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Put away your white shoes (or whatever that post-Labour Day fashion rule is). We’re almost done with summer and heading into a more serious time of year. Specifically, we’re experiencing that oh-my-goodness moment where we realize that 2022 is two-thirds of the way through. So, how can we make the most of the four remaining months? The September selection of free webinars might contain some good suggestions to boost productivity and work smarter.

Thursday, September 1, 2022, 12 p.m.–1 p.m. PT: Super Simple PowerPoint Slide Design 3
This is the third in Mike Parkinson’s, author and owner of Billion Dollar Graphics, incredibly popular Super Simple PowerPoint Slide Design series. Learn how to make simple yet engaging and professional slides quickly. Mike shares new, innovative designs that you can easily make — when you know how. Using the latest trends, discover tips, tricks and techniques to developing amazing slides. Less is best in this session.

Tuesday, September 6, 2022, 9 a.m.–10 a.m. PT: Awesome Makeovers from PowerPoint Slides That Suuuuuck
There are many ways to wreck a PowerPoint slide. This session, with Rick Altman, Director at BetterPresenting, won’t show you how to become a brilliant designer; that’s an affront to the people who really are. More important, this session will help you get by with the skills that you do have, by showing you makeovers of slides that don’t require a degree in the arts. These are before-and-after examples of real slides, created by real people, for real circumstances. They carry the hope that you’ll watch them and think to yourself, “Hey, I can do that, too.” 

Tuesday, September 6, 2022, 11 a.m.–12 p.m. PT: Five Critical Skills Managers Need to Lead Growth-Minded Teams (Free for ATD members)
In the post-pandemic workplace, people have choices, and they’re making them. They’re finding opportunities where they can work with a manager who will help them engage and develop. There are five unique skills that managers must have to compete for the best workers because people don’t leave companies, they leave managers. In this session Ryan Houmand, Learning Engagement Specialist at Bridge, will cover the five skills managers need to become a people-first manager and develop engaged teams that stay. 

Wednesday, September 7, 2022, 10 a.m.–11 a.m. PT: Mastering the LMS Selection Process
L&D professionals are taking an active role in driving organizational change and advancement. With workers expecting continuous development opportunities, workplace flexibility and internal mobility, learning teams are tasked with creating programs necessary to meet these needs — all while tying them back to their impact on the business. Join this webinar for a lively chat with Livia Macedo, Vice President of the Office of Learning and Leadership at Mortgage Connect, and Megan Yunker, Chief Marketing Officer at Schoox, as they dive into the dos and don’ts of running a successful LMS selection process. 

Wednesday, September 7, 2022, 11 a.m.–12 p.m. PT: Six Steps to Integrating Work-Life Wellness in the Workplace (Free for ATD members)
Burnout and work-related stress levels are rising in the current post-pandemic world. As trainers, you have seen how stress and mental health issues often go unnoticed. In many cases, individuals hesitate to seek assistance due to embarrassment, fear of stigma, an expectation that things will never improve or a lack of an active employee wellness program within their organization. In this webinar, Ceci Mansilla, Instructor and Digital L&D Expert at Udemy, will discuss six simple and high-impact steps you can take to promote and integrate work-life wellness. 

Tuesday, September 13, 2022, 9 a.m.–10 a.m. PT: Hidden Gems of Breakout Rooms
Breakout rooms are a tool to help you facilitate peer learning and make your job as trainer easier. A favourite rule of thumb at The Bob Pike Group is never do for participants what they can do for themselves. The more active they are in their learning, the more they remember and ultimately apply. During this webinar, with Becky Pike Pluth, President and CEO of The Bob Pike Group, you’ll: 

• Discover when to use breakout rooms and how to do it effectively.

• Discuss common objections from presenters and participants, and how to overcome them.

• Explore how you can add a variety of exercises to keep breakout rooms engaging.

Tuesday, September 13, 2022, 11 a.m.–12 p.m. PT: Five Ways Coaching Culture Drives High Performance (Free for ATD members)
With record high turnover rates, managers must develop coaching and mentoring skills if they hope to build trust and retain their employees. When employees understand what’s expected of them, the goals they’re trying to meet and how they contribute to the team’s success, organizations are better positioned to build customer loyalty, boost productivity and outshine competitors. Join Bob Rysavy, Training Manager and Expert LMS Administrator at NewCold, to learn how he built a successful coaching culture in his organization using elearning courses in OpenSesame’s library. 

