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There’s a chill in the air — time to don a fleecy warm mask! This is always a great time of year to stay inside, and we’ve had plenty of encouragement this year to do just that. What a great time to catch up on work and even do a bit of professional development. If you’re seeking some motivation, look no further than this selection of free webinars for November.

Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2020, 8 a.m.–9 a.m. PT: Making Interactivity Count: A Path to Elearning Your Learners Will Love
Engaging learners is the essential challenge that faces designers of elearning. This session, hosted by Ethan Edwards, Dean and Senior Instructional Strategist at Allen Academy, is an introduction to design elements that create meaningful interactions. The typical questioning supported by many design models and the primary features of the leading authoring tools lead to boring modules that highlight the trivial and fail to have any lasting impact. Instead, impactful contexts, authentic challenges, powerful gestures and actions, and informative and supportive feedback are the design elements that lead to success. You’ll expose these powerful ideas and illustrate their significance through a number of examples drawn from the training programs of major corporations. 

Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2020, 9 a.m.–10 a.m. PT: How to Transform Face-to-Face Training Toward Impactful Digital Training (Free for ATD members)
In a new working environment, where face-to-face training has had to be abandoned, many companies are looking for online training alternatives that deliver similar results. Ibrahim Jabary, CEO and Founder of GameLearn, will show you how to get the keys to build impactful digital training by transforming your content into game-based learning. Serious games or game-based learning have noticeable effects on training: they increase employee engagement, improve retention of material by 9% and boost course applicability rates up to 98%.

Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2020, 12 p.m.–1 p.m. PT: Improvisation: The Successful Leader’s Secret Weapon for Managing Teams in a Virtual Environment
Leaders are challenged to manage change, transform teams and processes, and build talent, all without the benefit of in-person work with their teams. There’s never been a better time to be an improviser — thinking on your feet, embracing change and staying positive — all characteristics shared with high performing teams as well. In this webinar, hosted by Karen Hough, Founder and CEO of ImprovEdge, you’ll use improv as a way to consider adaptability and flexibility during uncertainty and bring energy and positivity to the conversation. Leaders can deepen their use of technology and learn how to show up with presence to build credibility and trust with their teams, clients and colleagues by using virtual connection tools to build relationships, support and motivate your team.

Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2020, 9 a.m.–10 a.m. PT: Make Amazing Microlearning in PowerPoint
Microlearning is one of the newest and fastest ways to “upskill” talent. By its nature, microlearning is more effective, easier and faster to produce. It gives your team bite-sized, just-in-time training modules when they need it most. Attend this eye-opening session, hosted by Mike Parkinson, author and owner of Billion Dollar Graphics, and discover how to turn learning objectives into easy to understand, remember and adopt learning modules with PowerPoint. 

Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2020, 10 a.m.–11 a.m. PT: Tying Learning to Business Performance
Organizations want learning to move the needle on business performance, but only about 40% of organizations say learning is aligned with business goals — which calls the question: How should organizations create a stronger link between learning and organizational performance? Join Michael Rochelle, Chief Strategy Officer and Principal HCM Analyst, and David Wentworth, Principal Learning Analyst, both of Brandon Hall Group (BHG); along with Jeff Carr, CEO of Inkling, for an in-depth review of what it takes to create the strongest link possible between learning and organizational performance.

They’ll review BHG’s latest research and frameworks for re-thinking how learning can be the catalyst for breakthrough performance at an individual, team and organizational level. They will also discuss case studies where organizations have transformed and modernized their learning models from traditional ILT and elearning courses to modern, engaging digital learning.

Thursday, Nov. 5, 2020, 8 a.m.–9 a.m. PT: Create More Effective and Meaningful Elearning Games Using Adobe Captivate (2019 release)
For centuries, teachers and trainers have relied on games to increase the interactivity, engagement and retention rate of their trainings. In fact, we can safely say that games are one of the oldest and most effective learning strategies known to mankind. Therefore, the ability to develop meaningful elearning games is a must for all elearning developers. Adobe Captivate (2019 release) has all the tools you need to create highly interactive and fun elearning games, and Damien Bruyndonckx, co-owner and Pedagogical Director at DiDaXo, will show you how. At the end of the session, you’ll have all the tools and techniques you need to design and develop your own elearning games.

Thursday, Nov. 5, 2020, 10 a.m.–11 a.m. PT: Creating Training Videos That Work: Best Practices and Pitfalls
Almost overnight, video has become today’s go-to medium within enterprises for everything from communication and knowledge sharing to delivering remote training. This sudden surge in video usage has caught many training teams by surprise. In this webinar, Dalnaz Hasan, Video Specialist at Panopto, will discuss some common enterprise challenges with using video and strategies on how to overcome them. You’ll learn techniques and strategies so that you can use video in the most effective ways.

