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Out with the hoodies and sneakers, in with the fleece-lined boots — and if you’re lucky enough to be inside, the comfy slippers. It’s a great time of year to hide inside from the wind and rain and get some of that work done that was so easy to put off in summer. Why not reinforce your motivation with a free webinar or two? November has plenty to choose from to get you going.

Friday, November 1, 2019, 8AM – 9AM PT: Copyright: Guard Your Goldmine – Protecting What You Create
The original works you create — your intellectual property — are your goldmine. You have poured out your blood, sweat, tears, time and money to create that intellectual property. The last thing you want to discover is that someone has just swooped in and taken those assets. Join Barbara Ingrassia, president of Manage Copyright, and explore the various measures you can take — some quick and easy and even free—to guard your goldmine during the planning, research, pre-launch and post-launch phases. Guard your goldmine so you don’t have to defend your goldmine.

Tuesday, November 5, 2019, 9AM – 10AM PT: Address the Skills Gap Challenge with Micro-Credentialing
Micro-credentialing is a great way to track upskilling and certification for learners within organizations. This session will cover how micro-credentialing supports ongoing professional development and personalized learning pathways as it pertains to progress, accomplishments and skills. Join Jeff Salin, senior instructional designer in the Learning and Creative Services department at D2L, to learn how other organizations are leveraging open badges to address the skills gap challenge.

Tuesday, November 5, 2019, 9AM – 10AM PT: Creating Screencast and Application Simulation Using Adobe Captivate (Free for ATD members)
Getting amazing application simulations isn't always as easy as you may think. What are the essentials to the creation of a slick, smooth and effective application capture training? How much of it can be automated and what should you do to ensure that your application capture projects are the best they can be? Join Allen Partridge, head of Adobe Digital learning Solutions Evangelism, for this introduction to application simulations. You'll learn how to create effective application simulation-based training material including demos, practice opportunities and evaluations. This step-by-step demo will walk you through the process, giving you tips on every aspect from capture to deployment.

Wednesday, November 6, 2019, 10AM – 11AM PT: The LMS: Powerhouse of the Learning Ecosystem
The LMS is still core technology used in most companies to manage their overall learning platform.  Organizations are leaning on their LMS more than ever to support a highly complex learning environment. The foundation of a solid learning experience is still a platform that can handle everything from compliance, sales enablement, the extended enterprise and more — all in a consistent way that allows for tracking and measurement. This is why organizations will continue to invest in elearning and need the right LMS to manage it all. Join David Wentworth, Principal Analyst with Brandon Hall Group, and Brannon Dreher, Vice President of Learning Strategies with Tortal Training, as they explore just how critical the LMS is and will be to the learning ecosystem.

Thursday, November 7, 2019, 10AM – 11AM PT: Learning Strategy 2020 – The Future Is Now
The year 2020 has always sounded like the setting of a futuristic sci-fi movie, but it’s right around the corner. With the advent of such a momentous year, it’s the perfect time to bring your learning strategy into the future. Join David Wentworth, Principal Analyst with Brandon Hall Group, and Docebo, as they look at what organizations should be thinking about when it comes to building a future-proof learning strategy. Discussion topics include:

• Learning strategy elements and industry trends.

• Best practices of high-performing organizations.

• The role of technology.

• Measurements of success.

Tuesday, November 12, 2019, 8AM – 9AM PT: Rapid Authoring Using Quick Start Projects and Out-of-Box Interactions
Authoring an elearning course from scratch can be daunting, with myriad tasks like designing the user interface, screen layouts, interactions, and choosing the colour scheme, images, characters and icons to go with it. Then add hours and hours of developing the animations and interactions. Join Dr. Pooja Jaisingh, Ph.D, Senior Learning Evangelist at Adobe, for a step-by-step demo on how to use Quick-Start Projects and out-of-box interactions for creating visually appealing elearning courses. You’ll learn how to use the ready-to-go slides and make them your own by replacing text and graphics and quickly create your courses.

Tuesday, November 12, 2019, 10AM – 11AM PT: Transforming Talent Management for Success in the Knowledge Economy
Digital transformation, evolving consumer demands and globalization continue to fuel the new knowledge economy and transform industries. Experts predict that just ten years from now, more than 80% of the jobs employers fill will be roles that don’t exist today. Fresh strategies coupled with innovative technology can empower companies to build intellectual and human capital today to ensure a better future tomorrow. Join Michael McPherson, Sales Director/EMEA for PeopleFluent, and Claude Werder, Vice President and Principal HCM Analyst for Brandon Hall Group, as they provide insights on how:

• Flexible performance management can drive productivity, market competitiveness, employee retention and business growth.

