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So much to do, and only 28 days to do it! February has a way of suckering us into thinking we’re on top of things and then — whoops, it’s March already. If you’re working hard but wondering if there are easier/better ways to perform tasks or even ideate and create, why not sign up for a free webinar to get some ideas? There are plenty on offer this month.

Wednesday, February 1, 2023, 11 a.m.–12 p.m. PT: Fast Start Sales Strategy: Five Focus Areas for Sales Leaders
Sales strategy isn’t something that sales leaders can set and forget. It takes a decisive start and continual focus to achieve sales growth objectives. With many potential strategies to choose from, how do you decide where to focus your time and resources? In this session, with Amy Franko, Founder and CEO of Amy Franko Associates, you’ll learn:

Five focus areas that you as sales leader can use to guide your sales managers and their teams to sales growth in the coming year.
Key questions to consider as you make decisions on where to invest your resources.
Best practices for monitoring strategy and making course corrections as needed.

Wednesday, February 1, 2023, 11 a.m.–12 p.m. PT: Turbocharge Employee Performance with Knowledge in the Flow of Work (Free for ATD members)
One of the big challenges with employee training is that humans may retain only 2% of what they learn just a month later. A modern knowledge hub that delivers contextually relevant information and process guidance in the flow of work complements training to transform employee effectiveness and performance. Evan Siegel, Vice President of AI Solutions for Financial Services at eGain, will showcase how the duo can turn employees into super-employees. In this webinar, you’ll:

Learn what a knowledge hub is.
Examine why it’s an essential complement to training.
Discover how knowledge hubs and training can be used together to boost employee effectiveness.

Tuesday, February 7, 2023, 11 a.m.–12 p.m. PT: Enabling Inclusive Learning in Microsoft Teams (Free for ATD members)
Building an inclusive learning culture also requires organizations to continuously learn from their people and embrace learner diversity in all forms — race, ethnicity, gender, disability, socioeconomic background, ideology and even personality traits. Join LMS365’s Ping Lee, Southeast US and LATAM Business Manager, and Rachel Doss, CMP, Customer Success Manager (CSM), to explore how your own cultural-bound assumptions affect your interactions with learners. You’ll walk away with a road map for modifying course materials, activities, assignments and quizzes to be more accessible in Microsoft Teams.

Wednesday, February 8, 2023, 10:30 a.m.–11:30 a.m. PT: Building Micro Narratives and Gameworlds for Immersive Serious Games (Free for I4PL members)
Serious games use engagement loops to motivate learners and to help them organize knowledge. David Chandross, Ph.D, faculty member in the Masters Program in Digital Media at Ryerson University, will show you how to build micro narratives for training to simulate job skill performance. This webinar will include information on locating art and music sources, integrating plot lines with training, using stealth assessment to capture performance and designing a meta-narrative.

Wednesday, February 8, 2023, 11 a.m.–12 p.m. PT: Unleash Your Inner Tyrant! (Free for ATD members)
Unleash Your Inner Tyrant! — the first book of its kind — helps managers and executives become better leaders by revealing everything they should avoid. Jeff Havens, CEO of The Jeff Havens Company, will cover four main areas of leadership, culture creation, communication, crisis management and change management. This session will help drive employee engagement with an unparalleled delivery style that will have you laughing while learning how to become a more effective leader. You’ll learn:

How to deliver effective constructive criticism.
The pitfalls (and benefits) of micromanagement.
How to position change as positive and natural rather than difficult or negative.
The three key drivers of employee engagement, regardless of industry.

Wednesday, February 8, 2023, 12 p.m.–1 p.m. PT: Advanced Infographics
Advanced infographics goes beyond pretty pictures. Its focus is on goals, messaging, content and story. Learn to engage your audience instantly. Make them want to learn more. Improve understanding, recollection and adoption. In this fast-paced session with Mike Parkinson, Owner of Billion Dollar Graphics, you’ll learn to turn words and ideas into clear, compelling infographics. Get curated inspiration and step-by-step instructions. Lastly, discover tools and techniques to render your new infographics.

