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Feeling stuck in a winter slump? March is the perfect time to shake things up with fresh ideas and new perspectives. Check out this month’s selection of free webinars — whether you want to build skills, spark creativity or simply learn something new, there’s plenty to explore. Take advantage of these learning opportunities and share them with your network!

Tuesday, March 4, 2025, 10 a.m.–11 a.m. PT: AI-Powered Mastery: Transform Your Learning for 2025 and Beyond
For L&D leaders, finding innovative, personalized and scalable ways to upskill your workforce will determine your organization’s success in 2025 and beyond. The real question isn’t whether AI will transform learning — it’s whether you’ll harness its potential effectively or fall behind your competitors. Join an enlightening roundtable discussion where Learning Pool’s Funmi Wendel, Product Innovation Lead, Lindsey Coode, Head of Innovation, and Ryan Cooper, Director of Off the Shelf Content, join Alan Mellish, Principal Analyst at Brandon Hall Group, to explore how AI-powered learning solutions paired with customizable content libraries are set to revolutionize corporate training and development.

Tuesday, March 4, 2025, 10 a.m.–11 a.m. PT: Are Multiple-Choice Questions Killing Critical Thinking Skills?
In this webinar with Amy Morrisey, President of Artisan Learning, you’ll have the chance to consider some stereotypical multiple-choice questions and brainstorm ways to transform them into practice activities that are more helpful, relevant and engaging. You’ll walk away with tons of ideas, along with templates to help you plan out your own interactions. Learning objectives include:

Letting go of your inner “control freak.”
Approaching question/interaction design more creatively.
Designing practice activities that truly build skills.
Designing interactions that promote critical thinking.

Tuesday, March 4, 2025, 11 a.m.–11 p.m. PT: The Three Groups That Most Need Leadership Training Now! (Free for ATD members)
New research shows three groups in every organization that need the attention of those responsible for training and development. More than 1,000 executives, managers and L&D employees were asked throughout the last six months where the most urgent needs for training exist. The answer was virtually the same regardless of industry or company size. In this session, Russ Hill, Cofounder and Managing Partner of Lone Rock Leadership, will present the findings and share the stories from the study exposing how performance is affected when these three groups aren’t prioritized.

Tuesday, March 4, 2025, 12 p.m.–1 p.m. PT: Getting Your L&D Team AI-Ready: Strategies for Adoption and Success
AI is reshaping the way learning and development teams work, but many organizations struggle to fully benefit from AI due to a lack of readiness, strategy and team adoption. In this highly practical, action-focused session, Megan Torrance, CEO and Founder of TorranceLearning, will explore what it takes to get your L&D team ready to adopt AI successfully. You’ll go beyond the hype and focus on real strategies that successful teams are using today to get traction for adoption — focusing on what you can use today to build confidence and momentum for AI within your organization.

Wednesday, March 5, 2025, 9 a.m.–10 a.m. PT: Solving the Virtual Training Paradox: Research to Keep Learners Engaged
The last five years have inspired big changes to how organizations communicate and interact with their employees remotely, and that continues to have an impact on how training is delivered. Lorri Freifeld, Editor-in-chief of Training Magazine, and Michael Lovell, Chief Marketing Officer at Class, explores the latest findings from an in-depth research study from TrainingMag, Microsoft and Class, on workforce education, highlighting current practices, key challenges and desired innovations in virtual training and VILT. Discover how these insights can inform your training or L&D strategy by attending this webinar.

Thursday, March 6, 2025, 10:30 a.m.–11:30 a.m. PT: Unleashing the Power of Competency-Centric Development (Free for I4PL members)
Learn how to design and embed leadership and core competency models in all phases of the talent lifecycle. Elevate your internal career development initiatives, align with strategic goals and develop future-fit skills. Join Katherine Johnston, consultant and ICF coach, and Vanessa Bragg, consultant and ICF coach, in this session to receive roadmaps to engage employees and provide inclusive self-directed learning resources for competencies.

Thursday, March 6, 2025, 12 p.m.–1 p.m. PT: The Science of Stunning: Creating Presentations That Demand Attention
In this webinar, Carmen Simon, Ph.D., Founder of Enhancive, and Mike Parkinson, Owner of Billion Dollar Graphics, will share the latest techniques in cognitive science and design to engage and captivate your audience. Learn how to craft presentations and learning materials that not only inform but also leave a lasting impact. Discover science-based and practical techniques to improve understanding, recollection and adoption.

