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Have you ever caught an employee sleeping during training? Compelling content is paramount, but trying to do so with the same tools you've always used is complicated, right? Wrong! Powerpoint has excellent features that, with a bit of creativity, can help you improve your presentations and keep your people engaged without going over budget.
By utilizing newer components that enable interactive sequences, navigable content to respond to your audience, and pop quizzes for informal knowledge checks, you will be able to create unique, dynamic, and engaging content in no time.
In this webinar, Richard Goring will perform a live demo and show you:
- How to create compelling presentations
- Which PowerPoint features will help you engage your staff
- How to structure content so its digestible, memorable, and applicable long after the training is over
If you aren’t tasked with creating accessible courses already, expect it! When 1 in 4 learners self-identifies as an adult with functional disabilities (according to the CDC), creating Section 508 and WCAG-compliant courses is in demand.
So how do you build an accessible yet engaging and interactive course with utmost efficiency? It depends on the tool you use! Storyline, Captivate, and Lectora are all great authoring tools that support Section 508 and WCAG requirements - but operate very differently. What are the advantages and shortcomings of each tool?
Join two superstar learning solutions engineers, Josh Bleggi, and Domenic Caloia, from ELB Learning. They are familiar with all three tools - including how they handle accessibility! Want to see a hands-on look and how-to comparison? Join us to look under the hood at the ultimate authoring tool accessibility match-up!
In this session, you'll discover how lululemon uses rapid prototyping to design, build, and launch effective learning programs. You'll learn why prototyping works better for us than other methods more commonly used in the learning space (ADDIE, etc.). You'll see examples of ways we use design thinking to formulate big ideas that we can test with learners.
Finally, you'll see an example of how prototyping helped lululemon identify the best way to deploy onboarding to our global audience.
3 Key Takeaways:
-Prototyping is an effective method of validating learning solutions
-Early assessment saves money, time, and resources in the long run
-Design thinking is a great way to navigate the competing factors and agendas in training
This webinar will answer the question, "Why instructional design and what’s pedagogy got to do with anything anyhow?"
Zoa will define key terms and share curriculum development methodologies, and also highlight key tools used by instructional designers. Then she'll show you how to put it all into practice with a case study example.
The fun of a game, plus the instructional design power of branching scenarios—all in one easy-to-customize game??? You're not dreaming. You're experiencing The Training Arcade®!
Join us for this live game-building workshop and watch Jake Kwiatkowski, Marketing Manager and Game Expert, build a Scenarios game in real-time.
He’ll give you his best game-building tips and answer all your questions about creating an engaging learning game for your employees or customers.
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Before you dive into eLearning development, do you take the time to visualize your entire course from start to finish in a storyboard? Creating a storyboard is a great way to ensure you don't forget any key learning objectives or requests from your client, subject matter expert, or stakeholder. Plus, a storyboard can help you organize the flow of your course and communicate your ideas to stakeholders. Join instructional designer Dr. Dave Christiansen and learn how to visualize your course with a storyboard. He'll share his top tips and tricks, drawn from years of experience in instructional design and education.
Organizational change is constant. L&D professionals play a vital role in leading such change, especially in response to external factors—the COVID-19 pandemic, racial injustice, and our political and economic environments.
But HOW can we lead change and foster a continuous learning culture?
The key to driving such change depends not just on our knowledge and skills, but lies within ourselves and how we show up as L&D professionals and conscious beings.
In this session, we will explore:
- What is organizational change?
- What is our goal as L&D professionals and eLearning developers?
- What role do we play in leading change?
- How to be our most authentic selves, so change starts from within?
Join this session to explore these questions and find out how to drive change in your organization.
Learning Experience Design (LXD) is becoming “a thing.” More and more folks are changing their titles from Instructional Designer to Learning Experience Designer. What is Learning Experience Design, anyway? Why the change? Instructional design focuses on only a small portion of the learning process—instruction. LXD takes a broader approach that looks at the entire learning process that includes doing (experience), as well as feedback and reflection, supported by content and guidance.
