Research shows that the virtual classroom offers certain natural benefits and barriers. To get the best outcomes when using the virtual classroom, you need to design to maximize the benefits and minimize the barriers. With Deeper Learning At Work experts Patti Shank and Karen Hyder, you'll learn what research tells us are critical strategies for deeper learning in the virtual classroom.

Whether it's an online meeting, a presentation via webinar, or live online training, engagement is the main question on everyone's mind: Will it be worth my time to attend, or will it be an opportunity to check email instead?

UberEats and McDonald's now use drones for food delivery. Alexa and Google Assistant are now regarded as significant "assisting companions" for both home and office. These are just examples of business and operations digitalization happening across all industries including government and non-profit entities.

It's no secret that it's an employee's job market. With U.S. unemployment rates hovering below 4%, it's harder than ever to hire the talent you need today—and harder still to hold onto the people you have. Take control of the situation! Build a Culture of Recognition & Engagement where employees want to work for your organization because they feel connected to your mission, valued by their managers and supported by everyone—from co-workers to top management.

Fast forward eLearning as the new update to Adobe Captivate (2019 release) offers ease to beginners and speed to professionals, for creating everything eLearning, using just one tool.

Every year U.S. companies spend more than $90 billion dollars on training and development. Yet training managers continually feel pressure to do more with less — to achieve ever-more impactful results without corresponding increases to budgets.

Learners don't always want to sit through a formal training course, or, more usually, simply don't have the time. Microlearning is a great way to deliver just what people need, when they need it, to maximize effectiveness. But, as a learning professional, how do you create it?

In this webinar, Scott Blanchard, bestselling business author and Executive Vice President with The Ken Blanchard Companies takes an inside look at the latest research on hiring, training, and developing leaders.

If you are new or with some experience in instructional design, it is highly probable that you have been learning from very old ideas about training and learning. These are traditional learning habits, costly processes and antiquated skills. Before you embrace and unknowingly take the plunge, consider today's business realities that are considerably different from that of 5, 10, 20 or even 50 years ago. May I recommend that you take a fast-forward approach to today's instructional design demands and challenges. Be current. Stay relevant. Add value. Benefit from the rewards.

Wherever we are in the learning and talent development space, we are performance consultants, with or without the "performance consultant" label. This session explores how performance consulting has been integrated into the learning and talent development field. It will also define specific roles, particularly in the four major phases of the learning and talent development cycle.

Is your learning and development budget missing some zeros? This session is for you. Sadly, Oprah isn't going to attend and give everyone a new bank account. But you will get boatloads of budget-stretching ideas from your colleagues during this interactive session. You can still provide a great learning environment, even if you're running short on funds!

Voice user experiences, like Alexa, Google, Cortana, and Siri, becoming as prolific as laptops, smartphones, and tablets. Learning professionals need to start exploring ways to effectively incorporate voice technology into the learning ecosystem. Designing for voice interaction can be intimidating because the tech is so new. How do we translate our existing skills in order to create engaging voice learner experiences?

There is a lot hype these days about "Modern This" and "Modern That." What does Modern Selling even mean? And what is Modern Learning? And how can you get past the hype and combine these modern maxims to improve sales performance and deliver profitable growth for your company?

In order to design, develop, and deliver effective learning experiences, we need to understand who our learners are - what their learning goals are, what learning preferences they have, where they go to learn, and what challenges they face when learning. We also need a way to articulate these characteristics of our learners across all teams involved in the design process.

Is there a "best" culture? Most scholars would say "no" because it depends on what you're trying to do. Michael Lee Stallard discovered this is only partially true. No doubt cultures differ depending upon tasks. For example, engineering-oriented cultures differ from sales-oriented cultures. When it comes to relationships, however, new scientific evidence shows that cultures which connect people are superior to cultures that isolate people and unfortunately, cultures of connection are rare.

We've all heard a great deal about the impact we have on our planet, with the UN's 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) giving some guidance on this. So how can we help learners connect with why they're important and how they're interconnected and what we can do about them?

Learning leaders have so many choices on how to deliver on the strategic promise of a learning organization, but there's so little time. Making these choices mean the difference between a growing, high-performance organization and one that struggles with the skill gaps that erode competitive value proposition.

The greatest challenge in our industry has never been the quality of training or learning, rather the biggest challenge has been getting students to apply and practice what was taught during the training and learning. There is no greater option for training and learning reinforcement than managers coaching employees. During this webcast, we will teach very specific application and practice coaching strategies that help reinforce training and learning. During the webcast we will teach the following:

Workplace Application: Attendees will learn key steps and processes to build high performing teams while focusing on engagement. This session will focus on the key steps to building a high performing team. You will leave energized with a blueprint that will enable you to transform your teams into high performing functional teams and will take home team building tools, exercises, and approaches. This session will bring you through a team evolution process incorporating the best work of Lencioni, Tuckman, Blanchard, and of course, Kelleher.

Writing for instruction differs from other kinds of writing. People who write for instruction write specifically for how we understand and remember. We certainly don't want what we write to make it harder to learn but a lot of instructional content does just that! Content that overloads memory. Writing that makes it hard to find or understand the main message.

In this session, Dr. Allen Partridge, Head of Evangelism, Adobe Digital Learning Solutions, will discuss one of the most useful things that Learning & Development Leadership can do to optimize training experiences is organizing common learning experiences.

The term, "Agile," isn’t new, but the use of such a framework has become an indicator of relevance in today’s ever-changing business environment. Since Agile emerged in 2001 as an alternative to the cumbersome documentation process miring the software industry, it has been adopted widely by other businesses as a framework to develop effective solutions quickly. Its hallmarks are collaboration, flexibility, and speed. Like most business functions, Learning and Development (L&D) organizations that can’t meet those ideals soon will be irrelevant.   Agile methodology isn’t the only worthwhile approach to instructional design, of course. ADDIE, Lean, and other frameworks are available and effective, but Agile is particularly well-suited to instructional design, and its core principles can be applied to many design approaches.   This white paper discusses what the Agile design concept means for L&D and outlines some best practices that can make all organizations more responsive and flexible.

Choosing the best technology to deliver learning solutions challenges every training organization, regardless of size or experience. It’s easy to become stymied by legacy systems or diverted by the latest bells and whistles, especially when business leaders have a keen desire to try the newest technologies.   We among the Training Top 10 Hall of Fame organizations are struggling with this, too. We’re learning, though, and know it is critical to continue to focus on aligning learning strategy, content, and supporting technology with business results and needs. When we do that, learners win every time.   In this white paper, we look at Training Top 10 Hall of Famers’ learning and development (L&D) technology best practices and what we’re still learning. These lessons can be applied in any organization, regardless of size or industry.

Talking with the C-suite, having a seat at the table, being a trusted advisor…whatever you call it, this form of success only comes from credibility fostered by a reputation of consistently giving good advice.   That requires being accurate, intuitive, and trustworthy - attributes that can be built only over time. To foster that perception and, thus, gain access to the C-suite, Learning and Development (L&D) leaders must understand the business, see the big picture, and be able to tap subject matter experts to provide the granularity required to ensure that each development activity adds value. Development for development’s sake is not an option. The inkling that L&D could be a valuable business consultant begins with small things—successes forged despite adversity—and grows with consistent improvements until, eventually, the C-suite routinely seeks its input.   With guidance and tips from the Training Top 10 Hall of Fame organizations, this white paper will help you develop what it takes to propel yourself and your department into the confidence of senior leaders, reliably and consistently.