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.

From intake to learning solution delivery and analysis, there are many aspects of the learning operations process you can improve to use your time better and deliver stronger training.   But where should you start? And what will the impact of your efforts be? An L&D (learning and development) audit can reveal the answers when done effectively. You’ll get the following in this toolkit from Cognota (formerly Synapse): A guide about the most impactful aspects of L&D to audit Best practices for making your audit a success An audit planner and progress tracker Templates for final reports, to share your findings

Are you using Miro to replace some of the participant-centered activities you did F2F? The Bob Pike Group is all about working the wall, flip charts, games, survey, storyboard, mindmaps and displaying our work for the class to see (and keep!). With Miro, we’ve been able to bring that functionality and more to our virtual programs, and so can you!

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."

Have you ever asked a question in a virtual event, only for it to be met with silence? There are multiple reasons why attendees may not respond. In this interactive session with virtual training expert Cindy Huggett, we will explore each reason and learn how to overcome each one.

I know the feeling! I had to deliver a webinar to 100 people. At best I delivered a "dump truck" of content. But learning? I wondered. Deep inside me, I felt like it was 100 moments of failure. I should be locked up in a "trainer’s jail" if there was one. I am guilty. 

Being able to present online requires tracking a lot of moving parts. Presenters not only need to monitor what they're saying and any visuals they may be presenting, but they also need to keep an eye out for questions, all while making an engaging experience for attendees. Did you know that some ways of asking questions of attendees make all of that harder? It's true, and it's what a lot of presenters do by accident.

Did you know that 70% of American adults play video games?  Why? Because they provide a fun, risk-free outlet for collaboration and friendly competition. That’s why more IDs are increasingly using game-based strategies to make their training more effective. 

Training has never been the issue or the problem; Whereas, the challenge is always lied within the reinforcement of training. During this webinar specific techniques will be taught and how to build training reinforcement strategies that leverage the value of what the industry is already done well and that's training delivery.