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If you’ve just emerged from tax time, you know what it’s like to reassess your resources and how you’re deploying them. Many companies consider new tools, ideas or strategies at this time of year, but it’s not always easy to find the right approach. One thing you can do — and it will cost you just one hour — is attend a free webinar. You might get some creative ideas from this May’s selection.

 Tuesday, May 3, 2022, 9 a.m.–10 a.m. PT: Miro, Miro On the Wall: Visual Collaboration Tool for Trainers and Learners
Are you using Miro to replace some of the participant-centered activities you did face-to-face? The Bob Pike Group is all about working the wall, flipcharts, games, surveys, storyboards, mind maps and displaying their work for the class to see. In this webinar, led by The Bob Pike Group’s Amy Saville, Training Consultant, and Becky Pike Pluth, President and CEO, you’ll: 

• Explore the capabilities of Miro and explain how it can enhance training.

• Practice using Miro to become a more comfortable user.

• Discuss how to best align Miro activities with your goals for training. 

Tuesday, May 3, 2022, 10 a.m.–11 a.m. PT: Should You Build a Corporate Academy? Leadership Development at Scale with Collaborative Learning
Cohort-based learning is the ultimate way to deliver contextualized leadership training at scale across an entire organization, from executives to managers to individual contributors. In this webinar, Todd Moran, Chief Learning Strategist for NovoEd, and Claude Werder, Senior VP and Principal HCM Analyst for Brandon Hall Group, will introduce you to the benefits of a corporate academy, by which your organization can expand the breadth and depth of leadership development, no matter the time zone or location, through social learning.

Tuesday, May 3, 2022, 11 a.m.–12 p.m. PT: How Organizations Can Support the Mental Health of a Hybrid Workforce (Free for ATD members)
The COVID-19 pandemic significantly disrupted business operations, forcing many companies to shift employees to work from home. Two years later, many employees are still working virtually at least part of the time. In this new remote and hybrid environment, supporting the mental health and well-being of employees is key to retaining talent and creating a more positive and productive work culture. Steven Rosato, General Manager at OverDrive Professional, and CE Learning Systems’ Erin Lanham, Edward Jones and Sandi Cardaman, will show you how a digital library: 

• Provides a flexible, accessible, and budget-friendly learning option.

• Prioritizes the mental health and well-being of your staff.

Wednesday, May 4, 2022, 9 a.m.–10 a.m. PT: The Science of Audio for Elearning
Audio and audio properties are probably the least understood among elearning developers. Phil Cowcill, Senior Elearning Specialist at Canada’s Department of National Defence (DND), will share research on the importance of audio. Next, you’ll look at standards for phone-, radio-, CD- and DVD-quality audio. This will assist in setting your project audio standards. Finally, you’ll learn some techniques of editing and fixing audio flaws using Adobe Audition. You’ll also see how to export your audio files to meet your project standards. Join this webinar to learn how to step up your elearning and make it sound better. 

Wednesday, May 4, 2022, 10 a.m.–11 a.m. PT: How the Workforce Learns: 15 Things Your Learning Culture Needs to Get Right(Free for ATD members)
L&D leaders have a bigger opportunity than ever to improve the employee experience and worker retention by implementing a positive learning culture. But until now, learning leaders have struggled to even define learning culture — let alone build or improve one. Join Casey Adams, Degreed’s RVP Global Solutions Americas, to explore the 15 things all positive learning cultures have in common — and what you can steal from them. You’ll learn: 

• What 15 things all positive learning cultures have in common.

• How a positive learning culture helps worker retention.

• How to create that culture in your organization.

Thursday, May 5, 2022, 10 a.m.–11 a.m. PT: How Technology and Data Are Transforming the Role of L&D
In terms of keeping a remote workforce connected, reskilling and upskilling employees, companies are leaning heavily on learning and development. L&D has to be perfectly aligned with the business, able to quickly adapt to change and deliver the right skills to the right people at the right time. The learning function must rethink its tools and capabilities when it comes to collecting, analyzing and leveraging data. Join David Wentworth, Principal Learning Analyst with Brandon Hall Group, and Nick Howe, Angel Investor and Strategic Advisor with Synapse, as they discuss strategies for leveraging data to build alignment and improve learning’s impact. 

