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And suddenly all the stores are full of tinsel and Mariah Carey high notes. If the retail frenzy kicked off by Black Friday isn’t overwhelming enough, there’s that end-of-year finish line looming ahead. One month until we all take stock of our year and ask ourselves… did we get everything done? Did we learn everything we needed to learn? Fortunately, we have 30 days to address the gaps. Perhaps a free webinar can provide some hints. At the very least, it’s a great way to start thinking about what you’d like to accomplish and how to get there.

Thursday, December 1, 2022, 10:00 a.m.–10:45 a.m. PT: Bursting with Success: How to Empower Leaders to Support Employee Development
Today’s business world has pressured leaders and managers to maintain employee engagement and facilitate career development. The role of leaders has evolved to include a responsibility to provide coaching, support employee development and retain top talent. However, individuals in leadership may not be well equipped to succeed with their new mentoring duties. Daniel Mills, Senior Learning Consultant at Valamis, will look at how the focus of leadership in organizations has shifted from business and performance to include learning and development (L&D) and talent management.

Thursday, December 1, 2022, 11:00 a.m.–11:45 a.m. PT: From Skills to Capabilities: Building the Next Generation Corporate Academy
Business today is volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous. L&D professionals must reconcile the wish for formal, structured skill building with the need for informal, spontaneous learning that cultivates the contextualized knowledge and practical wisdom that enable leaders’ total readiness to perform. In this Leader Talk, Christina Yu, Chief Marketing Officer at NovoEd, will unpack this research and show you how to develop your capabilities through next generation corporate academies in 2023.

Friday, December 2, 2022, 8 a.m.–9 a.m. PT: Authoring Tools Smackdown — Storyline, Captivate and Lectora Go Head-to-Head
Three widely used authoring platforms are all very different, and each one has evolved over the years. Storyline, Captivate and Lectora have unique strengths and weaknesses, so how do you pick the best fit for your project needs? Join ELB Learning’s Learning Solutions Engineers, Josh Bleggi and Domenic Caloia, to look under the hood at the ultimate authoring tool match up. Curious to see how each tool handles the most common tasks? From assessments and publishing to responsive design and translations, you might be missing out on each tool’s most valuable benefits.

Friday, December 2, 2022, 8 a.m.–9 a.m. PT: Sales Trainers: Secrets to Selling Enterprise and National Accounts
In this session, Gred Nanigian, Sales Trainer and CEO of Greg Nanigian and Associates, will explore a tactical process and technique your sales team can use that cuts the Enterprise sales cycle in half, while improving the closing ratio without having to drop their price. You’ll discover how to:

Increase your closing ratio by 50%.
Save time and cut your sell-cycle time by 50%.
Discover a tactical selling process and techniques to fuel it.
Hear a proven, time-tested approach to navigate complex sales.
Beat out the competition with new tools in your Enterprise Selling Toolbox.

Tuesday, December 6, 2022, 9 a.m.–10 a.m. PT: Five Secrets to Interactive Virtual Training Sessions in Adobe Connect
Adobe Connect 12 provides structure and uniformity for consistent experiences while offering extreme flexibility for custom activities. Karen Hyder, Online Event Producer at Kaleidoscope Training and Consulting, will show you how to smoothly transition between pre-set pod layouts with pre-loaded files that support custom engagement activities. You’ll discover how team members stage content, respond to and escalate questions, and provide support to the presenter and attendees behind the scenes in Adobe Connect. This session is designed to be interactive, so come prepared to participate.

Tuesday, December 6, 2022, 9 a.m.–10 a.m. PT: Five Strategies for Implementing Successful Hybrid Training (Free for ATD members)
As a result of the pandemic, most organizations pivoted from traditional in-person training to fully virtual training programs for employees. As some employees have returned to the workplace, mixing both in-person and virtual learners together has grown in popularity. Training programs that accommodate workers regardless of their distributed location is required. Join Diana Howles, CEO of Howles Associates, LLC, as she’ll reveal five strategies for implementing successful hybrid learning so you won’t fall prey to the most common mistakes.

Tuesday, December 6, 2022, 10 a.m.–11 a.m. PT: How Learning Can Create and Sustain Great Customer Relationships That Generate Revenue
Acquiring customers, keeping them happy, and expanding the relationship are critical priorities. However, many organizations overlook a key element that can drive success at every stage of the customer experience: learning. David Wentworth, Principal Analyst at Brandon Hall Group, and Samantha Murray, Solutions Marketing Manager at Docebo, will share research, insights and expertise to help you understand how your organization can leverage effective learning for lead generation, customer acquisition and post-sale relationships that lead to increased customer retention, loyalty and advocacy.

Tuesday, December 6, 2022, 12 p.m.–1 p.m. PT: Attracting and Retaining Top Talent Through an Elearning Maturity Model
The great resignation and the pandemic have immensely affected working environments, and companies are in a deep L&D transformation to attract and retain talent. Having a clearly defined elearning Maturity Model aligned with the business goals enables continuous quality improvement — and enhances the resilience and adaptability of any L&D department. Alexia Sanchez, Director of EdTech, North America, Cypher Learning, will discuss elearning Maturity Models and strategies that you can implement to take advantage of the current market’s conditions.

