InSync Training

AUGUST 16, 2022

Our team development model needs to evolve. How do managers and leaders evolve their existing skills to support this modern way of working? All evidence points to virtual and hybrid work being here to stay. So we need to adapt. Every time we onboard new employees and team members, team dynamics change.

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InSync Training

APRIL 29, 2021

However, even if it seems like we can read minds, the anticipation is a skill that is developed over time with experience. It feels amazing when a producer can seem like they are anticipating the needs of the facilitator or speaker before they even ask.

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InSync Training

JULY 9, 2015

Traditional classroom trainers have skills that make training sessions successful. A skilled trainer understands how to facilitate a conversation or activity, and make adjustments to course direction when necessary.

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InSync Training

JUNE 22, 2015

Everyone involved in the learning process needs to acquire the skills they need to master the additional competencies required for the virtual learning environment. Prior experience as a designer, facilitator, or learner in a traditional classroom does not guarantee success when moving to a virtual environment.

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InSync Training

AUGUST 31, 2022

Designers, facilitators and producers who receive CEU credits for InSync Training courses and workshops have been evaluated at the highest level available within the learning and development and continuing education professions. This one-day immersion offers true skill building in record time. November 3, 10am – 6pm ET.

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InSync Training

DECEMBER 10, 2019

For those of us in learning & development, that means our training programs must address the skills gaps, professional development needs, and future goals of divergently different groups of people. You’ve probably heard by now that, for the first time in history, our organizations include five generations of employees.

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InSync Training

MARCH 14, 2019

We spend a lot of time at InSync considering how to design, develop, and deliver great virtual and blended learning solutions. Creating content is only half of the learning development story. The other half is developing a plan for evaluating the learning. But how do we know they are, indeed, GREAT?

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InSync Training

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

If I am successful, it is because of my skills, my hard work, and my choices. Part of InSync Training's Thriving as a Learning Professional Series In our individualistic society, it’s easy (and sometimes smart) to hold yourself responsible for your own success. But that’s a lie we tell ourselves to bolster self-esteem.

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InSync Training

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

If I am successful, it is because of my skills, my hard work, and my choices. Part of InSync Training's Thriving as a Learning Professional Series In our individualistic society, it’s easy (and sometimes smart) to hold yourself responsible for your own success. But that’s a lie we tell ourselves to bolster self-esteem.

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InSync Training

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

Learning and Development practitioners strive to impact business outcomes by improving the skills of our audience. Behavior change is the holy grail of training. Performance improvement grows out of learners truly understanding content and successfully applying it back on the job.

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InSync Training

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

With modern blended learning, we strive to build skills beyond the classroom, and support learners in how they work and live. It's a helpful starting point for learning and development professionals asking, "How can we increase the impact of EdTech?". Guest blogger Jenny Holt explores an exciting aspect of the digital age.

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InSync Training

JULY 25, 2017

Coaching means developing skills within a team by repetitive drilling and motivating them using a combination of respect and fear. Some folks talk about training as “coaching." I think they have the metaphor wrong. Real training is nothing like that. Real training is more like cheerleading than coaching. Engage the Players (Learners).

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InSync Training

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Technology failures, webinars-that-could’ve-been-a-job-aid, and lecture-heavy sessions with few opportunities to practice new skills can plague blends. But, in spite of all the possible horrors, blended training can still treat learners to meaningful professional development.

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InSync Training

FEBRUARY 25, 2017

It's a "choose your own story" for professional development. The Blended Learning Hub , launching March 6, 2017, eliminates these challenges and makes personalized professional development easy. Beginning a new personal learning journey is exciting and scary.

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InSync Training

DECEMBER 5, 2018

Since virtual classroom skillsets are not as off-the-shelf as face-to-face training skills, we often wonder just how well we are doing at this virtual facilitation gig. But how do these really help guide our professional development when only five out of 30 learners actually filled it out?

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InSync Training

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Which developments resonated with modern learners? Organizations, learners, and practitioners alike began to embrace the possibility of building skills outside of formal events. This time of year encourages reflection, both personal and professional, causing the InSync Team to ask questions such as: What did I learn this year?

