Free learning & development webinars for March 2022
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Did you get everything done in February? Or did that short little month result in some whirlwind work? Regardless of the scramble, it’s nice to say goodbye to wintry February and jump into a capacious 31-day month like March — with spring at the end of the tunnel! So, what are you going to do with the last of your winter? If you happen to have some extra time, why not try a free webinar or two?
Tuesday, March 1, 2022, 8 a.m.–9 a.m. PT: Intersections in Learning with Sion Dayson
Sion Dayson is an American voice actor based in Valencia, Spain. Specializing in elearning and corporate narration, she has voiced projects for clients including ACUE, Ascend Learning, Blinkist, CHG Healthcare, CloudPay, LG, the National Academy of Sports Medicine, Pearson, Western University of Health Sciences and more. Sion previously worked as a writer and has taught EFL and creative writing in France and Spain. Her passions for storytelling and service make voiceover her dream career.
Tuesday, March 1, 2022, 9 a.m.–10 a.m. PT: Standing the Test of Time: Engagement Tips for Elearning Longevity
While continuous professional development increasingly resonates with the modern workforce, engaging learners for the long term continues to pose a challenge among employers whose teams are likely already juggling a variety of priorities. Fortunately, the elearning market continues to diversify, creating more opportunities for creative content, customizable solutions and increased engagement in order to supercharge online training. Join Open LMS’ Amy Tessitore, Senior Manager of Engagement Services, and Claire Kruse, Senior Manager of Support Services, as they explore the latest trends, tips and strategies to bolster engagement and future-proof your learning programs.
Tuesday, March 1, 2022, 11 a.m.–12 p.m. PT: Shattering the Top Four Misconceptions About Culture, Teams and Success (Free for ATD members)
As organizations continue to navigate change and manage hybrid work environments, leaders are focusing on how to maintain a positive culture, which can make or break team collaboration, interdepartmental communication and overall success. However, many organizations are not approaching these initiatives strategically from the start, by asking the right questions and focusing on the deeper issues at hand. This webinar, with TalentSmartEQ’s Josh Rosenthal, Director of Training and Emotional Intelligence Expert, and Dr. Maggie Sass, Executive Vice President of Applied Research, shatters the most common misconceptions that hinder organizations’ success.
Wednesday, March 2, 2022, 7:30 a.m.–7:50 a.m. PT: Gomo Authoring Feature Demo: Responsiveness
Ensuring learners can access great looking learning on any device is key to learner engagement and building a good learning culture in the modern workplace. Take a look at how Gomo effortlessly creates responsive elearning with this 20-minute live demo. The demo will cover:
How to create responsive elearning with Gomo.
Why responsive elearning content goes beyond “nice to have” in the modern workplace.
How the same course can look great on multiple devices.
Wednesday, March 2, 2022, 8 a.m.–9 a.m. PT: Community Member Showcase
Join TLDCast’s crowdcast as they feature Laura Middlesworth, Instructional Designer, Performance Consultant and Owner of IndieLo Design LLC. Laura designs, develops and implements learner-centred experiences aimed at creating change, improving performance and supporting success.
Wednesday, March 2, 2022, 9 a.m.–10 a.m. PT: Ten Ways to Thank Your Employees on Employee Appreciation Day
Employee Appreciation Day is March 4th, created by Dr. Bob Nelson, author and President of Nelson Motivation Inc., 27 years ago to remind employers everywhere about the importance of thanking their employees for the good work they do. That book is now in its 64th printing, with over two million copies sold and has been translated into over 25 languages worldwide. Dr. Nelson will be presenting a webinar on the topic of employee recognition, it’s importance in driving employee engagement and retention, and what recognition looks like in an increasingly hybrid workplace in which most professional employees work remotely either part- or full-time.
