Free L&D webinars for December 2019

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If you’re in denial that this year almost done, you’re not alone! If it wasn’t obvious from the festive lights and holiday songs, we’ve got one month left this year. So, are you sprinting to max out your productivity before 2020 hits? Or diving into the shortbread? A bit of both?

December is notoriously busy, but if you find yourself with a free hour, why not check out a free webinar? It might get you thinking about your business now in the future.

Monday, December 2, 2019, 11:00AM – 11:30AM PT: DEMO: Personalized Development Programs: Why Learning Alone Isn’t Enough (Free for ATD members)
Today’s work environment creates several learning and development challenges. How do you continuously build skills and competencies, and create an engaging user experience for high adoption? How do you better ensure manager and leadership engagement? The key is to connect your L&D programs to the experiences your people want. Join Jordan Wade, Sr. Product Manager, Instructure, to discover how effective talent development comes to life by connecting career planning, enabling meaningful connections, facilitating continuous performance management, and bringing all your learning programs into one cohesive experience.

Tuesday, December 3, 2019, 9AM – 10AM PT: Is Your Training Truly Participant Centred? Four Vital Signs to Measure PC Health!
Ever noticed how physical examinations always start with the doctor or nurse checking your pulse rate, respiration, and temperature? Those vital signs of health are critical to the body working. In your training world, there are also vital signs of health. When you PC vitals are healthy, retention and application improve dramatically. In this webinar with Becky Pike Pluth, President and CEO, The Bob Pike Group, you’ll:

  • Examine four vital signs of participant-centred training.

  • Explore six ideas you can use to put people in charge of their own learning.

  • Discover the biggest threats to engagement and retention.

Tuesday, December 3, 2019, 10AM – 11AM PT: Ask Me Anything! Elearning Best Practices
Many of you are planning your training and education programs for 2020, and may want to ask an expert for advice. In this first Ask Me Anything session, Erin Melvin, Director of Client Engagement, will focus on general best practices in elearning and answer some of the questions you’ve submitted over the past few months, as well as many live questions as time allows. This session is ideal for LMS administrators and course/content creators. Some topics covered will be:

  • Building a community of practice.

  • Training needs analysis.

  • Getting started with competency frameworks.

Tuesday, December 3, 2019, 10AM – 11AM PT: Delivering the Best Candidate Experience Starts Now
An effective candidate experience improves the levels of quality hires, engaged employees, employee retention and business revenue. But what goes into an effective candidate experience, and how does it play into the overall employee experience? Join guest speakers, Cliff Stevenson, Principal Analyst for Brandon Hall Group, and Nick Hutchinson, Head of Solution Consulting for Talent Acquisition, Saba Software, as they take a deep dive into the candidate experience, starting from the moment a new potential employee first hears of your organization all the way through to recruiting, hiring, and on-boarding processes.

Tuesday, December 3, 2019, 12PM – 1PM PT: Age of Disruption: Innovation Lessons from the Retail Industry
The retail apocalypse has wreaked industry-wide havoc. Retailers are facing unique challenges in today’s volatile business world. Brand loyalty has become a thing of the past, while industry trends seem to shift by the day. Keeping up with the pace of change can feel next to impossible. Join ExperiencePoint’s Master Facilitators, Tom Merrill and Keith Laplante, for a lively discussion on:

  • The forces that have contributed to retail disruption.

  • Lessons that every organization can learn from the retail apocalypse.

  • How companies can use human-centered thinking as a competitive advantage to drive record growth through innovation.

  • The potential barriers to innovation and how to overcome them.

Wednesday, December 4, 2019, 9AM – 10AM PT: Create Stunning Interactions in Minutes Using Adobe Captivate (Free for ATD members)
Adding interactions to your elearning courses can make them interesting and engaging for learners, but it can be time-consuming and challenging. Join Allen Partridge, Head of Evangelism, Digital Learning Solutions, Adobe, to learn about simple ways to add interactivity to your elearning courses. You’ll learn how to use interactive objects, multistate objects, drag-and-drops, simple actions, and automatic forced navigation in Adobe Captivate. Tips and tricks to quickly convert drab and boring content into vibrant interactive elearning without using any advanced features will also be covered.

Wednesday, December 4, 2019, 9AM – 10AM PT: The Pro’s Guide to LMS Implementation
Launching a new LMS can be a daunting task, but it doesn’t have to be one you face alone. Perfect for LMS administrators, this webinar will provide you with the best practices to follow before, during and after the launch of the Totara Learn LMS. WCG’s Tricia Lalli will take you through everything you need to get your users from login to course completion, including how to achieve a smooth launch and how to keep things moving forward and improving for the long-term.