Thursday, May 5, 2022, 12 p.m.–1 p.m. PT: The Hybrid Training Approach to Maximize Engagement and Learning
Would people attend your trainings if they had to pay for them out of their own pockets? For most trainers, the answer is “no,” but that’s about to change. In this session, with Danny Iny, Founder and CEO of Mirasee, you’ll learn to combine key principles from the fields of marketing and instructional design to create training programs so good that if your participants had to pay to attend, they would happily do so. This will be accomplished by taking a "both, and" approach to the dichotomies of traditional versus online training. In this webinar, you’ll learn: 

• The key steps to take before you begin to design your training.

• How to leverage principles of hybrid course creation to create maximal engagement.

• The role of gamification in creating effective hybrid trainings.

• How to integrate accountability, support, and community into your trainings.

Tuesday, May 10, 2022, 9 a.m.–10 a.m. PT: Five Easy-to-Use Stories in Virtual Training
How do you instantly connect learners to lessons? The fastest way is to use stories in your delivery. The challenge is how to quickly find them and how to make sure they’re appealing to the learners. The five easy-to-use stories are good methods and tips to generate these short and succinct narratives quickly and make them stick in the learner’s mind. They add depth to your learners’ understanding of the ideas. Join Dr. Ray Jimenez, Architect of TrainingMagNetwork.com and Chief Learning Officer of Vignettes Learning, to learn more about five easy-to-use stories.

Tuesday, May 10, 2022, 10 a.m.–11 a.m. PT: Hybrid Training Models That Work
Two years of COVID-19 accelerated the adoption of virtual learning globally. If you’ve been charged with delivering virtual training to hybrid learners, then you need to choose a hybrid training model that will work best for your audience. It may seem easy to just pull your on-site learners together in one room and allow the virtual participants to sign on and observe, but you may be sacrificing your training’s effectiveness for simplicity. Join Cynthia Clay, chief executive officer of NetSpeed Learning, to discover key insights on creating engaging virtual training and hybrid learning experiences. 

Tuesday, May 10, 2022, 11 a.m.–12 p.m. PT: How to Move from Awareness to Action as a Female Leader (Free for ATD members)
Talent leaders know that the career ladder can be slippery for women, but women don’t have to climb it alone. In this intimate conversation, Sounding Board co-founder and CEO, Christine Tao, and Lean In’s Senior Vice President of Programs and Partnerships, Archana Gilravi, will discuss how their cultural and career commonalities helped to shape a foundation where they could better understand leadership challenges and identify solutions that propelled them up the career ladder. They’ll also discuss the talent leader’s role in enabling this community building facet of leadership development.

Wednesday, May 11, 2022, 8 a.m.–9 a.m. PT: Ensure Everyone Can Access Your Adobe Captivate Courses
As elearning developers, the design and technical choices made might create barriers for certain learners, such as someone who is colour blind, has a wrist cast because of recent surgery or is hard of hearing. There won’t be a level playing field, where everyone can take advantage of professional development opportunities, until these barriers to access have been dissolved. In this webinar, hosted by Diane Elkins, co-owner of Artisan E-Learning, you’ll learn about some of the major decisions you can make to create courses that are accessible to individuals with disabilities. 

Wednesday, May 11, 2022, 8 a.m.–9 a.m. PT: Selling In a Post-pandemic World: Relationships Still Matter
COVID-19 may have changed how selling is done, but building relationships is still the necessary ingredient to making your numbers, whether you’re selling in person or through a laptop screen. Here’s your opportunity to learn how Cognizant, a multi-national organization, trains its salespeople to build stronger relationships with customers to achieve their sales goals. Join Dan Day, Director of Client Success at TRACOM, and Ernie Smith, VP of Global Sales enablement at Cognizant, will show you how to unlock the potential to build the best relationships with customers and internal teams. 