Tuesday, March 11, 2025, 9 a.m.–10 a.m. PT: Go Beyond Boring: Creating Scenario-Based Learning that Engages Participants
Using scenarios can make your elearning more engaging and relevant. Scenario-based learning can affect emotions to make participants care about the content and keep them engaged. You can use scenarios to practice relevant decision-making skills in situations similar to real life. Decision-making scenarios increase engagement, improve skill transfer and accelerate expertise. While branching scenarios are one effective strategy, Christy Tucker, Learning Experience Design Consultant, will show you a range of options beyond branching that are available for incorporating storytelling and scenarios in elearning. Many of these strategies can be used regardless of what development tool you use.

Tuesday, March 11, 2025, 11 a.m.–12 p.m. PT: Practical Steps to Effective Credentialing: Lessons from General Assembly (Free for ATD members)
Credentials are more than just badges — they’re a powerful way to recognize skills, boost engagement and open new opportunities for learners. But how do you create a credentialing system that actually works and makes an impact? In this webinar, Jason Gildner, Principal Global Lead for Lifelong Learning at Instructure, and Heather Luna, Sr. Technical Product Manager at General Assembly, will explore the practical side of credentialing, with real-world insights from General Assembly. You’ll hear about their journey to build a scalable program and pick up actionable tips to apply to your own efforts.

Thursday, March 13, 2025, 9 a.m.–10 a.m. PT: How Emotional Intelligence Affects Training, Coaching and Learning Design
Understand the critical role of emotional intelligence (EI) in the context of training, coaching and achieving success. In this webinar Tim Hagen, Chief Coaching Officer at Progress Coaching, will teach specific attributes of EQ and how to cultivate for better training and learning experiences. Your key takeaways:

Introduction to EI.
How to Use EI in Training.
How The Role of EI in Coaching Affects Success.
Impact of EI on Success.
Strategies to Develop EI in Learners and Coaches.

Thursday, March 13, 2025, 10 a.m.–11 a.m. PT: Effective L&D Measurement in the Flow of Learning: Master Blended Learning Evaluation
Blended learning’s essential for strategic programs like leadership development and onboarding. Research shows most organizations rely on it as their primary training method. However, many L&D teams are challenged to effectively measure impact across multiple learning formats without overwhelming participants. Michael Cohen, General Manager and Steven Lange, Director of Consulting, at Metrics That Matter by Explorance, along with Roberta Gogos, VP and Principal Analyst for Brandon Hall Group, will help your organization master the evaluation of blended learning by automating data collection, preventing survey fatigue and generating actionable insights that demonstrate ROI.

Tuesday, March 18, 2025, 9 a.m.–10 a.m. PT: A Trainer’s Gifts — Uncovering Your Unique Strengths and Style
As a trainer, you have a unique set of gifts. You share these gifts generously with every group of learners you meet. That uniqueness is personal, like a signature. It adds deeper meaning and purpose to the work you do. In this session, Shift Facilitation’s Moe Poirier, Founding Partner, and Jason Lewis, Senior Partner, will guide you through a process that uses personas to accelerate the discovery process and explore:

What comes naturally to you as a trainer (strengths).
Potential hazards for you (weaknesses).
Direct impacts for how you engage participants.

Tuesday, March 18, 2025, 10 a.m.–11 a.m. PT: The Leadership Gap You Can’t Afford: How to Make Decision-Making Training More Effective
Organizations that fail to adequately train their leaders in decision-making risk sluggish execution, micromanagement and missed opportunities. Leaders are being promoted into roles with greater authority but without the confidence or tools to make sound decisions — creating costly bottlenecks. Christopher Seifert, author of Enabling Empowerment, will demonstrate how increasing complexity and uncertainty challenge the decision-making skills of even your most experienced leaders. He’ll show how teaching a decision-making framework equips leaders to overcome these challenges, aligns with your company’s strategic objectives and delivers measurable business impact.

Tuesday, March 18, 2025, 12 p.m.–1 p.m. PT: AI Anxiety? A Google Pro Separates Fact from Fiction
AI is transforming the way L&D professionals design, deliver and scale training, but myths, fears and uncertainties still hold many back. Join Training Magazine for an exclusive webinar featuring Nikki Le, Head of Impact Evaluation, Assessment and Research at Google, as she demystifies AI and provides practical strategies for effectively integrating it into your L&D toolkit. From content creation and instructional design to performance feedback and AI-powered research, this session will help you move beyond the hype and into hands-on implementation.

