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Can it really be December already? Yes indeed! It’s that get-it-all-done, race-to-the-finish-line month again! All punctuated with weather uncertainty and a stream of holiday music wherever you go. Or maybe you don’t have to go anywhere. Put on your ugliest Christmas sweater, pour yourself a beverage and browse through this month’s list of free webinars. You may pick up some good ideas for finishing out the year, and a one-hour webinar can be a nice change of pace.

Wednesday, December 1, 2021, 7 a.m.–8 a.m. PT: Community Member Showcase
Join TLDCast’s crowdcast as they feature Bobbi Vernon, Instructional Designer at CFA Institute. 

Wednesday, December 1, 2021, 11 a.m.–12 p.m. PT: Building Better Leaders for Today’s Workforces (Free for ATD members)
To deal with today’s unprecedented business and talent challenges, every employee needs to develop leadership skills. Leadership skills generate a commitment to the success of the business, help encourage teammates to grow and inspire others to bring their best selves to work. Join Jim Bell, Chief Marketing Officer at Torch and Joshua Bersin, Founder and Dean of Josh Bersin Academy, to learn how companies can foster leadership behaviours and build better leaders at all levels for today’s new ways of working.   

Wednesday, December 1, 2021, 1:30 p.m.–2:30 p.m. PT: How to (Mostly) Succeed with Your Corporate Podcast Pitch (Free for I4PL members)
Get on the podcast bandwagon before you’re left in the dust. Join Dan Hirt, producer and director of the Mosby Learning Podcast, to have some fun talking about the various ways that he’s screwed up, specifically when it comes to launching a podcast. From idea to drafting the communication to your first episode, he'll cover all sorts of details. This session will give you a path forward to bring your idea to the people who can help you make it a reality. 

Wednesday, December 1, 2021, 2 p.m.–3 p.m. PT: Community Member Showcase
Join TLDCast’s crowdcast as they feature Leah Chang, Founder and Lead Instructional Designer at Leah Chang Learning Inc. Leah has been a professional educator since 2003, when she started as a French Immersion teacher, with experience in working with non-profit and corporate organizations, developing online and classroom learning. 

Thursday, December 2, 2021, 10 a.m.–11 a.m. PT: Building a Successful Customer Learning Community: A Case Study
How do you engage your customers as an extended enterprise business and ensure customer success with your products? One answer is to build a high-quality customer learning community. In this session, Rachel Griffith-Boyes, Head of Community Services at Totara, will share their journey from separate, underused Community and Academy sites to a combined learning community that has more than doubled in size over three years and is now used by 75% of their customers. 

Thursday, December 2, 2021, 10 a.m.–11 a.m. PT: How Well Do You Know Your Learners? It Could Be Less than You Think
Organizations are spending significant time and resources trying to understand the best way to help their employees continue to learn, upskill and reskill for the future. Personalizing learning is the key to helping employees during this tumultuous time. It’s critical that learning professionals leverage data and insights to better understand their learners. Join David Wentworth, Principal Learning Analyst with Brandon Hall Group, and Mike Martin, Head of Customer Experience and Learning with SAP Litmos, as they examine the results of a recent study on understanding the learner and discuss strategies for moving forward.

Friday, December 3, 2021, 10 a.m.–11 a.m. PT: Tools to Navigate Your New World During Turbulent Times (Free for ATD members)
Are we post-pandemic or are we still in the pandemic? Which way is up? These times are quite turbulent, so how do we navigate life and our jobs? We do so by using a myriad of tools that incorporate resilience, emotional intelligence, stress management and self-care. In this webinar, Dr. Jean Kanokogi, Founder and Principal of rustykanokogi.com, will give you some emotional and mental tools to help view adversity as an opportunity for growth and to understand stress and how to manage it by building your personal resilience.

Friday, December 3, 2021, 10 a.m.–11 a.m. PT: 24 Strategic Competencies Every HR Professional Needs Right Now
Employers are counting on HR to prepare employees as they face unprecedented change. In order to be successful, every HR professional now needs to be a strategist. In this webinar, you’ll learn about 24 competencies to prepare you to be the strategist your organization requires right now. Join Brandon Hall Group’s team as they share how their HR certification can help you learn the competencies needed to drive breakthrough results for your organization. 

Tuesday, December 7, 2021, 9 a.m.–10 a.m. PT: The New Face 2 Face Training Experience
Be in on the discussion as The Bob Pike Group and companies all around the world prepare for a return to classroom F2F training. This is your chance to grab tested ideas and share what people expect in your workplace or industry as we all figure new normal out together. During this webinar, hosted by Becky Pike Pluth, President and CEO of The Bob Pike Group, you’ll: 

• Compare what worked before with what’s expected now.

