For years cellphones (now called smartphones!) have been the bane of trainers. But not anymore. With the right tools, trainers can turn smart devices into powerful learning tools. In this session, Bob will both share - and model for you strategies that he will be using in his pre-conference workshop and other sessions at the Training Conference -- and you'll get to experience how the methods can be used even in a webinar.

What if you had templates of beautiful slides that were usable in most situations? You could replace the images and the text and have a great slide in no time? That's what you'll get in this webinar.

How You Can Evaluate the Impact of Soft Skills Training? When you think about an ideal employee, what thoughts come to mind? You might initially think about the technical skills needed to do their jobs. For example, you'd want an English teacher to have a strong understanding of grammar and sentence structure. But hard skills aren't the only important skills employees should have. Someone who has excellent soft skills would be adept at critical thinking, communication skills, and teamwork. Soft skills aren't as easy to identify as hard skills, which makes it more difficult to evaluate their worth. They're often thought of as "extras" and are put on the back burner. Believe it or not, soft skills training affects more than just your workplace culture. It can give you a competitive edge and contribute to your bottom line. This ebook will help you understand how these skills can make the difference between high- and low-performing organizations. In this ebook, you'll learn: What soft skills look like in real life situations How improving soft skills can impact your business What metrics to look at when measuring the impact of soft skills training How to calculate the ROI of soft skills training Download now!

  High-quality coaching requires not only effort and collaboration between sales managers, reps, and sales enablement professionals, but also agreement on coaching effectiveness and best practices. Without agreement, it’s hard to make improvements and drive increased sales success. To find out how these stakeholders feel about coaching effectiveness, we surveyed nearly 300 sales reps, managers, and sales enablement professionals, asking them fundamental questions about their perceptions and preferences. While we found alignment in some areas, reps, managers, and sales enablement leaders differed in their opinions about coaching quality, coaching needs, and even the impact of coaching on results. Left unchecked, differences between key stakeholders on coaching quality and value can pose a significant risk to revenue goals, and even threaten the relationship between reps and managers. Click below to download and learn what the data showed, what it means, and how you can use this information to improve coaching efforts at your organization.

This preview chapter will allow you a peek into this guide to the iterative organization, the only kind of organization that can learn and adapt fast enough to keep up in today's world. For anyone running a team of managers, or advising someone who does, it describes the fundamental behaviors that create iteration, explains how to implement them, and includes videos and online assessment to get the process started. Iterate defines what management really is and helps readers create a fast, flexible, focused management team that does it well. Ed Muzio, award-winning author, CEO, and "one of the planet's clearest thinkers on management practice," provides a research-based blueprint for a management team that will take the next best step for the organization in any situation. This book enables senior leadership, front line and middle management, and human resource executives to equip their teams with both knowledge and practical skills so that they not only understand their own purpose but also perform that purpose well amidst ever-changing conditions. Iterate will help readers create measurable business results on any management team, of any size, in any industry where complex work and frequent change are the norm. Click below to download this preview.

Employee engagement has become a global dilemma that has cost companies billions of dollars due to lack of profit and productivity. One of the reasons this dilemma has grown so much is because many companies confuse "engagement" with "satisfaction." While there is some overlap between the two, most employee engagement initiatives don't get to the real root causes of disengagement issues, so they never see the results they want.

The purpose of training is to get results. And training is a process, not an event. It begins long before people show up in class (either virtual or face to face) and continues until we see results back on the job.

A generation of instructional designers have found great value in the ADDIE model because it provides a useful framework for development. That framework gets a much-needed update with the ADDEDD model, a fresh take on the planning process that incorporates Agile methodology. As new technologies enter the picture, including prototyping and frequent client communications will grow in importance.

Video is a unique beast. It's more engaging than a training manual, but sharing it on your LMS (or worse, on YouTube) can create problems. It helps you scale your training worldwide, but every new recording is a pain to produce. And it would be ideal for just-in-time learning, if only it could be effectively searched.

In our hectic, evolving whitewater world of work, challenges abound; but so do the opportunities. Today's employees are expected to meet the ever-changing and fluid needs of the modern workplace with a set of collaborative and cross-functional skills. Yet many traditional Learning & Development (L&D) solutions fail to prepare this generation through "deep learning" and this mistake becomes even more costly when it comes to those in leadership roles. Employees fail to benefit from experiential learning and the unlimited growth potential that exists because organizations do not nurture this capability or create the space for employees to properly apply it.

We all know succession planning is crucial to our organization's sustainability. Yet many of us are not investing in it. Why? In part, because the debate about how to spot talent and who to develop is an ongoing one. This webinar will provide you with strategies to spot and grow your talent pipeline.

