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Did you enjoy having an extra day in February? Did it help you catch up with all those projects? Or did you treat it like the weekend gift that it was? Either way, it’s wonderful when the universe gives you something extra, isn’t it? And March is full of such extras — in the form of free webinars. We hope they give you some great ideas and inspiration!

Tuesday, March 3, 2020, 10AM – 11AM PT: The Modern Learning Experience – Is Your LMS Holding You Back?
As organizations develop their learning strategies for the future, many find that the technology they currently have won’t let them execute. According to Brandon Hall Group’s 2020 Learning Technology Study, 42% of companies are actively looking to replace their current LMS. Whether the system is lacking features, is hard to use or simply appears outdated, companies want a change. Organizations are looking for modern, flexible systems that can adapt to the evolving needs of the business and its learners. Join David Wentworth, Principal Learning Analyst at Brandon Hall Group, and Henderson Valentine, Customer Success Manager at Docebo, as they discuss the evolving learning landscape and what it takes to move to a new platform that can deliver this environment.

Tuesday, March 3, 2020, 9AM – 10AM PT: Becoming a Virtual Trainer Is a Hero’s Journey
The path to becoming a virtual trainer is a hero’s journey, one filled with adventure, challenges, disappointments, excitement, determination, and great success and achievement. Those who have forged ahead know the journey’s often fraught with fears, foes and failing audio connections. With challenges like confusing links and logins, participants unable to connect and unexpected technical issues, it’s no easy feat to become a respected virtual trainer. Join Kassy LaBorie, Principal Consultant at Kassy LaBorie Consulting LLC, to learn how to confidently step up to this call to adventure, armed with the tools, techniques and ideas you need to defeat your worries and fears. Gain the knowledge to begin to build the virtual training skills needed for success and pick up a dose of courage and bravery along the way.

Tuesday, March 3, 2020, 10AM – 11AM PT: Watch and Learn: Best Practices for Using Video in Elearning
One of the most commonly used mediums in elearning is video. Ask yourself, “Are my learners actually learning anything from my video content?” Many elearning courses are long lecture videos followed by a quiz to make sure learners were paying attention. This doesn’t make for an engaging or successful course, and doesn’t take advantage of the incredible benefits video content can provide to learners. It’s time to get the most from your videos, and this master class, with Erin Melvin, Director of Client Engagement at Lambda Solutions, is ideal for content creators and site administrators who need to deliver effective and engaging video content for their elearning courses.

Tuesday, March 3, 2020, 11AM – 12PM PT: Top Design Principles to Develop Frontline Leaders (Free for ATD members)
Your frontline leaders form the backbone of your company’s execution strategy. They'll need to change, learn and grow at an unprecedented pace. That's why CEOs’ primary concern is that the next generation of leaders aren’t ready to step up. Dive into top trends and design principles you can't ignore as you reimagine leadership programs. In this webinar, hosted by Lori Weyant, Sr. Global Leadership Consultant at DDI, you’ll learn ideas and practical tactics to build effective development experiences that will flex to the changing needs of your frontline managers and your organization.

Wednesday, March 4, 2020, 8AM – 9AM PT: Beginners Essential: Getting Started with Adobe Captivate (2019 Release)
Are you a first time elearning developer? Looking for some solid foundations to build your elearning courses? Join Dr. Pooja Jaisingh, Ph.D., Lead Elearning Evangelist at Adobe Digital Learning Solutions, for this fun and easy introduction to Adobe Captivate. You'll get a simple introduction to the software — aimed at helping you get started with creating elearning courses.

