{"@attributes":{"version":"2.0"},"channel":{"title":"InSync Insights","link":"https:\/\/blog.insynctraining.com","description":"Expert insights and original research on virtual and hybrid learning, instructional design, and virtual training certification\u2014only from InSync.","language":"en-us","pubDate":"Mon, 06 Jul 2026 12:00:03 GMT","item":[{"title":"Is Your Learning Program Measuring What Matters? | InSync Insights","link":"https:\/\/blog.insynctraining.com\/learning-program-metrics","description":"
\n \"5 <\/a> \n<\/div> \n

 <\/p>","category":"Virtual Classroom","pubDate":"Mon, 06 Jul 2026 12:00:03 GMT","author":"jennifer.finan@insynctraining.com (Jennifer Lindsay-Finan)","guid":"https:\/\/blog.insynctraining.com\/learning-program-metrics"},{"title":"Design to Delivery Collaboration for Live Learning | InSync Insights","link":"https:\/\/blog.insynctraining.com\/design-delivery-collaboration","description":"

\n \"Facilitator <\/a> \n<\/div> \n

 <\/p>","category":"Live Learning","pubDate":"Mon, 22 Jun 2026 12:00:01 GMT","author":"cindy.foster@insynctraining.com (Cindy Foster)","guid":"https:\/\/blog.insynctraining.com\/design-delivery-collaboration"},{"title":"Why Design and Delivery Alignment Improves Consistency | InSync Insights","link":"https:\/\/blog.insynctraining.com\/design-delivery-alignment-consistency","description":"

\n \"Illustration <\/a> \n<\/div> \n

 <\/p> \n

Talking about design and delivery alignment is easy. Proving what it changes in a <\/span>live learning<\/span><\/u><\/a> program is harder.<\/span><\/p>","category":"Live Learning","pubDate":"Mon, 15 Jun 2026 12:00:04 GMT","author":"jennifer@insynctraining.com (Jennifer Hofmann)","guid":"https:\/\/blog.insynctraining.com\/design-delivery-alignment-consistency"},{"title":"Why Designing for Modern Learning Environments Is a Leadership Problem | InSync Insights","link":"https:\/\/blog.insynctraining.com\/designing-modern-learning-environments","description":"

\n \"Design <\/a> \n<\/div> \n<\/span>","category":["Instructional Design","Leadership"],"pubDate":"Wed, 10 Jun 2026 12:30:01 GMT","author":"jennifer@insynctraining.com (Jennifer Hofmann)","guid":"https:\/\/blog.insynctraining.com\/designing-modern-learning-environments"},{"title":"Design-to-Delivery Alignment for Live Learning Teams | InSync Insights","link":"https:\/\/blog.insynctraining.com\/design-delivery-checklist","description":"
\n \"hand <\/a> \n<\/div> \n

 <\/p> \n

The most frustrating delivery problems are often the ones that looked solved before the session began, but are among the most expensive. Research from the Brandon Hall Group indicates that <\/span>companies lose an estimated $13.5 million per 1,000 employees annually<\/span><\/u><\/a> due to ineffective or absent training.<\/span><\/p> \n

 <\/p>","category":"Live Learning","pubDate":"Mon, 08 Jun 2026 12:00:02 GMT","author":"jennifer.finan@insynctraining.com (Jennifer Lindsay-Finan)","guid":"https:\/\/blog.insynctraining.com\/design-delivery-checklist"},{"title":"Expanding Leadership Services Through Partnership | InSync Insights","link":"https:\/\/blog.insynctraining.com\/expanding-leadership-services","description":"

\n \"Leadership <\/a> \n<\/div> \n

 <\/p> \n

Most organizations have already done the hard work of selecting a leadership framework. They\u2019ve evaluated the research, aligned stakeholders, and secured the budget. What they\u2019re still working on \u2014 and what most development programs struggle to deliver \u2014 is the transfer from learning to behavior. Leaders leave a workshop with new language and a sharper model. Then they return to the pressure of real work, and the application gap opens up again.<\/span><\/p>","category":["Press","Leadership","Live Learning"],"pubDate":"Thu, 04 Jun 2026 12:00:01 GMT","author":"info@insynctraining.com (InSync Training)","guid":"https:\/\/blog.insynctraining.com\/expanding-leadership-services"},{"title":"Live Learning Delivery and Design Alignment | InSync Insights","link":"https:\/\/blog.insynctraining.com\/design-delivery-alignment","description":"

\n \"Facilitator <\/a> \n<\/div> \n

 <\/p> \n

Strong <\/span>live learning<\/span><\/u><\/a> rarely falls apart because people did not care enough. More often, it breaks down because the design decisions that shaped the program never made it clearly into delivery.<\/span><\/p>","category":"Live Learning","pubDate":"Mon, 01 Jun 2026 12:00:04 GMT","author":"karen.vieth@insynctraining.com (Karen Vieth)","guid":"https:\/\/blog.insynctraining.com\/design-delivery-alignment"},{"title":"Improve Live Learning Quality Consistently | InSync Insights","link":"https:\/\/blog.insynctraining.com\/improve-live-learning-quality","description":"

