Web Events
Upcoming Webinars
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| 06/06/2012 12:00PM EDT/9:00AM PDT | Conversations in Leadership with Shawn Achor Please join us on June 6 at 12:00 pm EDT for a conversation with Shawn Achor centered on his book The Happiness Advantage: The Seven Principles of Positive Psychology That Fuel Success and Performance at Work. Shawn Hunter, Executive Producer for SkillSoft's Leadership Development Channel and 50 Lessons, will host. During the webinar, Shawn Achor will explain how to reprogram our brains to become more positive, in order to gain a competitive edge at work. By isolating seven practical, actionable principles, we improve our performance and maximize our potential. Presenters: |
Webinars On Demand
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| 04/25/2012 1:00PM EDT/10:00AM PDT | Integrated Talent Management: A Practical Approach The connection between an organization's talent and outstanding business performance is undisputable. The real question is how to maximize the engagement, performance and potential of employees, which in turn maximizes competitiveness. Attend this webinar to learn a practical, step-by-step integrated talent management approach that is simple to understand and execute upon, and delivers the tangible results you want. Presenter: |
| 04/19/2012 1:00PM EDT/10:00AM PDT | Learning and Talent Management: The Driving Forces Behind Positive Results To attract and retain employees, you need a talent management strategy with learning as the foundation. The work environment should encourage learning, provide challenges and allow for growth opportunities. Join SkillSoft and Senior Forrester Research Analyst Claire Schooley when we explore these four components of talent management strategy and how they drive business results. Presenter: |
| 04/04/2012 12:00PM EDT/9:00AM PDT | Conversations in Leadership with Les McKeown Shawn Hunter, Executive Producer of SkillSoft's Leadership Development Channel, hosts Q&A sessions with innovative thought-leaders and best-selling authors to discuss the latest insights from the world of business. Please join us April 4 at 12:00PM EDT for a conversation with Les McKeown about his new book, The Synergist: Leading Your Team to Predictable Success. We'll discuss why so many groups and teams fail to perform well and why Les McKeown believes that teams need a synergist to knit together the bold dreamers, the pragmatic realists and the systems designers and achieve success. Presenters: |
| 03/22/2012 1:00PM EDT/10:00AM PDT | Successfully Marketing a Global Online Curriculum Join SkillSoft and TrainingIndustry.com webinar, as we share best practices and proven ways to successfully support your curriculum globally. We'll introduce you to SkillSoft customer Global Foundries, a global manufacturing and technology company that has rolled out leadership & professional development training to the more than 12,000 employees in locations as widespread as Abu Dhabi, Germany, Singapore and the United States. At this interactive webinar, you will: Presenter: |
| 03/13/2012 11:00AM EST/8:00AM PT | Meeting CompTIA Continuing Education Requirements with e-Learning Join SkillSoft, an authorized CompTIA partner, and Tara Dean of CompTIA for an overview of CompTIA's recertification requirements, including the CompTIA continuing education (CE) program. Presenters: |
| 03/06/2012 12:00PM EST/9:00AM PT | Conversations in Leadership with Justin Menkes, Ph.D. Shawn Hunter, Executive Producer of SkillSoft's Leadership Development Channel, hosts Q&A sessions with innovative thought-leaders and best-selling authors to discuss the latest insights from the world of business. Please join us March 6 at 12:00 pm EST for a conversation with Justin Menkes, Ph.D. about his new book, Better Under Pressure. We'll explore the three cornerstone attributes that Justin believes allow great leaders to realize their potential and that of their people. Presenters: |
| 02/29/2012 1:00PM EST/10:00AM PT | The Bottom Line on ROI: Driving Value by Aligning Programs to Business Find out how to effectively measure ROI of learning Achieving a positive ROI in learning requires more than reducing delivery costs. It requires programs delivering benefits that align with the needs of the business. Delivery represents the investment- benefits evolve from the content and the extent to which participants apply the content. During this webinar, you'll learn how to: Presenter: |
| 02/22/2012 1:00PM EST/10:00AM PT | Blended Learning: Critical Design Decisions What does blended learning mean in today's learning landscape, and how is it being used? What guidance or tools are available to help you select the right delivery methods and the most appropriate instructional strategies? Learn some key points to consider when developing blended learning programs, including: Presenter: |
| 02/08/2012 11:00AM EST/8:00AM PT | Content Alignment: Best Practices to Ensure Learning Impacts the Business In order maximize your learning investment, you'll need to align your organization's learning needs with its business objective. This alignment is the key to demonstrating that learning programs solve relevant problems and produce measurable results. So what does that mean, exactly? Join SkillSoft for a webinar that will explain what practices are vital to a business-aligned learning strategy and tips on how to implement these techniques at your organization. You'll learn about: Presenter: |
| 01/31/2012 11:00 AM EST | Critical Path Demystified Project managers are responsible for their project's success. A project manager who has mastered scheduling techniques has a better probability of successfully meeting the project deadline. In this webinar, you'll learn how to use the critical path method, an often overlooked technique for modeling a project schedule, to manage deadlines. When done correctly, the critical path method illuminates the earliest and latest times an activity can start without delaying the due date. A project manager who is armed with these dates is empowered to make the right decisions for project success. If you support your organization's project management certification process, you'll want to check out this session that demonstrates the high quality effectiveness of virtual online learning. Presenter: |
| 01/30/2012 1:00 PM EST | 2011 State of the Industry Report Webinar (sponsored by SkillSoft) The State of the Industry Report is ASTD's definitive review of workplace learning and development trends. This annual report includes organization benchmarking data from ASTD BEST Awards Winners, ASTD Forum members, and other organizations from 2002 to date. ASTD estimates that U.S. organizations spent $1228 per learner on employee learning and development in 2010. Nearly two-thirds of was spent on the internal learning function, such as staff salaries and internal development costs. The remainder was allocated to external services such as workshops, vendors and external events. Presenter: |
