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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!
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