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Do you want to turn a compulsory session into an engaging learning experience that fascinates even Gen Z? In this session, we’ll explore 10 scientifically backed brain-boosters you can use to transform your training style and increase the return on learning! Take your delivery to the next level with this session, which is packed with practical advice and tips.
Join this session to learn about an eight-step evaluation-focused instructional design framework that uses evaluation criteria to inform curriculum. We’ll cover infusing evaluation throughout the instructional design process, including establishing evaluation criteria, creating evaluation instruments, and ensuring that courses deliver value-add business results.
You’re not exhausted because you haven’t done enough yoga, set strong enough boundaries, or bought the right candles. You’re burned out because America has programmed you to be. Join this session to learn how you can recalibrate and design a culture that fosters balance and allows everyone to thrive.
Dive into one organization’s transformation from traditional to modern learning and discover how courage and innovation can reshape learning strategies and drive growth. Learn about the deployment of an advanced learning ecosystem, the monetization of personalized learning paths, and the application of generative AI for a personalized learning experience.
Apathy is spreading through many organizations and crushing company cultures. Fortunately, the cure is simple: Curiosity creates community, and community ignites loyalty and retention. So, let’s talk about how to ask better questions, change how you listen, and adapt a curiosity mindset that creates organizations no one wants to leave.
This session will explore the intricacies of artificial intelligence (AI), focusing on its four key dimensions and role in revolutionizing corporate learning. The speaker will highlight the transformative power of generative AI in various stages, from content production to course delivery, emphasizing how using AI can enhance learning results and corporate efficiency.
Discover how microsponsorship, a modern approach to mentorship, can dismantle workplace inequities. Uncover strategies for leveraging allies to create a diverse and inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive. Gain practical insights to foster a culture of advocacy, breaking barriers for underrepresented groups and promoting professional growth.
An analysis of interviews with 19 successful industry leaders revealed that they all underwent a four-stage leadership development process. This process of deep personal work allowed them to master their physical, mental, and emotional state, which turned out to be the leading indicator for individual, team, and organizational success.
Every working relationship can be better. Don’t leave it up to chance. This session will show you how to keep building the best possible relationships with your key people—relationships that are safe, vital, and repairable.
Every working relationship can be better. Don’t leave it up to chance. This session will show you how to keep building the best possible relationships with your key people—relationships that are safe, vital, and repairable.
Unlock the potential of your middle 60 percent of performers. A mere 5 percent sales increase from this group generates 70 percent more revenue than the top 10 percent. How can you replicate this level of business impact? Join this session to explore an array of techniques to empower your sales enablement initiatives and demonstrate impact.
Implementing skills-first interview practices will support talent acquisition leaders in widening the talent pool, mitigating bias in the interview process, and strengthening the quality of hiring decisions. Join this session to learn how to rewrite a traditional job description through a skills-first lens.
This session introduces the motivate, train, sustain (MTS) learning framework as an improved way of applying best practices in instructional design, learning science, and learning technology for effective results. We’ll explore relevant case studies in multiple industries, and you’ll leave with an expanded view of learning program design.
Be prepared to share, collaborate, and leave with the knowledge that creating conversational learning reinforcement using email drips, bots, and blogs can be fun and meaningful. And most importantly, it won’t require a degree in computer programming.
Engage with four international experts in a session that intertwines generational learning with best practices. The speakers will also cover some myths about technology (AI in particular) and interaction. They will show the audience how they put these concepts into practice in their roles as parents and professionals, introducing the concept of reverse mentoring.
Do you wish you could speak up, share your ideas, or promote your work, but feel held back by fear of self-promotion? In this session, you’ll learn practical ways to self-promote that feel authentic. Through hands-on exercises, you’ll gain tactical ways to practice savvy self-promotion to stand out, build credibility, and advance your career.
How do you build engagement and a learning culture? In this session, the speaker will describe the five Es that drive engagement across the organization: excite, executive, experience, empower, and engage. Get the playbook for the whole workforce that includes stories of success, guides, communications, design ideas, and plans to execute real engagement.
Healthcare is broad and complex, and leaders can be far removed from the front lines of patient care. In this session, the speaker will provide their perspective on what leaders across the industry should understand about the challenges of delivering high-quality care to patients. You’ll have the opportunity to apply their approach to your leadership development efforts.
It doesn’t make sense to build a diverse and talented team but not give them the right foundation for working together. And why hire great people but not serve as the absolute best possible leader for them? This session will use stories, data, and activities to inspire L&D leaders, new and seasoned, to elevate their leadership game.
How can you go micro with the greatest impact in your work? In this session, we’ll share four use cases for microlearning and five common formats to identify 20 ways you can go micro. Then we’ll share 20 tips for designing great microlearning. You will leave with fresh ideas for using microlearning, as well as ways to design it well!
Imagine achieving that magical aha moment—when leaders understand exactly why learning is important to their work, that (gasp!) they may not be perfect at a key skill, and how to do things differently. What’s the secret? Personalized learning that’s driven by assessment insight. Are you ready to learn how to do it? If so, don’t miss this session!
Traditional learning technology solutions make it challenging for L&D teams to keep up with rapidly changing needs. Join this session to explore how you can leverage low-code technology to develop customized, low-cost learning technology solutions to meet a variety of L&D needs, without coding experience.
Discover the transformative power of intentional connections—that is, purposeful efforts to nurture authentic relationships—whether you’re in a remote or hybrid workplace. In this session, the speakers will share their successful experiences implementing intentional connections in the finance department of their healthcare organization. From their example, learn actionable strategies to cultivate cohesive teams and how to apply these techniques.
How does the brain work? How does it learn, focus, and create memories? And how can knowing these facts significantly change the way you design? Join this session to experience a scientifically designed learning journey, and discover what you can accomplish when you join forces with your brain to elevate learning and learning designs.
Join this session for inspiration and practical tips on how to bring a thoughtful suite of learning programs, focused on soft and power skills, to an internal employee and leader audience. You will learn how a holistic approach to development provides a clear design strategy that ensures employee learning needs and preferences are met.
Are you an organizational leader who believes in the power of employee resource groups (ERGs) or other similar groups? Join this session to gain strategies on understanding, supporting, and advocating for your ERG leaders and, in turn, help create a culture of inclusion and belonging.
Want to pivot to agile development, but unsure where to begin? This session will have you ditching the ADDIE revisions of SAM and LLAMA and implementing scrum on your team. You will leave this session with a toolkit tailored to an agile transformation in the learning space. Get ready to iterate!
In this session, you’ll discover how to keep salespeople engaged in training, improve sales training outcomes, create permanent behavior change, and make training stick. From onboarding new reps to driving performance in veteran salespeople, you’ll gain proven techniques for improving sales productivity.
Don’t miss this opportunity to unlock the power of peer-to-peer skills-based learning culture. During this session, the speaker will share how they built a skills-based micro-mentoring program on SharePoint and PowerApps for employee upskilling. Learn what resources and ideas they used to implement the program, and update your traditional mentoring programs.
Successful leaders must obtain buy-in from others to meet their objectives. This session defines and explains several influence techniques. It also discusses the importance of treating influence like a project and determining goals, your influence approach, and action steps. You will leave with a tool that you can use to create an influence plan.
What can the results of more than 28,000 self-assessments of TD professionals tell us about how they view their own proficiency? How do those views stack up against what research tells us are the most important skill sets? What skill sets are emerging and must be considered as we look to update the competency framework? How can you provide input?