Thursday, Nov. 5, 2020, 12 p.m.–1 p.m. PT: Unconscious Bias Is Impacting Your Organizational Performance, Whether You Know It or Not
Everyday, your leaders and workforce are faced with countless bits of information while making decisions that range from the pragmatic to the strategic. As they confront more and more information, requiring them to act quickly while considering varying perspectives, they’re primed to rely on biased thinking. Join Pamela Fuller, Franklin Covey’s Thought Leader on Inclusion and Bias, and author of The Leader’s Guide to Unconscious Bias: How to Reframe Bias, Cultivate Connection, and Create High-Performing Teams to discover how to create a workplace where everyone feels valued and volunteers their best efforts.

Friday, Nov. 6, 2020, 8 a.m.–9 a.m. PT: Improve Your Elearning: Visual Design Tips That Work Every Time
When creating elearning at speed and scale, it can be easy to let visual design standards slip, but visual design in elearning matters. It improves the learning experience, helps keep learners engaged and provides a much-needed lift to unexciting (or old) learning content. So what are some easy changes you can make to refresh the look and feel of your elearning? Gomo’s Huw Edwards, Business Development Executive, and Simon Waldram, Customer Success Manager, will talk you through some top tips they’ve seen their customers using that catch learners’ attention.

Friday, Nov. 6, 2020, 8 a.m.–9 a.m. PT: Leading Tough Conversations: Three Lessons from Leading the US Army Ranger School (Free for ATD members)
During this session, retired Col. David Fivecoat, Managing Partner at The Fivecoat Consulting Group, will discuss his experience giving performance improvement feedback to over 1,000 Ranger students who did not meet course standards, tough conversations at a distance (a failure on his part) and having tough conversations with the media.

Friday, Nov. 6, 2020, 11 a.m.–12 p.m. PT: Developing Change Leaders During the COVID-19 Pandemic (Free for ATD members)
Change agility is an essential competency to capture opportunity and mitigate risk in today’s volatile and uncertain world. It’s also more critical than ever, due to the global pandemic. The rate of change is accelerating: Technologies such as AI and robotics, growth requirements during uncharted marketplace dynamics and new ways of working mean your workforce needs to be ready. In this webinar, hosted by Marjorie Derven, Change Management Consultant at RGP, and Patricia Reyes, Vice President, Solution Sales and Delivery Change Management at RGP, learn how change capability can be enabled virtually. Create alignment around key transformation priorities, involve key stakeholders and deliver shared tools and methodology to build a more resilient workforce that can pivot quickly to new business and talent requirements.

Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2020, 9 a.m.–10 a.m. PT: Five Ways Video Can Transform In-Person Trainings to Virtual Ones
Adaptable to both formal and informal virtual learning needs, video helps your team increase training quality, engagement, speed and effectiveness, all while significantly lowering program costs. With the rise of video as an essential remote workplace tool, Katie Herrick, Senior Video Learning Advisor at Panopto, will help you narrow in on five key video strategies that’ll get you fast results. This webinar will show you:

• How to customize your own training content as a department and learn how to share it with your teams.

• A few different ways to make your virtual trainings just as effective as your in-person ones.

• How to use video conferencing, on-demand video recording, a searchable video library and subject matter experts at your organization to deliver the best possible remote training.

Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2020, 11 a.m.–12 p.m. PT: Call Insights and Analysis — What Top Performers Do Differently
During this session, sales development expert Mike Carroll, Founder and Managing Partner at Intelligent Conversations, will share insights gained from the call analysis platform used by clients at his company. Topics explored comparing top producers with average producers include average talk/listen time, average pace of speech, average and longest talking segments, number of questions asked, balance of questions asked throughout a call and cold terms and filler words. And more important than knowing this data is understanding what to do with it and how to leverage it to improve your coaching conversations.

Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2020, 11 a.m.–12 p.m. PT: Essential Sales Enablement: How to Prepare for 2021 (Free for ATD members)
Sellers are working harder than ever, and effective sales enablement has never been more important than it is today. Given its powerful impact on the bottom line, sales enablement that’s optimized for a virtual workforce is no longer optional. It’s a crucial element for survival, growth and success in the new economy. During this webinar, Jake Miller, Sr., Product Marketing Manager at Allego, will outline the elements of modern sales enablement and how you can upgrade your current approach to achieve long-term success.

Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2020, 12 p.m.–1 p.m. PT: Explaining Complex Ideas Through Animation
Animation is more than a Saturday morning cartoon — it’s a powerful medium for engaging and teaching audiences of all kinds. With animation, you can quickly create visuals that break down complex concepts into simple, easy-to-grasp ideas. In this presentation, Vyond’s Head of Marketing, Stacy Adams, and Customer Success Associate, Chetan Parmar, will explain why and how professionals are using animation to teach elearning courses, corporate training and more.

Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2020, 10 a.m.–11 a.m. PT: Preventing the Organizational Digital Divide
While L&D leaders met the urgent need to move more into a digital environment during the pandemic, some have thrived, but others have dived. Rapid conversions from the classroom to virtual and reliance on vast online libraries have left both learning leaders and learners with a severe case of content fatigue at best, and at worse on the brink of opening up a major digital divide. In this session, Shannon Tipton, Workplace Learning Strategist, Microlearning and Virtual Learning Expert, International Speaker, and Owner of Learning Rebels, will discuss how the divide is present in different technical skill levels of employees and how this divide may be the main reason of slowed or delayed productivity or upskilling. How can L&D better partner with organizations to support employee’s immersion into the digital world, which can be at their disposal in any given situation? 

Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2020, 11 a.m.–12 p.m. PT: Content Personalization at Scale: Three Ways a Building Block Approach Helps Drive Success (Free for ATD members)
Content personalization is no longer an option — it’s an expectation. But when serving large volumes of content to diverse audiences, effective personalization is almost impossible (let alone sustainable) without the right strategy and tools in place. What if it was streamlined and simplified? In this webinar, Leslie Farinella, Chief Operations Officer at Xyleme, will explore why content’s the key to any personalization strategy and how taking a component-centric building block approach and implementing the right technology tools allow organizations to effectively personalize content, even on a global scale.

Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2020, 12 p.m.–1 p.m. PT: Creating Interactive Learning Content with Visme
Learning and development can no longer be limited to sitting back and watching PowerPoint slides or reading a training manual riddled with bullet points. Training professionals need to find better ways to engage the audience for a better learning experience and higher levels of retention of the information. Interactive training content requires a high level of interaction between the trainer and the employee and elevates your training programs to new heights. Join Visme’s founder and CEO, Payman Taei, and Senior Customer Success Manager, Kalyn Lewis, as they bring you a solution that can get you and your team developing beautiful interactive learning content in no time.

Thursday, Nov. 12, 2020, 9 a.m.–10 a.m. PT: Creating and Using Video in PowerPoint
Video’s a great way to engage your audience in a more dynamic or emotive way than can be achieved with standard content alone. It can save you a lot of time when trying to explain complex concepts. PowerPoint can be a great way to create your own custom video, with easy content creation, simple ways to animate things and bring them to life, and great tools to add narration or music. In this session, hosted by Richard Goring, Director at BrightCarbon, you’ll see how to achieve some great things with video, all in PowerPoint, plus some excellent free resources for video source content, ways to change file formats and tips on reducing video file size. You’ll also learn some great techniques for creating your own videos with animation, whiteboard sketching and narration, along with seeing some excellent use cases for round-tripping video into video and the great effects you can achieve with it.

Thursday, Nov. 12, 2020, 10 a.m.–11 a.m. PT: How to Balance Productivity and Flexible Work to Drive Performance
In the next several months, more than 80% of organizations will use some sort of flex scheduling to balance the needs of employees’ work and personal lives. Through it all, everyone must be engaged and productive, and managers need to encourage high-performance while fostering their employees’ well-being and guarding against burnout and talent attrition. In this webinar, Gabriela Mauch of ActivTrak, and Claude Werder, Senior VP and Principal HCM Analyst at Brandon Hall Group, will show how leading-edge organizations are balancing performance and productivity with the flexibility and empathy needed to create a resilient, empowered workforce. 

Thursday, Nov. 12, 2020, 12 p.m.–1 p.m. PT: Beyond Diversity and Inclusion
In these times, it’s necessary to go beyond diversity and inclusion (D&I) — it should be more than just a policy. A successful culture of belonging requires leadership commitment and involvement, an ongoing practice of inclusion, recognition of unique talents and accomplishments, and an environment that fosters respect for openly and authentically sharing thoughts. This webinar, presented by Jeff Becker, Director of Corporate Learning Solutions at American Management Association, will provide insight to the critical concepts of equity, belonging and allyship, how they impact workplace culture and interactions, and the steps necessary to start building an action plan for a diversity, inclusion and belonging initiative in your organization.

