Do you teach learners how to handle bad errors? Most training and learning programs teach perfect answers, procedures, methods, policies, information, etc. This is well and good. But do we teach people how to make the right actions, better decisions, more reliable choices, and handle catastrophic errors? Most of the time, we don’t. The severe impacts are shown in slow or no actions, failures in judgment, errors in decision making, impulsive actions and risky actions. All of these impacts the organizations financially.

As we turn the calendar into a new year, training leaders are looking for the next big things in learning and development to help them modernize their training toolkits. And while augmented and virtual reality, predictive analytics, and machine learning are exciting, buzz-worthy technologies, they’re not what most organizations will focus on in 2018.

As the tides of business change, preparing your salespeople for anything that comes their way takes more than just training - it takes readiness. For sales enablement, this involves all strategic activities designed to prepare sellers to have meaningful buyer interactions (from new hire onboarding to guidance through business transformations).

Valentine’s Day is just around the corner, and love is in the air! Well, at least it is for the learners at Polycom when it comes to their learning technology. So how did Polycom find lasting LMS love, when nearly half of companies today report their existing LMS no longer meet their needs?

Middle managers get pressure to manage up, down and across the organization, but how can you deliver the skills they need without adding to their troubles? Herrmann-Nehdi demonstrates easy-to-apply tools and strategies for helping your middle managers manage their own thinking more effectively and adapt, even in high-pressure situations.

eLearning developers for years have limited themselves by selecting a set of tools that has (mostly) resulted in boring, engaging learning experiences.   The comparison point that users make is not other learning experiences but other media. In order to compare favorably to other media, developers must learn the tools used by other digital professionals.  One of those tools is coding.

Change Happens - Be Ready for It! Change Management for Learning Professionals

In this webinar, Steve Denning and Seth Kahan will give an overview of the principles and practices thatrevolutionize the workplace and establish a radical management mindset.

Studies show incentive programs can significantly improve performance. But to maximize results, it’s important to understand the journey your participants will take from the time they first hear about the program to the day they receive their awards. 

Research indicates that images are vital for engaging, as well as informing, our audiences. Or a catchy tune can aid as a reminder tool. But in the rush to find the perfect image or music, the role of copyright and licensing may be overlooked.

With the fast faster fastest pace of life today, finding a shortcut can be a big help. And the Internet has opened a world of resources to help us in our personal and professional lives. But: searching…copying…pasting…sending… can cause you major problems—maybe even land you in court!  Content is OWNED by someone. They OWN the copyright to that content—and can control how it is used. This includes the exclusive rights to: copy/reproduce distribute create other works from that content display or perform the content publicly give permission to others to use the content in certain ways (often by granting a license for a fee) pursue those who use that content without permission. Most of us don’t pay attention to the Copyright Law, so we are setting ourselves up for expensive and time-consuming legal nightmares; we could be sued for using someone else’s content and images without their permission. Getting a letter in the mail from an attorney—who’s not our attorney—makes the heart pound! Or Maybe we discover that content we have created has been taken and used by someone else—without our permission. Then we have to pay an attorney to straighten that out. That could lead to Very costly and time-consuming litigation—and the death of a business. Click below to download this eBook.  

Walt Disney knew it and he had Mary Poppins sing it. A spoon full of sugar does help the medicine go down. He once proclaimed, "The normal gap between what is generally regarded as ‘entertainment’ and what is defined ‘educational’ represents an old and untenable viewpoint."  The entertainment Disney created were both informative and enjoyable—unlike many learning programs. When entertainment and learning are aligned Disney style, the results are magical; participants pay attention, they absorb information, and they change behavior. 

If you're ready to see success in your employee training program, you first have to understand what success looks like. Seeing positive results from your program requires dedication to individuals achieving goals, which translates to the organization achieving its goals. What goals are you trying to reach, and how are you measuring whether or not you've reached them? Rather than trying to come up with strong goals out of thin air, we've outlined ten steps that will take you through the process of creating goals and metrics for your employee training program. These steps will help you think through how your program is aligned with the business, and how your employees are positioned to boost business results through various training initiatives.