How do we measure training and learning's contribution to human and business performance, and what are signals for impact? In this session, you’ll conduct an impact measurement investigation. You’ll examine facts, clues, data, and evidence that answer the question, “What is the impact of training and learning?”
To reach your goals, you must . . . change your plans! Backed by the speaker’s proprietary research on adaptability as a success tool, ReVisionary Thinking offers concrete strategies for building future readiness and creating new plans when the goalposts move on you.
During this session, we will explore the application of David Merrill’s Principles of Instruction at a small pharmaceutical manufacturing company, which empowered trainers with a simple model to follow when delivering on-the-job training. You can adapt the model and templates that will be shared for application in any industry and your next hands-on training event.
Want to create short and engaging videos that your audience will love and learn from . . . maybe even binge? Join this session where the facilitators will guide you through video creation, from concept to editing, and help you shine on camera. By the end, you’ll be ready to dazzle on camera and ensure you leave your learners wanting more!
Economists tell us that given the chance, people will behave rationally. But many of us can point to countless examples of people behaving irrationally! What would life look like if we cured the “stupidity” around us? Imagine the end of frustration. Imagine the peace. Based on Eric M. Bailey’s bestselling book, this session can alter how you approach everyday interactions.
Would you like more power, versatility, and longevity with your speaking voice? Would you like your audience to think you’re honest and authentic? Discover how to support your voice—to sustain clarity and connection throughout your daily interactions and over your career using the same techniques as singers and theatre performers.
Would you like more power, versatility, and longevity with your speaking voice? Would you like your audience to think you’re honest and authentic? Discover how to support your voice—to sustain clarity and connection throughout your daily interactions and over your career using the same techniques as singers and theatre performers.
Join this session to learn how to redesign or design a course using M. David Merrill’s First Principles of Instruction, which use meaningful real-world tasks for demonstration, application, testing, and integration.
What happens when a data scientist, a standards wonk, and an instructional designer walk into a room and . . . collaborate? Join this session to find out. You’ll hear from three experts and discover how each applies learning analytics in the real world. Then, just like improv, they’ll collect a hypothetical case from the audience and follow it through their own processes along with you.
Join this session to learn how to develop a partnership between instructional designers and subject matter experts to transform the expertise embedded in your organization into courses built for today’s learner. Move from content that’s long, not applicable, and wrapped in a PowerPoint that many people can’t understand to content that’s immersive, decision based, and highly memorable.
This session will help you think more strategically when choosing personality and other psychometric assessment tools to use in your training and talent development initiatives. The speaker has been researching and working with assessment tools since 1995 and says the challenge is getting worse as evolving technology makes it easier to create your own assessments, often without scientific rigor. In this session, you’ll be given digital access to research, survey results, strategic questions, spreadsheets, checklists, and action plans to use in your organization, as well as guidance on how to think through the type of tool you need, what you’ll be using it for, how it fits your strategic initiatives, and how to compare vendors.
Whether facilitating at the whiteboard or taking your own notes, you can use simple drawings to skyrocket engagement, comprehension, and retention in meetings and trainings, both in person and virtual. Even if you think you can’t draw, this session led by a visual strategist and New Yorker cartoonist will change your mind!
In challenging economic environments, leaders often see the learning and OD organization as “nice to have” but not “essential to the business.” This session focuses on establishing the function’s value proposition with the C-suite. Learn to identify and communicate the operating framework, critical levers for a strong brand, and inhibitors to success.
Does the term performance improvement plan (PIP) strike dread in the hearts of your employees? Do your managers handle performance issues with either a sledgehammer or a feather? Join this session to learn how the speaker’s organization gave its managers the tools to effectively intervene to turn around performance problems—or to act clearly when necessary.
When employees face angry or abusive customers, they cannot do their jobs. Proper educational training support and policy change must be made to support employees. In this session, you’ll learn how design thinking can influence the creation of a new onboarding program to promote employee empowerment when engaging with angry or abusive customers.
What’s new and exciting in the world of learning technology? And what works? Explore emerging trends developing in the field. In this session, you’ll look at tools, touch on key trends (such as the movement of L&D to recruitment and talent), and reveal what they might mean for the technologies you adopt.
In today’s fast-paced and competitive world, talent development goes beyond traditional training and upskilling. Join this session to learn how to nurture the whole individual by considering their physical, mental, and emotional well-being.
Considering inclusion when designing learning is more important than ever! Learning professionals must design and deliver courses that are accessible to people with varied access needs due to physical or cognitive differences. Challenge yourself to open your mind to new ways of designing and delivering accessible learning programs that are inclusive of all needs.
Chock-full of presentation preparation secrets, pro speaker moves, and little-known practices that’ll give you an edge and delight your online and in-person audiences, this session is for anyone who speaks or presents to groups of any size. Learn from an award-winning international professional speaker, and your talks (or trainings) will never again be the same!
Hybrid classes are on the rise, which creates a challenge for facilitators who need to engage both in-person and remote audiences simultaneously. In this session, you’ll learn how to effectively set up a successful hybrid class. And, you’ll explore how to create a sense of shared experience among audiences joining from different locations.
Hybrid classes are on the rise, which creates a challenge for facilitators who need to engage both in-person and remote audiences simultaneously. In this session, you’ll learn how to effectively set up a successful hybrid class. And, you’ll explore how to create a sense of shared experience among audiences joining from different locations.
The pandemic changed our relationship to work. Employees are insisting that their well-being matters, that diversity and inclusion matters, that feeling joy and happiness matters. This presents new challenges, and there’s no playbook. This session will explore six strategies for leaders wishing to engage, retain, and inspire a changing workforce.
Creating videos to improve learning outcomes is difficult, even when you have the right tools. In this session, you’ll study examples of cinematography techniques, identify opportunities to use them, and learn how to modify them. After, you’ll be able to push the boundaries of what you think is possible with the tools you already have.
Discover how to cultivate inclusive leadership in L&D programs. In this session, you’ll gain insights on implementing eight best practices, overcoming roadblocks, and creating inclusive learning teams to empower learners and drive meaningful experiences.
While L&D professionals strategize about enhancing leadership’s ability to engage employees, an intriguing question arises: How can leaders create employee engagement when they lack engagement themselves? Join this session to explore the critical factors contributing to leaders’ disengagement.
Can a microlearning program designed for frontline store associates influence a key business metric like the customer satisfaction score? This session explores results from a controlled experiment run at a large retailer, where store associates received a learning initiative designed to improve their customer interactions, teamwork, and well-being.
Leadership is so much more than learning to manage direct reports. It is the foundation of how you successfully interact with everyone at work, as well as those outside work. In this session, you’ll learn how to build five core leadership skills that will energize you and the people around you to build stronger relationships and have a deeper impact.
Are you a consultant? Considering it? Want to know how to increase your success immediately? Based on the speaker’s more than 40 years of consulting success, she will share real-life stories and reveal six rarely discussed secrets to ensure your consulting success. Relate each secret to your situation, and leave with actions you can take to reach a six-figure career.
What’s better than an expert’s vetted list of free or low-cost tools that supercharge your training efforts? In this session, you’ll get a personal tour of the tool landscape. Explore and create using an eclectic list of tools for sourcing and editing images, videos, and audio assets and even dabble with the latest artificial intelligence–based resources.
Create opportunities for yourself by developing your ability to work across cultures. You will leave this session with the tools to create a personalized strategy for developing your intercultural competence. The session will include some brief simulations with time to reflect and cover key knowledge, skills, and attitudes through stories—yours and the speaker’s.