Thursday, March 5, 2020, 10AM – 11AM PT: Improving Efficiency and Growing Talent on a Global Scale with Business Language Skills
Business language skills have become a critical competency for today's global workforce, yet 40-70% of employees in multinational companies are not native speakers of English or other key business languages they need. Accelerating business language proficiency helps employees collaborate more efficiently, communicate more clearly in meetings, presentations, conference calls and other interactions, and deliver better outcomes to clients. It also breaks down language barriers, empowers employees in every geography to contribute to their full potential, and provides solutions to learners where they live and work. Join David Wentworth, Principal Analyst at Brandon Hall Group, Wes Schouten, Manager, Global Learning and Development at DXC Technology, and John Ambrose, President of goFLUENT, to learn how business language training’s an essential pillar that aligns with DXC's strategy to win with customers and in the market, grow the business and invest in employees’ development and career growth.

Thursday, March 5, 2020, 12PM – 1PM PT: Care Like a Mouse. Engage Your Castomers. Amaze Your Customers.
This session, based on the presenter’s book Care Like a Mouse, will show you how Disney harnesses human capital through Purpose, Priorities and People. At each step, Lenn Millbower, President of Offbeat Training LLC, will share strategies and tactics you can apply to your organization. People think that everything Disney touches is magic. It’s not. It's method. Learn the method and you can create your own magic.

Friday, March 6, 2020, 10AM – 11AM PT: Leading with Your Customer: Future-Proofing Your Workplace (Free for ATD members)
Every day, you’re confronted with changes in some aspect of your work. Effectively managing these changes and actually exceeding expectations of your customer experience, employee engagement and business results are critical in today’s fast-paced, hyper-competitive marketplace. Revealing the best practices of world-class organizations, you’ll discover the most relevant behind-the-scenes ideas in continuous improvement, allowing you to finally turn your workplace into an agile, innovative powerhouse that adapts quickly and correctly — earning a reputation for whatever matters most to those you serve to future-proof your workplace. Join World Class Benchmarking’s COO, Mark David Jones and CEO, Jeff Kober, as these former Disney leaders train you on how to apply these principles to your business.

Monday, March 9, 2020, 11AM – 12PM PT: Demo: Capturing Knowledge Has Never Been Easier (Free for ATD members)
In this webinar, presented by Sundeep Patel, Founder & CEO at iorad, you’ll learn about why iorad is such a powerful tool that quickly captures and shares digital processes throughout an organization. The discussion will cover how iorad came to be and what problem it solves, what makes iorad what it is, and who can use it. Then you’ll watch the app in action.

Tuesday, March 10, 2020, 10AM – 11AM PT: Learner Marketing to Drive Adoption
Organizations spend a lot of time money and energy acquiring learning technology and creating content, only to find that their learners are not readily engaging. Achieving the desired outcomes for learning is only possible if you drive people to adoption. Learning needs to take its cues from marketing and begin to treat learners like customers and the learning as a product. This can help create improved awareness of the learning solution, increased traffic on the platform, and increased learner engagement and loyalty. Join David Wentworth, Principal Learning Analyst at Brandon Hall Group, and Leïla Minten, Learner Marketing Consultant at CrossKnowledge, as they discuss why and how learning can market its efforts to the workforce and the impact this approach can have on results.

Wednesday, March 11, 2020, 1:30 PM – 2:30 PM PT: Create Effective Microlearning in Record Time with PowerPoint (Free for IPL members)
Learners don’t always want to sit through a formal training course or simply don’t have the time. Microlearning is a great way to deliver just what people need and when they need it to maximize effectiveness. This session, with Richard Goring, Director at BrightCarbon, looks at the principles supporting microlearning best practices, like visual, dynamic and interactive content to make it engaging, taking into account the wide range of devices that people use to access microlearning, including traditional laptops, tablets and mobile. You’ll also explore practical techniques to create microlearning content quickly and easily using PowerPoint. You’ll be amazed at the way you can use this standard tool to deliver visual content, with animation and high impact media, like audio, voice over, video and screen recording. Learn ways to export it to video or HTML5 for easy distribution, in isolation, or through your LMS, all of which will make your microlearning an effective tool that your learners will be delighted with.

