Every year at Impact Instruction Group, we look at the trends like gamification, TinCan API, social learning, and mobile that are shaping learning and development and publish those findings in our Technology Trends Report. Within each of those trends I see one powerful tool, a tool that training professionals need to have and don’t use often enough: stories. Stories transcend trends. They are the emotional glue holding together training content, its value, and ultimately, our call to actio