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Here we are in 2022. Get used to typing that out! It’s a new year, full of optimism and perhaps a sprinkling of caution. Last year may have been unpredictable, but it sure was busy. When there are lots of projects on the go, it’s sometimes challenging to keep your training up to date or read about new L&D ideas. That’s why a free webinar can be so useful. If you can spare an hour, they’re often worth the time. Here’s hoping they help you get things done in the year ahead!

Wednesday, January 5, 2022 11 a.m.–12 p.m. PT: Five Ways to Enhance Your Coaching Success in 2022 (Free for ATD members)
The changes during the last two years have given us time for reflection and growth. It’s a good time to step back and be deliberate about your own development. Creating a plan for yourself, personally and professionally, is essential for managing a successful career and life. What’s your definition of success, and how do you ensure you create and follow your path to success? During this webinar, hosted by Rita Allen, President of Rita B. Allen Associates, you’ll begin creating your plan and learn five ways to enhance your coaching success in 2022. 

Tuesday, January 11, 2022, 9 a.m.–10 a.m. PT: How Engagement During Training Strengthens Employee Engagement on the Job
Engagement is everything. Using engaging techniques during training will create an anchor to the material being learned, so when participants go back to the job, they’ll be more passionate and use the information they’ve acquired. In this session, Jill Christensen, author of the best-selling book, If Not You, Who? Cracking the Code of Employee Disengagement, will share strategies to engage learners. Through engagement, participants will increase retention, transfer knowledge, gain a sense of ownership and accountability, and have a sense of time well spent. 

Tuesday, January 11, 2022, 10 a.m.–11 a.m. PT: How Personalized Learning Drives Performance
Business is moving too fast, and the workforce is too busy, distracted and geographically disparate for a one-size-fits all approach to learning and development. Personalized learning is the strategy to optimize performance in this demanding environment. Join David Wentworth, Principal Analyst at Brandon Hall Group, and Manoj Kulkarni, CEO of Realizeit, as they discuss the depths, levels and types of learning personalization that are needed to drive tangible results. Discover what it takes to personalize training at both granular level and scale, and how the right approach can drive individual and business performance.

Tuesday, January 11, 2022, 12 p.m.–1 p.m. PT: Unlocking Hidden Tricks in the New Photoshop
Phil Cowcill, Senior Elearning Specialist at the Department of National Defence, Canada, is hosting a workshop that will explore selecting content, fixing flaws in images, accessing filters, and talk about the new issue with true 3D within a Photoshop document. You’ll also be shown how to optimize images to be delivered over the web and displayed on mobile devices. Finally, you’ll explore some of the newest features in Photoshop that will not only enhance the images you make, but significantly save you time.

Wednesday, January 12, 2022, 9 a.m.–10 a.m. PT: Getting Started with Augmented Reality in Learning
This webinar, led by Destery Hildenbrand, Multimedia Learning Specialist at GP Strategies, will break down each step involved in an AR project, including ideation, storyboarding, development and deployment. You’ll explore successful use cases and discuss what sets augmented reality apart from the other tools used, where it works best to implement and the steps needed to get started. The focus throughout will be on how you and your team can utilize your existing L&D skills and the adjustments required to implement effective and impactful AR experiences. 

Wednesday, January 12, 2022, 11 a.m.–12 p.m. PT: Learning Trends 2022: The Future of Learning in a Continuously Evolving World (Free for ATD members)
The traditional assumptions about learning have lost their validity. The rules surrounding how, when and where to connect with and train audiences have been challenged. New technologies and refined design approaches can create more immersive, personalized and learner-centric systems. As the hybrid workforce continues, learning organizations need to be more agile and responsive than ever before. This interactive webinar, hosted by Matthew Donovan, Chief Learning and Innovation Officer at GP Strategies, will provide insights on: 

• Trends facing the learning industry of the future.

• Approaches for enabling the hybrid workforce.

• New roles to consider in learning design and development.

Wednesday, January 12, 2022, 11 a.m.–12 p.m. PT: The Metaverse of VR Learning
A new generation of real-time, spatial, 3D, immersive and embodied computing can now be deployed on high-quality VR headsets that cost less than an airline flight. The metaverse is upon us and it has a profound impact on the learning industry. Join Dr. Anders Gronstedt, President of The Gronstedt Group, for a session about how forward-thinking companies are creating shared VR learning spaces where students and instructors are interacting with each other as lifelike human avatars. Navigating hyper-realistic performance simulators via VR headsets, phones, tablets and PCs, they learn with and from each other in hands-on simulations. 

