Free learning & development webinars for July 2022
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It’s here! After some half-hearted suggestions of heat and rays, Mother Nature has bestowed summer upon us. Looming in front of us: almost three months of gazing longingly out the window while working, not to mention unlimited ice cream. Okay, maybe not unlimited ice cream, but how about unlimited webinars? This month’s bounty of free learning events feels almost unlimited.
Wednesday, July 6, 2022, 11 a.m.–12 p.m. PT: How to Accelerate Sales Effectiveness and Build Champions
Training often acts as a lever that elevates sales teams from good to great, thereby increasing revenue garnering opportunities. However, training sales teams effectively is easier said than done, as every individual operates at varied maturity levels and often requires personalized learning experiences. Join Jamal Watkins, Learning Evangelist at Adobe, as he explores learning experiences that can accelerate sales training effectiveness, where you’ll learn the answers to these questions:
How is sales changing as a function and who owns sales training in organizations?
How can technology and automation be used to train sales teams at scale?
How can the effectiveness of sales training be measured?
Thursday, July 7, 2022, 8 a.m.–9 a.m. PT: Experience Design for the Virtual Classroom and Beyond
We all know that we learn from experience, not just what happens in a classroom. The global pandemic has shown us that although the learning can be virtual, it can’t just be a presentation with no interaction. Jo Cook, L&D Specialist at Lightbulb Moment, draws on her near decade of experience in the virtual classroom to highlight how experience design can make your sessions hit the learning mark for your attendees, and for you too! This webinar will cover:
What experience design is and how to approach it.
How it’s different from traditional training delivery.
Why it’s important to involve people in active learning.
Examples of virtual classroom learning experiences.
Tuesday, July 12, 2022, 11 a.m.–12 p.m. PT: Five Reasons Why Elearning Fails for International Use (Free for ATD members)
In this webinar, you’ll learn about the most common training dilemmas faced when elearning is produced on a global scale. You’ll receive actionable tips to make your global training a success from the get-go. Sergio Atristain, Managing Director at Idea Translations, will explain how you can:
Avoid cultural and diversity mistakes on your global trainings.
Stop endless revisions by your local teams.
Keep your budget in check.
Tuesday, July 12, 2022, 11 a.m.–12 p.m. PT: For Sales Managers and Trainers: Critical Sales Metrics Every Leader Should Know and Track
With so many metrics in your organization, how do sales leaders determine the best sales metrics to track? In her work with clients, Amy Franko, Founder and CEO of Amy Franko Associates, sees varying degrees of maturity when it comes to implementing and tracking metrics. The truth is that what you put focus on as a sales leader determines your team’s success and the organization’s overall sales growth. This session will help you think strategically about your approach to metrics. Topics covered:
The three key sales enablement ingredients you can't ignore if you want sales growth.
The top sales metrics to track — why they're important and how to begin implementing them.
A framework to help you customize metrics based upon your individual sellers.
The one sales skill that will help to improve your sales pipeline right now.
Wednesday, July 13, 2022, 10 a.m.–11 a.m. PT: Future Skills Every L&D Professional Needs
With the rise in automation, hybrid workforces and virtual meetings, organizations need to reskill and upskill their employees to cope with changing realities and requirements. Focusing on reskilling versus hiring has many advantages, including cost and institutional knowledge. What’s often overlooked, however, is the first critical step in the upskilling process: upskilling the team that will strategize and execute on the workforce of the future — your L&D team. In this session, with Bianca Baumann, Director of Learning Experience at Ardent Learning, you’ll learn:
Critical skills needed in your L&D team to help your organization reskill and upskill.
What challenges organizations are facing, what skills gaps are imminent, what organizations are doing/planning on doing to fill those gaps, and advantages and disadvantages of various approaches.
Modern and new approaches to creating, training and learning, such as the Five Moments of Need, and how the L&D role is changing as part of the connected organization.
An actionable process of how L&D professionals can assess their own skills and departments, and how to create a plan of action to upskill their internal teams.
Wednesday, July 13, 2022, 12:30 p.m.–1:30 p.m. PT: Success Metrics for L&D (Free for I4PL members)
Like many of your L&D peers, you probably have high aspirations to create value in your organization. Yet, it may feel like your potential contribution is not fully appreciated and your work is undervalued. Ironically, business leaders genuinely want your work to create better business value. Michelle Ockers, Founder of Learning Uncut, will explore a straightforward, powerful framework to identify, measure and communicate progress on metrics that matter to the business. This framework can be used at both a strategic and tactical level, so is relevant to all L&D professionals.