Wednesday, May 11, 2022, 10 a.m.–11 a.m. PT: Building a Culture of Compliance: The Unified Training Imperative
Compliance is increasingly defining the public persona of an organization. As organizations become more environment centric, dynamic, hybrid and geographically diverse, compliance risks come up in multiple areas starting from ESG, cybersecurity, data protection to taxation. This creates a whole new dimension for how compliance training is managed in organizations. Join Jarmal Watkins, Captivate Prime Learning Evangelist at Adobe Digital Learning Solutions, as he discusses how to create a culture of compliance through a unified training experience. 

Wednesday, May 11, 2022, 11 a.m.–12 p.m. PT: Leading with a Global Mindset (Free for ATD members)
To be successful in a global environment, leaders need to broaden their mindsets to sidestep cultural bias and other pitfalls. Multinational workplaces require an amplified skillset to leverage the diversity of teams, organizations, clients and partners. Failing to unlock the competitive advantage of a multicultural workforce results in missed opportunities and mediocre performance. Join Sean Dubberke, Principal and Vice President of Learning at RW3 LLC, to gain an understanding of the five key steps you need to lead with a global mindset, which include perspective-taking, style-flexing and leveraging curiosity to build trust across borders. 

Thursday, May 12, 2022, 9 a.m.–10 a.m. PT: Five Steps to Stellar Voiceover with Artificial Voice
Training materials with a voiceover element are versatile, engaging and effective, but creating them is time consuming, expensive and disruptive. How do you find voice talent? What if they’re busy when you need that urgent update? What’s the best way to create ten versions of similar material? In this session, led by Marta Mueller, Customer Success Manager at WellSaid Labs, you’ll explore elearning voiceover with voices created with artificial intelligence. You’ll look at the science and statistics around voice in L&D design, as well as discuss the human factors of an AI voice. 

Thursday, May 12, 2022, 10 a.m.–11 a.m. PT: From Recruit to Revenue: Five Strategies to Optimize and Accelerate Onboarding
Getting new employees up to speed on company culture, processes and knowledge can cost up to 30% of a new hire’s annual salary, but for the first month in their role, most new hires perform at only a quarter of their full potential. L&D leaders must standardize, optimize and accelerate employee onboarding so that new hires can be productive and add value to the company as soon as possible. Join Chris Knowlton, Panopto’s chief video evangelist, as he shares industry trends, case studies and the essential strategies you’ll need to achieve onboarding excellence. 

Thursday, May 12, 2022, 10 a.m.–11 a.m. PT: Onboarding in 2022: What Has Changed, and What Remains Critically Important
Employee onboarding may have changed locations, now occurring at home or in a remote environment, but the core purpose — to set employees up for success by driving employee engagement, productivity and feeling connected — has not changed. This webinar will explore current and future onboarding practices and their impact on talent and organizational development. Join Cliff Stevenson, Principal Analyst, Talent Acquisition of Brandon Hall Group, and Matt Bradley, Senior Learning and Development Advisor of OpenSesame, as they discuss the importance of leveraging a strategic onboarding plan, including supporting technology. 

Thursday, May 12, 2022, 11 a.m.–12 p.m. PT: How Effective One-on-One Meetings Empower Leadership Transformation (Free for ATD members)
Effective one-on-one meetings are one of the most impactful tools a leader can leverage for their team. While more than 90% of leaders think they do one-on-ones effectively, the reality is more like 10%. This may be the single biggest leadership weakness. Jeff Smith, founder and CEO of the SupportingLines Institute, will review the top ways all leaders can make their development one-on-ones more effective. He will demonstrate his unique and powerful method to conduct and develop effective one-on-ones, as well as the difference between a tactical and development one-on-one, and the importance of both. 

Thursday, May 12, 2022, 12 p.m.–1 p.m. PT: How to Win the War for Talent
In 2021, a staggering 47.4 million American workers voluntarily quit their job. Employers have responded by throwing money and enhanced benefits at people. However, there’s a significant disconnect between how management and employees view our new world of work. Managers think employees want ABC, while employees say they want XYZ. Join this webinar for a riveting session where Jill Christensen, author of the best-selling book If Not You, Who? Cracking the Code of Employee Disengagement, will dive into “The Great Disconnect,” and share what you can do to ensure people accept your offer, stay, and be highly engaged and productive team members. 

