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“Stem, bloom, plan” by Luis Rodriguez is licensed by Pixabay. Yes, we know it’s the same image as March 2020. Let’s call it a do-over. 😄

Spring — or the idea of spring — has been teasing us lately. Bring on the crocuses, daffodils and allergies! It’s worth it to feel the sun and have that sense of new growth that comes with spring. If you feel sunny and ready to learn something new, why not sign up for one of the free webinars being offered this month? They’re full of good ideas, and they might inspire you to start something new.

Tuesday, March 2, 2021, 10 a.m.–11 a.m. PT: Mindset Matters: How to Improve Your Virtual Facilitation Style
There are myriad styles of delivering instructor-led training online. What can we learn from these various approaches about the use of web cameras, the approach to delivery, and the application of technology? Should the virtual classroom be led by the News Anchor, the Podcaster, the Airplane Pilot, the Technology Guru, the Energizer Bunny or the Guide on the Side? Explore these six delivery styles, identify their strengths and weaknesses, and enhance your approach to virtual facilitation. If you would like to create compelling, engaging virtual learning experiences, join Cynthia Clay, CEO of NetSpeed Learning, and participate actively in an exploration of how your mindset makes a difference when presenting online.

Tuesday, March 2, 2021, 11 a.m.–12 p.m. PT: Powerful Presentation Openings for Successful Sales Meetings
Struggling to make an impact with your presentations? This could be due to some fundamental flaws in your opening slides. Once you’ve lost your audience’s attention, you’ll never get it back. In this session, Richard Goring, Director at BrightCarbon, will look at ideas for kickstarting your presentation, explore a structure to follow that puts the audience at the centre of your story, and gets the conversation going for an interactive and successful session. There’ll also be a few bonus PowerPoint tips and tricks to allow you to create and use your presentation quickly and easily.

Wednesday, March 3, 2021, 8:00 a.m.–9:30 a.m. PT: Fun with Elearning: Create your First Elearning Project with Adobe Captivate
Learn to create an exciting elearning course that hits all the right notes. Take part in a 90-minute hands-on introduction by Dr. Pooja Jaisingh, Lead Elearning Evangelist at Adobe Digital Learning Solutions, to take your elearning journey to new dimensions. What’s more, you can earn a valuable certificate upon creating your own short project. This webinar is suitable for beginners, educators and intermediate-level elearning professionals. You’ll learn how to:

Use Quick Start Projects for creating visually appealing elearning courses.
Use the ready-to-go slides and customize it according to your needs.
Quickly create your elearning course that is rich with interactions, graphics, and animations.
Add a quiz and publish your courses to an LMS.

Wednesday, March 3, 2021, 11 a.m.–12 p.m. PT: LMS Versus LXP: How to Navigate the Changing Learning Tech Landscape (Free for ATD members)
The learning tech landscape is big, to say the least, but one question that continues to burn in many L&D leaders’ minds is this: When does a learning experience platform make sense? Join Matthew Brown, VP of Learning & Brand Success at Schoox, as he unpacks answers. During this session, you’ll learn:

The origins of the LMS vs. LXP debate.
The notable differences between the two systems and how they’re merging in 2021.
What corporate learning and training teams need to know before they purchase and implement an LXP.

Wednesday, March 3, 2021, 12 p.m.–1 p.m. PT: Articulate Storyline: Creating, Saving, and Sharing Custom Interaction Template Libraries
Sometimes when creating a course, we develop custom interactions that we might want to re-purpose for a future course, or we may be developing a large multi-course curriculum that we want all the interactions to be consistent across all the courses. In this session, Kevin Thorn, Chief NuggetHead at Nuggethead Studioz, will show you how to create a Storyline template file. He’ll demonstrate how to use Scenes to organize various interaction types, save the template file, how to access your custom template library and how to share the template with others.

Thursday, March 4, 2021 7 a.m.–8 a.m. PT: Exploring L&D YouTube Creators’ Processes
Hosted by Tom McDowall, with Vanessa Alzate and Joseph Suarez.