In this session you’ll explore the key disciplines that inform LXD, including design thinking, user experience design, and cognitive science. You’ll encounter a set of research-based guidelines to design, structure, and sequence experiences into optimized learning paths. You’ll also see how to use technology to support and track learning experiences. Finally, you’ll walk through a simple process for designing learning experiences that produce measurable results.
During the session, Annie Levesque and Mark Stauffer will discuss wins and obstacles encountered while developing VR training for front-line employees.
They will describe the production equipment, devices, and software used during the development phase. In addition, they will share lessons learned about camera angles, course size, and device loading.
Lastly, they will provide our deployment strategy, employee feedback, and next steps as Brink’s adapts to a new way of learning.
Storyboarding is an invaluable tool for planning effective eLearning courses and obtaining stakeholder buy-in, but the process of creating one may seem daunting. Where do you start? What interactions should you include? How do you avoid getting bogged down by design?
In this webinar, one of our custom development instructional designers, Monica Newell, shares tips for building an engaging storyboard and solid foundation for your course.
About 40 percent of the global population plays video games, and that number doubled during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns. Binging video games is never good, but when they are played in reasonable doses they can have positive effects on brain plasticity and behavior.
In this session, we'll take a closer look at how games have been shown to increase, not decrease, efficiency in the brain networks that control attention. We'll consider the cognitive demands associated with multitasking in a game-based environment, and how those skills can help players navigate their increasingly complex world. You'll also learn how games can positively impact eyesight, attention and visual processing.
Once we recognize the cognitive impact of games, we can start thinking about how to harness their benefits to improve learning. We'll look at different types of educational games and discuss how they can help you develop different cognitive skills. We'll also show you virtual games that can be used to foster friendly competition and interaction, and increase attention and engagement. Ultimately, this session will show you how to leverage the power of games to make the brain work smarter, better, and faster.
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While American women hold 52% of all professional-level jobs, only 20% of them hold executive, senior leadership, and management positions in U.S. high-tech industries. Research has shown that while women have the potential to be strong leaders, they fail to climb the corporate ladder because they think that by just doing great work, they will be promoted to leadership positions. Not True! This session cracks the code. (Note: While this session was originally created for women leaders, everything we discuss in this session can be used by men to fast-track their leadership career).
In this session, Rashim Mogha dives deep into 5 key areas where you can focus right now to pave your path to leadership positions.
If you deliver Sales Enablement, Compliance, Technical skills or Leadership Training—have you discovered the power of a playbook?
Organizations today understand the need for a holistic training program to equip the workforce better. However, most companies shoot from the hip and chase after whatever strategy is feasible, leading to temporary gains that may backfire.
A playbook serves as a training initiative—-represents the beginning of a complete training process and establishes the best practice of continuous and consistent learning. Whether you are just getting started with playbooks or have already witnessed the immediate gains from this viable L&D strategy, we will demonstrate how to ensure your playbook will get your training started off on the right foot! Don’t have time to write a playbook? Richard Vass, VP, Learning Solutions will review the pros and cons of outsourcing this task.
In this webinar, you will:
-Discover the two features that set your playbook apart—-form and function
-Learn the 5 strategies missing from your sales enablement playbook
-Understand best practices to position your playbook front and center
-Learn how to capture the valuable insights and organizational knowledge flowing through your company
Join us for our monthly live jam sessions with the Lectora Product Team. You’ll get a chance to interact with members of the ELB Learning Lectora product team who work behind the scenes to continuously enhance Lectora for your eLearning development success.
This month, learn how to build a vertical scrolling course in Lectora.
The quality of your eLearning can directly impact profitability and business outcomes. Pretty pictures and slides are rarely enough to move the bar.
Once you start with a solid instructional design strategy, which tool best supports your current and future vision? And most importantly, which tool will help you execute it efficiently?
