For training content to be effective and engaging, it needs to be continuously adaptive to your company's and your employees' changing needs. Download this infographic, and learn the questions to ask content providers to ensure they are the right fit. Click below to download.

Gone are the days when advanced degrees and decades of experience were the only indicators of a stand-out candidate. Today, 80 percent of CEOs seek a much broader range of skills in their company ’s workforce. New research from the Institute for the Future, in conjunction with Cornerstone OnDemand, shows that candidates now must possess not only the technical skills that enable them to engage with constantly evolving technologies, but also the social skills that make them forward-thinking, team-oriented and goal-driven. To attain these skills, workers at every level must become lifelong learners, constantly self-evaluating and finding opportunities to gain new skills. For employers, hiring or nurturing these workers internally presents challenges. From a recruiting perspective, knowledge gaps are making open positions increasingly difficult to fill. According to a new report from Deloitte Insights, more than half of employers say they consistently can’t fill open positions, because without a minimum number of years experience or the right certifications, applicants are simply not qualified enough on paper. Internal candidates face a similar obstacle—they often lack the skills needed to make the leap to a new role. Still, HR teams have to somehow fill over six million vacant jobs. To do so, they’ll have to rethink not only how they hire, but also how they enable learning and development within their organizations. They’ll have to start evaluating internal and external candidates based on their potential, seeking workers with a combination of soft and hard skills that make them adaptable to change, eager to learn and full of promise. How can employers identify and nurture these individuals? In this guidebook, you'll learn what to look for in new workers, and how to help your current workforce develop the skills they need to thrive. With seven articles on everything from hiring the most auspicious candidates, to helping employees build skills for stepping into open leadership positions, our featured articles will enable your organization to cultivate your existing team, onboard promising talent and stay ahead of the skills gap by embracing the idea of lifelong learning. Click below to download this guidebook

Whether a manager or practitioner or both, you know that the success of the business you’re part of is based on people. The biggest cost in your organization is also your employees and they are the biggest asset. When they’re chosen well, intentionally developed, and provided with career options engagement soars. The business begins to fail if the wrong employees are chosen or the right employees are chosen but not developed.

One of the toughest things in managing a sales team is when you have high talent who is performing consistently well, how do you go about continuing to challenge those people, as well as retain their employment? When a salesperson is having good years, they become extremely marketable, and it positions the team to be vulnerable from having top talent stolen from them. This webcast will teach three specific strategies of how sales managers can use sales coaching to retain and develop top talent.

Got Mobile?  Our corporate learners are on the go constantly, which means we need to make training opportunities accessible from a wide range of locations.  Fortunately learning technology enables us to reach employees no matter where they work or travel.

The webinar will focus on best practices for employing virtual simulations and case studies for the most effective use in distance learning situations. This session addresses specifics on the role of virtual offerings in corporate learning programs, and the process to customize the timing of virtual deliveries with company-specific requirements to align with the overall learning objectives across a geographically dispersed population. 

Windows 10’s Creative Update now supports 3D objects and you can put them into PowerPoint 365! This is a game changer! You can rotate them, animate them and move them around. But some of the 3D objects you’ll find are pretty silly. Learn how to find, import, and use 3D objects to tell a meaningful story.

It's time to face the hard, data-driven truth that your corporate learning programs are likely serving your men better than your women.    Many organizations unknowingly perpetuate the gender leadership gap by giving more time, energy, and resources to helping men rise. In doing so, intentionally or not, businesses deny women opportunities to gain the critical leadership skills necessary for advancement—opportunities to which many men have always had access. This eBook provides actions companies can take to remove barriers preventing women from advancing, and highlights five core areas where women need increased access to learning and skill-building opportunities.  Click below to download.

Video is a unique beast. It’s more engaging than a training manual, but sharing it on your LMS (or worse, on YouTube) can create problems. It helps you scale your training worldwide, but every new recording is a pain to produce. And it would be ideal for just-in-time learning, if only it could be effectively searched.

With hyper-busy schedules and information overload, its critical for training professionals to find innovative ways to maximize the impact of corporate learning initiatives. On-demand video learning programs provide a flexible training platform for your employees and empower them to learn on their time. When combined with interactive content, they can also effectively transform expensive live training into accessible and high-performing training assets.