Wednesday, March 2, 2022, 10 a.m.–11 a.m. PT: Agile for Learning and Development
Traditional project-based, rigid approaches to developing learning experiences put extra strain on resources, slowing the process down. This results in disengaging experiences that are obsolete by the time they reach learners. With today’s unprecedented volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity, content development needs to be as nimble and adaptive as software development has become. Join David Wentworth, Principal Learning Analyst at Brandon Hall Group, and Kevin Doherty, Marketing Communications Manager with Vyond, as they look at what Agile is all about and how it can help create better learning experiences, faster.
Wednesday, March 2, 2022, 11 a.m.–12 p.m. PT: Three Fail-Proof Parts of an Upskilling Strategy (Free for ATD members)
Employee skills have emerged as the new currency for talent success. Accelerating the development of key skills is at the top of every talent leader’s agenda. Making an impact means focusing on critical skills gaps and using more effective training methods. If skills are the new currency, then we need an objective way to measure skills proficiency — and to deploy this at scale in an automated way. Join Ann Bentzen-Bilkvist, Executive Learning Consultant, and Sowmya Sudhindranath, Chief Services Officer at ETU, for expert advice on honing your upskilling and reskilling strategy.
Wednesday, March 2, 2022, 12 p.m.–1 p.m. PT: Is Personalization in Virtual Learning Dead? How to Personalize Your Virtual Training to Get Impacts
Is personalization in learning dead? Most of our virtual learning is like a dump truck, “dumping” 95% garbage content. We rely heavily on technology to deliver content, but not on our personal experience of the content. In the process, we fail to get impacts in results because learners do not experience the “usefulness” of the content. In this webinar Dr. Ray Jimenez, Architect of TrainingMagNetwork.com and Chief Learning Officer of Vignettes Learning, will challenge your imagination and assumptions. You’ll obtain Ray’s Master Checklist in Personalizing Virtual Training.
Thursday, March 3, 2022, 12 p.m.–1 p.m. PT: Increase Retention and Relationships with Your Employees
Workers are leaving their jobs at a higher rate than typical at this time. Howard H. Prager, President of Advance Learning Group, has written Make Someone’s Day: Becoming a Memorable Leader in Work and Life to help all leaders and workplaces become more memorable, and in turn, desirable to retain employees. It’s a strategy that can inspire others in a way that causes them to say, “You made my day!” In this webinar, you’ll learn the VIP model and hear examples of retaining and motivating others through making someone's day, while at the same time, getting a spark of energy yourself. This is a win-win and a must for these trying of times.
Tuesday, March 8, 2022, 9 a.m.–10 a.m. PT: Video Killed the “Radio” Star — How Video-Based Practice Is Changing Learning
While traditional assessments can help with upskilling, companies such as Paychex, 3M, and Honeywell are getting superior results by using newer video-based practice and coaching techniques as an integral part of their L&D strategy. From sales pitches to soft skills, your learners can become rockstar communicators by applying and validating knowledge transfer using the unique benefits of video. Join Geoff Curless, SVP of Sales - Learning Solutions at Elearning Brothers, to find out how learners can use a video-based practice and coaching platform to incorporate feedback from mentors, instructors, SMEs and even artificial intelligence (AI) in real-time.
Tuesday, March 8, 2022, 10 a.m.–11 a.m. PT: Practice Makes Perfect: Making Learning Stick
Too often, organizations provide their people with training and send them out into the wild, hoping that they’ll be able to properly apply the skills and knowledge they’ve (hopefully) gained. Why aren’t we providing more opportunities for people to practice what they’ve learned? For any training effort, including sales enablement, leadership development and onboarding, practice makes perfect. Join David Wentworth, Principal Learning Analyst at Brandon Hall Group, and Jake Miller, Senior Product Marketing Manager at Allego, as they discuss how companies can leverage the art of practice to drive learning, improve coaching and create high quality learning content.
Tuesday, March 8, 2022, 11 a.m.–12 p.m. PT: Building an Award-Winning Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Program (Free for ATD members)
As we enter the third year of a pandemic with greater need and awareness around equity, fairness and social justice initiatives, the professional landscape and the expectations employees have from companies is changing. Diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) continues to be a rising focus for organizations, but they still fall short. Join Harper Wells, Director of Compliance Insights and Strategy at True Office Learning, to learn the strategy that recently won Brandon Hall’s Best Innovation in DEI award and how to incorporate its principles to build a culture that weaves DEI into the fabric of your company.