• Employee-centric learning experiences build and reinforce new competencies and skills.

• Leveraging technology enables these new strategies and aligns talent development with the fast-changing needs of the business.

Tuesday, November 12, 2019, 11AM – 12PM PT: How to Upskill for Digital Transformation: A Play-by-Play Guide (Free for ATD members)
Change isn't coming — it's already here, and businesses that do not proactively meet the pace of technology disruption are 60% more likely to fold within ten years, according to Deloitte. It’s imperative for senior executives to anticipate the right skills for the future and nail their digital learning strategy. Join Coursera’s skills transformation team in this exclusive live session with ATD about how to upskill your workforce for digital transformation. Kyle Clark, Enterprise Content Expert, Coursera, and Kelly Murphy, Coursera, will share the highly anticipated data research findings of Coursera's Essential Skills Playbook, offer skill maps for different industries and job functions, and walk through a how-to guide of executing a digital learning plan.

Wednesday, November 13, 2019, 9AM – 10AM PT: Structured for Success Part Two: Organizing a Global Training Team and Program
“Restructure.” What a scary word, especially when you’re the one managing the process. The reality is, restructuring your team might be one of the most rewarding things you do in your career. You have the opportunity to reinvent your team and make their daily lives easier and more productive. Of course, the process requires logistics and planning, which is why you should join Katrina Baker, Senior Learning Evangelist at Adobe, who will discuss how to:

• Rearrange people, technology and other assets to more efficiently accomplish organizational goals.

• Anticipate tasks and milestones often included in a team restructure.

• Work with your team, organizational leadership, HR and other stakeholders to make the restructure as smooth as possible.

• Create a training program and team that offers a white glove, learner-centric experience.

This session is the second part of the three-part “Structured for Success” series.

Wednesday, November 13, 2019, 10AM – 11AM PT: How Employers Are Modernizing Performance Management
Efforts to fix the long-broken performance management process are accelerating as employers struggle to grow as the workforce and economy continue to change. The problem is that most employers simply don’t have enough great managers who coach, give feedback, recognize employees for good work, and partner in their improvement and success. Join Claude Werder, Vice President and Principal HCM Analyst for Brandon Hall Group, and Reflektive as they offer strategic solutions on how to scale high-value performance management. It requires commitment to changing behaviours through training and the use of technology to enable those behaviour changes.

Wednesday, November 13, 2019, 10:30AM – 11:30AM PT: Putting Learning to Work and the Performance-focused Learning Ecosystem (Free for members)
Shelby Duckworth, AHz Learning Technologies Inc., will explore the Performance-focused Learning Ecosystem to discover how you can use this learner-centric framework to develop a culture of high-performing, agile and motivated individuals. You’ll learn how to create a performance-focused culture that continually focuses on evaluating knowledge gaps and providing support for changing behaviour and acquiring new skills. It’s a culture where employees and leaders are engaged in embedding learning in daily operations to improve business outcomes and a culture that’s putting learning to work.

Wednesday, November 13, 2019, 12PM – 1PM PT: The Secret to Building a Coaching Habit
You want to be more coach-like, and you can see how this will elevate your leadership to the next level, but it's difficult. Even with the best of intentions, you slip back into telling people what to do: it just feels faster and easier to do it like that. There's a proven way to help you build your coaching habit. In this interactive, practical and highly engaging webinar led by Michael Bungay Stanier, author of The Coaching Habit, you'll learn:

• The three vicious circles that are keeping you stuck and underperforming.

• The science of building a habit that sticks.

• The two best coaching question combinations.

• The best place to start to build a coaching habit.

Thursday, November 14, 2019, 9AM – 10AM PT: Create Compelling Infographics in PowerPoint
Infographics are great tools to convey complex information in an elegant way. They can be the basis of engaging classroom training, interactive elearning or intuitive resources. Richard Goring, Director at BrightCarbon, will show you techniques involved in drafting infographics with visual hierarchies to convey meaning, followed by ways that you can quickly and easily construct your proposal graphics using nothing but PowerPoint. You'll examine the different uses for infographics and how they can be used to support a variety of training tools, or be standalone for quick microlearning or reference guides. You'll find tips on design, layout, and visualization approaches, as well as some nifty productivity tips that will turn you into a PowerPoint Legend.

Thursday, November 14, 2019, 10AM – 11AM PT: Skills and the Future of Work
Organizations are continually challenged to define, map and develop the skills they need to be successful in the future. Recent Brandon Hall Group research finds that fewer than 10% of companies believe they are completely prepared to develop the skills the future will require. They are also struggling to close the gap between the skills developed in higher education system and what’s required by today’s businesses. Corporate and Higher Education entities must work together to close the growing skills gap. Join David Wentworth, Principal Analyst at Brandon Hall Group, and D2L as they discuss how your organization can create programs to address the skills gap, as well as work with universities to help create a better prepared workforce.