Wednesday, December 7, 2022, 10 a.m.–11 a.m. PT: Stop Rebuilding and Start Reassembling with Xyleme
Creating one-off programs for each deliverable and audience across the enterprise won’t be sustainable. Discover the benefits of reassembling content for reuse to truly personalize content, gain efficiency and provide data insights, all while slashing content development and maintenance time. Join Xyleme’s Senior Solutions Architects, Mike Buoy and Adam Jensen, as they demonstrate the benefits of leveraging technology to reuse content across the extended enterprise, reassembling it for each unique audience to provide truly personalized content experiences.

Wednesday, December 7, 2022, 11 a.m.–12 p.m. PT: How Highly Effective Managers Are Succeeding in Today’s Workplace (Free for ATD members)
Employees are more distributed and disengaged than ever. Managers need new skills to navigate the performance issues and other inequalities in hybrid and remote work. They also require new levels of support and training to lead healthy teams that balance productivity with empathy. Stacia Sherman Garr, Co-Founder and Principal Analyst at RedThread Research, and Joseph Freed, Head of Product at Cultivate and Perceptyx, will share new data from RedThread Research on the current plight of managers and discuss what organizations must do now to enable and support them for future success.

Wednesday, December 7, 2022, 12 p.m.–1 p.m. PT: Inside Hybrid Leadership
Communication, in many ways, is the key to leadership, and the leadership that got you here won’t get you there. Right now, there’s a great opportunity to transform conversations and how people experience work for the better. Alan Lyons, Partner and Business Psychologist at KinchLyons, will share fresh insights and trends on this topic, and focus on how to provide a clear purpose for your hybrid policy, proximity bias, emotional intelligence, co-creation and acknowledging the impact on accidental managers parachuted into a sudden hybrid situation.

Thursday, December 8, 2022, 9 a.m.–10 a.m. PT: Learning in the Flow of Work: The Power of the Pause
Moving learning into the flow of work (LIFOW) has become imperative for all organizations looking to truly engage learners and make learning sticky and relevant. Herrmann International’s Ann Herrmann-Nehdi, CEO, and Ashley Blackburn, Head of Content, will provide you with one of the most important steps: the power of helping learners stop and think — learn to pause throughout their workday. This webinar will highlight a very specific concrete example of how to do this when using Microsoft Teams, developed to help organizations who “live” in Teams all day.

Thursday, December 8, 2022, 10 a.m.–11 a.m. PT: Learning Trends for 2023: Cultivating Connection, Alignment and Efficiency
As you endeavour to meet the needs of a hybrid work environment, you need to embrace agile, learner-centric and efficient approaches for delivering learning solutions. How can you deliver more relevant, immersive, personalized and learner-centric systems at scale? How do you forecast and hedge against potential disruption? Matt Donovan, Chief Learning Officer at GP Strategies, will explore learning trends for 2023 and share insights into how you, the learning and development leader, can play a critical role in the future of your organization.

Friday, December 9, 2022, 9 a.m.–10 a.m. PT: Create a Personalized Learning Plan to Close Your Skill Gaps Using the Talent Development Capability Model (Free for ATD members)
Upskilling and continuous learning are an important part of keeping your talent development skills fresh. Challenging yourself and having a growth mindset can create new opportunities to improve your L&D practice or make a move to a new role. Join Morgean Hirt, Director of Credentialing at Association for Talent Development, to learn how to create a personalized learning plan to close your TD knowledge and skill gaps using ATD’s competency framework, the Talent Development Capability Model. Connect your personal learning plan to ATD resources to jump start your 2023 plan to grow and develop.

Thursday, December 8, 2022, 12 p.m.–1 p.m. PT: Augmented Reality in Learning Design
Augmented reality (AR) is a growing technology widely used in games, marketing, learning and development. Getting started with AR is easier now than ever before; however, some questions need answers. Where do you get started? Where does it fit in your design workflow? What tools are available for use? How do I share and track these types of experiences? What skills does my team need? Destery Hildenbrand, XR Solution Architect at Intellezy, will discuss answers to these and other questions while exploring a process for designing, developing and delivering AR experiences for learning.

Tuesday, December 13, 2022, 9:00 a.m.–10:30 a.m. PT: IDs and Trainers: Level Up Your Graphics Game with Canva
Are you using Canva to create graphics for your instructor-led training (ILT), virtual instructor-led training (VILT) and elearning courses? You may have been resisting Canva, thinking that it’s just a tool for marketing professionals, but Canva is a tool for learning professionals, too. Canva is a creative graphics tool that empowers anyone to create impactful, professional designs for your training courses. Don’t worry, no graphic design experience necessary. Danielle Watkins, Instructional Designer and Trainer at Zenith Performance Solutions, will show you how to:

Set up your Canva account and navigate the dashboard.
Organize your Canva designs.
Create branded graphics and custom asses in Canva.
Access magic shortcuts.
Save and download files in multiple file formats.

