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Move over March — it’s time to do our learning with a little sunshine peeking through the office curtains. And even though April has a little bit of holiday downtime (depending on where you live), this month is still no slouch when it comes to free webinars. It’s packed with learning events and new business ideas to get you moving for spring. They’re easy to sign up for and participate in, too, so why not spend an hour learning something new?

Tuesday, April 5, 2022, 9 a.m.–10 a.m. PT: Getting Started with JavaScript in Adobe Captivate
Tools such as Adobe Captivate are great for quickly developing elearning. Phil Cowcill, Senior Elearning Specialist at the Department of National Defence, Canada, will give you a quick introduction on how to write your own JavaScript that’s geared for Adobe Captivate. You’ll learn how to write your own scripts within Captivate that quickly enhances your elearning. While scripting can be intimidating, you’ll enjoy your time in this webinar. If you’ve been curious about dipping your toes into the scripting pool, this webinar may be the very one you’ve been waiting for.

Tuesday, April 5, 2022, 11 a.m.–12 p.m. PT: Six Ways Asynchronous Video Increases Training Productivity and Three Times to Avoid It (Free for ATD members)

Learning delivered through a video conferencing platform continues to be the standard for remote training. Chris Knowlton, a Chief Video Evangelist for Panopto, will share six actionable solutions for using asynchronous (on-demand) videos to improve training productivity and effectiveness, and three examples of when you should opt for real-time training instead. You’ll walk away with the knowledge of how to apply asynchronous and synchronous training methods to your organization's L&D program.

Tuesday, April 5, 2022, 12 p.m.–1 p.m. PT: Mousify Your Instructional Design for MAGICal Results
Writing training for Walt Disney Entertainment was fascinating: characters, parades, fireworks, leadership, finance, orientation and more. Lenn Millbower, President of Offbeat Training LLC, will share his MAGIC methodology while working at Disney and for other clients. You'll learn how the MAGIC methodology, unlike ADDIE, is simple, emotion based and successful. It resonates deeply with learners and it’s easy to use. Classes come together quickly and flow seamlessly and logically. Learners experience a journey, not a lecture, and leave energized to take what they learned into the real world.

Wednesday, April 6, 2022, 8 a.m.–9 a.m. PT: Community Member Showcase
Join TLDCast’s crowdcast as they feature Nicola Vegiopoulos, Learning Consultant of Digital Content at Sartorius Stedim Biotech, a leading partner of the biopharma industry.

Wednesday, April 6, 2022, 9 a.m.–10 a.m. PT: The Evolving Role of L&D in The Digital Era
The transition to digital learning had always been promised; however, the timelines have been accelerated due to COVID-19 crisis. Digital learning has also started to redefine the structure of the Learning and Development teams. The role of L&D has also undergone a shift in tandem with these changing trends – as the learning teams now need to be more digitally savvy than ever to identify not just the right content, but also the right delivery mechanism. Join Jamal Watkins, Captivate Prime Learning Evangelist at Adobe Digital Learning Solutions, as he covers:

How has the role of L&D shifted post the pandemic?
What skills do L&D teams need to have to get seat at the digital table?
How do L&D professionals plan to navigate the challenges of hybrid and remote work models?
What are the technological and infrastructure planning needed to navigate this landscape?
How does Adobe Captivate Prime addresses the emerging L&D challenges?

Wednesday, April 6, 2022, 11 a.m.–12 p.m. PT: Five Ways to Put Learning Front and Centre at Your Company (Free for ATD members)
Effective L&D programs attract skilled talent and keep current employees engaged. When 94% of employees said they would stay at a company longer if their employer invested in their careers, L&D is certainly a program worthy of investment. Join WorkRamp’s Stephanie Middaugh, Director of Enablement, and Sam Popcke, Senior Talent Success Manager, to hear more about how learning can be a growth engine for your organization. They’ll share five ways you can put L&D front and centre at your company, as well as actionable tips to get started.

Thursday, April 7, 2022, 9 a.m.–10 a.m. PT: Rapidly Build Custom Inbox Simulations (Code-Free) for Immersive, Real-World Training
Inbox simulations are an innovative and science-backed approach to experiential learning. Using the familiarity and flexibility of email, these simulation-based assessments immerse trainees in day-in-the-life scenarios, while objectively evaluating essential business skills in a real-world environment. Capsim’s Wyatt Danz, Manager of Experience Design, and Luke Courtright, Sr. Product Manager, will demonstrate how a new no-code authoring platform makes it easy to rapidly create custom simulations that help you meet your specific learning objectives and prepare your people for on-the-job success.