Tuesday, September 13, 2022, 12 p.m.–1 p.m. PT: Five Key Steps to Lead with a Global Mindset
Multinational workplaces require an amplified skillset to navigate across cultures with agility and to leverage the diversity of teams, organizations, clients and partners. Failing to unlock the competitive advantage of a multicultural workforce is synonymous with missed opportunities and mediocre performance. Sean Dubberke, Principal and Vice President of Learning at RW3, will focus on five key steps to lead with a global mindset, which include perspective taking, style flexing and leveraging curiosity to build trust across borders. 

Wednesday, September 14, 2022, 9 a.m.–10 a.m. PT: Storytelling with Animation in PowerPoint
Animation is a critical component in presentations. It paces the flow of information, making things clearer for your audience. It supports more effective storytelling with the visuals and animations doing a lot of the work, helping people understand the key points. Richard Goring, Director at BrightCarbon, will show you how to use animation to great effect. Elegance and purposefulness are the names of the game, as you see the ways in which just the right animation, or combination of effects, can bring your story to life, capturing your audience’s attention and keeping them engaged. 

Wednesday, September 14, 2022, 10:30 a.m.–11:30 a.m. PT: Productivity in the Hybrid Work Environment: Sharing Lessons Learned (Free for I4PL members)
Instead of racing back to “how it was,” there’s now an awesome opportunity to reinvent how you work, as individuals and in your teams. To maximize the gifts and best overcome the challenges of hybrid work, you need to be smart and thoughtful about it. In this session, Doug Heidebrecht, B.Comm, ACPC, Adler Certified Professional Coach and Personal Productivity Expert, is going to stop, reflect and share what’s been learned this past year. 

Wednesday, September 14, 2022, 11 a.m.–12 p.m. PT: Maximize Productivity for Interactive Elearning Courses with Content Reuse (Free for ATD members)
Content customization and course tailoring has never been more important than it is today. L&D professionals have to do more with fewer resources. With single sourcing, courseware developers can create and reuse learning content more intelligently, and easily deliver modern interactive elearning and print-based course materials. Join Jennifer Morse from MadCap Software to learn how instructional designers and training professionals across an organization can now collaborate on creating and delivering modern interactive elearning and print-based course materials all from a single source. 

Thursday, September 15, 2022, 8 a.m.–9 a.m. PT: Training Industry Leader Talk: Future-proof Your Content Development
In today’s technological environment, personalization is at the forefront of almost all the content that you consume — whether on social media, while browsing your favourite streaming service or in the ads you see. Learning leaders must keep pace with this new wave of content development and offer more personalized and agile learning. During this Training Industry Leader Talk, there’ll be discussions of personalization and other ways learning and development needs to future-proof its content development, including considerations for blended learning, microlearning and learner-centric design. 

Thursday, September 15, 2022, 10 a.m.–11 a.m. PT: Recession-Proof Your L&D Needs and Face Your Outsourcing Fears
If the thought of outsourcing is sweat-inducing, staff augmentation may be right for you. It can reduce costs, fill staffing gaps and immediately add on-demand specialized skill sets to your team. Join Mark Zides of ELB Learning and Debbie Wooldridge of ttcInnovations to overcome common outsourcing fears such as cost, communication barriers, talent quality, security and more. Their combined 40+ years of experience providing top L&D talent to Fortune 500 companies will help you develop a game plan for recession-proofing your learning needs. 

Thursday, September 15, 2022, 11 a.m.–12 p.m. PT: How to Create a Learning Data Strategy for Business Impact (Free for ATD members)
It takes hard work to ensure a successful learning data strategy. Every company’s strategy is unique to its team and business, but there’s a common path to guide the way for all. In this interactive webinar with Maribeth Pearson, Manager and Learning & Development at BlueShore Financial, participants will understand what they need to know before they start to collect any data. You’ll learn six guiding questions to plan your data strategy. These questions will enable you to show alignment between what your learning department accomplishes and your corporate business strategy.

Thursday, September 15, 2022, 12 p.m.–1 p.m. PT: Learning Design for Remembering and Use, Part 2
Typical workplace learning content makes it difficult to learn, remember and apply, thanks to content that overloads memory, writing that makes it hard to understand intended messages and design that’s confusing and hard to follow. Here’s the good news: research offers instructional, writing, usability and information design principles that show you how to make instruction work better on the job. In this session, Dr. Patti Shank, CPT, President of Learning Peaks, will discuss the learning tactics research show are helpful for remembering and applying.

