Spooky ghosts, goblins and ghouls might be looming in your alleyways and hiding in dark corners with Halloween coming up but they shouldn’t be causing a fright in your LMS!

This session is geared specifically toward helping sales managers and sales professionals create more effective and more persuasive B2B sales presentations.  

Join Dr. Allen Partridge, Senior Adobe Digital Learning Solutions Evangelist for this thought provoking hour examining the rapid transition in Learning Management solutions from traditional on premise database solutions to dynamic, responsive and simple to use cloud systems. We'll discuss the changing of the guard, and dig into the ways that this transition can help your support better learning in your organization, and better awareness of the efficacy of your learning programs.

Before you begin a search for a learning partner, we have a list of seven questions to help you understand your internal environment and all the factors that affect the success of your learning program.  Do you understand your learning culture?  Have you defined your target audience and do you understand their needs? Has your organization defined your core competencies? You may have some homework to do before you make your list of criteria for your learning partner.

Developing a blend takes investments in hardware, software, content development, and program design.  Implementing a blend requires investments in managing the program, marketing the program, and maintaining motivation through what might be a multiple week (or month!) program for participants. When we develop a face-to-face program, we know immediately after delivery what needs to change and we can adapt before we teach again. With blended programs, it might take six weeks to figure it out. After all this, how do we know if the blended learning program was worth the investment?  Sure, we can tell if people enjoyed the content using Level 1 evaluations, and if people LEARNED the content using Level 2 evaluations, but how do we evaluate at Level 3 (Are they using what they learned on the job?) and ultimately Level 4 (was it worth the investment?). These components together provide the background we need to calculate the Return on Investment (ROI) of our blended learning initiative.

Experiential Learning 101: Challenge By Choice Trainers, facilitators and program leaders have a tough challenge: what's the best way to engage learners today? Experiential learning presents a highly unique growth opportunity for participants, as well as a tool that program leaders can put to work for them to achieve a specific outcome. See how one type of program -- Challenge By Choice -- combines the best methods of experiential learning and enables people of all capabilities to actively participate. 

You'd think that the tool you use dictates a lot of what you can offer as part of your instructional design and you'd be right. However, some of the more engaging types of learning are based on the old-style choose-your-own-adventure games of yore. Trying to build such a branching scenario in Adobe Captivate, Articulate Storyline, or in Trivantis Lectora can be frustrating, however, and the same is true for most other authoring tools. Most people agree that these types of learning activities can be the most meaningful and help learners the most when on the job, so why aren't they used more?

The workplace has changed dramatically with the entrance of the millennial generation. By 2020, they will comprise 75% of the workforce--they have already surpassed Generation X as the largest generational group at work. There’s a lot of hoopla right now about the strengths and weaknesses of this generation, but one thing is clear: as baby boomer retirements continue (19,000 a day for the next decade), our first line leaders and team managers likely will be drawn from the millennial ranks.

Join Dr. Allen Partridge for this step by step workshop on using Text to Speech tools in Adobe Captivate 2017 to create computer generated audio for your courses. Whether you are using generated audio to create scratch narration for prototypes or using it as your primary voice talent for a project, this session will provide tips to get the most out of the text to speech tools in Adobe Captivate. Dr. Partridge will provide a step by step walk-through of the speech generation process, and demonstrate several techniques for customizing the output. Learn to overcome mispronunciations, odd emphasis and pronunciation problems with codes inside your slide recording notes. We will also provide an overview of the new customizable closed captions workflow and configuration. You will learn how to create responsive closed captions for every project, how to position them anywhere on the screen and how to provide them with your favorite colors and fonts.

A ten-year study of more than 100 companies showed that the number one cause of business failure is bad strategy. But, the reality is that only 3 out of every 10 managers are strategic. And when you consider that being able to set strategic direction is ten times more important to the perception of a leader’s ability than any other behavior, it’s critical that you master strategic thinking and planning.   In this webinar, you will learn a simple framework to transform strategy from a once-a-year dog-and-pony show that gets buried in a plan that never gets used to a laser-focused strategic mindset that you’ll use on a regular basis to grow your business.

