Uncovering the need is one thing, but organizing the mountain of content from an SME is an ID's nightmare. You have to keep the goal in mind. Mind mapping helps you define the goal and align content to the intended outcome.

Hot off the press! The Omnipress annual Training Trends Report is now available! For the third consecutive year, Omnipress conducted a survey of more than 100 training and continuing education professionals. The results reveal emerging trends in learning, technology and program delivery. They also give insight into how other organizations are managing both the opportunities and challenges facing today’s education professionals.  The 2019 Training Trends report provides industry data you can use to leverage your organization’s greatest asset for engaging new and existing learners—education.   2019 Training Trends Report   This year’s report indicates that 51% of respondents currently offer at least 11 different programs or courses, with 60% of respondents expecting to increase that number in 2019. The good news is that the perceived value of ongoing training and continuing education for industry professionals is on a steady rise. But this increase in programming does present some significant challenges for training pros who already manage a broad portfolio and wide array of responsibilities—particularly as they are also tasked with navigating changes in learner preferences and emerging trends and technologies.   Some of the questions and themes explored in this report include: How are organizations delivering their educational programs today, and what changes to they foresee in the future? What challenges are organizations facing in delivering this content? How much are organizations focusing on new and emerging trends? Are organizations prepared for young professionals?

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! Leave having seen how to create and publish beautiful and engaging e-learning using Articulate 360 Rise. Perfect for the accidental e-learning instructional designer!

Join us to learn how Hudson's Spot Coaching approach equips managers and leaders with a simple, 3-step coaching method to support just-in-time development of their people. The approach includes elements of feedback, goal-setting, building a plan and establishing follow-up to provide support and track impact.

As a manager, you can't fix what you can't see. How much easier would it be to help sales reps overcome what keeps them from selling more, if you only knew: What motivates their decisions and behavior? What are their hidden weaknesses in the sales process? Do they have It inside them to be successful in the job? Are they a potential flight risk?

For Learning & Development teams, they're the most important weeks of any employee's tenure: The first two, when knowledge transfer is critical for getting new hires up to speed, And the last two, when it's imperative to preserve a departing employee's institutional knowledge

Blended learning is a common buzz phrase in L&D, and it's one that deserves attention. Using a blended learning approach means providing course content in a variety of formats - including videos, games, virtual reality (VR) activities, basic documents, and e-learning courses! You may mix and match many delivery formats in order to create a learning environment that is engaging and cost-effective.

Creating an engaging learning experience is key to learning and retention of information. Passive forms of eLearning, including 'click next, next, yawn…' content is not providing the levels of engagement needed. Greater engagement in the training means learners are more emotionally invested, which has been proven to increase the retention of knowledge. An immersive learning experience involves learners and provides the greater levels of engagement required.

Whether you are reporting progress, leading a meeting, or training people, your ability to present is measured in large part by how well you communicate. How you say it is just important as what you say! Becky will share simple, creative methods refine your own content into an engaging presentation. You'll discover techniques to command attention, motivate people to action and build productive working relationships.

Only 39% of companies are prepared for a compliance audit. Are you?   Compliance training is a top priority, but it’s only half the battle. In the latest Insight Compliance Guide from Totara Learning, discover why the right learning technology can help ensure your organization is meeting industry regulations and requirements, and get useful tips on what to look for in your next learning platform. Click below to download this eBook.

In the cast of characters creating intrusive busyness in the workplace, email is undoubtedly the Voldemort. This tool, designed for our benefit, hijacks time and resources but is so culturally baked-in that even the most organized of us are drowning in it. To solve this problem, we must move out of the tools lane and into our relationship with email; redefining it in ways that lead us to a more free future.

The intentions of compliance training are very good. They save lives and protect assets. BUT - Compliance courses are well-known to be dry, boring, hard to follow, too full of legalese and often overly technical. "Section 1078b of the code requires that you do so and so." No wonder they don't resonate with us! People are social animals. Don't we connect with other people and their experiences better than rules and regs?

Augmented reality allows you to create an immersive experience for learners. AR can combine images, sound, movies, games, search engines, databases, social media, and the web and explode them across the physical world, revealing invisible stories around products, processes, and operations. But what makes a compelling AR experience that makes learning stick, and how can you get started creating AR content?