While there are many great authoring tools to develop eLearning, they widely vary in focus, approach, strengths, and weaknesses. Skill level, time constraints, and price are typical factors, but what else do you need to know?
Join Chris Paxton, President of D3 Training Solutions and regular TMN speaker, to review 10 considerations to help you make the right choice. She uses all the major authoring tools throughout her career - and can help you make a great choice!
In this webinar with T.J. Akisanya, you'll learn how to redesign a PowerPoint presentation and turn it into engaging eLearning that's scenario or story-driven! Discover how to create meaningful interactions beyond the standard click-to-reveal.
The session will include practical tips for:-
Enlisting the subject matter expert (SME) as an ally in the process
-Locating and validating the right story/scenario-Identifying relevant content
-Merging the story and content to create an interesting learning experience
n today's high-inflation economy, making the most of your training budget and resources can seem limited but it doesn't have to be. Organizations frequently unknowingly duplicate training efforts across departmental needs. Join OpenSesame and ELB Learning as we discuss how to avoid overpaying for employee training and get the most out of the training needs and dollars of your organization.
You will learn:
- Discover the benefits of consolidating your L&D experience for organizational alignment
- Explore innovative strategies for meeting every team's needs
- Learn how to maximize your training budget in simple steps
Did you know that video-based practice and coaching strategies are becoming essential components of L&D programs? The numbers don't lie; documenting proficiency on video works!
From sales enablement and soft skills to onboarding and leadership training, demonstrating skills with video helps learners conquer communication challenges and validate knowledge.
In this exclusive webinar, you'll learn:
- How video-based practice and coaching can be conveniently incorporated into a learning program
- How video simulations are being used to help learners practice and improve skills
- How advances in AI (artificial intelligence) and NLP (Natural Language Processing) can help provide learners with real-time feedback
- Why video-based practice is becoming a critical strategy that you can't afford to ignore!
Over the years, ELB Learning has trained millions of employees with Immersive Learning solutions. With data and intelligence from these deployments, we’ve developed a framework to create and measure the value of Immersive Learning. In this webinar, Stephen Baer, Chief Creative Officer of The Game Agency, a division of ELB Learning, and Jordan Erickson, Founding Partner at Infuse Medical will present the value framework and share concrete examples from some of the largest companies in the world. You’ll hear firsthand how these companies are creating experiential and embodied training, delivering state-dependent retention, improving operational efficiency, and saving significant costs.
Did you know that companies like Paychex, 3M, and Honeywell have achieved extraordinary outcomes by integrating new video-based coaching techniques into their L&D strategy? From elevator pitches to superior soft skills, learners can leverage the power of video to validate knowledge transfer, prove proficiency, and document their progress.
Join Micah and Dom, for an inside look at how organizations are succeeding with video-based practice and coaching. Whether used as a stand-alone application or integrated within a learning platform, a video-based practice and coaching platform can provide learners the opportunity to practice workplace scenarios with feedback from mentors, instructors, subject matter experts and even artificial intelligence (AI).
In this session, attendees will learn:
- How video-based practice and coaching can be conveniently incorporated into any learning program.
- How video simulations are being used to improve communication skills.
- How advances in AI can improve the self-paced learning process and provide more meaningful self-evaluations.
Different clients from different industries all had very different business challenges and learning objectives. But they have one thing in common: they all achieved extraordinary outcomes using VR training strategies. From a 400% ROI to $588,000 in savings, the myth that VR is too expensive and too complicated is proven outdated and wrong. Join John Blackmon, the CTO of ELB Learning (formerly eLearning Brothers), to see real examples from multiple clients including Transition Associates for Fendi, Vanderbilt University’s School of Nursing, and more.Highlights include:
- Why VR is growing in popularity and getting better results than traditional eLearning
- How immersive learning is created and delivered
- When to use VR and common use cases
- What the content creation process entails
- How return on investment is measured
- How to get started
Don’t miss out!
Join us for our monthly live jam sessions with the Lectora Product Team. You’ll get a chance to interact with members of the ELB Learning Lectora product team who work behind the scenes to continuously enhance Lectora for your eLearning development success.
