Free learning & development webinars for June 2016

Never has there been such a wealth of training resources online. There’s so much out there that it’s sometimes difficult to know what to read and what to skip, what to invest time in and what to keep on the back-burner. With so many information sources competing for our attention, sometimes the best bang for your buck (or in this case, your hour) is a free webinar. June offers plenty of interesting choices—why not check one out? 

Wednesday, June 1, 2016, 11AM – 12PM PST: Overcoming the Top 5 Challenges of Video Learning (Free for ATD members)

Video is a unique beast. It’s more engaging than a training manual, but it’s a pain to record and produce. It helps you scale your training worldwide, but it can bog down your network. It’s a great solution for mobile learning, except when it’s incompatible with employees’ devices. And it’s ideal for just-in-time learning, if only it could be effectively searched.

In this webcast, you’ll learn how advances in video technology are helping learning and development teams overcome the five biggest challenges of video learning. We will discuss:

  • The limitations of traditional learning and content management systems in managing video content.

  • Video capture and management technologies that help talent development professionals overcome traditional challenges of working with video.

  • How companies such as Qualcomm, Siemens, and NYSE are capturing and managing learning video at scale.

Thursday, June 2, 2016, 9:30AM – 10:30AM PST: Understanding Skills-Based Learning for Business (Free for ATD members)

Accomplishing your near- and long-term business objectives can be a substantial challenge for any organization today. Constant competition, significant industry disruption, and a consistent lack of well-qualified workers create a serious hazard for companies struggling to thrive in today’s economy. The key to meeting these challenges is strategic alignment with the business plan and identifying critical skills that are most likely to support that plan. Once the skills are clear, the appropriate training can be developed and deployed. This webcast will give you an overview of a skills-based approach to learning content development for business. You will learn:

  • The facets of skill-based learning, including its key benefits and best practices, along with some examples.

  • How to implement the approach using effective modules, courses, learning programs, and certifications.

Thursday, June 2, 2016, 10AM – 11AM PST: How to Find Stories to Ignite eLearning

Most designers, trainers, and leaders are so accustomed to producing highly antiseptic lessons—clean, organized and controlled. However, this kills the fun and relevance of the lessons. Fortunately, they agree that using stories would add context and engage learners. Their difficulty is where and how to find stories that support their content.

Topics covered:

  • What type of stories work to support your content?

  • How do you find these stories that heighten the value of the your content?

  • How do you extract these stories from technical information, statistical reports, scientific data, highly legalese requirements, processes and procedures, and many others?

  • How do you structure and add the stories in your content?

Attend the webinar and obtain a six-step process to extract stories from factual sources.

Tuesday, June 7, 2016, 10AM – 11AM PST: Sales Onboarding: Making New Reps Twice as Good in Half the Time

A recent study asked sales leaders to name the top challenges holding their organizations back. The number one answer? An inability to cut the time it takes new salespeople to close their first deals.

While effective onboarding remains a problem, this session will look at some of the answers.

Join Brainshark’s Mike Kunkle for a look at the common onboarding missteps to avoid, with details on developing a training plan that gets new reps up-to-speed and selling—faster.

Tuesday, June 7, 2016, 11AM – 12PM PST: The Learning Sales Organization: A Powerful and Compelling Alternative to Traditional Sales Training (Free for ATD members)

During this webcast, the presenter will share research and case studies while addressing topics such as:

  • The differences between a traditional sales organization and a learning sales organization.

  • Real and perceived obstacles to becoming a learning sales organization and strategies for overcoming these barriers.

  • The value derived by early adopters who are on the leading edge of this transformation.

  • Questions to help assess the state of your organization.

  • Next steps in helping your organization make the transition to a continuous learning model.

Attendees will learn:

  • Three differences between the traditional approach to sales training and a learning sales organization.

  • The business value of having a learning sales organization.

  • Three milestones for developing a learning sales organization.

Wednesday, June 8, 2016, 10AM – 11AM PST: Pulling Learners to Your Content: How to Make It Work

While formal “push” training is often best for when people are learning something new, and for when things change, a strong argument can be made that “pull” learning lends itself to the following moments of need:

  • When learners need to build on concepts that they learned in a more formal training environment.

  • When they need to apply what they’ve learned.

  • When things go wrong.

We need to anticipate these moments of need, and embed accessible content so workers can constantly learn when it is most appropriate for them. To be discussed:

  • How do we design pull learning for specific learning environments? Specifically, how is the pull learning environment impacted when working at your desk as opposed to learning on-the-go?

