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Improve your Virtual Presence: Tips to Transform Your Training and Engage Your Audience
Learn how to fine-tune your content, incorporate virtual tools and adjust your delivery style to improve your virtual presence, transform your online training and engage your audience.

The Happiness Advantage at Work Part 2: Changing Social Scripts to Positive
What makes happiness at work so hard? The truth is that happy cultures are difficult to build and sustain. First, organizations must change the powerful social scripts that inadvertently undermine positive environments and behaviors. Second, business priorities must demonstrate a real commitment to happiness as a strategy for success.

5 Myths About Measuring Training’s Impact and Why They’ll Get You Into Trouble
There are a number ideologies and beliefs on how to best measure the impact of training. As a result, it can be difficult to distinguish myths from best practices. During this webinar, our prominent measurement experts will provide "practitioner-focused" solutions for the most common misconceptions about measuring business impact.

Captivate Features, Tips and Tricks That You MUST Know!
It's easy to get started with Adobe Captivate but there's a lot of power under the hood! Some features are not well known but the more you know them, the better your instructional design will be. Using the layers of sophistication of these features means you will save a lot of time, deliver more engaging and personalized learning, and be able to tap into resources more easily. Joe Ganci, a Certified Adobe Captivate expert, and Dr. Pooja Jaisingh, an Adobe Evangelist, will take you through the Captivate features you need to make the most of this powerful tool.

Stories in our brains boost learning.

Are You Prototyping Your Future eLearning? Or Are You Still Designing for the Past?
Experts say we are now in our third generation of eLearning. During the first, we were able to upload PDFs and PowerPoint files and let our learners study online. The second generation featured rapid authoring software, which allowed us to breeze through and add narration and interactive elements, along with some other really cool stuff. Now, for the third generation, we have an abundance of options ranging from blended, social, gamification, and cloud to TINCAN, among many others.

The Happiness Advantage at Work Part 1: Unraveling the Happiness Mystery
Why can’t we all be happy at work? This question, and more importantly, its answers and solutions, unlocks the key to the next big pay-off in the modern economy.

Tether Your Space Junk! a Systematic Approach to Managing Asynchronous Learning
Have TONS of asynchronous learning out there that no one’s using? You’re not alone. There’s been a trend that more is better. And so over the years, we have "stuffed" the clouds and taken a "Build it and they will come" mentality.

Play Your Cards Right
This webinar is about a series of engaging and effective card games that deliver activities-based, results-oriented training. The games use a deck of 52 cards, each with a piece of practical advice related to a specific interpersonal skill such as building trust or leading a team. Each card is self-contained, evidence-based, and useful.

Beyond the Training Event: 6 Best Practices to Ensure Learning Results
You know training events on their own aren’t enough to ensure lasting performance improvement, yet you are under pressure to deliver solutions more quickly and with fewer resources than ever before. What can you do when you don’t have time or support for full-blown performance consulting but want your training to genuinely enhance individual and organizational results?

Take the Bite Out of Hiring: Abandon Competencies for Lean Key Accountabilities
There is a clear connection between engagement, performance and profit. It is imperative to drive performance results at all levels of the organization to seize market position and steer growth. Recruiting talented candidates is not enough; it's crucial that people are assigned to the specific roles where their talents will have the greatest effect on achieving company goals, and where they are most likely to remain fully engaged.
Creating the Mobile Virtual Classroom
It should come as no surprise that mobile technology in training has been widely adopted by the professional learning audience - fundamental adult learning principles relating to relevance of material and timeliness of training are supported by mobile in ways few (if any) other platforms can. Mobile technology provides unparalleled access and flexibility of delivery to enhance learner outreach.

Learning & Development and Its Importance to Employee Engagement
Mr. Sheridan will outline and quantify the importance of Learning and Development to building a culture of true Employee Engagement, where employees are so jazzed to get to work each day and deliver nothing less than superior results.