Thursday, November 14, 2019, 12PM – 1PM PT: Product Demo: Six Employee Development Best Practices – Beyond Learning to Deepen the Employee Experience
98% of companies say they offer employee development tools, but only 26% of employees say they see their company’s programs as being effective. How do we better connect our learning and development programs to create the experiences employees seek? Join Todd Ericksen, Director of Product, Instructure, to discover the latest insights into what today’s employees are demanding—like career planning, fulfillment through connections, belonging and goal attainment. You’ll also learn more about the best practices and tools needed to create effective employee development programs.

Friday, November 15, 2019, 12PM – 1PM PT: Compliance Training Beyond “Point and Click” and “Testing” – Avoiding Catastrophic Incidents
Compliance courses are the first line of defence for companies to comply with regulatory demands. Over time, billions of dollars have been invested in compliance courses. Unfortunately, most of the compliance learning stop at just “checking for completion” and don’t help to truly impact avoidance and savings from possible catastrophic events — for example, deaths, loss of customers, damaged equipment and many others. In this webinar, hosted by Ray Jimenez, Ph.D., Architect of TrainingMagNetwork.com and Chief Learning Officer of Vignettes Learning, you’ll explore how your compliance courses can go beyond the usual “point and click” and “testing” methods. You’ll review a development model that covers both compliance as well as helping companies reduce risks and costs to the business.

Monday, November 18, 2019, 8AM – 9AM PT: Create Stunning Interactions in Minutes Using Adobe Captivate
Adding interactions to your elearning courses can make them interesting and engaging for learners, but it can be time-consuming, and to some extent, challenging as well. Join Dr. Pooja Jaisingh, Senior Learning Evangelist, Adobe Inc., to learn about simple ways to add interactivity to your elearning courses. You’ll learn how to use interactive objects, multi-state objects, drag and drops, simple actions and automatic forced navigation in Adobe Captivate. You’ll also learn about tips and tricks to quickly convert drab and boring content to vibrant interactive elearning without using any advanced features.

Monday, November 18, 2019, 10:00AM – 10:30AM PT: Demo: White Label Training Materials for Training Professionals (Free for ATD members)
Professional training materials are the cornerstone of all business training and development activities. These classroom-ready workshop materials will save trainers hundreds of hours of preparation and ensure a polished impression for new and seasoned trainers alike. By attending this webinar by Ashley MacNeil, Sales Representative, Global Courseware, you’ll:

• Understand that pre-made content will save you time from creating these materials from scratch.

• Learn that it’s easy to use these materials in your training programs.

• Discover how to edit these materials.

Tuesday, November 19, 2019, 9AM – 10AM PT: Memes and Scavenger Hunts: Ten Ways to Improve Your L&D Program on a Budget (Free for ATD members)
Is your learning and development budget missing some zeros? If so, this session is for you. Sadly, Oprah isn’t going to attend and give everyone a new bank account, but you’ll still get boatloads of budget-stretching ideas from your colleagues during this webinar. Join Katrina Baker, Senior Learning Evangelist at Adobe, to learn how to provide a great learning environment, even if you’re running short on funds.

• Engage learners in the classroom (virtual or live) without spending money.

• Get help from departments outside L&D. (Yes, you can make this happen!)

• Use learning technology to make your L&D team more efficient.

• Persuade leadership to give you more funding next year.

Tuesday, November 19, 2019, 10AM – 11AM PT: Everyday Leaders – A New Vision for Leadership Development
Leadership development is consistently considered one of the most critical areas of learning and development for organizations. It can no longer be reserved for current leaders or select high-potentials. Every employee needs to develop skills like managing teams, coaching/mentoring, managing change, critical thinking and more. David Wentworth, Principal Learning Analyst for Brandon Hall Group, and Charlie Chung, Sr. Director Solutions Consulting, from NovoEd will be joined by Juliandra Rittmann, Director, Global Talent Development, from The Clorox Company, to discuss ways your organization can rethink Leadership Development, including Clorox’s experiences designing, curating, and delivering high-impact learning experiences that engage learners and drive development of critical skills.

Tuesday, November 19, 2019, 12PM – 1PM PT: Seven Tips That Will Make You a Snagit Pro
Snagit makes screen capture and annotation quick and easy, but many people are just scratching the surface of its capabilities. There are a few tips and tricks that make Snagit incredibly powerful and versatile, and even our most experienced users aren’t aware of all of them. In this webinar, Jason Valade, Master Trainer – Customer Success Manager, TechSmith, will share seven features of Snagit that can help you create effective and professional visuals.