  • When are microlearning technique most appropriate, and how to format like video, infographics, and short e-learning modules support different situations and moments of need?

  • What role do social collaborative technologies play in a pull learning environment, and when should we encourage informal collaborative learning?

Wednesday, June 8, 2016, 11AM – 12PM PST: The Manager Makeover Series Finale: From Most Neglected to Simply Perfected (Free for ATD members)

Trying to grow your business or improve your customer experience? What about your culture—does it need a boost? Managers are the key to it all. Here’s the thing, though: We don’t treat them that way. So, most of the time, they don’t deliver. Get ready to make over your managers to unleash their true talent. Join us for the finale of our Manager Makeover series with author and transformation expert Gary Magenta. We’ll reveal our complete manager makeover strategy and what it takes to be the director of your own manager makeover show. During this webcast, you’ll:

  • Learn how your managers, who are responsible for directing 80 percent of your workforce, are the key to engaged employees, lower turnover, and ultimately, higher customer satisfaction.

  • Discover the framework for your managers to connect their team to your organization’s strategy.

  • Learn how to empower your managers to model and drive a customer-first culture.

Thursday, June 9, 2016, 6AM – 7AM PST: Is Your Learning Technology Holding You Back?

We all know how quickly business moves, and technology changes even faster. Why then do so many organizations rely on outdated learning technology to support their business? Why do they use multiple LMSs from a variety of vendors across their global organization? According to Brandon Hall Group research, a “system that appears outdated” has been one of the top five reasons why companies want to switch their LMS providers for the past several years. Our research also indicates that large organizations, on average, have as many as four different LMSs.

Often, companies hold onto legacy technology or multiple systems for fear that a change would be too challenging and/or expensive. The truth is that old technology and extra systems may be costing your company far more time and money than you know.

Join David Wentworth, Principal Learning Analyst for Brandon Hall Group, and Michelle Sullivan, Marketing Director for NetDimensions as they share insights into the challenges companies face with learning technology, and discuss best practices for creating a strategy to upgrade, as well as tips to prepare your organization and mitigate the impact change represents. 

Thursday, June 9, 2016, 10AM – 11AM PST: Engaging Activities for Live Online Meetings, Webinars, and Virtual Training

Whether it's an online meeting, a webinar, or live online training, engagement is on everyone's mind. Will it be worth the time to attend, or will it be an opportunity to check email?

Interaction is the key to engagement, and using a platform’s features is the key to interaction. However, the features alone do not engage the participants. It is what you do with those features that will make the difference in your next online event.

Join this one-hour webcast to learn what you can do to build interaction and engagement to get results. You’ll learn:

  • How engaging live online meetings, webinars, and training events are delivered.

  • The appropriate level of interaction to create impactful live online events.

  • How to optimize the investment in your virtual classroom technology using a platform-features checklist.

Thursday, June 9, 2016, 10AM – 11AM PST: The Evolution of Human Capital Technology: Empowerment for the Restaurant and Food Services Industry

All attendees will receive a complimentary book, Building a Magnetic Culture by Kevin Sheridan. This webinar is sponsored by cfactor Works.

Things used to be simple. You used the telephone book to find a phone number. You pulled out a map to see where something was. And your watch wasn’t smarter than you are. Today's reality is, we have come to expect an integrated experience. With one query I want to know where something is, how far away it is, when it’s available, and if they have it in my favorite colour. The same is true of work. We don’t want to interact with siloed processes, we want capabilities to engage with information and people seamlessly as we go in order to get the job done.

And as human capital technology evolves, it is moving from a place where people simply access discrete bits of information – learning over here, benefits over there – to a system of engagement enabling individual and organizational growth, productivity and results.

To highlight how using human capital technology as a system of engagement can empower a workforce and benefit an industry, Brandon Hall Group and Kevin Sheridan will discuss cases studies from the Restaurant and Food Services industry and include recent research findings from Brandon Hall Group’s HCM Technology Trends, Employee Value Proposition, and Employee Engagement surveys.

Thursday, June 9, 2016, 10AM – 11AM PST: Hiring Under the Microscope: 5 Steps for Improving the Science of Selection (Free for ATD members)

Metrics, analytics, and big data loom large on the HR radar. However, research shows that objective data play a surprisingly small role in one of the linchpin functions of HR departments—employee selection. HR practitioners remain unaware of which selection methods are most (and least) predictive, and only 14 percent of organizations have data to show the business impact of their assessment strategy.