Thursday, April 7, 2022, 10 a.m.–11 a.m. PT: Keeping the Human Connection in a Hybrid Learning Environment
It’s clear that the future of work includes a larger portion of the workforce working remotely than prior to the pandemic. This has put tremendous strain on L&D teams as they figure out how to shift from a mostly event-driven, in-person learning model to something that meets the needs of a distributed and dynamic workforce. Companies must keep people connected as more and more of their work and learning experiences become virtual. Join David Wentworth, Principal Learning Analyst for Brandon Hall Group, and Ben Lowell, Strategic Advisor with Class Technologies, as they explore the future of live learning in a post-pandemic world.

Thursday, April 7, 2022, 12 p.m.–1 p.m. PT: Actors’ Secrets for Unforgettable Virtual Sales Meetings
Sales conversations blur together as buyers rush from virtual meeting to meeting. It’s not enough to “show up” on video anymore. You must build a strong relationship and create an unforgettable experience to stand out with busy buyers. That requires a unique skillset. Luckily, screen actors, television reporters and other on-camera pros have unlocked the secret to engaging and connecting with virtual audiences in a memorable way. In this session, actor and author Julie Hansen shares the must-know secrets from her new book, Look Me In The Eye: Using Video to Build Relationships with Customers, Partners and Teams.

Wednesday, April 13, 2022, 10:30 a.m.–11:30 a.m. PT: Action Adventure in Serious Games (Free for I4PL members)
In this session, you’ll look at how to design serious games using augmented reality, film production methodologies and advanced methodologies, such as procedural generation. This webinar will be hosted by Dr. David Chandross, who’s currently a leader for the game design unit at the World Health Organization and is a faculty member in the Masters of Digital Media program at Ryerson University.

Wednesday, April 13, 2022, 11 a.m.–12 p.m. PT: Key Ways Culture and Engagement Change as a Company Grows (Free for ATD members)
Culture Amp’s Fresia Jackson, Lead Research People Scientist, and Craig Forman, Lead People Scientist, provide an inside look at their data analysis of culture and engagement from more than 4,000 growing organizations over several years. During this webinar, you’ll understand:

How culture and engagement changes as a company grows.
The relationship between culture and a company’s monetary success.
What matters most to employees at different stages of growth.

Wednesday, April 13, 2022, 12 p.m.–1 p.m. PT: Hiring is Hard! Build a Culture of Engagement and Retention
Hiring is harder than ever, which means so is engagement and so is retention. With every hire hard-won and every departure extra painful, one can’t help but want to create a work environment that keeps people as engaged as possible for as long as possible. In this webinar, bestselling and award-winning author, Ed Muzio, will present a framework for thinking about — and acting on — the kind of action that creates culture change to keep the workforce engaged and in action. See what has worked for other high-performing organizations, then develop ideas to try on your own.

Thursday, April 14, 2022, 8 a.m.–9 a.m. PT: Best Practices for Authoring Assessment Questions in Adobe Captivate
Join Dr. Pooja Jaisingh, Principal Elearning Evangelist at Adobe Digital Learning Solutions, to learn about the best practices for writing assessment questions, then adding them to your elearning courses authored using Adobe Captivate. She’ll share tips and tricks for identifying the question type relevant for the course objectives and content, converting one question type to another, writing answer options and feedback text, modifying the look and feel of question slides, making global changes for question slides, and much more!

Thursday, April 14, 2022, 8 a.m.–9 a.m. PT: How Action Learning Drives Teams, Talent and Business Impact
Employers face daunting challenges at every turn. How can organizations possibly address all this while meeting critical business needs in a disruptive environment? Action learning, where colleagues work and learn together in teams, while tackling business-critical projects, is an underutilized secret weapon. In this webinar, Lars Hyland, Chief Learning Officer at Totara Learning, and Claude Werder, Senior VP and Principal HCM Analyst at Brandon Hall Group, will reveal through customer success stories how you can leverage action learning to achieve:

Immersive, peer-to-peer learning.
Individual and team development simultaneously.
Immediate business impact.

