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June is just around the corner and flowers have opened up everywhere. It looks like the economy might slowly be following suit, but we’re still far from normal. The good thing is that people have learned new ways of working — and this will evolve as the guidelines around physical distancing start to relax. Wouldn’t it be great to keep all the good things about the shutdown while saying goodbye to the bad? Maybe it’s possible. In the meantime, June’s list of free webinars is full of possibilities for future L&D.

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Tuesday, June 2, 2020, 11AM – 12PM PT: How Training Managers Can Use Self-Development to Improve Their Programs (Free for ATD members)
As a training program manager, you spend so much time and energy developing others that focusing on your self-development may feel less important, but it’s not. In fact, the more a program manager invests in their own skills, the more impact they can have on an organization. Join BizLibrary’s director of talent development and culture, Libby Mullen, for an interactive discussion about self-development. She’ll discuss why it’s imperative for a training program manager to find the balance between their self-development and developing their workforce to achieve a program with maximum engagement and higher ROI.

Tuesday, June 2, 2020, 12PM – 1PM PT: Hidden Gems in PowerPoint That Could Rock Your World
The problem with PowerPoint is that it’s too easy. Everybody can create slides in about an hour, so nobody dives very deep. This session will fill up your toolkit with the things you should have learned long ago, but never bothered to because the software is pretty easy to start using, so that’s what you did: you just started using it. You use the blunt instrument of your own will and persistence, even though there are shortcuts, features and hidden capabilities that would allow you to work so much quicker and so much more intelligently. Join Rick Altman, Director at Better Presenting, and he’ll show you how to take hand to mouse, open up the interface and present a collection of tools that you should never have to live without.

Wednesday, June 3, 2020, 10AM – 11AM PT: Online DemoFest: Get Inspired by These Immersive Solutions
DemoFest is an attendee-favourite activity that takes place during The Learning Guild's conferences. Designers and developers showcase their best work in this science-fair setting and discuss the unique tools, technologies and processes they used in their projects. This series of four webinars showcases some of the creative learning solutions developed by members of The Learning Guild community to solve real problems in organizations today. In this fourth showcase event, explore immersive solutions using more traditional approaches and tools in the L&D toolbox, as well as those that push the envelope. You'll get under the hood with each developer to learn more about why they took their learners on a journey, the design decisions they made and the results achieved.

Wednesday, June 3, 2020, 10AM – 11AM PT: The Power of Skills: Empowering Talent Transformation in a Time of Disruption
Retaining top talent is the biggest concern of business and HR leaders in 2020, according to Brandon Hall Group research. Most companies have failed to invest in skills and talent and it has steamrolled out of control. The solution is to reinvent your approach to understanding and developing the workforce capabilities you need. Creating a skills orientation gives employees a path to pursue even during the uncertainty of COVID-19. Join Steve Feyer of Eightfold, and Claude Werder, SVP and Principal HCM Analyst with Brandon Hall Group, as they discuss specific skills-driven strategies you can use to:

• Understand your employees’ current capabilities.

• Learn who has the potential to fill critical roles, including roles that are changing due to the turbulent economy.

• Take a personalized approach to upskilling the workforce.

• Improve employee productivity.

• Retain top talent and attract new talent that truly meets your needs.

Wednesday, June 3, 2020, 11AM – 12PM PT: Training Disrupted: Lessons Learned on The Frontline (Free for ATD members)
80% of the global workforce is frontline employees. They’ve always been an important part of your business. They’re the face of your brand, and they work directly with your customers and products. The COVID-19 pandemic is reminding us of just how essential these workers are to your organizations and communities. They continue to clock in every day so others can stay home and avoid infection. Organizations are rapidly exploring new ways to get these frontline employees the support they need to do their best work, but traditional training isn’t an option. People don’t have time for online courses and they can’t be brought together for classroom sessions. Instead, L&D teams are shifting their mindsets and rethinking their approaches to workplace training so they can focus on what matters to their employees, customers and communities. Join JD Dillon, Chief Learning Architect at Axonify, to hear stories from some of the industries most affected by COVID-19 and learn how they are helping their employees stay safe and productive in the face of unprecedented disruption.