With payroll and benefits representing one of the largest line items on virtually every company’s operating statement, effective selection is perhaps HR’s greatest opportunity to significantly affect the bottom line. It’s time for organizations to put hiring under the microscope. In this webcast, the presenter will share five steps for creating more evidence-based, scientific, and effective selection processes. You will:

  • Discover what hiring methods have the highest predictive validity.

  • Discuss what measures and methods will yield the highest return on investment for your organization.

  • Learn what criteria to consider when selecting an assessment instrument.

Tuesday, June 14, 2016, 10AM – 11AM PST: 5 Secrets to Leading from a Distance. Strategically.

Managing multiple locations and their regional/territory teams requires a unique set of leadership skills and strategies. Join us to learn five key practices of how to lead from a distance effectively. Drawing from our recent national retail industry research study, we will explore the leading practices learned from surveys, interviews, and observations of some of the most productive and profitable multi-unit managers on the planet.

During this highly engaging session, you’ll learn the specific leadership behaviours your multi-unit managers need to adopt to get results, even when they’re not physically able to be in each location. You’ll also have the opportunity to interact with others who face similar challenges, whether in retail, hospitality, banking, or other industries.

Discover the secrets of the world’s most successful retail multiunit managers! You’ll take away practical tools and techniques your district and regional managers can immediately apply to increase their effectiveness in all aspects of the job, from conducting effective onsite visits to motivating sales teams and inspiring store managers. 

Tuesday, June 14, 2016, 10AM – 11AM PST: Secrets of Talent Development Leaders: Leveraging Diversity and Inclusion for Innovation (Free for ATD members)

In today’s dynamic and highly competitive markets, companies are searching for new ways to leverage innovation as a key driver for growth. Many of these same companies undertake initiatives aimed at improving diversity and inclusion (D&I) as part of their talent strategy. As a talent development leader, you have an incredible opportunity for improvement by connecting the dots among inclusion, diversity, and innovation. Learn from experts and from the secrets of leading companies who are demonstrating the power of D&I in accelerating innovation. These companies leverage the power of inclusiveness and diversity for a virtuous cycle of improvements in employee engagement, innovation, and business results. In this webcast, you’ll:

  • Learn how D&I can be linked with innovation to make the most of talent.

  • Gain practical insights into progressive D&I practices that can generate fresher ideas and faster results from innovation.

  • Apply lessons from leaders’ case studies in how a culture that promotes innovation and risk taking can reinforce and expand D&I.

  • Develop action steps for positive change by leveraging the interplay among diversity, inclusion, and innovation.

Wednesday, June 15, 2016, 11PM – 12PM PST: Beyond the LMS – 7 Ways to Build a Virtual Training Strategy

Does your LMS leave your employees dazed and confused? Are you struggling to capture the attention of your global employee base? Would you like your training to be more interactive and engaging?

Join our webinar to learn how virtual learning environments can complement your existing LMS platform to better equip your learners for success at your company. This interactive webinar features seven best practices for:

  • Providing a more engaging learning experience.

  • Making training a more accessible, intuitive process.

  • Tracking training activities more effectively.

  • Dramatically reducing the costs associated with training.

Wednesday, June 15, 2016, 11AM – 12PM PST: The Data Deluge: Turning the Tsunami into Directed Energy (Free for ATD members)

In the era of 70-20-10, many learning organizations face the challenge of managing and optimizing the enormous amount of data coming at their function at an ever-increasing pace. How do they harness, but not control, data related to the informal side of learning to drive learning effectiveness and risk mitigation? This webcast will address:

  • Steps to identify, clean, and harness data for informal learning.

  • Your path to make informal learning visible and insightful.

Thursday, June 16, 2016, 10AM – 11AM PST: Evaluating Training: I Got a 4.2 Great! But Is That Any Good?

When confronted with the question, “Is training working?” utilizing benchmarks can arm you with insight to determine how well training is doing within your organization, and also provide insight into how you stack up against your competitors.

This session will provide an overview of diverse benchmarks, key insights that they provide, and examples of how to utilize them when telling a story to demonstrate the impact of training programs.