Do you want to know how to quickly develop a successful talent development strategy from scratch? Join this session to learn how a high-growth, top-rated construction company did just that. You will have a chance to create a mobile app for your own talent development road map using some of the lessons learned.
We all need soft skills, yet there is a misconception that they don’t contribute to the bottom line because they are often perceived as less valuable than hard skills. This session will provide useful, practical tools to show the value of soft skills programs using a proven and credible approach.
Don’t wait until the end of a learning experience to evaluate its effectiveness. Waiting until a program ends can make the evaluation process more difficult. But there’s a better way: data-enabled instructional design. Learn how to integrate measurement and evaluation with instructional design to create real-time insights that show your program’s outcomes.
Ducks glide on a pond with confidence, and when they drop their heads below the water, they expose their butts. When speaking publicly, you want to portray effortless confidence. When your confidence wavers, you show your “duck butt.” This session will focus on three key areas that create confidence.
Effective virtual meetings can be key for business success. Join this session to learn how to design and deliver captivating online meetings, based on two years of research and expert interviews. The speakers will debunk the multitasking myth and show you how to embrace the vital three Ms of meetings— magnetic, mesmerizing, and memorable. Empower your talent to maximize meetings and thrive in the digital workplace.
What emotions does AI trigger for you and your organization? How is the human-AI dynamic shaping our workforces and cultures? To navigate the unknowns, what if we leveraged our human-centric skills to maximize the positive use of AI? In this session, we’ll explore how to foster a harmonious collaboration between humans and AI to grow strategic talent capabilities.
Let’s explore generative artificial intelligence (AI) hands-on. This session equips you with the tools and knowledge you need to strike the right balance between AI-driven solutions and the human touch in training.
This panel discussion will explore how a major airline is introducing and embedding new core values across the organization. The senior talent development team driving this change initiative will share insights into how they’re preparing leaders to put these new values into action, with the support of HR business partners.
Why do some people struggle during buyouts and reorgs, while others emerge stronger? Learn seven factors that determine career and personal success during corporate chaos and the four skills needed to advance your work and career. L&D has a role to play in helping people thrive and emerge stronger because of these changes.
Dive into the paradox of our times: a world hyper-connected yet brimming with isolation. This session promises an exploration of the silent epidemic of loneliness and the potent antidote of human connection. Come, be inspired, and learn how, together, we can reshape our world, one relationship at a time.
Dive into the paradox of our times: a world hyper-connected yet brimming with isolation. This session promises an exploration of the silent epidemic of loneliness and the potent antidote of human connection. Come, be inspired, and learn how, together, we can reshape our world, one relationship at a time.
Experience how your brain can memorize enormous amounts of information by applying some basic mnemonic principles, such as relaxation rather than effort, creativity rather than memorization, and confidence rather than drilling. Learn to trust your brain, and be amazed at how it can absorb loads of information straight into your long-term memory.
The L&D competency that continues to get the least attention is needs assessment. What little recent literature exists is contradictory or anecdotal. You will learn a practical, proven approach for three occasions to conduct a learning needs assessment and will receive job aids to ensure that your assessments are efficient and effective.
Belonging is built or destroyed with every human interaction. A sense of belonging at work is a major driver of employee (and learner) engagement, loyalty, and productivity. Learn and experience simple research-based ideas to connect with, respect, and protect yourself, your colleagues, and your learners.
This session will present evidence showing that psychological safety is not a perk to attract employees but substantially improves organizational performance. The speakers will demonstrate a new neuroscience technology that continuously measures psychological safety and effective teamwork by applying algorithms to smartwatch data.
Social, behavioral, and environmental factors—also known as social determinants of health (SDOH)—play a critical role in an organization’s health and well-being. In this session, you will develop a better understanding of SDOH to achieve lasting behavioral change, better health outcomes, and a more inclusive workplace for employees.
We are critical facilitators for introducing cutting-edge technology solutions into businesses. And for those solutions to be successful, everyone in the organization must have the knowledge and skills to effectively leverage these technologies. Join this session to explore a framework for investigating, selecting, and implementing new technologies.
If you want more success, influence, and joy in your work, you’ve got to navigate conflict well. Unfortunately, the stress and uncertainty of the last few years is making it harder. In this session, you’ll learn practical techniques and powerful phrases for holding more productive conflict conversations with less drama and better results.
Enablement has fallen into a pattern of packing as much content as possible into a week and then sending sellers out to sell. However, this isn’t an effective way to help sellers become fully productive. This session will demonstrate a model to help you build a scalable learning experience to help your sellers become fully ramped in your organization.
Did you know that there’s a way to leverage your love of true crime documentaries and pop culture to create workplace learning that is effective and engaging? In alternate reality games (ARGs), reality and fiction collide. Join this session to explore the potential of ARGs to revolutionize workplace content and find out how to embed them in your learning technology ecosystem.
In today’s digital environment, facilitating meaningful connections, fostering a sense of belonging, and maintaining high levels of participant engagement online can be challenging. Let’s develop what’s needed to cultivate a vibrant, engaging atmosphere in a virtual classroom for every participant!
Think there’s no place for the arts in highly regulated industries? Think again! Creative aptitude is now considered essential, even in the government. This session will translate artistic principles—like imagination and ambiguity—into tools for growth, compelling coaching, and education. No need to bring paint brushes, just an open mind!
The world of work is rapidly changing, and employers must now look for candidates (internally and externally) with the skills needed to do the job, not necessarily a college degree. Skills-based hiring and talent management are now essential. Learn how digital credentials can help develop or improve your organization’s approach to skills.
Much of the workforce thinks their biggest challenge is prioritizing their time. Many are trying to figure out how to navigate a work-life balance and juggle their responsibilities. Discover a simple yet powerful solution to schedule your priorities and do what matters most to achieve higher productivity and better health.
Did you know that the Kirkpatrick Model is good for more than training evaluation? It provides the structure to design, develop, and deliver training that will increase job performance and contribute measurably to the most important organizational results. Attend this eye-opening session to learn how to design training that works.
Talent development professionals in the government and military, like everyone else, experience emotions at work, and they’re uniquely positioned to support how communities rebuild, especially in hybrid contexts. Learn how emotions can be processed and managed in ways that enhance wellness and productivity for yourself and those you serve.
CEOs have spoken, and talent retention is the priority. The key lies not in poaching from competitors but in fostering an environment where employees thrive, belong, and stay. Join this session to discover the game-changing talent retention formula for creating talent-centric, inclusive stay conversation programs and deeply embedding them in the organization’s and its leader’s DNA.
Welcome to the new L&D! AI is transforming how work gets done. As the employee experience rapidly evolves, it’s time for L&D to rethink our role within the modern workplace. Join this session to discover a step-by-step process for architecting your AI-enabled learning ecosystem. Spoiler: This is going to change everything about workplace learning!
Most trainers don’t open; they start by dumping content. They don’t close; they run out of time. Discover the ingredients of the CORE approach (closers, openers, revisitors, energizers) to design and deliver training that increases retention by 90 percent over lecture and PowerPoint. Leave with creative strategies to make your training participant-centered and memorable.
Just because you’re given a leadership title doesn’t mean it’s easy to tell someone they need to improve their performance or behavior. How can you learn to hold people accountable and resolve conflicts confidently and effectively? In this session, you’ll learn six skills to respectfully and effectively solve problems and build relationships.