Thursday, March 4, 2021, 9 a.m.–10 a.m. PT: Designing Virtual Learning to Deliver Impact and ROI
Studies show that virtual learning often breaks down when measured at the application level (using what was learned) and impact level (the business impact connected to learning). However, this breakdown can be avoided. To secure the support and funding that virtual learning needs, it must deliver business results. This session highlights an ROI study that shows how virtual learning delivered business value in terms that executives, sponsors, and funders appreciated and understood. Dr. Jack Phillips, Chairman of ROI Institute, will explain how designers, developers, providers and program owners can ensure that technology-based learning will deliver desired results by applying design-thinking principles that focus on delivering application and impact with virtual learning.

Thursday, March 4, 2021, 10 a.m.–11 a.m. PT: Personalize Knowledge Delivery with a Digital Adoption Platform
Digital transformation has led to a rapid proliferation of software applications in enterprises. Varying user behaviour in terms of tech-savviness and learning capacity makes personalized knowledge delivery a challenge for L&D leaders. Classroom training alone is ineffective, as knowledge retention suffers when there’s a lack of reinforcement. With the pandemic now having forced organizations to work remotely, the explosion of collaboration applications has further led to change fatigue among employees. Self-paced, “learning in the flow of work” is key to reinforce knowledge and ensure retention. Join Dharshan Chandran, Product Marketer of Whatfix, to find out how a Digital Adoption Platform helps personalize knowledge delivery and upskill your remote workforce.

Thursday, March 4, 2021, 12 p.m.–1 p.m. PT: Seven Learning Activities You Can Use Online Right Away
Struggling to convert classroom activities into online interaction? Becky Pike Pluth, President and CEO of The Bob Pike Group, will show you seven of her favourites you can repurpose around your own content. Interaction puts learners in a good mood, gets them prepared to learn and gives your session a shot in the arm. During this webinar, you’ll:

Add a bit of magic to your online training sessions.
Participate in buzz groups, scrambles, human lineup and even a maze — all virtually.
Experience adapting creative classroom activities for online delivery.

Friday, March 5, 2021, 10 a.m.–11 a.m. PT: Leadership Development Outlook
The leadership development landscape has changed dramatically with the increase in remote work and organizations have had to pivot to adapt to new leader needs. Frontline and mid-level leader development is now the top priority for most employers, Brandon Hall Group research shows. This session, hosted by Brandon Hall Group’s COO, Rachel Cooke, and SVP and Principal HCM Analyst, Claude Werder, will look at how two award-wining organizations have adapted to the new environment and how they view the future of leadership development.

Tuesday, March 9, 2021, 8 a.m.–9 a.m. PT: How to Isolate and Measure the Impact of Your Training
Hosted by Anja Hartleb-Parson.

Tuesday, March 9, 2021, 9 a.m.–10 a.m. PT: Boost Your Team’s Virtual Selling Success
Enterprise sales teams that can adapt and respond quickly to changing needs and trends will be well positioned to stay one step ahead of the competition. This involves agile sales enablement training with content that’s fresh, accessible and measurable. In this session, led by Dr. Allen Partridge, Director of Digital Learning Evangelism at Adobe Digital Learning Solutions, you’ll learn how new technology can help you:

Distribute sales enablement content effectively.
Provide appropriate and relevant sales enablement experiences at the point of need.
Deliver sales enablement content to the reps always on the move.
Track content consumption with rich analytics.
Correlate sales enablement impact on sales performance.
Build a sales and partner training platform.

Tuesday, March 9, 2021, 11 a.m.–12 p.m. PT: Five Trends for the Financial Industry in a Business as Unusual Year (Free for ATD members)
Before 2020, learning and development in the financial services sector experienced some tremendous changes during a period of a decade. Then 2020 happened, and the changes went from tremendous to seismic and unprecedented. Financial institutions went from being physically open one day to having, “People working from their kitchen tables” the next, as Barclays CEO, Jes Staley, puts it. Consequently, there’s been a massive shift to virtual delivery and a significant increase of investments in digital and modern learning in this new virtual landscape. Join Dan Miller, Senior Vice President of Financial Services at GP Strategies, for this informative webinar during which you’ll learn how these changes are affecting talent and learning in the rapidly changing financial services field.

