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Boosting Engagement Drives Performance
According to the 2018 Gallup Report, 67% of workers are experiencing some sort of work disengagement. Gallup looked deeper into managers’ impact on employee engagement and found:
77% of employees believe their manager needs to improve the meaningfulness of the feedback they currently provide
74% of employees believe their manager needs to more directly relate feedback to their job performance
79% of employees believe their manager needs to improve how they manage their
employee’s performance to motivate them to excel in their position
BUT all is not lost; This gap represents an opportunity. To discover more about the opportunity, click to download this paper.

Proven Strategies to Keep Remote Workers Engaged, Enthused, and Effective
We are living in unprecedented times. 'Work' as we know it is changing. In order to thrive, organizations must re-invent themselves and embrace the new normal. As a former Fortune 500 business executive who has seen it all, Jill understands how organizations operate, and what they need to do to attract, retain, and engage employees - whether they sit under your nose or work remotely.

Create Interactive Social Distancing Project using Adobe Captivate
During these unprecedented times, social distancing is the need of the hour. Join Dr. Pooja Jaisingh to see how we can use the information available on this topic to build an interactive and animated eLearning course using Adobe Captivate.

PowerPoint Slide Design for Non-Designers
In this webinar, you'll learn techniques that anyone can use to create stunning PowerPoint slides, without any design experience or ability. You'll also discover that these techniques also help your audience understand and remember your points more clearly. Best of all, they're easy to incorporate into your slide preparation.

The Definitive Guide to Upskilling
Employee training and development is not an "event" it's a process. Training in the 21st century needs to be ongoing, agile, and one that is personalized to individual needs.
And with the growing remote workforce, evolving and advancing technologies, where do you begin? Traditional employee development methods are being replaced by:
micro-learning
simulations
gamification
AI and more
Download this complimentary guide, The Definitive Guide to Upskilling, to learn about the 4 essential strategies for building and refining an upskilling program with personalized content and hands-on training that aligns with your company.

Make Your Virtual Trainings Events to Remember
Join our experts from Adobe and Verizon Wireless on this webinar and discover how to elevate your virtual trainings and classrooms by adding interactive elements. Jamie Freeman will take you through a slew of creative ideas for adding orchestrated interaction into your virtual training. She will ensure that any virtual training you host is an event to remember! While Alistair speaks about the role interactivity plays in elevating the effectiveness of your delivery.

Create Stunning Graphics for eLearning
Good visualization improves understanding, recollection and adoption. Poor or no visual communication impedes learning. Make your job easier. Use clear, compelling designs to achieve your learning objectives. No design skill needed.

New Trends in Learning to Increase Learner / Worker Capabilities
Today's learners are continuously adaptive to new business demands. They learn while working. They adjust to rapid changes and are very resourceful in finding answers and solutions. Unfortunately, many learning systems are stuck with the old paradigms where learners have to slave away to derive useful answers.

Managing Stress in a Constantly Changing World
Our changing world requires us to deal not only with the COVID-19 pandemic, but global warming, increasing natural disasters, and ongoing disruption led by technology. Stress resilience has become the top skill needed for health, happiness, and career longevity. But how do you help employees manage stress when it is unique to each person?

Grow Champions of Training! How to Effectively Market Your Training Function
Marketing … We all dread it. It’s one extra thing to do on our ever-growing list of tasks. And, it’s usually a skill set we didn’t pick up along the way.

Now What? Smart Choices & Considerations Once Your Training is Online
Your company is now online. You’re working remotely, providing training virtually, zoom, zooming the days away and the dust has — sort of — settled. The workforce landscape is forever changed and innovation shouldn’t stop at just getting it all online or converted to digital quickly. A focus on performance should always be the focus and measure for all training and curriculum.

4 Ways to Manage a High-Performing Team… Virtually
Companies around the globe have canceled sales meetings and training sessions and are enacting work from home policies to help prevent the spread of COVID-19. Yet sales enablement professionals must get new hires up to speed and keep teams on track in a world where face-to-face meetings are impossible.
Traditional training and sales enablement approaches won’t solve this challenge. But building a virtual training program when you’ve relied on in-person sessions can feel like an overwhelming task. Fortunately, there are proven tactics that organizations can employ to train across geographies and time zones.
Use this guide to learn how the right strategy and technology can help you manage high-performing virtual teams.

