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

Grab this opportunity to learn some great tips and also get a sneak preview of what it will be like to join us at Training's Online Learning Conference in New Orleans.  Each speaker will present a 15-minute condensed sample of their OLC content.  Listen fast and you'll learn plenty of useful tips even during this brief preview!

The steps in the sales cycle have remained consistent over the years. What's changed are the tools that top sellers use to win more business. More and more, digital sales tools require salespeople to think and act like marketers to attract prospects.

If your sales team isn't producing the results expected, the pressure is on you to fix the situation fast. One option is to replace salespeople. A better option is for you to optimize your performance as a sales leader. In The Sales Manager's Guide to Greatness, sales management consultant Kevin F. Davis offers 10 proven and distinctly practical strategies, skills, and tools for overcoming the most challenging obstacles sales managers face and moving your team ahead of the... (click to download excerpts from this eBook)

Join Adobe eLearning Evangelist Dr. Allen Partridge for this lively conversation about the latest trends in training & development. Based on recent studies and research the session will explore what people are doing in organizations around the world, and how organizations can achieve great results with modern learning programs.

Coaching and leadership are about people. People are unique and to compound the situation they behave differently under varied circumstances. So is it not an overstatement to suggest that there is a framework that can be applied to achieving greater success with people and through them? I will answer with my standard mini-exercise. Assume you are a recruiter. You are asked to identify a Field Commander for a hot war zone as well as a Guidance Counsellor for an all-girls high school. Did your mind automatically paint different pictures as to who will fill the roles? Intuitively, you recognize the differences but what are the factors that brought you to that conclusion? Also, what if the roles were not so far apart, could you intuitively distinguish among candidates? That is role and the value of a reliable framework. For decades, as a member of member of the Extended DISC™ network, I have been using an approach that I call DISCerning Communication to drive healthy interpersonal relations among a cross-section of groups. When people experience others communicating with them in a manner that is comfortable for them the opportunities for positive cooperation increases exponentially. Someone referred to it as communicating from inside the head of the other person. Course after course, webinar after webinar, article after article I receive encouragement to present DISCerning Communication principles in a concise publication to a wider audience. This is your invitation to join the mission and make a positive difference in how we communicate and relate to others.

Join eLearning Evangelist Bhim Kaul to explore the all-new 2017 release of Adobe Captivate and get a preview into all that is new and enjoy the tips and tricks that will give your authoring experience a smart edge.    In this session, you'll learn to utilize intelligent and efficient smart eLearning authoring with Fluid Boxes to create fully responsive eLearning and Adobe Typekit integration to consistently deliver visually stunning fonts across devices and browsers. Bhim will demonstrate how to automatically transform legacy desktop courses to responsive eLearning and get mobile-ready! You'll also discover how to deliver great interactive learning experiences with 75,000+ free eLearning assets, eye-catching quizzes, and create virtually any kind of eLearning that you imagine.

As learning continues to shift away from formal to informal, the learning ecosystem now includes a much broader spectrum of learning experiences. Information on any topic or skill is literally a click away for an employee with a smart phone. Google searches. Blogs. YouTube videos. Books. Podcasts. Articles. Expert advice.

When you have millennials in your audience, you don't want your training to look old-fashioned. But if you aren't a designer, you may not be aware that design has changed drastically in the last 5 years, mostly due to the exploding use of small screens. What looked good 5 years ago now looks out of date. Making your training look modern isn't hard and you don't need to be a designer.

Team-based, experiential learning is a proven leadership development tool, never more so than in global corporations whose employees span time zones and cultures, most often working in virtual teams. Collaborative business simulations bring team members together, break down organizational silos, and hone enterprise leadership skills. Simulations can even be structured to incorporate real-world projects that have the potential of generating substantial incremental income for the organization.