Wednesday, June 3, 2020, 12PM – 1PM PT: Mickey, Donald or Mufasa: What Disney’s Leadership Strategies Can Teach Your People
Discover the three phases of leadership Walt Disney went through to become the wise leader we remember and discover how the leadership lessons he learned, and that Walt Disney World still follows, can improve the performance of your organization’s leaders. In this illuminating session, Lenn Millbower, a 25-year Walt Disney World veteran, will share Walt Disney’s leadership journey. He will explain each of the three approaches, the situations appropriate for each and situations where each is not appropriate.

Thursday, June 4, 2020, 8AM – 9AM PT: Upgrade Your Elearning: Create Different Types of Click-Based Interactions Using Adobe Captivate
Adding interactions is an integral part of building elearning courses. These interactions can usually be triggered on a hover, click/tap or drag. From these, the most used trigger is a click. Join Dr. Pooja Jaisingh, Lead Elearning Evangelist at Adobe Digital Learning Solutions, to take a look at different examples of click-based interactions and build some of them from scratch. You’ll learn how to use pre-built buttons, and convert shapes, images and SVGs to buttons and add custom and inbuilt states to objects to quickly create custom interactions. You’ll see the workflow to use variables, and different types of simple, advanced and shared actions. Towards the end of the session, she’ll also take you through the steps to make your interactions accessible for all the learners.

Thursday, June 4, 2020, 10AM – 11AM PT: Adapt & Grow As You Go — Supporting Different Needs and Audiences in One Platform
It can be difficult to meet the needs of multiple learning audiences across the business, geographies and even outside of the organization. As different stakeholders sought to solve these challenges, more than 25% of organizations ended up with two or more learning platforms operating at the same time. To support growth, companies need to look into a solution that facilitates all their training needs for all their audiences, in one place. This means a solution that can deliver different experiences for multiple audiences, support various styles and learning goals with a tailored look and feel, and deliver curated content. Join David Wentworth, Principal Learning Analyst with Brandon Hall Group, and Muzz Salim, Strategic Account Manager for Docebo, as they discuss the benefits of moving to one system that can meet the challenges of both adaptability and scale, without the need to build, learn and manage many platforms.

Thursday, June 4, 2020, 10AM – 11AM PT: Five Ways a Video Library Can Help Trainers Overcome Top Org Learning Challenges
Every year, U.S. companies spend more than $90 billion dollars on training and development, yet training managers continually feel pressure to do more with less. Fortunately, changing workforce dynamics have created new opportunities for L&D teams to identify what content, format and delivery will best help their organizations’ employees to learn and succeed. In this webinar, Dave Dumler, Head of Product Evangelism at Panopto, will investigate the top challenges training managers are dealing with and how to optimize an internal video library to help relieve some pressure. There will also be an examination of which training content and format types that perform best, how to implement an “agile” approach to creating and modifying training videos, and how analytics can be the key to helping improve training content while providing ROI numbers to management.

Friday, June 5, 2020, 10AM – 11AM PT: Collaborating With and Enabling Your Frontline Sales Managers (Free for ATD members)
Effectively enabling your sales managers is vital to the success of your sales enablement program. Successful adoption of such programs requires sales manager support and involvement before you initiate your programs for reps. Sales managers are essential to this process and need a holistic view of sales enablement programs to provide reps effective support. This webinar, hosted by John Moore, VP Revenue Enablement at Bigtincan, will provide you with a sound framework to get sales management support for sales enablement programs — an essential practice that many organizations overlook entirely and one that others still fail to execute well.

Tuesday, June 9, 2020, 10AM – 11AM PT: The Ultimate Guide To Creating & Managing Moodle Forums For Elearning Success
This will be an information-packed session designed to answer your questions about setting up, using and managing online forums. The Moodle Forum is a powerful asset in creating lively and engaging courses, and Benjamin Young, Director of Learning Solutions at Lambda Solutions, and Stewart Rogers, VP of Product at Lambda Solutions, will be answering your most common questions and covering everything from setup to analytical optimization. This webinar will start with setting up the forum for different use cases, from an open general forum to a more focused response-type forum, then go over how to provide a participation grade, and finally show you how to manage forums across courses with Lambda’s Zoola Analytics.

