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Dedicated to helping organizations develop great people, Advantage Performance Group teams up with best-in-class thought leaders and solution providers to bring you learning that's memorable, fun, and aligned with your business goals.

Please help yourself to some of our favorite free resources, tools & mini learning journeys below. They offer a taste of the solutions behind some of our real-world success stories and award-winning projects.

Unleash your creative genius

We've launched a new webinar series on innovation called Together, We Create! as a way to continue the momentum from our 2020 series and provide you with an extra boost of fuel for the journey ahead. 

Do the time warp

Revisit the replays and takeaway tools from our 2020 series on Pivoting Together in Challenging Times and the Future of Sales.

Develop a Multiplier mindset

Multipliers help make everyone smarter. Enroll in our complimentary Multipliers mini learning journey comprised of 3 interactive lessons from the Multipliers Simulation based on Liz Wiseman's groundbreaking bestseller and  learn to speak the language of a Multiplier. Start the conversations that can transform your relationships and your company culture.

Be a force for change

You can sit back and wait for others to create change, or you can be a positive force for change by influencing others... What will you choose? Join our Influence Inside™ mini learning journey and get expert guidance to help bring your ideas to life!

Learn from top professionals

A Top 5 podcast in the L&D space, the Talent Development Hot Seat podcast sponsored by Advantage Performance Group features interviews and insights from leading talent development professionals and company executives who are passionate about developing their people. Host Andy Storch asks guests to share some of their successes, failures, challenges, and advice for others as well as what trends they are seeing in the industry.

Cultivate high-potential leaders

A research-focused webinar series & learning journey on high-potential leadership from Advantage Performance Group with the Cultivating Leaders Center of Excellence based on more than 50 interviews with leaders from top organizations around the world.

Talent development for a new generation: How to get it right.

Enroll now in a free learning journey featuring research and tools from thought leader Christine DiDonato, founder of Career Revolution Inc. and AwesomeBoss.com.

Diagnose a decision

Could you be falling into one or more common decision-making traps? Take a complimentary Decision MojoDecision Diagnostic to find out!

Boost your openness, relationships, and impulse control

Enroll in our free BlueEQ™ mini learning journey to help you and your team assess and boost the 3 most critical dimensions of emotional intelligence that drive winning cultures.

Are you reading what they're reading?

Based on conversations with more than 100 learning & development leaders on their best practices, wins and challenges for the Talent Development Hot Seat podcast, host Andy Storch shares the top 5 most-recommended books. Subscribe to his newsletter for immediate access!

What's trending in talent development?

Based on conversations with more than 100 learning & development leaders on their best practices, wins and challenges for the Talent Development Hot Seat podcast, host Andy Storch shares the top 5 most-discussed trends in talent development. Subscribe to his newsletter for immediate access!

Make your culture shine

In a world where culture is an increasingly critical component to business success, are you making your organization's culture count?

Gather these jewels that help build create cultures. Join our quest to improve your organization's culture with these valuable, culture-focused learning & development jewels from our thought leader partners.

Get our best free resources!

For the past year, we’ve been creating free resources aimed at helping organizations develop great people. Our handy 2019 Resource Kit contains them all!

Cut through the confusion

These new laws raise the bar for data handling for all businesses and are a likely harbinger for similar expectations in the U.S.  For a limited time, we can provide you with free access to an outstanding online course that will help you understand how the EU regulations may apply to you. GDPR Core Awareness for Business from Me Learning also has modules especially for HR and marketing professionals.

Assess your culture

Company culture can energize or drain, motivate or discourage, empower or suffocate the people on your team. Take our assessment to see where you stand and get A Conversation About Culture, a printable table mat that makes it easy to bring your entire team into a discussion about culture.

Drive business results with learning

Here are 3 quick and easy ways managers can support learning, along with a link to our Leader's Playbook on how to get great (or not so great) results from learning.

Ease the pain of healthcare disruption

We have resources to help ease the pain of unprecedented disruption in your industry. We also have experience delivering solutions aimed specifically at helping healthcare leaders meet their industry's unique challenges.

We'd like to introduce you to our healthcare industry success stories, our most popular and effective tools for healthcare leaders, and some free resources you can try without risk or obligation.

Network for the greater good

Get tips inspired by our recent webinar:

7 Steps to More Productive and Enjoyable ConnectionsToo often we associate networking with a dirty feeling. We abhor asking for favors or feel inauthentic in our approach.  It's time to abandon that "what’s in it for me” mindset and tap into your network to support collective objectives that benefit the extended community.

Play it again

It's time to put on your headphones and turn up the volume. Here's your chance to attend or revisit one of our popular webinars, including:

  • Create a culture of Multipliers
  • Gender equality: What's still missing and how HR can help
  • Revealed: 6 secrets of high-performing managers
  • Help rid the world of bad bosses with Multipliers author Liz Wiseman
  • Improve HCAHPS scores in health care with emotional intelligence
  • EQ for leadership: Results in 90 days
  • 5 ways to help managers lead effective remote teams
  • And more!