This month, Alan will show you how Lectora helps you achieve 508-compliant training. He'll walk you through a tutorial for building accessible learning content that engages.
What an exciting time for L&D professionals! With the emergence of AI-enabled coaching and teaching platforms, companies are being inundated with new training modalities that promise a bright future for eLearning. But how do you choose and implement the right technology for your company? There are many factors to take into account, but don't worry—this webinar will help you sort through the confusion!
This session will cover everything from the distinctions between virtual reality, the metaverse, and augmented reality to the latest eLearning trends in storytelling. In this fireside chat, leading L&D experts Stephen Baer and Luke Talbot will discuss the exciting technological advancements in eLearning, as well as:
- Immersive learning: Game-based, VR, and AR
- Video coaching programs
- Storytelling design
- Tips for virtual instruction engagement
- How to design efficient eLearning training programs to prevent employee frustration and disengagement
Join us for this live game-building workshop and watch Jake Kwiatkowski, Marketing Manager and Game Expert, build a JEOPARDY!® game in real-time.
JEOPARDY!®, part of The Training Arcade®, is the ONLY official Jeopardy!® training game. Each game can include up to three rounds—Jeopardy!®, Double Jeopardy!®, and Final Jeopardy!®—plus “Daily Doubles.”
Jake will share his best game-building tips and answer all your questions about creating an engaging learning game for your employees or customers.
This session will introduce a new and exciting learning ROI framework: The CARES Learning Effectiveness Framework. The framework consists of five components: (1) Content (2) Application & Accountability (3) Reflection, Routines, & Reinforcement (4) Evaluation (5) Socialization & Sharing.
The CARES Learning Effectiveness Framework is a breakthrough approach to addressing the number one challenge organizations face – how to show what they’re getting in return for their learning investments.
Learning organizations need to show they are driving business outcomes with their learning initiatives. A more robust measurement model is desperately needed, and the CARES Learning Effectiveness Framework is that model.
Please join David Wentworth, Principal Learning and Development Analyst for the Brandon Hall Group, who will be sharing the latest research and insights on creating a high impact approach to maximizing Learning ROI and Treion Muller, Creator of the CARES Learning Effectiveness framework and Rich Vass, VP of Learning Solutions of ELB Learning, as they share real-world examples that illustrate how the CARES Learning Effectiveness Framework can transform the learning ROI model for any organization.
Session highlights include:
• Uncovering what’s working and what is not (and why) in creating a meaningful learning ROI
• Linking learning to business outcome
• A step-by-step approach to applying The CARES Learning
• Effectiveness Framework to challenging learning experiences with real-world examples
• Harnessing the power and potential of new technologies to support the CARES Learning Effectiveness Framework
Is there a magic formula for effective eLearning? Three parts Instructional Design plus one part Smile Sheets divided by one part Microlearning equals ______?
While every use case and training goal is different, there are tried and true ways you can effectively combine different elements of learning to engage your workers and drive behavior change.
Join Richard Vass, VP of Learning Solutions at ELB Learning and Brian Washburn, the co-founder and CEO of Endurance Learning to learn how you can combine elements of learning—even the radioactive ones—for a winning learning strategy.
Three widely used authoring platforms are all very different - and each one has evolved over the years. Storyline, Captivate, and Lectora have unique strengths and weaknesses. So how do you pick the best fit for your project needs?
Two learning solutions engineers, Josh Bleggi and Domenic Caloia, from ELB Learning, are authoring tools experts and have used all three. Curious to see how each tool handles the most common tasks? From assessments and publishing to responsive design and translations, you might be missing out on each tool’s most valuable benefits.
Join us to look under the hood at the ultimate authoring tool match up!
Join us for this live game-building workshop and watch Jake Kwiatkowski, Marketing Manager and Game Expert, build a Scramble game in real time.
Scramble, part of The Training Arcade®, is a word puzzle game that allows you to scramble up a word or sentence for your learners to decipher.
