The great resignation and the pandemic have immensely affected working environments, and companies are in the midst of a deep Learning and Development (L&D) transformation in order to attract and retain talent. Shifting the strategy in a way that will intrinsically motivate employees and assist them in building their career pathways will enable companies to navigate through these challenges.

There are many ways to wreck a PowerPoint slide. Behold these before-and-after gems from some of the worst train wrecks we've ever seen.

Once we dig out from this pandemic, we will be able to get back to normal presenting and normal PowerPoint practices, right?

The reality of business today means that organizations will have to grow the talent they need when they can’t find it. Developing talent internally over the long term will be most of the solution. You’ll want some recommendations in your back pocket when your CEO turns to you for answers. Learning managers will be seen as the go-to resources when it comes to compensating for major skill gaps in talent. By socializing learning, mobilizing the technology, creating strategic stretch assignments, partnering with institutions, and speaking to the bottom line, HR can make learning an integral solution to filling skill gaps in the organization.

Are your learners actively engaged in your online classes, beyond just typing in chat? Are you using your platform’s robust toolset to capture attention, and more importantly, keep learners involved? Do your learners feel connected and are they willing to contribute?

As instructional designers we are constantly being bombarded with new technologies and new trends. It’s difficult to distinguish which are fads, and which are worthy of our investments of time and resources. The safest, and often most expedient course of action is to continue to focus on the delivery technology we know is NOT a fad, the traditional classroom. After all we’ve been using the traditional classroom forever, how can we possibly go wrong teaching in a classroom in front of an audience? As new technologies, like the virtual classroom, eLearning, and social media, are introduced, we continue to play it safe by trying to make these technology experiences replicate the classroom.

Join Dr. Britt Andreatta as she walks you through insights from building an award-winning training program. This brain-based program operates at 2 levels: managers who gain vital skills in bringing out the best in their people, and facilitators who get certified through an online learning platform. Discover how various learning technologies are utilized for both audiences, creating a rating of "excellent" in 95-100% of learners.

Content. Every employee development program requires it. Every employee needs content to learn. There are no exceptions. This is one of those rare absolutes we simply cannot escape. But if you read about the state of the training industry, it would be easy to walk away believing that the newest application or technology innovation is all you really need to really improve your employee training results. Delivering actual, business benefits from your employee learning and development efforts requires more than simply adding a new application or acquiring a new piece of super-duper technology. What organizations must do is deliver meaningful content to employees.  

What does a successful blended learning approach look like in 2022? Or in 2025 or 2030, for that matter? According to 2022 data from Pew Research Center, more workers today say they are working from home by choice rather than necessity. Among those who have a workplace outside their home, 61 percent say they are choosing not to go into their workplace, and 38 percent say they’re working from home because their workplace is closed or unavailable to them.

For CLOs, Training Managers, and all L&D professionals who want to learn about the new Adobe Learning Manager...

Core practices are at the heart of most, if not all L&D practices. This may seem to be the preferred low-risk and safer route.  However, forward-thinking and innovative organizations strive to test and experiment, reinvent, and disrupt their methods and practices constantly. The disruptive practices are outliers, but they work in the cases mentioned below.

This webinar will teach a very innovative approach to combining coaching and artificial intelligence to maximize sales talent for performance and predictable results. With the economy in a state of uncertainty there has never been a better time to ensure that your sales team's performance is optimized. 

Economic news is not rosy and buyers are changing their priorities. What are the best ways to coach your sales team to find new accounts, expand existing ones, and retain more of them? Join Carole Mahoney, author of the upcoming book "Buyer First" and discover what sales research and the largest data set of sales performance suggests you focus on for more predictable revenue attainment and retention of your best sellers and customers. 

Do you know how to create an effective diagram? Can you create a graph that tells a story? An important skill in our field is the ability to convey abstract concepts, statistics and data in a meaningful way. Visualizing abstractions can improve comprehension and facilitate learning. It’s important to know how to design the best type of graphic to meet your learning goal.

PowerPoint is such an essential tool for all types of communication, but it’s badly used. Revolutionize your content with amazing visuals, engage your audience with compelling animations, and impress them with beautiful, professional design. All using only PowerPoint. You’ll see a host of visual storytelling techniques, all demonstrated live, that you can use immediately to create amazing presentations or interactive content.

Recognition and rewards can drive performance increases of 20% or more by leveraging the power of motivation psychology, social dynamics and workers’ desire for aspirational awards within a positive culture that encourages the collaboration and success of all individuals and teams.  This seems like common sense, but it is not easy to implement in the workplace unless you create programs that are designed with recognition and reward best practices. There is an art and a science element to effective recognition. This includes smart program structure, rules, training, recognition tactics, reward choices, actionable analytics and more. 

The inner fire is the most important thing humans possess. - Edith Södergran A culture of learning is relevant to any organization. However, the need for healthcare organizations to promote this is critical since evidence-based practices are constantly evolving and your clients’ well-being depends on your staff’s knowledge and skill. To provide the best care and optimize health outcomes for persons served, healthcare leaders must tap into that inner fire within their staff and enable continuous learning opportunities. How can you tap into your staff’s inner fire and create a learning culture? Download this white paper to learn: What a learning organization looks like The five main disciplines of a learning organization Real-life examples of how a learning culture can be applied Steps to sustain a culture of learning

Are we there yet? Kids get restless and eventually stir trouble from the backseat on long road trips. In the same way, participants wonder Are we done yet? when they’re kept to the "backseat" on webinars. But with the right techniques, you can harness your audience into the driver’s seat for an exciting virtual training. In this session you’ll identify difficult online training behaviors and specific strategies to minimize, redirect and cleverly overcome them without breaking a sweat.

Spend a week with high-performing sales professionals and you’ll find a common theme. They plan and intentionally invest in the right prospects, clients, and sales activities. They’re both strategic and tactical, and they over-achieve in their sales results.

In recent years, instructional video has become a major part of online learning. Thousands of tutorials are available on Youtube and we have all become accustomed to watching all kinds of video tutorials covering the most diverse topics. Unfortunately, video only offers the learner a linear, non-interactive experience. As instructional designers, we know that interactivity is essential to providing learners with engaging experiences that maximize retention. Fortunately, Adobe Captivate 2019, has several tools for importing videos into your interactive eLearning content. You can even make your videos completely interactive with a few easy-to-use tools.  

Surveys are key tools for evaluating training programs. Surveys are revered for their ease of use and promise of reaching many, but we must be able to craft rich, concise, and focused questions that yield useful data. For this, we must understand the cognitive processes our respondents use to answer questions with accuracy and candor.

Quiet quitting isn’t new. It’s the latest name for a long-time problem: disengagement. Employees have been mentally quitting and staying for decades. What’s new is that today’s employees have taken to social media to openly talk about it. It’s a cry for help from these employees and you should treat it as a call to action.

In today’s post-pandemic world, yesterday’s L&D strategies are falling short. Cultural changes including a remote/hybrid workplace, the new "metaverse," and the expectation of knowledge on-demand have forced learning strategies to change. Innovations including virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), microlearning, video-based practice, and machine learning (ML) are getting better results, so you need to be prepared.

Research shows that MOST multiple-choice questions include mistakes that damage assessment quality and validity. These mistakes lead to frustration and unfair assessments. They supply bad or unusable data about whether test-takers gained needed knowledge and skills.