The idea: An e-learning platform where companies can embed training onto their internal portal, kinda like a large widget.

Would this be a big advantage over other software?

I would like to bounce my idea of starting a sales training business off this sub and get your thoughts. I currently make a multiple six figure income in sales and have been in this profession for 15 years. I'm still in sales and have no plans to stop any time soon. Having a passion for sales and techniques my thought is to start a sales training business. My general idea is to target businesses or individuals who are looking to improve their sales approach and teach them to ropes. I believe that targeting small businesses will be more lucrative. However, since I work full time I think it will be easier to book client sessions in the evening if I target individuals. I plan to start this as a part time gig a couple nights a week.

I could teach how to improve productivity, handing objections, sales process, prospecting strategies, activities that need to be performed to get results etc. My main value proposition would be to bring innovative approaches to the table and cater my training to the needs of the business or individual. I would describe myself as a methodical individual who would be able to recommend tangible actions that will lead to success.

My thoughts are the start up costs would be relatively low. What are your thoughts on this business idea? Any suggestions?

How do you guys see AI getting used in the future of cooperate learning and learning and development?

I have been using Session Lab for a training program I'm doing. I used to do my storyboarding in Word, and frankly it sucked But doing it in SessionLab is a joy! Anyone else have any experience, pointers, or things to look out for?

Hello - I worked for 17 years in L&D at Google and I'm sure you can imagine there was a different department for every facet of L&D. I did not do e-learning at all. Now that I'm looking for a new job in L&D outside of Google, every single job requires some e-learning software and I'm not sure how to go about learning them (doesn't seem like MA degrees teach the software). How did you all learn these and what do you suggest for me? Every job requires one of many of these even if I'm not applying to be an instructional designer: Captivate, Rise, Storyline, Camtasia, Adobe Publisher, Vyond, Canva, Degreed, AI video generators, etc. Any ideas for learning these? I did Storyline on LinkedIn, but it didn't make me a super user. Thanks for your help. Stephanie

Hi everyone, wondering if you know of any good black Friday/Cyber Monday deals for trainers? It can be training materials, certifications, self development training for trainers etc...

We've been tackling the eternal challenge of scaling soft skills practice, particularly for our customer-facing teams. After years of facilitator-led role-play (and the inevitable scheduling headaches), we've been testing AI-driven practice scenarios.

Some interesting findings so far:

What's Working:

• Learners can practice difficult conversations on their own schedule
• No more coordinating role-play partners across time zones
• Consistent experience for all learners (vs. dependent on who's playing the customer/manager role)
• Analytics on communication patterns help identify coaching opportunities

Current Use Cases:

• Customer escalation scenarios
• Manager-employee feedback sessions
• Sales objection handling

Pain Points We're Addressing:

• SME availability for role-play
• Scale (especially for global teams)
• Consistency in feedback

Would love to hear from other corporate trainers/IDs:

• How are you handling soft skills practice at scale?
• What's your biggest challenge with traditional role-play?
• Has anyone else explored AI solutions?

Hello to the trainer's here. I need your advice on my career change. I'm currently working as a IT Internal auditor and is leading a team. I've had the chance in the past to do audit related trainings which I enjoy. Currently I am thinking of changing my career path to be a full time trainer. However, I'm not sure if I would still enjoy giving training if I were to do it full time.

So my question is, what are the avenues or platform available for me to give external trainings or seminars for free so that I can test my skills and also to confirm if I am really passionate about being a corporate trainer. The trainings can either be virtual or physical.

Thank you for your time to read and answer my questions!

Hey! At my company we just acquired an LMS. We've been building trainings for internal system and it has been working well for the intented purpose.

Now it comes to a point where we want to scope it up for more broad skills, like excel or Qlik.

My question is how do you manage vendors. Do you buy a course via udemy or coursera and power it through the LMS? How do you handle those training request that people want but there's no business sense in "wasting" time creating it ourselves?

Hey all! Looking for suggestions on tools, forms, or processes that your L&D teams use to manage the flow of training requests that come in!

Our team is getting a huge uptick in training requests, and we’ve actually never had an actual process to deduce what we take on, how SMEs begin the request process, etc.

Thanks in advance for your collaboration and help!

Hi - I’m doing a readiness assessment with a team of about 30. I asked them 2 questions: Pre Mortem: Why COULD this project fail? Pre Parade: Why WILL this project succeed?

These two questions are aligned against 3 categories: People, Process and Technology.

Then I take their feedback and determine where it is within a “sphere of control” = control, influence and out of control.

I’m trying to structure a workshop on the feedback with the purpose of getting the team to see that 99% of the issues identified are in their sphere of control or influence.

Any ideas of how to best showcase this? I’ve thought of: Asking them if this is a new issue. If yes, add it to the risk log. If no, how do we flip the script to change it into a success? Who owns it? How do we gain buy-in?

Has anyone done anything like this before or have any ideas? TIA.