Thursday, March 12, 2020, 8AM – 9AM PT: Create Elearning Courses in Minutes Using Quick Start Projects in Adobe Captivate
Your elearning course storyboard is ready and you’re really proud of how it turned out. Your next task is to convert it to an elearning course. You’ve spent a lot of time in making the storyboard instructionally sound, but left no time to design the course interface and interactions. Join Dr. Pooja Jaisingh, Ph.D., Lead Elearning Evangelist at Adobe Digital Learning Solutions, for a step-by-step demo on how to use Quick Start Projects in Adobe Captivate (2019 release) for creating visually appealing elearning courses. Learn how to use the ready-to-go slides and make them your own by replacing text and graphics. Quickly create your elearning courses, rich with interactions, graphics, animations and scenarios.

Thursday, March 12, 2020, 9AM – 10AM PT: Five Ways to Know if Consulting Is for You (and Five Warning Signs It May Not) (Free for ATD members)
Being a consultant has never been easier or more accepted than it is today. An independent consulting practice can generate significant income, provide you with flexibility and control over your schedule and allow you to home in on the work you love most. If you’ve pondered the idea of going out on your own, you’ll want to join this webinar, led by Kris Taylor, Founder of Evergreen Leadership and Co-Founder of LEAP Consulting, and Katie McNamee, Founder of Elevate Online and Co-Founder of LEAP Consulting. Taylor and McNamee will help you discern if you have what it takes to become a consultant and will share five indicators that independent consulting may not be for you. Departing from a full-time permanent role is a big step, and this session can help you determine if you should take the leap from corporate to consulting.

Thursday, March 12, 2020, 11AM – 12PM PT: How to Prove the Value of Your Sales Training Program
You know an effective sales force is essential. Equipping your reps with product knowledge, best practices and objection handling are baseline skills. Well-trained salespeople drive better results. How can you optimize learning and prove the value of your sales training? Without hard numbers to showcase the value of your sales readiness programs, it’s hard to get the resources you need for future programs. When you understand how to quantify the full return on your training investments, you can prove the value of your initiatives and win the resources you need to ramp up. In this webinar, with Jake Miller, Senior Product Marketing Manager at Allego, you’ll learn:

• How to track and measure the ROI of your sales training.

• The sources of business value that most organizations already capture, but fail to quantify or maximize.

• How to use ROI metrics to make a strong business case for investing in sales training.

• Tools and technology that can help you improve results.

Thursday, March 12, 2020, 12PM – 1PM PT: Seven Story Learning Designs That Boost Engagement
Learners understand lessons better and quicker through stories because they relate to the core of human experience. There are many methods leveraging the use of stories, but seven models have repeatedly shown results based on research. These models build on each other to deliver deeper engagement, learning and thinking capacities. In this webinar, presented by Ray Jimenez, Ph.D., Architect of TrainingMagNetwork.com and Chief Learning Officer of Vignettes Learning, you’ll learn:

• About new research findings on how stories impact behavioral change, learning and application.

• How to differentiate weak story models from powerful and sure-fire story methods.

• Which stories to use in compliance, technical, soft skills, software, process and knowledge types of content.

• How to leverage “hyper-stories” to instantly engage learners.

• How focusing on stories enhances competencies and performance.

Plus, you’ll receive “Seven Story Model Learning Design Methods” — a reusable template.

Tuesday, March 17, 2020, 9AM – 10AM PT: Using Assessment Tools to Coach
There are loads of assessment tools and strategies in the marketplace. All these platforms and tools provide organizations an awesome opportunity to build specific coaching solutions based on the results. In this webinar, Tim Hagen, Chief Coaching Officer at Progress Coaching, will show you how to interpret assessment results and literally create coaching strategies based on those results using three types of coaching strategies. He’ll also illustrate actual output from an assessment into a coaching strategy, teaching you how to:

• Identify questions to ask.

• Create accountability to address what was uncovered in the assessment.

• Facilitate activities that drive required change illustrated by the assessment set of results.

• Use a non-personality assessment to build greater engagement between manager and employee.

