It's the goal of every salesperson: getting access to senior client executives - the C-Level decision makers responsible for approving top-dollar deals.  Leaders at the highest corporate levels don’t always avoid sales pitches; in fact, they often welcome them, provided the salesperson approaches them the right way.  But how?

Even experienced training leaders will find themselves standing before groups whose dynamics are all over the board. Everyone has an opinion, some appear checked out, varying learning styles must be considered, and you’ve got to address difficult questions thrown at you at warp speed. Wouldn’t it be great to have the tools to (re)gain control of the room every time?

Each year learning and HR solutions are implemented with minimal performance change or impact.  This is because performance change requires the active involvement of management and the implementation of multiple solutions - single solutions rarely result in change.  Performance Consulting is a process designed to achieve business results by maximizing the performance of people and organizations.

If you are frustrated by your inability to make your webinars engaging, here's a blessing for you.  Every year, Lou Russell and the RMA staff partner with TMN to hold an annual webinar party.  We've done Halloween, Holiday / Christmas and Fourth of July (recordings available on TMN site). This year, we are focusing our gratitude on a Thanksgiving Party.

It’s no secret, companies with positive cultures thrive while those with negative ones can wither. But how do you build a positive organizational culture? And once you build it, how do you maintain it? This eBook will help you assess where your company is, assist you in understanding why you’re there, and then show you how to build a culture that will energize your organization, engage your employees, and ultimately delight your customers.

Ken Blanchard believes that the world in is desperate need of a need leadership model - Servant Leadership. Today’s business world is characterized by increasing change - technological, cultural, social, economic, and personal. The net effect is increasing anxiety, insecurity, and more pressure than ever before on today’s employees, creating an intense need for managers to be more effective as leaders. Learn how practicing the four habits of Servant Leaders will  provide the inspiration and skills needed to empower today’s emerging workforce.  

"The bio-metamorphosis is needed…" Yikes! What is this?  (The learner) Why do we use complex words? Can we avoid them? How? Jargons, techie, procedural, product specs, scientific and legal terms are just a few examples of complex words. Such content,  if not translated into simple-to-understand ways become stumbling blocks in learning and application.

Corporations, hospitals, non-profits, and many other organizations are making the switch to open-source Moodle, the world’s most widely used learning platform, for their professional development, onboarding, compliance, and other training needs. Driving this trend is the fact that open-source software is both free to use as well as highly customizable to meet specific user needs. No matter the type of organization, Moodle can streamline best of breed training content into a centralized online environment for a more flexible, efficient, and economical training solution.

Join Dr. Allen Partridge, Sr. Adobe eLearning Evangelist for this interactive training session focused on creating amazing interactive eLearning content using multi-state objects. Creating cool interactions has never been easier - now you can easily create engaging, dynamic content that transforms to meet the needs of the situation without any programming or complexity. 

What do master trainers do when delivering live online classes? What techniques do they use? What skills do they have? And most importantly, how can you do the same? There are 5 things that master virtual trainers do to deliver effective virtual classes. This highly interactive session will cover each one of them, and will help you immediately apply the techniques to your own virtual training delivery.

It is essential that organizations learn how to train, motivate, advance, and retain high-value Millennial and Gen Z workers. These workers have been digital for most of their lives. They often need soft skills training earlier than their predecessors, and they expect to have access to training anywhere. In this webcast, we’ll focus on how organizations can further capitalize on their training infrastructure to improve worker skills and job satisfaction using next-generation e-learning methods and courses.

By 2030, an estimated 50 percent of the American workforce will consist of contract workers, yet most organizations do not have consistent hiring and onboarding procedures in place for these individuals, and every day, the IRS issues penalties for the misclassification of employees. 

Sales organizations often look at the competition as the enemy that must be beaten. With this mindset, salespeople and managers often fight the competition in full view on the customer’s front lawn, damaging your company’s reputation.

When violence erupts in a workplace, the outcome, impact and events of the scenario are unpredictable. Injury or death of building occupants, lawsuits, property damage, and diminished trust in the organization by staff and the community are just a few of the possible consequences.  

Training professionals around the world use the Kirkpatrick Model to show program value, but many struggle to get beyond Level 1 Reaction and Level 2 Learning to get to what’s important: change in behavior and organizational results. Some have even suggested that getting to Level 4 Results is impossible without an extraordinary amount of resources being employed.

A common challenge that faces both designers of e-learning and the learners is how to avoid tedious, meaningless e-learning. Scenario-based modules and learning simulations are two approaches to design that can elevate a training opportunity. Scenario-driven designs enhance motivation by simulations, along with games and scenario-based modules are commonly accepted as an "advanced" type of e-learning. These approaches are closely related. Scenarios usually increase learner involvement and engagement through rich contexts and challenges that learners find meaningful. Simulations can be even more effective as they also engage the learner through real-life actions and intrinsic feedback and delayed judgment. Creating impactful scenarios and simulations depends on the insightful application of these instructional interactivity elements in your designs.

Global virtual teams are becoming the "new normal" as businesses expand across borders and as skill shortages force companies to tap into broader talent pools. Made possible by technology advances, the global virtual team offers many advantages, including:   obtaining an international perspective on business challenges and solutions achieving economies of scale leveraging complementary work cycles that allow 24/7 productivity harnessing best talent, wherever it is located accelerating innovation and product launches enhancing local knowledge and presence Companies increasingly rely on global virtual teams to foster growth and innovation, yet too often these teams are assembled without a clear process to ensure success. Global virtual teams represent a high stakes commitment, so it is imperative that these teams have a proven framework to promote optimal functioning.

Like all great HR technology, gamification is only as good as the people who design it. For your gamification to succeed, it must genuinely reflect your workplace culture, mission, practices and needs, because every organization, like every employee, is unique.

Globalization has made virtual teams a business necessity. The search for new markets, top talent, and innovation means that teamwork is required across borders, cultures and time zones.  While global teams offer opportunities for collaboration and new solutions, problems created by distance and limited face-to-face contact can be significant. Training can play a critical role in helping global teams work together effectively, leveraging technology and just-in-time online tools that enhance team connections and results.

New technology has drastically changed the way we learn, and employers are incorporating it frequently to more effectively engage their learners and reduce the time and costs of training.  In the coming year, we’ll continue to see companies rapidly adopting new, innovative forms of learning. 

The market is changing fast, and jobs are being reinvented every 3-5 years. The problem is, we can’t go back to school every 3-5 years because it’s time consuming and expensive. Combined with people’s changing workplace expectations, we find ourselves in a new working world with a different set of employee engagement challenges.

Wouldn’t it be great if you could create training material quickly and easily without having to spend a whole lot of time and money designing your assets from scratch, or having someone do them for you? Have no fear: Kid Captivate is back for another, more advanced round of Adobe Captivate 9 magic. 

If you're a busy mentor, trainer, manager or leader, then developing a strong coaching habit can help you work less hard and have more impact.