Tuesday, September 20, 2022, 8 a.m.–9 a.m. PT: How L&D and Business Leaders Can Align to Conquer the Future of Work
The learning strategist of tomorrow must be proficient in strategy, leadership, interpersonal relationships and technical skills, while excelling in organizational competencies ranging from performance consulting to talent structure modeling, neuroscience application and technology leadership, just to name a few. RK Prasad and Howard B. Lewis from CommLab India, and Claude Werder, Senior VP and Principal HCM Analyst at Brandon Hall Group, will provide specific solutions to the age-old quandary: how does L&D truly become a strategic business partner?

Tuesday, September 20, 2022, 10 a.m.–11 a.m. PT: Five Ways Coaching Culture Drives High Performance
With record high turnover rates, managers must develop coaching and mentoring skills if they hope to build trust and retain their employees. When employees understand what’s expected of them, the goals they’re trying to meet and how they contribute to the team’s success, organizations are better positioned to build customer loyalty, boost productivity and outshine competitors. Training manager and expert LMS administrator, Bob Rysavy, will share how he has built a successful coaching culture in his organization, NewCold, utilizing elearning courses in OpenSesame’s library. 

Tuesday, September 20, 2022, 11 a.m.–12 p.m. PT: Powerful, Persuasive Presentations: Five Techniques that Lead to the Results You Want
Are you confident your important presentations always lead to the results you want? Do you have the peace of mind knowing everyone on your team communicates your message with clarity and consistency? Are you losing sales you feel you deserve to make? Join Patricia Fripp, CSP, CPAE, Executive Speech Coach and Online Learning Expert, for an action-packed session that will take your good presentations and make them great. This webinar was designed for the ambitious professional who realizes that good presentation skills gives them an advantage.

Tuesday, September 20, 2022, 11 a.m.–12 p.m. PT: Scaling Up: Change-Ready Learning Technology Isn’t Optional (Free for ATD members)
Resiliency, agility and adaptability are more important than ever. John Peebles, CEO of Administrate, will discuss how to leverage learning technology and data to find opportunities in times of flux. Through scalable, resilient approaches to L&D operations paired with a focus on data, training programs can thrive while leading your business. During this webinar, you’ll: 

• Examine five indicators that reveal your scale readiness.

• Hear how other training leaders have optimized training operations for agility.

• Dial into your specific needs and build a case for investment in a training platform.

Wednesday, September 21, 2022, 10 a.m.–11 a.m. PT: How to Easily Create Engaging Multi-Language Elearning Courses
Providing consistent training in different languages, plus ensuring that it remains appropriate and relevant, can be a complex challenge for global businesses. How do you easily create content that truly speaks to your audience, wherever they are in the world? Join Gomo Learning's Huw Edwards, Business Development Executive, and Simon Waldram, Product Manager, to discover the hassle-free way to create a single course that translates into multiple languages, plus get other localization tips and tricks to ensure your courses remain relevant and relatable to your learners. 

Thursday, September 22, 2022, 9 a.m.–10 a.m. PT: Hybrid Training: The Pillars of Successful Live Mixed Learning
As some employees have returned to the workplace, hybrid learning is on the rise by necessity. Training programs are needed that accommodate workers whether they’re on-site or online. Yet the multiple challenges of hybrid learning are very real. Common issues often stem from technology, design, inequitable participation and facilitation. Join Diana L. Howles, CEO of Howles Associates, as she reveals the secrets to successfully designing and facilitating hybrid learning. She’ll unveil the foundational pillars for successful hybrid learning programs, so you won’t fall prey to the most common mistakes. 

Thursday, September 22, 2022, 10 a.m.–11 a.m. PT: The Secret to Driving Engagement with Personalized Content
Delivering personalized learning and content experiences at scale is becoming increasingly critical. The key to using content to drive engagement is making it easy for your employees to access the personalized information, training, reskilling/upskilling content and on-the-job resources they need at the point of need. Organizations that can unlock the secret to personalization at scale will have a distinct competitive advantage in the marketplace. In this webinar, Leslie Farinella, Chief Strategy Officer at Xyleme, will cover the following topics: 

• Why you need to move from omnichannel to multi-experience content.