Tuesday, March 9, 2021, 12 p.m.–1 p.m. PT: How Gamification Helps Leaders Boost Team Performance
Gamification begins with the effect of human psychology on performance and illustrates the many ways to use behaviour to build a better workplace culture. Join Chris Collins, author and podcast host, as he shares:

Why every gamification system starts with a goal and a prize.
How your MVP (Most Value Product) can make or break results.
Why a shift meeting to present the game is an essential pivot point to success.

Wednesday, March 10, 2021, 9 a.m.–10 a.m. PT: How to Get More Implementation from Your Outstanding Training Programs
A strong, healthy self-Image and personal concept is vital for human beings to improve themselves. On a scale of 0-10, if your trainees believe they’re a 5 as a human being, they can only see themselves as good enough to make use of about half of what you’re offering. Robert Danger Workman, Trainer of Sales and Sales Management, will illustrate how to help your team increase their personal value so they increase their implementation of more of your outstanding training. If you’re working with a group of 5s, you can double your training success rate right away — without much additional work.

Wednesday, March 10, 2021, 11 a.m.–12 p.m. PT: Five Key Factors Driving Digital Transformation in Professional Learning (Free for ATD members)
When you look at the rapidly changing world around you, it’s clear the professional training industry is behind the digitization trend. That means you must adapt to the digital world quickly or risk becoming obsolete. There are five factors driving digital transformation in professional learning, and they’ll all have a profound impact on how you conduct your business in 2021 and beyond. During this interactive webinar with Sarah Green, Strategy and Operations Associate at BenchPrep, you’ll learn:

How to align with the needs of modern learners’ needs and expectations.
Why it’s critical to power your learning programs with data.
How digital transformation has shifted the competitive field in your industry.

Wednesday, March 10, 2021, 12 p.m.–1 p.m. PT: Great Leaders Make Mickey Mouse Decisions
Walt Disney proclaimed, “It all started with a mouse.” The old Hollywood types, in their own way, agreed, but doing something “Mickey Mouse” to them meant an effort that was too small, frivolous or unimportant to be taken seriously. In our world today, Disney’s not just taken seriously: it’s an undisputed leader in the delivery of leadership excellence. So, what do Mickey Mouse leadership practices look like? In this Disney-inspired session, Lenn Millbower, President of Offbeat Training LLC, a 25-year Disney World training leader, pulls back the curtain on the behaviours that make a Mickey Mouse leader.

Wednesday, March 10, 2021, 1:30 p.m.–2.30 p.m. PT: Change Management Corporate University: Integrated with Centre of Excellence (Free for IPL members)
Mid-sized and large organizations should start creating a corporate university for change management. Hosted by Alan Bostakian,change management lead and a senior consultant, this webinar is designed to help change leaders in identifying the benefits, making the case and architecting an internal customized corporate academy/university integrated with their Change Management Center of Excellence, to meet the forward demands of their organizations.

Thursday, March 11, 2021, 9 a.m.–10 a.m. PT: What’s Your Tech Type? Explore a New HR Assessment Tool for the Digital Age
Due to COVID-19, digital skills are more important than ever. Discover the first HR assessment that measures and improves digital proficiency across the enterprise. The TQAT (Tech Quotient Assessment Tool) sorts people into four distinct tech profiles and provides them with a customized micro-learning pathway. It helps people boost digital dexterity by improving virtual meeting, email and Microsoft 365 skills. In this webinar, hosted by Mike Song, CEO of Get Control, you’ll learn:

A new strategic approach to boosting and sharing tech know-how.
About your Tech Quotient Profile (TQP).
Best practices for implementing a TQ initiative across the enterprise.

Thursday, March 11, 2021, 11 a.m.–12 p.m. PT: Real-Time Leadership Development: Leveraging the Learning Power of Disruption to Enhance Decision-Making, Build Trust, and Stimulate Innovation (Free for ATD members)
Disruption and challenging times may seem like inopportune situations in which to focus on leadership development, but now may be an ideal time if the development is done correctly. Disruption creates conditions that are ripe for learning, and new approaches are essential to maximize these opportunities to develop leaders while they are navigating new and pressing challenges. In this session, with Tim Tobin, Vice President of Choice Hotels International, and Sharon Confessore, Associate at C-Suite 3, you’ll understand what real-time leadership development is and learn how to leverage it to develop leaders who are ready to anticipate and respond to fast-moving and complex conditions to realize immediate and sustainable results.