Transform learning into a competitive advantage with adaptive technology. Behavioral and performance data can be used to optimize every single moment in a learning experience, allowing firms to deliver the most efficient and effective training possible. In this session, explore how adaptive learning personalizes the pursuit of mastery and, in the process, unlocks performance for every employee as well as the entire organization. Bite-sized pieces of content, while valuable in their own right, become exponentially more powerful when combined into a fluid ecosystem that is backed and synchronized by data.

In this webinar session, Online Learning Conference presenter Shannon Tipton will discuss setting your Microlearning strategy. Your microlearning may be small, but it needs a plan!

As emerging technologies and methodologies reshape corporate training, one phrase "adaptive learning" is among the biggest of the buzzwords. I get asked all the time what exactly "adaptive learning" means. Most know the technology has something to do with elearning, personalized education, microlearning, badging, gamification, cloudbased learning, etc. But what does it really mean? How feasible is it to implement? And where can you get your hands on it? Download the full article below.

Ray has delivered numerous webinars in TrainingMagNetwork. Attendees testify that Ray’s methods are: "Highly engaging." "Never a dull moment." "Very warm like being in the same room with Ray." "Thought provoking." "Fun!" "Time flies quickly." "Never enough . .. more please." "Wow... and more wow!"

Grab this opportunity to learn some great tips and also get a sneak preview of what it will be like to join us at Training's Online Learning Conference in New Orleans.  Each speaker will present a 15-minute condensed sample of their OLC content.  Listen fast and you'll learn plenty of useful tips even during this brief preview!

In a people economy, talent is the key factor that brings competitive advantage.  This holds true across all areas of the business—call centers, auditors, researchers, sales, etc.  Leadership is no exception.  Unfortunately, the leadership pipeline for many organizations is running low.  Less than 30% of business units have the leaders required to meet the future needs of the organization. In addition, nearly one-third of HR leaders would replace members of their senior leadership team if given the opportunity.

Work looks completely different today than it did just a generation ago. Where we work looks different, how we work has changed, and the skills any given employee needs are evolving faster than we can keep up. Employers especially need workers skilled in software development, marketing and sales management, engineering, web development, and financial management, but those jobs are taking longer and longer to fill. On top of those open jobs, employers will need to fill roles by 2020 in emerging fields like robotics, data science, automation, and content curation.

Why are most presentations so bad? Truly terrible?  Few people enjoy creating, delivering, or watching PowerPoint presentations, so let’s change that. You may recall the quick fire selection of Awesome PowerPoint tricks covered in the December webinar. This session builds on that with techniques to create mind blowing presentations. 

The modern learning landscape calls for modern blended learning design. We aren’t designing COURSES, we are designing experiences that support the learner in all of their moments of learning need - not just when learning something new.

Globalization, doing more with less, leading remote and contingent workers, changing demographics, low engagement: These are just a few of the dramatic changes that leaders face today. Join us as we discuss the four elements of Emotional Intelligence (self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, and relationship management) as a key differentiator for leadership performance, which requires collaboration, influence and versatility. 

LinkedIn is the most powerful sales tool for today's sales professional IF you know how to use it effectively.  If you're still thinking of the old (2016) LinkedIn or you're not confident in your abilities as an expert in using the new 2017 version of LinkedIn, you're losing out to competitors who are.  

With video on the rise for online learning in organizations, it's time to ask the question: "Is my approach to video learning really up to snuff"?  Emmy-winning TV producer Michael Kolowich will take you beyond video and into the world of "Knowledge Hosting" -- a whole new way of looking at how we create, host, share, organize, and measure the impact of learning media.  This is your opportunity to pick the brain of a true pioneer in online media.

Today’s modern complex workforce and the current state of technology require a performance management process that enables employees to quickly communicate and adjust to changing business needs. With dissatisfaction at an all-time high, agile performance management is gaining attention for transforming performance management into a more agile, dynamic process.

With over 5,000 stores in 13 countries, Sally Beauty is one of the largest retailers of specialty beauty products in the world. Given this footprint, how are they effectively moving the needle on employee engagement and retention?