Amid a heightened urgency for change, many leaders lack the essential skills needed to be effective change agents. Based on data from thousands of leaders, this session delves into harnessing the power of strength-building behaviors. Discover how to become an exceptional change leader, armed with the tools to drive meaningful transformation.
Discover how to optimize resource allocation for your organization’s learning needs by identifying projects requiring substantial effort while crafting simple, effective training solutions for those that don’t. Practice scenarios will give you experience determining effort levels, ensuring effective analysis of your future training projects.
How can you harness culture data when designing talent programs today? Join this session to learn and apply a prototype that leverages critical training practices, HPI, design thinking, data, and experience to design talent programs that influence your organization while gaining cultural and executive approval.
How can you harness culture data when designing talent programs today? Join this session to learn and apply a prototype that leverages critical training practices, HPI, design thinking, data, and experience to design talent programs that influence your organization while gaining cultural and executive approval.
Discover the brain science of emotional intelligence (EQ) and why it’s vital for well-being and organizational success. In this session, you’ll explore the latest research and techniques for designing EQ training and learn strategies to manage amygdala hijacks, better read emotions, navigate difficult situations, build positive relationships, and flourish at work.
Unlock the power of scenario-based learning (SBL) with generative artificial intelligence (AI)! Join this session to discover how generative AI can accelerate your instructional design process and make it easier to create engaging and effective SBL experiences. Learn how to use cutting-edge tools, explore real examples, and gain practical insights to elevate your courses and empower your learners.
There are always new “rules” for creating videos. Video as a medium keeps evolving, but many organizations struggle to keep up with the best practices that can help make their videos better, faster, and produced for less. This session will provide ideas, practical approaches, and examples of when to follow the latest rules and when to break them to help you rethink and level up your videos.
PowerPoint is the basis for much training material, yet these presentations are often text heavy and dull. Learn how to revolutionize your presentations using visuals, diagrams, and animated sequences, and receive helpful how-to guides and a collection of 12 effective PowerPoint techniques. Attend this session and become a PowerPoint legend in your workplace.
If you want to get learners engaged in your training from the beginning, you need to upgrade your opening from a basic icebreaker or list of learning objectives. In this session, you’ll experience five activities that work with in-person or virtual instructor-led training and e-learning to entice learners to want to learn, even if it’s a required program.
Embark on a journey of creativity as this session explores the potential of artificial intelligence (AI) for leadership development. We’ll cover the foundation of a few key AI topics, demystify some of the most pressing questions, and then dive into interactive applications. Leave this session feeling energized and ready to apply new tools to your short- and long-term development strategies.
Understand the “golden thread” of your full life and career experience to position yourself for the next step in your career. Your thread is not only about what you’ve accomplished—it’s about who you’ve become along the way. Discover new ways to view your unique story and how what you omit from your storyline may be where your superpowers hide.
Dive into this session as we explore the transformative potential of artificial intelligence (AI) to enable human performance. Learn how AI fosters personalized learning, boosts engagement, streamlines training administration, and uncovers insightful analytics. Future-proof your talent strategies with real examples of AI in action to formulate your own next steps.
Imposter syndrome is a thing! When you have imposter syndrome, you feel inadequate, like a fraud, and undeserving of your position or success—despite evidence that you are fully qualified and deserving. In this session, you will learn to spot your own internal imposter monster and gain resources and techniques to help you stop it effectively.
With seismic shifts in the world of work, one concept is emerging as critical—individual and team agency. Join this session to discuss what agency is; explore how it can address workplace challenges, enhance job satisfaction and organization performance; and learn practical actions for enhancing agency at the organization, manager, and individual levels.
Talent development leaders can play a critical role in integrating mental health into employees’ experiences of company culture. This session will provide you with tools and examples of how to strategically map key points on the employee journey to implement practices that enhance cultures of inclusion, safety, and mental health.
Leading change (versus managing or coping with it) is a critical capability for leaders at all levels. Join this session to experience a proven change leadership L&D program and learn how to apply it to your organization. The session will include real-life, broadly relevant examples of leading change in the workplace.
The Tuckman Model of Team Development needs a new level—achieving high performance. Few teams reach this, where people know their roles and support each other and their goal, just like outstanding New Orleans bands. Learn the secret of jazz musicians interacting with one another and apply this thinking so your teams can be high-performing.
Healthcare continues to face an experience-complexity gap, where seasoned clinicians have exited the workforce and novice employees have taken on roles that were previously held by those more senior. This session will explore ways that talent development professionals can help close this gap and thereby improve the healthcare delivery system.
In today’s global, diverse world, trainers must go beyond accessibility to reach a variety of learners, including those who may have disabilities, those with low literacy, or those who are multilingual. Explore the principles of universal design for learning (UDL) and how this method can help TD professionals reach as many learners as possible.
This session will show you how to measure the value of leadership development programs through detailed case study examples that illustrate how to measure and evaluate various aspects of leadership programs and initiatives.
Recruiting instructional designers can be daunting for new hiring managers, especially if the L&D function is not well established or it’s an inaugural role. How can we be sure? How can we test for fit? How can we confirm our decision before going ahead? This session will focus on minimizing the risk of making the wrong decision and helping you hire your next star.
Sometimes, we can get lost in the science of instructional design and forget that we are training people. Story design provides a process for designing instruction that speaks the language of humans: stories. Bring your expertise to this audience-driven session and experience story design for yourself!
If you are looking for new ways to train leaders to thrive in the hybrid environment, this session is for you. The speaker will provide you with training tools, approaches, and activities that you can use to empower managers to lead in the hybrid workforce.
Neuroscience research provides insight about how best to engage two brain networks for successful goal initiation (insight and motivation) and goal pursuit. This session will provide practical tips and strategies based on current research findings to enhance goal adoption, deliberate practice, and successful behavior or habit change in clients.
In this session, you’ll learn how to diversify your employee engagement experience and unify your organization by empowering your employee resource groups (ERGs) to become organizational focus groups, employee networks, and drivers of policy change.
The days of a command-and-control approach to people and performance are over. Trust as a competency—the ability to build, extend, and restore it—is as vital as reading and math. The ability to inspire, on purpose and as a matter of course, is a differentiator and a competitive advantage. Join this session to learn how these attributes are now nonnegotiable for the L&D field.
The days of a command-and-control approach to people and performance are over. Trust as a competency—the ability to build, extend, and restore it—is as vital as reading and math. The ability to inspire, on purpose and as a matter of course, is a differentiator and a competitive advantage. Join this session to learn how these attributes are now nonnegotiable for the L&D field.
Did you know that applying best practices for supporting neurodivergent learners benefits all learners? In this session, you will explore many of these best practices and then develop and practice delivering a short demo, applying your new skills. Embrace neurodivergence as the new neurotypical in your learning programs today!
The “war for talent” shows no signs of abating, but help is on the way! In this session, we will examine six strategies to ensure your organization can onboard, retain, upskill, and develop the talent you have fought so hard to win. You’ll learn how two organizations are implementing these strategies and assess your own readiness and vulnerabilities.
Dive into the transformative power of neurodiversity within your organization. This session offers strategies to enhance inclusivity, boost innovation, and anticipate future trends. You’ll engage in a dynamic dialogue that inspires and equips you to shape an inclusive organizational future.
Learn the essential how-tos for creating an internal company podcast. From pitching to your executive team to designing a strategy with realistic and achievable goals, this session will provide all the information you need to build your own internal podcast.
When you get a seat, can you handle the heat? Knowing how to talk to the C-suite involves speaking in 3D—data, dollars, and decisions. This session will help you develop a game plan to nail your next C-suite conversation.
