How do you match the power of distributed, cloud-based computing combined with appropriate learning theories? mLearning theory mashups provide the same granularity in learning design as technology mashups.

Designing learning is like "changing the conversation" in the minds of the learners. Paradigm shifts are necessary to effect behavioral changes. There is a need to change what the learners believe in. Hence, existing stories require transformation so learners believe in the new stories you want them to buy into and own up to.

Experience shows us that learners try to circumvent or trick the learning process or "cheat" the elearning compliance course.  

In this session, we'll discuss a whole new way to gather video learning materials from your subject matter experts. Rather than dragging them to a recording studio, why not put the studio in their hands?

Remembering is hard. Forgetting is easy. Employees have to complete a lot of training during the year, so much so that it is simply impossible for them to remember everything that is asked of them. "Processes, policies, terms, Oh My!" While business critical for organizations, so much detail can be overwhelming to learners.

Learners often feel that training and eLearning are the least interesting and engaging activities. They have no time for it. They are busy. So, we need to push hard or force them to complete courses. What if your courses provide the learners a sense of adventure, challenge and discovery? What if the courses become so inviting that learners are glued to the screen and refuse to end the course? What if they rave about the course and attribute high praises? What if your course is virally promoted to other learners as a " must experience" learning event?

The world of training is changing. The days of all day workshops and seminars are quickly behind us. Employees need to be developed but there is little time allowed for the old traditional ways. This is where the world is changing and NOW has never been a better time for trainers to build their Value! This webinar will teach specific ways to develop employees into willing learners that accelerate the training and coaching process.

In-person training is reliable, personal and interactive. Online training is scalable, cost-effective and empowers people to learn at their own pace, on their own time. With today's agile workforce, blended learning offers the best of both worlds.

When you think about it, what isn't changing? Industries, organizations, jobs, work, and even peoples' expectations are shifting. So it's only to be expected that learning will also adapt to meet the needs of all the change around us.

Even experienced trainers at one time or another find themselves standing before groups whose dynamics are all over the board. Wouldn’t it be great to have the tools to regain control of the room every time? Everyone has an opinion, varying learning styles must be taken into account, and you’ve got to delineate difficult questions being thrown at you at warp speed. How do trainers handle these challenges in an effective, enthusiastic manner?

Part of eLearning’s challenge is how to recapture the lost warmth and interpersonal relationship many of us experience in face-to-face interactions. We perceive a crisis in emptiness. Page turning, clicking through pages and yawning are symptoms of a lack of commitment on the part of learners. The common complaint from eLearners is that intimacy and empathy, helpfulness and support are absent. This creates a disconcerting experience that leads to delays and resistance to a successful implementation of eLearning projects.

Many of us are required to develop and deliver compliance courses. But there is a lot of pessimism from learners. Do we want them to learn or do we want them to just check boxes for the auditors? This webinar will illustrate how to design compliance courses to help learners appreciate the positive impacts compliance can bring to their work and lives.

The most important benefit Millennials say they want from a new company is an opportunity for advancement and career development. Yet companies are very clearly saying that employees are responsible for their own development. Essentially, every employee has a DIY career. What can we do to enable careers in organizations and meet the expectations of our newest employees? We'll interactively discuss the key capabilities every employee should develop and share ideas on how Millennials can approach a DIY career.

Apple, Starbucks and many others have proved beyond doubt that the right customer experience can trump even price in a highly competitive market. But how do you prepare customer-contact associates to deliver the experience that your savvy customers expect?

Coaching is that tool that really helps training professionals integrate into the mainstream of the organization’s business imperatives. There has never been a better time to adopt coaching as more and more research and case studies illustrate the impact training professionals can have with the use of coaching.

Thanks to the popularity of Siri on the iPhone, voice enablement applications are exploding. In this program, Nancy Munro will provide several examples of how organizations can utilize voice enablement for performance support, training, data collection and more. Many of these applications can be created without a deep level of technical expertise.

MOOCs are the talk of the town in the higher education space, but what can they mean for corporate training?

What Comes Before Happiness? This was the essential question that the data posed to happiness researcher Shawn Achor. While recent advances in neurobiology and scientific methods have clearly demonstrated a link between happiness and success; the question they had NOT answered was: "Why do some people move toward a more positive state quicker and more easily than others?"

How do you deliver training and successfully compete with all the noise, chatter and information overload that is going on? How do you persuade learners to pay attention to your content and ideas when they are busy and have no time?

Most smart phone users check their phones a whopping 150 times a day, and tablet shipments surpassed desktop PCs and notebooks in fourth quarter 2012, according to The Meeker report. Clearly, mobile devices have become an integral part of people’s lives—and many of them now want the option of getting their workplace training on these mobile devices. But it’s not as easy as it sounds.

This presentation will define ‘Big Data’ and its impact on organizational decision-making. It will then focus on defining talent development processes that house big data and identifying data sources and classification of metrics to transform data into wisdom through timely, credible, predictive analytics.

When you ask, "What does learning look like?" no one answers, "Someone talking in front of a room." We learn by doing, and by telling what we're doing, and by watching others do things, and by showing others how we did something. Narrating work can solve so many problems for organizations, from capturing tacit knowledge, to easing transitions when workers depart, to further enabling informal and social learning. What does it look like, and how can Training & Development (T&D) help it happen?

Effective onboarding is critical to ensuring that new-hires are quickly acclimated to your company culture, trained and ready for success. Today’s onboarding programs, however, face new and difficult challenges posed by a geographically dispersed, multigenerational workforce.

The DECLARE methodology of instructional design was developed with both the program and course in mind. DECLARE is a set of practical recommendations and content reminders used when creating training programs and courses.