Walt Disney knew it and he had Mary Poppins sing it. A spoon full of sugar does help the medicine go down. He once proclaimed, "The normal gap between what is generally regarded as ‘entertainment’ and what is defined ‘educational’ represents an old and untenable viewpoint." 

This session explores MAJOR mistakes talent, training, learning & development practitioners and professionals make when preparing for L&D disruption and the future of work - and shows you what to do about them. 

Which is more powerful: facts or feelings? If you want to win over everyone in your audience, your best bet is to address both. Explore how movie scenes can quickly help participants connect the emotions experienced in watching a movie clip with the content we are teaching. According to a University of Notre Dame study, learning is tied to "an emotionally charged experience" either positive or negative.

Augmented Reality turns the phone into a magic lens that can, figuratively speaking, arm your workforce with superpowers. Aim a phone at your product and get real-time holographic guidance on how to install or troubleshoot it (or use "x-ray vision" to view what’s inside it). Conduct a scavenger hunt to find digital learning objects around your office. Play a real-time business strategy sim, projected in 3D on the lunch table, with colleagues. Play microlearning games in the same environment where the skills will be applied.

Many instructional designers, developers, and leaders complain that content is dumped on them by their SMEs and internal customers. They have no one to go to and explain the details of the kind of content they believe would be useful to learners. They realize that content produced this way are too far away from the realities of day-to-day workplace events, therefore, not valuable. Consequently, the programs they produce are theoretical, bland, and with no sense of relevance to the workers at work.

Business simulations offer organizations a unique opportunity to address hard skills gaps with experiential learning activities, however many organizations miss out on the tremendous soft skill development that is embedded in well-designed business simulations. 

Business leaders look for predictability. They seek insight from mounds of data to get just a glimpse of the future. They demand their sales and marketing executives put the business on the right path to meeting or exceeding sales and margin goals. Sales executives create detailed business plans to identify new opportunities and retain existing customers.  They train sales reps and channel partners on product benefits and teach them to overcome objections. They develop compensation plans aligned with corporate goals to encourage growth. Marketing leaders identify competitors’ strengths and weaknesses. They define buyer personas and construct profiles to ensure the right messages reach the right prospects. They carefully map out every step of the buyer’s journey to know when and how to influence behaviors. All this to increase the likelihood of success, to gain more certainty and predictability. Shouldn’t your sales incentive program work this hard to engage your participants? Knowing how and when to nudge your participants could mean the difference between blowing past your goals and scrambling to explain a disastrous failure. This eBook maps the sales incentive journey which participants embark upon when engaging with a program. We’ve developed it from insights gained during almost 50 years of observing and influencing participants, and it can help put your program on the road to predictable success. Click below to download this eBook.

What challenges are your organization wrestling with? Revenue growth? Product and service innovation? Profitabilty? Change management? Agility? Complexity? No matter what issues you're dealing with, you have the internal resources to address them. You just might not be taking advantage of them. Click below to download this eBook.

The Strategic Insurance Agency Association is a national alliance of independent insurance agencies dedicated to the creation, retention, growth, and continued success of the independent insurance agency distribution system. Through Moodle by eThink, SIAA was able to create a thriving online university to connect members with shared knowledge and resources.

Carbon Black is a leading security company that detects malicious behavior and helps organizations defend against them. In this case study learn how Carbon Black uses Moodle by eThink to improve efficiencies in onboarding and professional development. With Moodle by eThink, Carbon Black has created a role-based onboarding process, utilizes analytics and reporting for measurable learning, and has a centralized location to organize and easily share market knowledge.

Is training evaluation a topic that strikes fear in your heart? Does it create anxiety because you feel uncertain about what to do, or if what you are doing is correct? It does not need to be that stressful.