Friday, March 12, 2021, 10 a.m.–11 a.m. PT: Talent Acquisition Outlook
Talent acquisition leaders have a dual challenge — finding the right talent and integrating new employees to the organization during a time of extreme disruption. Therefore, onboarding’s more important than ever in improving the talent pipeline. This session, hosted by Brandon Hall Group’s CEO, Mike Cooke, and Chief Strategy Officer, Michael Rochelle, will explore how award-winning organizations view talent acquisition and onboarding as employers prepare for an uncertain future.

Tuesday, March 16, 2021, 9 a.m.–10 a.m. PT: PowerPoint Presenting in a Remote World
Presenting online to remote audiences requires different approaches and tools than those for delivering the same slides in person. This session, led by Nolan Haims, Principal of Nolan Haims Creative, will help you maximize your effectiveness when creating and delivering engaging presentations online to remote audiences. You’ll learn how to:

Efficiently outline and prepare content.
Source and make use of high-quality imagery and other visuals.
Reduce reliance on text, eliminate bullet points and craft effective headers.
Make use of online tools and techniques including those in PowerPoint, Zoom and Teams.
Set up your presentation space including proper camera placement, lighting and sound.

Tuesday, March 16, 2021, 11 a.m.–12 p.m. PT: Leadership Development: Why You Need to Consider Individual Differences (Free for ATD members)
There are a few tried and tested core principles for effective leadership development that are often assumed to be universally true, but we also know that in most situations, one size does not fit all. How a leader chooses to lead will have a lasting effect on a business and their leadership brand. What would it look like if we considered individual differences when assessing and developing effective leaders? During this webinar, hosted by Dr. Tanya Boyd, Practitioner Education Manager at Insights, you’ll be shown:

Examples of individual differences that are likely to affect effectiveness of leadership development initiatives.
Common approaches to leadership development, overlaid with the lens of individual differences.
A framework for considering individual differences that can enhance any approach to leadership development.

Tuesday, March 16, 2021, 12 p.m.–1 p.m. PT: Agile for Content Creators
The Agile movement offers values and principles that can transform how you create. Whether you’re building training courses, internal communications or something else altogether, your content development can be better and faster by adopting an agile mindset. Join Kevin Doherty, Marketing Communications Manager of Vyond, for this crash course on creating content in an agile way. Kevin will offer a primer on the agile movement and lay out how it can be applied to any creative process, followed by a Q&A with attendees.

Wednesday, March 17, 2021, 10 a.m.–11 a.m. PT: Why Viewers Stop Watching Your Videos
In this session, Matt Pierce, Video and Learning Ambassador at TechSmith, will be examining and discussing survey results from almost 1,000 participants in six countries to understand their engagement, preferences, and interactions with online instructional and informational videos. You’ll gain insights to viewer preferences, practical tips and suggestions for the context surrounding videos to ideas on how to make sure viewers stay watching and paying attention. These ideas will look across five years to see what has and hasn’t changed. While there are no silver bullets that overcome all of the challenges, you’ll leave this session with at least a few ideas to make their viewers video experience even better.

Wednesday, March 17, 2021, 11 a.m.–12 p.m. PT: Beat the Brain Drain: Learn How to Clone Your Top Performers (Without a Lab)
Every sales organization has its top performers — the standout sellers who beat their quotas month after month, quarter after quarter, year after year. No matter the industry, they all have one thing in common: a deep understanding of how your products or services solve specific client problems. These pros deploy best practices and insights into customer needs that set them apart from the rest. In many organizations, these veterans are about to walk, not because they’re fed up, but because they’re about to retire. They’ll take years of experience with them, leaving green teams scrambling to catch up. Jake Miller, Senior Product Marketing Manager at Allego, and Mike Kunkle, VP of Sales Effectiveness Services at SPARXiQ, to find out how you can prevent this “brain drain” and capture critical institutional knowledge to drive seller proficiency now and in the future.

