conducted a research study to examine what it means for L&D to be more strategic, best practices of those organizations that lead the way, and what organizations aren’t doing but should do to be recognized as a strategic L&D leader.

Fairly new to training and still trying to figure out this Adult Learning Stuff? We’ve got you covered!

In today’s complex business environment, the ability to create meaningful and collaborative connections with colleagues and clients is more essential than ever. In this webinar, Beth Wagner, Fierce Master Facilitator, will deep dive into seven core behaviors that will help you achieve greater effectiveness in your everyday interactions. Our tools will enable you to create positive organizational change and give you a new way to relate to people at work, home, and in every area of your life.   

The Project Sponsor’s role on a  project is the single most critical predictor of project success. That said, many if not most Project Sponsors have no idea what they are supposed to be doing. Imagine Captain Pickard from Star Trek - "Make it so!" That’s the extent of the contribution for most organizational Sponsors. It’s up to you as the Project Manager to cultivate the Project Sponsor.  For you project to be successful, you must make sure the Project Sponsor is successful.

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.

Here are 5 myths that limit individual performers, managers and their teams. Click below to download the free infographic that reveals the truths and strategies that can dramatically expand your performance. Myth #1:  A manager's job is to run the operation. Myth #2:  Coaching is for Low Performers Myth #3:  It's not a part of our culture. Myth #4: Coaching is confrontational Myth #5:  The person has reached their potential  person has reached their pote

The forgetting curve demonstrates the decline of memory retention in time…How information is lost over a period when there is no attempt to retain it. For strategies to overcome the "Curve" in the context of the human learning process, click below to download this complimentary white paper.  And don’t miss joining us in the live webinar or recording.

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?

"How long does eLearning take to develop?" is a question we are frequently asked. With heavy workloads, people who create eLearning want to have a simple method of predicting the time it will take to create a course. But is there a simple method we can use to answer the question? Please click below to download this eBook.

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.