Are you confident your important presentations always lead to the results you want? 

Inflation is up, unemployment is down, the stock market is volatile, and how we work has forever changed. But one thing that remains the same is the need to show the value of what we do. In fact, given today’s flexible work environment and uncertainty in the economy, showing the value of our work has never been more critical or necessary. The good news is that it is doable, regardless of your role or the projects for which you are responsible. 

Are you looking for ways to start new habits that promote inclusion and the psychological safety for all of your colleagues?

"If you build it, they will come," right? Unfortunately, this is rarely the case for training. Creating a successful program goes beyond selecting courses and implementing a learning management system. Success for your learning and development (L&D) team means high utilization of employee eLearning courses and strong learner engagement. Yet, engaging learners at your organization can be a daunting task, so we’ve gathered simple, cost-effective strategies from companies just like yours to share with you. Download this white paper to read more. 

Persona-based marketing has been used for decades to help craft targeted promotions and messages that appeal to prospects. Personas have a role in sales and marketing webinars as well, but they are often misused, resulting in diminished effectiveness and persuasiveness of your message.

Are you caught in the eternal struggle between deadlines and quality? You want to create fun and engaging learning experiences but, burdened with work overload, there is never enough time. In this webinar, two learning solution engineers from ELB Learning will share proven methods, tips, and tricks that you can quickly implement to become the next eLearning superstar.

Animation is a critical component in presentations. It paces the flow of information, making things clearer for your audience. It supports more effective storytelling with the visuals and animations doing a lot of the work, helping people understand the key points. And it can be used to produce beautiful-looking presentations, with the animation enhancing your design, making everything appear more professional.

To be successful in a global environment, leaders need to broaden their mindset to sidestep cultural bias and other pitfalls. Multinational workplaces require an amplified skillset to navigate across cultures with agility and to leverage the diversity of teams, organizations, clients and partners. Failing to unlock the competitive advantage of a multicultural workforce is synonymous with missed opportunities and mediocre performance.

What good does it do participants when the trainer shows he/she can do it? The real measure of impact if whether the lesson is caught and applied by the audience. Breakout rooms are a tool to help you facilitate peer learning and make your job as trainer easier. A favorite rule of thumb at BPG is never do for participants what they can do for themselves. The more active they are in their learning, the more they remember and ultimately apply.

Sometimes it seems as if today's "winners" have some kind of magic going for them. They always seem to make just the right impression - even with difficult people - and get exactly what they want.

Score Winning Results Using Games for Spaced Learning No matter how engaged your learners are during a training session, they tend to forget what they learned over time—a phenomenon known as the "forgetting curve." Leveraging training games, in short, repetitive sessions spaced out over time (often referred to as spaced learning) has been proven to work! Download this eBook to improve training recall and minimize a loss of knowledge.

Did you know that organizations with a high-impact learning culture have 37% higher employee productivity? Download your free guide, "Build a Learning Culture in 5 Steps," and learn how you can develop a learning culture within your organization.

Training programs can influence employees' attitudes toward the company. Professional online courses are a great opportunity for skill development. Thanks to the numerous innovative features of the learning platform, employees can make the most of their time and take great courses.   Instructors often struggle to deliver high-quality skill development programs. Not only are they easy to create using MATRIX, but the deployment of modules is also efficient. Also, employees like to participate in training programs because they are involved and include innovative features. What you will learn from this brochure: The most important skills in the workplace How trainers can promote skills development with MATRIX How MATRIX can boost employee retention rates

There are many ways to wreck a PowerPoint slide. Behold these before-and-after gems from some of the worst train wrecks we've ever seen.

The Equal Pay Act of 1963. The 9-to-5 movement. Sheryl Sandberg’s Lean In. The battle for gender equality in the workplace has a long history and it’s one that’s still being fought in every industry and level of work, from C-suite offices and boardrooms to service centers and shop floors. Along the way, new terms have emerged as our collective understanding of gender dynamics has grown: the glass ceiling, the broken rung, impostor syndrome, pink-collar jobs. But what is the state of gender diversity and equality in the workplace in 2022? How much progress has been made in closing the gender pay gap and uplifting underrepresented groups? To answer this question, we’ll look at recent statistics and headline-making stories about women in the workplace, piecing together the overall picture of gender equality today and how to move forward. Before we dive into the data, and anecdata, it’s important to get some context on gender equality as a whole. Discrimination doesn’t start and stop at the office door, it affects every aspect of life, from the personal to the professional. And it begins much, much earlier than you may think.

This the third in Mike’s incredibly popular Super Simple PowerPoint Slide Design series. Learn how to make simple yet engaging and professional slides quickly. Mike shares new, innovative designs that you can easily make—when you know how. Using the latest trends, discover tips, tricks, and techniques to developing amazing slides. Less is best in this session.

Game-based learning has proven to increase employee participation, training enjoyment, and knowledge retention. But what if your strategy is off and you’re not seeing the desired results?

PowerPoint, some people shudder at its name. If you are someone who does that, I would challenge you to take a closer look at this incredibly powerful tool.

Over the past 18 months, we’ve seen a global pandemic, social unrest not seen since the civil rights movement, working parents stressed with having to home school, and a country deeply divided, we’ve also seen a changing workplace, where remote employment now being the norm in many office locations, and employees demanding that DEI (diversity / equity / inclusion) becomes a corporate initiative.  The boundaries between work - life have never been less clear.

You can use Adobe Captivate in many ways. It has many different features to help you achieve the best eLearning for your audience and the topics they need to learn. One of the features you may have never used is Video Demos. Like Software Simulations, you can focus on capturing the full screen, part of the screen, or an application window. However, Video Demos also give you full fidelity of the captured screen movements and choices made rather than creating a separate slide for each. They also let you capture your microphone and your webcam video, so you can guide learners directly. Publish the final result as an MP4 and you can upload it to your LMS or your favorite video site. v

Training can be a costly process but it’s an important part of employee engagement and retention. With any training plan, leadership will want to know how much the training is going to cost, the profitability of the training, as well as what the value of it is to the organization overall.   That’s why proving return on investment (ROI) is a vital step in any training strategy. ROI helps leaders better understand how the efforts of the organization are performing and what changes need to be made to get the desired results. In this ebook, you’ll learn: The training costs of compliance, onboarding, and upskilling/reskilling  How much it will cost an organization if they don’t train employees  How to calculate ROI for new managers, compliance, and onboarding plans

A recent Fortune/Deloitte survey found that 71% of CEOs are anticipating that this year’s biggest business disrupter will be a skills shortage - costing businesses trillions of dollars by the end of the decade.    Finding the right kind of training to address the skills gap is a huge challenge. The marketplace is awash with traditional programs intended to boost a standard array of skillsets. But many of these won’t complement the specific transformation you’re looking to make. Especially as L&D teams are increasingly challenged to align learning programs to their organization’s strategic business goals.  How you choose to train your teams has never been more important. Learn why work-based learning is superior to traditional training and 6 key reasons businesses are embracing it to future-proof their business.

When you think of animation, do you think of flying bullets and spiraling headlines? Many people do, unfortunately, and so animation suffers a bad reputation. In fact, one of your best opportunities to shine as a content creator and presenter is through smart, effective, and appropriate use of animation and in this hour, we’ll explore exactly what that means. 

Experts and futurists are unanimous that the NEW important skill for all workers is critical thinking. Why is that? The reality is that we are in a global economy where change is rapid, the unpredictability of events abound, there is the shrinking of the new workforce, and of course, digitalization. Many of the roles demand beyond the usual tasks and roles. They need to be self-directed and constantly critically thinking about how to solve and manage the unknowns and unpredictability of work.