Wednesday, March 17, 2021, 11 a.m.–12 p.m. PT: Key Factors to Foster Lifelong Learning (Free for ATD members)
Agility has become mission critical for organizations. With the need for skilled people in the most critical roles, businesses must embrace digital transformation and support a lifelong learning culture. Join this webinar, as Andy Shean, VP, Global Learning & Engagement at SAP SuccessFactor, will discuss advancements and research, including:

Personalized learning and learning in the flow of work to support workforce productivity embedded into employees’ daily activities.
One unified learning experience, both content-focused and experiential.
Self-direct opportunities for personal growth to upskill and reskill employees for organizations’ needs.

Wednesday, March 17, 2021, 12 p.m.–1 p.m. PT: The Neuroscience of (Virtual) Engagement
With no return to hanging out in rooms together on the near horizon, it’s never been more critical to virtual experiences that are intriguing, compelling and irresistible. We’ve all got a certain Zoom competency now, but how do you take your sessions to the next level? In this “practice what you preach” webinar, Michael Bungay Stanier, Founder of MBS.works, will:

Explain the TERA model of engagement.
Demonstrate some of the tactics he uses to be a top-rated presenter and trainer.
Point out three common mistakes people make in trying to make their sessions more interactive.
Leave you with practical tools to take your virtual (and non-virtual) sessions to a new level of awesomeness.

Wednesday, March 17, 2021, 1:30 p.m.–2:30 p.m. PT: Women in Learning
COVID-19 has disrupted the workplace in ways we’ve never seen before. Many are struggling to do their jobs or struggling to switch-off, and the boundaries between work and home are blurred. As a result, women are being impacted negatively. The pandemic has also intensified the challenges that women in learning already face in the workplace, and there’s the risk of losing women at all levels of the organizational hierarchy. Recent studies have indicated that working mothers are three times more likely than men to discontinue work due to childcare demands. What can L&D do about the prevailing “she-session?” A panel of female learning executives, led by Learning Pool’s Sharon Claffey Kaliouby, will discuss how to support women in leadership roles in L&D.

Thursday, March 18, 2021, 10 a.m.–11 a.m. PT: One Year Later: Are We Getting the Right Learning Blend for the New Normal?
The global pandemic has been with us for a year now, and organizations have been adjusting their learning strategies to meet the needs of a remote workforce in a world without in-person training. It hasn’t been easy, since most organizations relied heavily on ILT prior to COVID-19. In a webinar a little over a year ago, David Wentworth, Principal Analyst with Brandon Hall Group, and Samantha Marsden, Manager of Marketing at OpenSesame, took a look at what it takes to create a truly blended learning strategy. It’s time now to revisit what has been learned over these last 13 months and take a look at what has changed in how people consume content, as well as what content they consume.

Friday, March 19, 2021, 10 a.m.–11 a.m. PT: Future of Work and Data Analytics Outlook
Everyone talks about the future of work, but how are organizations preparing for it? This session, hosted by Brandon Hall Group’s CEO, Mike Cooke, and Chief Strategy Officer, Michael Rochelle, will feature a discussion with award-winning organizations about their vision of the future of work, how it’s being framed and discussed in their organizations, and how AI, Machine Learning, data analytics and technology will be used to help the understand future trends and prepare.

Tuesday, March 23, 2021, 9 a.m.–10 a.m. PT: Design, Deliver and Track a High Impact Customer Education Program
An effective Customer Education program aims to improve customer satisfaction and retention, escalate product or service adoption, increase brand loyalty and improve the lifetime value of customer relationships. Great customer education programs can exponentially improve the outcomes of every customer engagement and lead to a community of fanatical customers who genuinely trust your organization. Join Director of Digital Learning Evangelism, Dr. Allen Partridge, for this introduction to the design, delivery and tracking of High Impact customer education programs.