#training #workshop #ownership

I’ve been working in a government call centre for several years. We deal with taxes and helping people with their taxes. I hated this job, taking call after call was destroying me mentally. A couple of years ago I managed to land myself in the training department of the call centre as a facilitator and I LOVED it! During COVID there was a lot of hiring going on which meant lots of training, so for about a year or so when I joined, I trained new hires on how taxes work almost non-stop. As much as I love my job training, I still hate the actual call centre aspect of it and there’s a caveat that if there isn’t training happening, I’m expected to be on the phones. Now that COVID funding from the government has stopped for some time, we’re heavily downsizing and not hiring anyone. Which means there’s little to no training happening, which means well over half, probably 75-80% of my time at work is being spent on the phones and not training. I’ve been looking for other jobs because I don’t see any room for growth where I’m currently at but can’t seem to find a training position that pays the same or better than my current job, has the same or better benefits, and is about the training first and doesn’t also require me to do other non training related tasks like how my current position requires me to be on the phones regularly. Education wise I do have a business degree and specialized in HR, which included a course on training & development, so I do meet a lot of the relevant credentials in terms of having a relevant degree and relevant experience, it’s just finding a suitable job that I’m having difficulty with.

Looking for Family Feud Gamification Templates for Sales Objection Handling

I’m looking to create a quick 20-minute "Family Feud"-style game for a sales training session. The idea is to cover the top 10 objections our sales team frequently encounters in the field. Does anyone have suggestions for the best templates or tools to gamify this? Ideally, something that's easy to customize and set up. Thanks in advance for any tips!

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Hello!

Does anyone have experience/recommend an excelent training software aimed at operators/crafts person (i.e. the team members turning wrenches, building ,welding, etc.) (plus the usual administrative people).. that is capable of handling 20K+ employees world-wide? (i.e. multiple language support).

Thanks!

Hi everyone,

I recently delivered a training session that felt a bit flat, with limited questions and no immediate feedback. While most attendees stayed for the full session, two dropped off early.

I’m curious about the signs and metrics you use to determine if a session is going well. Are there specific things you look out for to know participants are finding it useful? How do you gauge success if feedback is minimal?

I’d love to hear any tips or experiences you have on signs of an engaging and effective session—especially any subtle indicators that show participants are gaining value.

Thanks in advance for sharing your insights!

Simple question, and I don't mean to get too in the weeds, but I've always been curious about how different places handle their training. I've been in some CU's where training is only one week. Other places where its an intense three week thing. I'm building out a learning training path for new hires, and I'm always uncertain about time (full day of training? Half-day?) and its length (again, one week? Two weeks? More?). What's your guys' favorite method of training? Thanks!

We designed a decision practice experience. If you know decision games, you'll recognize the format. But... the team develops the scenarios during the game.

No prep needed. No facilitator. Just fun in the face of uncertainty.

Early adopters are already seeing lots of value -- for knowledge sharing, cognitive skill building, even project management.

Question is: where should we take it to get traction with the L&D community?

Hi! I’d love to get thoughts on this from the L&D community. I’m the L&D lead for a global company based out of New York. My role consists of creating virtual and in person learning content, coaching and facilitation, so pretty much an all rounder type of role!

I’ve had a lot of things happen to me in my personal life over the last few years and over the last 12 months my anxiety has worsened. I have started to see this effect my job where I now dread presenting live training and worry about it for weeks on end. This only really happens with trainings that I’ve never delivered or that I’m not that confident in yet. This never used to happen and although I’m working on myself personally I think I’d be more comfortable in a different type of role.

What L&D roles don’t require live facilitation that can still pave good careers for you? I love designing new content, working with an LMS but I feel like many instructional design roles require you to have years of experience in just instructional design which I don’t have. I’d love any advice.

How do people publicise their training courses? I've created what I think is a great paid online course with an enigmatic speaker and bookings are lower than expected.

It's gone out to an email list and I've been promoting it on LinkedIn as well but still don't see the bookings flying in.

I work with the training dept. for a small financial company and am part of a team that sets the compliance training. I am relatively new to the industry and position. In my short time, I have not been impressed with quality of the compliance training. When talking about how it is essentially a simple and non-engaging training, one comment from someone on the team focused on wanting to use examples from the Netflix series, Ozark, to help illustrate concepts on money laundering and banking secrecy acts, etc. I have not seen it, but it made me wonder about all types of movie/TV clips showing examples of these compliance concepts. Which got me to thinking. I know copyright and fair use are huge issues but wondered if an org or other company has helped make it easier to address?

So, is there a company or organization that can license clips out for these types of requests or is it the good ol' contact the director, movie/tv company, to get permission? Just looking for a hassle-free way, if at all possible, to use some relevant and updated use-cases to help create a more engaging training.

Hi guys, recently, I developed Scene Snap, a platform that makes learning more efficient and dynamic by leveraging some Gen AI tech. I´m wondering if it can be useful outside of academia, like corporate training. We don't provide the content; we just provide the platform on which a group or individual can upload content and experience learning using our services.

We have a chat feature, to have a conversation with the speaker of the video.

We allow users to synthesize content, specially useful for lengthy videos.

We generate notes automatically.

And we provide a management of content system,

Let me know how this sounds.

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Anyone here who started as a solo trainer/facilitator and now handling a training team to cater client demands?

What’s your current arrangement with your team? Are they paid with a fixed salary + percentage/cut per seminar? What works best for you?

Thanks for your insights!