Only 44% of employees believe their employer does a good job bringing new employees into the organization. Onboarding is the process of transforming a new hire into a fully functioning, integrated member of the team. Proper onboarding provides not only the ‘rules of the road,’ but also clear expectations in terms of behavior and interaction with management, customers, and other employees.

Emotions evoked by stories as they unfold, draws learners’ attention and keep them focused.  This is why interactive stories deeply impact learning. By Ray Jimenez, Ph.D.

The lesson shows the impact of decisions made based on perceptions and possible experiences when facing a given situation. By Ray Jimenez, Ph.D. 2014

Joe Ganci will be presenting his very popular and always updated session, The Coolest Adobe Captivate Tips on the Planet, at Training 2015. There he will talk about more than 25 great tips to enhance your instructional design using Adobe Captivate. Now, not only a sneak peek to Joe's session at the conference but a chance to see Joe go in depth on four of his most popular tips, directly in Captivate. This is not a PowerPoint presentation, it's a demonstration using the tool. You don't need to know Captivate to attend this session but if you do, all the better! Joe will also set aside some time to answer your questions. Don't miss this!

Acquiring skill at interviewing prospective job candidates is essential to building a solid and cohesive team. Managers don’t always get it right. This video helps the learner self-identify common interviewing mistakes through a humorous and not-so-perfect example of a job interview. It is used as part one of a two part video series. The second video demonstrates all the proper techniques of interviewing.

Join us for a Power Hour and build a personal strategy for growing your own emotional awareness and regulation.  

This session is about the three sides of a successful consulting practice and the often undervalued role the business side for being profitable and sustainable.   You will learn the importance of using business acumen to support your practice expertise.

This session is about finding your market niche so you stand out in the noise of established players, wannabe’s, and has-been’s. You will understand the importance of branding yourself in ways that distinguish you in the market place.

This session is about the folk lore and implications of different legal structures including partnerships, sub S corporations, sole proprietorships, and non-profits as they apply to operating a successful consulting practice.  You will understand the importance of asking the right questions when working with your lawyer, banker, and accountant.

This session describes different types of insurance including business liability, professional liability, and auto and their implications as they apply to operating a successful consulting practice. You will understand the importance of asking the right questions when working with your agent.

This session is about how contracts are structured and the implication of terms and conditions as they apply to operating a successful consulting practice. You will understand what your client’s procurement office is really wanting in its agreement with you and what you can negotiate.

In this fast-paced, interactive webinar you’ll explore how to put the point back into PowerPoint. From high-tech to low-tech ideas, experience different ways to make this tool work for you.

So you're exhibiting at Training 2015. So are hundreds of others. Two things are required for an extremely successful exhibiting experience - focus and clarity. Focus asks: What are you paying attention to? Clarity asks: How well do you understand it?  

This session is about how to find clients and help clients find you. You will understand how to identify, develop, and use channels to help you be sustainable in difficult times.

While webinars have become common place in both learning and marketing, the parade-of-slides-with-disembodied-voice format is getting old. Isn't it time we reinvented the webinar? What can we learn from the success of the "flipped classroom" model that's sweeping the world of education?

Like it or not, marketing training is part of the job! Identify a variety of ways to improve support of learning interventions and attendance at training events. Build alliances and a presence in your organization. Meet organizational needs, rather than put on events that have marginal participation. Fully utilize ALL marketing techniques from networking to navigating the digital world. Make your "marketing job" manageable, effective and fun! Learn practical tips and tricks.

Jim Lundy of Aragon Research will present the evolving social learning landscape and discuss how leading organizations are taking steps to embrace these trending themes. Jim will discuss the evolution of video for recruiting, learning and knowledge capture. He'll highlight the benefits of embracing social learning and collaboration to transform the traditional LMS into a strategic asset used daily for both internal and external needs. Finally Jim will describe how mobile is transforming learning by providing access to information anytime and anywhere.  

Examples, Demo Micro-Learning Ray Jimenez, PhD VignettesLearning.com

Examples, Demo Micro-Learning Ray Jimenez, PhD VignettesLearning.com

Examples, Demo Micro-Learning Ray Jimenez, PhD VignettesLearning.com

What is behind social learning, mobile learning, AppleWatch, and other Internet tools?  These "access- anytime-anywhere"  tools and solutions are MICRO-LEARNING. It is  micro feedback, micro-application, micro-goals, micro-games, micro-exercises, micro-search and other micro forms. Micro-learning is an ubiquitous part of our day to day learning, but we don’t notice them. They are "hiding in plain sight", blending with the background of our daily grind.

In today’s dynamic and multi-generational workplace, employees have high expectations for their leaders and their organizations. They’re looking for organizations and leaders who not only operate to make a profit, but are driven by purpose.

Subject matter experts (SMEs) are great resources to deliver skillful presentation material. But SMEs have their own strengths, weaknesses, and issues. How can you utilize their strengths and minimize weaknesses to obtain the best results?

A LOLA is a Live Online Learning Activity that transforms boring webinars into dynamic interaction. In this walk-the-talk session, learn to increase and improve interactivity in your virtual classrooms through the use of five new types of LOLA.  Use textra games to add something extra to textual content on the screen. Use Assessment-Based Learning Activities to integrate diagnosis with just-in-time training. Use instructional magic to intrigue your participants into mindful learning. Combine storytelling techniques with the case method. Use optical illusions to encourage metaphorical exploration.