Wednesday, November 20, 2019, 10AM – 11AM PT: Making Inclusion Real: Creating an Environment of Unified Leadership
As the world of work becomes more diverse and complex, the traditional top-down, command-and-control style of leadership is fast becoming extinct. The modern leader is inclusive and committed to empowering people of all genders, races and abilities to come together and pool their talents and ideas to reach shared goals. There’s no better example of inclusive, unified leadership than Special Olympics International, where people with and without intellectual disabilities work together to give children and adults with intellectual disabilities opportunities to develop physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.

Join Olga Yakimakho, Director of Leadership and Organizational Development for Special Olympics International; Denis Doolan, Chief of Organizational Excellence, Special Olympics International, and Claude Werder, Vice President and Principal HCM Analyst for Brandon Hall Group, as they share insights on building a culture of inclusive leadership.

Wednesday, November 20, 2019, 10:30AM – 11:30AM PT: How the Workforce Learns with Degreed - Performance and Learning Month Partner Content (Free for IPL members)
Traditional L&D isn’t obsolete, but it has become outdated. Many business leaders know this already, but what they don’t know is how to fix it. The good news is that employees still love learning and they’re looking for organizational guidance. By honing in on the data and insights that impact how people — and companies — learn, you can make smarter investments in your most valuable assets: your people’s skills. Register for this webinar, led by Kristi Broom, Director of Growth Engagement at Degreed, to learn:

• The difference between learning and acquiring new skills.

• How to apply hard metrics to your L&D strategy.

• How to align your employees’ learning goals with those of your larger company.

Wednesday, November 20, 2019, 11AM – 12PM PT: EI Is the Essential Skill of the Future Workplace (Free for ATD members)
Emotional intelligence (EI) has already been acknowledged as a significant differentiator in achieving excellence in individual engagement, product innovation and customer experiences. Its importance as a skill will only increase over the next decade. Attend this webinar, featuring Institute for Health and Human Potential (IHHP)’s organizational psychologist, Cranla Warren, Ph.D., to engage in learning related to the research linking the need for individuals and organizations to develop emotional intelligence as the key skill required to thrive in the face of automation and rapid change in the world of work. Special guest Tricia Maslov, managing director of executive education at KPMG, will share her experience of the importance of emotional intelligence in industries that have traditionally focused on the importance of technical skills.

Thursday, November 21, 2019, 9AM – 10AM PT: What Is the Value of Certification? (Free for ATD members)
If you’re wondering whether pursuing a certification will be helpful to your career, join this webinar to hear from Holly Batts, associate director of the ATD Certification Institute, along with Sam Caballero, CPLP; Gregory Rollins, APTD; and Whitney Sieck, CPLP—three credential holders who will share how they have found value in their ATD certifications. This session will explore the issues below, as well as your questions for our panelists:

• What more than 500 credential holders told us about the value of their certifications.

• What organizations gain when their employees achieve a certification.

• What factors to consider if you’re thinking about pursuing a certification.

Thursday, November 21, 2019, 10AM – 11AM PT: Five Strategies That Enable HR to Drive Business Growth
One of HR's most critical roles is building a workforce that can drive sustainable business growth in the era of digital transformation. Success can appear impossible in the volatile, uncertain, complex and often ambiguous business environment. Brandon Hall Group and Ibbaka, a leading skill and competency management platform provider, have conducted research yielding valuable insights on what HR must do to drive business growth. Join Steven Forth, Co-Founder of Ibbaka, and Claude Werder, Vice President and Principal HCM Analyst at Brandon Hall Group, as they discuss five critical strategies that enable and empower today's HR leaders to develop the future workforce.

Monday, November 25, 2019, 11AM – 12PM PT: ATD Research Presents: Effective Evaluation (Free for ATD members)
Although nearly all organizations evaluate their learning programs to some extent, far fewer evaluate them successfully. Shauna Robinson, Research Analyst, ATD, and Thomas Atkinson, President, Atkinson Analytics, will provide a detailed look at current learning evaluation efforts and identify practices linked with success. Drawing on data from ATD’s new research report, Effective Evaluation: Measuring Learning Programs for Success, this session will share findings such as common approaches for measuring on-the-job behaviour change, common approaches for measuring business results, and how evaluation practices vary by content area and learning delivery methods.They’ll also discuss barriers to conducting effective evaluations, including attracting and retaining staff with evaluation skills. Lastly, this webinar will share recommendations for how your organization can overcome these challenges and improve your learning evaluation efforts.