Tuesday, February 14, 2023, 11 a.m.–12 p.m. PT: Transforming Tech Experts Into Skilled Business Leaders (Free for ATD members)
Typically, a technical professional is promoted to a manager role because they excel in a functional role, but managing people and delivering results through a team requires an entirely new skillset. Tech leaders need to be able to explain how writing a piece of code can enable an organization to deliver on its business goals or speak to senior leadership to make a business case for their team’s work. Join Rashim Mogha, General Manager of Skillsoft Leadership and Business Solutions, for an informative discussion on the best practices for developing technical talent into skilled business leaders.

Wednesday, February 15, 2023, 10 a.m.–11 a.m. PT: Three Dirty Secrets About Modernizing L&D
The landscape of corporate training is changing, thanks to evolving learner expectations and technologies. By considering the modern learning organization as a system, rather than a series of events, learning and development (L&D) can adapt to address these changes. Join Tom Whelan, Ph.D., Director of Corporate Research at Training Industry, Inc., as he shares insights from a recent research report, The Anatomy of the Modern Learning System and how it relates to three “dirty secrets” about modernizing L&D in today’s organizations.

Wednesday, February 15, 2023, 10:30 a.m.–11:30 a.m. PT: Heroic Leadership Is Dead: How to Cultivate Collective Leadership (Free for I4PL members)
For decades, the military model of hierarchy and heroic leadership has permeated organizations and the way leaders are developed. Focusing on individualized leadership learning, although helpful, isn’t enough in today’s increasingly complex world of work. Leadership development programs must expand outside of the box of developing the individual to cultivate collective networks of leaders in order to help organizations drive culture, innovation, collaboration and change. Glain Roberts-McCabe, Founder and President of The Roundtable, will explore how to expand the impact of existing leadership programs in order to meet the needs of a new generation of leaders and learners.

Wednesday, February 15, 2023, 11 a.m.–12 p.m. PT: Do Less: Why Prioritization Is a Top Leadership Skill in 2023 (Free for ATD members)
Now more than ever, leaders are struggling to meet productivity goals with fewer resources in a fast-changing business environment. As a result, many leaders report feeling burned out in their roles. The problem lies in the overwhelming number of projects and competing priorities faced by today’s leaders. Better prioritization — the ability to identify and invest in initiatives with the greatest return on investment (ROI) — is the skill that all leaders should develop to drive better results and thrive at work. In this webinar, you’ll learn how to:

Provide insight into what it means when leaders say they don’t have time.
Identify the specific skills your leaders need to prioritize effectively.
Explain how the 60/30/10 rule increases productivity.

Wednesday, February 15, 2023, 12 p.m.–1 p.m. PT: The Art of Writing Effective Assessment Questions for Elearning
Debbie Richards, Chief Technology Officer at Creative Interactive Ideas, will discuss the different types of assessments that can be used, the advantages and disadvantages of each, and the design process for creating an effective assessment. She’ll also explore the importance of appropriate feedback in assessment design. She’ll look at the use of technology to deliver assessments and the role of analytics in assessment design. Finally, she’ll discuss how to use assessments to measure the impact of learning and development initiatives.

Thursday, February 16, 2023, 12 p.m.–1 p.m. PT: Four Cases to Author Elearning Content — Faster, Easier and Highly Interactive
Articulate Storyline and Adobe Captivate have become dominant authoring tools that many rely on. Falling in love with them isn’t a bad choice. However, it blinds you to other tools that are cheaper, faster and more interactive — the new-generation methods. In this webinar, Ray Jimenez, Ph.D., Architect of TrainingMagNetwork.com and Chief Learning Officer of Vignettes Learning, will share four case studies on how the tools he has used have helped meet the specific needs of instructional designers, developers and leaders in certain scenarios.

Tuesday, February 21, 2023, 12 p.m.–1 p.m. PT: Hunting for a New Authoring Tool? Which One Is Right for You?
Once you start with a solid instructional design strategy, which tool best supports your current and future vision? And most importantly, which tool will help you execute it efficiently? While there are many great authoring tools to develop elearning, they widely vary in focus, approach, strengths and weaknesses. Skill level, time constraints and price are typical factors, but what else do you need to know? Join Chrisanna Paxton McMillin, M.S.Ed, President of D3 Training Solutions, to review ten considerations to help you make the right choice. She has used all the major authoring tools throughout her career and can help you make a great choice.