• How standardization is critical to effective personalization at scale.

• Real-world strategies for success and why content matters.

Tuesday, September 27, 2022, 9 a.m.–10 a.m. PT: The New Leader Playbook: Essentials for Increasing Your Leadership Impact
Leadership is hard, but it doesn’t have to be hard to understand. In this fast-paced webinar, hosted by Bill Treasurer, Chief Encouragement Officer of Giant Leap Consulting, you’ll learn the surprising essentials that improve leadership performance, impact and enjoyment. The time-tested lessons and insights you’ll learn are drawn directly from the leadership trenches, and include: 

• Why leading yourself is a prerequisite to being able to leading others.

• How new leaders often get in their own way, inhibiting their own effectiveness.

• How to promote an environment of psychological safety through emotional leveling.

• Why “bringing others with you” is central to leadership success.

• Why being a “pro-inclusionist” is in your best interest.

• What effective leadership really looks like.

Tuesday, September 27, 2022, 10 a.m.–11 a.m. PT: Creating an Adaptable Approach to Talent Acquisition
Talent acquisition (TA) teams must respond to new workforce needs by being prepared to use the tools provided to them. Research shows that helping candidates and internal teams make the best use of all available tools will show the organization’s true employer value proposition. Join Cliff Stevenson, Principal Analyst, Talent Acquisition of Brandon Hall Group, and Dawn McAvoy of HireRoad as they address these topics: 

• How the work-from-home population is expanding, and what that means for both talent search and the ways TA efforts are measured.

• How technology can help bridge the gap between candidates and recruiters in terms of communication methods and delivery for a better candidate experience.

• What outcomes more effective TA can have on business results, and how to measure and monitor the right key performance indicators (KPIs) to show that.

Tuesday, September 27, 2022, 10 a.m.–11 a.m. PT: Tools and Strategies for Successfully Implementing Emotional Intelligence Training That Drives Results (Free for ATD members)
What does it take to successfully roll out an emotional intelligence (EI) training program? How do you build a case to earn executive buy-in? What challenges will you face? During this webinar, you’ll get answers from Oji Life Lab’s Andrea Hoban, Amazon Web Services’ Rich Hua, and Johnson & Johnson’s Kim Bilyeu, who took their world-class companies through EI training from concept to rollout. They’ll discuss their experiences implementing EI training and offer their advice on how you can do the same.

Wednesday, September 28, 2022, 10 a.m.–11 a.m. PT: Four Leadership Skills That Will Make Your Teams Work
Teamwork is essential for creating a competitive advantage and achieving goals in the most effective way, yet research shows that work teams fail a staggering 60% of the time. That’s because leaders need special skills to lead teams and bring out talent in everyone. Join Randy Conley, Vice President of The Ken Blanchard Companies, as he presents four leadership skills that leaders can apply to improve collaboration, innovation and the overall effectiveness of your teams: aligning for results, communication during conflict, building team cohesion and sustaining high performance. 

Wednesday, September 28, 2022, 11 a.m.–12 p.m. PT: Can You Spare Some Change (Management)? (Free for ATD members)
From the implementation of unfamiliar systems to full reorganizations, major changes rarely come without resistance. Dave Romero, President of Unboxed Training & Technology; Stacy Burdett, Vice President of Smith+Nephew Global Commercial Training + Education; Christopher Leady, Global Talent Management Executive at Axalta Coating Systems; and Katie Lackey, VP of Learning & Leadership Development at Honeywell, will discuss how to pivot your program into one that purposely fits in a hybrid work environment, as well as how to create internal advocacy by engaging senior stakeholders. 

Thursday, September 29, 10 a.m.–11 a.m. PT: Fresh Talent and Leadership Strategies to Deliver Future-Ready Leaders and Teams
It’s rare to get near-unanimous agreement on anything these days. The need goes well beyond early career managers to creating a top-to-bottom workforce that can inspire, lead and deliver on the strategic imperatives for growth. How does an organization do this in an increasingly complex work environment? Join leaders and clients of global professional services firm BTS and Claude Werder, Senior VP and Principal HCM Analyst for Brandon Hall Group, as they advise you on what to keep doing, what to stop, and what’s new and rising on the radar when it comes to building future-ready leaders and teams.

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