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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.
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