Wednesday, February 22, 2023, 11 a.m.–12 p.m. PT: Let Learners Lead: Lessons From Microsoft’s Social Learning Frontier (Free for ATD members)
Social learning happens every day, but it’s not always by design. How do we harness the richness of social learning to guide learners’ growth and performance? David Linder, Co-Founder and Creative Director of Sublime Media, and Jason Gray, Senior Learning Development Consultant at Microsoft, will delve into how Sublime Media and Microsoft crafted a facilitator-free L&D cohort program that prioritizes community over traditional learning objectives. They’ll reveal how they designed meaningful social learning opportunities for Microsoft’s Aspire Pi program.

Thursday, February 23, 2023, 9 a.m.–10 a.m. PT: Improving the Approach of Your Virtual Classrooms for 2023
Virtual classrooms have dominated training delivery for a few years. Still, one of the challenges with virtual classrooms, or any digital learning, is that many people are trying just to replicate a physical classroom experience — webcams and open microphones — and not adapting to make the most of the technology. The other big challenge is in our own approach to understanding how current training and learning skills convert to work well in the virtual classroom. These challenges are what virtual classroom specialist Jo Cook, Founder of Lightbulb Moment Limited, will tackle in this interactive webinar.

Thursday, February 23, 2023, 10 a.m.–11 a.m. PT: Hybrid Learning: Where Are You Now?
This first installment of Training Industry’s Conversation Series will explore hybrid learning challenges and possible solutions in depth through the stories of other learning leaders. During the discussion, you’ll find out how organizations plan to continue using hybrid learning as a training method and how they addressed or plan to address common challenges like learner engagement, equitable learning experiences, collaboration, and social elements and facilitation skills. Join this webinar to benchmark your hybrid programs and gain advice from your peers to aid in your journey to keep pace with the needs of your learners.

Thursday, February 23, 2023, 12 p.m.–1 p.m. PT: The Impeding Skills Gap — What to Know
With the acceleration of change in today’s world, companies lacking strong skills training programs will find themselves falling behind. It’s no longer viable to simply hire your way out of a skills gap. Find out how continually training staff can increase employee retention, improve productivity, grow revenues and prepare your organization to react nimbly to the changes ahead. Pamela Conway, Chief Learning Officer at Intellezy, will discuss how you can:

Identify a variety of reasons why training is critical to today’s business success.
Describe the differences between reskill, upskill, new skill and cross skill.
Understand why hiring to close skill gaps isn’t always practical.
Identify ways corporate learning and development positively affects revenue growth and employee retention.

Tuesday, February 28, 2023, 10 a.m.–11 a.m. PT: A Case Study on Blended Learning: The Power of Emotional Intelligence
As a result of digitalization and deeper globalization, there’s more emphasis now on being able to communicate, collaborate and think critically both online and in person. While technology can sometimes be frustrating, it has greatly enhanced the ability as learners to access a wide range of training programs and development opportunities that otherwise would not be available. Join Janice Gair PCC, CPHR, Co-Founder of El Advantage, as she presents a case study to demonstrate customized training and coaching programs based on the MHS EQi 2.0 assessment to create rich learning and development opportunities using a mix of online and onsite formats to stay current.

Tuesday, February 28, 2023, 11 a.m.–12 p.m. PT: The Secrets of High-Performing Teams in Hybrid or Remote Environments (Free for ATD members)
Building high-performing teams is hard. Shifting to remote and hybrid work has made it even more difficult as strategies have shifted. In this webinar, Ben Lowell of BookClub will discuss the characteristics of high-performing teams, what changes and stays the same on hybrid or remote teams, and provide strategies you can use with your organization.

Tuesday, February 28, 2023, 12 p.m.–1 p.m. PT: Designing Slides Without Bullet Points
Put an end once and for all to slides filled with bullet points. Microsoft PowerPoint MVP Nolan Haims, Principal of Nolan Haims Creative, will take you into his design process for approaching text-heavy slides without resorting to tired bulleted lists. Learn how professional designers approach PowerPoint, create dynamic slides, and minimize word count through software techniques and design strategies. You’ll learn how to: