If you follow the trends in the design world, you would have noticed that there is a real explosion in the use of motion graphics. You will see motion graphics in high use in commercials, sporting events and even newscasts. While motion graphics are typically used with video, many eLearning projects can use motion graphics without real video.

How can L&D professionals optimally strategize effective learning initiatives? Stay ahead of the game - know what L&D trends to follow in 2022, and which are over and done with.  This report created by L&D expert, Chairman of the Learning and Performance Institute Donald H. Taylor, takes a deep dive into the results of this year’s Global Sentiment Survey and answers the question: "What will be hot in workplace learning in 2022?" This year’s L&D Global Sentiment Survey, the ninth, shows L&D at a turning point, as the result of two forces. One is the demands of organizations, as they emerge from the pandemic, for more training delivery, very often with unchanged or reduced resources for L&D. The other is the need to deal with the emergency measures put in place in 2020 to mitigate the immediate impact of COVID-19.Taylor's report identifies the top digital learning trends of 2022 and what they mean for the future of workplace learning. He explains how these trends differ from region to region, which "hot topics" from the 2021 are cooling down, and how the pandemic has impacted the trends we see within the L&D industry.  More about the Global Sentiment Survey:  The L&D Global Sentiment Survey takes the pulse of the L&D community world-wide, annually. The one-minute online poll asks L&D professionals internationally what they think will be hot in the following year. The question is always the same format: "What will be hot in workplace L&D in [this year]?" Participants are asked to choose what they think will be hot, not what should be hot. Each person votes for 3 of 15 options, presented in random order. There is, in addition, an ‘Other’ option. Aggregated, and examined over time, these answers provide a fascinating look at trends in what people in L&D are thinking. The survey is published each year in February. The annual L&D Global Sentiment Survey, now in its ninth year, attracts responses from thousands of respondents in over 80 countries. More about Donald H. Taylor: Donald H Taylor is a veteran in the fields of learning and development and learning technologies, with experience at every level from design and delivery to chairman of the board.  A recognized commentator and thinker in the fields of workplace learning and supporting technologies, Donald is committed to helping develop the learning and development profession. From 2010 to 2021, he chaired the Learning and Performance Institute, where he continues to head the Advisory Board and Learning Professionals Network. His work over more than 30 years in L&D ranges from training delivery to director and vice-president positions in software companies. Donald has been a company director and shareholder for three companies through start up, growth and acquisition. He now advises a number of EdTech start-ups, and works with Emerge Education, a European seed fund focused on start-ups in this field. He is a graduate of Oxford University and in 2016 was awarded an honorary doctorate by Middlesex University in recognition of his work developing the L&D profession.

Do you know how to create an effective diagram? Can you create a graph that tells a story? An important skill in our field is the ability to convey abstract concepts, statistics and data in a meaningful way. Visualizing abstractions can improve comprehension and facilitate learning. It’s important to know how to design the best type of graphic to meet your learning goal.

Attend this high-energy, interactive webinar and get the top five practical marketing and sales techniques successful organizations use to eclipse their competitors. Use one or more to increase sales and revenue. Each technique is easily adopted and can be applied immediately after this workshop. Mike shares real-world solutions for short and long-term business development lifecycles. Don’t let your competition get the edge. Attend this session and dominate every opportunity.

Adult learners have a wealth of knowledge and experience that can be shared. In this session, we'll look at how to design collaborative activities and team exercises into your virtual classroom experiences using breakout rooms.

Have you noticed that some virtual presenters facilitate their sessions with such passion and skill that you find yourself enjoying the session and participating?  They masterfully manage the virtual platform, create a powerful learning experience by focusing on getting their participants engaged and collaborating. 

From the ongoing pandemic to the "Great Resignation," front-line workers are facing more pressure than ever. On top of these external pressures, front-line staff often lack organizational support as well, leading to poor productivity and a negative company culture. Research shows that 40% of front-line employees only receive training once a year or less. As a learning and development decision-maker, you have an opportunity to innovate and positively impact front-line employee training to motivate, educate, and retain essential workers. 

Learners can only absorb and retain very little from the ideas when we overload and overwhelm them. The problem is that designers are often focused on presenting ALL the ideas with the limited time in webinars. The consequence is that learners would feel like they are cramped in a sardines box. So, how do we untangle and unbundle large and complex content into chunked and small lessons? 

WARNING: There is a rule that you can not copy videos from YouTube.com and TikTok.com. But there are so many videos you can scavenge, copy, crop, "mutate", splice and dice, "cannibalize", and make your own - keeping within limits, of course. Why do you want to do this? Because like me, we are "cheap" and can never produce great videos such as these in our wildest imagination. This is my approach: within limits, I download the video, crop, and convert. Edit, combine, spruce up, intermingled with contextual questions, then add and finally deliver it in my instant learning platform. The great thing is that I am no expert! If I can do it, you can too.

The new realities of work have created long-term impacts — good and bad — for your organization and your people. The organizations that successfully navigate this uncharted wilderness are able to thrive by developing the skills of their people.  

Finding New Ways To Connect Learners The workforce is still adjusting to the new reality of a changing workplace. Many employees continue to work remotely, or on a hybrid schedule. This further complicates employee collaboration, especially as it relates to learning and development. No matter where an employee starts or ends their workday, the ongoing need for person-to-person collaboration is essential for the organization’s success. Adapting learning and development programs to serve this new workforce is not without its challenges. The creation of engaging learning experiences is no longer a top-down structure, as many employees are choosing to have a say in the process. Individual learners are increasingly creating their own learning content to offer their personal knowledge and experience on how to be successful in their respective roles. Leveraging peer-to-peer learning for all employees requires a modern learning solution that can connect learners despite distance and can accommodate custom content that is highly personalized to the organization. Helping learners find the help they need quickly and contribute to the conversation is an excellent way to boost collaborative learning efforts within the organization. In this eBook, we focus on a few ways to boost collaborative learning programs. Topics include: Responding to Workplace Culture Changes Connecting Mentors to Learners Peer-to-Peer Learning Real-time Collaboration Learning Tech Flexibility in Teams

Creating accessible and inclusive presentation experiences doesn’t have to be boring or difficult. But where do you start? What exactly is accessible and inclusive design? Who are we building our presentations for? Stephy will reintroduce you to your audience and give you tips on how to create an equally amazing presentation experience for each of them, whether they are...

Dr. Bob Nelson, the world’s leading authority on Employee Recognition and Engagement, will be sharing top recognition strategies for appreciating employees today, whether they are in the office, remote or some hybrid combination--and the impact those strategies can have on attracting, engaging and retaining workers.

Anyone tasked with improving performance and job satisfaction needs to help their people boost digital skills.  After all, employees now spend up to 90% of their day immersed in technology.  The challenge is that, according to McKinsey, 70% of digital transformation initiatives are doomed to failure.

Today’s business climate presents challenges both new and old. The world of business has truly turned to operating globally around the clock. The velocity of technical innovation is increasing, and businesses struggle to keep up. In this environment, it has become more important for businesses to keep pace with the needs of the customer and be ready to deliver to meet ever-changing requirements. Download this White paper to learn how customer education can help achieve these goals.

In the business world, data analytics is the new superpower that can be wielded to achieve impressive results. It allows companies to do things that were never possible before, like predict customer satisfaction, analyze competitor information and identify fraud. For these reasons it is predicted that by 2023 over 33% of large organizations will utilize data analysts to unlock business intelligence, including decision modeling. 

In 2021, a staggering 47.4 million American workers voluntarily quit their job.  In an effort to stem the losses, employers have responded by throwing money and enhanced benefits at people.  However, according to latest research from McKinsey, there is a significant disconnect between how management and employees view our new world of work.

Training materials with a voiceover element are versatile, engaging, and effective, but creating them is time consuming, expensive, and disruptive. How do you find voice talent? What if they’re busy when you need that urgent update? What’s the best way to create 10 versions of similar material?

Compliance is increasingly defining the public persona of an organization. As organizations become more environment centric, dynamic, hybrid, geographically diverse - compliance risks come up in multiple areas starting from ESG, Cybersecurity, Data Protection to taxation. This creates a whole new dimension for how compliance training is managed in organizations.  

Who deserves the chance to get better at their jobs? Who deserves the chance to access the latest information in their field? Most people would answer, "everyone."

The Great Resignation is real! Nearly 70% of organizations expect employee turnover to increase over the next 12 months, with only 1% expecting it to decrease. This is despite widespread support for a hybrid work model wherein some employees work on-site and others, remotely. Focusing on upskilling and reskilling the workforce helps address this challenge. By linking skills to business outcomes, it is no longer just Learning & Development pushing for learning programs. These links will drive leadership buy-in that gets the concept of skills pushed throughout the company to support business goals. Explore these concepts further in our newest eBook, "Reskilling and Upskilling to Stop The Great Resignation"

"If everything was perfect, you would never learn and you would never grow." - Beyonce Knowles Launching a new digital learning program can be a daunting process, especially when your learners are studying for important entrance, licensing, or certification tests. You want to help them take their careers to the next level, but maybe you feel like you don’t have enough content. Perhaps you feel intimidated or overwhelmed by the thought of implementing a new piece of technology. Or maybe you don’t have the resources you think you need to launch. Whatever the reason may be, there’s one thing we urge you to keep in mind: starting before you’re ready is better than never starting at all.  

How do you instantly connect learners to lessons? The fastest way is to use stories in your delivery. The challenge is how to quickly find them and how to make sure they are appealing to the learners. The 5 easy-to-use stories are good methods and tips to generate these short and succinct narratives quickly and make them stick in the learner's mind. They add depth to your learners’ understanding of the ideas.

Would people attend your trainings if they had to pay for them out of their own pockets? For most trainers, the answer is no - but that's about to change. In this session you'll learn to combine key principles from the fields of marketing and instructional design to create training programs so good that, if your participants had to pay to attend, they would happily do so. This will be accomplished by taking a "both, and" approach to the dichotomies of traditional vs. online training.