Wednesday, December 4, 2019, 9AM – 10AM PT: What Caused the ROI? Techniques to Isolate the Effects of Your Programs
Most talent development programs are linked to business measures. While business measures may improve after a program’s implemented, unless evaluators take steps to isolate the effects of the project on that improvement, they’ve no credible claim to the improvement – leaving stakeholders to wonder, “What caused it?” In this session, Dr. Patti Phillips, CEO, ROI Institute, Inc., will explain techniques to isolate the effects of talent development programs so business partners may better allocate resources to different programs. Case studies will demonstrate each technique. Participants will calculate the improvement in business measures as described in the case studies.

Wednesday, December 4, 2019, 10AM – 11AM PT: How to Jump-Start Recruitment and Development of Women Leaders
Gender equity in corporate leadership is proven to improve business results, but most employers struggle to hire and retain women for key senior leadership roles. Only 14% have a woman CEO and most organizations have less than 20% women in their C-suites. Most other senior roles for women are in traditional female roles such as HR and marketing. Only one in five employers has a woman in a senior IT or data security role.

Many barriers to improvement exist, but a major one is lack of targeted efforts to recruit and retain women leaders. Recruiting leaders need tools to more effectively attract, recruit, hire and engage high-potential women. This webinar will include a variety of perspectives, including data, case studies and insights from Brandon Hall Group’s industry-leading Women in Leadership research. Contributors will include Kerry Gilliam, Director of Marketing at Talemetry, Ashley Walvoord, Director of Global Talent Acquisition Strategy for Verizon, and Brandon Hall Group’s Rachel Cooke, Claude Werder, and Cliff Stevenson.

Wednesday, December 4, 2019, 12PM – 1PM PT: Maintaining Employee Engagement in Online Professional Development
Employee engagement levels are early indicators of online training success. Engaged learners maintain their interest in professional development and make time to stay the course in order to add new skills and advance their careers. Join Melanie Rogers, Training Team Lead for Rosetta Stone, as she shares with you how increasing learner engagement in your online professional development programs can translate into improved business and employee performance.

Thursday, December 5, 2019, 9AM – 10AM PT: Structured for Success Part 3: New Hire Orientation for a Global Organization
Having a great onboarding program’s essential to any organization. Imagine if every new hire came to work excited and ready to contribute. Your learning and development team plays a big part in making sure new hires feel welcome and prepared. In this session, Katrina Baker, Lead Learning Evangelist, Adobe, will discuss how to:

  • Prevent cognitive overload by spreading out the onboarding process.

  • Efficiently deliver a 90-day onboarding program that’s high touch and customized to the learner.

  • Scale an onboarding program to accommodate a global workforce.

  • Use learning technology to organize onboarding logistics and save time.

  • Coordinate with other teams who own part of the onboarding process.

  • Give learners immediate access to mentors, microlearning and classes that suit their schedule.

Tuesday, December 10, 2019, 9AM – 10AM PT: Secrets for Using Video to Flip Your Employee Training, Onboarding and More
The latest buzz in employee training is turning the traditional classroom teaching structure on its head. After a decade of proving its worth in higher education, the “Flipped Classroom” has finally come to the workplace. To give you a head start — and get you thinking about ways you can make the flip in your own learning and development programs — be sure to join Panopto’s Steve Rozillis, Head of Customer Evangelism, Panopto, for this top-to-bottom review of the flipped classroom.

Tuesday, December 10, 2019, 10AM – 11AM PT: Managing the Digitization of Learning
As the modern learning environment evolves, we don’t see an abandonment of instructor-led training or virtual classrooms. In fact, these are still the most commonly used methods for delivering training. Instead, we’re seeing a digitization of these elements, as well as the optimization and management of the learning environment. Instead of focusing on new technologies at the expense of more traditional modalities, companies need to figure out how things like ILT will themselves evolve and fit into this modern ecosystem. Join Claude Werder, VP and Principal Analyst with Brandon Hall Group, Barb Farley, Director of Conduent Learning Services, and Stephan Pineau, CEO of Training Orchestra, as they look at how the transformation of learning offers an opportunity for companies to digitally enable the management of learning operations and logistics, traditional ILT and VILT, rather than leave them behind.