Wednesday, July 13, 2022, 12:30 p.m.–1:30 p.m. PT: Three Storyboard Styles to Make All Clients Happy
When crafting elearning materials, many people use a storyboard to help the client begin to visualize the created content and shape the script. Most people use only one storyboard style but using multiple types can solve a variety of client communication issues. In this session, Kirsten Rourke, CEO of Rourke Training, will discuss how and when to use a “course map” storyboard, a “slides and script” storyboard and a “visual storyboard” for different kinds of elearning projects. She’ll also discuss how to make storyboards, and when you would use more than one in the same project and how they are made.
Friday, July 15, 2022, 8 a.m.–9 a.m. PT: Take Your First Steps with TechSmith Snagit, Part 1
Snagit is a simple yet immensely powerful screen capture and recording software. With its many features, Snagit has found a place in a wide variety of organizations and workflows. Snagit is used to facilitate visual communication, create documentation, provide feedback, create video tutorials, and much, much, much more. Join Damien Bruyndonckx, Founder and CEO of One2Learn, for this webinar, where he’ll review the basics of Snagit while illustrating a wide variety of use cases. You’ll learn the three main steps that make up the Snagit workflow.
Tuesday, July 19, 2022, 9 a.m.–10 a.m. PT: Answers to Ten Thorniest Questions in Learning and Training — The Root Causes and Solutions
A lot has changed in L&D philosophy and principles, but many continue to ask old questions. The cause is that many who’ve asked these questions haven’t changed their assumptions. The consequences of not finding answers to the thorniest questions and applying the solutions impede learners’ ability to learn, contribute and have passion in what they do. Unanswered questions damage the capacity to design, develop and implement training and learning. In the webinar, Dr. Ray Jimenez, Architect of TrainingMagNetwork.com and Chief Learning Officer of Vignettes Learning, will share foundational answers to these questions, as well as the “Perpetual Tinkerer Model.”
Tuesday, July 19, 2022, 11 a.m.–12 p.m. PT: Unleashing Creativity: Organizational Purpose, Engagement and Diversity (Free for ATD members)
Creativity has dominated the business landscape and carried businesses through the past years’ crisis situations. Agile organizations kept up with the times, which distinguished them from the competition, cemented their market share and propelled their brands into the forefront. As organizations migrate out of crisis mode into recovery, fostering creativity remains important. Today, it’s not born from necessity or survival; for creativity to flourish in a sustainable way, it needs to have the right corporate culture. In this webinar, Dale Carnegie & Associates Inc.’s Tamara Anderson, Sr. Director Enterprise Solutions, Americas, and Neville De Lucia, President, Dale Carnegie Central & Eastern NC, will show you:
The four phases of the creativity process that lead to innovative outcomes.
Key drivers to enable creativity at the individual, team, and organizational level.
Why purpose, engagement and diversity stand out as critical drivers of innovation.
Tuesday, July 19, 2022, 12 p.m.—1 p.m. PT: Dealing with Difficult Behaviours — in Person and Online
Kids get restless and eventually stir trouble from the backseat on long road trips. In the same way, participants wonder, “Are we done yet?” when they’re kept to the “back seat” in webinars. With the right techniques, you can harness your audience into the driver’s seat for an exciting virtual training. In this session, with Becky Pike Pluth, President and CEO of The Bob Pike Group, you’ll identify difficult online training behaviours and specific strategies to minimize, redirect and cleverly overcome them without breaking a sweat.
Wednesday, July 20, 2022, 11 a.m.–12 p.m. PT: Change Partners: Research on TD’s Role in Better Change Management (Free for ATD members)
Talent development professionals can play a critical role in managing change by working alongside and advising senior leaders during every stage of change, and delivering training in change management capabilities, techniques and strategies. Join Jennifer Homer, Vice-President of ATD, to learn how to help organizations better understand the landscape of change and the role of talent development. You’ll also discover benchmarking data on the current and expected future state of change, and best practices associated with improving organizational performance.
Thursday, July 21, 2022, 11 a.m.–12 p.m. PT: Training Industry Leader Talk: Coaching and Mentoring
Coaching and mentorship are increasingly popular methods for supporting the learner experience, from onboarding to upskilling to leadership development, yet present their own set of new challenges. Developing informal training programs in your organization, like coaching and mentoring, begins with gaining a deeper understanding of employees’ professional development goals. Join this Training Industry Leader Talk for insights and best practices to create, manage and measure coaching and mentorship programs within your organization.