Build a culture of trust

Peter Drucker had it right when he said, “Culture eats strategy for breakfast.” Both must be aligned.

Have you built a road map for 2019 to create a culture-rich organization with every communication? Here's how.

Enhance your security awareness

Get our 8 tips for enhancing your security awareness, along with a case study on salesforce.com's security-first initiative.

The company was challenged to shift employees’ mindsets and build strategic alignment to effectively protect property, assets, and sensitive information.

See how our thought leader partners at BTS helped them accomplish their goal.

Design learning that will last

Training doesn’t have to be boring, time consuming or pointless. Sadly, the majority of trainings are doomed before they’re even launched. Here are curriculum design tips from our partners at Root Inc. on how to make sure yours isn't.

Be ready when they are

Get up to speed on just-in-time learning with these best-practice tips, guides, and tools from our thought leader partners. Their goal, and ours, is to help you become an L&D superhero for your organization with best-in-class learning that's relevant, resourceful, and ready.

Tell a great story

Say goodbye to bullets and lengthy, boring text!
Take your audience on a memorable journey instead.

Make your slide presentations more memorable with these tips from Scott Hodin, Sr. Learning Developer, Sales Practice at BTS, an Advantage thought leader partner.

Fine tune your focus

Use our 3-Step Success Blueprint from Vital Learning, an Advantage thought leader partner in our best-in-class network of learning solution providers, to achieve laser focus for getting what you want from your organization.

Access the blueprint and two additional tools, the SMART Goals Configurator and an Organizational Health Check on employee engagement, productivity, and retention.

We'll also provide you with some BONUS resources from Vital Learning, including access to a free Leadership Essentials preview and a fun quiz that answers a question we know you're pondering: Which Fictional Boss Best Matches My Leadership Style? 

Boost your business acumen

Get 30 days of free learning

Leveraging best-in-class, just-in-time learning, Advantage thought leader partner BTS has brought one of its flagship solutions – Know the Business – into the mobile era while retaining the heart of the original program.

Designed to drive financial understanding by combining finance-related topics and engaging multimedia elements with patented BTS expertise, Know the Business enables all users to make sound business decisions that drive bottom line results.

Sign up for free 30-day demo account with access to 6 learning modules on financial reporting.

Challenge your decision making

To help companies accelerate the development of great leaders, BTS, an Advantage thought leader partner,  has created a series of online iLead Challenge™ Simulations.

These are immersive, video-based business simulations that feature important leadership moments. Participating employees make critical decisions and apply leadership skills to manage simulated team members and navigate challenging, realistic situations.

Sign up for complimentary 30-day access to the Innovative iLead Challenge Simulation, Fostering an Innovation Culture. See if you make the most effective choices to lead your team at Future Co. on an innovation journey.

Rate your productivity skills

Are you a productive leader? The BlueEQ™ emotional intelligence self-assessment examines your EQ across 5 skills and 25 dimensions with 150 rapid-response questions.

Our mini-quiz from BlueEQ has 12 questions that measure your productivity skills and offers tips to improve as you rate your abilities in these key dimensions: influence, resilience, anticipation, observation, empathy, stress tolerance, relationship management, ego management, accountability, conflict management, and confidence.

Evaluate your engagement skills

Do you have what it takes to motivate others? Leaders with high emotional intelligence have the necessary engagement skills to motivate their teams into high performance.

The BlueEQ™ emotional intelligence self-assessment examines your EQ across 5 skills and 25 dimensions with 150 rapid-response questions. Our mini-quiz from BlueEQ has 12 questions that measure your engagement skills as you rate your abilities in delayed gratification, openness, mindfulness, relationship management, stress tolerance, influence, conflict management, integrity, resilience, optimism, accountability, and motivation.

Know your numbers

Get our financial formulas cheat sheet, a valuable freeresource from Brent Snow at 10,000 Feet, creators of the popular simulation Interplay, the interactive game-based workshop that's been called a "mini MBA-in-a-Day."

Interplay builds a broad understanding of the critical factors that influence success or failure in any organization. Besides having a lot of fun, participants compete as executive leaders of a growing enterprise and finish the workshop with the kind of knowledge that's built from experience.

This handy reference of key financial ratios all business leaders must know is a great resource to have at your fingertips.

Make effectiveness a habit

Do you want great managers? Get this exclusive PDF and handy checklist on the 10 Daily Habits of Highly Effective Managers to help build the habits, and start developing your managers today!

Check the health of your strategy

There's nothing like a brand new year to inspire greater accomplishment. While some strategies will succeed this year, far more will fail.

At Advantage, we're rooting for you!

We invite you to take a complimentary Strategy Deployment Health Check created by Root Inc., our thought leader partner who literally wrote the book on strategy execution, and get tips on how to make sure your strategy rolls out smoothly.

Get a great start

Take the first step toward successfully deploying your company strategy with The Strategy Deployment Toolkit.

Since strategy is a foundation for success, we’ve put together some resources with our thought leader partner Root, Inc., that are jam-packed with information to get you well on your way to successful strategy execution.

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