\n \"How <\/a> \n<\/div> \n

 <\/p>","category":"Live Learning","pubDate":"Mon, 25 May 2026 12:30:00 GMT","author":"cindy.foster@insynctraining.com (Cindy Foster)","guid":"https:\/\/blog.insynctraining.com\/improve-live-learning-quality"},{"title":"InSync Training Named to Training Industry Learning Services Watch List InSync Insights","link":"https:\/\/blog.insynctraining.com\/training-industry-watchlist-2026","description":"

\n \"InSync <\/a> \n<\/div> \n

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE<\/span><\/strong><\/p>","category":"Press","pubDate":"Thu, 21 May 2026 15:00:03 GMT","author":"jennifer@insynctraining.com (Jennifer Hofmann)","guid":"https:\/\/blog.insynctraining.com\/training-industry-watchlist-2026"},{"title":"Bringing More Human Presence | InSync Insights","link":"https:\/\/blog.insynctraining.com\/bringing-more-human-presence","description":"

\n \"Stylized <\/a> \n<\/div> \n

The last post explored the importance of making connection<\/a>: bringing more meaningful learning experiences while alleviating today\u2019s workforce epidemic of loneliness and the feeling of being disconnected. The key: designing and facilitating virtual sessions so they generate social learning signals rather than simply deliver content. Working to expand L&D\u2019s presence in the social infrastructure and continuous learning arenas combines technology, participation, and network-building.<\/span><\/p>","category":"AI & the Future of Work","pubDate":"Thu, 21 May 2026 13:00:02 GMT","guid":"https:\/\/blog.insynctraining.com\/bringing-more-human-presence"},{"title":"How to Scale Live Learning with Consistent Standards | InSync Insights","link":"https:\/\/blog.insynctraining.com\/scaling-live-learning","description":"

\n \"Live <\/a> \n<\/div> \n

 <\/p>","pubDate":"Mon, 18 May 2026 12:30:01 GMT","author":"jennifer@insynctraining.com (Jennifer Hofmann)","guid":"https:\/\/blog.insynctraining.com\/scaling-live-learning"},{"title":"How Learning and Development Can Support Connection | InSync Insights","link":"https:\/\/blog.insynctraining.com\/how-learning-and-development-can-support-connection","description":"

\n \"Two <\/a> \n<\/div> \n

 We can <\/span>do <\/span>so much<\/span> more than <\/span>just <\/span>produce content. <\/span>While<\/span> AI is beginning to take on traditional instructional design tasks, workers are reporting increased isolation and disconnection<\/span>,<\/span> and organizations are questioning<\/span>their investments in educational technology. Taken together, these signals point to a clear opportunity for L&D<\/span> to <\/span>strengthen meaningful learner-to-learner interaction<\/span>.<\/span> This requires breaking out of the narrow role of course creator<\/span>\/facilitator<\/span> and looking for broader ways to add value \u2014 by designing <\/span>broader <\/span>experiences that connect people, support shared problem-solving, and help learning translate into real capability at work.<\/span> <\/p>","category":"AI & the Future of Work","pubDate":"Thu, 14 May 2026 13:00:03 GMT","guid":"https:\/\/blog.insynctraining.com\/how-learning-and-development-can-support-connection"},{"title":"Leading Global Facilitation Teams | InSync Insights","link":"https:\/\/blog.insynctraining.com\/leading-global-facilitation-teams","description":"

\n \"Computer <\/a> \n<\/div> \n<\/span>","category":["Leadership","Facilitation"],"pubDate":"Wed, 13 May 2026 14:00:00 GMT","author":"jennifer@insynctraining.com (Jennifer Hofmann)","guid":"https:\/\/blog.insynctraining.com\/leading-global-facilitation-teams"},{"title":"Good to Great Checklist: Standardizing Live Learning | InSync Insights","link":"https:\/\/blog.insynctraining.com\/live-learning-consistency","description":"
\n \"Good <\/a> \n<\/div> \n

 <\/p>","category":"Live Learning","pubDate":"Mon, 11 May 2026 12:30:01 GMT","author":"jennifer.finan@insynctraining.com (Jennifer Lindsay-Finan)","guid":"https:\/\/blog.insynctraining.com\/live-learning-consistency"},{"title":"\u201cSocial\u201d is Back!\u00a0| InSync Insights","link":"https:\/\/blog.insynctraining.com\/social-is-back","description":"

