It’s Q4. Your sales team is down to the wire, looking for last-minute opportunities to close. But prospecting and closing business around the holidays presents a challenge. What can your sales reps say to get people to take their calls, agree to meet, and close a sale with only weeks left in the year?

Engaging Your Students through Unconventional Teaching and Online Technology In the last decade, academic institutions at all levels have begun introducing nontraditional pedagogies that combine traditional brick-and-mortar teaching with online, on-demand learning. These new approaches to teaching, referred to as "blended learning," have been driven by advances in video technology, increasing network speed, and changes in student expectations. They aim to improve student engagement, knowledge retention, and ultimately, academic achievement. Among all of the approaches to blended learning, one has garnered more media attention, reported more tangible results, and gained the support of more educators than any other — the "flipped classroom." In just the last four years, flipping the classroom has evolved from an obscure experiment to a mainstream model for improving the student learning experience in universities and school districts around the world. Click below to download the eBook.

"Work Made Fun Gets Done" The FISH! Philosophy shows you and your management team how to create a culture where people can’t wait to come to work and be their best--a culture with people looking to make a difference for their customers and each other. A culture that nurtures flawless execution of work, promotes teamwork and is fulfilling and fun. The FISH! Philosophy is based on the book FISH! and the fishmongers at the World-Famous Pike Place Fish Market in Seattle, Washington. The fish market is one of the most profitable retail spaces in America. Yet it is located right near three other fish markets that sell the same fish for the same price. The market doesn’t trade on product or price; they trade on creating unique customer experiences. The fishmongers at the market work in a culture where they bring passion, energy and enthusiasm to work every day.

Micro-credentialing is a great way to track upskilling and certification for learners within organizations. This session will cover how micro-credentialing supports ongoing professional development and personalized learning pathways as it pertains to progress, accomplishments, and skills. Learn how other organizations are leveraging open badges to address the skills gap challenge.

The Playbook to Driving Employee Engagement with Language Learning. In collaboration with HR Dive, this playbook covers everything you need to know about driving employee engagement and retention with a language learning program. Learn about how organizations are expanding their benefits packages to include language learning, the business outcomes that language learning leads to, and how to get started with implementing a program.

You may be thinking, "A goldmine? Where is my goldmine?"  Have you created a website, blog, newsletter, manual, marketing materials, photos, audio/videos?

It’s almost Halloween. Let’s conjure up the training tricksters, presentation poltergeists and meeting monsters that spark terror in the hearts of most stalwart trainers, facilitators and team leaders: the creatures of the classroom.  

With quickly evolving technologies and a consumer-centric culture that can find, purchase, and receive what they need within 24 hours, learning professionals need to keep pace. We can't expect our workforce to learn how to repair a leaky pipe on YouTube within minutes at home and then come to work to view a 90-minute eLearning module to find out about a software update. But what's more, today's workforce wants to know WHY they need to learn, they want context, they want to know the purpose.

Agile learning carries the promise of producing more skilled, efficient, and effective sales teams. Yet because it can be difficult to quickly assess its business impact, sales leaders often underestimate the ROI potential of putting an agile model into place. Most limit their tracking of sales training activities to easy-to-gather activity metrics like usage or adoption, or how a recent training directly contributed to closing a deal.

What makes training stick? What makes any presentation transformational? How do you give attendees an experience, rather than just a training presentation? Learn 5 BIG ideas that you can incorporate into any training.

Managing the Employee Experience - We Have Answers From The Industry's Top Talent Leaders We believe the collective wisdom and experience of talent leaders like you speaks volumes about what can be achieved when you place a priority on the people, and their employee experience. That's where this guide comes in.  Discover 101 strategies from more than 30 of the boldest global thinkers in the talent industry, covering everything from candidate experience and onboarding, to learning and development, to performance and growth.   You'll gain insights into: Strategies and practical guidance from some of the most progressive, talent-focused organizations around the world Proactive ideas and new approaches to create exceptional employee experiences

In most disciplines, Adobe Photoshop is the defacto standard when it comes to image editing and creation. This mature product has a lot features built-in that have made it the most popular tool for eLearning professionals. However, it can be difficult to keep up with some of the newest features in all the releases. There are filters and features built into Photoshop that a lot of eLearning professionals don't know about.  

