The more relevant and relatable a piece of eLearning is to the learner, the more effective it’s going to be. But are you sure that your eLearning remains both relevant and relatable when it’s read by colleagues in another part of the world, or in another language? Creating eLearning for global audiences isn’t just about making the content available in the languages in use at your organization—though that’s obviously important! It requires an extra layer of course planning to ensure that those ‘relevant and relatable’ boxes remain ticked. Download the eBook to discover: How the right localization process will lead you to more engaging results Key language issues that even non-speakers should understand The importance of having imagery that reflects familiar public spaces and local customs The implications of different cultural preferences such as uncertainty avoidance and power distance index How to better use language selection, display conditions, collaboration tools, and other key features to build better courses

Considering whether virtual reality is right for your training needs? In this eBook, you’ll discover 5 training instances where VR excels. We showcase real-world examples and tell you exactly why virtual reality training works! See how organizations across industries saved money, increased learning retention, and more. The examples in this book will also serve as inspiration for your own immersive learning projects. Remember, anything is possible in virtual reality!

As today’s organizations stare down the challenges of ever-increasing compliance regulations, unpredictable turnover, and rapidly expanding cultural and learning style changes among employees, companies are looking for new ways to automate and scale their training efforts. More and more, they’re finding that help in video. Adaptable to both formal and informal learning needs, video overcomes today’s most common training challenges. It helps instructors increase training quality, speed and effectiveness — all while significantly lowering program costs. But of course, today’s learning and development professionals already understand the potential that technology can offer in the modern training environment. Their real challenge? Convincing their organizations to do more. In this paper, we help L&D practitioners tackle that challenge head on, including: 5 benefits that help convince your decision makers to use video in more ways 14 ideas for supporting and scaling formal and informal learning with video 1 technology — the video platform — that simplifies the use of video for L&D Video training is no longer a novel idea. It’s the new normal. Make sure your organization isn’t missing out. Click below to download this White paper from Panopto.

Storyboarding—imported into our business lives from the world of moviemaking—is a powerful way of getting a sense of what you’re creating before you create it. Completing a storyboard involves documenting screen-by-screen the rough visuals, interactions, assets, and other crucial details of the learning journey you want to build. What are the benefits of this approach? And how can you get the most out of storyboarding? This guide answers these questions, while also providing best practices and examples so you can storyboard your way to eLearning success.

With so many learning management systems on the market, it can be difficult to determine which is best for your training business. You want a solution that can ensure program revenue, grow and scale your business, ensure customers are engaged, and stand out amongst competitors. Unlike a traditional LMS that focuses on the ‘M’ (management of content), BenchPrep takes a learner-centric approach to deliver the best experience out there for the learner, and the data analytics your business needs to make informed decisions about your training program. Need help understanding the nuances? Download our LMS comparison guide to learn more.

Since COVID, digital skills are more important than ever. The world has shifted to a more virtual communication, collaboration, and project management style. Most leaders agree that they will not return fully to a live, brick and mortar workplace. The bad news is that according to McKinsey, 70% of all efforts to boost digital skills - fail. How will your people thrive in the post-COVID, more virtual world of work?  Best-selling author and productivity guru, Mike Song shares the keys to success and reveals three digital skill sets that can no longer be ignored. This e-paper is a must-read for any HR leader tasked with helping their organization improve digital skills.

Yes, change is hard and it keeps happening to us in today’s hyper-complex, uncertain, competitive, high stakes world. Consider these alarming statistics: 75% of projects fail 71% of companies do not feel their leaders are able to lead them into the future 87% of employees worldwide are not engaged at work In summary, projects are a disaster, leadership is diabolical and people are severely disengaged. A piece of friendly advice: STOP stockpiling statistical knowledge about how bad things are "out there." Dwelling on this is more likely to evoke a "I give up, why bother" reaction. Rather, take a thorough, honest inventory of what’s going on "in here." What are you doing, or not doing that might be adding or detracting from positive change? 

What are the biggest losses that come with not training, or training ineffectively? We all saw Starbucks in the news when they shut down stores to train employees on racial bias.  That one day cost them an estimated $12 million in lost profit.  Our eBook goes into more helpful detail to help you make your case for more effective training on a variety of topics including: Safety Training: Safety incidents and OSHA fines can cost you over $1million. Are you keeping your employees safe? Cybersecurity Training: Cybercriminals have stolen over $2 billion from American companies. Is your company next? Sales Training: Improving prospecting, negotiating, and closing skills may translate into hundreds of thousands of dollars in new sales.

Get A Coach | Be A Coach the authors introduce a new framework for coaching that extends the benefits of this powerful tool to the masses. You will see how everyone, at every level of the organization, can get a coach anytime they need one, anywhere they are within the organization and for anything they are doing. Why? So that people can get better results in their job, more fulfillment in the workplace and more growth and development in their careers. For the organization there are also huge benefits: Facilitating knowledge transfer Fostering collaboration Closing the skills gap Establishing real time, on-demand learning

You've put together a great training program with interesting content and a user-friendly platform, and you're feeling excited that learners are actually engaging. But then leadership asks to see an ROI for the program, and you're not sure where to look beyond utilization. It can be hard to know how to prove the value of training and tie it to business success. The Kirkpatrick Model can help you get a complete picture of the success of your training efforts from both a qualitative and quantitative perspective. In this ebook, you'll learn how to measure the success of your training program through reaction, learning, behavior, and results. You'll also learn: How to tie business goals and changed behaviors to training Tips for getting specific feedback from learners How to calculate ROI for training