Wednesday, March 9, 2022, 7:30 a.m.–7:50 a.m. PT: Gomo Authoring Feature Demo: Translation and Localization
Providing consistent training in different languages used to be a complex challenge for businesses, but Gomo makes it easy. See how Gomo takes the hassle out of elearning content translation and localization with this 20-minute live demo. The demo will cover:
How Gomo makes it incredibly easy to create courses with multiple languages.
How Gomo supports language translation, including right-to-left languages.
How to build a course once and prepare it for distribution for a global audience, with the help of XLIFF.
How you can further localize content beyond language to make your learning truly relevant.
Wednesday, March 9, 2022, 9 a.m.–10 a.m. PT: Interactive Animations Using Adobe Animate and Captivate
If you look at video games today, virtually all games have animations built into them. While you can’t develop high-end animations, you can look at stepping up animations you see in simpler games, like card games. While tools like Captivate have animations built-in, they’re not interactive and are limited in what they can do. In this webinar, Phil Cowcill, Senior Elearning Specialist at Department of National Defence, Canada, will teach you the basics of making animations in Adobe Animate. He’ll show you how to export them so they can be used in tools such as Adobe Captivate and how to pass information from your Captivate project to the animation.
Wednesday, March 9, 2022, 10 a.m.–11 a.m. PT: Serious Games, Serious Impact: Keep Employees Engaged and Performing at Their Best — While Having Fun
The correlation between employee engagement and performance is no mystery — the more engaged professionals are, the better they perform. What if there were a way to combine the engagement instructor-led training provides with the accessibility elearning offers? There is — training video games. Meet Gamelearn, the very first company to turn training content into video game format, creating immersive (yet virtual) learning experiences. Join Gamelearn's Rachel Ann Kreis, CMO, Laura Perdomo, Customer Success Manager, and Julian Lorenzo, Account Executive, to build your very own serious game live with one of our game-based learning experts.
Wednesday, March 9, 2022, 10:30 a.m.–11:30 a.m. PT: Be an L&D Professional 101 (Free for I4PL members)
If you’re a new, skilled immigrant and/or a transitioning professional and want to know how to leverage your past experience to have a new career in L&D, then this session is for you. This webinar is to present a one-stop shop solution for all new professionals. In this session, Aishna Sharma, MBA, will cover the following:
Exploring the Canadian job market
Leveraging your existing skills
Making a résumé
Preparing for the interview
Thursday, March 10, 2022, 9 a.m.–10 a.m. PT: The Role of Webinar Producer (And What to Do If You Don’t Have One)
Whether it’s training for ten or thousands, The Bob Pike Group webinars include a producer in the background every time. Like a caddy to a golfer, a producer helps you avoid the bunkers of live virtual training. Join Becky Pike Pluth, President and CEO of The Bob Pike Group, to learn how you can play this essential role for colleagues or ramp someone up to assist you. During this webinar, you’ll learn:
The role and benefits of a webinar producer.
The four most important functions of a producer during live training.
Critical tasks producers do before and after every session.
What you can do if a producer is not possible.
Thursday, March 10, 2022, 10 a.m.–11 a.m. PT: Future-Proof Your L&D Program
Planning for the future is hard. Knowing what to look for in a learning partner can be even harder. Every workforce will need to change their skills and capabilities at some point in the next three years. In this session, Josefina Rodriguez Sturba and Spence Downs, Solutions Consultants at Docebo, will make the case for why any future-focused learning solution should offer:
Personalization. Upskilling and reskilling is more effective when you can personalize learning experiences by department, job title and user.
Automation. By automating repetitive tasks, processes and connections to other data systems, you ensure that personalized learning is possible across the organization.
Scalability. Your learning programs need to be agile to address current and future requirements in your market.