Poor listening skills, which often manifest as a lack of empathy, are at the core of most workplace conflicts. Whether it's leadership, HR, sales, or customer service, many assume that emotional intelligence is an inherent skill and can’t be taught. New VR technology is proving otherwise.

Join Lou Russell and her friends for a different kind of webinar.  We’ll be having a party, playing games, building treats, celebrating ghosts, and telling scary training stories. 

What Do We Mean by Connected Learning? Connected learning is a term we are using to describe the convergence of two critically important themes in the evolution of digitally enabled learning—two themes that are combining to deliver game-changing opportunities for learning and organizational performance, right now. Digital learning has come a long way. An industry that started out with a focus on providing efficiency, consistency, and increasing reach and speed (what we sometimes call ‘digital learning 1.0) is maturing into a fully networked, data-led and measured set of tools, processes and deeply relevant and engaging learning content for every learner at their point of need. These are learning ecosystems that also now finally put the learners and their powerful and personal relationships with each other in the center of the picture-building again, the way people have learned for many millennia—is this digital learning 2.0 perhaps? Click below to download the eBook.  

Are you just getting started with Adobe Captivate? Looking for some solid foundations to build your eLearning content? Join Dr. Pooja Jaisingh for this fun and easy introduction to Adobe Captivate for first time eLearning developers. You'll get a simple introduction to the software - aimed at helping you get started with creating eLearning courses.

It’s very easy to get distracted by the latest trends and buzzwords in the digital learning world. But that can be pretty risky if your goal is to create effective, engaging learning. How can you cut through the hype to ensure you create digital learning that works? Read on to find out.

People are fractured. Our audience must navigate competing, often real-time demands with fewer resources. Efficiency becomes critical. For this reason, participants lose interest and refocus on other problems—if they aren’t engaged. That is a big problem because no one learns if they aren’t engaged. 

There’s now an amazing array of innovative learning technologies and media approaches available, but each comes with a different value set for our learners and organizations. Some seem exciting, most seem complex, and some just sound like hype. Do you ever wonder if, and how, you should be using them? 

In today's fast-paced world, rapid development can be the key to your e-learning success. Rise allows you to create beautiful, responsive courses using just a browser. Courses look gorgeous on PC, tablet, and phone with NO programming knowledge needed! In my first session, you saw the basics of how to create and publish beautiful and engaging e-learning using Articulate 360 Rise. The perfect tool for the accidental e-learning instructional designer! In this session we will pick up where we left off and tackle a few of the more advanced features of Rise.  

As the business world continues to change, so do organizations and their learning functions. Whether you’re developing classroom instruction, an e-learning course, or an on-demand performance support solution, following sound instructional design processes will help you be more successful.  When an organization needs training solutions, the instructional designer must understand the business and individual needs that underlie the training initiative. Download ATD’s Foundations of Instructional Design: Methodologies and Learning Theories guide to explore through the basics of this process, the pros and cons of different approaches, and more.

Your employees are distracted, burnt out and overwhelmed! But you need to train. Games are the solution. Gamified training engages learners, increases attention, improves confidence and, ultimately, drives success. The Game Agency has invited Harry Friedman, Emmy® Award-winning Executive Producer of Jeopardy!Ⓡ and Wheel of Fortune to discuss how the Jeopardy! format is perfect for assessing knowledge. Christina Lorenzo of CHEST will demonstrate how she uses simulation games to train pulmonologists.

We've heard stories about how artificial intelligence is taking over all kinds of industries, from legal to aerospace. Fear not, the Jetsons aren't about to fly off with your training department. But there are some ways that AI can help you deliver a more customized, curated learning experience to your employees.

Instructure commissioned The Harris Poll to conduct research among Employees and HR decision-makers to better understand the employee development landscape - what employees seek in a potential employer, what motivates them to move in their careers and what tools and resources will make them successful.  The results discussed in this summary are based on two surveys conducted by The Harris Poll on behalf of Instructure - one among HR decision-makers and one among employees - both administered online to those in the United States.