During turbulent times like this, you hear many people talk about the "resistance to change" and how this phenomenon impairs an organization’s ability to rapidly adapt and respond.

Most organizations don't have to time to build custom content for their training program, but they want to be sure the content is high quality and well-vetted. Enter off-the-shelf content. Using off-the-shelf content for training saves time and money and allows you to offer more variety of content than if you had to produce everything yourself. Plus, you can be sure the information employees are getting is more reliable and well researched than something they'd find on Google. In this ebook, you'll learn how to maximize off-the-shelf content. You'll also learn: How to further optimize off-the-shelf content with the right learning technology Tips for choosing an off-the-shelf content provider How to use off-the-shelf content as part of a blended learning solution

Research shows that way too many multiple-choice questions have serious writing flaws that damage assessment quality and validity, making the data from these questions hard or impossible to interpret. Poorly written multiple-choice questions can cause serious problems for participants and organizations, so we need to avoid them!    

Marketing has played an escalating role in learning and development programs and solutions for the past few years. Organizations have begun to integrate substantial marketing strategies and tools to ensure more comprehensive compliance, promote upskilling programs, track customer education initiatives, and promote organizational positivity toward change management initiatives.

The more relevant and relatable a piece of eLearning is to the learner, the more effective it’s going to be. But are you sure that your eLearning remains both relevant and relatable when it’s read by colleagues in another part of the world, or in another language? Creating eLearning for global audiences isn’t just about making the content available in the languages in use at your organization—though that’s obviously important! It requires an extra layer of course planning to ensure that those ‘relevant and relatable’ boxes remain ticked. Download the eBook to discover: How the right localization process will lead you to more engaging results Key language issues that even non-speakers should understand The importance of having imagery that reflects familiar public spaces and local customs The implications of different cultural preferences such as uncertainty avoidance and power distance index How to better use language selection, display conditions, collaboration tools, and other key features to build better courses

Remember last year?  Well, don’t forget because it’s not over yet.  Everyone made up in their minds, that come 2021, we’d be back to normal.  Of course, that is not happening as quickly as we’d hope.  It seems the likelihood that we go back to 2019 NORMAL is zilch.  We are all in a continuing giant change, and change is always tough. 

We’re all well aware that today’s workforce is very different then that of just last year. Whether your organization is now returning to the office, staying remote, or implementing a hybrid model, there is a need to connect employees together and create meaningful collaboration to support organizational priorities. Plus, employees are looking for ways to stay connected with each other and methods for accelerating their ability to upskill in areas critical to team, organizational and personal success.

Considering whether virtual reality is right for your training needs? In this eBook, you’ll discover 5 training instances where VR excels. We showcase real-world examples and tell you exactly why virtual reality training works! See how organizations across industries saved money, increased learning retention, and more. The examples in this book will also serve as inspiration for your own immersive learning projects. Remember, anything is possible in virtual reality!

As today’s organizations stare down the challenges of ever-increasing compliance regulations, unpredictable turnover, and rapidly expanding cultural and learning style changes among employees, companies are looking for new ways to automate and scale their training efforts. More and more, they’re finding that help in video. Adaptable to both formal and informal learning needs, video overcomes today’s most common training challenges. It helps instructors increase training quality, speed and effectiveness — all while significantly lowering program costs. But of course, today’s learning and development professionals already understand the potential that technology can offer in the modern training environment. Their real challenge? Convincing their organizations to do more. In this paper, we help L&D practitioners tackle that challenge head on, including: 5 benefits that help convince your decision makers to use video in more ways 14 ideas for supporting and scaling formal and informal learning with video 1 technology — the video platform — that simplifies the use of video for L&D Video training is no longer a novel idea. It’s the new normal. Make sure your organization isn’t missing out. Click below to download this White paper from Panopto.

One of the key gaps in virtual and webinar training is how to replicate the hands-on and tactile training in handling equipment, raw materials, shop floor physical facilities, processes and procedures, and face-to-face co-mingling. Most webinars and virtual sessions are used for presentations and for conveying knowledge. However, these are inadequate in dealing with helping learners and trainers gain the necessary hands-on experiences.  In this webinar, we will share case studies and pilot projects on "hands-on learning in remote learning."   