Friday, Nov. 13, 2020, 11 a.m.–12 p.m. PT: Troubleshooting for Trainers (Free for ATD members)
When you need to repair an appliance on the fritz, you can consult the instruction manual. But if you’re stuck when designing or facilitating training, what resource can you turn to for solutions to your problem? Join Sophie Oberstein, the author of the new ATD Press book Troubleshooting for Trainers, as she presents three case studies about three trainers, to help participants brainstorm and discuss best practices. There’ll be time for questions about your specific concerns in a Q&A. This webinar’s geared toward new trainers, accidental trainers and occasional trainers, as well as experienced trainers who are looking for new tips to resolve their training challenges.

Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2020, 9 a.m.–10 a.m. PT: Expert Hunting 101: Skill Alignment as an Architectural Foundation for Social Learning and User Generated Content
An alarming number of organizations report that the half-life of a typical skill is continuing to dwindle. In a landscape of ever-escalating training requirements and ever shrinking lifespans for training content, how do we leverage the subject matter experts that we have more effectively? Join Adobe Head of Digital Learning Evangelism, Dr. Allen Partridge, for this fascinating deep dive into managing subject matter experts more successfully through an architecture that combines gamification, social learning, skills and traditional learning management.

Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2020, 11 a.m.–12 p.m. PT: How to Respond to Change and Reskill with Continuous L&D (Free for ATD members)
Nearly 70% of employees report that they do not have mastery of the skills they need for their jobs. But what are the skills, competencies and knowledge gaps that your organization needs today, and how can L&D teams work quickly to upskill and reskill employees while developing an agile learning culture that keeps pace with evolving business demands? Join Matthew Brown from Schoox and Libby Powers from BizLibrary to learn:

• Characteristics of continuous learning and development organizations and programs.

• How L&D can lead successful change within your organization.

• How to bring skills, goals, performance and learning together.

• The business impact of soft skills training.

Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2020, 12 p.m.–1 p.m. PT: Blaming Human Error and Complex Issues — How to Reinvent Compliance and Technical Training
Human error happens and complex technical systems break. They cause havoc in operations, materials, people, etc. and the subsequent bottom line. The inclination is to play the blame game asking, “who is at fault” and “who should be penalized.” The problem with this approach is that it doesn’t address the true picture of why people make mistakes or why complex technical systems break down. The pointing of the finger approach wastes energies and valuable learning time. In this webinar, Ray Jimenez, Ph.D., Architect of TrainingMagNetwork.com and Chief Learning Officer of Vignettes Learning, will share his research and projects that enabled his clients to reinvent compliance and technical training.

Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2020, 9 a.m.–10 a.m. PT: Training Essential Workplace Skills with Human-in-the-Loop VR Simulation
Across industries and functions, soft skills are a clear differentiator in individual and team performance. They’re both rare and valuable because they typically require real experience to master and apply on the job. But how can learners practice high-stakes interpersonal situations in a safe and efficient fashion? Powered by a blend of AI and live human interaction, human-in-the-loop VR simulation has become the ideal way to gain essential skills in the workplace. Practice is authentic and spontaneous, while cost-effective and scalable. In this webinar, hosted by Christina Yu, Vice President of Mursion, you’ll explore:

• The learning science behind soft skills training.

• How organizations like H&R Block, Genentech, BNSF and T-Mobile are leveraging VR in areas like leadership development, customer service and sales enablement.

• Quantifying success and ROI of soft skills training.

• Benchmarking attributes of XR providers.

Thursday, Nov. 19, 2020, 10 a.m.–11 a.m. PT: Research Revealed: Trends Driving High-Stakes Training Success
If you oversee a learning program, a few things hold true no matter your business’s market or industry: your learners need to master your course material, your content and experience must be engaging and your learning program needs to drive revenue for your business. The high-stakes learning market includes any organization selling critical learning products and includes all kinds of businesses — professional certification test prep, highly-skilled professional training including healthcare, technology, compliance and safety training, continuing education and more — but there are distinct trends that set them apart from low-stakes learning companies. In this webinar, John Guy, Enterprise Solutions Executive at BenchPrep, will walk you through emerging market trends that our team identified as key findings after surveying 248 high-stakes training providers.

Thursday, Nov. 19, 2020, 11 a.m.–12 p.m. PT: ATD Research Presents: Video for Learning (Free for ATD members)
The need to disperse training globally and deliver a consistent message has increased the use of video in workplace learning, according to a new Association for Talent Development research report. Drawing on figures and data from research, this webinar, presented by Alex Moore, Junior Research Analyst at ATD along with Lindsay Berstling and Becca Armstrong, Instructional Designers at The HON Company, will explore how businesses use learning video in TD programs. It’ll also identify learning video practices associated with high-performing organizations. Specifically, the session will cover drivers behind the use of learning video, practices for learning video into TD programs and the benefits of making some learning video available for external audiences.

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