Tuesday, May 17, 2022, 9 a.m.–10 a.m. PT: Digital Skills Training – You’re Doing It Wrong!
Anyone tasked with improving performance and job satisfaction needs to help their people boost digital skills. After all, employees now spend up to 90% of their day immersed in technology. In this interactive session, Mike Song, CEO of GetControl.net, explains the five HR fails that almost every organization encounters when trying to improve productivity through the smart use of technology. More importantly, he’ll explain how to roll out a digital skills initiative that exceeds expectations. Mike will show ground-breaking methodology that measures and improves tech proficiency across the enterprise. 

Tuesday, May 17, 2022, 10 a.m.–11 a.m. PT: Drive Impactful Business Results with Engaging Customer Training
With many businesses recovering from the pandemic, customer satisfaction and revenue generation are top-of-mind. Training can play a significant role in driving both. By creating engaging, impactful training experiences for customers, companies can enhance their overall experience and build loyalty and satisfaction. Join David Wentworth, Principal Analyst at Brandon Hall Group, and Katya Buratovich, Onboarding Manager at LearnUpon, as they explore what makes great customer training that benefits everyone. 

Wednesday, May 18, 2022, 12 p.m.–1 p.m. PT: Employee Appreciation Day During the Great Resignation
March 4 was Employee Appreciation Day, which was created by Dr. Bob Nelson, President of Nelson Motivation Inc., 27 years ago to celebrate the publication of his book, 1001 Ways to Reward Employees, and to remind employers everywhere about the importance of thanking their employees for the good work they do. Dr. Nelson will be presenting a webinar on the topic of employee recognition today, it’s importance in driving employee engagement and retention, and what recognition looks like in an increasingly hybrid workplace where most professional employees work remotely. 

Thursday, May 19, 2022, 8 a.m.–9 a.m. PT: Training Industry Leader Talk: The Learner Experience
Organizations today recognize the importance of providing continuous and agile learning focused on the learner experience. Rather than one-off events, learning leaders are focused on the learner journey, providing both formal and informal trainings to support them in the flow of their daily work. During this Training Industry Leader Talk, there’ll be discussions of delivery methods and technologies, as well as performance management and measurement to support the entire learner experience in your organization. 

Thursday, May 19, 2022, 9 a.m.–10 a.m. PT: Design for S.C.H.I.T.
Creating accessible and inclusive presentation experiences doesn’t have to be boring or difficult, but where do you start? What exactly is accessible and inclusive design? Who are we building our presentations for? Stephy Hogan, a founding board member of the Presentation Guild board of directors, will reintroduce you to your audience and give you tips on how to create an equally amazing presentation experience for each of them, whether that’s through how you speak or what you put on your slide. 

Tuesday, May 24, 2022, 9 a.m.–10 a.m. PT: Addressing the Global Skills Shortage
The new realities of work have created long-term impacts for your organization and your people. The organizations that successfully navigate this uncharted wilderness are able to thrive by developing the skills of their people. Mike Bollinger, VP of Strategic Initiatives at Cornerstone, will walk you through insights from Cornerstone original research and how successful organizations worldwide use skills to ensure their people are thriving post-pandemic. You’ll learn: 

• How high-performing organizations are leading with skills.

• The employer vs employee confidence gap.

• The current state of skills development around the world.

• Practical tactics for leading with skills.

Tuesday, May 24, 2022, 10 a.m.– 11 a.m. PT: How to Build and Lead Diverse Teams That Drive Business Growth
High-performing teams are critical to business success in the era of hybrid work. With the work accomplished through teams expected to increase significantly in the next one to two years, it’s critical that leaders at all levels improve their ability to build and lead diverse teams. Unless leaders have those competencies, organizations end up with groups of individuals with competing priorities and skills who don’t meet team and business objectives. Join Carolyn Hass, Vice President, Product and R&D at SuccessFinder, and Claude Werder, Senior VP and Principal HCM Analyst for Brandon Hall Group, as they share research, strategies and success stories that will empower your team development. 