Video is an important part of your eLearning design and development. In the context of today’s eLearning environment, you need to use video to engage your learning audience. The video production you do has to be at a level that will attract and retain your viewer’s eyes and minds in a world filled with all kinds of visual attractions. In the eLearning environment, you must be a video producer and director and understand that video is more than just holding your phone, although your phone is quite capable of taking great video. You need to think about the best way to navigate your way through a pretty complex process. And keep your costs as low as possible.

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Persuasive presentations are the foundation of many sales teams. Yet most sales presentations are BORING! Ellen will show you how you can be persuasive without being salesy! Discover simple techniques that everyone can learn, based on solid research.

The learning landscape continues to evolve. In the 1990’s computer based training changed the traditional delivery model. Ever since, technology has pushed learning and development groups to develop and deliver materials in new and different ways. Recent technology changes have created a generation of digital natives who are impatient, networked and self-guided. As a result, formal learning is giving way to informal learning as a method of choice. The needs of learners and the content to fill learning needs is ever in flux making it difficult for learning leaders to throw a metaphorical dart and land on one set of content or one approach that will meet the needs of learners. It is still harder to measure the learning that occurs and determine whether it is helping the organization achieve business goals.

Everyone wants a learning game, but few stand ready with a big budget and game creation wizards. We all want fun, engaging, skill-building games, and there are many types of game frameworks to employ, yet not all are appropriate to every type of content. This webinar has two parts:

"Here we go again. Another compliance training." Oftentimes, this is the moan of many learners and workers. "Oh no. Long PowerPoints again."

The best way to beat the boredom in eLearning courses is to make them engaging and interactive. But adding learner interactivity in the courses can be time-consuming, and to some extent, challenging as well. These interactions also need to be relevant to the learning goals as well as help make the learning experience interesting.

Microlearning is a treatment for instruction. Microlearning can be used to deliver a wide variety of subject matter, and the primary decision guiding the implementation is the scope of content to be covered. Microlearning is meant to be easily consumable in short periods of time (e.g. less than 10 minutes). The microlearning solution should address one learning objective ONLY.

The nature of teamwork in today’s organizations is evolving. New research conducted by Training magazine and The Ken Blanchard Companies found that while people spend over half of their time working in teams, significant gaps exist between what people want and what they are experiencing in terms of clarity, accountability, and leadership practices.

In this webinar session, Online Learning Conference presenter Shannon Tipton will discuss  "How-To’s" for creating microlearning objects. Let’s get our creative hats on and create solutions that solve problems! Not every problem requires a course, micro or not. Most times, within a course - a job aid is screaming to get out. Enter, microlearning objects. Accessible, short bursts of critical information. Most commonly referred to as performance support tools or job aids. With all the new tools at hand, it’s easy to be confused about what to use and when. So many tools…so little time! Let’s get together to discover different tools and their applications. What tools are best for your audience and their needs? Time for the fun to begin.

Are Your Function Leaders Driving Business Growth? Called the "linchpin" of organizations, function leaders have arguably the greatest impact on your business performance. Yes, company executives determine the organization’s mission and direction, but functional managers control expenses, manage resources, make decisions about specific projects, and drive the success or failure of many strategic priorities. As your function leaders succeed, so too does your organization. Yet many function leaders are figuratively flying blind—unable to elevate their performance—due to severe organizational underinvestment in their development. A study shows that function leaders get less than 40% of the training and development invested in high potentials.

Microlearning is the trend of the moment, yet it is the most commonly misunderstood. This infographic from Shannon Tipton will help dispel two of the most common misunderstandings, and then give you 6 key markers to use as guidelines for ensuring microlearning success. After downloading the infographic, hear/watch Shannon explain in the recording of her webinar on the topic below.

Grab this opportunity to learn some great tips and also get a sneak preview of what it will be like to join us at Training's Online Learning Conference in New Orleans.  Each speaker will present a 15-minute condensed sample of their OLC content.  Listen fast and you'll learn plenty of useful tips even during this brief preview!   This preview focuses on the Social Media Tools for Performance Improvement track.  Click here for more OLC preview tracks.

We are excited that executives from Toyota, Mary Kay and Constellation Brands will be joining us for the Allen Experience - our one day conference co-located with Training Magazine’s Online Learning Conference. Join us for this highly engaging, interactive session when these speakers whet your appetite with some nuggets of their challenges, experiences and outcomes in developing performance changing learning solutions.