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With summer starting to tease us and school getting out soon, many of us are getting ready to for a change of routine. It’s a great time to brush up on learning before the hot weather lures us away to the beach (and, ideally, does not form a giant dome over us). Why not wrap up spring with a free webinar or two?  

Wednesday, June 1, 2022, 9 a.m.–10 a.m. PT: Developing Agile Talent – The Secret to Building the Capabilities Your Business Needs to Thrive
The challenge of the last two years forced L&D leaders to swiftly adapt their strategy and approach. Developing agile talent is the key to driving future organizational success. In this webinar, your hosts, Laura Walker, Talent and Development Specialist at Hemsley Fraser, and Rita Sookrit, Vice President of Solutions Architect at Hemsley Fraser, will share key insights on how to revitalize your L&D strategy with nine factors that drive an agile talent agenda. They’ll also share examples on how to get started and will inspire you to develop agile talent in your organization. 

Wednesday, June 1, 2022, 9 a.m.–10 a.m. PT: Top Five Sales Techniques to Crush the Competition
Attend this high-energy, interactive webinar and get the top five practical marketing and sales techniques successful organizations use to eclipse their competitors. Use one or more to increase sales and revenue. Each technique is easily adopted and can be applied immediately after this workshop. Mike Parkinson, Author and Owner of Billion Dollar Graphics, will share real-world solutions for short and long-term business development lifecycles. Don’t let your competition get the edge. Attend this session and dominate every opportunity. 

Wednesday, June 1, 2022, 11 a.m.–12 p.m. PT: Five Key Success Principles in Building Human-Centric, Networked and Innovative Organizations (Free for ATD members)
With the world undergoing constant disruption and customer needs quickly evolving, the Coca-Cola Company recognizes that it needs to innovate constantly. Innovation must be tech-driven and more than about flavour extensions. In the end, it must be consumer-centric. Join Ashish Gupta, Sr. Project Manager of Innovations, Coca-Cola; Andrew Webster, VP of Organizational Innovation in Transformation, ExperiencePoint; and Todd Moran, Chief Learning Strategist, NovoEd, to see how Coca-Cola and ExperiencePoint are working together to build a human-centric, capable and networked organization that facilitates innovation at scale. 

Wednesday, June 1, 2022, 12 p.m.–1 p.m. PT: Crash Course in Information Graphics for Learning
Visualizing abstractions can improve comprehension and facilitate learning. It’s important to know how to design the best type of graphic to meet your learning goal. In this webinar, Connie Malamed, Founder of Mastering Instructional Design Community, will explore how people perceive and process information graphics. You’ll look at different types of diagrams, charts and graphs, and match them to the type of learning they facilitate. You’ll examine what goes into designing an information graphic, how to choose an appealing visual style, and some of the resources that are available for information graphic creation. 

Wednesday, June 1, 2022, 1 p.m.–2 p.m. PT: Network Like an Introvert and Find Success
Christy J. Woods is on a mission to show introverted professionals how to show up authentically as themselves and build real, sustainable professional relationships through inclusive, strengths-based networking and mentoring. In this episode, she will discuss why she’s on this journey, why it's important for L&D Professionals to network and how you can evolve your struggle as an introvert into a superpower. 

Thursday, June 2, 2022, 9 a.m.–10 a.m. PT: Motion Graphics and Video Editing Tricks in Premiere Pro
If you follow the trends in the design world, you would have noticed that there’s a real explosion in the use of motion graphics. While motion graphics are typically used with video, many elearning projects can use motion graphics without real video. In this webinar, Phil Cowcill, Senior Elearning Specialist at the Department of National Defence, Canada, will show you how you can easily enhance your elearning by adding a video with custom motion graphics using Adobe Premiere Pro. You’ll learn some of the key export properties for the video to meet your elearning project standards. 

Thursday, June 2, 2022, 10 a.m.–11 a.m. PT: Building the Next-Generation Learning Technology Ecosystem
Newer strategies involving Artificial intelligence (AI), microlearning (ML), virtual reality (VR), and augmented reality (AR) have helped organizations meet and exceed their goals, but these winning formats are also forcing technology needs to change. Join three heavy hitters: ELB Learning’s John Blackmon, CTO, and Geoff Curless, SVP of Sales – Learning Solutions; and Stephen Baer, Managing Partner and Head of Creative at The Game Agency; to hear how organizations and solution providers are changing their technology to support newer, more effective learning strategies. 

Tuesday, June 7, 2022, 10 a.m.–11 a.m. PT: Transforming Learning with a Digital-first Academy
Learning strategists are re-evaluating which technologies and approaches they intend to keep and reinvest into. A notion that’s gaining momentum is the digital-first corporate academy: an internal digital ecosystem for cohort-based learning focused on building the skills, competencies and capabilities the business needs to succeed. In this webinar, David Wentworth, Principal Analyst for Brandon Hall Group, will be joined by Luis F. Gonzalez, Global Head of CEMEX University, and Christina Yu, CMO at NovoEd, to discuss just what a transformational, next-generation corporate academy can look like. 

Tuesday, June 7, 2022, 11 a.m.–12 p.m. PT: Design Thinking in Learning: Four Steps to Create Better Experiences (Free for ATD members)
Too often, learning teams try to solve problems by creating more content instead of accurately diagnosing the learners’ problems. During this session, Michael Boulter, Director of Strategy at Maestro, will introduce a design thinking framework that lets you get to know your learners and the world they live in, equipping you with insights to design the right solution. You’ll find specific tools to define the needs of learners and learn to implement changes through creative brainstorming and cost-effective piloting. 