Manage Work. Inspire People. Three Ways to Transform Your Managers into Leaders.
The classic role of a manager is to direct processes, projects, and people. Yet, behind the endless meetings and growing to-do lists hides the part of their role that - when done right - will accelerate success for your organization. The art of engaging and inspiring people is the game-changer that separates managers from leaders.

Build a Better Reaction Sheet: Tips from Jim and Wendy Kirkpatrick
Have you been using the same evaluation form after your training programs for as long as you can remember? Are you struggling to get an acceptable response rate? Do you wonder what people REALLY think of your training? Are you certain that you are even asking the right questions?

Should You Be a Consultant? 5 Questions to Ask Before You Make the Leap!
"I'm a consultant!" Sounds glamorous and important! It may be the key to the large income increase that you want. And it would be great to be your own boss! Or would it? Why do so many training professionals leave organizations, start their own consulting practices, and then end up in a different corporate job (if they can find one) within a year or two!

Do you do it all? Trainer, Designer, Artist, Developer, Deliverer, Tracker, Etc? Welcome to the World of the Do-It-Yourself Learning Professionals
It’s 3:00 am and you are thrilled at the discovery that you can actually prepare beautiful graphics for your training. You never thought you could. You are amazed with yourself.
The following day, at the meeting, the boss asks:
"Wow, how did you do all of this? You are a designer-trainer, and now you are also an artist and developer. How do you do it?"

Sketchnoting: Capturing Ideas and Concepts with Visual Narratives
Have you ever had an important meeting with your boss and diligently took notes as if you’re transcribing the entire conversation? Have you ever anticipated taking notes at a conference keynote session because you were looking forward to the person speaking? How often do you go back and read your own notes, though? Chances are we don't revisit our notes very often. Why do we take notes if we don’t intend to do anything with them? Our intentions and our motivation are there, but most often we end up looking hazily at our own handwriting trying to decipher a note.

E is for Engagement
Use this infographic in your organization to kick-start discussion on how to bridge the chasm of The Disengagement Canyon.
For change to be successful, it must be clearly defined, aligned, understood and sustained. To do this successfully, address the 3 Critical Engagement Points in the infographic.

Coming Alive: Creating An Engaged Workforce
Engagement is what motivates people to not only feel dedicated to their job and their life, but also to feel rewarded by what they do and how they do it. It pushes people to look differently and go above and beyond not because they have to but because they want to. With 68.5% of the US workforce identifying themselves as disengaged, resulting in $550 Billion a year in lost productivity, companies today cannot turn a blind eye to the importance of having a fully engaged team.

TRAINING IN TOUGH TIMES We need to ask ourselves those age-old questions that make training and individual trainers invaluable parts of an organization looking to “do more with less.”
"Getting by" calls for answering some age old questions in a brand-new year. As the American economy continues to try to recover, many workers begin to wonder if another round of layoffs will occur in their companies. While jobs are being added in the government sector, the growth of new jobs in the private sector has been slow. Businesses, even those doing well, have shown a reluctance to invest when there are so many uncertainties.

PERFORMANCE ART Lessons from the ice arena about coaching skills and pacing yourself.
I’ve come to realize over the years that some of life’s best lessons are learned in some rather
strange locations. One of the oddest places at which I’ve "gone to school" has to be the ice show
at Busch Gardens in Tampa, FL. The teacher was a performer named Albert Lucas.

IT’S A FUNNY THING - Many rules for comedians’ improvisation also can be applied to training.
It’s probably occurred to you that the comedian’s art and the trainer’s art have a lot in common. Over the years, I’ve worked with Disney Institute and Disney University
and their trainers a number of times. And on these trips, I take advantage of the opportunity to learn from them, as well.

Workshop Tip #53: How Small Should Small Bites Learning Be?
Small bites content is small, standalone, useful and accessible content. More importantly, it is learningcontent needed instantly for a micro task or activity at work.