Thursday, March 10, 2022, 12 p.m.–1 p.m. PT: Don't Make These Five Multiple-Choice Question Writing Mistakes
Research shows that most multiple-choice questions include mistakes that damage assessment quality and validity. These mistakes lead to frustration and unfair assessments. They supply bad or unusable data about whether test-takers gained needed knowledge and skills. In this session, Dr. Patti Shank, CPT, President of Learning Peaks LLC, will look in depth at five common mistakes made by question writers, including mistakes that make guessing easier, which we don't want to do. You’ll gain practice and improve your multiple-choice question-writing skills.
Tuesday, March 15, 2022, 9 a.m.–10 a.m. PT: Learner-Centered Virtual Classes: Three Keys to Successful Collaboration
In this interactive session with Cindy Huggett, CPTD and author of Virtual Training Tools and Templates: An Action Guide to Live Online Learning, you’ll learn exactly how to facilitate a learner-focused virtual class, three categories of collaborative activities that get learners involved and in control, and how to set the stage for interaction to specific facilitation techniques to enhance engagement. You’ll see how to run breakout sessions so that your participants can easily begin working together. You’ll learn what to say (and what not to say) before, during and after the activities to ensure that they’re learner-centred. You'll leave this session with new ideas for engaging, collaborative online classes.
Wednesday, March 16, 2022, 7:30 a.m.–7:50 a.m. PT: Gomo Authoring Feature Demo: Theme Library and Personalization
Achieving a consistent look and feel to all your elearning is key. If you rely on individuals to make design decisions, inconsistencies will naturally creep in, no matter how good your brand guidelines are. See how Gomo’s theme library takes the hassle out of branding elearning in this 20-minute live demo. The demo will cover:
Why Gomo’s custom theme library can become your L&D team’s best friend.
A look at the pre-set themes available.
How easy it is to personalize them.
What to do if you need something completely custom built.
Wednesday, March 16, 2022, 11 a.m.–12 p.m. PT: Capability Building and Rapid Alignment at Scale (Free for ATD members)
Learning should be the single source of truth of an organization’s capability, but in times of volatility and uncertainty, how do you build deep capabilities and achieve rapid alignment across a remote workforce? Join Christina Yu, CMO at NovoEd, to explore these topics and demonstrate connected culture in action. Whether you’re interested in onboarding a remote workforce, building an inclusive leadership program or upskilling your sales team, this webinar will help you forge a path forward in the new normal. You’ll learn about how:
Hybrid work is the new normal now and forever.
Continuous development is paramount to business success.
The impact of peer learning is undeniable.
Thursday, March 17, 2022, 10 a.m.–11 a.m. PT: Reskilling and Upskilling to Stop the Great Resignation
Companies need to build strategies to retain top talent and keep the organization humming in the face of turnover. Companies with strong development opportunities for their employees are more likely to attract and retain talent. Additionally, having a solid framework for building skills means the organization will have the talent mobility to adapt to any gaps created by attrition. Join David Wentworth, Principal Analyst with Brandon Hall Group, and Matt Bradley, Senior Training Specialist at OpenSesame, as they look at the implications of the Great Resignation and how organizations can leverage their learning strategy to keep the workforce engaged, agile and effective.
Tuesday, March 22, 2022, 9 a.m.–10 a.m. PT: Storyboarding: The First Step to Making a Great Video
A simple way to begin your creative process for video creation is with a storyboard. This may sound like an extra step in your video making process, but it’s a step you won’t want to ignore. With storyboarding, you’ll better share your vision, make production easier and more streamlined, and save you time. In this session, Craig Kingsbury, Customer Success Manager at Vyond, will talk about the importance of creating a storyboard as a first step for any video project. He’ll walk through the steps of creating a storyboard, the key elements that every storyboard should include, popular storyboarding methods, helpful tips, as well as some popular storyboarding software, including how you can do this with Vyond.
