The next frontier of organizational success is more human than you might think.  

PowerPoint is such an essential tool for all types of communication, but it’s badly used. The slides are overwhelming, and the story doesn't cater to the audience. This session looks at ways to incorporate persuasive storytelling techniques into your presentations, ensuring they are focused on the needs of the audience and how you can respond to their requirements. You'll then see how to translate that story into compelling visuals so that the presentation is engaging and clearly communicates your key messages.  

Executive summary: At the edge of the cliff — The overwhelming challenges of today’s workforce Psychology research shows that when we face an overwhelming number of challenges, it’s easy to lose hope and feel helpless. In reality, today’s employees are faced with more challenges than ever before, and while some of the variables are outside employer control, that doesn’t make the situation any less difficult for the workforce. For example, headlines abound focusing on the business risk of losing high-performing employees, and a recent PwC report indicates that the second wave of the Great Resignation could be just around the corner. Not only that, but for yet another year, Gallup and other reputable organizations indicate that employee engagement remains stagnant, costing employers upwards of nine trillion dollars annually in lost productivity. It's an overwhelming series of challenges for employers as they attempt to support a productive and capable workforce. What options exist to help drive engagement and retention while giving each employee a sense of progress in their skills and work? In a new research study of 2,000 global learners, the team at Lighthouse Research & Advisory partnered with Adobe to uncover some of the aspirations, needs, and priorities of workers, and one clear opportunity stands out as an option to combat this variety of challenges—a culture of learning based on autonomy and opportunity.

There are lots of tools in PowerPoint to help you seamlessly deliver your presentation. In this webinar we'll take a look at tools to help you practice your delivery to enable you to present perfectly in-person or in Teams.  

Same old, same old. That’s what many learners think they’ll experience when they attend a training. As a result, they don’t get excited to learn, actively participate, or remember the content. But thankfully, there’s a way that you can shatter their expectations, show them how fun learning can be, and make your training content unforgettable… creating themes for your training sessions!  

The little things make a big difference between good trainers and great trainers…and who wants to just be "good?"  

You’re generating inbound leads through marketing, but when prospects fill out forms, they don't engage with your sales team.  

Elevate your use of AI in learning and development with advanced prompt engineering techniques. This workshop delves into sophisticated methods for crafting precise and effective prompts to ensure accurate and relevant AI-generated responses. Through practical exercises and real-world applications, participants will gain mastery in prompt engineering, empowering them to harness AI's full potential in their instructional design and development processes.   

Join us for an in-depth session on how to enhance your eLearning assessments by effectively using question pools in Adobe Captivate. This webinar will guide you through creating smarter, more dynamic quizzes that improve learner engagement and retention. In this webinar, you will discover how question pools can randomize questions  and provide a fairer testing experience for your learners.  

94% of buying executives expect salespeople to have business impact discussions with them, but only 25% of salespeople are effective at this.

For the first time, four and even five generations are working together in and across teams. As people work and live longer, organizations should expect to continue to have multiple generations at work.  

As 2024 draws to a close, it's time for learning professionals around the world to reflect on the feast of innovations AI has served up in 2024. But how do we separate the hearty main courses from those guilty empty calories? Join us for this timely webinar where we'll separate the most useful developments in AI tools and strategies from those clever parlor tricks that might not be around next year.  

Being memorable is critical in business because your audiences make decisions in your favor based on what they remember, not on what they forget. Unfortunately, in business contexts, people are more forgettable than they are memorable. Using EEG (electroencephalogram) technology, we can detect what happens in the brain when it's exposed to a business presentation, and during studies we conduct monthly with corporate teams, we observe that people retain less than 10% of business content after 48 hours.  

As your network of channel partners, resellers, and other third parties increases, managing product training doesn’t get any easier. However, establishing a plan for distributing training content is essential to ensuring your products are properly understood, marketed, and sold. This guide provides technical considerations to help you build a plan for distributing training content across a variety of systems. You’ll learn: What to consider from a technical point of view before starting How to create a content distribution strategy across the ecosystem Ways to streamline your training content management How to ensure each learner has access to the latest, most up-to-date version How to gain insights into course usage to inform strategic decisions

As you start adding more components, your ecosystem becomes more complex, and you may find yourself bombarded with more tools than you can manage, more content than is useful, and more data than you know what to do with. Whether you’re building your ecosystem from scratch or working in a complex one, this guide will help you better understand the learning tools and technologies available and how to design a practical, scalable ecosystem. This eBook will help you:  Discover common tools and platforms Organize your ecosystem Manage content across various platforms Prepare for introducing new components Plan for reporting and data

Whether you create and sell off-the-shelf training or you design custom eLearning content, one thing’s certain: Distributing your content can be challenging. You want to deliver training that’s compatible with multiple systems, manageable for admins, and easy for learners to access. In other words, content distribution is just as important as actually creating that content. But with so many options for managing and delivering your courses, what’s the right solution for you and your client base? Good news! It’s all in this free eBook, Setting the Standard: An Introduction to Content Distribution.  What you’ll get inside:  A primer on eLearning standards like SCORM, xAPI, and more Meaningful insights into which standard is right for your goals Best practices to distribute your content more efficiently Four ways to distribute and sell your content, including hybrid solutions How 3 companies used centralized content solutions to reach larger audiences

This guide is your go-to resource for creating impactful retail training. You’ll learn to spot and fix major mistakes retail businesses make when training their frontline employees and discover how to build an effective, results-driven online training strategy with an LMS.

Managers are essential to employee engagement, with Gallup reporting that our relationship with our manager accounts for 70% of the variance in team employee engagement. We know that good employee/manager relationships are necessary - but how do we build them while ensuring that we're still supporting growth and encouraging improvement? Feedback is one of the strongest pillars of any employee/manager relationship - the slowest to build and the easiest to crumble. Check out our Guide to Coaching Conversations for tips on building strong employee/manager relationships and giving feedback that changes both parties for the better!

As a training professional, you understand the critical importance of evaluating the impact of your programs. But, are you confident that you're using the Kirkpatrick Model to its fullest potential? Training professionals around the world say they use the Kirkpatrick Model to evaluate the impact of their programs, but are they doing it right?  

When writing sales presentations, we’re normally worried about the competition. Where do we have the edge? But more sales opportunities are lost to the status quo than competitors. Why? And what can you do about it?  

Feelings of connection between leadership and employees are fostered through open communication, but in a recent report we found less than half of organizations offer communication with leaders regularly. Ongoing feedback between leaders and employees is a cornerstone of developing accountable people who feel seen and heard. Those who receive ongoing feedback and understand their areas for improvement are nearly 2x more likely to succeed in their role.

Learning Experience Design (LXD) is in a constant state of evolution. To stay ahead, L&D professionals must continually adapt their practices to create effective, engaging, and impactful learning experiences. This webinar will provide actionable insights into the latest trends, technologies, and learner expectations shaping LXD.  

Are you looking to elevate your corporate training programs? Join Dr. Robin Sargent, founder of IDOL courses and a leader in instructional design, for an engaging webinar where you'll discover the 7 essential models that can transform your eLearning and training initiatives.  

Gathering stories from SMEs is a never-ending challenge. SMEs are busy, and they generally don’t understand training and learning the way you do as an instructional designer. You need to align what SMEs share with what your learners need. Ultimately, you need relevant examples and stories from SMEs to make your eLearning more realistic, relevant, and engaging.