Thursday, June 16, 2016, 10AM – 11AM PST: The New & Improved Features in Moodle 3.1

If you haven’t heard, Moodle 3.1 was released last month. Development of the latest version has been influenced by feedback from the Moodle community, to ensure user suggestions for improvement are implemented. Moodle 3.1 offers an improved Moodle experience, as it comes equipped with exciting new enhancements to improve how organizations facilitates their learning. Every release will undoubtedly bring up questions, so join in on June 16th to get your questions answered by Moodle expert, Ben Young of Lambda Solutions.

Attend the live demo to see:

  • The new features, updates, and improvements in Moodle 3.1.

  • How Moodle 3.1 will simplify the learning process, making it more efficient for both students and admin.

Thursday, June 16, 2016, 11AM – 12PM PST: New Ways to Develop Teams Using Personality Type (Free for ATD members)

Traditional personality-type training focuses on enhancing self-awareness. In this webcast, we will delve deeper into the ways in which individuals and teams can leverage other skills related to personality type. Combining such skills as flexibility and resilience with an awareness of natural strengths allows individuals to function more effectively within a team environment.

Using assessment results as the basis for team awareness, learn how to take teams from understanding one another’s strengths and differences to further developing their ability to adapt to their own and their team members’ styles.

Tuesday, June 21, 2016, 10AM – 11AM PST: Help Them Grow or Watch Them Go: Career Conversations Employees Want

In today’s business environment, talent is the major differentiator. And developing and retaining that talent is one of the most significant drivers of employee engagement…which in turn is the key to critical business outcomes like revenue, profitability, innovation, and customer loyalty.

Yet, despite the importance of career development, managers too frequently can’t find the time to make it happen. Every day, employees who believe that their careers are not getting the attention they deserve make the decision to disengage—resigning to pursue other opportunities or (even more dangerous) staying and withdrawing their engagement, motivation, and enthusiasm for the work.

So, what’s a manager to do? Plenty…and it may be easier than you expect. Quality career development boils down to quality conversations. Improve the conversation and career development improves….along with job satisfaction, retention, and results.

Dr. Beverly Kaye will show you just how simple it can be and how leaders can build career development into everyday work life – where it belongs. Practical tips, research-based recommendations, and verbal skills are offered to make career development a lot easier and more effective. This will be an interactive dialogue with Bev and your fellow HR colleagues.

Tuesday, June 21, 2016, 10AM – 11AM PST: Performing Under Pressure – Doing Your Best When It Matters Most (Free for Institute of Performance and Learning members)

This session combines the latest research and neuroscience on pressure and performance, combined with practical strategies you can apply right away in order to be your best when it matters most.

People are feeling overwhelmed by pressure—to achieve results, to meet deadlines, to manage difficult relationships, to do more with less, to facilitate and adapt to change. When pressure is not managed, it impacts both our emotional and cognitive brain, diminishing our ability to communicate, manage relationships, make effective decisions, manage change and influence and lead others.

In this webinar you will learn:

  • Key findings from IHHP's research study and their work in the field of Emotional Intelligence, as well as training with athletes, the military and high-performing leaders around the world.

  • Best practices from Kerri at Allstate Canada on how they are implementing highly impactful leadership development programs.

  • Insight on how pressure affects your brain and impairs your best abilities by impacting three key areas:

    • Your Emotional brain under pressure

    • Your Cognitive brain under pressure

    • Your Conversations under pressure

  • Pressure Solutions that you can implement right away to be more skillful in your pressure moments

This session combines the latest research and neuroscience on pressure and performance, combined with practical strategies you can apply right away in order to be your best when it matters most. 

Tuesday, June 21, 2016, 11AM – 12PM PST: 4 Ways to Make Learning Work for the Modern Workforce (Free for ATD members)

Are you worried about losing your employees to your competitors? If the answer is yes, you're not alone. By taking a collaborative approach to learning, learning and development (L&D) teams and lines of business can better retain and engage today's workforce. During this webcast, the presenter will share strategies to help create a collaborative learning culture that engages employees and delivers results for executives. He will provide insight on:

  • Current learning trends and challenges that have disrupted traditional L&D strategies.

  • The needs and demands of today’s workforce.

  • Learning approaches that create a more engaged, productive, and passionate multigenerational workforce.

Wednesday, June 22, 2016, 10AM – 11AM PST: Boost Employee Engagement through Game-Based Learning

Current eLearning is boring, ineffective and lacks motivation. Online training is just not engaging enough, and the average completion ratio of courses is 25 percent. And the ratio of employees who voluntarily enter training platforms is even worse. And all this has a huge cost for any company. But...how to increase the “engagement” of your online training activities?