Tuesday, June 9, 2020, 11AM – 12PM PT: 2020: Talent Mobility Then and Now (Free for ATD members)
Pressure around talent mobility is intensifying with human resources leaders hustling to build greater and deeper leader bench strength. As many organizations have shifted their priorities and structures during the past several months, the need to discover a robust pool of diverse leadership talent to handle current and future challenges is increasing. Companies need to identify the best leaders for different contexts and new critical roles. During this session, Amanda Kondrotas, Director of Solution Strategy at SHL, will explore how to objectively identify a diverse leader bench to match the context in which leaders are now forced to operate.

Tuesday, June 9, 2020, 12PM – 1PM PT: Developing Relentless Learners in the Workflow
One of the biggest myths in the L&D world is that “we must train workers.” Workers are inherently relentless learners. They fix, solve and improve work issues every minute of their workday. The challenge is that many of our L&D tools and methods are so arcane that we spend lots of money, time and resources on “telling workers what to do” instead of helping them to “learn better while they’re doing work.” Our goal is to support their natural skills and appetite for workflow learning. In this session, hosted by Ray Jimenez, Ph.D., Architect of TrainingMagNetwork.com and Chief Learning Officer of Vignettes Learning, you’ll learn to:

• Differentiate “instruction learning” from “worker’s relentless learning” while in the workflow.

• Understand how to support workers in the workflow, but not insisting that they follow our instructions.

• Follow the “workflow learning” methods that are already built into the methods of productive work.

• Extend your formal learning instructions to commence, merge and intersect with “workflow demands.”

• Obtain reusable templates on Workflow Learning Design.

Wednesday, June 10, 2020, 10:30AM – 11:30PM PT: From Yes and to Thank You Because: How Improv and Behavioural Science Make Work Better (Free for IPL members)
Kelly Leonard, Executive Director of Insights and Applied Improvisation at Second City Works, builds off the improvisation-based principles from his bestselling book Yes, And to discuss a new initiative he co-leads with the Center for Decision Research at the Booth School of Business at The University of Chicago. The Second Science Project looks at behavioural science through the lens of improvisation. Kelly will talk about the insights that have come from this partnership and talk about the key areas where evidence-based science meets improvisational pedagogy. He’ll also toss in a few stories of some of the famous figures he's worked with in his 30+ career at The Second City.

Wednesday, June 10, 2020, 12PM – 1PM PT: Four Best Practices to Make Your Online Training Secure
Now more that ever, trainers and students need to know their virtual interactions are protected and secure. Join Peter Ryce, Adobe Connect Evangelist at Adobe Digital Learning Solutions, for this webinar in which he’ll share best practices to keep your virtual trainings and classroom secure. You’ll learn to:

• Control who enters your virtual training room and who drives it.

• Configure preset permissions on what can or cannot be shared during meetings.

• Ensure participant privacy.

• Protect potentially sensitive data during and after the live sessions.

Thursday, June 11, 2020, 9AM – 10AM PT: Seven Better Principles for Designing and Delivering Video-Based Learning
For many, the need to train employees using video has dramatically grown in importance, but for those being asked to implement it, video training can present challenges winning the support of stakeholders and producing learning that’s performance-focused. In this webinar, Dave Dumler, Head of Product Evangelism and Product Management at Panopto, and Dan Keckan, CEO of Cinecraft Productions, will peel away the complex layers that can prevent you from achieving high-performance results. The focus will be on what’s preventing you from creating better-performing content and show you the best practices for using video to quickly scale and further improve content performance.

Thursday, June 11, 2020, 11AM – 12PM PT: Build Your Resilience: Six Strategies to Help You Stay Afloat Throughout a Crisis (Free for ATD members)
Resilience is the capacity not only to survive life's challenges, but to learn and grow from them. While stress, trauma, adversity and dramatic change are rarely welcome, your personal resilience enables you to find a way to move beyond the challenge and toward a stronger self. Using the concept of biomimicry, this webinar, hosted by Maureen Orey, President of Workplace Learning & Performance Group, offers you six tips learned from nature about how to stay afloat in challenging times.