• Explore practical, creative ways to bring your classroom into compliance.

• Discuss how to decrease tension so learners can increase retention.

Tuesday, December 7, 2021, 12 p.m.–1 p.m. PT: Remote 101: The Secret to Engaging Virtual Workers
In order to thrive, organizations must re-invent themselves and embrace the new normal. As the author of the newly released book, Remote 101: The Secret to Engaging Virtual Workers, Jill Christensen understands how organizations operate and what they need to do to attract, retain and engage employees. Remote workers are incredibly productive, but they also feel unsupported and disconnected. The companies that will come out on top are the ones that create and execute a strategy to effectively manage remote workers and the new hybrid work environment.  

Wednesday, December 8, 2021, 9 a.m.–10 a.m. PT: Five Best Practices for Bridging the In-person vs. Virtual Attendee Training Gap
As employees return to the office, businesses want to believe that remote and in-person staff can simply join a Zoom call and replicate a cohesive team. However, it’s a cognitive challenge for remote and on-site employees to engage equally in a synchronous workplace. Companies that don’t address this imbalance risk stratifying their workforce, affecting equity, productivity and innovation. Dalnaz Hasan, Sr., Video Evangelist at Panopto, will explore how you can bridge the gap between in-person and virtual participants to ensure robust training engagement and outcomes. You’ll look at best practices and tactics before, during and after training.

Wednesday, December 8, 2021, 10 a.m.–11 a.m. PT: Developing Potential: The Future of Engagement and Learning
There’s no question that work has changed dramatically. The key to success is adapting to continuous change. This can only happen through agile and ongoing employee development. Leading companies are quickly pivoting to enabling collaboration and rich experiences to help employees reach their potential. In this webinar, Otto Berkes, CEO of Acendre, and Claude Werder, Senior VP and Principal HCM Analyst for Brandon Hall Group, will discuss the power of potential and how organizations can optimize it to drive business outcomes. 

Wednesday, December 8, 2021, 12 p.m.–1 p.m. PT: Turn Your Learning Content into a Competitive Advantage
Content is a competitive advantage when managed and leveraged effectively, but that’s not an easy thing to do. Modern organizations invest tremendous resources into crafting core messaging, from customer training resources to product information to your unique vision and values, but too often, that content isn’t leveraged to its fullest potential. In this webinar, Xyleme Chief Strategy Officer, Leslie Farinella, will break down how re-evaluating your content strategy and investing in the right technology can help organizations turn learning content into a competitive advantage to drive content management ROI. 

Thursday, December 9, 2021, 8 a.m.–9 a.m. PT: Simple Tips for Authoring Instructionally Sound Elearning Courses
Authoring an elearning course involves a lot of different phases and steps. To make it instructionally sound, you’ll need to conduct robust needs analysis, carefully craft the storyboard, design meaningful interactions, author quiz questions and make the course accessible for all. Join Dr. Pooja Jaisingh, Lead Elearning Evangelist at Adobe Digital Learning Solutions, for this fun and interactive session, where she’ll discuss the tips and tricks you can use in different phases of elearning course creation. She’ll also share some example assets and courses so that you can get ideas on how to implement these tips for building your own elearning courses. 

Thursday, December 9, 2021, 11 a.m.–12 p.m. PT: Lead with Foresight in the New Hybrid Work World (Free for ATD members)
The pandemic has sparked crisis agility — rapid organizational change on a scale never seen before in times of peace. Many organizations experienced the sudden shift to remote work and the ad hoc re-engineering of business processes. Ferrazzi Greenlight’s Go Forward to Work initiative, in partnership with Harvard Business School, crowdsourced best practices about the future of work from more than 2,000 executives. Evidence of a framework for developing disciplined foresight emerged. This webinar, led by Keith Ferrazzi, will outline the results of that research, which will be featured in his forthcoming book, Competing in the New World of Work.

Thursday, December 9, 2021, 12 p.m.–1 p.m. PT: Going Beyond Zoom to Deep Learning and Application
The first generation of virtual learning tools, like Zoom, are presentation types that are well suited for surface learning. However, virtual instructors are frustrated with the limitations of one-too-many lecture virtual tools. These tools easily fall into the category of “boring” or “waste-of-time” sessions. In this webinar, Dr. Ray Jimenez, Architect of TrainingMagNetwork.com and Chief Learning Officer of Vignettes Learning, will give you insights on how to design and deliver your virtual learning programs while you use mature and advanced platform software.  