There's a lot of talk about "design thinking," but if you're a trainer and not an instructional designer, you might think "so what"? Using science and psychology to understand how design touches and influences each of us daily can increase your success in the training room.

700+ eLearning professionals have already become Adobe Captivate Specialist. In this one-hour webinar, you will get answers to the following questions:

According to the 2017 Deloitte Human Capital Trends Report, "…careers and learning rose to second place in rated importance, with 83% of executives identifying these issues as important or very important." In the modern workplace, the concept of "career" has changed dramatically. "Careers" are no longer a lifetime pursuit of one distinct career path.

Inside organizations coaching has become common practice to address issues such as developing talent, 'onboarding' key leaders and supporting senior executives. Yet, there is clearly widespread opportunity to integrate some of the skills and competencies inherent in coaching into the roles of managers and contributors at all levels in an organization. We call this: the Coaching Mindset. Click below to download this White Paper.

ASK MORE, TELL LESS Many of the skills of a great coach are equally effective for a great leader - emotional intelligence, able to provide feedback, capable of creating strong working relationships, comfortable challenging the thinking of another, willing to ‘speak the truth’ when it’s most important, and the list goes on. Of course the question is which coaching skills might a leader adopt to get the best results in these all-important human interactions. Click below to download this White Paper.

WHAT IS A COACHING CULTURE? Culture shapes behaviors inside the organization and a coaching culture is one deliberately focused on growing and nurturing talent in order to deliver key results, strengthen leadership capacities, increase retention and deepen engagement. A culture that has cultivated a coaching approach to development often demonstrates some of the following characteristics: • Giving and receiving feedback in the service of being at one’s best • Focusing on opportunities to help members of one’s team grow • Operating in teams with clear goals and roles • Developing others when it matters most • Asking and empowering more than telling and fixing When coaching is embedded through all levels of an organization it becomes the predominant approach to working and leading together with a goal of building a best-in-class organization by building great leaders. Click below to download this White Paper.

Training is becoming increasingly tech-based to meet the changing needs of the global workforce. The demand for knowledge whenever and wherever it is needed is real. So how does the savvy training professional determine if the tech-based training they provide is effective?

If you need to change a flat tire, are you more likely to sign up for a course on auto-mechanics or search YouTube for a quick solution? We're in an age where a short burst of content—just enough, just in time—rules. Discover how you can create timely and convenient MicroLearning lesson on your own (it's easier than you think!).

From corporate boardrooms to office water coolers, it’s the hot topic for every organization looking to attract, develop and retain top talent: mentoring. But building an organizational culture of mentorship doesn’t just happen. Likewise, it can be overprescribed, stifling the inherently organic nature of relationship building. Click below to download this White Paper.

Put people first for better business results Sports teams and talent management have a lot in common. For both to be successful, you need to get to know the people and the skills they bring to the team, and where opportunities for improvement exist. In organizations, HR and L&D leaders are the coaches and the talent management strategy is the playbook they use to make decisions. The talent management strategy outlines how interconnected people programs work together to keep employees engaged and productive. Employees aren’t a number - they're the core of your business Progressive organizations know this and it's why they're looking for ways to align their business strategy with how they manage, train and develop their people. That's where a solid talent strategy can help. Comprehensive talent management strategies can include programs for recruiting, onboarding, learning and development, performance management, leadership development, succession planning and more. With a comprehensive talent strategy that's aligned to key business objectives, the talent management programs you implement act as the offensive line to bring in the right people at the right time. It also becomes your defensive line to ensure people stay engaged in their work and don’t leave the organization. In today's ever-changing workplace, organizations need to make it a priority to meet the needs of the people that keep their business going strong. The Talent Strategy Playbook outlines the steps you can take to build a comprehensive and effective talent management strategy. It also includes an editable template you can use as a framework for building your strategy. Download the playbook now to get started building a talent management strategy that aligns the needs of your people with the success of your business!  

First, this webinar introduces the variety of game engines eLearning designers and developers can use to create more immersive interactions within elearning. Then, we'll take a more in-depth look at a 2D engine, called Construct. With Construct, eLearning developers can build gameful interactions without coding. We'll also walk through an example of Construct integration with Articulate Storyline. The webinar will provide the basic understanding of what makes a game engine a powerful tool in the design toolkit.