A good tool set enables learning designers to supercharge their learning solutions with minimal effort. This is a list of essential tools you should be familiar with.

Digital learning offers the flexibility to provide personalized paths to learners. In this guide, learn how to apply branching to create not only personalized learning paths but also adaptive content, life-like exercises and responsive interactions.

The Bottomline on ROI presents the rationale for developing and implementing a comprehensive measurement and evaluation process to demonstrate the impact and return on investment (ROI) of training and development programs and processes. This session will introduce the ROI Methodology®, the most applied and documented approach to showing the value of investments in training and development, HR, performance improvement, and other fields.

Despite catchy buzzwords such as "quiet quitting" and "bare minimum Monday," employees are as eager as ever to acquire new skills and grow their careers. Meanwhile, HR leaders are ramping up talent mobility initiatives to improve workforce planning, enable internal talent sourcing, and retain employees, even while facing economic downturns and fierce competition.  

Retaining existing talent is second only to recruiting new talent on the current list of biggest CEO concerns [Fortune/Deloitte, Fall 2022].  

What could go wrong? Everything or nothing, as this session vividly demonstrates through a creative combination of comedic act and presentation analysis.  

A font can make or break your presentation. Legibility and professionalism are critical. After we get geeky, I share the latest trends and I show you how to make amazing slides with simple typography tips and tricks. We make eight designs using simple and clever techniques. You can use what you learn immediately to make your job easier. Do not miss this insightful and valuable session.  

"I'd like to give you some feedback...."   These might be the seven most dreaded words one could imagine! However, effective feedback that is given to support and encourage improvement becomes fuel for growth.

Transform "satisfied" members, customers, employees and students into LIFETIME fans. Discover deep insights by asking the right questions in the right way. Recapture lost time and money. These are the documented results of observing the 9 psychological principles that govern how people respond to requests for feedback. The 9 Principles of Feedback is based on 96,000,000 data points gathered from 550 organizations. Simply DOWNLOAD this infographic and compare each step to your own surveys, quizzes, assessments and evaluation forms to identify the gaps. By understanding and applying each Principle, you will immediately increase participation rates, gather more accurate and meaningful results, and create an audience that WANTS to answer every question you ask.

Asking questions that already have answers. Asking for changes that you cannot implement. Failing to define choices. Mismatched response scales. These are just 4 of the 10 devastating errors that smother participation rates, annoys respondents, and renders your survey results meaningless. But so easy to avoid! Download these 10 free lessons from the world's most-read survey guide: The Survey Playbook. Simply compare the illustrated examples with your own surveys, quizzes, assessments and evaluation forms to identify gaps. By addressing these common issues, you will get far higher response rates, more meaningful results, and you audience will look forward to answering your questions the next time you ask.

You’ve got a great idea for a new training program at your institution. It could be an onboarding program to curb employee turnover and increase satisfaction, or a leadership program meant to train up the next generation of your workforce’s change-makers. Either way, there’s one thing you need before any training program can get off the ground: the support of existing leadership. One way to convince your leadership team of the benefits of a new training program is to show them the cost of not having one.   In this resource, you'll learn about the return on investment for training programs, you’ll discover:  How to calculate the ROI of your training programs  How to identify what your organization is losing without a training program  How to maximize your ROI with training  An ROI workbook that makes it easy to see your savings at a glance

If you aren’t tasked with creating accessible courses already, expect it! When 1 in 4 learners self-identifies as an adult with functional disabilities (according to the CDC), creating Section 508 and WCAG-compliant courses is in demand.  

When it comes to performance management, 95% of employees are dissatisfied with their company’s performance evaluation process, and 90% believe that it doesn’t provide accurate information. With the overwhelming majority being so dissatisfied, it’s easy to see why accountability is an issue in today’s workforce.  

More than 58% of employees prefer to learn at their own pace and ‘on-demand’, according to a McKinsey study. With people development shifting from formal classroom contexts to self-directed learning models, personalization has a major role to play in driving learning from a one-size fits all to a customized segment-of-one approach.

Most businesses understand the power of video. They want to use more video in their communications, but get stuck on how to operationalize it. While video is essential for engaging today’s stakeholders, scaling video creation across the organization is hard, time-consuming, and expensive. In this session, Vyond’s Head of Product Marketing, Enrique Olives, will discuss how intelligent video creation utilizing AI-driven features can improve audience engagement and drive business results.  

Have your DEI efforts lost momentum? Reignite them with Nova's 30-Day DEI Jumpstart: A four-week guide to kick off your organization's diversity, equity, and inclusion goals. The guide provides content, resources, and discussion questions wrapped around weekly themes to activate your teams for maximum impact.  

What’s the number one issue facing L&D professionals today? It’s "Scrap Learning," a term that describes the gap or wasteland between training delivered and not applied back on the job. Said differently, it’s the flip side of training transfer. You might be wondering how big the problem is. According to several research studies, estimates range between 45 and 85 percent. These percentages make it a critical business issue because it wastes both money and time, two precious organization resources. 

While Learning Experience Design is rightly praised as the successor to traditional instructional design, there is some consternation about just what it entails. Some think there’s nothing new, others view it as a panacea. In this session, we’ll take a particular view of it, and then elaborate on some important elements that frequently are missed yet are the essential missing pieces.  

Have you ever had this conversation with an SME (subject-matter expert)?  SME: "This needs to be in the course."  You: "I’m not sure it does." 

Content often isn't enough when it comes to improving human performance. It is critical that your learning experiences take into account content and the context which can be unlocked using learning experience design. Join us to learn more about tools and approaches that can help you design effective learning experiences.  

The time and energy company managers spend trying to keep their people focused on results is substantial. In fact, it can be a major resource drain that significantly undermines company performance. Managers must therefore find effective ways to unleash the potential of their people and ensure that they are in sync with their company’s visions and objectives. But how?  Organizational leaders must become empowered to move forward to realize their vision and goals. This can only be done to the extent that they are able to help their employees avoid being focused on themselves. Our aim is to allow them to do this. In this Q&A, we clarify how changing mindset lays the foundation for the productive, accountable, and collaborative behaviors that are essential for a dramatic and sustained improvement in both personal and organizational performance.

Augmented reality (AR) is a widely used technology in games, marketing, and everyday apps, but what about learning and development? Where do you get started? How should you use it? We will answer these questions through discussion, hands-on development, and interaction in this session.  

We are currently living in an uncertain economic climate, and companies are feeling the effects of the global recession. While everyone is trying to survive and minimize losses, it's important to remember that a company's culture can make or break its performance in tough times. Having a culture that is resilient and recession-proof can go a long way in ensuring your business's success.  

Whether or not you consider yourself a techie, this is a must-attend session for you. Every L&D person now wonders how ChatGPT would aid and enhance their design, methods, technologies, and their tools. ChatGPT is the most recent, December 22, 2022 release, of OpenAI.com's - a conversational interaction with A.I.