Creating eLearning for global audiences presents some unique challenges. How do you create scalable content that speaks to your audience, wherever they are in the world?

As workplaces become more distributed, managers often find themselves managing remote or virtual team members. This geographic distance sets virtual leaders up to make five critical management mistakes that can reduce productivity, derail teamwork, undermine organizational loyalty, and increase turnover. Without team agreements about expectations and processes, working on a virtual team can feel like floating on a rudderless boat in the ocean.

Even as the  world is starting to move back to physical offices, virtual platforms continue to remain an essential part of our professional lives.  That being said, the question remains: how can we improve the quality of virtual events for a post-Pandemic world?

Storyboarding—imported into our business lives from the world of moviemaking—is a powerful way of getting a sense of what you’re creating before you create it. Completing a storyboard involves documenting screen-by-screen the rough visuals, interactions, assets, and other crucial details of the learning journey you want to build. What are the benefits of this approach? And how can you get the most out of storyboarding? This guide answers these questions, while also providing best practices and examples so you can storyboard your way to eLearning success.

This webinar will help you understand what employees are looking for in their corporate training, what they expect and what they feel they need. By comparing that to the formats, programs and strategies used by hr professionals, we can see how both groups contradict themselves, and by understanding that, we can improve the corporate training programs so they help employees reach their goals and engage with a useful, effective training.

We’ve had a year of presenting virtually and our audiences are starting to demand that we stop hiding behind the slides. Less screen share, more you. But what if you could do both? The ability to bring your content onto the screen alongside you, in a way that boosts attention and retention as well as lower drop off. 

During this session, you will learn: How customer feedback can help drive your existing training and development initiatives How to convert a customer service survey into a coaching strategy

The training industry is in the midst of a digital transformation that will change the space forever. And "digital transformation" is not just a buzzword but something that should be at the top of the priority list for training program leaders. You must adapt to the digital world quickly or risk becoming obsolete.

Today's younger sales reps expect more feedback and coaching from their sales managers. Veteran sales reps want to stay on top of their game but don't want to admit to their deficiencies. And their sales managers are hustling to meet the demands of upper management, worrying about meeting quota and putting out the latest fire. Sound familiar?

With so many learning management systems on the market, it can be difficult to determine which is best for your training business. You want a solution that can ensure program revenue, grow and scale your business, ensure customers are engaged, and stand out amongst competitors. Unlike a traditional LMS that focuses on the ‘M’ (management of content), BenchPrep takes a learner-centric approach to deliver the best experience out there for the learner, and the data analytics your business needs to make informed decisions about your training program. Need help understanding the nuances? Download our LMS comparison guide to learn more.

Corporate meetings and marketing events continue to be confined to virtual experiences. Whether you are crafting an internal event for your entire employee base or a conference to invite all your customers to network and engage with your products, we will provide you with some tangible tips and tricks to help guide your planning process.

Since COVID, digital skills are more important than ever. The world has shifted to a more virtual communication, collaboration, and project management style. Most leaders agree that they will not return fully to a live, brick and mortar workplace. The bad news is that according to McKinsey, 70% of all efforts to boost digital skills - fail. How will your people thrive in the post-COVID, more virtual world of work?  Best-selling author and productivity guru, Mike Song shares the keys to success and reveals three digital skill sets that can no longer be ignored. This e-paper is a must-read for any HR leader tasked with helping their organization improve digital skills.

Yes, change is hard and it keeps happening to us in today’s hyper-complex, uncertain, competitive, high stakes world. Consider these alarming statistics: 75% of projects fail 71% of companies do not feel their leaders are able to lead them into the future 87% of employees worldwide are not engaged at work In summary, projects are a disaster, leadership is diabolical and people are severely disengaged. A piece of friendly advice: STOP stockpiling statistical knowledge about how bad things are "out there." Dwelling on this is more likely to evoke a "I give up, why bother" reaction. Rather, take a thorough, honest inventory of what’s going on "in here." What are you doing, or not doing that might be adding or detracting from positive change? 

Whether in a large enterprise or a team of one, eLearning authors today are expected to deliver effective learning outcomes using minimal resources, rapid turn-around time, and a razor-thin budget. How do they do it?