Selling is social — but onboarding new revenue professionals often lacks the social and collaborative aspects of actual sales. This is especially true in virtual learning, when new sellers are onboarded ad-hoc or with LMS-based experiences that do not equip them with the sophisticated capabilities they need to drive revenue growth. 

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The only reason they will want to escape your virtual training is because that’s the assignment! Learning online is now commonplace. Unfortunately, engaging attendees to participate, to come on camera, and to unmute can be like "herding cats," as the saying goes. Establishing a comfortable, safe, and technically sound online learning environment is essential. Meaningful and relevant activities are the secret. Like tasty treats and fresh catnip, attendees will be unable to resist actively participating in your virtual training when you use escape game strategies, irresistible learning activities, and a "never fail" debrief strategy to help them reflect! Invite participants to take charge of their learning and experience virtual training like they’ve never seen before.

For many organizations, the learning ecosystem extends far beyond the four walls of the organization. Although, extended enterprise comprises a relatively small chunk of the L&D budget, it represents a huge opportunity for organizations to build their brand, improve customer relationships, and even generate revenue. Brainier partnered with The Brandon Hall Group to develop this research brief on the state of extended enterprise learning and its future. In this research brief, we’ll cover four key considerations in planning an extended enterprise learning endeavor, as well as case studies of organizations finding success in doing so. Key considerations include: Building the business case Finding the right technology Defining the audience and characteristics of requirements Strategizing your revenue goals for the program

Depending upon where you are in the world, you may be back in the office or gearing back up to facilitate in-person classes. Or, you may be getting ready to deliver hybrid classes - which have a mixture of in-person and online audiences.

During this webinar, five specific coaching models will be taught that can be applied to today's workplace. The five coaching models will be specific techniques and strategies applied to five of the most common workplace challenges today.

While there has always been a need to show the value of projects, the current economic climate has created even more pressure to show value in terms that executives will understand. In many cases this means projecting the value before it is implemented. The expression "Show Me the Money" is now demanded in many cases before a project is even considered, leaving the project team with the challenge: "How do we forecast the ROI in a credible and rational way to secure the project approval?"

Walt Disney liked to proclaim, "It all started with a mouse." Although it is true that Mickey Mouse was Disney’s breakthrough, it actually started with the people who made the mouse. The Disney philosophy, likewise, doesn’t start with customers. It starts with motivated castomers™. The Disney formula is simple: Great leaders deliver satisfying employee experiences; motivated employees deliver satisfying customer experiences; satisfied customers become loyal and spend more money; profits increase.

Gamification and game-based learning are very similar. BOTH are effective to motivate players AND are accessible in terms of  cost and implementation. Would you like to leverage the power of BOTH for learning for adult education and corporate training?

The reality is that just over half of sales reps in a given group achieve quota. Similar to the games you play on your smartphones, the gamification of your sales training is a powerful tool to motivate and engage your sales team. As you make your reps actions reward-based and more competitive, you will find your sales team approach the daily grind of sales more readily.

As xAPI adoption takes hold, learning professionals are increasingly looking to learn about this new(ish) data specification but also what it is used for: analytics, credentialing, personalization and recommendation, and within the workflow. Many of us learning professionals developed our careers and our skillsets in a limited-data, SCORM-based world, and making the leap to xAPI entails a whole new world of opportunity and challenge. Successful adopters of xAPI for learning analytics & action have three things in common: a data-driven mindset, a data tool set, and a strategy for success. xAPI tools and platforms are ready; are you?

Tools such as Adobe Captivate are great for quickly developing eLearning. However, because of the interface, you will quickly hit a limit on what you can do. While it’s possible to get past a few of these barriers with Advanced Actions or Shared Actions, the time it takes to create is time-consuming. Fortunately, the engineers at Adobe have opened a door that allows you to insert your own custom scripts.  

In today's fast-paced world, rapid development can be the key to your e-learning success. Rise allows you to create beautiful, responsive courses using just a browser. Courses look gorgeous on PC, tablet, and phone with NO programming knowledge needed! Leave having seen how to create and publish beautiful and engaging e-learning using Articulate 360 Rise. Perfect for the accidental e-learning instructional designer!

The software industry is embracing Agile project management and there is much that we in learning & development can learn from them. Whether you’re using SAM, LLAMA®, Scrum or still exploring your options, there’s a lot to be learned from Agile teams in the ways that they manage their relationships and communications with the business in order to deliver their work on time, in budge and in line with expectations - even as those expectations evolve throughout the project.

What good does it do participants when the trainer shows he/she can do it? The real measure of impact if whether the lesson is caught and applied by the audience. Breakout rooms are a tool to help you facilitate peer learning and make your job as trainer easier. A favorite rule of thumb at BPG is never do for participants what they can do for themselves. The more active they are in their learning, the more they remember and ultimately apply.

Hiring is harder than ever, which means so is engagement, and so is retention. With every hire hard-won, and every departure extra painful, one can’t help but want to create a work environment that keeps people as engaged as possible for as long as possible.  And while you can accomplish that to some extent through initiatives and projects, you can only make wholesale, system-wide, permanent improvements like that by working on the culture.

Engagement is everything.  Engaged employees realize 18% higher productivity and 60% higher quality than disengaged employees. However, only 36% of U.S. workers - and 20% of global workers - are engaged.  Using engaging techniques during training will create an anchor to the material being learned, so when participants go back to the job, they’ll be more passionate and use the information they’ve acquired.  

Virtual instructor led training became hugely popular during the global pandemic and now is the time to build on this success and ensure that your live online learning sessions are as good as they can be.  

Experts and futurists are unanimous that the NEW important skill for all workers is critical thinking. Why is that? The reality is that we are in a global economy where change is rapid, the unpredictability of events abound, there is the shrinking of the new workforce, and of course, digitalization. Many of the roles demand beyond the usual tasks and roles. They need to be self-directed and constantly critically thinking about how to solve and manage the unknowns and unpredictability of work. 

Learn a content strategy to ensure that you are curating, creating, sharing and engaging on the right content and attracting the right ideal customer persona.

The pandemic has proven that many job responsibilities can be performed online, with remote work turning out to be highly effective and beneficial for employees and companies. One thing has not changed, however: Strong trust-based relationships are the key to developing high-performing teams, both online and offline.

WARNING: There is a rule that you can not copy videos from YouTube.com and TikTok.com. But there are so many videos you can scavenge, copy, crop, "mutate", splice and dice, "cannibalize", and make your own - keeping within limits, of course. Why do you want to do this? Because like me, we are "cheap" and can never produce great videos such as these in our wildest imagination. This is my approach: within limits, I download the video, crop, and convert. Edit, combine, spruce up, intermingled with contextual questions, then add and finally deliver it in my instant learning platform. The great thing is that I am no expert! If I can do it, you can too.

We’ve all heard the adage: "People don’t leave jobs; they leave managers." While many leaders struggle to retain or replace employees, this is not true of all leaders. In fact, high-performing managers are four times more likely to retain employees than low-performing managers. The key is discovering what organizations can do to create high-performing leaders—especially as employees continue their exodus in the "Great Resignation."

This webinar will teach a specific coaching mapping methodology will be taught to leverage the results of assessment tools such as Myers Briggs, DISC, Predictive Index, etc.