Tuesday, December 14, 2021, 8 a.m.–9 a.m. PT: Intersections in Learning
Join this webinar, featuring Alan Natachu, Learning Applications Partner with Exact Sciences, a leading provider of cancer screening and diagnostic tests. Alan shifted from an artist career, working with the likes of ABC/Disney and the Smithsonian, to a training career when he was hired as a Creative at Apple. Alan’s work with Apple gave him the skills to be an extraordinary and innovative trainer for faculty and staff at Madison Area Technical College for a decade. He made the switch to Higher Education to Corporate L&D in 2019.

Tuesday, December 14, 2021, 9 a.m.–10 a.m. PT: Facilitating Hybrid Events: Tips for Success
You may be back in the office or gearing back up to facilitate in-person classes, or you may be getting ready to deliver hybrid classes, with a mixture of in-person and online audiences. In this session, Cindy Huggett, CPTD and author of Virtual Training Tools and Templates: An Action Guide to Live Online Learning, will show you how to encourage collaboration in mixed-audience style events. She’ll also share practical tips, such as using webcams, maximizing inclusion and minimizing technical difficulties. You’ll walk away from this session with ideas on how to engage both in-person and remote audiences at the same time. 

Tuesday, December 14, 2021, 10 a.m.–11 a.m. PT: Is Your Learning Driving Performance?
At its core, organizational learning exists to improve the performance of the workforce and the performance of the business. Yet, for many companies, there has been an increasing disconnect between learning and performance. Join David Wentworth, Principal Analyst at Brandon Hall Group, and Aisling MacNamara, Learning & Development Manager at LearnUpon, as they discuss how a convergence of outcomes, content, learners and technology will ultimately drive performance. Companies cannot afford to ignore any piece of the larger puzzle if they want to ensure their investment in learning is going to produce performance and behaviour changes. 

Wednesday, December 15, 2021, 8 a.m.–10 a.m. PT: Creators' Workshop Series: Create Your First Elearning Project with Adobe Captivate
Join this hands-on workshop by Kirsten Rourke, Elearning Production Manager, Instructional Designer and Certified Technical Trainer, to learn how to create an exciting elearning course that hits all the right notes. The best part? Create your own short project and earn a certificate of participation. In this session, you’ll learn how to: 

• Use Quick Start Projects for creating visually appealing elearning courses.

• Use the ready-to-go slides and customize them according to your needs.

• Quickly create your elearning course that is rich with interactions, graphics and animations.

• Add a quiz and publish your course to an LMS.

Thursday, December 16, 2021, 9 a.m.–10 a.m. PT: Best Practices to Design, Implement and Evaluate Training to Deliver Results
Some organizations proclaim that they’ve eliminated the classic performance appraisal system. However, they’ve just changed how they communicate performance expectations — and at what frequency. In this interactive session, Dr. Jack Phillips, Chairman of ROI Institute, will explain the evolution of performance management systems, how they’ve changed and what system owners require in a post-pandemic era, particularly regarding remote employees. He’ll end with best practices to design, implement and evaluate a performance management system to deliver the desired results.

Thursday, December 16, 2021, 10 a.m.–11 a.m. PT: Mining for Gold in Your LMS Data
For all of the heavy lifting organizations expect their LMS to do, many are still challenged by what to do with the mountains of data the LMS generates. By finding and analyzing the right data, companies can gain broader insights into learning, from how learners are behaving to the impact programs are having. Join David Wentworth, Principal Learning Analyst at Brandon Hall Group, and Craig Basford, EVP of Product at Absorb as discuss how taking a business intelligence approach to LMS data can provide far more insight into what’s going on in learning than running canned reports. 

Thursday, December 16, 2021, 10 a.m.–11 a.m. PT: Which Certification Is Right for Me: APTD vs. CPTD (Free for ATD members)
If you’re considering an ATD professional credential, but can’t decide if the Associate Professional in Talent Development (APTD) or the Certified Professional in Talent Development (CPTD) is right for you, join Sue Kaiden, senior project manager of credentialing, and a panel of APTD and CPTD credential holders to hear about how and why they made this difficult choice.

Tuesday, December 21, 2021, 11 a.m.–12 p.m. PT: Five Steps to Getting Your Sales Coaching Right in 2022
In this webinar, Tim Hagen, Chief Coaching Officer at Progress Coaching, will teach you five specific strategies to help sales organizations launch sales coaching practices for success in 2022. Sales coaching isn’t a new industry or endeavour — rather, due to recent times, the practice of sales coaching has dramatically changed and provided unique opportunities. You’ll learn:

• How to use practice as a strategic strategy.

• How to use scoring tools to ensure absolute consistent sales performance.

• Three key questions every sales leader should ask their sales team members.

• How to use peer-to-peer coaching to scale and accelerate sales coaching success.

• A sales coaching conversation model that drives consistency of sales performance in a fraction of the time.

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