This webinar is the result of over 10 years of research and experience in the development of management skills (leadership, negotiation and time management) through game-based learning in more than 700 companies from all five continents.

After analyzing the impact of the video game as a training solution in more than 100,000 students worldwide, with a completion ratio of 90 percent, we offer you all the necessary steps to improve the engagement of your corporate training. Throughout this session, we are going to show you why traditional eLearning no longer works and how to motivate your employees through something as simple as the game. 

Wednesday, June 22, 2016, 11AM – 12PM PST: Not Your Grandfather’s Mentoring—Strategies to Engage, Develop, and Retain Employees (Free for ATD members)

Mentoring has long been known for its ability to engage and develop employees. Modern mentoring, however, pushes into innovative uses and formats to drive onboarding, diversity, leadership development, and knowledge transfer. But how can L&D teams approach these initiatives with a strategy that truly enables organizational improvement?

Join Chronus for this webinar, in which we’ll share the innovative ways organizations use mentoring and the three essential strategies to achieve real success with mentoring initiatives.

You’ll also get a real-life perspective of a modern mentoring program, including challenges and the impact experienced from these strategies.

Attendees will learn about modern mentoring and how to:

  • Strategically design a mentoring program that contributes to organizational objectives.

  • Establish mentoring program objectives mapped to measurable KPIs.

  • Effectively gain executive sponsorship across the organization.

Thursday, June 23, 2016, 9AM – 10AM PST: Skill-Based Learning – How It Drives an Organization’s Performance

Training and learning organizations today play an active role in contributing to the bottom line of any organization by aligning their objectives to the immediate business objectives. This provides a solid ground for cost justification and encourages businesses to place training groups right where they should be, at the heart of a growing, thriving, learning culture. These are the keys to innovation and long-term sustainability—and it is both an opportunity for trainers and learning developers to play a more significant role in the health and life of a business, and an opportunity for businesses to better leverage their personnel.

Join Dr. Allen Partridge, Adobe eLearning Evangelist, as he shares an overview of a skills-based approach to learning content development for businesses.

In this session you will learn:

  • An overview of the challenges L&D companies are facing today.

  • The keys in identifying and associating critical skills that are most likely to enable the achievement of business plans.

  • The opportunities for trainers and learning developers to play a more significant role in the health and life of a business.

Thursday, June 23, 2016, 11AM – 12PM PST: Training Evaluation Demystified: A Practical Approach to Showing the Value of Your Training (Free for ATD members)

During the 60 years that the Kirkpatrick Model has existed, people around the world have done their best to faithfully implement it. Unfortunately, what often occurs is little more than smile sheets, pre- and post-tests, and hope for the best. It does not need to be that way. In this webcast, you will learn practical techniques to connect training and evaluation to improved on-the-job performance and subsequent business results. You will also come away with a sample evaluation form and tips to better see how well your participants are reacting to your training and learning what they need to do back on the job. You’ll learn to:

  • Begin all programs with a focus on having an impact on Kirkpatrick Level 4 results.

  • Create a strong Level 3 on-the-job application plan.

  • Streamline methods for evaluating Levels 1 and 2 to free up resources for a Level 3 plan.

Friday, June 24, 2016, 11AM – 12PM PST: Flipping Meetings for Maximum Effect (Free for ATD members)

Are your meetings inefficient and ineffective? Is death by PowerPoint your reality? Flipped learning has taken the world by storm and is radically changing training across all sectors. In this webcast, you’ll learn from Jon Bergmann, a pioneer in flipped learning, how to make meetings useful, productive, and important.

Tuesday, June 28, 2016, 10AM – 11AM PST: 6 Rules to Designing e-Learning for Maximum Motivation

In an individualized learning setting, like asynchronous web-based training programs, active learner engagement is necessary for learning to occur. So while it is important for the instructional designer to get the content “right,” it is even more vital (and usually more challenging) to design interactivity to draw in the learner to commit to the authentic behaviour needed for learning to occur.

 In this webinar, Ethan Edwards will explore the importance of motivation in the design framework for e-learning and present six rules for creating maximally motivating e-learning, which will be illustrated through several successful corporate e-learning courses.

In this webinar, learn to:

  • Analyze the importance of motivation in an e-learning design framework.

  • Examine design considerations for the six rules for creating maximally motivating e-learning solutions.