\n \"Woman <\/a> \n<\/div> \n

I\u2019m a huge proponent of self-paced online learning and can trace my enthusiasm back to 1999 when my first graduate course was offered online. In retrospect it was pretty awful \u2013 scrolling pages of text with an occasional image \u2013 but I saw how this approach could solve many expensive workplace problems. At the time my organization was, for instance, having new hires drive sometimes hundreds of miles and stay in hotels to sit in a conference room for 2 days while subject matter experts from HR read policies to them. (Sorry, but that\u2019s really what it was.) I sold management on elearning as a way to save those dollars and worker time out of office while meeting compliance requirements, and set to learning how to design asynchronous online training. <\/span><\/p>","category":"AI & the Future of Work","pubDate":"Thu, 07 May 2026 13:00:03 GMT","guid":"https:\/\/blog.insynctraining.com\/social-is-back"},{"title":"Live Learning Quality Suffers Without a Consistent Standard | InSync Insights","link":"https:\/\/blog.insynctraining.com\/live-learning-quality","description":"

\n \"People <\/a> \n<\/div> \n

 <\/p> \n

In most organizations, live learning quality doesn\u2019t fail all at once, but instead drifts.<\/span><\/p>","category":"Live Learning","pubDate":"Mon, 04 May 2026 12:30:00 GMT","author":"karen.vieth@insynctraining.com (Karen Vieth)","guid":"https:\/\/blog.insynctraining.com\/live-learning-quality"},{"title":"Where L&D Matters Most in the Age of AI | InSync Insights","link":"https:\/\/blog.insynctraining.com\/where-ld-matters-most","description":"

\n \"AI <\/a> \n<\/div> \n

Framing Solutions<\/span> <\/span><\/span><\/h2> \n


<\/span>Jane Bozarth\u2019s new \u201cAdaptive Enterprise Framework\u201d shines a light on opportunities for learning practitioners to operate into the spaces around and between formal learning events.<\/span><\/strong>Watching colleagues be laid off due to being replaced by AI\u2014and then rehired within just a few months\u2014Bozarth saw that in nearly every case the organization realized too late what humans brought to the table that AI could not replicate: things like empathy, flexibility, judgment, and ethical decision making. While AI can be trained to mimic those things, reality (and in some cases outright customer revolt) showed that mimicking was not always enough.<\/span><\/p>","category":"AI & the Future of Work","pubDate":"Thu, 30 Apr 2026 13:00:04 GMT","author":"jennifer@insynctraining.com (Jennifer Hofmann)","guid":"https:\/\/blog.insynctraining.com\/where-ld-matters-most"},{"title":"How Delivery Teams Strengthen Live Learning Quality | InSync Insights","link":"https:\/\/blog.insynctraining.com\/live-learning-delivery-quality","description":"

\n \"Protecting <\/a> \n<\/div> \n

 <\/p>","category":"Live Learning","pubDate":"Mon, 27 Apr 2026 12:30:01 GMT","author":"cindy.foster@insynctraining.com (Cindy Foster)","guid":"https:\/\/blog.insynctraining.com\/live-learning-delivery-quality"},{"title":"Consistency in Live Learning: The Foundation of Scalable Delivery | InSync Insights","link":"https:\/\/blog.insynctraining.com\/scaling-live-learning-consistency","description":"

\n \"Why <\/a> \n<\/div> \n

 <\/h2> \n

 <\/h2> \n

Live learning earns trust when outcomes repeat.<\/h2> \n

In our work supporting large programs across <\/span>virtual classrooms<\/span><\/u><\/a>, <\/span>hybrid environments<\/span><\/u><\/a>, and face-to-face delivery, we see the same hesitation surface when organizations begin to scale: Leaders are rarely worried about content quality. What unsettles them is whether delivery will hold once programs expand.<\/span><\/p> \n

One cohort finishes energized, but another struggles through the same program. Managers quietly warn participants that the experience may depend on who delivers the session. Expansion plans slow because no one wants to multiply unpredictability.<\/span><\/p> \n

Confidence does not come from one strong session or a particularly talented facilitator. It comes from delivery that holds across facilitators, cohorts, locations, and formats without constant oversight or recovery work.<\/span><\/p>","category":"Live Learning","pubDate":"Mon, 20 Apr 2026 12:30:00 GMT","author":"karen.vieth@insynctraining.com (Karen Vieth)","guid":"https:\/\/blog.insynctraining.com\/scaling-live-learning-consistency"},{"title":"Three Years Running: InSync Named Top 20 Staffing Company InSync Insights","link":"https:\/\/blog.insynctraining.com\/insync-top-20-staffing-2026","description":"

\n \"InSync <\/a> \n<\/div>","category":["Press","Managed Services\/Outsourcing"],"pubDate":"Thu, 16 Apr 2026 15:00:14 GMT","author":"jennifer@insynctraining.com (Jennifer Hofmann)","guid":"https:\/\/blog.insynctraining.com\/insync-top-20-staffing-2026"}]}}