Thursday, July 21, 2002, 12 p.m.–1 p.m. PT: Learning Design for Remembering and Use, Part 1
When designing instruction, it’s typically hoped that participants will remember what they learn and use it back on the job. It makes little sense to teach people how to analyze, make decisions, solve problems and so forth, and not have it influence performance on the job. The bad news is that what’s taught doesn’t adequately influence job performance. In this session, Dr. Patti Shank, CPT, President of Learning Peaks LLC, will discuss how human memory, especially encoding, storage and retrieval, work and the implications for designing instruction.
Friday, July 22, 2022, 8 a.m.–9 a.m. PT: Learning to Do Things Instead of Just Memorizing Ideas in Virtual Training
Webinars and virtual training are often focused on “learning for the future.” The goal is to present all the content so the learners will remember and apply them on the job. Unfortunately, this method creates a big distance between knowing the concept and the time of applying the content. Few ideas are retained and applied. However, another option is “learning for now.” The benefits are immediate results at work, and the learners remember the lessons better because they have the chance to apply them “now.” In this webinar, Dr. Ray Jimenez, Architect of TrainingMagNetwork.com and Chief Learning Officer of Vignettes Learning, will cover:
Why are leaders pushing more for “learning for now?”
What are the differences between “learning for now” from “learning for the future?”
What are the key steps to convert presentations to more current and recent demands of the business?
What are examples and templates of “learning for now” methods?
How do you use your webinar and virtual platform to implement “learning for now?”
Tuesday, July 26, 2022, 12 p.m.–1 p.m. PT: Virtual Selling Is Here to Stay — Blending Digital Sales Techniques with Real World Strategies
Just because the world’s starting to open up again doesn’t mean things are going to back to the “old normal” — nor should they. Dr. Cindy McGovern, CEO of Orange Leaf Consulting, will guide you through actionable steps to take to combine the best of old ways and new to create a winning a sales plan. Many of the changes that were forced to be implemented in 2020 and 2021 actually turned out to be good for business. Find out which ones deserve to stick around — and keep both face time and Facetime in your toolbox.
Wednesday, July 27, 2022, 10 a.m.–11 a.m. PT: Learning and the Future of Work
The future has always come fast for businesses, and a global pandemic has only accelerated the process. Organizations that had not begun a digital transformation were forced into one, and for others, that transformation has been sped up considerably. In this webinar, David Wentworth, Principal Analyst at Brandon Hall Group, will be joined by Dr. Allen Partridge, Director of Digital Learning Evangelism at Adobe Digital Learning Solutions, to talk about what the future of work means for L&D and how organizations can position themselves for success. They will discuss learning strategies, best practices and technologies for meeting the future.
Wednesday, July 27, 2022, 10:30 a.m.–11:30 a.m. PT: Using AI to Accelerate Large-Scale Learning Needs Analysis (Free for I4PL members)
As workplaces continue to change, L&D professionals need to rapidly assess capability gaps. Opinions about what people need to learn often come from those in senior leadership positions, but the people in the best position to know are the employees doing the work daily. What if employees could explain what they need, and companies leverage artificial intelligence (AI) to accelerate the analysis? In this session, Nolan Matthews, Senior Manager of Learning Design at Metrix, will explore how to incorporate AI into needs analysis projects to rapidly generate insights into organizational needs.
Thursday, July 28, 2022, 8 a.m.–9 a.m. PT: Prove and Improve – How to Measure and Demonstrate the ROI of Your Training Programs
For all the effort that goes into creating and delivering learning programs, organizations are incredibly challenged when it comes to demonstrating the impact those programs are having. In this webinar, David Wentworth, Principal Learning Analyst with Brandon Hall Group, and Asha Pandey, Founder and Chief Learning Strategist with EI Design, will address challenges that extend beyond selecting the right measurement model and frameworks. They’ll discuss how L&D can better align its goals to business needs, and ensure the business is focused on the right performance outcomes.
Thursday, July 28, 2022, 12 p.m.–1 p.m. PT: Don't Get Left Behind: Understanding and Succeeding with Tomorrow's L&D Ecosystem
Cultural changes, including a remote/hybrid workplace, the new “metaverse” and the expectation of knowledge on-demand have forced learning strategies to change. Innovations, including virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), microlearning, video-based practice and machine learning (ML) are getting better results. Join ELB Learning’s John Blackmon, Chief Technology Officer, and Geoff Curless, Senior Vice-Preisdent of Sales, and The Game Agency’s Co-Founder and Chief Creative Officer ,Stephen Baer, as they share exactly how to handle these technologies and processes with grace and ease.
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