Wednesday, January 12, 2022, 11 a.m.–12 p.m. PT: Move the “Middle 60%” of Your Sales Team
Inspiring and enabling the middle 60% of your sales team to increase their sales just 10-20% can have the greatest impact on boosting your company’s sales and profits. The key is to understand each sales rep’s current level of engagement, then to empower them with the resources and support they need to amp their performance and succeed. Ira Ozer, President of Engagement Partners, will show you how leading engagement, training, coaching and incentive technology platforms can be integrated to significantly increase the results of your whole sales team and to move the “middle 60%.” 

Thursday, January 13, 2022, 9 a.m.–10 a.m. PT: A Use-Case for Management: How L&D Supports the Growing Needs Across Industries
Recent changes in today’s business landscape led to distinct challenges by different Industries. Industries such as Healthcare, Automotive, Retail, Banking and Financial Services, Public Sector, and Manufacturing are all required to adjust to the ever-changing needs of today’s businesses. The L&D community are key pillars in identifying methods to support these business challenges. Please join Jamal Watkins, Adobe Prime Learning Evangelist, as he discusses how learning can help to support the growing needs of different business industries.

Thursday, January 13, 2022, 12 p.m.–1 p.m. PT: Icebreakers to Awkward-Proof Your Virtual and F2F Training
If you’ve tried to run meetings with Zoom, Google Meet or other video conferencing software, you’ve probably noticed screens can impose a distance that’s challenging to overcome. When participants don’t feel engaged, meetings are less productive. But when you deploy the right icebreaker at the start of your virtual meeting, you help participants get mentally in the room, connect with one another, focus on a common goal and get energized to contribute. During this webinar, Becky Pike Pluth, President and CEO of The Bob Pike Group, will: 

• Explain the necessity and methods of connecting with your audience immediately.

• Identify and list criteria to include in a virtual icebreaker.

• Experience effective virtual icebreakers.

Tuesday, January 18, 2022, 11 a.m.–12 p.m. PT: Five Best Practices for Bridging the In-Person Versus Virtual Attendee Training Gap (Free for ATD members)
As employees return to the office, businesses want to believe that remote and in-person staff can join a Zoom call and replicate a cohesive team. But there’s a cognitive challenge for remote and in-person employees to engage equally in a synchronous workplace. Companies that don’t address this imbalance risk stratifying their workforce and affecting equity, productivity and innovation. In this webinar, Dalnaz (Dill) Hasan, Video Evangelist at Panopto, will show you how to: 

• Bridge the gap between in-person and virtual participants to ensure robust training engagement and outcomes.

• Develop flexible, consistent and accessible training to support all your employees in an evolving future.

• Use asynchronous tools to align on training expectations prior to sessions.

• Determine which hardware and software tools you need in the classroom to bridge the gap between in-person and virtual trainees.

Wednesday, January 19, 2022, 8 a.m.–9 a.m. PT: Looking Ahead: How to Develop an Effective L&D Strategy in 2022
The hybrid workforce will only continue to evolve in the coming months into a more decentralized model, and the organizational training structures must transform to support them. It’s imperative for L&D teams to pause and take a retrospective look back at 2021 to reflect on what worked, what didn’t and what you’ll need to do moving forward. Please join David Wentworth, Principal Learning Analyst with Brandon Hall Group, and Asha Pandey, EI Design’s Chief Learning Strategist, as they review the key lessons from 2021 and discuss how to develop an effective L&D strategy in 2022. 

Wednesday, January 19, 2022, 9 a.m.–10 a.m. PT: VROOM! Getting Started in VR
Did you know that several organizations keep proving that immersive learning gets better results than traditional training strategies? From higher retention to improved muscle memory, there are dozens of reasons to embrace virtual reality, and getting started is much easier than you think. Join John Blackmon, Chief Technology Officer at Elearning Brothers, to hear his step-by-step instructions to get your VR project started quickly and ensure it generates rock-star results. By the end of this webinar, you'll walk away with a solid action plan for jumpstarting your VR training project. 

Wednesday, January 19, 2022, 11 a.m.–12 p.m. PT: Four Strategies for Leading Successful Hybrid Teams (Free for ATD members)
The speed and scale at which remote and hybrid work became the new normal caught everyone off guard, but new challenges come with new opportunities. By empowering your people, creating clarity and equity around policies and practices, leading by example, and placing a renewed emphasis on communication, your hybrid teams can thrive in this new world of work. During this webinar, presented by George Hallenbeck, Content Director, and Kelly Simmons, Global Director of Consultative Solutions, at the Center for Creative Leadership, you’ll: 

• Discover four key areas of focus to help your organization thrive in the new hybrid world of work.