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InSync Training

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Plus, it also speaks to program success – people who want to prevent technology from derailing training from achieving the bigger goal of improving performance and developing participants’ skills.

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InSync Training

JULY 31, 2018

Guest contributor Jenny Holt provides guidance on how to build a sense of community within your department and connects the process back to what we do best: ongoing professional development.

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InSync Training

JUNE 13, 2017

And we know learners build critical skills during unstructured, non-facilitated events, like Googling a term or asking Holly in HR for guidance. How does Learning & Development get better at the thing we’ve traditionally been bad at?

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InSync Training

OCTOBER 18, 2016

Often, many critics find that programs like the Common Core aren't helping students learn essential skills that they will need to learn. In order to make it in the proverbial real world, students need to develop critical thinking skills, and they need a curriculum that will foster these skills.

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InSync Training

JUNE 8, 2017

Organizations face a serious workforce challenge: many employees feel they lack the skills to perform their daily roles, causing them to disengage from work and their personal professional development. BYTE Session Recap. How do we reengage employees and by extension, improve our organizational effectiveness?

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InSync Training

JANUARY 24, 2017

Becoming a more effective learning professional requires a number of skills, none more important than clear communication. Christine Miles, Co-Founder and Chief Architect of CI² , spent years developing a framework that helps people communicate more powerfully. BYTE SESSION RECAP.

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InSync Training

FEBRUARY 4, 2017

We recently conducted a survey of learning professionals and discovered that, on average, practitioners only have $600 a year for professional development. As with all averages, many train ers, instructional designers, and facilitators may have even less money available for skill building. When she couldn't find one, she created one.

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InSync Training

JULY 7, 2016

When gamification is successfully implemented into training programs, it can help employees effectively gain new skills and develop new behaviors, all while being engaged in the process. Here are six myths pertaining to employee learning and development through gamification and the real facts behind them.

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InSync Training

APRIL 20, 2017

Training and development are extremely important components of employee satisfaction and engagement. Appropriate training and development opportunities also play a factor in your staff's ability to be productive throughout the day.

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InSync Training

FEBRUARY 11, 2017

How do learning professionals focus their professional development on building the skills most critical to success in this new modern learning landscape? We're managing global, mobile, and social learners, while also flipping our traditional classroom training into engaging, interactive programs.

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InSync Training

DECEMBER 1, 2016

Each learning environment requires facilitators to develop certain skills to promote learner success. In fact, I believe time management is one of the key competencies facilitators must develop for this learning environment. Classroom facilitators benefit from participant body language.

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InSync Training

AUGUST 4, 2015

Developed by InSync Training, the Virtual Facilitator Competency Model defines the skills virtual facilitators need to create virtual learning experiences that meet or exceed outcomes expected in traditional face-to-face learning programs.

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InSync Training

DECEMBER 13, 2016

Unfortunately, navigating personal and professional change requires a certain set of skills, whose development is often overlooked. Learning departments often support organizational change management initiatives by designing and delivering associated training programs. It’s one of the varied, but critical, responsibilities we have.

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InSync Training

MAY 30, 2019

Recently, the InSync team shared what skills make coaches effective : thoughtful questioning techniques, foundational models, and a personalized approach. Coaching involv es two very important parties: The coach. The coachee. The relationship and interaction between these two individuals impacts the overall success of the process.

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InSync Training

OCTOBER 10, 2019

Because facilitators deeply impact the overall blend, our answer addresses technical expertise AND those fuzzy soft skills. Heck, we ask ourselves this question regularly since it speaks to the fundamental value we deliver through our work! In our experience as both learners and experts, good virtual classroom facilitators…. Manage time well.

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InSync Training

JANUARY 26, 2015

Spending a day or two planning on paper, away from authoring tools and virtual classroom environments, will go a long way toward making sure your development initiative is on track. Designing for the face-to-face delivery is hard enough; how do you transfer those skills to the virtual and blended delivery environments?

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