Stop training and start empowering your participants to learn (and to apply what they learned). Remember it’s not about you and your content but all about them and their performance.

In today's diverse workforce, four generations must contribute to business results every day. Yet age-based stereotypes can cause workplace conflict and place your team at risk for problems such as weak relationships, poor collaboration, decreased engagement, and damage to bottom line results.

What participants look for in training are Ah-Ha! moments: the rare moments of inspiration and insights that help them understand and apply the learning ideas. Ah-Ha! moments don’t occur by accident, though. They are byproducts of well planned, highly motivational, and engaging design learning and training events.

Whether you are creating leadership development programs or looking for ways to improve your own leadership, utilizing neuroscience and social science breakthroughs can help ensure peak performance results. Can leaders optimize stress for themselves and their teams? Will leaders be able to build cognitive fitness? How can new science help organizations lead change management while boosting employee engagement? Leaders expecting more from their workforce need to know what works and what doesn't for creating motivation and replenishing energy. Keys for program design include brain-based skills for overcoming resistance, sparking fresh thinking and resilience.

This session directly addresses the need to develop and implement real-time employee training assessment strategies specifically designed to meet targeted business objectives. Utilizing an actual high-tech, consumer electronic Fortune 100 company renamed 'Orange Inc.' as a session case, participants discover how a company with exceptional customer support is driven in part by their focused training and employee assessment strategy.

Most training sessions are deadly dull and boring. But there is no reason why they should be. Participate in this walk-the-talk session to explore how to incorporate six critical components of motivation in your training session: connection, choice, competence, confidence, collaboration, and captivation. Learn how to begin and end your session to increase the motivation to learn and to apply what has been learned. Do all this without sacrificing the instructional effectiveness of your training.

Every minute employees aren’t fully productive and up-to-speed has a significant financial effect on any organization. In this webinar, you will learn about the secrets of slashing time to full productivity by 30 to 50% or more through the proven Learning Paths methodology.

Join Training magazine on April 13 for this complimentary Webinar, sponsored by Knoodle, and learn how to enliven both the virtual classroom and self-paced computer training to create a richer learning experience with a more transformational impact on learners' performance.

Retaining top talent should be a top priority for all organizations. Finding and keeping those "rock star" employees at every level is key to the success of the entire organization, and not something anyone can afford to ignore.

The traditional way of developing eLearning programs is to require learners to learn static, factual and procedural information, then test for retention and memorization. Consequently, learners become bored and are unable to apply ideas back to their work situation.

The speed and length of learning and training are getting faster and shorter. Organizations want to speed up training to meet demands. However, they also want to see demonstrations and proof that their learning investment are impacting performance. The archaic method of conducting training ROI (return-on-investment) does not work because the content and the nature of work are constantly changing. So, how do we gauge learning impacts?

Demonstrating ROI is key to every successful training rollout. And, key to demonstrating ROI is robust measurement. Unfortunately, many trainers are unsure of what to measure and how to measure it.

This session is all about you. Lou Russell will share with you new ways to think about regulation of emotions. When you drop into a strong emotional response, your ability to prioritize and make decisions if negatively impacted. This session will help you learn to identify and be aware of emotional reponses, then based on your own unique behaviors and values, learn to react to the triggers before the emotions get out of hand.

We all know children learn a great deal while playing, but having fun during training or professional development programs may be seen as frivolous or a waste of time. Scientific research begs to differ. Play breaks tensions during learning, provides fresh energy and helps teams build cohesion.

With constant bombardment of information and numerous ways to access the Internet (Twitter, smart phones,iPad, high speed wireless, etc.) learners are more selective where and how they learn. Learners must be enthralled with elegant elearning programs. The challenge is how do we know what is enthralling? And do we build these eLearning courses.

This workshop will provide practical strategies for building workforce courage so workers can become "opportunity seekers". A step-by-step approach for using courage to improve performance and counteract the negative impacts of workplace fear will be introduced. When everyone is working with more courage, the entire organization is transformed for the better. Research shows that courageous workers seek out leadership opportunities, step up to challenges, offer innovative ideas, passionately embrace change, and are more productive. In short, courageous workers get work done!

Problem: Experiential exercises require such a long time to prepare and to conduct that no time is available for debriefing. Solution: Use a jolt! Participate in different activities, each conducted in a few minutes and giving you a long-lasting wake-up call. Learn about the advantages of using brief simulations called jolts. Locate several ready-made jolts and create your own. Master a powerful model for debriefing to maximize team learning.

This concept taps into the reality we've been working on that allows a learner seamlessly flow through the learning experience from desktop to smartphone to tablet to TV whenever the time or mood suits them. Apps are now available on virtually every electronic device we touch and use in our daily lives, and cloud computing models enable the ability to synchronize and manage the learning experience on whatever device best suits our environment and mood.

The ADL Mobile Learning Team recently released a mobile version of their mLearning Guide on the web and in various mobile platform stores. Join the webinar for discussion on the single development for deployment on multiple devices and choices made in development. Lessons learned will be shared.

Storytelling has always been an important leadership competency. Current research in narratology, cognitive sciences, knowledge management, and ethnography indicates that intervention is essential for creating and communicating meaning out of our experience. "Interactive Storytelling" integrates this ancient leadership practice with 21st century technology. Facilitated by two professional storytellers, this session will help you learn powerful principles of storytelling through experiential activities, demonstrations, and discussions.

With the 2012 Training Top 125 application due in less than two months, join Training magazine on Thursday, August 4, for this complimentary, first-ever Webinar that can help boost your score or earn you placement on the list for the first time. Plus, you'll discover how to make the most of your Training Top 125 ranking.

Starting this year in the U.S, 10,000 people a day are turning 65, and will continue to do so for the next 19 years. With a big dip in the Gen X population behind the Baby Boomer group, a natural conclusion is that we will need to get the newest workforce, Millennials -- also called Gen Y -- up to speed pretty quickly. And what is their number one preferred method of learning? Mentoring.

What is the best way to design instruction for today's technology tools and for the creation and delivery of e-learning? What tools are most effective for delivering what types of training? This session highlights how organizations are leveraging Smartphones for performance support and mobile learning, how game-based learning is being designed to teach everyone from firefighters to sales reps to call center employees and how quick searches and meta-data are changing the landscape of how employees learn and their information expectations. Join Karl Kapp, author of four books on the topic of the convergence of learning, technology and work as he explores some of the research, thinking and examples of learning technology in action.

Today's leaders require a wide variety of skills to lead effectively, and it is up to learning professionals to use the most-up-to-date methods available to develop those skills. Research has shown that experiential learning is one of the most effective ways to keep participants engaged and active throughout the learning process. This webinar will explore a variety of high-impact activities, jolts, and interactive learning strategies that have been specifically chosen to teach and apply some of the most critical leadership competencies our evolving leaders need.