• Understand critical considerations for setting strong foundational hybrid team agreements.

Wednesday, January 19, 2022, 12 p.m.–1 p.m. PT: Shut Up So Learners Can Learn — No-Lecture Virtual Training
One of the most difficult challenges for virtual trainers and presenters is knowing when to stop lecturing.  Lecturing means bombardment of too much content. Consequently, participants are zoning out, shopping at Amazon, tending to their pets, organizing their vacation or doing other tasks. In this webinar, Dr. Ray Jimenez, Architect of TrainingMagNetwork.com and Chief Learning Officer of Vignettes Learning, will discuss how to get rid of the compulsive habit of just lecturing. He’ll share valuable insights into shifting some time to allow learners to think, apply ideas, ask questions and learn from each other. 

Thursday, Janurary 20, 2022, 8 a.m.–9 a.m. PT: Simple Steps to Build Five Custom Learning Interactions Using Adobe Captivate
Adding interactivity to your elearning courses can make them interesting and engaging for learners. It gives them a chance to access the information if and when they need it. It also helps them practice and test the skills they’ve learned in the course. Dr. Pooja Jaisingh, Lead Elearning Evangelist at Adobe Digital Learning Solutions, will show you some simple steps to add interactivity to your elearning courses. You’ll learn how to use objects, states, drag and drops, actions, and variables to build five different custom learning interactions, as well as pick up some productivity tips for quickly building interactions using Adobe Captivate.

Tuesday, January 25, 2022, 9 a.m.–10 a.m. PT: W.I.S.E. Up: Women, Inclusion and Self-Empowerment
Creating an inclusive work environment where women are both valued and respected for being a contributing member of the organization isn’t a solidary journey. It takes determination and commitment at all levels. When people are aligned around the same values, expectations and actions of inclusion, they work more smoothly together. In this webinar, Dr. Myra Hubbard, Executive Vice President of Hubbard & Hubbard, Inc., will share actions steps women, leaders and organizations can take to move the inclusion needle.

Wednesday, January 26, 2022, 11 a.m.–12 p.m. PT: Top HR Practices to Retain Talent (Free for ATD members)
As the Great Resignation rages on, companies are seeing unprecedented levels of employees quitting, which has major implications on their talent strategy. It’s not just frontline employees who are leaving: leaders are heading for the door, too. Janice Burns, Principal Consultant, and Kris Zajac, Leadership Advisor, at DDI, will show you ways to engage and retain leaders, and help them retain their teams. In this webinar, you’ll:

• Learn how leaders can leverage critical engagement and retention drivers for their teams.

• Master powerful retention conversations, including who to talk to first and must-ask questions.

• Discover the seven best HR practices to retain leaders based on the global research of 15,000 leaders.

Thursday, January 27, 2022, 9 a.m.–10 a.m. PT: The Art of Asking Questions in Virtual Events: How to Guarantee Responses
Have you ever asked a question in a virtual event, only for it to be met with silence? There are multiple reasons why attendees may not respond. In this interactive session with Cindy Huggett, author of Virtual Training Tools and Templates: An Action Guide to Live Online Learning, you’ll explore each reason and learn how to overcome each one. You’ll learn how to set the stage for robust dialogue and use common classroom tools for gathering input. You’ll also learn a proven method for asking questions that guarantees responses, along with practical techniques for creating discussion.

Thursday, January 27, 2022, 10 a.m.–11 a.m. PT: Five Best Practices for Bridging the In-Person Versus 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 in-person employees to engage equally in a synchronous workplace. This webinar, hosted by Cindy Huggett, and author of Virtual Training Tools and Templates: An Action Guide to Live Online Learning, 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.

Thursday, January 27, 2022, 12 p.m.–1 p.m. PT: 25 Powerful Thinking Exercises and Tools to Help Learners Learn
There comes a point in learning experiences when merely presenting content no longer works. But don’t despair. Designers, trainers and coaches have another tool in their arsenal:  activities that help learners wrap their minds around the content you’re teaching. The thinking tools and exercises aid learners to ask questions and find answers. They challenge the learners to interpret the content in their own context. In this webinar, Dr. Ray Jimenez, Architect of TrainingMagNetwork.com and Chief Learning Officer of Vignettes Learning, will share his library of 25 Thinking Tools and Exercises.

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