How would your virtual participants describe the overall learning experience in your online classes? Is it a seamless experience or do you have technical challenges? Do you avoid using breakout rooms because they seem complicated?

In this session, Kirsten Rourke will introduce two examples of branching content. She will cover a simple way to make basic branching and how to use Adobe Captivate's advanced features to create custom experiences. The session will also include course planning, resources, and best practices for designing branching content with user-driven navigation.

Business has evolved. Workforces have evolved. Remote workforces have fundamentally transformed how we work. What was once a perk - work from home is now an essential way of how we get stuff done. The once vaulted in-person communication skills needed to bring complex projects to fruition are a thing of the past. To stay competitive, L&D leaders must reconsider how they build and scale great teams. 

The first step in creating top sales coaches is recognizing that most sales managers do not invest enough time coaching their salespeople.  And worse, when they do coach their sales team, they often focus on short-term results rather than mid-to-long-term development.  Top performing sales managers spend at least 50% of their time coaching salespeople and do so in a consistent, structured fashion that drives individual improvement for each team member.  

Join us for an early Halloween SCARE.     In this session, we will face the unlucky demons by using our positive plucky energy. We’ll practice together the magical powers of emotions, including how to NOTICE and CHOOSE before your reptilian brain takes you down.  We’ll discuss how to avoid the bad luck of taking other peoples’ negative vibes and find the magic that lets you see other people’s negative energy without it landing on you.

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All too often compliance training takes up too much time, is costly to implement, and is not optimally designed. Worse yet, learners forget up to 75% of what they learned within 30 days. Rather than viewing compliance metrics as "check the box" for completion, compliance goals need to be reoriented to focus on proficiency and performance. 

We seem to know what "experience" is. But we fail to create experiences that impact results.    Learning Experience (LEx) beliefs, practices and tools are distinct from the usual ADDIE (Analyze, Design, Development, Implement and Evaluate) methods. Experience is learning by discovery. ADDIE tends to be learning by instruction. The biggest challenge in designing Learning Experience Projects that impact performance is that we tend to use instruction toolkits, skills, and mindsets - not discovery and experimentation.  Furthermore, we have yet to evolve as designers into being architects for experiences. Naturally, there is a disconnect. This results in frustration. 

Download this guide to Learn about key business challenges and opportunities sparked by the COVID-19 pandemic, and what career pathways and skills can help you rise to the occasion.

The COVID-19 crisis has created waves of disruption through each sector of the economy. Now more than ever, companies and institutions are looking internally to find solutions to help ease the impact of the pandemic and the resulting economic downturn. This includes ways they can help foster their employees’ resilience and support them through messaging, increased collaboration, and access to valuable resources.

Want to find more leads with less competition? Your happy clients have the key - their referrals! Create a referral program for your business then get your whole company using it. Referrals are one of the quickest ways to fill your pipeline and close faster than any other lead but how do you reward people who refer you?

Michael Bungay Stanier was named #1 Thought Leader in Coaching in 2019, and he is the author of the best-selling coaching book of this century: The Coaching Habit.  

Does Your Team Have the Skills They Need? The Association for Talent Development investigated what TD professionals need to know and do to be successful now and in the future. More than 3,000 professionals participated in research that identified the 23 capabilities needed, which are part of the Talent Development Capability Model. These include expected capabilities such as instructional design and training delivery as well as newer capabilities such as data analytics and emotional intelligence & decision making. Download our white paper to learn all 23 capabilities needed for success and how to make sure your team is equipped for what may come.

Accuracy is critical to your business and empathy is the ultimate soft skill, but marrying the two skills together for learners, especially virtually, can be a challenge. By connecting these skills together in the context of the role, you can establish neural pathways that support positive customer interaction. During their 16 years in business, Zelus Consulting Group has mastered training that focuses on the hard questions, practice, and a methodology that contextualizes complex industry knowledge with empathy in a highly effective and engaging process.   

Almost overnight, video has become today’s go-to medium for everything from communication and knowledge sharing to delivering remote training.

Bar charts and pie charts have their place, but they only take you so far. This session will show you the secret ins and outs of Microsoft Office to create unique and highly visual charts such as Proportional Shapes, Panel Charts, Bullet Graphs, Unit Charts and more in PowerPoint and Excel.  

Are you new to Learning and Development, or coming from a world of training and starting to consider the need to deliver and track training online for the first time? Whether you are new to eLearning or just new to tracking the data from learning, the mysterious and often awkward world of the Learning Management System (LMS) can seem daunting and impossible to navigate.

New technology requires the right kind of training, at the right time. When people are fully enabled to use new software, not only can they perform better, but increased adoption can also deliver significant results to their organization’s bottom line.

In this webinar, you’ll learn how to turn your presentation files into 7 different assets: Video Printed documents PDFs Online training Handouts Checklists Summaries

Why are some companies thriving in the current environment while others fall behind? The secret is modern sales enablement. Today’s winners are mastering virtual selling with an up-to-date approach to content, tools, and knowledge to help their sales teams succeed.

Ever tried to turn on someone else’s TV only to be stumped by their four remote controls? You know exactly what you want but get slowed down by the technology. Virtual training can feel intimidating for someone who’s used to face-to-face settings. We’re here to help you get a grip and gain confidence so your content can shine just as brightly online as it does in person.

It’s hard to find the perfect vendor in the oversaturated learning technology market (700+ LMS vendors alone). How do you know they’ll be the perfect fit without trying a demo? Who has the time to try hundreds of demos? What’s a Chief Learning Officer (CLO) to do? You need a cheat sheet. This guide will help you narrow down the must-have learning technology features to drive business growth. At the end of the day, you don’t need the perfect piece of learning technology, you need the right fit for your business. In this e-book you'll learn how to: More about the different types of learning technology How learning technology achieves business goals How to identify the must-have LMS features you need for business growth

"Will this be recorded?" It might just be the most commonly asked question at the start of virtually every training event. And the good news is that nowadays, you can almost always answer, "Yes." Great. But then what? According to a Wainhouse Research study, 87 percent of employees1 agree that having access to recorded training classes, webinars, and other events makes it easier to revisit crucial information when it’s needed most. Today, recording training sessions is quickly becoming standard practice. And the benefits are well known. Among the many positives, video helps learning and development (L&D) teams provide employees with a comprehensive resource to reference after the training ends, and also provides employees unable to attend with access to the information on-demand. But good intentions too often fall short once the training session ends and the recording stops. For all its benefits, video also presents challenges when it comes to storing, sharing, and even playing recordings. Left unsolved, those shortcomings make video content burdensome for employees simply looking for quick information that helps them perform their jobs. Fortunately, there is a solution. A video content management system (or video CMS) solves the most common problems of managing and sharing video. In this paper, we’ll review the five biggest challenges organizations face when using video to support corporate learning. Then we’ll examine how a video content management system helps overcome those challenges to better enable video-based learning.