Holistic training is a method that prepares learners to succeed in real performance situations. It is an immersive learning experience that weaves together training from multiple angles and in multiple formats. Check this video out and learn more about Grovo's holistic training approach.

In this video Dr. Ray Jimenez provides some provocative ideas on what micro-learning is and how it may change the face of learning completely in the future. 

There is lots of buzz about "gamification" and game-based learning over the last year. Why should your organization consider adding it to your talent development strategy? This webinar may provide the key to igniting the performance of your workforce in 2013!

What Are The Most Effective Tips For Successful Learning Management System Implementation?  By Tridib Roy Chowdhury I've had the opportunity to work with numerous clients over the years. Each had their own unique requirements, budgets, and list of must-have features. Regardless of their differences, I always share the same LMS implementation tricks to ensure a smooth and stress-free LMS implementation process. Click below to download this White Paper.

The lesson is designed to provide you with tools to successfully delegate and  helps you reflect and discover best practices. By Ray Jimenez, Ph.D. 2014

In a new Training Magazine webinar, Dale Carnegie Training reveals results of its cross industry, in-depth study of 1,500 employees to explore engagement in the workplace. The research reveals several surprises and five practical approaches managers can use to increase employee enthusiasm, empowerment, confidence and value to their organization.

Making Leadership Happen   More than ever, in a fast-changing and interconnected world, organizations feel the need for leadership. As a result, managers get a lot of advice on how to be more effective leaders. Articulate a clear vision, engage your employees, develop talent, have a global mindset, think strategically, create win-win solutions, leverage diversity, communicate effectively, hold people accountable, be an agile learner.    On one level, all of this advice makes great sense. Who could argue with it? At another level, it can be overwhelming.  We think it’s time to step back and take a different approach. Click below to download this White Paper.  

Today, 10,000 Baby Boomers retired in the U.S. On average, they have 35 years of experience each, across every type of job in your organization. Tomorrow, it happens again. And the day after, until 2030. That means every day, 350,000 years of experience just left the workforce, an unprecedented departure in business history.

What is the #1 problem with every training event?  People forget. Research shows that the natural process of forgetting can have a materially negative effect on productivity, budgets, and time. Why? Because decades of research show that people can forget up to 80% of training information in a mere 30 days after a training event takes place.  But the fix is here, and it’s easy.  Download this white paper to learn:  1) Download this white paper to learn: How to augment your training programs so forgetting is minimized 2) What format of learning has the most impact across any learning demographic 3) How the techniques of Retrieval Practice can quickly increase knowledge retention by 90%+ Click below to download this White Paper.

The lesson depicts how a person’s comment may or may not be viewed as a form of sexual harassment by a co-employee. By Ray Jimenez, Ph.D. 2014

This session will focus on how to keep your learners actively involved and engaged in the virtual classroom. You will learn 10 distinct strategies to drive interactivity and focus learner attention in order to deepen their retention.

Use this report to help you consider the best tools and technologies for helping workers (aka "learners") get stuff done and get it done well. Identify tools you want to keep using, stop using, start using, or improve how you use them. Here’s what you’ll find: Information about what L&D professionals actually did in 2017, and what they plan to do in 2018. Emerging trends for 2018 and beyond. Top roadblocks to delivering effective training and how those have changed over time. The training topics L&D professionals view as most important in 2018. Our insights into the data.

ILT represents 70% of training today. Efficiently managing it is crucial, but it is fundamentally different from e-learning: it involves more complex back-office processes and a wider range of resources, and as such cannot be managed with the same tools. This checklist will guide you through the elements needed to improve the efficiency of your Instructor-Led Training activity.  It will help you assess the performance of your current technology in each domain.

This course uses stories to help farmers understand the need for better water pump performance. Look for the Success Stories. By Ray Jimenez, Ph.D. 2014

As organizations continue to expand globally and training budgets continue to decrease, developing effective learning programs has become a significant challenge. Learning management systems and basic online learning tools have fallen short in providing an engaging learning experience, resulting in a need for more effective training programs.

Is your organization ready to take advantage of all the benefits the world of on-demand training offers? In this guide, we’ll look at the top three challenges companies face with training their workforces today, and how to effectively implement on-demand training options into the organization’s overall culture of learning and employee development. Click below to download this White Paper.

The Case of Gina is a Story-Based eLearning Design where a sales person is presented a real-life situation. By Ray Jimenez, Ph.D. 2014

Get a sneak preview of a couple of the sessions Lou will be teaching during Training 2013. This free webinar is an hour-long overview on Strategies to Combat Scope Creep and some of the Fatal Mistakes All Learning Developers Make.

As learning departments are faced with resource and budget challenges along with increased demand to correlate L&D with business impact (specifically, ROI), the pressure has never been greater for learning and development teams to perform. it's important to see what the future of these departments have in store. In this paper, we share results of a survey from learning and development professionals, revealing the major challenges learning and development currently face, how departments are rating their performance, what will influence the way learning changes in the next 5-10 years, and what professionals will prioritize and work to improve in 2018.

Negotiation is a story-scenario based learning design where learners are placed in a real-life situation.  Using stories effectively move learners from too much technical information to real-life story situations. By Ray Jimenez, Ph.D. 2014

You know them. You’ve sat through them. You’ve felt the pain. Training so lecture laden that you wish you had a magic wand to make it all go away! Well, NOW you can! We’ll show you how to use your powers for GOOD and change up how you write activities so that your learners will be engaged instead of disengaged.

Nexans "Too Much Down Time" is a sample of a software and technical story lesson where content is taught within the context of a story and real-life setting. By Ray Jimenez, Ph.D. 2014

Businesses are witnessing an epidemic: the lack and loss of experience in employees. In the past, U.S. Government Accountability Office (USGAO) data showed , that for every 10 employees, 7 are experienced and 3 are new. Today, this is reversed; 6 are new and 4 are experienced. The problem impacts the profits and performances of all types of organizations.

Those leading a function have arguably the greatest impact on overall business performance, yet organizations continue to underinvest in developing this level of their talent pipeline. Many organizations are missing a huge opportunity to drive business growth. Why? With significant spans of responsibility, function leaders offer immense competitive value. While strategic executives determine the company's mission and direction, functional executives control expenses, manage resources, make decisions about specific projects that will be undertaken, and drive the success or failure of many strategic priorities. Learn why the development of function leaders is an imperative in the new MDA white paper, Developing Those Who Lead Functions: A Critical Leverage Point for Boosting Organizational Performance. Click below to download the white paper.