Creating A Sales Culture of Excellence with The FISH! Philosophy
This presentation is an easy to follow roadmap showing you the necessary beginning steps to achieve success through increased sales. Knowing the importance of having passion and understanding for what everyone is doing. Continuously building the skills necessary to get the job done and remain competitive Effectively communicating roles and responsibilities without confusion. Having the flexibility to do things differently in the ever-changing business environment we all dwell in and taking ownership for the productivity and profitability of the organization. Creating a culture where people can’t wait to come to work and be their best--a culture with people making a difference for their customers and each other. A culture that nurtures flawless execution of work, promotes teamwork and is fulfilling and fun.

L&D to the Rescue
No need to explain that times are crazy…we all get it. Organizations are desperate for timely and pertinent instruction as their people work from home. It’s great that L&D is the function your staff demands but the budgets are slashed. Instead of doing the obvious - converting your existing workshops into blah blah webinars - L&D must be innovative, nimble and uplifting to deliver quality learning while keeping the cost low. LECTURE AS A LAST RESORT is still and always critical for growing practical skills.
Awesome Makeovers from PowerPoint Slides that Suuuuuck
There are many ways to wreck a PowerPoint slide. Behold these before-and-after gems from some of the worst train wrecks we've ever seen.

Create Stunning Graphics for eLearning
Good visualization improves understanding, recollection and adoption. Poor or no visual communication impedes learning. Make your job easier. Use clear, compelling designs to achieve your learning objectives. No design skill needed.

You’ve Got This! Tips for Better Virtual Facilitation
No matter what web conference platform you use, you’ll find the mindset and the tactical tools described here will help you get better results in your next web event.
P.S. While you’re reading, notice the additional resources referenced and be sure to download these helpful tools for your virtual tool kit.

Skill Building: Training the Workforce of Tomorrow
The skills needed to succeed on the job are changing at an unprecedented pace. Reports say that skills learned today remain relevant for an average of only five years. Consequently, Learning and Development (L&D) professionals must train today's employees for the skills that will be needed tomorrow-even when those skills haven't yet been identified or, in some cases, created.
Training employees for skills that haven't been invented yet is no easy task. So how can L&D upskill everyone from entry-level employees to senior management for an unforeseeable, quickly changing future?
To do this, L&D first must identify:
A framework for building future skills
The most-needed emerging skills
Capabilities for success, regardless of the skill set
In this white paper, Training Top 10 Hall of Fame members explore these challenges and detail how they are responding to future-proof their organizations, particularly in the wake of the Coronavirus and beyond.

LEARNING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM COMPARISON - Which Learning Solution is Best for Your Business?
Today, 26% of Americans say they’re online almost constantly and people spend an average of 5 hours a day on their mobile phones. We do everything from shopping to watching videos using the Internet on our mobile devices. Being online has been integrated into every aspect of life. Our dependence on digital platforms and mobile devices has impacted not only the way we communicate, but the way we learn, as well. In fact, 47% of organizations have already incorporated mobile learning into their training programs.
With the way things are changing, it can be hard to find the perfect learning solution for your needs. With so many learning management systems on the market, it can be difficult to determine which option checks all of the essential boxes for your company, or if a traditional LMS is actually the right solution to address your learning needs. When it comes to learning solutions, BenchPrep stands out by going far beyond the benefits and functionality of a traditional LMS by focusing on learner success.
Explore this detailed comparison guide to find out how traditional LMS software solutions compare to BenchPrep, and see why the world’s leading education and training organizations leverage BenchPrep to deliver their online learning programs.

You Can’t Beat ‘Em, So Join ‘Em –Training’s Role in Informal Learning
Let's face it: many of us obtain the knowledge and data we require to complete our work by using the internet. This informal learning trend is unlikely to change soon, so training professionals need to find a way to address it. Some are threatened by this reality; others have been tasked with quantifying and evaluating it.

The Need for Critical Thinking in Crisis Situations is NOW
First, panic ensues. Then comes paralysis. These are the usual responses of workers and organizations when crisis situations emerge.

Make MAGIC in the Virtual Classroom
Have you noticed that some online presenters facilitate their sessions with such passion and skill that it’s a pleasure to participate? You wouldn’t think of multitasking because they command your attention and engage interest. They masterfully manage the web platform, create a powerful learning experience, keep it "up close and personal," and make it seem as if you are in a collaborative classroom.

How to Drive Performance for Remote Sales Teams
Are you managing a remote sales team? Our "new normal" of canceled meetings and travel restrictions means face-to-face sales are impossible.

Practical Methods to Influence Sales Teams to Higher Performance
This interactive webinar is specifically for sales managers and executives who are constantly negotiating and influencing their sales team to perform at the highest level (or conducting some of their own sales). It will be split into three parts: