Edmunds believes in the philosophy of making their sellers more effective versus enabling them to sell better. They achieved staggering results utilizing Rehearsal’s video-based practice and coaching platform. Not only does Edmunds have greater confidence that training is being delivered accurately and consistently, but those that practiced with Rehearsal doubled the revenue of those who did not. 

When it comes to eLearning solutions that facilitate flexible and dynamic Learning and Development, the Learning Management System (LMS) is typically at the center of the learning ecosystem. However, with over 800 learning platforms in the market, choosing the right one can be a daunting task. When evaluating learning platforms, organizations have to ask a multitude of questions with the main one being: which LMS will best support my organization’s needs now and in the future?    

There is a large contingent of instructional designers out there who are forced by their organizations’ lines of business to take orders and "design" eLearning courses. Stakeholders ask these well-intentioned instructional designers to become order-takers and apply learning objectives, knowledge checks and assessments to their PowerPoints and import them into a Storyline or Captivate published SCORM file. Once it is loaded into the organization’s LMS it resides there in a deep blue abyss forever. Did I mention that these projects have a completion deadline of 2-3 weeks? Does this sound like you? It’s not your fault. Let me say it again, it’s not your fault! After all, you have a backlog of projects and only so many hours in a day to argue the merits of learner-centric and performance-focused eLearning They were frustrated with bad eLearning that fails to live up to its promise of improving performance and creating measurable results. So they decided to come up with a set of 22 principles that reflect effective performance-focused eLearning that instructional designers should know and use. I’m a signatory and agree with every principle in the manifesto. However, it falls short of being a useful tool that instructional designers can use to evaluate their design throughout the project life cycle and make changes for the better. There are other tools out there that evaluate the quality of instructional design based on performance-focused and learner-centric standards. Take the Quality Matters Rubric for instance. This tool is very advanced, has quality assurance standards, certification for designers, and even membership opportunities. However, it focuses primarily on academia not industry, it is very rigorous, and it can take almost as much time to evaluate your course than building the actual course. Therefore, I decided to come up with an evaluation tool for my team and I would like to share it with you. The evaluation tool is called the 7 Better Learning Principles Assessment (of course if someone comes up with a better name, I’m all ears).

In the modern era, learners have access to knowledge like never before. But as learning professionals, we need to ensure they’re developing the skills and knowledge they need to perform their jobs at a high level. That leaves a critical question: how can we design programs that help learners achieve true mastery? Newer, more robust approaches, including continuous delivery of learning, richer content, and skill-based certifications, are delivering the outcomes that enterprises are looking for. This report discusses the need to shift from legacy learning approaches to a modern outcome and skill-based approach that we call mastery-based learning.  In this analyst report you will learn: The key trends driving the shift to mastery-based learning The best technologies to enable a mastery-based approach to training Best practices for deploying mastery-based learning programs

Make winning sales presentations. Learn the tricks the pros use to get audience agreement and sell a product, solution or idea. Use the latest behavioral psychology and neuromarketing techniques. Use what you learn during class to make a clear, compelling presentation that gets buy-in and improves your success rate. It’s easy—when you know how to do it.

The United States is in a crisis. The Corona pandemic now combined with protests in our streets are shaping what will become the new normal for organizations. Many of our first responders and front-line employees have friends and family members who have been directly impacted by these events.

Advanced and Shared actions in Adobe Captivate allow you to customize your courses to provide personalized and best possible experience to the learners!

As a program manager, so much of your time is spent creating and facilitating plans to develop other people, so your own development often falls by the wayside. After all, who is going to train the training program manager? But prioritizing your own development can actually help you create a better and more effective training program. For example, developing your data management skills can help you find and share meaningful statistics with leadership to improve buy-in, or brushing up on your communication skills can help you have more productive needs analysis conversations. In this ebook, you'll learn to develop skills and competencies that can help you create a strategic and successful training program. You'll also learn: Characteristics of top training programs How to develop and analyze training goals and metrics A framework for conducting a needs analysis

Nowadays, there is a rush to convert classroom or face-to-face sessions to remote learning. While this is a great opportunity for many in the L&D world, it is also uncharted terrain for many. The dash to comply presents risks, failures and disappointments from unrealistic expectations.

