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

What's a positive deviant? Researcher Jerry Sternin discovered that, "In every group there are a minority of people who find better and more successful solutions to the challenges at hand. Even though they have access to exactly the same resources as the rest of the group, their uncommon practices or behaviors allow them to flourish".

Why involve your SMEs and leaders? In doing our work of implementing Microlearning, we often have to design creative ways to help our clients easily understand the process. One of the best approaches is to involve SMEs, stakeholders and leaders. Encourage them to visualize and brainstorm decision-making points. When they are involved, they provide valuable guidance and experience the process as well. They feel and visualize the ideas. The 23 models and post-it notes brainstorming makes the process both educational and well thought out. When team members meet to discuss plans, problems and solutions, they can refer to the 23 models as a possible source of solutions.  Click below to download this white paper.  

Whether you are developing a new course, selecting a new LMS or thinking about developing a mobile app you'll need to understand what's involved in designing and delivering content on mobile devices from smartphones to tablets to hybrids, this webinar will provide a overview of what you need to define, how to sketch out concepts, prototyping and testing your ideas and then how to deliver. You'll learn about apps vs web apps and understand which works best.

Here are 10 Big Impact Areas for Microlearning. Click below to download the white paper.

While our world is becoming increasingly more interconnected through cyberspace and international airports, success in global business requires more than a passport and a plane ticket. Success in global business is a function of people - those with an ability to operate effectively in intercultural and multicultural situations—people with cultural agility.

In today’s technologically charged business world, organizations must quickly adapt to emerging technologies or risk being left behind. Technology is necessary to remain competitive and at the forefront of change. As more training programs become virtual and learning moves beyond the event itself, a transformation to digital content delivery is essential to support today’s workforce.

You slave away at designing your training programs. You struggle to get people excited, enrolled, and in the ‘seats’. The program commences and everyone gives you awesome feedback. You feel successful. Then the momentum dies. How do you keep training excitement alive? How can you boost pre-training anticipation and post-training involvement?

Competing in the world of selling today means understanding the changing world of your buyers and adjusting your sales approach accordingly. The biggest change for sellers is that the game has gotten harder, and sellers need to execute at a higher level than ever before to compete. Committing to this level of change is the difference between college sports and pro. The players are bigger. The game is faster. The conditions are more challenging.

This interactive session is effectively designed to highlight best practices to create, maintain, enhance or even revolutionize a company’s culture in all areas of the business. Jim Knight, former Hard Rock Training executive and now Founder of Knight Speaker, will discuss key strategies to transform any organization’s culture, regardless of the current state of the state.

Maturity can be defined in many ways for a training organization. There’s maturity in the sense of tenure and respect within your organization, as well as maturity in the sense of trainees taking your information and applying it to their jobs. There’s even maturity in recognizing you have a lot of areas in which you need to grow. But what about your digital content program? There is a path to maturity that will let you progress nicely along without getting overwhelmed with all the options—shiny, fun new technology—available to you. There is a way to plan a digital content maturity path that will eventually lead to impactful and engaging training methods.  

The virtual learning environment is heavily focused on the visual (the way most learners best take-in information) and the auditory (the way learners are least able to take-in information). Given this dichotomy, the instructional design process must be adapted to ensure that learners come away with concrete learning outcomes not simply "information".

Improving Outcomes in the Age of Online Training If there’s one challenge every corporate trainer faces, it’s this: Creating a collaborative online experience is hard. The benefits of in-person trainings don't always translate well into virtual environments. Too often, there's no way to measure engagement or create the feedback loops that are vital to success. Thankfully, there is a solution. New virtual training software features are making it possible to create true-to-life online trainings that improve the in-person experience. This white paper will help you gain a greater understanding of the complexities facing corporate trainers today and the steps you can take to achieve better outcomes online.  

Need to take your training from ho-hum to Oh YEAH! But not sure where to start? Look no further! Through hands-on activities, this session will teach you how to use several easy and quick techniques to make your training more fun, interesting and effective.

Video works. It generates buzz and gets results. Here are just a few reasons why video production is worth your time and energy—now more than ever before. At least 65% of people learn by seeing 75% of the workforce will be Millennials by 2025* 70% of Gen Z watches more than 2 hours of YouTube daily *Millennials are some of the heaviest consumers of video as a medium to date. WHAT’S IN THE GUIDE: A brief business case for microlearning videos Typical training video production roles What to expect during pre-production, production, and post-production Terminology you’ll hear throughout the process

As HTML5 is gaining ground as a standard for rich browser based applications, training departments now face the challenge of converting their legacy flash based elearning to HTML5. The steady inroads made by iPad as a tool for corporate content consumption has left many companies with no option but to move towards HTML5. So what should you watch out for when you either build content using HTML5 or migrate your flash content to HTML5?

Team selling today is no longer required just for blockbuster business-to-business sales pitches. Whether you are in consulting, investment banking, or technology or are a financial advisor, home remodeler, or lawyer, pivotal meetings with customers and prospects now often involve more people — on both sides of the table. In fact, according to Harvard Business Review, "…the number of people involved in B2B solutions purchases has climbed from an average of 5.4 two years ago to 6.8 today."

Learning is best achieved when learners are pushed to the edge and provoked to think and make decisions. Scenarios can effectively engage and draw them into the learning process. However, these can be costly and challenging to develop. After hours of toil, you may still end up with weak and unappealing scenarios.