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The Big Picture: L&D Philosophies for Retail Training

Wisetail

The post The Big Picture: L&D Philosophies for Retail Training appeared first on Wisetail LMS & LXP. Retail is a busy, often chaotic work environment, especially when high turnover contributes to confusion and fractured work teams.

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Unravelling PowerPoint picture size and resolution

BrightCarbon

So what do presentation professionals need to know about picture size and resolution? Pictures are made of dots. A raster or bitmap picture (contrary to a vector image) is made up of thousands of tiny dots or pixels. Each of these dots is a single colour and the number of dots affects the file size of the picture.

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The bigger picture behind The Great Resignation

TLNT: Training and L&D

We all know employees are quitting their jobs in record numbers. But what’s the story behind this story?

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Five Steps to Seeing the Big Picture of Microlearning

Allen Interactions

On the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® (MBTI®) personality inventory, I scored very highly in “N” (Intuition), which means that I see the big picture first and then the details. It doesn’t matter what assessment I do, because a common theme always emerges.

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A Holistic Approach to Upskilling Employees

Why Upskilling Is On Everyone’s Mind When creating a learning strategy, its easy to get bogged down in the details and not see the whole picture Individual components like onboarding, compliance training, leadership development, and skills development programs can be complex ordeals.

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How to compress PowerPoint presentations and reduce picture file size

BrightCarbon

Did you know PowerPoint has a built-in picture and video compression tool? Images: Select a picture on any slide and go to the Picture Tools Format tab on the ribbon. Choose Compress Pictures in the top left corner: the pop-up box shows you the resolution options you have for the image.

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Why You Need to Focus on the Bigger Business Picture Before Learning Impact

Acorn Labs

I think from there, then, it was for me a natural, you know, evolutionary step to say, okay, what what is the bigger picture behind that? And then a little bit sort of say, the bigger picture gets lost in doing so. The post Why You Need to Focus on the Bigger Business Picture Before Learning Impact appeared first on Acorn LMS.

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Make a responsive splash screen with several pictures

Adobe Captivate

The picture used in this demonstration worked with all the screen sizes but wasn’t responsive. I hadn’t explained it because it wasn’t the objective to make a Css lesson in this video, but for people interested, here is the step by step process to make a responsive splash screen with several pictures. What is the main objective?

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PowerPoint 2010: Turn Off Picture Compression

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

  Here is how to turn off picture compression: In PowerPoint, choose  File > Options  to open the PowerPoint Options dialog box. In some cases however, you may wish to maximize the image quality. Select the  Advanced  category.

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PowerPoint 2010: Change the Picture, Keep the Animation

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

From the Ribbon, select Picture Tools Format > Adjust > Change Picture. Note: You can also right-click the image and choose Change Picture.). From the Insert Picture dialog box, you will be able to select the new picture. Here's how: In PowerPoint, select the image you would like to change.

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The Triple Bottom Line of Learning

Speaker: Jerry Zandstra, Co-Founder, Inno-Versity, and Miriam Taylor, Chief Learning Strategist, Inno-Versity

Traditional return on investment (ROI), while a long standing and important concept in the business world, often falls flat when it comes to showing the full picture of a learning initiative.

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How to Remove the Background From a Picture

TechSmith Camtasia

How to remove make a picture background transparent. The post How to Remove the Background From a Picture appeared first on TechSmith Blog. Luckily, the approach is similar no matter what tool you are using. With Snagit, it only takes a few steps to quickly remove the background from your image.

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First Comes a Picture

Training Industry

The post First Comes a Picture appeared first on Training Industry.

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Filling a button with a picture.

Adobe Captivate

What you will learn: how to insert a picture into a smart shape. The color doesn’t matter, You are going to fill it with your picture in a while. Find the folder with the desired picture. If you want just a picture, use png. If you are still unsure, look at the picture below. Instruction. Draw a smart shape.

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A Clear Picture: Strategy Driven By Learning And Development

eLearning Industry

By creating a Learning and Development strategy, you'll position your company and your employees for success now and in the future. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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Omotenashi: Customer Service in 2025

Based on a broad review of existing studies we draw our picture of the future and reflect it with internal and external experts. Omotenashi: "Customer Service in 2025" describes the vision of Deutsche Telekom about customer service in 2025.

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Top 5 Ways to Make Astonishing Blog Pictures with Snagit

TechSmith Camtasia

Here are 5 tips to create amazing pictures for you blog with Snagit. Snagit lets you easily choose what part of the screen you want to save, thus you’ll get a great picture without any unnecessary parts. 3) Resize big pictures. With a poor Internet connection or tiny cellular data plan, huge pictures take ages to load.

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Picture Your Time Management: Read This and Make It So

Your Training Edge

Time management is one of the biggest issues for a student. They lack time management and feel depressed when they don’t achieve good results. Managing time is important because it helps to pay special attention to studies, and manage their day to day life with better accuracy.

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Using People Pictures in eLearning

eLearning Brothers

Sometimes it is very effective to add people pictures to your online courses. Below are a few simple examples and layouts for using cut-out people pictures in eLearning. The pictures are copied into PowerPoint using pre-build eLearning course styles.

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Picture perfect

Saffron Interactive

The post Picture perfect appeared first on Saffron Interactive. Double click. Who would’ve thought that the pace of our daily lives would be dictated by these small words? Everything happens through the click of a mouse.

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3 Tips to Measure and Analyze the ROI of your Custom eLearning Solution

These 3 tips show you how to do a big picture analysis so you can give a full account on your next eLearning project. Providing engaging and relevant eLearning for your learners can be a sizable investment. How do you measure both the quantitative and qualitative results of your efforts?

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eBook Release: How To Select The Right eLearning Authoring Tool For You

eLearning Industry

Creating an effective, engaging learning course requires more than pretty pictures and fancy animations. The best learning starts with careful Instructional Design planning and the best tools. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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Understand the 'Big Picture' of Cross-Cultural Learning Initiatives

Caveo Learning

To ensure success of a cross-cultural learning program, it's necessary to understand the "big picture" by analyzing all the external and internal obstacles that could impact the initiative.

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Best Practices to Switch From Instructor Led Training to eLearning

Swift eLearning Services

Instructor Led Training- this word gives you a picture of Instructor in the classroom with a PowerPoint (PPT) and the learners with their notebooks. This was the leading traditional learning method used for employee training and development. But the trend shows steady decline in instructor led training over the last few years.

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Testing Transparency: Helping Students Understand The Bigger Picture

eLearning Industry

When students have access to assessment data and insight, they're empowered with the information they need to study smarter. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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Guide: Your Talent Acquisition Roadmap for 2023

In this guide, you’ll get a big picture view of a year in talent acquisition, which can help you: Map out your recruiting strategy for each month in the upcoming year. Updated with the latest labor market data for 2023, our popular annual roadmap offers a look at this new era of recovery recruiting. Build an action plan for slower seasons.

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Create a 3-D Style Hex Tile Picture In PowerPoint

Adobe Captivate

I am using PowerPoint with an Office 365 subscription here and a picture of a sunflower that I took at my in-laws place. The post Create a 3-D Style Hex Tile Picture In PowerPoint appeared first on eLearning. I hope you enjoy the technique.

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The best of March 2016 – in pictures

Jane Hart

Here are 6 of my favourite blog posts/articles from March 2016 – summarised in an image. 1 – Dear Training, We’re sorry, but it’s over – Arun Pradhan, Learnnovators, 2 March. 2 – Learning – to what end? – Bryan M Mathers, Visual Thinkery.

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Pictures From Berlin (#oeb18)

Patti Shank

Here’s a picture from the debate. They asked to take a picture with me and I clearly needed to stand on a chair so I didn’t look child-sized. The picture belongs to Tomasz Jankowski (Twitter: jankowskit), who is on the left. The room was large and each of us was on camera when we talked. I was nervous (massive understatement).

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Do we see the whole picture?

Technology Enhanced Learning Blog

I came across this story on LinkedIn last week, and it was shared again this, so I thought I’d share it here too.

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Return on Learning from Every Angle: ROI and the Triple Bottom Line of Learning

Speaker: Lonna Jobson, Instructional Design Team Lead, Inno-Versity, and Miriam Taylor, Chief Learning Strategist, Inno-Versity

To get a full picture that goes beyond financial gains, you need to incorporate the perspectives of the Triple Bottom Line of Learning (TBLL) and what is important to each party involved: the C-suite, the learning team, and the learners.

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A Picture is Worth 1,000 Questions

TechSmith Camtasia

Today, as I read Diane Quirk’s review of Ask3 , it dawned on me how you might begin engaging iPad students in a discussion with a simple picture using Ask3. For example: You can send this picture to your students with a question like “ thoughts ?” ” or “ how does the past impact our President?

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A Big-Picture Comparison of Articulate 360 & dominKnow | ONE

Harbinger Interactive Learning

If you’re shopping around for an eLearning authoring tool that offers flexibility and collaborative tools, you may have found a few contenders. Almost certainly, one is Articulate 360. Another is dominKnow | ONE. They both offer similar functionality, including: A traditional (fixed-pixel) eLearning authoring tool.

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How Can I Utilize a Picture-in-Picture Video to Create a Dynamic Walkthrough of My Course Material?

Yukon Learning

Recently, one of my students asked me about using a picture-in-picture video to create a narrated walk-through of a particular topic. You can also choose the picture-in-picture position of your webcam video. She was curious as to whether she should use Replay or if she should use Storyline 2.

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In Vendor Selection, See the Big Picture

InsiderHub

Approaching vendor selection from the standpoint of “we need a better solution that fits our values and vision as a company” allows one to view the big picture. The post In Vendor Selection, See the Big Picture appeared first on Collect My Thoughts. What will this vendor selection mean for the next year? Five years?

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Leveraging Training to Go Beyond with Sales Enablement

Speaker: Matthew Hawk, VP of Instructional Design and Training Delivery, Synchrony

You will come away from this webinar with: An understanding of the full Sales Enablement picture. He'll walk you through guidelines for content creation, deployment, and the potential benefits of a great sales training program that apply to everyone, whether you’re high tech, low tech, or no tech.

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ASTD TechKnowledge Wrap Up in Pictures #ASTDTK12

Learning Visions

Here are some other highlights of the conference, in pictures: Talking authoring tools and HTML5 at TK Chat with Dave Anderson of Articulate, Patrick Krekelberg of Allen Interactions, Thomas Toth and Judy Unrein. Perhaps a picture of the way things will be? Connie Malamed on Cognitive Load. Cindy Huggett on the Virtual Classroom.

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Tech Thoughts

Clark Quinn

I didn’t know the book, so he sent me a picture of the page. However, I had recently upgraded my OS, and when I opened the picture, I noticed I could click on the text. I could select all the text (my OS was doing OCR on the picture live!), He also asked if I could read Dutch. Overall, it’s a win.

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Takeing Pictures for eLearning

eLearning Brothers

There are many times when I need pictures of a person in multiple poses. It is really nice to have a library of “people poses&#. I’ve have used iStock to purchase some and we’ve also made my own. Here are some tips to create your own: The Spicy Learning Blog – Top five tips for running a successful photo shoot.

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Preventing Blurry Pictures: The Keys to Clear Images

TechSmith Camtasia

There’s nothing more frustrating than blurry pictures. While you can try tinkering in a photo editing program, or shrinking the image and crossing your fingers in hopes that no one looks too closely, the best strategy is to start with crystal clear pictures. Do you have any helpful tips for preventing blurry pictures?

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Developing a Results Driven Curriculum

A well-designed learning curriculum develops and nurtures skills needed to achieve organizational and business goals with the most effective and engaging set of experiences. This ebook outlines 5 critical steps to develop learning solutions that will help you achieve the most ambitious objectives.