Tuesday, May 24, 2022, 11 a.m.–12 p.m. PT: Maximizing Your Business’s Potential Through Learning (Free for ATD members)
Maximizing business impact through learning and development initiatives is a major challenge for L&D leaders, both globally and historically. Most models have provem too cumbersome or time-consuming to adopt. This webinar will share the findings from Learnovate’s two-year research project, including the development of their initial model and a co-created working model employed at Learning Pool. Using examples from real-life cases, Page Chen, Chief eXperience Officer at Learning Pool, will show how you can adopt this model and move L&D toward the position of a strategic partner to the organization.

Tuesday, May 24, 2022, 12 p.m.–1 p.m. PT: How to Develop Tiny and Engaging Videos by “Hacking” Youtube.com and TikTok.com
There’s a rule that you cannot copy videos from YouTube and TikTok, but there are so many videos you can scavenge, copy, crop, “mutate,” splice and dice, “cannibalize,” and make your own. It’s difficult to produce great videos such as these, so Dr. Ray Jimenez, Architect of TrainingMagNetwork.com and Chief Learning Officer of Vignettes Learning, will show you his approach: within limits, he downloads the video, crops and converts. He edits, combines and spruces up, intermingling with contextual questions, — and then delivers it to his instant learning platform. The great thing is that he’s no expert! If he can do it, you can too.

Thursday, May 26, 2022, 9 a.m.–10 a.m. PT: How to Chunk Lessons, Avoid Overload and Fatigue in Virtual Training
Learners can only absorb and retain very little from the ideas when you overload and overwhelm them. The problem is that designers are often focused on presenting all the ideas within the limited time in webinars. The consequence is that learners feel like they’re cramped in a sardine box. In this webinar, Dr. Ray Jimenez, Architect of TrainingMagNetwork.com and Chief Learning Officer of Vignettes Learning, will show you a tested principle and method in chunking content that’s easy to use, easy to apply and easy to recall. 

Thursday, May 26, 2022, How to Transform Your Onboarding for Today’s Hybrid Workforce
With hybrid work environments, it’s harder for organizations to impart their culture on new hires, as well as provide an environment where they can efficiently and effectively learn how to perform their job. New hires must feel connected to the company, embrace the values of the organization and feel empowered in their jobs. Join Cliff Stevenson, Principal Analyst, Talent Acquisition of Brandon Hall Group, and Mary Charles, Senior Director of Sales Enablement of Allego, as they discuss strategies, best practices and technology that will allow your organization to develop an optimized onboarding process. 

Thursday, May 26, 2022, 12 p.m.–1 p.m. PT: Five Best Practices for Training Front-Line Workers
From the ongoing pandemic to the “Great Resignation,” front-line workers are facing more pressure than ever. On top of this, frontline staff often lack organizational support as well, leading to poor productivity and a negative company culture. As a learning and development decision-maker, you have an opportunity to innovate and positively impact front-line employee training to motivate, educate and retain essential workers. Join Panopto’s Chief Evangelist, Chris Knowlton, to discover the five best practices for developing consistent, engaging and effective training that helps front-line workers stay connected and productive.

Tuesday, May 31, 2022, 9 a.m.–10 a.m. PT: Make It Shine in Your Virtual Classroom
Have you noticed that some virtual presenters facilitate their sessions with such passion and skill that you find yourself enjoying the session and participating? They masterfully manage the virtual platform, create a powerful learning experience by focusing on getting their participants engaged and collaborating. If you want to make your virtual training shine, join Cynthia Clay, President & CEO of NetSpeed Learning Solutions, to learn the five secrets of masterful virtual training that captivates and engages your audience.

Tuesday, May 31, 2022, 12 p.m.–1 p.m. PT: Maximize Social Learning Using Virtual Breakout Rooms
Adult learners have a wealth of knowledge and experience that can be shared. In this session, Alistair Lee, Principal Product Enablement Manager at Adobe Systems, look at how to design collaborative activities and team exercises into your virtual classroom experiences using breakout rooms. By attending this webinar, you’ll: 

• Learn the best practices for planning, setting up and facilitating group work virtually.

• Customize breakout rooms and content synchronization in Adobe Connect.

• Go beyond audio and video, and create engaging breakout exercises such as a virtual escape room.

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