Thursday, April 14, 2022, 10 a.m.–11 a.m. PT: Six Times Async Video Can Increase Training Productivity
Video conferencing continues to fuel remote training, but is it really the best tool to use for all your learning and development needs? Distributed teams require information in the flow of work, and repeated live training has put significant pressure on team schedules and bandwidth. Chris Knowlton, Chief Video Evangelist at Panopto, will share six actionable ideas for using asynchronous (on-demand) video to improve training productivity and effectiveness — and explore three times when you should stick to synchronous methods.

Tuesday, April 19, 2022, 10 a.m.–11 a.m. PT: Measuring Training Effectiveness in a Digital World
Measuring training effectiveness has long been a mystery to many. How do you know if the time you’ve asked thousands or tens of thousands of employees to spend on mandatory training, like the compliance program taught them anything? How do you understand efficacy or find out what gaps and hidden risks remain? Hear the strategies two award-winning programs use for Learning Measurement and how they use that data strategically to drive better outcomes.

Tuesday, April 19, 2022, 12 p.m.–1 p.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 is not a solitary journey. It takes determination and commitment at all levels. The reality is, however, that women have unique experiences when it comes to the lack of inclusion. Dr. Myra Hubbard, author of the book W.I.S.E. UP Women, Inclusion and Self-Empowerment “Strategies for Blooming in the Midst,” will share action steps that women, leaders and organizations can take to move the inclusion needle.

Wednesday, April 20, 2022, 8:30 a.m.–8:50 a.m. PT: Gomo Authoring Feature Demo: Translation and Localization
Providing consistent training in different languages used to be a complex challenge for businesses, but Gomo makes it easy. See how Gomo takes the hassle out of elearning content translation and localization with this 20-minute live demo. The demo will cover:

How Gomo makes it incredibly easy to create courses with multiple languages.
How Gomo supports language translation including right-to-left languages.
How to build a course once and prepare it for distribution for a global audience, with the help of XLIFF.
How you can further localize content beyond language to make your learning truly relevant.

Wednesday, April 20, 2022, 9 a.m.–10 a.m. PT: How to Use Coaching as a Strategic Training Reinforcement Tool
Training has never been the issue or the problem. The challenge has always lied within the reinforcement of training. Tim Hagen, Chief Coaching Officer at Progress Coaching, will teach you specific techniques and show you how to build training reinforcement strategies that leverage the value of what the industry has already done well. In this webinar, you’ll learn:

How to use a unique tool called a Coaching Map to reinforce your training.
How to make it easy for managers to reinforce your training through a unique partnership methodology.
How to design coaching tools that support training.

Wednesday, April 20, 2022, 11 a.m.–12 p.m. PT: Personalized Learning: From Onboarding to Ongoing (Free for ATD members)
Enterprises often implement learning moments such as onboarding, compliance, and upskilling and reskilling as discrete silos. Breaking down those dividers provides a more connected set of learning experiences continuously personalized for performance. Manoj Kulkarni, CEO of Realizeit, will discuss personalized, adaptive designs for new hire training and how to seamlessly extend them to ongoing reskilling and upskilling opportunities. During this webinar, you’ll:

Understand how onboarding can be more efficient, effective and engaging through personalization.
Learn how large enterprises design seamless extensions of the new-hire training experience to support ongoing learning.
Hear examples of organizations modernizing their learning strategy to include personalization as the foundation for continuous learning.

Wednesday, April 20, 2022, 12 p.m.–1 p.m. PT: Score Winning Outcomes! How Games Are Driving Better Results for Every Generation
Did you know that 70% of American adults play video games? Why? Because they provide a fun, risk-free outlet for collaboration and friendly competition. That’s why more instructional designers are increasingly using game-based strategies to make their training more effective. To engage today’s workforce, IDs need to appeal to five distinct generations. Each group has a unique learning style and gravitates toward different game types. Join Stephen Baer, Chief Creative Officer at The Game Agency to understand how to maximize results for each generation.

Thursday, April 21, 2022, 10 a.m.–11 a.m. PT: A Great Customer Education Measurement Strategy: The Competitive Edge Your Program Needs
Organizations that deliver training to their customers and other external audiences within the extended enterprise face two distinct, but related, challenges: How do they measure the impact of their program, and how do they know what to measure to begin with? In this webinar, David Wentworth, Principal Analyst at Brandon Hall Group, Barry Kelly, CEO at Thought Industries, and Daniel Quick, VP of Learning Strategies at Thought Industries, will share their insights and expertise to help attendees understand what goes into a mature external audience training program that gets results.

