AI Transforms Learning Into a Competitive Advantage Data has long been coined the new oil, but data on its own won’t power your organization’s learning engine. It’s now critical to transform the data collected by your platform on your learners’ activities into actionable insights that create unique experiences - with artificial intelligence (AI). Click below to download this Guide from Docebo.   Sponsored by

If you want to know how to get ahead of the game and avoid the common mishaps in selling your eLearning courses, you’ve come to the right place! Lambda Solutions has identified the most common and costly challenges faced by eLearning providers today.  These include: Overcoming the high cost of scaling Figuring out what to do when there’s a lack of knowledge or skill Navigating the labyrinth of system integration Measuring the true ROI of your LMS Download this white paper, and we will show you how to identify each of these pitfalls in your organization regardless of industry, organizational size, or learning goals. Let us help you gain insight into how to overcome those obstacles and achieve sustainable, scalable, and successful eLearning, and determine exactly what is required to sell your courses and achieve eLearning success!

Employers are consistently looking for employees that can advance the organizational charter and help it achieve their goals with innovation and creativity. Individuals with a unique set of advanced skills are a primary ingredient to helping organizations reach their financial goals. Similar to wealth building - skills-building and formation happens over the course of a lifetime.   

The terms trainer, presenter and facilitator are often used interchangeably, but actually mean different things, and each can play a different role in learning events.  Do you know their differences?  Download this eBook to compare trainers, presenters and facilitators, take a deep dive into the different roles facilitators play, and access a tool to assess your current effectiveness as a facilitator.

Ready to rock and roll with Adobe Captivate? Learn to create an exciting eLearning Course that hits all the right notes! Just take part in a 90-minute hands-on introduction by Dr. Pooja Jaisingh to take your eLearning journey to new dimensions. What’s more, earn a valuable certificate upon creating your own short project.

This white paper explores how the Training Top 100 Hall of Fame L&D leaders are planning for post-pandemic learning and development utilizing lessons learned and best practices from the last year, the future of in-person classroom training, which innovations should be carried forward after the pandemic, and strategies to build stronger organizational engagement.

We’ve seen a rapid rise in the use of technology to automate and streamline many of our day-to-day tasks. This change has caused a shift in the way organization need to train employees. Despite automation replacing many job functions, employees will always have a need for soft skills, such as communication, teamwork, integrity, as well as cognitive skills, such as creativity, critical thinking, and decision making. The tips in this ebook will help upskill and reskill your workforce to complement the advancements in automation. You’ll learn: What skills you should prioritize How to tie training to specific roles Tips for using mixed modalities for maximum results

Interactivity and learner engagement go hand-in-hand. But when accessibility enters into the eLearning equation, do you have to throw all the fun interactions in eLearning authoring tools out the window? Or do you have to double the work and create a completely separate accessible course? Not at all!  

Does your organization speak the language of skills? Do you have a plan to roll out skills-based development to your people? Can your managers use skills-based learning to support their workers?

Everyone knows that microlearning is short, but brevity is only one element that makes microlearning so appealing to users and learners everywhere. Other elements include the learner’s context—how and when they engage with the material—and hyper-focused, curated content. Finding the right balance is difficult—sometimes it means kicking your instructional design process up a notch. We’ll share principles and practices to help your microlearning evolve.

The times they are a changing (as the song goes)…and so are some leadership development trends and best practices in response to tremendous challenges in the last year. Sparked by the COVID-19 pandemic, spending on leadership development decreased as many organizations diverted funds to convert in-person training to virtual learning, Training magazine’s 2021 Annual Leadership Development Survey Report found. Social justice concerns helped to vault Diversity and Inclusion from 12th to third on the list of highest-ranked priority skills.

This presentation is about the practice of Instructional Design (ISD) in the real world today and how it is being modified and used to produce training solutions to help meet business needs (problems or opportunities) for organizations as well as the needs of individuals attending the training program.  

Because we all deserve a do-over If you are a golfer, your favorite word is "mulligan." That’s when you hit a dreadful shot, usually into a forest or a lake, and you drop a second ball at your feet and essentially proclaim, "that one didn’t count." You then hit again and go on your merry way, a happier camper for it.

Yes, many agree that lecturing in webinars can quickly become boring and kills learning. But what could be a better alternative? More teasers and warm-ups? Additional break-out sessions? How about more exercises and activities?

The Myers-Briggs Company has shown that the relationship between leaders and employees can impact employee sentiment and well-being. Additionally, strong relationships between leaders and employees can promote a sense of inclusion where differences, diversity of thought, personality types, and life / work experiences can thrive. Leaders are central to creating and driving a culture of inclusion for supporting employee relationships and realizing the potential and value of diverse individuals and teams. But what are the leadership behaviors that promote inclusion, and build strong relationships with employees? It all starts with self-awareness and a practical, committed approach to becoming a more inclusive leader.

