As organizations continue to expand globally and training budgets continue to decrease, developing effective learning programs has become a significant challenge. Learning management systems and basic online learning tools have fallen short in providing an engaging learning experience, resulting in a need for more effective training programs.

Is your organization ready to take advantage of all the benefits the world of on-demand training offers? In this guide, we’ll look at the top three challenges companies face with training their workforces today, and how to effectively implement on-demand training options into the organization’s overall culture of learning and employee development. Click below to download this White Paper.

The Case of Gina is a Story-Based eLearning Design where a sales person is presented a real-life situation. By Ray Jimenez, Ph.D. 2014

Get a sneak preview of a couple of the sessions Lou will be teaching during Training 2013. This free webinar is an hour-long overview on Strategies to Combat Scope Creep and some of the Fatal Mistakes All Learning Developers Make.

As learning departments are faced with resource and budget challenges along with increased demand to correlate L&D with business impact (specifically, ROI), the pressure has never been greater for learning and development teams to perform. it's important to see what the future of these departments have in store. In this paper, we share results of a survey from learning and development professionals, revealing the major challenges learning and development currently face, how departments are rating their performance, what will influence the way learning changes in the next 5-10 years, and what professionals will prioritize and work to improve in 2018.

Negotiation is a story-scenario based learning design where learners are placed in a real-life situation.  Using stories effectively move learners from too much technical information to real-life story situations. By Ray Jimenez, Ph.D. 2014

You know them. You’ve sat through them. You’ve felt the pain. Training so lecture laden that you wish you had a magic wand to make it all go away! Well, NOW you can! We’ll show you how to use your powers for GOOD and change up how you write activities so that your learners will be engaged instead of disengaged.

Nexans "Too Much Down Time" is a sample of a software and technical story lesson where content is taught within the context of a story and real-life setting. By Ray Jimenez, Ph.D. 2014

Businesses are witnessing an epidemic: the lack and loss of experience in employees. In the past, U.S. Government Accountability Office (USGAO) data showed , that for every 10 employees, 7 are experienced and 3 are new. Today, this is reversed; 6 are new and 4 are experienced. The problem impacts the profits and performances of all types of organizations.

Those leading a function have arguably the greatest impact on overall business performance, yet organizations continue to underinvest in developing this level of their talent pipeline. Many organizations are missing a huge opportunity to drive business growth. Why? With significant spans of responsibility, function leaders offer immense competitive value. While strategic executives determine the company's mission and direction, functional executives control expenses, manage resources, make decisions about specific projects that will be undertaken, and drive the success or failure of many strategic priorities. Learn why the development of function leaders is an imperative in the new MDA white paper, Developing Those Who Lead Functions: A Critical Leverage Point for Boosting Organizational Performance. Click below to download the white paper.

In this webinar, you’ll learn research-based principles and practices for using PowerPoint to train more effectively, meaning that your trainees will understand more clearly and remember longer what you tell them. This webinar will also demonstrate the interactive features of PowerPoint. You’ll discover ways to use animation and personas to tell stories and portray scenarios. Practical step-by-step examples of slide makeovers will show you how you can create dynamic and engaging slides.

The Big Why We are at a critical juncture. At this very moment, the world is experiencing a monumental shift in the way everyone works and learns. A Fourth Industrial Revolution1 is ushering in cyber-physical systems involving entirely new capabilities for people and machines. We’re seeing the impact in retail, construction, manufacturing and healthcare. No industry is immune. These sweeping advancements in technology will require augmenting current skills and developing new ones to meet the demands of the future. Not just proficiency skills, but social and managerial skills that will have tremendous impact on how everyone, and every "thing," works together. The next 10 years will be completely different from the last 50. Yet the majority of organizations aren’t keeping pace, offering stagnant content and stale learning experiences. Click below to download the white paper.

In surveys, employers consistently say that verbal communication is the most important skill they want in their employees. For internal meetings and sales, presentation skills are essential. But how do you train employees to improve these skills?

Many studies show the more direct we are in our approach to learning, the greater the depth and length of retention. More specifically, the clearer we make our learning, the easier it becomes for someone to remember. So, the clear path to learning is making it simple. And making it simple means breaking it down into small parts. Click below to download this white paper.