Tuesday, March 23, 2021, 10 a.m.–11 a.m. PT: Remote Enablement: Keeping the Workforce Connected
Now that remote work is norm, organizations are finding that they may not have the tools in place to keep their workforce learning, connected and collaborating at effective levels. With one-quarter of companies saying that at least half of their employees will continue to work primarily remotely, it becomes even more critical to come up with long-term, sustainable solutions. Join David Wentworth, Principal Learning Analyst at Brandon Hall Group, and a presenter from Allego as they look at how companies can maximize the effectiveness of remote teams and their managers by providing the strategies and tools for a dispersed workforce.

Tuesday, March 23, 2021, 11 a.m.–12 p.m. PT: Bring Workforce Development Into the 21st Century: Adaptive Learning and Training (Free for ATD members)
Organizations are feeling the urgent need to extract real and sustainable value from their workforce development programs. Personalized and adaptive training, powered by machine learning, is the game-changer that makes it possible. Manoj Kulkarni, CEO of Realizeit, takes an insightful look at why companies are turning to intelligent, adaptive technology to optimize their training for frontline employees and develop them for readiness to perform in the future.

Tuesday, March 23, 2021, 12 p.m.–1 p.m. PT: Training Frontline Leaders to be Learning Catalysts
Job descriptions have not been updated fast enough to represent what you do. The Modern Learning Architect (MLA) is an expert and specialist, who may be an instructional designer, trainer, presenter or developer, but now does other tasks as well, both as specialists with integrative and transformative roles. Your ability to be a successful Modern Learning Architect requires some new sets of skills. Are you aware if you have the skills or would need to upskill? Join Dr. Ray Jimenez, Architect of TrainingMagNetwork.com and Chief Learning Officer of Vignettes Learning, in this webinar to find out.

Thursday, March 25, 2021, 9 a.m.–10 a.m. PT: The Virtual Workshop Playbook: Design and Deliver Online Workshops That Work
Virtual classrooms are here to stay, but there’s a huge difference between “watch and listen” and engaging in learning together. The meaningful learning that genuinely drives new behaviours, attitudes and skills that we used to experience in a great face to face workshop, has been hard to find, until now. At the cutting edge of workshop design, strategies like co-creation, collaboration and storytelling are being used, along with tools, apps and virtual sharing spaces that are making a massive difference in how people learn at distance. Join LEO Learning consultants, Andrew Joly, Director of Strategic Design, and Geoff Bloom, Principal Consultant, as they pass on their expertise in virtual workshop design and delivery in an easy-to-use, easy-to-apply session, with practical examples and takeaways.

Friday, March 26, 2021, 10 a.m.–11 a.m. PT: Talent Management Outlook
Developing and retaining talent is as complex and difficult as it is critical in this time of extreme disruption. This session, hosted by Brandon Hall Group’s COO, Rachel Cooke, and Claude Werder, SVP and Principal HCM Analyst, will feature discussions with learning and talent leaders from award-winning organizations who will share their vision, success and lessons learned.

Tuesday, March 30, 2021, 11 a.m.–12 p.m. PT: Intelligent VR: A More Effective Way to Train (Free for ATD members)
Tune in to this webinar for insights into the latest advances in virtual reality as a training tool for learning and development professionals. Discover how a combination of machine learning and sensor fusion technologies can be leveraged to create more intelligent and adaptable VR applications. HP Senior Managers, Jay Fraser and Tico Ballagas, will be joined by Mimbus CEO, Laurent Da Dalto, to discuss the increased efficacy of training in VR and share how companies are taking advantage of revolutionary innovations to get the most out of training experiences.

Wednesday, March 31, 2021, 11 a.m.–12 p.m. PT: Research Revealed: Why Workplace Well-Being Is Key to Company Performance (Free for ATD members)
We’ve experienced more workplace change in the last year than the whole last decade due to the COVID-19 pandemic. If you ask the media, it’s caused social isolation, technology challenges, fear and anxiety. But is that true? What can organizations do to really support employee well-being? This session, led by Rich Thompson, Senior Director of Global Research at The Myers-Briggs Company, will share the results of a five-year global study on workplace well-being and reveal research-backed, high-return on investment (ROI) ways HR professionals can manage and enhance workplace well-being in the new normal.

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