Games have always been great for elearning. Sometimes we design custom games to fit our organization’s culture or specific business need. Other times we reimagine classic games and redesign them for learning interactions or even full elearning courses. Designing a custom game takes a lot of time and effort and those projects are usually rare. If you’re interested in developing a game in Articulate Storyline but overwhelmed where to start, this session will ease your anxiety by exploring the fundamental building blocks of Storyline and how we can leverage them for interactive gameplay.

In this product demonstration, you will see how to create interactive virtual reality-based training using Adobe Captivate (2019 release). You will learn how to import 360° media assets and add hotspots, quizzes and other interactive elements to engage your learners with near real-life scenarios.

Say goodbye to puttering and putzing around with PowerPoint. Instead, discover shortcuts to design slides that meet almost any training need. You’ll not only be able to design PowerPoint FAST, you’ll also add a higher degree of polish to your deck when you stick to a repeatable process. Discover how to create perfect slides to open discussions, bring people back from breaks, cut through too much content, and … watch live or download the webinar for all seven tips!

Retaining and engaging employees are two goals that every organization is striving to achieve. Studies have shown that having engaged employees can drastically improve your bottom line, and a high level of retention is a key indicator that your company is filled with satisfied employees. 

If you improve a salesperson, you improve one person. If you improve a sales manager, you improve the entire team. But, for most managers, self-awareness of their skill gaps is not an easy thing.

Slide design is something of an art, and there are a lot of elements to think about when designing your slides: colors, fonts, animations, transitions, photos, templates and masters. But don’t be overwhelmed! Our guide to design is here to help.

We interviewed different types of workers and trainers to learn about how they stay excited, inspired, valued and well compensated in their jobs and careers. The common theme is that "I must manage my own path." For many others, they falter in their jobs and careers because they haven’t figured how to boost their careers.  

The 2019 release of Adobe Captivate empowers you to create all kinds of fully-responsive eLearning courses and virtual reality projects.

What Are the Obligations of Managers? The answer to this question varies from organization to organization based upon several factors such as industry, culture, department, skill level of the team, etc. At your organization, for instance, managers may be expected to meet with each employee every week and discuss their career. At another organization, management might only discuss issues with employees as they arise. Regardless of the organization, every manager faces the same challenge, in some degree: should management be confined within an organization to a strict set of expectations and achieving KPIs through a set of clear guidelines, or should managers have the freedoms of higher leadership to help create culture and achieve KPIs by virtue of their leadership skills? Click below to download this white paper.

The fundamental reason is obviously to earn more money, but like anything, people do have an inner belief to truly improve. The reason sales reps want sales coaching is most salespeople don't like to be managed, and sales coaching is about positioning a salesperson to not only have success, but to participate in truly improving their ability and careers. Sales management alone cannot achieve this.

In this demo you will see all that’s new in Adobe Captivate and learn how to create responsive eLearning courses, responsive simulations and interactions. This demo will cover: How to create a responsive course using Adobe Captivate How to add Fluid Boxes to the slides How to record simulations How to add quiz questions Buying programs & Support options How to get help, and questions answered from the Adobe eLearning Community

If you provide learning technologies or services to a federal agency or even use Section 508 as your organization’s guidelines for accessibility, you’ll need to ensure your eLearning and other digital content meets the updated standards. But do you know what those new standards are and how to best design for them?

With the multitude of different technologies, tools, and strategies that are available for structuring and enhancing your professional education programs, it’s becoming increasingly important to stay aware of the technologies and trends driving the evolution of workplace learning.

Across the nation, sales managers are struggling. They struggle to keep up with deadlines, with reporting, with setting and hitting goals, and with managing and motivating their sales teams. SalesFuel hears these sentiments at every conference, at every training session, and every day from our own clients. There is not enough time. And most definitely, there is no time for sales coaching. The developers and researchers at SalesFuel were tired of hearing sales managers say, "Oh, I'm swamped with bazillions of things to do. I don't have time to sit down and have hour-long conversations with each sales rep every week." So, they created a tool specifically to address this no-time epidemic and to disrupt the way we think about managing sales forces forever. It is time for a sea change in sales management. And, it's time for adaptive sales coaching.