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Brian oversees new business development, partnerships, client engagement, and the strategic direction for Unboxed Technology. Brian often mentions the relationships that have shaped him, from the people he’s worked with to the family and friends that keep him grounded. He’s the first to admit that his success stems from partnering with great people who share a passion and a vision for excellence, just like the team at Unboxed.

Brian Leach

Brian Leach outlines five essential skills sales managers need to know so they can lead their teams to success.

5 Skills That Will Turn Your Sales Managers Into Leaders

Microlearning, gamification, innovation: Everyone’s looking for the next big thing to make training better. While each is good in its own right, they have to work together to be great.
In this webcast, the presenters will share the top three requirements for effective training: great content, simple technology, and dedicated leadership. This webcast will help you:

Define the qualities of great training content.
Identify technologies that will support—not get in the way of—your training.
Describe how dedicated leadership drives results.


How to Achieve the Training Trifecta: Great Content, Simple Technology, and Dedicated Leadership

Brian Moffitt has been helping individuals, teams and organizations make positive change through training, facilitation, and consultation for 25 years. He teaches communication at Keiser University in Florida, and leadership online for graduate and doctoral students with Drexel University and the University of Phoenix.

Brian Moffitt

Brian Nairn, PhD is an educational developer and contract faculty member at York University. He is the liaison developer for the Faculty of Science, but also works closely with all faculty members and graduate students in supporting their teaching, with the aim of providing the best student experience possible. Brian is particularly interested in the areas of experiential education, eLearning, and curriculum development. He also teaches a large, first-year course in the Faculty of Health at York University.

Brian Nairn, PhD 

Brian Castro is national ombudsman and assistant administrator for Regulatory Enforcement Fairness at the U.S. Small Business Administration. He can be reached at  ombudsman@sba.gov.

Brian Castro

Lighten Up! Fostering Levity and Connection in Virtual Events

These days, meeting online is the only option. But how can you help people feel connected to each other? We will explore some ideas for how to bring levity to your regular meetings as well as create online events that will help you make personal connections with colleagues. Bring your ideas and success stories too. There will be time for sharing with the group. Less a presentation about and more of an experience of, this will be a workshop you won't want to miss!

Participants will:

Experience how connection is fostered among meeting participants.
Gather new ideas for online events focused on fostering interpersonal connections.
Have the opportunity to share their ideas and best practices.


Higher Ed: Lighten Up! Fostering Levity and Connection in Virtual Events

When looking for a new learning management system, there are a multitude of questions that must be asked, starting with: What do I need my LMS to be able to do to allow us to reach our e-learning goals? However, one consideration that people often overlook is the type of technology that an LMS uses, which is important when evaluating whether an LMS will be able to provide the type of functionality you’ll need to meet your goals.
Therefore, when beginning the LMS evaluation process, one of the first questions you should ask yourself is whether an open-source LMS (like Moodle or Totara) or a closed-source platform (like SumTotal or Cornerstone) will be better suited to meeting your needs.
During this webcast, you will learn:

the fundamental differences between an open-source LMS and a closed-source platform
why the technology your LMS uses is important, including significant considerations regarding data ownership, security, LMS customization, product updates, and support
the advantages and disadvantages of both types of platforms.
 


Open-Source vs. Closed-Source LMS: Why the Technology Your LMS Uses Matters

The year 2007 represents a watershed moment for Louisville-based Signature HealthCARE, a leading provider of long-term nursing care. Not only was it the year that a buyout of its predecessor, Home Quality Management, enabled the creation of the new company, but it was also when the company marked its transition to becoming, in its own words, a “learning organization.”For president and CEO Joe Steier, who wrote an award-winning doctoral dissertation at the University of Pennsylvania on the leaders-as-teachers concept, the importance of learning could not be understated. Yet despite establishing that culture early on, it became clear to Steier and other executives at Signature that they still faced challenges. In particular, they lacked a strong leadership development and succession planning program; without one, they could do very little to ensure the longevity of the leadership pipeline—a critical element for an organization with 143 locations in 11 states and nearly 24,000 employees.They weren’t alone. According to ATD research, only 14 percent of organizations describe their succession planning as effective, and less than half of all organizations have a formal planning process in place.The good news was that Signature didn’t have to start from scratch: The company already had a leadership program in place. However, it didn’t have a development program for new leaders, and the current program for experienced leaders needed an update. So Steier, along with Mary McNevin, chief learning officer, and Brian Muleller, community learning manager, sought to change that. One of the first things they stressed was a focus on data.

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