When you get a seat, can you handle the heat? Knowing how to talk to the C-suite involves speaking in 3D—data, dollars, and decisions. This session will help you develop a game plan to nail your next C-suite conversation.
The most effective leaders actively seek feedback, embracing both approval and criticism as invaluable tools for growth. Discover how this underutilized skill can empower you to take control of your growth journey by influencing the timing and scope of feedback. Explore innovative methods to revolutionize how you approach feedback acquisition.
A telescopic perspective presents a linear path. Today, workplace structures require you to widen your view to align development with the changing environment to see what possibilities exist. This session provides many scenarios and multiple opportunities to gain a new view. You will leave with six new ideas to contemplate.
Join this session to learn more about ATD’s Talent Development Framework and how to align your goals and prioritize the TD function. Using a free online puzzle tool, you will select primary and secondary functions for developing talent to meet your organization's strategic objectives and ensure your team has the knowledge and skills they need to thrive.
Discover an innovative sales training approach using virtual reality (VR). Replace live role play with immersive simulations, interact with virtual clients, and receive personalized coaching from virtual mentors. Seamlessly integrate transformative technology into curriculums for consistent, scalable, and skill-enhancing experiences.
Are you ready to harness generative AI and take your curriculum learning strategy to the next level? Join this session to learn how to get started, see case study examples, and gain valuable insights. Walk away with the knowledge to evaluate and apply generative AI for greater learner impact.
In this session, one speaker will share the enduring truths he has been teaching for decades that are still valid for leaders today. Then, another speaker will describe the “new reality” modern skills we must acquire. Learn how today’s leaders must be authentic, inclusive, and empathetic to empower people and drive organizational results.
Elevate your impact with learning in the flow of work! Discover the “how to” using the popular Learning Cluster Design (LCD) model. Design multi-asset initiatives aligned with business goals that address learner differences and leverage technology. Reshape your organization’s learning landscape with a new strategic competency!
We all want to make our workshops and learning programs more fun and engaging. Are there any strategies or tools you can use for your audience that combine fun, play, and real learning? Yes, there are! This session will introduce you to a framework for understanding the different play options available. Then, you’ll experience a live demonstration of the latest tech on the cutting edge of “social serious play.”
This session will reveal how to wield the power of narrative to structure compelling stories that will bolster your ability to communicate in more effective and engaging ways.
In this session, experienced hybrid facilitators will share their hybrid horror stories, how they survived, and strategies for the future. You’ll leave better understanding the challenges of hybrid meetings and workshops as well as what to be ready for in your own sessions. You’ll also have a chance to ask questions and get advice for your personal training situations.
Explore the neuroscience behind memory and learning and how our devices change it with a digital well-being expert. Learn why you should resist creating shorter learning programs and how to help employees restore their attention.
How do you keep your training commitment to increase performance and contribute measurably to organizational results? Attend this session with a world leader in training evaluation to learn the best way to implement the Kirkpatrick Model to protect your training and talent investments.
Subject matter experts (SMEs) bring experience and credibility to a learning program, and their stories can bring content to life. Explore techniques for facilitating live discussions with SMEs in learning programs to maximize their impact. Learn how facilitators can prepare the expert and participants and engage creatively.
The curse of knowledge: when you learn something and then forget what it was like not to know it. This can harm our learning experiences, creating over-complicated explanations and impatience with learners. In this session, we’ll do exercises to see how the curse of knowledge occurs. Leave with ways to prevent it from taking hold!
Artificial intelligence (AI) is no longer a dream of the future—it’s happening now. But will what we once perceived as a dream become a nightmare for your DEI goals and objectives? In this session, we’ll dive into the risks associated with implementing AI in your organization’s day-to-day operations.
Are you using psychological thresholds to deepen the impact of your programs? Level up your learning content by making the most of these key moments. Join this session to understand the opportunities available at psychological thresholds and leave with immediately useful practical applications.
Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) work is often described as a marathon, and just like runners hit the “wall,” so too do leaders, trainers, DEI practitioners, and organizations as a whole. How can we push past the wall to surge our DEI efforts forward in the moments of greatest adversity, without causing damage to ourselves and others? Join this session to discover how to move ahead.
Join the speaker, the godfather of e-learning, for a session that explores how integrated empathetic components can dramatically change the appeal, effectiveness, and satisfaction of e-learning—all within even the tightest budgetary and timeline constraints.
Explore methods, techniques, and tools to boost team productivity and foster collective intelligence in companies. We’ll focus on the role of thinking preference, essential practices for improved performance, and creating a collaborative environment with open communication to achieve greater productivity and innovation in high-performing teams.
Onboarding is one of the most common talent initiatives, yet negative onboarding experiences are so common. Join this session to learn how to use the onboarding assessment tool (OAT) to determine how well your onboarding program is meeting newcomer needs, and then plan how to close the gap.
How can you connect learning to bottom-line business results and elevate the perceived value of L&D? Join this session to discover how to gain actionable insights that showcase the impact of learning, secure greater buy-in, facilitate strategic alignment, and boost the organizational value of the L&D function.
Wheeeee! New technology is coming at us faster and faster. With so much momentum in the tech world, it’s nearly impossible to keep up. But that’s also exciting! The road ahead will be fast, fun, and a little bumpy—and your job is to keep it safe and productive. In this session, we’ll explore how to navigate this landscape and who you’ll need on your team.
Remember the days when CEOs handpicked and groomed their successors? Or when managers assigned nine-box labels to determine who had potential and who didn’t? If your organization still relies on these practices as its only tools for succession planning, join this session to update your thinking and learn how to build succession into your workforce strategy.
Join this session to discover how xAPI and artificial intelligence (AI) can predict student needs in time for early intervention. We’ll explore a case study in which xAPI provides rich student data for AI that is designed to recommend individual interventions. Learn to apply these techniques and navigate the necessary technologies in a hands-on way.
Talent development professionals working in collaboration with SMEs enrich the learners’ experience when they are prepared to coach and support SMEs to be successful facilitators. Discover effective techniques for ensuring that SMEs deliver engaging, interactive presentations appropriate to their audience. Test your knowledge in this quiz-show style session.
This session will emphasize how harnessing the collective power of employee resource groups (ERGs) can enhance organizational learning and drive inclusive excellence. Learn effective strategies to foster collaboration, leverage diverse perspectives, and create effective learning opportunities through your ERGs.
The events of the last few years have pushed the world into the space between “no longer” and “not yet.” This is a moment when talent development could redefine its future and enhance the role it plays as a true growth lever. This session will explore seven possible futures for talent development and will challenge your beliefs about what is possible now.
The events of the last few years have pushed the world into the space between “no longer” and “not yet.” This is a moment when talent development could redefine its future and enhance the role it plays as a true growth lever. This session will explore seven possible futures for talent development and will challenge your beliefs about what is possible now.
The future of spatial learning just arrived. Again. Apple and Meta’s new mixed-reality headsets give people superpowers as they move seamlessly in the flow of work from the workplace to a pixelated practice space where they build muscle memory and mastery. Step inside the new reality-bending sims that reinvent learning for Fortune 500 companies.
Emotional intelligence (EI) is a needed skill for leaders and employees. Unfortunately, recent neuroscience research reveals that our common efforts to develop EI are ineffective. In this session, the speaker will explain the neuroscience behind EI and how this perspective transforms how we think about and develop EI.