Tuesday, March 17, 2020, 11AM – 12PM PT: Lessons from Marketing to Increase Your Learner Engagement (Free for ATD members)
Timely communications along with content variety, relevance and accessibility are proven techniques to increase initial participation in your training program, but too often, we see learner engagement surge during the launch of a company’s training program, only to taper off in later months. Join Paula Chenea and Katie Johnson, Customer Success Managers at OpenSesame, to learn why and how to plan a full year of internal communications that will help you get and keep your learners engaged.

Wednesday, March 18, 2020, 9AM – 10AM PT: The Three Pillars of an Effective Learning Program
While digital, one-size-fits-one approaches are gaining recognition across the industry, many organizations are still relying on outdated solutions that leave learners wanting more. Without incorporating modern learning methods, you run the risk of a bad learning experience that results in high dropout rates, poor learner engagement and ROI left on the table. Join Katie Babbili, Learning Technology Analyst, BenchPrep, to learn how to adopt a new learning strategy that aligns with today’s learners. Take a deep dive into the three core pillars of an effective learning program to ensure your learning program is set up for success.

Tuesday, March 24, 2020, 9AM – 10AM PT: What You Need to Know About Automation & Machine Learning for Your Learning Programs
The bots are coming, and having borne witness to at least six Terminator movies, you’re understandably terrified. Not only are marketers ensuring you that these learned machines are going to automate your training so effectively that you may no longer need employees, but they also have the gall to hide it all behind acronyms like AI/ML. Never fear, Dr. Allen Partridge, Ph.D., Head of Evangelism for Adobe Digital Learning Products, is here to gently walk you through the future tech forest, carefully sorting out the helpful modern miracles from the dystopic fantasies. Join in for a fun-filled webinar with a very useful overview of the fact and fiction surrounding Automation and Artificial Intelligence in modern Learning Management.

Wednesday, March 25, 2020, 10AM – 11AM PT: Building a Learning Ecosystem: What You Need to Know
Companies are recognizing that online and social learning can reduce the cost of training, expand learning’s reach, and increase the speed at which learning experiences can be accessed and offered. However, many are challenged by how complex the learning environment is becoming as a result. It’s more important than ever to ensure you’re looking at both how these types of learning interconnect and how your learning architecture scales with the business needs of your organization. Join David Wentworth, Principal Learning Analyst at Brandon Hall Group, and Darren Nerland, Learning Strategist at Degreed, as they explore social platforms, performance support platforms, elearning, video and mobile learning, and how they all integrate with HRIS and learning management systems.

Wednesday, March 25, 2020, 1:30PM – 2:30PM PT: Developing Managers into Emotionally Intelligent Leaders (Free for IPL members)
Managers are the linchpin to organizational success and employee engagement, but there’s not a lot of support in learning how to be a manager. Trial by fire’s a common method that many managers have experienced in the workplace, which isn’t the best way to learn. A failure to develop manager competence can negatively influence an organization's ability to compete in today's shifting global market. Organizations need to create a climate for managers where continuous learning’s not only supported, but is embedded in workplace culture as well. During the webinar, participants will integrate concepts from emotional intelligence, organizational theory, leadership and workplace learning into a cohesive way that will support the design of meaningful processes and strategies to enhance the quality of workplace learning for their managers. You’ll walk away with tangible and practical strategies that can be implemented to support the development of manager and leadership competencies that are embedded in everyday work.

Thursday, March 26, 2020, 11AM – 12PM PT: How to Deploy Virtual and Augmented Reality at Scale (Free for ATD members)
Do you know the challenges before blindly conducting virtual and augmented reality training programs? Join Fraser Bowie, Founder of The Bowie Group LLC, to learn about virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) for learning. Discover when to use VR or AR as a learning delivery method or for on-the-job performance support. Hear real-world examples of VR and AR success, and learn about the challenges you might face when deploying these technologies at scale. Attend this webinar and acquire insight into the best approaches, lessons learned and expected results, while piloting and launching VR and AR. Finally, learn helpful hints, tools and resources for identifying the best training content and scenarios for these mediums.