Many learning professionals say: "I’d love to add stories and storytelling in my lessons, but they are long, tedious and hard to do, not counting the fact that it’s costly."

Delivering a live training session or presentation may only be one responsibility among the many that you as a subject matter expert, manager, or trainer have in your organization. So when it is necessary to share you expertise and help develop the skills of others by conducting live training, are you using the "spray and pray technique" - spraying your participants with information and praying that it sticks?

Does your onboarding program leave your employees energized and excited? Or do they see it as a boring required chore? Would you like your new hire onboarding to be more interactive and engaging?

Effective training faces an uphill battle when individuals are unready to learn and content is not optimized for the audience.  In these circumstances, not only do you risk wasting precious training time, but the overall training objectives simply may not be met. 

Go to any bookstore and look for the leadership section.  There are a ton of resources for growing leadership because it is TOUGH WORK.

LinkedIn is rolling out it biggest design change in its 14-year history. If you don't have it yet, you will soon.  Join LinkedIn expert Kurt Shaver as he reveals the new features along with which of your old favorites are disappearing. 

Gamification, Microlearning and digital motivation are the hottest topics in learning, but they require good design, especially if repetition is to be implemented. The good news is that new tools are available that enable the flexibility to implement gamification and microlearning in ways that align with scientific research on learning—including in mobile-learning applications. 

Join Dr. Allen Partridge for this practical session including demonstrations and samples of popular gamification techniques to make your eLearning courses more engaging.

What if the training you deliver in the virtual classroom was so vibrant and compelling that people clamored to attend your sessions? Your ability to connect with, engage, and stimulate the thinking of your participants is directly linked to your understanding of the neuroscience of learning. Our brains ignore what is predictable and boring. This webinar explore the brain’s needs for novelty, contrast, meaning, and emotion to capture and keep attention online. Increase novelty by creatively using relevant games and problems. Enhance contrast by incorporating a variety of facilitation techniques. Build meaningful connections with collaborative, social learning approaches. Harness learner emotion with storytelling frames.

When's the last time you looked something up on YouTube? ...Don't you think your Learners might be doing this too? In the last decade, YouTube has given us TED Talks, Khan Academy classes, explainer videos, tons of bite-sized science, and taught us how to fix pretty much anything. But the platform's features are ever-changing and not well understood by those in the professional learning field. Even while we personally enjoy its content, many of us still regard YouTube with fear, and miss out on all the opportunities it presents.

More companies are demanding shorter and faster learning from trainers, designers and virtual presenters.

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Ever feel like a rubber band that’s ready to pop? Then YOU must be a department of one! The good news is that you CAN do it. Learn strategies and tips to help move you from feeling "over done" to "can be done!"

As you complete this Learning Transfer Audit, please answer the questions based on your most recent learning event or program. Please respond to these questions regarding the specific actions you took. Insights are based on data from the Wilson Learning research study, Learning Transfer Model: A Research-Driven Approach to Enhancing Learning Effectiveness.

For the purpose of this audit, the term "leadership" refers to the overall leadership of your organization.   Answer each item as if you were responding on behalf of all employees in your organization. For further reference, see Top 5 Elements Every Leader Needs to Drive Employee Engagement

Since the first Training Conference was held 40 years ago, almost everything has changed--especially learners brains being so overload that they now expect "just-in-time, just-for-me, just-enough learning". In this highly interactive webinar, Ann Herrmann-Nehdi will share highlights from her upcoming session at Training 2017 drawing on more than 35 years of research on thinking and learning, along with new studies and real-world examples, to show you how to build engaging "just for me" learning experiences - especially webinars--while extending the learning cycle using brain-friendly approaches. You’ll discover how to artfully navigate learner needs to keep ahead of a changing world while facing an ever increasing load on their brains.

How often have you attended really boring webinars? And when did you last participate in a truly engaging webinar and said, "Wow, I was engaged and time flew by quickly"?

Given the nature of today’s workplace, instantaneous access to information, and pressure to meet the ever-escalating expectations of customers & shareholders, leaders juggle an unprecedented number of priorities.  Productivity and performance. Costs. Employee engagement. Quality. Scarce resources. Retention. Yet, research suggests that if leaders can address one key priority particularly well, the rest follow.  And that ‘meta-priority’ is career development.  Study after study links career development to employee satisfaction, engagement, retention, productivity, and even revenue and profitability. 

Employees who understand the science behind personal change:   Accelerate their careers Secure their job Save struggling relationships Lose weight, get fit and stick with it Become financially stable Break free of addictions

"I have no time for learning and training.", "Must I attend this training?" We hear the complaints of learners. But what are we doing about it? Many studies and experts tell us that training and learning must focus on improving performance. However, performance improvement has always been a nebulous or difficult goal to achieve through training and learning programs. Bersin by Deloitte has released a recent study showing that training programs rank the lowest in the list that learners use to obtain knowledge to improve work. The highest source of knowledge is from connections within the organization.

PowerPoint is the basis for much of the training material you use, and yet it’s text-heavy, dull, and boring. See how you can revolutionize your presentations and other training material using visuals, diagrams, and animated sequences, with some helpful how-to guides, and a collection of awesome PowerPoint tricks, plus a free PowerPoint toolkit to kick start your efforts for everyone that attends.

Today’s Learning Management market has been flooded with over 500+ Learning Management Systems (LMS) that come and go. Old names in the market are struggling to adapt their complex systems to the needs of "agile" L&D teams and keep with the pace of technology.   In this session we’ll talk about how an LMS can help your team save time from implementation to training delivery, to make your learners' experience simple and provide tools like Fluidic Player, Gamification and Badges to help with engagement out-of-the-box. Join Jesse Novak, eLearning Evangelist at Adobe, who will take you through an immersive session.

Online content can be simple, or incredibly complicated, or anything in between.  But no matter how complicated, or how many activities you may have, all web-based content is based on the same basic languages that tell your browser how to display and work with your courses: HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

There are many options for using social media to support our learning in classes, at conferences, and when participating in other events. In this session we’ll explore social media tools like Facebook, Pinterest, Twitter, and Periscope with a special emphasis on using them to support learning.  "Doin' the Socials" is full of examples and ideas for supporting your own learning and extending the reach of your work as a training practitioner.