  • Apply these six rules to your e-learning designs:

    • Say Less

    • Make the Interactions More Challenging

    • Delay Judgment

    • Design Content-Rich Intrinsic Feedback

    • Create Levels of Difficulty

    • Give More Control to Learner

Tuesday, June 28, 2016, 11AM – 12PM PST: How to Achieve the Training Trifecta: Great Content, Simple Technology, and Dedicated Leadership (Free for ATD members)

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.

Tuesday, June 28, 2016, 10AM – 11AM PST: Why HR Should Talk to IT, and How to Do It

HR is not becoming a more data-centric profession; it already is. But people data is still data, and the tools we use, the structure of information systems, and the policies and procedures governing proper data usage is relatively consistent regardless of type. Knowing how information is stored, processed, and secured within our organizations is necessary for modern HR professionals, and this webinar will help you understand how interacts with IT, and the best practices for people data governance.

Attendees of this webinar will:

  • Learn the core concepts of data governance.

  • See the research that shows the importance of proper governance.

  • Understand how systems control the data, and how to use that data across functions.

  • Discuss the implications of the relationship between HR and IT in a cloud-based solution.

  • Review some issues regarding data privacy, and how regulations may affect our roles in the future.

Wednesday, June 29, 2016, 10AM – 11AM PST: Best of FocusOn Learning DemoFest 2016: Award-Winning Learning in Action

This year at FocusOn Learning Conference & Expo, dozens of conference participants will show off their unique mobile learning, performance support, and video learning projects at DemoFest, offering their fellow attendees the opportunity to see a wide variety of solutions to common learning challenges, and sharing information about the tools, technologies, and processes used to build them.

Meet several of this year’s winners in the complimentary Best of DemoFest Webinar. Learn about their award-winning projects and get some great ideas to apply to your work!

Wednesday, June 29, 2016, 11AM – 12PM PST: The Neuroscience of Quality Conversations (Free for ATD members)

Companies everywhere are searching for ways to improve employee performance. Many view employee ratings and bonuses as the solution, but they aren’t the answer. Perhaps the problem is that we’re not tackling the issue where it’s hardest: improving the quality of managerial conversations. This webcast will be a deep dive into the latest neuroscience research around “connecting better.” It will highlight insights from nearly two decades of research around quality performance conversations, including how to:

  • Minimize threat in the brain during difficult conversations.

  • Refocus conversations to promote a growth mindset.

  • Facilitate insight, motivate action, and develop sustainable new habits in others.

This event will be live only on June 29, 2016, with no archived recording available. 

Thursday, June 30, 2016, 10AM – 11AM PST: Learner-Centric Programs that Drive Revenue and Power Sales Performance

For organizations with dedicated sales teams, training has often posed a serious challenge. How beneficial is it to pull sales people off the road or off the phone for days at a time and stick them in a class or a course? Sales professionals need timely, relevant learning experiences that enable their work, not interrupt it. Thankfully, a new wave of technology and a resurgence of learner-centric thinking is making that more possible.

Join David Wentworth, Principal Analyst with Brandon Hall Group, as he examines state of learning today and how we can use technology to create engaging experiences that can provide meaningful engagements for the salesforce. By tailoring these experiences to the needs of the learners, learning can result in tangible outcomes for the business.

Discussion topics include:

  • The state of learning technology.

  • Opportunities with social, mobile and informal learning.

  • Creating personalized, relevant experiences.

  • Tying experiences to measurable outcomes.

  • Examples of companies putting these strategies into practice.

Thursday, June 30, 2016, 10AM – 11AM PST: THE SEEKERS: How to Support the New Learners in Modern Organizations

Employees within modern organizations become seekers of immediate solutions and constant improvement of their work. The rapid demand, constant change, accelerating career paths and abundance of technologies allow them to “skip" traditional learning and training. Their organizations encourage them and provide opportunities to grow.

Unfortunately, most trainers with more traditional methods are unable to support the seekers. Instead, they discourage their growth and eventually lose them to competitors.

Topics covered:

  • Know the difference between modern and old training and learning methods employed in organizations

  • Learn to contrast: seeker styles with learning styles and differentiate workflow applications from content learning.

  • Identify your approach: explainer or inducer, hoarder or expounder of information.

  • Learn the seven attributes of the seekers.

  • Understand the learning flow or inclinations of the seekers.

  • Incorporate adjustments to your learning environments to support the seekers.

Attend the webinar and take a self-reflection survey: “The Seekers.”