| 01/25/2012 1:00PM EST/10:00AM PT | Through the Looking Glass: 2012 Learning Function Trends – Presented by Brandon Hall Group The learning function is changing. If you didn't get the news flash or you were too busy trying to meet the growing learning demands of your organization, don't worry you aren't alone. Join Stacey Harris, VP of Research and Advisory Services for Brandon Hall Group, as she shares key findings from recent research on award winning learning functions and their new approaches to creating not just effective learning, but learning eco-systems that support sustained performance improvement. SkillSoft's John Ambrose will join the Q&A to weigh in. Key takeaways will include: Presenter: |
| 01/23/2012 1:00 PM EST | ASTD Research: Suite Synchronicity (sponsored by SkillSoft) Sponsored by SkillSoft, the Suite Synchronicity: Exploring the Relationship and Alignment between the CLO and the Executive Team research report examines the relationship and alignment between the chief learning officer and the executive team. ASTD and i4cp collaborated to investigate the relationship between the CLO and the executive team from the perspective of successful executive-level learning practitioners. The insights, experiences, and recommendations of participants are explored to inform readers of the best practices, methodologies, and advice for aligning the CLO with the executive team and the learning function with the business strategy. The report includes synopsis of interviews with learning leaders who have successfully fostered and sustained positive and influential learning practices and relationships at high-performing organizations. Presenter: |
| 01/12/2012 11:00AM EST/8:00AM PT | Targeted Learning: Bigger Results Through Smaller Interventions Corporate e-learning is designed to provide your employees with information that's current, relevant and targeted so that knowledge is easily transferred to their jobs, resulting in effective business results by leveraging unique LMS functionality to assemble learning assets like video clips, book chapters and sections of courses so the content aligns directly with your business goals. In this curriculum design focused webinar, you'll learn how to: Presenters: |
| 12/14/2011 11:00AM EST/8:00AM PT | Blended Learning: Critical Design Decisions How do you know when to use instructor led training as opposed to an e-learning course? Where do books, mentoring, assessments and practice fit in? Learn some key points to consider when developing blended learning programs. In this webinar, you will learn about major blended learning design decisions, such as: Presenter: |
| 12/08/2011 2:00PM ET/11:00AM PT | Developing a Mobile Learning Strategy – Presented by CLO magazine Join SkillSoft's Pam Boiros and Tim Hildreth and learn why mobile learning, with all of its promise, still isn't implemented all that widely. Find answers to questions like, "Is now the time to take the plunge into mobile learning, or should you wait for a more stable mobile landscape to emerge?" In this presentation, you will: Presenters: |
| 12/02/2011 11:00am EST | Sample Live Learning Class: The Modern Approach to Cisco CCNA Subnetting The Live Learning virtual classroom brings together subject matter experts in a team-teaching arrangement, giving IT an interactive, smaller college-style session. Let your IT staff see its effectiveness for themselves with a free sample class. Learn from instructors with advanced certifications. Get hands-on practice with simulations. See why Live Learning earns rave reviews from students year after year. In this presentation, Cisco Certified System Instructors Dan Young, CCIE and Raymond Lacoste, CCNP will: |
| 11/09/2011 11:00am EST | We-Learning 2011 Social Learning Webinar We are proud to announce the We-Learning 2011 Social Learning Webinar featuring Josh Bersin, President and CEO of Bersin & Associates. This is your chance to learn how to bring social learning best practices to life in your organization. During this webinar Josh Bersin will present information on how to: Presenter: |
| 10/26/2011 10:00am ET / 3:00 pm BST / 2:00 pm GMT | Understanding the UK Bribery Act The UK Bribery Act went into effect on July 1, 2011 and its stringent ethical standards are ones you need to understand if your company does business in the UK. The Act prohibits both the bribery of government officials as well any corruption between private organizations and persons. In this free webinar, featuring top legal talent from Davenport Lyons, a renowned British law firm with expertise in UK Bribery Act Compliance, you'll learn: Presenter: |
| 10/06/2011 11:00am ET | Learning to Engage: How Learning Strategies Drive Employee Engagement Recent Aberdeen research has described the powerful connection between employee engagement and employee performance, and how the connection results in organizational success. But engagement is not something that just happens - it is the result of an organizational culture that supports employees with the right skills, knowledge and development opportunities to align and retain key talent, as well as leadership that has the capabilities to engage their team members. Join Mollie Lombardi, Research Director of Aberdeen Group's Human Capital Management practice and Kieran King, Global Director of Client Loyalty for SkillSoft as they share insights and real world case studies to help your organization implement learning that fosters engagement - and ultimately improves performance, retention and loyalty - throughout the organization. |
| 08/30/2011 11:00am ET / 3:00pm GMT | Maximizing the ROI of Learning: Five Techniques for Reducing "Scrap Learning" Today more than ever organizations are focused on getting their money's worth on every dollar spent on learning. One important aspect of this is ensuring that employees actually use the learning being delivered. Many industry experts believe "scrap learning" rates (the learning that is delivered but not applied by the learner) may average as high as 80 percent. Thankfully, there are ways to dramatically reduce scrap learning and ensure the best possible ROI for your learning investment. In this webinar, Kieran King, SkillSoft's Global Director of Loyalty Strategy, will share highlights from a recent scientific study on the effectiveness of workplace e-learning, as well as tips for reducing scrap learning. You'll learn: Presenter: |