Discover UNI(CO), a transformative methodology for creating effective and meaningful learning journeys. Embrace cognition and emotion to craft enriching experiences. Join this session to learn about this essential technique for educators who are shaping the future of education and making an impact on society.
Join this session to learn how to borrow concepts, ideas, and techniques from games to create engaging, interactive, and meaningful instruction by creating learning games that incorporate those techniques. Discover new ways to design interactive, engaging experiences for your learners both online and face-to-face.
Do you have the business owner bug? Do you want to own your own learning and coaching business? Have you considered all the various parts and pieces, time, and energy it takes to be a successful woman entrepreneur in 2024? What about the necessary skills? Join this panel discussion to learn from our experience and find out what it takes to be successful!
Online communities can bring distributed teams together through learning. But simply creating a space for conversation isn’t enough to make them work. In this session, you’ll learn how to leverage strategies and principles from social media community management to amplify the impact of your training. You’ll also leave with a documented community engagement plan.
Join leaders from a major cancer institute and pharmaceutical firm for a panel discussion on developing diverse leaders through an applied leadership academy. Learn how to improve leader engagement, mitigate burnout, and drive organizational strategic priorities through custom leadership development programs.
Join this session to learn from two international experts who intertwine neuroscience with learning transfer principles. They’ll unravel the complexities of neuroplasticity and memory for you and gather actionable insights to bolster your L&D strategies. Partake in collaborative and practical activities for improved learning outcomes and transfer.
As we progress into the future of work, the need for leaders to build more inclusive communities is increasing. Employees (and all humans) are more isolated and hungry for human connection. This session will explore the important factors required to build more community and connections and thereby increase retention and engagement at work.
How do you get executives and leaders to act now to make your organization’s strategic future possible? In this session, you’ll follow a case study that details how one company tackled this challenge with an expansive executive training program. Learn lessons that you can apply to your organization.
How we work has forever changed, but one aspect remains—the need to show the value of what we do. And while there are many ways to demonstrate the value of talent development, business impact and ROI are what most senior leaders want to see. This session will teach you how to demonstrate the impact and ROI of your programs. Bring a calculator!
How we work has forever changed, but one aspect remains—the need to show the value of what we do. And while there are many ways to demonstrate the value of talent development, business impact and ROI are what most senior leaders want to see. This session will teach you how to demonstrate the impact and ROI of your programs. Bring a calculator!
What does it take to convert potential and talent into innovative outcomes and engaged employees? A simple, repeatable framework and a little bit of rock and roll helps! The speaker (and his guitar) will introduce a creative approach to creating engagement and helping people find their “jam,” using the power of four simple questions and a unique experience.
Ready to revolutionize your training and captivate your audience like never before? This session—based on the science of improvisational thinking—is a perfect opportunity for you to acquire the skills you need to become a dynamic trainer. Think on your feet and create engaging training sessions that stick!
Discover a neuroscience framework consisting of 13 brain-mind elements that help you learn, think, and process information quickly and easily. You’ll be able to use this framework to develop a fast, focused, and flexible brain that meets the demands of future learning and thinking.
The workplace is beginning to rely on a skills-based approach. But the transformation into a skills-based world is uncharted territory for most organizations. Join this session to discover what you can do today to start the transition and begin reaping the benefits.
Organizational learning has internal value. Have you considered, beyond individual performance, the impact of having proven knowledge and demonstrated skills relating to career and succession planning? Digital credentialing adds rigor and confidence, leveling up the internal and external value of the learning you are providing today.
Is your organization moving toward microlearning, but your content looking a bit macro? In this session, gain an overview of how microlearning strategy frameworks guide the development of microlearning campaigns and their subsequent products. You will have an opportunity to practice writing concisely and with context to a product you choose.
Leaders often have a tendency to “jump to a solution” before an issue is fully understood. When this happens, a solution may be implemented that has little real impact. In this session, we’ll use a case study to illustrate the Performance Consulting approach and explore ways to prevent solution jumping by linking solutions to root causes.
Ninety-six percent of people will stop paying attention after just 50 minutes, and the only way to keep participants engaged is to continuously hijack their attention. In this session, you will personally experience seven proven facilitation tactics that create laugh-filled learning experiences.
How, with limited resources, do you build and maintain the skills of more than 100,000 part-time employees? Learn how one government agency develops subject matter experts into part-time instructors to meet its training needs. Explore the skills taught, instructional methodology used, and results achieved by one innovative instructor-training program.
We will discuss and explore how artificial intelligence (AI), experiential learning, and neuroscience will revolutionize enterprise learning. Skills practice via experiential learning moves learners from knowing what they need to do to doing what they need to do. The thinking effect approach to learning is now more affordable and ready to deploy than ever.
Get ready to experience the top 10 prompt strategies for large language models. You will walk away with simple tips you can start using immediately to increase the quality of your responses from ChatGPT, Bard, and Claude. This session will boost your productivity and creativity and show you the secrets to solving problems with your prompts.
In this session, you will learn to empower your colleagues to manage their aspirations, expectations, and performance to support career growth. You will also create a plan to facilitate productive career conversations and gain your supervisor’s support in the process.
Want to improve your negotiation skills as an L&D professional? Join this session to learn how to prepare effectively, ask thoughtful questions, listen actively, think strategically, and close the deal with confidence. Don’t wait any longer—take your negotiation skills to the next level today.
No matter where you are in your L&D career, you may wonder, “What’s next?” With the field growing rapidly, there are more roles available now than ever before—but how do you know which one is the right next step for you? Join this session to explore how to identify the next role for you based on your strengths, interests, and values.
Looking to boost your efforts at building a coaching culture? Join this session to learn how to invest in developing the coachability of your organization’s workforce. The speaker will provide research and five specific strategies organizations are using to apply the practice of coachability.
This session focuses on the art of active listening. When you truly listen to your clients’ needs and connect on a deeper level, it will make you a more influential talent development partner. Through laughter-infused listening activities, you’ll gain practical skills and enhance your ability to understand both professional and personal aspirations.
This session explores the powerful combination of using virtual reality (VR) and conversational artificial intelligence (AI) for experiential soft skill training. You will gain insights into fostering engagement, personalizing learning, and overcoming barriers, and leave with actionable strategies to integrate VR and AI into your soft skill development programs.
Strong visual design can make sure our training messages are heard, understood, and remembered. But we've all encountered projects where weak design choices got in the way of learning. In this session, you’ll uncover practical design tips in a fun and unusual way—by analyzing and repairing visuals that just don’t work.
Enterprise approaches to learning and development are critical for large organizations, but bringing siloed L&D programs together is a massive leadership challenge, involving silo-busting culture change and technology investment. Hear success stories from leaders who have done it, and use their insights to build your own roadmap for change.
Join this session to learn how to create a culture of appreciation, mentorship, and connection to drive real impact for your team and your organization.
Join this session to learn how to create a culture of appreciation, mentorship, and connection to drive real impact for your team and your organization.
Have you ever wondered what data to collect, how it should be organized and reported, and how it should be used? The talent development reporting principles (TDRP) were developed by a group of industry leaders to help better measure, report, and manage learning. Join this session to learn about TDRP, and how it can be used to create or improve your measurement and reporting strategy.
Do you use Level 2 quizzes and tests with your training programs? If so, you’ll want to attend this session to learn about the most common test creation errors that can compromise the validity of your test items, as well as 15 tips for overcoming them. You’ll also learn the value of test items that measure job application, not recall.
L&D programs tailored to individual needs, reinforced with practice and applied immediately for meaningful results have been the dream of L&D practitioners for years. In this session, you’ll learn how to use technologies (even with limited resources) for assessment, practice, and feedback with clever instructional design to drive application and results at scale.