Tuesday, December 13, 2022, 11 a.m.–12 p.m. PT: Talent Development Trends That Will Drive L&D Forward in 2023 (Free for ATD members)
Paul Eschen, Chief Marketing Officer at BizLibrary, will share a forecast of the top learner experience trends to keep an eye on in 2023. He’ll discuss ways to engage and retain Gen Z and millennial employees with purpose-driven training and cultural initiatives. He’ll also reveal how striking the right balance between prescriptive and elective training may unlock the secret to the ideal learner experience and how understanding human behaviour principles like choice, simplicity, novelty and shared purpose will lead you to greater L&D heights in the new year.

Tuesday, December 13, 2022, 12 p.m.–1 p.m. PT: Gamification and Game-based Learning from Beginner to Pro
Gamification and game-based learning are very similar. Both are effective to motivate players and are accessible in terms of cost and implementation. Would you like to leverage the power of both for learning for adult education and corporate training? In this webinar, with Monica Cornetti, Founder and CEO of Sententia Gamification, and Sharon Goza, Former Integrated Graphics Operations and Analysis Lab Manager at NASA, you’ll actively participate in crafting new ideas and exploring the possibilities of how to apply game-like thinking to increase learner engagement, comprehension, retention and sustain motivation.

Wednesday, December 14, 2022, 11 a.m.–12 p.m. PT: Creative Accelerators That Maximize Learning Strategies (Free for ATD members)
Driving the performance that businesses need in today’s market is already tough — but it would be downright impossible without an empowered culture of learning and thoughtful strategy. L&D teams charged with leading the way forward must creatively find ways to turn learning into the talent growth engine their businesses require. Join Acey Blanco, Director of Learning and Development at Opya, and Minerva Thai, Senior Product Marketing Manager at WorkRamp, to learn:

How to rev up learning at your company.
Ways to accelerate career development.
Strategies to shift gears successfully by using both internal and external accelerators.

Thursday, December 15, 2022, 8 a.m.–9 a.m. PT: Brain-based Practices for Leadership Development
Join Dr. Britt Andreatta, author, speaker and consultant, as she walks you through insights from building an award-winning training program. This brain-based program operates at two levels: managers who gain vital skills in bringing out the best in their people, and facilitators who get certified through an online learning platform. Discover how various learning technologies are utilized for both audiences, creating a rating of “excellent” in 95-100% of learners. In this interactive session, you’ll:

Explore insights from an award-winning program for brain-based manager training.
Discover how to create engaging learning for both managers and certified facilitators using platform and authoring tools.
Utilize learning science best practices (habit design, memory enhancement, transfer) to design/deliver effective training.

Thursday, December 15, 2022, 8 a.m.–9 a.m. PT: Training Industry Leader Talk: Change Management
As the world of work continues to change, learning leaders are tasked with keeping their organizations and their people up to speed. L&D professionals can enable organizational agility by creating a foundation of trust and resilience. Join this Training Industry Leader Talk to learn how L&D can support change management and train successful change leaders.

Thursday, December 15, 2022, 11 a.m.–12 p.m. PT: Motivate Employees to Learn Through an Integrated Talent Ecosystem (Free for ATD members)
Economists distinguish between two economic models — push and pull — that offer insights into organizational learning. In a push economy, supply exceeds demand, whereas a pull economy indicates high demand for scarce resources. For world-weary talent development leaders, creating a pull learning economy may seem unattainable, but it’s easier than you think. Join this webinar to learn how to create a continuous learning culture within your organization by aligning typical talent management and development activities with a seamless, integrated talent ecosystem.

Thursday, December 15, 2022, 12 p.m.–1 p.m. PT: Is Age Diversity Included In Your Organization’s DEI Training?
The concept of age diversity in the workplace has been around for a long time, but only 8% of organizations include it in their DEI efforts. Do pesky stereotypes get in the way in your organization? Do employees work in and lead multigenerational teams productively? Dr. Constance Staley, Professor of Communication at University of Colorado, will explore new ways of thinking that can change not only your perspectives, and but the way you communicate from day to day. Never has collaboration within and among diverse teams been more important, and never has L&D faced such challenges and opportunities.

Tuesday, December 20, 2022, 12 p.m.–1 p.m. PT: Let Go of the Old and Embrace New Disruptive L&D Practices and Beliefs
Core practices are at the heart of most, if not all, L&D practices. This may seem to be the preferred low-risk and safer route. However, forward-thinking and innovative organizations strive to test and experiment, reinvent, and disrupt their methods and practices constantly. The disruptive practices are outliers, but they work in the cases mentioned below. In the webinar, Dr. Ray Jimenez, Architect of TrainingMagNetwork.com and Chief Learning Officer of Vignettes Learning, will cover four case studies that will illustrate these innovations:

Insurance: reduction of elearning authoring time from 100% to 25% and achieve three times the delivery speed.
Oil: reducing product wastes to 1% that directly impacts costs through peer-learning and a hybrid-discovery process.
Software: extending compliance through analytical and progressive problem-solving brainstorming.
Manufacturing: employing a cohesive platform that integrates over 30 Thinking Tools like risk-analysis, consequence estimator, peer coaching, metrics and analytics, troubleshooting, the Five Whys, process flow builder and many others.

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