In each mode, players must complete the word/sentence before the timer runs out and are awarded hints for each correct puzzle solved that can be used to help in future puzzle rounds.
Scramble makes a great post-training knowledge check or way to reinforce important terminology.
Jake will share his best game-building tips and answer all your questions about creating an engaging learning game for your employees or customers.
Technology continues to revolutionize learning and development (L&D). As a result, keeping up with the latest tools and knowing when and if to implement them in your organization is an increasingly common challenge for learning leaders. With this introduction of innovative solutions like personalized learning experiences, artificial intelligence/virtual reality (AR/VR), it is vital for learning leaders to remain focused on aligning their technology stack to organizational goals. During this Training Industry Leader Talk, industry experts will explore emerging tools in technologies and discuss strategies for selecting, implementing and maintaining your organization’s technology stack.
Join us for our monthly live jam sessions with the Lectora Product Team. You’ll get a chance to interact with members of the ELB Learning Lectora product team who work behind the scenes to continuously enhance Lectora for your eLearning development success.
This month, Alan Marquez will share best practices for building eLearning templates from scratch. The focus will be on how to create content that can be reused in future courses, cutting down on your development time.
To avoid awkward (and sometimes disastrous) learning content, instructional designers must use authentic translation in the right context to ensure optimal results. For example, even a simple phrase like “got milk?” translates to “are you lactating?” in Mexico. Can you imagine what a straight translation might do to your course?
With over 317 million people in the U.S., and over 6.7 billion potential customers in the world, personalizing training seems logical. People prefer to learn in their native language, so localizing eLearning helps truly engage learners and gives them that much-needed sense of inclusion.
In addition to ensuring your text and narration get converted to the target language accurately, how your content is presented with images and tone must also be culturally appropriate and acceptable. Here’s the good news: even if you are only fluent in your native language, the process isn’t as daunting as you might think.
Join us for this exclusive webinar with Chris Paxton as she walks us through:
- The key steps you can take to optimize your eLearning content for various international audiences
- The common challenges instructional designers and other learning professionals come across when implementing localization
- The best practices you can utilize to ensure a successful and logical translation experience
Managing a successful sales team requires more than stellar employees and outstanding leadership. You need to equip your team with the tools and resources to win negotiations and close the big deals.
In this webinar, discover how AI, Adaptive, and Immersive Learning can help your sales team grow in a competitive landscape. Discover how you can deliver training that prepares your reps today to tackle the business challenges of tomorrow.
Register for this webinar to explore:
-How to deliver learning experiences that matter to the sales team
-Leverage the power of AI, Adaptive and Immersive Learning to sell more, faster, and with much less stress than ever before
-Help your sales team optimize learning and retain information longer. Provide avenues for practice and application to help excel in the real world
-Take a peek into how we leveraged power from these technologies to build successful sales training courses
Join Richard Vass, VP - Learning Solutions at ELB Learning as he takes his audience on a deep dive into delivering sales training that is effective and engaging. Find how your training courses can deliver results that matter to building brands and organizations.
Have you considered how a recession could impact your organization? Chances are, you could face a hiring freeze yet still be expected to achieve the same KPIs - but how?
Between the Great Resignation, an ongoing pandemic, and now soaring inflation pressures continuing to push staffing issues to the forefront, it behooves you to have an action plan. Many experts predict economic challenges. Even the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is suggesting that we are facing the possibility of a severe downturn that would rival what we have not experienced since 1970.
With dismal predictions, companies around the world are preemptively making dramatic changes in their workforces including freezes in hiring and laying off employees. Many CEOs are already preparing employees to work more with fewer resources.
If you have grave concerns about outsourcing your learning and development functions you may have more options than you think. Other short-term hiring models, specifically staff augmentation, could help reduce costs, fill staffing gaps, and immediately add on-demand specialized skill sets.