Thursday, April 21, 2022, 12 p.m.–1 p.m. PT: Online Presenting Tips for Improving Performance and Increasing Engagement
Being able to present online requires tracking a lot of moving parts. Presenters not only need to monitor what they're saying and any visuals they may be presenting, but they also need to keep an eye out for questions, all while making an engaging experience for attendees. Did you know that some ways of asking questions of attendees make all that harder? It's what a lot of presenters do by accident. Join Kirsten Rourke, Elearning Production Manager, Instructional Designer and Certified Technical Trainer, in a session on managing the online presenting space and building enthusiastic feedback from audiences.

Tuesday, April 26, 2022, 9 a.m.–10 a.m. PT: 100 Moments of Failures in Virtual Training — How to Avoid Them; Embrace Small Groups
Where does learning happen in virtual training? Mostly in the small, intimate, conversation of learners reflecting and thinking together. In this webinar, Dr. Ray Jimenez, Architect of TrainingMagNetwork.com and Chief Learning Officer of Vignettes Learning, will share with you eye-opening discoveries about small group actions in virtual training:

Why and how do we nurture the success attributes of small group learning?
How do these methods work in small groups?
What platform and creative designs “hacking” can you test and apply to nurture small group learning?

Tuesday, April 26, 2022, 10 a.m.–11 a.m. PT: The Hybrid Learning Revolution
Prior to the pandemic, organizations had already been struggling with managing a mix of in-person and virtual classroom learning programs. Organizations must rethink and revolutionize the way they approach hybrid learning if they want to meet the needs of both the business and learners. This means new approaches to training management and an infusion of automation to get everything optimized. Join David Wentworth, Principal Learning Analyst for Brandon Hall Group, and Stephan Pineau, CEO of Training Orchestra, as they discuss strategies for making the most of both in-person and virtual learning moving forward.

Tuesday, April 26, 2022, 11 a.m.–12 p.m. PT: What Next-Gen Leaders Want (Free for ATD members)
Two of the top business concerns focus on future talent: developing the next generation of leaders and attracting and retaining top talent. How do you build your next generation? Beyond the flexibility of hybrid work, future leaders demand more coaching and feedback, and seek a workplace that truly embraces authenticity, empathy and inclusion. Join April King, Senior Consultant at DDI, in this interactive webinar to plan actionable steps to get ready for the future today. You’ll:

Learn the top five things next-gen leaders want based on global research.
Get practical tips and takeaways to build a culture of empathy, inclusion and feedback.
Plan initiatives to help attract, develop and retain next-gen talent.

Wednesday, April 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, CPTD and 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.

Wednesday, April 27, 2022, 11 a.m.–12 p.m. PT: It’s Crunch Time for Learning and Development (Free for ATD members)
Amid rapid workforce and organizational transformation, L&D teams need to be at the forefront of change and align with business goals. Increasing demands from the learner and worker are evolving in line with advancements in technology and workplace environments. Learning, experience and performance intersect in ways not considered before. Dan Miller, Senior Vice President of GP Strategies, explores the disruption in learning that’s accelerating industry change, as well as approaches to solving business challenges in a more effective and evidence-based way.

Thursday, April 28, 2022, 10 a.m.–11 a.m. PT: Four Field Research Tools to Increase Learning Effectiveness
When you know your learners, you can create experiences that serve their specific needs — meaning a more effective learning experience overall. Really get to know your learners through a practical, research-backed framework. In this webinar, Michael Boulter, Director of Strategy at Maestro, will explore the common pitfalls that occur when designing learning experiences and discover how to recognize and avoid them. You'll also look at learning design examples that showcase how field research methods and procedures provide a more accurate representation of learners and lead to better outcomes.

Thursday, April 28, 2022, 10 a.m.–11 a.m. PT: Personalized Learning for Performance: From Onboarding to Ongoing
In large enterprises, training and learning moments such as new hire training/onboarding, upskilling, reskilling, compliance, etc. are often implemented as discrete silos. It’s time to break down these silos and provide a more seamless series of productive learning experiences. Join David Wentworth, Principal Analyst at The Brandon Hall Group, and Manoj Kulkarni, CEO of Realizeit, as they share examples of personalized, adaptive designs implemented in leading, global companies for new hire training and onboarding, and how that can be easily extended to ongoing reskilling and upskilling opportunities.

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