Just like any good work person knows the tools of their trade, its vitally important as trainers and coaches we understand which behavioral assessment tool best fits the required need.

Discover the three phases of leadership Walt Disney went through to become the wise leader we remember and discover how the leadership lessons he learned, and that Walt Disney World still follows, can improve the performance of your organization’s leaders.  

Organizations face a range of challenges in today's ever-changing competitive landscape. Keeping up in L&D with today's thinking and needs presents its own challenges. Ideally, L&D should be a highly strategic capability for growing people and the business, yet many impediments exist. Items to overcome often include perception of learning itself, having an organizational culture of learning, and organizational perception of the L&D function for creating business impact and value.

Has your sales team gone from in-person to virtual selling overnight? Selling while physically distancing is a new approach for many teams. It means big changes for your field sales reps and for sales managers.

Adding animations, effects, and transitions to your eLearning courses can make your courses stand out. Join Dr. Pooja Jaisingh to learn how to leverage this functionality in Adobe Captivate 2019 to add subtle animations to your eLearning courses. During this session, you will learn how to add externally created animations, and create native animations using the different types of effects and transitions available in Captivate. Along the way, learn about some tips and tricks to make the most of effects.

Setting up a template for your eLearning project gets you on the right foot for the rest of your course development. Creating a consistent, branded template will ensure that all your content looks the part and functions well, and save you precious time. But Articulate Storyline templates can be an easy stumbling block for the uninitiated.

Twenty-twenty has certainly been an eye-opening year. After months of stay at home orders, travel restrictions and social distancing, businesses are starting to wonder what their organizations will do as we approach a phase of viral response that will likely include multiple waves of varied states of alert according to the threat levels across multiple geographies. Corporate learning and development teams were quick to respond to initial changes in the working conditions of employees, but most of those responses were short term modifications to adapt quickly to the new conditions. Many have observed that a post-pandemic world may well be shaped differently. Organizations have significant financial incentives to explore shifting employees to partial or full-time remote status. The rapid eLearning industry was built on the notion that persistent, on-demand training materials could lower costs and improve access to learning content.

If you’re managing a distributed team, you know getting everyone on the same page to drive productivity is more important than ever. But depending on where you are, this could be difficult. In some states, stay-at-home orders and other restrictions are being lifted, while others are a long way from in-person meetings.

For many, the need to train employees using video has dramatically grown in importance. But for those being asked to implement it, video training can present challenges winning the support of stakeholders and producing learning that is performance-focused. 

Now more than ever, trainers and students need to know their virtual interactions are protected and secure. Join us for this webinar in which our Adobe Connect Evangelist will share best practices to keep your virtual trainings and classroom secure.

One of the biggest myths in the L&D world is that "we must train workers." Workers are inherently learners. If they are not, we would see massive job failures. In fact, workers are also relentless learners. They fix, solve and improve work issues every minute of their work day. 

In this session, attendees will gain insight from practitioners who will share their perspectives on using video to drive skill development programs. Skill development programs require: Access to and absorption of knowledge, proof of comprehension and/or demonstration, practice and mentorship, and stick-to-it-ness in order to effectively apply skills to new areas.  

PowerPoint MVP Nolan Haims provides for TMN members the fantastic list of stock imagery and icon resources used at Nolan Haims Creative.

For the fourth year, Training magazine and Wilson Learning Worldwide have teamed up to conduct the Annual Leadership Survey, which focuses on creating effective leaders and preparing the next generation of leaders.

Adding interactions is an integral part of building eLearning courses. These interactions can usually be triggered on a hover, click/tap, or drag. From these, the most used trigger is a click. Also, for making your courses accessible, you are required to limit yourself to using click-based interactions and refrain from including hover- or drag-based interactions.