Join Alex Kieft, SVP of Product at KnowledgeVision to learn how to use one of the latest tools to reimagine the learning experience with easy-to-build personalized showcases that encourage interaction, viewing and engagement. Delivering custom learning experiences your viewers crave doesn't take weeks or days or demand technical expertise.

When Johnson & Johnson adopted a three-tier model for the finance function, a major transformation effort was required. J&J historically operated with consumer products, medical devices and pharmaceutical products as separate business units in 70+ countries. The shift to a shared service required transformation and standardization that impacted people, processes, and organizational structure, enabled by new technologies. This change also presents issues from a talent perspective — and the Learning & Development function has played a key role in driving new skills, interactions and how finance professionals learn.

Companies spend around $90 billion dollars annually on non-cash incentive programs. Yet, even among the most admired companies, satisfaction with recognition is almost always among the lowest rated items on employee opinion surveys. With so much investment, why is there so little return?

Engagement is one of the most common demands for L&D professionals struggling to get more buy-in from an ever-busier workforce. There are hundreds of tactics and strategies that are credited with enhancing engagement, but which of them really have the potential to work.  In this session, Katrina Baker, Adobe Sr. eLearning Evangelist will explore three engagement enhancement options and discuss their potential to drive engagement and learning culture in your organization. You’ve probably heard about the benefits of learner engagement. This webinar goes beyond theory and focuses on what gamification, user-generated content and social learning LMS features can do for your training program.

What Are the Obligations of Managers? In a world that is rapidly approaching eight billion people, rarely do organizations around the world face the exact same challenge at the exact same time. Yet, that is exactly what’s happening when it comes to people being engaged in their work. Here are some telling statistics from Gallup: In France, an abysmal 6% of all employees are actively engaged. In the UK, that number nearly doubles to 11%. Here in the U.S., we boast above-average employee engagement levels with 15% of employees reporting that they are actively engaged. That means 85% of US workers are disengaged or actively disengaged in their work. Click below to download this Whitepaper.  

It’s a busy time to be a futurist. The pace of change in the workplace continues to accelerate. Expectations of people leaders to effectively move their organizations and teams forward have seismically shifted. And that is likely only to continue. Shelley Robbins, PhD, senior faculty chair of masters programs in business at Capella University, recently discussed this topic as part of a panel at the BetterUp Shift conference, which delved into the science of talent development in a world where people enablement will be the way of the future. The following are Robbins’ takeaways from the panel on how people leaders can prepare for the future of work.

Have you heard this "training is just wasted time" complaint from learners and leaders? Sadly yes. Most training and learning programs are time-wasters. They suck the life out of learners' energies, time and enthusiasm - consequently, we cause them to fail in their work. The single biggest reason is our compulsion to "force train" or "force feed" ALL of the content we feel they must learn.

Scenario-based learning is a proven effective method for learning using complex real-life situations. However, the effort and technology to develop scenarios have often appeared to be too complex, expensive, and time-consuming. Today though, authoring tools have advanced to make designing and developing robust scenarios to be easier and more efficient than ever before.

According to statistics that address our domestic government workforce rapidly aging, virtual reality can be a lifesaver when it comes to providing a dynamic and effective tool to improve memory retention in the aging workforce. It's proven that people, especially older people, learn by doing and this is exactly where VR can make a huge impact in your organization.

Success at work often comes down to difficult conversations. Do you wish your learners had a safe way to learn by doing? Imagine the possibilities for leadership, sales, and customer service if your learners could practice high-stakes interpersonal skill. With immersive VR, it's now possible to deliver such training at scale. Powered by a blend of AI and live human interaction, mixed reality VR has become the ideal way to gain essential skills in the workplace. It combines true human intelligence with the consistency, customizability, and scalability of AI, unlocking potential in your workforce and ensuring organizational readiness to perform.

Getting your presentation design off to the right start is essential. PowerPoint templates and masters are the underlying force that ties all your slides together, but so often they are ignored and forgotten.

We asked, "What are the toughest conversations happening in your workplace?".  This free infographic will show you what your colleagues in L&D are experiencing and how they handle the issues.   ROI of training Leaders how to handle tough conversations? One method of training the leaders returned $4000 ROI for every $1000 invested.  Click to download the infographic and discover the most effective solution.

While L&D departments have been working hard on microlearning, engagement, and other important priorities, something's been brewing just out of sight, and it's exciting. What if learners could access their LMS and participate in learning experiences and simulations via verbal commands and responses to the learning materials? Think of artificial intelligence (AI) interfaces similar to Amazon's Alexa and being able to experience and respond to instructional experiences through voice interaction integrated with learners' mobile devices.