Melissa is a rising star at your company. She’s been promoted 5 times in as many years, and is on track to join your leadership bench program. And unfortunately, she just gave her two weeks’ notice.  Capturing the knowledge of exiting employees is one of the ways you could be using video, but probably aren’t. In this session, we’ll explore 6 examples of how companies are improving their learning strategies with video. We’ll also examine trends driving the shift to video, and how you can tap them within your business.

Are your learners coming to you with constant requests to make the learning content available on mobile devices? Does everyone ask why you can't put your videos into mobile friendly format and stream them to mobile phones? Are you just worried you might be falling behind the mobile curve?   

New research is showing that emotional intelligence is no longer a "nice-to-have." It’s a need to have in today’s workplace and serves as the building block for professional success. It’s not a building block that’s isolated to a few professions or job roles. It’s just about as universal as a success principle can be.

You asked for it, and we’re giving it to you. New PowerPoint tips, tricks and application uses. Stand out in your next meeting or training session and amaze your colleagues with new skills. This interactive webinar is a must for any PowerPoint user.

Deciding to use skills can be an important and strategic part of enabling your organization to understand where your bench strength is strong and where you may need to train.  Having skills can help to do this but where do you start?  

Technology has not only impacted the way we think, it has also shifted into high gear how we receive and consume information. This plays out across all divisions of business, and sales and service organizations are no exception. Embracing new technologies, and accommodating personal learning styles, generational expectations, and varying skill levels, requires a comprehensive learning approach -- one that combines traditional and modern modalities that fit your company, your team and your culture. 

According to a recent CSO Insights’ study, 60% of participants report a ramp-up time of greater than or equal to 7 months. In 2003, this number was only 40%.

Valentine’s Day may be coming, but many organizations are not feeling the love when it comes to their learning technology. In fact, according to Brandon Hall Group’s 2016 Learning Technology Study, 44% of companies are actively looking to replace their existing learning management system (LMS).

The modern employee has 1% of their week to focus on training. What can they do with that roughly 24 minutes a week? Turns out, a lot.

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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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