Tuesday, March 22, 2022, 11 a.m.–12 p.m. PT: Why Coaching Fails and How To Fix It (Free for ATD members)
Most coaching doesn't work because it focuses on the coach’s skills and not the other half of the equation — the coachee. Each person you coach is unique, and you must adapt your approach accordingly. Coaching is a relationship built on a foundation of shared experiences, interactions and expectations. Join Tim Scudder, Principal of Core Strengths, to learn how to communicate with Relationship Intelligence (RQ) so you can build trust, generate commitment, and drive growth and retention with each person you coach.
Wednesday, March 23, 2022, 11 a.m.–12 p.m. PT: Create VR at Scale for Learning and Development (Free for ATD members)
Tune in for insights into the latest advances in virtual reality (VR) as a tool for L&D professionals. Provisioning, content and device management, and analysis of the data can be quick and easy. In this webinar, hosted by Scott Rawlings, Sr. Product Manager at HP Commercial XR Solutions, HP Inc., you’ll learn about:
The benefits and obstacles to deploying VR at scale.
Orchestrating VR in any organization.
VR content and device-management solutions.
Tuesday, March 29, 2022, 9 a.m.–10 a.m. PT: ROI on a Shoestring
When it comes to measuring the success of talent development, no metrics are more important to top executives than business impact and ROI. For most talent development professionals, the challenge is to evaluate programs when there is little budget or time. Dr. Jack Phillips, Chairman of ROI Institute, will show how to meet these challenges with limited resources. One myth about ROI is that the process is too expensive and complex. The reality is that it’s a logical process using simple, easy steps with plenty of cost-saving opportunities. This session will show you what’s needed to conduct an ROI study with a small budget and little time.
Tuesday, March 29, 2022, 11 a.m.–12 p.m. PT: Six Elements of an Effective Digital-Readiness Learning Program (Free for ATD members)
Digital technologies and data continue to change business models and the nature of work. Ensure your employees are equipped with the knowledge, mindset and behaviours necessary for your organization to transform. Join Dr. Sandra Loughlin, Head of Client Learning and Talent Enablement at EPAM Systems, Inc., to hear expert tips for creating a strategy-aligned program that achieves learning objectives and organizational impact. You’ll also receive complimentary access to EPAM’s elearning course Ready, Set, Digitalize: Preparing Your Workforce for Transformation.
Tuesday, March 29, 2022, 12 p.m.–1 p.m. PT: Six Bullet-Proof Mentoring Methods in Virtual Training
Learners yearn for freedom and control to create useful results based on their learning efforts. Unfortunately, our solutions continue to cram learners like sardines in tin cans, specifically during exhausting webinars and boring elearning. On the other hand, enlightened organizations show respect for the learners’ needs. They strive to retain employees and reduce turnover. Enter mentoring as a growth opportunity to help learners. Join Dr. Ray Jimenez, Architect of TrainingMagNetwork.com and Chief Learning Officer of Vignettes Learning, as he shares case studies on bullet-proof mentoring methods.
Wednesday, March 30, 2022, 9 a.m.–10 a.m. PT: Birth of a Sales Team — Blending Digital Sales Techniques with Real World Strategies
The days of the lonely salesperson shouldering all the responsibility for business growth and development are gone. Successful enterprises know that in 2022, everybody sells. But how do you get there? Join Dr. Cindy McGovern, CEO of Orange Leaf Consulting, as she walks you through tested techniques to develop a “sales mindset” in your team. Whether they’re front-line client-facing staffers or back-end support teams, everyone in your organization can cross paths with a customer or prospect. Learn how to make the most of these opportunities.
Wednesday, March 30, 2022, 11 a.m.–12 p.m. PT: Top Ten Instructional Design Tips (Free for ATD members)
The best online courses are rooted in design best practices and informed by educational science. Join Katie Egan, CEO of CourseArc, to learn ten top instructional design tips to improve development and the quality of learning. She’ll share the latest brain research, plus how to apply design fundamentals to improve your digital content and elevate the learner experience. All registered participants will receive a design fundamentals handout. In this webinar, you’ll learn how to:
Apply basic colour theory to improve the accessibility of content.
Use typography to communicate clearly and effectively.
Use the findings of recent brain research to improve learner retention and performance.
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