Join us as we explore how AI-powered digital twins are revolutionizing the learning and development landscape by converting human expertise into scalable, durable, and accessible resources. This cutting-edge solution creates digital replicas of your organization's top instructors, subject matter experts, and L&D professionals, enabling personalized, 24/7 learning experiences for your entire workforce.  

Good story design offers interesting ways for learning designers to adapt the learning experience to their learners. One of the ways that storytelling can be adapted into effective eLearning is through the use of branching scenarios. However, it is a time consuming and resource intensive process to build branching scenario with detailed stories and rich characters. But now, AI can help with that!

What if the path to breakthrough wasn’t up—but down? In this reflective and empowering session, discover the Rappel framework, a five-step model for growth that transforms fear into fuel and mindset into momentum. You’ll explore how self-awareness, emotional intelligence, and clarity can shift culture from performative to purpose-driven. Whether you're building a better team or a better you, walk away with actionable tools to break barriers, deepen connection, and lead with authenticity. It’s time to Rappel—and Break Through To A Better You!  

Don’t let AI mistakes cost you credibility—or clients. By its own admission, AI-generated content may contain errors and often lacks the depth of insight your clients truly need. Without proper oversight, your credibility can be ruined with stakeholders in an instant.   

There are substantial compromises inherent in all of today's workplace training solutions, most them revolve around: scalability, engagement or affordability.  However, we believe a new category of solutions is emerging; in this paper, we introduce the Digital Experiential Training category. This new category of solutions is poised to resolve the compromises of current approaches and set a new standard for workplace training which is long overdue.

Is your virtual training inclusive and accessible? Does it provide opportunities for learners with disabilities such as low vision, hearing issues, or neurodiversity to participate? In this interactive session with virtual learning expert Cindy Huggett, you will learn techniques to include everyone in your classes. You'll learn what questions to ask during the design phase, and strategies to use when creating activities. You'll also discover software settings to enable for a better learner experience, and facilitation techniques that invite and include everyone. You’ll leave this session with ideas and strategies to increase the accessibility of virtual training.

Gameplay is a powerful tool for developing both hard and soft skills in learners. This eBook explores seven common types of gameplay that can effectively support learning objectives and skill development. This isn’t a comprehensive list, but it’s a strong starting point for building game-based learning experiences that feel fun, relevant, and impactful.

Middle managers are catalyst for most organizations. They're the ones caught between strategic shifts from above and the emotional whiplash of teams below. And when change hits—whether it’s restructuring, market disruption, or internal transformation—they’re expected to adapt fast, keep others aligned, and deliver results.  

No matter what your role, every employee deserves to feel safe and supported to do their job. However, personality conflicts preoccupy us, slow us down and even stop us dead in our tracks. The stress level is off the charts and we can feel like we have no options.  Wait, don’t quit! There’s another way.  

AI in learning and development (L&D) presents transformational opportunities for organizations to create and deliver high-impact learning at scale. However, this fast evolving technology does not come without its share of risks and dead ends. While successful applications of AI improve the efficiency and reach of learning programs, poor implementation choices can lead to wasted investment, security issues and ineffective learning experiences. The key to success lies in approaching AI strategically to solve specific learning challenges. Leading organizations are succeeding by focusing on:   Clear learning objectives Augmenting rather than replacing human expertise Maintaining strong data governance Measuring impact on both learning and business outcomes This eBook, based on a webinar featuring NovoEd and produced by Brandon Hall Group™, provides a practical framework for understanding where AI can truly add value to your learning programs and how to implement it effectively while avoiding common pitfalls. In the webinar, NovoEd CTO and Co-Founder Farnaz Ronaghi shared insights on AI in learning, drawing from her experience designing the platform at Stanford and her research on collaborative learning environments.

"Organizations spend more than $350 billion globally on training each year, but only a fraction of that investment results in improved performance. That’s a problem that needs a solution, and we believe the best solution is for L&D professionals to adopt the strategies, techniques, and mindset of modern marketers. In an uncertain and evolving business landscape, organizations of all kinds are facing the challenge of helping their employees keep up with rapid changes in the knowledge, skills, and abilities they need for success. As workplace learning strategists, we often see traditional L&D approaches fail to deliver what organizations and employees need, leaving everyone grappling with a widening skills gap. We think it’s time for a bold new approach to training that builds on the science and art of marketing to transform the way employees learn and grow" (excerpt from our book Think Like a Marketer, Train Like an L&D Pro). While there are many marketing and strategies that lend themselves to transforming L&D, in this article, we focus on the power of personas and how to elevate training and learner retention by exploring the use of personas with attention triggers.

This session describes how to use Reframes, a psychological communication technique, to help people refocus on an issue.  Reframes are designed to induce new thinking, reinterpret negative outcomes as opportunities, shift approaches to better position your argument, and offer perspectives that uncover possibilities.  They encourage constructive thinking. The 4 types of reframes are: Cognitive, Strategic, Persuasion, and Problem-solving.    

AI tools are transforming how we interact, learn, and collaborate, and one question looms large: Do learners prefer human connection or AI-driven efficiency? Neuroscience offers a unique lens to answer this, showing how the brain responds differently to human facilitators versus AI agents.   

Some 36 percent of U.S. workers plan to leave their jobs within the next year (WorkHuman) including 70 percent of Gen Z & Millennials (Linkedin). A lack of career growth options is one of the leading reasons why employees leave their organizations today, even though 59 percent of today’s organizations cite career development as a primary objective of their training programs and 67 percent hope that such training drives employee engagement.  

Let’s face it—communication training is broken. It's too long. Too abstract. Too expensive. And worst of all, it rarely sticks.  

First impressions matter—even in eLearning. The opening moments of your course set the tone, build anticipation, and shape learner motivation. But most course introductions still follow a tired formula: welcome slide, objectives, click next. In this session, we’ll explore 10 creative strategies to transform your course introductions into powerful engagement tools. From scenario-based openings and curiosity hooks to interactive dashboards, you’ll learn how to design intros that not only grab attention but also make learning feel meaningful from the very first click.

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In unpredictable times, most sales training falls flat—not because the content is ineffective, but because it doesn’t equip your team to act decisively amid chaos. When uncertainty dominates the headlines, your team needs more than just motivation—they need clarity, confidence, and tools that work. Without this, revenue shrinks, opportunities disappear, and your team slips into irrelevance.  

New hire onboarding is often a missed opportunity—overloaded with slide decks, disconnected from day-to-day work, and too slow to build competence or confidence. What if you could turn that around in the first 30 days?  

Are you… In a presales role, struggling to work together better with your sales counterpart?  In a sales role and wish there were a more productive way to work with the other sales roles and with presales?  On an account or opportunity team and find it challenging to work together more efficiently and effectively?  A sales manager and feel presales and sales individual contributors aren’t working together optimally as a team?  In sales enablement, trying to make all this work? 

Business leaders and learning professionals stand at a critical inflection point, where preserving human intelligence is as crucial as embracing AI innovation.  

The world has reached a level of unprecedented volatility and uncertainty in today’s business landscape, forcing leaders to face challenges that demand new approaches to thinking, problem-solving, decision-making, and team management.  

Virtual presenting has been around for over five years now, but few people truly love it—and even fewer are great at it. As the seminar leader puts it, "this stuff is here to stay." If you want to be seen as a skilled communicator, it's time to level up your virtual game. This session delivers practical, tangible advice with: ✅ Key fundamentals ✅ Well-kept secrets ✅ A few "OH WOW" moments to jumpstart your virtual presence

Join us for the third installment of our acclaimed webinar series with Training Magazine, where we continue to explore the evolving world of virtual training—and how to do it right.