The convergence of visual design, neuroscience, artificial intelligence and storytelling provides eLearning designers and developers an opportunity to "teleport" the learners’ minds. This trend presents eLearning designers with a strategic advantage to provide solutions that can be solved with visually interactive story learning.

Adobe Captivate 2017 is power-packed with a brand-new, easy-to-use workflow for creating responsive eLearning courses. This new workflow will allow you to easily create responsive projects, using fluid boxes instead of breakpoints, which makes it possible for you to design content for a single screen, and it works right on any device — any size or orientation. This white paper takes a step-by-step approach through a workflow to create a responsive project using Fluid Boxes. Click below to download this white paper.

Do stories in eLearning have to be true? How much can you embellish? What you should never lie about? Authenticity is a characteristic that builds or destroys trust in the learners’ minds or hearts. Learners know when a story is fabricated or when they are true. This impacts believability and applicability of the learning ideas. It becomes a crucial problem in eLearning design, because learners only interface with what we show and tell electronically.

In this whitepaper, you'll learn:   What learning culture "fit" means for training, development, and growth What issues arise when a company operates under the wrong learning culture How to measure the success and strength of your learning culture

How do we develop eLearning content that teaches content yet is also short, concise, snappy, fast and instant? The demand for fast, rapid, instant and on-the-go learning plague eLearning designers, developers and leaders. Many of us are still stuck with the very old and antiquated "data dump" and "learners must learn" paradigms. We are shackled by our design philosophy. Yet, we are forced to comply with the new affordances of mobile tools, faster Internet connections to cater to busy and overloaded learners.

Even in today’s digital-first world, there are still some people who wax poetic about reading a ‘real’ print book. They emphasize that it feels good to hold a physical book in their hands. Manually turning pages is a satisfying practice. When was the last time anyone said something similar about their training materials? People often ask ‘how can you demonstrate that digital materials are effective?’ But do they have a method for demonstrating print is effective? In this paper, you will learn trends in training content delivery, the benefits to digital beyond simple cost savings, and how digital helps content owners and trainers become more effective.

Project Management and Methodologies are really twins separated at birth. A smart and busy project manager knows the benefit of leveraging a standard development process methodology as a 'cheat sheet' to determine the tasks needed for a project to be successful.

At the end of a really effective corporate MOOC the stadium cheers, the leadership high-fives, and you get to do your touchdown dance in the endzone, yeah baby! But what if you’re in the huddle trying to figure out how to run that MOOC, the one that will win the learning game for your learners and your organization? This playbook will walk you through the basic components of choosing a program to run as a MOOC and how to execute it effectively for the utmost impact on your learners and on your organization’s priorities.

As a Human Resources executive, trainer, and consultant Ralph Jacobson used many of the conventional approaches to leadership and change management training. He found most did little to help the organization achieve its strategic objectives. Despite billions of dollars spent on leadership training, employee engagement surveys suggest low morale and followership. Authors such as Pfau/Kay, Gary Hamel, Barbara Kellerman confirm the assessment.

Congratulations on your new position! Being a manager is an exciting, rewarding, and challenging experience. While you're excited about your new role, you're also probably nervous.  It's normal to be nervous. After all, you have a lot on your plate as a manager. On top of your own work, you might also be responsible for providing feedback, delegating tasks, managing former co-workers or friends, cultivating employee engagement, and motivating employees.  Relationship management is the primary focus of your new role. Developing your emotional intelligence and working on skills like empathy, organizational awareness, emotional self-control, leadership, and strategic thinking are crucial to becoming a successful manager. Many of these responsibilities might be new for you. So how should you get ready for this position? Cultivating the right mindset is a great place to start. You can also think through possible challenging scenarios and put some solutions down on paper. The New Manager Playbook is full of actionable advice like this to help you start thinking like a manager.  In this eBook, you'll find:  How to cultivate the right mindset for your new position Essential skills of a successful manager  The most common challenges new managers face and how to overcome them Strategies to combat doubts or concerns about yourself Prompts to help find solutions in challenging situations