Wednesday, March 19, 2025, 9 a.m.–10 a.m. PT: The Art of Avatars: Building Rich, Complex and Interesting Stories
Join Garima Gupta, Founder and CEO of Artha Learning Inc., for an engaging session on avatars in elearning, where you’ll explore the transformative potential of these digital characters. Discover how avatars can go beyond traditional mentor roles and become companions, rivals and mentees, enriching learning experiences in unexpected ways. Through practical examples and in-depth discussions, you’ll learn how to integrate avatars into various elearning scenarios, from onboarding to cybersecurity training. Gain insights into designing dynamic avatars that stimulate critical thinking and active learning and leave with practical strategies to create immersive and impactful learning environments.

Wednesday, March 19, 2025, 12 p.m.–1 p.m. PT: Five Ways to Engage Your Virtual Learners Beyond the Chat Box
Are your learners actively engaged in your online classes, beyond just typing in chat or responding to simple poll questions? Are you using your platform’s robust toolset to capture attention and more importantly, keep learners involved? Are your activities leading to learning transfer? In this session, with Cindy Huggett, Principal of Cindy Huggett Consulting, you’ll gain new ideas on using virtual classroom tools for learning and interaction. Discover fresh ways to engage remote learners, motivating them to take an active part in the learning experience. You’ll leave this session feeling energized with several ready-made activities that can be immediately put to use in your own classes.

Thursday, March 20, 2025, 10 a.m.–11 a.m. PT: A Systematic Review of the Literature: How Employers Teach the Skills for Success (Free for I4PL members)
Adaptability, collaboration, creativity and innovation are among the Skills for Success in employment identified by Employment and Social Development Canada. Although identified as essential skills, how do employers train and develop these skills in the workplace? Join speaker I4PL’s Saul Carliner, as he presents a preliminary report of what this team learned through the literature review, as well as the challenges the results suggest for Learning and Development Professionals.

Tuesday, March 25, 2025, 8 a.m.–9 a.m. PT: Ten Essential Adobe Photoshop Tips for Elearning Workflows
Elearning developers often face the challenge of creating content that’s both visually appealing and instructionally effective. Adobe Photoshop, with its powerful array of features, can seem overwhelming, leaving many unsure of how to use it to its full potential. Pooja Jaisingh, Ph.D., Associate Vice President of Digital Learning and Product Enablement at Icertis, will reveal how you can leverage Photoshop’s capabilities to enhance your elearning courses and boost learner engagement. This session is packed with practical tips to help you make the most of Photoshop in your elearning projects.

Wednesday, March 26, 2025, 9 a.m.–10 a.m. PT: “Agents, Avatars and Personas — Oh AI!” Digital Characters in Learning: A Practical Guide
Join AI learning expert Margie Meacham, Founder and Chief Freedom Officer at Learningtogo.ai, for a journey down the virtual yellow brick road of digital characters in learning. Through live demonstrations and practical examples, you’ll learn when to use each type of digital character (AI agents, avatars and personas), how to implement them successfully in your learning programs and how to navigate potential pitfalls and risks. Come away with a clear understanding of both the opportunities and challenges each solution presents.

Thursday, March 27, 2025, 12 p.m.–1 p.m. PT: Action-First Learning Using Digital Comics and Superheroes to Achieve Learning Success
Can visuals, superhero tropes and action-driven storytelling make learning more engaging and effective? Karl Kapp, Professor of Interactive Technologies at Bloomsburg University, and Kevin Thorn, Ph.D., Owner of NuggetHead Studioz, LLC, will explore how digital comics transform complex topics into immersive, easy-to-digest narratives that captivate learners and drive meaningful outcomes. Through real-world case studies and practical applications, you’ll see how organizations are using this innovative approach to teach critical concepts. Plus, gain actionable insights on designing your own interactive comic-based learning experiences that boost retention, motivation and workplace application.

Monday, March 31, 2025, 8 a.m.–9 a.m. PT: Learning Management Systems
Discover how the latest innovations in LMS technology are redefining corporate training. This session will spotlight cutting-edge features and capabilities that streamline learning delivery, tracking and management for organizations of all sizes. Get an inside look through live product demonstrations that reveal how modern LMS solutions can unify your learning content, adapt to diverse training needs and seamlessly connect with other tools to build an integrated learning environment. Participate in dynamic Q&A discussions with product experts to find the right fit for your organization and gain actionable insights for successful implementation.

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