Beyond the Human Side of Leadership As an avid business-minded professional, it never ceases to amaze me when I hear a client say, “Our leaders don’t know how to read a P&L.” For those of you in that same boat, I’m referring to a Profit and Loss statement, a very common business summary. In my […]
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Using a Workaround to Support Alpha Transparency in Storyline Our team at Innovative Learning Group (ILG) has been working with Articulate Storyline since the first version was released in 2012. Over the 11 years since then, I’ve been impressed with how Storyline has been updated with a ton of great new features. However, there’s one […]
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How to Master Your Internal Budgeting Process As a learning and performance improvement leader, you understand the critical role the Learning and Development (L&D) Department has in shaping a skilled and motivated workforce. However, gaining the necessary support when budgeting for initiatives can be a challenging task. With the annual budget season fast approaching for […]
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Considerations for Using Animations in E-Learning One of the biggest components of creating an effective learning deliverable is to know how to grab and keep a learner’s attention — doing so makes sure learners engage and stay present throughout the training. To do that, we use all sorts of techniques, such as WIIFM statements (what’s […]
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Investigating Vyond Go beta Recently, my colleague Matt Kurtin wrote a blog about practical ways to use AI to improve e-learning development. This got me thinking about the many serious ways people are using AI (not including the pure comedic gold that’s produced by artificially generated pranksters… warning, the rabbit hole of fake images is […]
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An FAQ on the How, Why, and When of iPDFs A few months ago, I conducted a webinar with my colleague Walter Schirmacher on interactive PDFs (iPDFs). This webinar — Interactive PDFs: An Underused Learning Solution — sparked a lot of interest in the how, why, and when of creating these handy learning tools. As […]
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Teaching the Experienced Workforce Why do most organizations put 80 percent of their learning resources into supporting less than 20 percent of the workforce? Look at your organization’s budget for learning and development and try to justify why almost every program is geared to new hires and those with less than a year of experience. […]
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10 Storyline Tips to Make You Feel Like a Pro Articulate Storyline is a popular tool for building online training, and like most software programs, it has many capabilities. Storyline is a robust program, and this means it’s possible to overlook really helpful features. Today, I’m going to dig in and cover some cool things […]
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Five Considerations for L&D Professionals Working internally It’s not too uncommon for the “Training Department” to be perceived as an order-taker: “I need X training, so our sales increase;” “Just create training on how do x.” Your internal customers want what they want and aren’t shy about asking for it directly. How do you handle […]
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Practical Ways to Use AI to Improve E-Learning Development There’s a lot of hype about how artificial intelligence (AI) could eventually be used to take over all kinds of tasks, including development of an e-learning course from start to finish (i.e., gathering content, designing the course, and developing it). A lofty goal? Perhaps. However, I […]
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