Most employees are dissatisfied with their organization’s performance evaluation process, and leaders are exhausted trying to impose accountability. Learn a practical approach to shifting the responsibility for real accountability from managers to employees, and discover how truly effective leaders can enable this shift.
AI is transforming how we source content, but only humans have the essential skill needed for meaningful experiences. This session explores how you can infuse AI-generated content with storytelling techniques to create truly memorable training. We'll look at a road map, tools, and strategies to bring your AI-generated content to life!
To gather fresh data on the L&D technology landscape, the speakers conducted studies on L&D technology broadly and AI in HR more specifically. These studies provide insights on LMS user satisfaction levels, critical feature and priority considerations, tech barriers and challenges, and more.
We can create the best learning experiences in the world, but it won’t matter if learners aren’t motivated to learn. Learners also need to be motivated to act on that learning. In this session, learn about research-based motivation models that provide simple, often inexpensive ways to support learner autonomy and motivation.
Learn how to engage, develop, and retain early talent professionals, with a focus on the emerging Gen Z workforce and what they desire from employers, while balancing the reality of today’s multigenerational workplace.
Dive into the state of talent health worldwide by exploring a 2023 index that reveals what HR leaders are prioritizing and where they might be falling behind. In this session, the speaker will reveal the findings from this study and share the seven critical dimensions that comprise a healthy talent program.
Want to improve team building and collaboration, build trust across your organization, and ensure everyone feels seen and heard? Storytelling may be the secret to achieving your goals. Learn how a common language and framework can get your teams on the same page and transform leaders into strategic, influential, and visual communicators.
Ready to modernize your workforce to meet evolving market and people demands? Explore a transformative skills-based approach through upskilling, collaborative learning, and technology integrated into the flow of work to drive rapid role-specific skills development, applied learning, and continuous improvement with skills-based coaching.
Are you challenged with supporting learners through the myriad of emotions experienced during times of uncertainty, risk, and emotional exposure? Understanding the five dimensions of emotional intelligence (EI) is essential to fostering employees who are engaged and productive even in hybrid and remote work environments. Gain tools to manage and influence workplace emotions.
Business acumen alone won’t make you, or anyone else, a great leader. But without it, you will never become one. With that in mind, join this session to learn five simple yet powerful lessons that will help you develop a big-picture mentality and return to work with a better understanding of how your company makes money and why talent development matters to your CEO.
As a live online trainer, you compete against many distractors during your online training. Fortunately, a lot of research has been done on attention span and brain power, and we can use this research to improve our online training programs. Join this session to gain practical tips and learn about 10 brain boosting activities that will keep your online participants engaged.
You already know how branched-path scenarios engage and immerse your audience. Now, join this session to learn how to create them faster, with more realistic choices and tailored feedback, using the power of generative artificial intelligence (AI).
Do you struggle with aligning your team’s capabilities and capacity to business needs? Do you know how to create learning operational processes that are scalable across all learning mediums? Join this session to learn about frameworks for building your learning operations blueprint and enabling your team to deliver efficiently and effectively every time.
Training isn’t about information; it’s about behavior change. Neuroscience says that changing a person’s behavior requires focusing on three elements: specificity, connection, and context. Join this session to examine learning design from a neurological perspective and effectively change behavior.
What if everyone in your organization could anticipate shifts in trends and embrace uncertainty? Strategic foresight can create that capability. In this session, you will gain an understanding of a unique dynamic foresight process, and as a bonus, leave with a richer understanding of the future of learning and development.
Don’t put your data on mute! Data cannot speak for itself—it needs you to voice its story and provide context and meaning. Data dumps often lead to analysis paralysis, rather than kindling discussion or driving decisions.. Instead, transform dry data into juicy anecdotes that drive results by applying three easy strategies.
High impact evaluation (HIE) is a new, evidence-based alternative to traditional evaluation. It is designed to drive impact, not just measure it. This session will give an overview of HIE and describe three key innovations that will transform your reactive training evaluations into a more proactive approach to drive performance and bottom-line results.
Even the most well-intentioned and experienced leaders and certified coaches unintentionally undermine people’s energy to pursue and achieve their goals. Join this session to learn three common traditional coaching techniques that sabotage people’s optimal motivation and three globally tested alternatives based on empirical motivation science that keep inspiration flowing.
Even the most well-intentioned and experienced leaders and certified coaches unintentionally undermine people’s energy to pursue and achieve their goals. Join this session to learn three common traditional coaching techniques that sabotage people’s optimal motivation and three globally tested alternatives based on empirical motivation science that keep inspiration flowing.
What’s the secret? Join this session to find out how to get 90 percent of your employees to participate in your engagement survey from an organization that has been doing it for years. The speaker will share the required steps and inspire you with the potential gold mine of cultural data found in surveys. Leave with simple action items to implement for success.
Apply the three steps of creating learner personas in this session. Through activities, relevant training examples, and application, you'll discover how the insights from learner personas help you change behavior and engage learners. You'll leave this session with practical tips to apply to your next training project.
Accountability conversations are one of the most important and challenging leadership tasks. Master the art of accountability conversations by avoiding three common traps and implementing a proven template. Gain clarity around your role as a leader and boost confidence to get results while building stronger relationships.
For reasons from accelerated promotion to more purposeful work, the demand for more meaningful career development continues to grow. In a crowded marketplace of potential solutions, peek into how a rapidly growing software company flipped career conversations upside down and empowered its emerging workforce to own their progression.
Why is the work of DEI so often championed by women and people of color? Are we checking boxes or changing behaviors? Are we aiming for revolution or evolution? Join us to explore these tough questions and hear some fresh approaches to help you drive the DEI improvements you want for your teams and your organization.
In today’s competitive marketplace, with two of three consumers saying their social values shape their buying choices, sales are being won and lost based on whether sales teams understand the fundamentals of inclusion. Equip your teams with the knowledge, tools, and behaviors to incorporate and demonstrate inclusion from start to finish in the sales process to win more sales.
It’s time to take a new approach to L&D, one that puts the learner at the center of the process and leverages the power of marketing to create more engaging, relevant, and effective learning experiences. Learn about the lizard brain, learner personas, attention-grabbing visuals, and writing good copy to enhance your L&D strategy.
There are crucial leaders in your organization right now who could change the future of your organization. The problem? You may not know who they are, what they are capable of, or how to make sure they are ready for bigger challenges. Join this session to update your high-potential development and succession strategy.
Are you wondering how artificial intelligence (AI) could help you overcome your evaluation challenges? In this session, you’ll experiment with seven prompts that can help you design and analyze evaluation. Learn how to make learning evaluation more fun, easier, faster, more cost-efficient, and better overall—continuous improvement is possible within your organization.
How can your company prepare employees for the future while benefiting the business? A capability academy may be the answer. Join this session to find out what a capability academy is, its benefits, and how one company developed its academies. Leave with a strategy and ideas for how to identify the most critical capabilities and key components for your academies that align with your business needs.
Every trainer offers a unique set of gifts to every group of learners they meet. That uniqueness is personal, like a signature. It adds deeper meaning and purpose to the work they do. In this session, you’ll work with various personas to help you accelerate the discovery process, identify natural strengths, and uncover your signature style.
Equip yourself and your L&D team to soar by identifying leadership metrics for success. Position yourself as the ideal candidate for your dream leadership job and make a personal action plan for the role. Explore how to recruit, select, and retain top L&D talent, and define your team’s mission, vision, and value proposition to stakeholders.