Wednesday, December 11, 2019, 9AM – 10AM PT: Creating Screencast and Application Simulation Using Adobe Captivate
You’ve got to love a great screen capture/application simulation. But what about the bad ones? Getting amazing application simulations isn’t always as easy as you might think. What are the essentials to the creation of a slick, smooth and effective application capture training? How much of it can be automated and what should you do to ensure that your application capture projects are the best they can be? Join Dr. Allen Partridge, Head of Adobe Digital learning Solutions Evangelism, for this introduction to amazing Application Simulations. You’ll learn how to create effective application simulation-based training material including demos, practice opportunities and evaluations. This step-by-step demo will walk you through the process, giving you tips on every aspect from capture to deployment.

Wednesday, December 11, 2019, 9AM – 10AM PT: Structured for Success: Organizing a Global Training Team and Program (Free for ATD members)
Many organizations are becoming global, which means your L&D team may eventually span multiple countries and time zones. Efficiently managing a global team requires some change management on the part of L&D leadership. If you’re preparing for such a change, Katrina Baker, Senior Learning Evangelist, Adobe, will provide tips to help you:

  • Facilitate efficient global communication and project planning.

  • Structure team meetings so they provide maximum value.

  • Create follow-the-sun workflows and recurring tasks that ensure team coordination.

  • Structure major global training initiatives.

  • Organize a training calendar and course catalogues that cater to multiple worldwide audiences.

Wednesday, December 11, 2019, 10AM – 11AM PT: Mapping and Building the Future of Skills
People are our organizations’ greatest investment to combat competition and the status quo, in today’s increasingly unsteady global markets. Yet, our people want skills that increase their employability and prepare them for the future of work because jobs are being overtaken by automation. The learning industry’s quickly becoming the face of this new future skills economy. L&D needs to spark innovation to support and grow skills (future and in-demand skills) and enable our organizations as key business partners. Join David Wentworth, Principal Learning Analyst with Brandon Hall Group, Jenna Drapkin, Client Success Manager at Degreed, and Tracy Terry, Director of CDM Smith University, to explore how technology’s creating a new future skills economy and the ways in which L&D can support learning for the future.

Wednesday, December 11, 2019, 10:30 – 11:30 PT: Future-Proof Your L&D Career (Free for I4PL members)
As organizations put increasing demands for the effectiveness and value of learning programs, the skills of the learning professional need to change as well. Learning professionals, whether in-house L&D teams or consultants, trainers or coaches, need to be able to design and develop programs that deliver measurable organizational change and impact. If you’re a learning professional, consultant, coach or trainer looking to stay ahead of the curve in the rapidly changing learning industry, you’ll want to join this webinar, hosted by Chris Taylor, Founder and CEO of Actionable.co, and Alyssa Burkus, Head of Learning Strategy at Actionable.co, to understand the trends and influences shaping our world, and how to evolve your skills in order to stay competitive and deliver compelling learning solutions.

Wednesday, December 11, 2019, 12PM – 1PM PT: The Critical 1% Learning Skill in 70/20/10
Experts tell us that learners learn 70% from on-the-job experience, 20% from others and 10% from formal learning. The proposition is that L&D needs to refocus on performance. This means doing less of instructional methods and more on experience-based approaches. The challenge is that many designers, developers and L&D specialists apply more instruction disguised as 70/20/10 activities. Another issue is that 70/20/10 relies heavily on informal and social learning that tends to be less structured and more fluid. This makes it difficult for L&D specialists to discover, implement and repeat its successes. As a result, organizations are missing the values as proposed by the 70/20/10 methods. Ray Jimenez, Ph.D., Architect of TrainingMagNetwork.com, Chief Learning Officer of Vignettes Learning, will offer insights from understanding the applications of the 1% critical learning skills in 70/20/10.

Thursday, December 12, 2019, 8AM – 9AM PT: Physician Leadership Challenges (Free for ATD members)
For healthcare organizations, a physician’s ability to quickly connect in a meaningful manner affects patient compliance, interprofessional teamwork effectiveness, and overall organizational safety and quality. The key is to bridge that skill to a consumer-centric environment where the challenge is communicating with others who don’t have the same academic and clinical language base and context. Learning and organization development (L&OD) professionals are sometimes challenged with how to connect and design for this learner population. How does L&OD implement a valued educational experience for physicians and physician leaders? Join Christina Barss, VP, Chief Learning Officer, Atrium Health, to explore the physician experience and discuss the importance of verbal and non-verbal communication in their everyday interactions.