Friday, June 12, 2020, 11AM – 12PM PT: Talent Development’s Role in Organizational Culture Transformation (ATD members only)
What’s talent development's role in organizational culture? During this ATD member-only session, executive panelists Kimberly Currier, Senior Director of Talent Management at AECOM; Regina Hartley, Vice President of Global Talent Management, UPS; Tal Moore, Chief Organizational Development Officer of Kalispel Tribe of Indians; and John Coné, Principal at The 11th Hour Group, will describe how the TD function must lead culture development and transformation by becoming nurturers of the culture, enabling communication about it and helping leaders understand how to be effective in their role as culture owners.

Tuesday, June 16, 2020, 9AM – 10AM PT: Re-Examining Your Organization’s Training Strategy in the Wake of a Global Pandemic
2020 has certainly been an eye-opening year. After months of stay at home orders, travel restrictions and social distancing, businesses are starting to wonder what their organizations will do as we approach a phase of viral response that will likely include multiple waves of varied states of alert according to the threat levels across multiple geographies. For those who have been delaying the shift from face-to-face to virtual instruction, and with many estimating an ongoing impact for 18-24 months, it’s certainly time to consider how your training strategy can and should change to meet these new challenges. Join Dr. Allen Partridge, Head of Evangelism for Adobe Digital Learning Solutions, for this investigation of training strategy in the wake of the pandemic.

Tuesday, June 16, 2020, 11AM – 12PM PT: Brain-Based Strategies for Leading Change (Free for ATD members)
During this pandemic, change is bigger and coming faster than ever. 50-70% of change initiatives fail because typical approaches don’t take into account human biology and that we’re wired to resist change. Learn about brain-based strategies that drive successful change. Discover the four brain structures activated by change and intentionally mitigate their effects, increasing people’s adaptability and resilience. This session, presented by Britt Andreatta, CEO of 7th Mind, Inc., will give you new tools and strategies you can implement immediately.

Wednesday, June 17, 2020, 9AM – 10AM PT: Mastering Rapid Course Development with Effective Articulate Storyline Templates
Setting up a template for your elearning project gets you on the right foot for the rest of your course development. Creating a consistent, branded template will ensure that all your content looks the part and functions well, and save you precious time. But Articulate Storyline templates can be an easy stumbling block for the uninitiated. In this webinar, Richard Goring, Director of BrightCarbon, will teach you how to create a Storyline template from scratch. You’ll learn how to set the template masters, the colour scheme, layout options and fonts. You’ll discover the different UI options available — from the inbuilt Storyline player to custom elements — and gain some top tips for effective, consistent elearning development.

Wednesday, June 17, 2020, 10:30AM – 11:30AM PT: Virtual Facilitation - What to Do and How?
We’ve worked with the topic of digital facilitation for over a decade and gathered many insights into challenges our clients face with working as effectively digital as face to face. With recent events with Coronavirus, this has become an acute challenge in many professionals around the world. Just turning your ordinary meeting or training into a video conference doesn’t cut it. Digital facilitation thinking and methods are something that’s at the core of our expertise. We’re certain that they offer leaders, learning professionals, consultants and facilitators completely new possibilities. In this webinar, Tapio Kymäläinen, President of Howspace, will share his best practices that you can start applying to your work, starting today.

Thursday, June 18, 2020, 8AM – 9AM PT: Beginners Essential: Create Five Different Types of Animated Elearning Slides with Adobe Captivate
Adding animations, effects, and transitions to your elearning courses can make your courses stand out. Join Dr. Pooja Jaisingh, Lead Elearning Evangelist at Adobe Digital Learning Solutions to learn how to leverage this functionality in Adobe Captivate 2019 to add subtle animations to your elearning courses. During this session, you’ll learn how to add externally created animations, and create native animations using the different types of effects and transitions available in Captivate. Along the way, learn about some tips and tricks to make the most of effects.