Join Debbie Wooldridge and Dana Janssen of ttcInnovations, and Mark Zides of ELB Learning, to review the differences between outsourcing and staff augmentation models - and how to implement them. They will address how organizations conquer common concerns such as communication barriers, talent quality, security, and other challenges with a case study and examples to match. Between Debbie, Dana, and Mark’s decades of experience providing top L&D talent to Fortune 500s, they will help you develop a game plan for recession-proofing your learning needs.
Join us for a quarterly webinar series on how to enhance your use of the Rockstar Learning Platform (RLP). Our team will share upcoming new features and showcase how clients are using the Rockstar Learning Platform to succeed. You’ll take home new ways to use RLP at your organization and have the chance to ask our product managers and customer success managers your questions.
This How-To webinar demonstrates ways to maximize ROI and results from your custom course development vendor.
The reasons companies opt for the latter in the Build Vs. Buy conundrums are plenty—greater engagement, lack of technical skills, or simply to drive better learning experiences. Whether it’s to help frame your learning strategy, convert existing training, or build training courses, working with the right vendor can deliver extraordinary results—IF you choose the right partner.
This webinar gives you deep insights and best practices that will help you build a successful partnership with your custom vendor and meet objectives from Day 1. The seven best practices are easy to implement and hold the key to the results you seek from your organizational training endeavors—engage learners, drive behavior change and foster a positive (and continuous) learning culture at the workplace.
Join Richard Vass, VP of Learning Solutions at ELB Learning, as he navigates through each of the best practices with examples and case studies, and illustrates a decisive path to achieve stellar results and maximize returns from your custom training investment.
Bring that addictive fun of games into your training with The Training Arcade®!Join us for this live game-building workshop and watch Jake Kwiatkowski, Marketing Manager and Game Expert, build a Trivia game in real-time.He’ll give you his best game-building tips and answer all your questions about creating an engaging learning game for your employees or customers.
Organizations today are adjusting to changes like distributed teams, remote meetings, and hybrid offices while trying to plan for an uncertain economic future. The one thing that won’t change? The need for strong leaders.
Strong leadership skills are essential if managers want to build and lead engaged, innovative teams that are prepared to handle today’s workplace challenges. In this webinar, you’ll learn why empathy is one of the most critical skills for leaders to have. Kristie DeLoreto, SVP, Project Management Office, and Laura Doerr, VP, Project Management Office at ELB Learning will show you how to help your organization’s current and future leaders develop empathy, along with other essential leadership skills.
Different clients from different industries all had very different business challenges and learning objectives. However, they have one thing in common: they all achieved extraordinary outcomes using immersive learning and VR (virtual reality) training strategies. From a 400% ROI to $588,000 in savings, you will discover why common myths about virtual reality are wrong. Think VR is too expensive and complicated? Not at all. Think VR requires headsets? Wrong again!
John Blackmon, the CTO of ELB Learning (formerly eLearning Brothers), will share examples from multiple clients including Transition Associates for Fendi, Vanderbilt University’s School of Nursing, and more. Highlights include:
- Why VR is growing in popularity and getting better results than traditional eLearning
- How immersive learning is created and delivered
- When to use VR and common use cases
- What the content creation process entails
- How return on investment is measured
- How to get started
- Don’t miss learning about the best defense for a recession!
To avoid awkward and sometimes disastrous learning content, instructional designers must use authentic translation in the right context to get optimal results. For example, even a simple phrase like “got milk” translates to “are you lactating” in Mexico. Can you imagine what a straight translation might do to your course?
With over 317 million people in the US and over 6.7 billion potential customers in the world, personalizing training seems logical. People prefer to learn in their native language, so localizing eLearning helps engage learners and gives them that much-needed sense of inclusion.In addition to ensuring your text and narration get converted to the target language accurately, how your content is presented with images and tone must be culturally acceptable. Here’s the good news: even if you are only fluent in your native language, the process isn’t as daunting as you might think.
Join Chris Paxton, President of D3 Training Solutions, to walk through simple strategies step by step.
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