Thursday, December 12, 2019, 10AM – 11AM PT: Measuring Learning’s True Impact
Organizations continue to struggle to effectively measure their learning programs. Companies have access to more data than ever before but are no closer to being able to show the impact learning is having on the business. Simply reporting course completions is no longer enough. To be successful, organizations need to capture data around how people are interacting with learning and the impact it’s having on their behaviour and performance. The only way to secure the budget and resources L&D will need for 2020 is to be able to show the impact on the business. Join David Wentworth, Principal Learning Analyst with Brandon Hall Group, as he looks at how successful companies are able to make the connection between learning and outcomes.

Monday, December 16, 2019, 11AM – 12PM PT: What’s It Worth: Demonstrating the ROI of Your Programs (Free for ATD members)
You run a program, and as a result, productivity improves. But what’s that improvement really worth? Here’s where ROI comes in. While ROI has a long history of use, it remains one of the most misunderstood and misrepresented metrics in the learning and development data dictionary. During this webinar, you’ll learn what ROI is, what it’s not, and how to make it work. Join Patti Phillips, CEO and president of ROI Institute, as she describes ROI and the ROI Methodology.

Tuesday, December 17, 2019, 9AM – 10AM PT: It’s Not You... Well, Actually, It Is You: The Art of Helping People Change
Is allegiance to the status quo paralyzing your organization? Are you tired of settling for compliance? Do you crave committed and needed change? In this webinar, hosted by Mitch Warner, Managing Partner and Author, The Arbinger Institute, you’ll learn about proven, practical tools to influence change in individuals and across organizations. You’ll come to fully understand that to effectively influence others to change, we must let ourselves be changed — and that one of the best ways to change ourselves is to truly focus on others’ needs, challenges, and objectives. By the end of this session, you’ll have been introduced to tools that will help you change your own perspectives and then invite others to change in ways that reduce resistance and inspire commitment rather than compliance.

Tuesday, December 17, 2019, 12PM – 1PM PT: Mapping and Building the Future of Skills (Free for ATD members)
People are our organizations’ greatest investment to combat competition and the status quo, in today’s increasingly unsteady global markets. Yet, our people want skills that increase their employability and prepare them for the future of work because jobs are being overtaken by automation. The learning industry’s quickly becoming the face of this new future skills economy. L&D needs to spark innovation to support and grow skills (future and in-demand skills) and enable our organizations as key business partners. Join Caroline Soares, Director, Learning Services, Degreed, and Darren Nerland, Learning Strategist, Degreed, to explore how technology’s creating a new future-skills economy and the ways in which L&D can support learning for the future.

Wednesday, December 18, 2019, 9AM – 10AM PT: Deliberate Fun: A Purposeful Approach to Gamifying Learning Experiences
When it comes to creating gamified or game-based learning experiences, most practitioners throw game mechanics at a program without a methodology or rational strategy and hope it’ll work. They assume that what’s fun for them will be fun for their participants. The result is a hit-or-miss mashup and a messy learner experience. When budgets and time are in short supply, organizations can no longer afford such an approach. This webinar, hosted by Monica Cornetti, Founder and CEO, Sententia Gamification, and Jonathan Peters, Chief Motivation Officer, Sententia Gamification, outlines a practical approach to determining which game mechanics will motivate a targeted audience. Instead of trying to force everyone to play, you’ll create experiences they want to engage with.

Wednesday, December 18, 2019, 11AM – 12PM PT: How to Fuel Sales Growth in 2020 with Agile Learning
It’s not enough to "set it and forget it" when it comes to sales readiness. Learning must be agile and continuous to ensure salespeople remain equipped to succeed in an ever-evolving world. In this webinar, Jake Miller, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Allego, will reveal how an agile approach to learning, content and collaboration can help ensure that reps are not only well trained, but have the right content and insights at their fingertips to help them handle any sales scenario thrown their way.

Wednesday, December 18, 2019, 12PM – 1PM PT: The Art and Science of Coaching
Coaching’s now a $2 billion dollar global juggernaut. Yet, despite a growing body of scientific literature, confusion remains: What is professional coaching, what does it do, and what separates real evidence-based 1:1 human coaching from imitators and AI-driven bots that serve up motivational quotes? Join Training Magazine, as well as Sarah Greenberg, Lead Coach, and Joshua Steinfeldt, Community Coach at BetterUp, as we unpack the truth about coaching and explore what makes it different from other Learning & Development interventions in the marketplace.