Thursday, June 18, 2020, 11AM – 12PM PT: How to Convert Existing Content into Competency-Based Experiential Learning (Free for ATD members)
Today, when classroom and even live content is mostly on hold, we still need to help people upskill and reskill. Not only has the current situation increased the pace of change, it makes it more challenging to close skill gaps as quickly as we need to. Leverage this situation and use it as an opportunity to innovate and demonstrate your value. While in the past, your stakeholders may have been reluctant to try new, more effective means of learning, now’s the time to open their minds to new possibilities. Consider changing the way learners access learning content. Consider changing the way they consume the content and apply what they learn on the job. This new mindset can create a learning culture, positioning your organization to remain relevant in the years to come. It can make every bit of content you have more valuable. Join Cheryl Lasse, Managing Partner of SkillDirector, and Lesley Roddam, Customer Success Manager at SkillDirector, to find out how.

Friday, June 19, 2020, 9AM – 10AM PT: Certification: Why Now Is the Time (ATD members only)
If you’ve been thinking about pursuing a professional certification, but haven't decided to make the commitment, join Rob Hoitt, APTD, Professional Development Consultant at Leidos; Rachel Hutchinson, Head of Portfolio and Community Management at Hilti; Kelli Chickos, CPTD, Director of L&D at Superior Group of Companies; and Christina Heilig, APTD, Instructional Designer at Liberty Mutual Insurance, to hear why now’s a particularly good time to take on a professional development challenge. Hear from a panel of current CPTD and APTD credential holders about why they took the plunge. You’ll learn:

• Why pursuing a certification helps you and your organization.

• How changes to the content of the APTD and CPTD can support your professional growth.

• The pros and cons of participating in the pilot administration of a new exam.

• How the pandemic is affecting candidates' ability to prepare and take the exams.

Tuesday, June 23, 2020, 9AM – 10AM PT: Keys to Future Proofing Your Organization Through Learning Ecosystems and Innovation
Organizations face a range of challenges in today's ever-changing competitive landscape. Keeping up in L&D with today's thinking and needs presents its own challenges. Ideally, L&D should be a highly strategic capability for growing people and the business, yet many impediments exist. Items to overcome often include perception of learning itself, having an organizational culture of learning, and organizational perception of the L&D function for creating business impact and value. In this webinar, hosted by Michael Hruska, Strategic Innovation Coach and Learning Leader at Allen Interactions, you’ll explore models and tools that will help you more effectively partner and collaborate with the business to transform the value of learning and explore opportunities to move towards empowering your adaptive learning organization.

Wednesday, June 24, 2020, 9AM – 10AM PT: The Big Four: Things to Consider When Choosing an Assessment Tool
Just like any good work person knows the tools of their trade, it’s vitally important as trainers and coaches to understand which behavioural assessment tool best fits the required need. Join Michael Hruska, Strategic Innovation Coach and Learning Leader at Allen Interactions, in this webinar to learn The Big Four Things.

Thursday, June 25, 2020, 11AM – 12PM PT: The Powerful Metrics of Short Sims (Free for ATD members)
Short Sims are a new type of educational media in which people learn by making a series of interesting, relevant decisions with feedback. They can be created quicker than the traditional content with which they are sometimes bundled, and they track what’s learned with more informative and precise metrics. Clark Aldrich of Short Sims will show you how to:

• Improve engagement levels of all online content.

• Use Short Sims to prove knowledge and conviction levels in ways that are almost impossible with linear content or more complicated computer games.

• Create better certification programs and assessments.

• Understand why Short Sims may be necessary for the upcoming adaptive learning platforms, including those that are AI-based.

Friday, June 26, 2020, 11AM – 12PM PT: Leveraging the Power of Coaching to Create Unforgettable Learning Programs (Free for ATD members)
How do you design and deliver learning programs that gain outstanding results and have a massive impact? Leverage the power of coaching. In this webinar, Sherry Yellin, Ph.D., will share practical ways she has integrated coaching into her learning programs, not only to grow her business exponentially, but also to create genuine transformation in individuals and organizations. You’ll explore the connection between coaching and learning, practical ways to integrate coaching, and lessons learned to ensure success. Having designed and delivered learning programs for nearly 20 years as an entrepreneur, Yellin believes that coaching’s the secret to turning the so-so into the unforgettable.

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