You may have been hearing more about learning science of late. Why? Are there reasons we should be concerned with learning science? Aren’t our instructional design approaches sufficient?  

Trends happen for a reason, and you’ve probably been training your clients on how to be virtual, how to manage remotely, and how to use Zoom.  But as you’re wrapping those sessions up, remember: The job of a training resource & consultant isn’t just to deliver what clients ask for today, but to teach them what they need for tomorrow. In 2021, that means helping them fight the temptation to settle into the "new normal" of the moment, instead supporting them as they equip themselves to flex into the next normal after that - and the one after that.

Learning can and should be fun! Your learners are adults with jobs but that doesn’t mean they don’t want to be entertained, challenged, or engaged! But your corporate training demands results, often documenting compliance, in critical areas requiring lasting performance change. Just because you are choosing a digital platform, your training program still needs to mean business. All elearning interactions are not equal in terms of how well they facilitate learning. This playbook explores this complexity and also establishes some straightforward insights into how to best integrate CCAF thinking into your own digital learning design process. In this ebook you’ll gain: 4 essential pillars of transformative learner-experienced design Tips and insights for designing engaging Contexts, motivated Challenges, appropriate Activities, and instructional Feedback with interactive designs Real-life digital learning solutions from a variety of organizations that have applied the 4 pillars

As the professional landscape evolves and organizations are beginning to finally take action towards the future, many need ways to support their teams safely and efficiently not only during the transition, but for the longer term. Dive into the four key workplace learning trends you should be aware of in 2021 and how they impact your approach to your current learning programs looking ahead.

Transforming L&D for a Sustainable Future With the pandemic, mass working from home, and huge changes to working environments, 2020 saw incredible transformations across the working world. L&D teams had to pivot almost overnight. For many organizations, this initially meant transferring predominantly or completely face-to-face learning into the virtual realm. At LEO, we worked closely with, and spoke to, L&D professionals around the world and in many different industries throughout the pandemic, as we helped them respond. In doing so we also began to understand what has and hasn’t worked for them in such a transitional year. One of our favorite analogies heard in discussion with a senior L&D professional went something like this: "Railway tracks were built on the same basic dimensions as roads created for horse and cart. They didn’t think out of the box. We can’t do that this time. We need to develop ground-up virtual strategies." So, what does this mean for learning? Put simply, in order to transform learning in an effective, sustainable, and scalable way for the future, we shouldn’t simply adapt the old ways of doing things. Just because something worked before, that doesn’t mean it will work in a new, digital, distanced, and flexible learning context. We need to embrace the opportunity for innovative and agile transformation. So, as we look at the world of learning in this period of drastic change, what shifts are taking place, what are we learning, and how can we take these trends and observations into consideration as we prepare for the future? In this eBook, we’re looking back over some of the biggest challenges this industry has faced to see what can be learned and what our key takeaways are for 2021 and beyond.

COVID-19 is changing everything. Many of the organizations that survive, emerge, and thrive will be different than they were before all the unpleasantness. Their workforces will have to be, too. We’ve already seen an unprecedented number of workers displaced all around the world. And the redeployments, furloughs, and layoffs will likely continue throughout 2021.That’s forcing countless workers to refresh their current skills, and more importantly, build new ones. But few of us know where to start — and both time and money are in short supply. That's why we created The State of Skills. Degreed surveyed over 5,200 people around the world to assess the effects of recent global events on workforce skills and to gauge their readiness to adapt to new challenges. We segmented our data by identifying the countries, industries, and job roles where skills are most at-risk of becoming obsolete. We hope this will help workers, team managers, and business leaders focus their limited energy and investments on developing the skills they need most. Pay close attention to the data on your country, industry, and role throughout the report. Those who act quickly have a game-changing opportunity to get ahead of the competition.

Virtual teams are here to stay. Soon, many companies will return to the office, but with smaller footprints and more flexible work-from-home policies that—while convenient—will make live team communication more complex than ever before. 

No matter what "going back" looks like, the return to work will mean facing a world that looks dramatically different from the one we left behind in March of last year. Conversations that were once taboo are now okay, gaps in our training needs are growing, and core internal communication channels aren’t working.

If there’s one thing the pandemic has taught us, it’s that we can do virtually anything—virtually. Virtual communication is ubiquitous, cost-effective, and convenient, and it’s here to stay. Zoom in particular has gained enormous traction, although many of us admit we’re also Teams-tortured, ex-Webexed, over-Skyped, and, frankly, Burned Out.