While some organizations are far along in their people analytics journey, the vast majority are in the very early stages. With access to data and the sophistication of analytics and technology tools increasing every day, people analytics will be a significant strategic differentiator for organizations that can gain expertise in differential utilization.
What if every salesperson on your team learned or improved just one skill every week? At the end of one year, think of how much better your team would be than your competition. In this session, the speaker will share practical steps you can take to achieve this outcome by becoming a learning sales organization. You’ll learn from real-world examples and take a self-assessment.
Failure offers experiences and memories we do not soon forget, yet most organizations fail to use failure as an effective mechanism for growth. This session will address the need for organizations to embrace failure, to create “safe to fail” learning environments, and to build understanding and confidence through “constructive struggling.”
Whatever kind of leader you are, experience design leadership invites you to recast yourself as an experience designer for your teams, clients, and yourself. Join this session to explore how this research-based approach can empower you to design life-changing experiences starting with these three questions: What are you doing? Why are you doing it? Who are you becoming while you do it?
Learn how to extend Articulate Storyline’s capabilities without coding. Discover how to add JavaScript snippets to triggers for advanced logic and custom animations. Enhance your courses with timers, adaptive content based on date and device type, and engaging animations. Unleash the full potential of Storyline beyond its out-of-the-box features.
Just about everyone carries a production studio in their pocket—their smartphone. Join this session to learn how to craft training videos that look professional and support learning with your smartphone. Walk away with tips for planning, filming, and editing effective training videos.
Just about everyone carries a production studio in their pocket—their smartphone. Join this session to learn how to craft training videos that look professional and support learning with your smartphone. Walk away with tips for planning, filming, and editing effective training videos.
Is your workforce running on empty? Join this session to learn how to transform change fatigue into change readiness. Gain practical strategies for energizing leaders, engaging teams, and moving from exhaustion to engagement amid constant change.
Building a compelling change narrative is crucial to a successful organizational change initiative. Knowing the eight components of crafting that narrative will not only help leaders and managers articulate the vision more effectively, it will enlist others to engage and adopt the change more rapidly.
The concepts of sustainability and equity have become paramount for organizations striving to thrive in the future. This session will prepare leaders for the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead. Learn how your organization can implement experiential-based programming—at scale—to support leadership and innovation development at all levels.
One wrong post online can destroy your professional reputation. But a minimal digital presence can leave you invisible. In today’s competitive market, societal leadership is a core part of business. Unleash the power of your leadership brand online to break through the digital noise and attract the right clients, talent, and opportunities to you and your firm.
Join this session to answer key questions about your business situation and how you are meeting the needs of your learners and achieving your organization’s goals. You’ll also develop an overview of your potential learning strategy and how it can drive your operational tactics to become a true business partner focused on adding business value.
Elevate your peer influence by leveraging the benefit-relationship matrix. In this session, you’ll learn about the benefit-relationship matrix through hands-on activities. You’ll create your “ask” using a three-step plan—build relationships, make beneficial asks, and communicate your objective—then refine it by balancing logic and emotion.
Join this session to explore how the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and Environmental Justice Executive Order No. 12,898 (EJEO) provide government agencies, regulatory decision makers, and government-focused learning and development professionals with a framework to predict (and mitigate) the negative impacts of policy.
What does it mean to think like a scientist? Imagine how your talent could thrive if more people adopted a mindset of favoring curiosity over conviction. Join in discussions about what would it take to break down silos in your healthcare organization and allow for discovery and innovation to flourish. We will also engage in “what if” exercises to best learn from one another.
Humor is a powerful tool to improve learning, but humor in the workplace can also be risky. Join this session to explore the dos and don’ts of using humor in training design. You’ll gain culturally sensitive, practical, and effective ways to engage your funny bone to improve retention, problem solving, engagement, and creativity.
Experience the evolution of L&D with the power of artificial intelligence (AI)! This session dives into three potent AI amplifiers—personal assistants, performance support, augmentation—that are supercharging working and learning capabilities. You’ll experience the transition of the learning function from order taker to value creator, guided by L&D business models.
Most of us have heard about psychological safety. There is a lot of information out there on why psychological safety is important. And there’s also a lot on what to do. But how you do it is another question—one we struggle to answer. This session will take you through four simple tips on how to operationalize psychological safety and make it a habit for everyone.
Improv is simply performing without a script or an opportunity to plan. Behaviors learned through improv training are positively correlated with the psychological safety of teams. In this session, you’ll participate in five improv exercises, learn to implement them back on the job, and engage in powerful debriefing questions to make your learning events more relevant.
Learn how a global diversified technology and industrial business transformed onboarding and structured career-long learning to build capability in a technical workforce. This case study details the challenges faced and solutions implemented to create learning programs that ensure employees are equipped to serve customers safely and effectively.
Gamification is often used in L&D as a Band-Aid for engagement. But as L&D professionals, we can do so much more for our learners. In this session, the speaker will go beyond gamification and discuss how you can build full learning games that drive your employees’ skill development and are just as engrossing as modern games such as Catan, Dominion, and Wingspan.
Are the questions you ask met with silence? In this session, we’ll explore how to stimulate learner participation by asking better questions. Learn five methods for prompting responses from learners and seven rules of discussion to get learners responding to your questions and eliminate the awkward silence.
Establishing the value of soft-skills training is impossible—or is it? Learn to harness the wisdom of crowds to establish actual dollar values for soft-skills training. In no time, you’ll be able to demonstrate how important training is to the bottom line after every class. The speaker will even calculate the dollar value of attending this session live!
Imagine you’re in a brand new place and feel completely lost. You don’t know how to find your way around, speak the language, or navigate the culture. What do you do? As a program designer, supporting exploration in an evolving environment can be tough. Join this session to learn how one global learning program did it with six experiential practices.
This session will use a unique paradigm to define organizational equity. The speaker will identify two types of unconscious bias and introduce specific steps you can take to mitigate the negative impact of these biases, create a more equitable environment, and serve as an ally to potentially disenfranchised individuals.
Equipping coaches to meet the needs of a government organization with more than 70,000 employees is an unfolding process. In this session, the speaker will discuss all aspects of one government organization’s coach program and internal coach training program, from development through assessment, lessons learned, continuous improvement, and organizational impact.
From artificial intelligence (AI) to hybrid working, organizations and individuals are in the midst of a revolutionary shift that transcends industries. It’s hard to know how to respond. This session combines thought leadership with practical strategies to activate your awareness and empower you to thrive in a constantly evolving landscape.
Hear a storyteller’s perspective on the limits and leverage points when using ChatGPT to create learning content. Learn how to use ChatGPT to generate ideas and draft content, allowing you to spend more time developing content reflecting your unique abilities and perspectives. Future-proof your work by creating content that artificial intelligence (AI) can’t.
Join this session and learn the art of managing up. You will take away five actionable insights that will help you accelerate and take charge of your career, influence decision making, effectively showcase your value-add, positively affect the wider business, and foster a more harmonious and productive work environment.
In this session, we’ll explore the skills that define great facilitation, enabling you to assess facilitator performance accurately and benchmark with world-class organizations. Leave with practical approaches to increase facilitator impact.
Why are the same knowledge and skills so difficult to apply across different contexts? During this session, we will dive into the issue of transfer, consider what is required for effective transfer to occur, and discuss what this means for the modern C21 skills movement. Further, we’ll explore the only future-proof skill research has ever found.
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