Tuesday, June 7, 2022, 12 p.m.–1 p.m. PT: Beyond the Chat Box: Deeper Engagement in Virtual Learning
Are your learners actively engaged in your online classes? Are you using your platform’s robust toolset to capture attention and keep learners involved? Do your learners feel connected and are they willing to contribute? Join Cindy Huggett, CPTD and author of Virtual Training Tools and Templates: An Action Guide to Live Online Learning, to learn the “3 E’s” of participant engagement in virtual learning. You’ll learn how to truly engage a remote audience and how to increase their motivation to participate. You'll discover new facilitation techniques that lead to learning and application. You'll also learn how to create a learning environment of inclusion and connection.

Wednesday, June 8, 2022, 8 a.m.– 9 a.m. PT: Training Industry Leader Talk: Sales Training and Enablement
Sales enablement leaders have a unique challenge with training one of the most fast-paced and complex roles in today’s world. To equip sellers with the skills they need to succeed, sales training must adopt a sales readiness strategy that’s both personalized and embedded in the flow of work. During this Training Industry Leader Talk, thought leaders in sales enablement will share helpful strategies and trends to prepare your sales managers and front-line sales teams to excel in their roles.  

Wednesday, June 8, 2022, 11 a.m.–12 p.m. PT: Three Guiding Principles to Align Learning with Business Outcomes (Free for ATD members)
L&D teams are the bridge between organizational strategy and professional development. Upskilling individual employees is no longer enough. L&D teams are building internal capabilities and creating the best learning environment for large-scale transformation across the organization. During this session, Emergn’s Steven Angelo-Eadie, Head of Learning Services, and Staci Dubovik, Product Director, will tell you about three guiding principles to gain a new lens on how L&D can make a greater impact on employees, customers and business outcomes shared through real-life client experiences. 

Wednesday, June 8, 2022, 12 p.m.–1 p.m. PT: Metaverse VR learning: Cases and Demos
A new generation of hyper-realistic simulations can be deployed on VR headsets that cost less than an airline flight. Students and instructors can interact with each other as lifelike human avatars in pixelated practice spaces that mirror their real-life workplaces. The metaverse is upon us and it will upend enterprise learning as we know it. Join Dr. Anders Gronstedt, President of The Gronstedt Group, for a session packed with reality-bending demos and get the scope of how: 

• Pharma leaders Pfizer, Novartis and Bristol Myers Squibb rehearse life-saving aseptic procedures in failsafe VR labs.

• Global HVAC giant Daikin offers the ultimate customer experience of “X-ray vision” inside of their giant industrial chillers.

• The next generation of painters are recruited and skilled in a VR construction site.

Tuesday, June 14, 2022, 9 a.m.–10 a.m. PT: Best Practices for Presenters in a Post-COVID World
One way or the other, your reality as a public communicator is changed forever as you are likely to have a virtual component to every one of your presentations. This is likely to have a profound impact on how you craft your messages, how you design your slides and how you wield PowerPoint. Rick Altman, Director at BetterPresenting, will illuminate the redefined fundamentals and the new best practices in the era of permanent virtual presenting. You’ll learn to: 

• Craft messages when virtual audiences have perennial ADD.

• Design slides for multi-tasking listeners.

• Make eye contact with a camera.

• Use PowerPoint to create slides and handouts. 

Tuesday, June 14, 2022, 10 a.m.–11 a.m. PT: Building Critical Skills with Immersive Learning
Companies have been struggling to close skill gaps by upskilling and reskilling their current workforce. Immersive simulations can be used to provide opportunities to practice and apply new skills in a safe, consequence free environment. They also illustrate the connections between these skills and the real world. Join David Wentworth, Principal Analyst with Brandon Hall Group and Dr. Declan Dagger, Chief Operations Officer at ETU, as they explore how simulations fit into the modern technology ecosystem. They’ll look at the benefits, best practices and examples of how companies are building skills with simulations. 

Wednesday, June 15, 2022, 9 a.m.–10 a.m. PT: How to Build a Coaching Culture that Enables Greater Traction with Training
In this webinar, Tim Hagen, Chief Coaching Officer at Progress Coaching, will teach you the five foundations of building a coaching culture that leads to greater talent development and retention. Five levels of a coaching culture are very easy to understand and require organizational persistence to execute. You’ll learn how to: 

• Use training to drive the initiation of coaching.

• Support coaching within your organization.

• Leverage the missing piece most organizations do not realize is the secret sauce to a successful coaching culture.

• Use a specific coaching methodology to drive coaching.

• Use measurement strategies to understand the effectiveness of your coaching.

Wednesday, June 15, 2022, 10:30 a.m.–11:30 a.m. PT: What’s Next for L&D and Workplace Learning (Free for I4PL members)
It’s essential for L&D to pause, reflect and re-evaluate existing processes and tools to ensure they’re delivering value to the business. Key trends for 2022 have been focusing on improving efficiency across the training function, from better identifying employees’ training needs to developing and delivering programs and resources that motivate, nurture and retain talent. Rita Sookrit, globally experienced L&D leader, will discuss approaches to:

• Upskilling employees and effective skills assessments.

• Designing learning in the flow of work.

• Training for the moment of need.

Thursday, June 16, 2022, 9 a.m.–10 a.m. PT: Community Member Showcase
Join TLDCast’s crowdcast as they feature Gabrielle Bayme's Journey: From Training to Performance and from ISD to CLO. Gabrielle is the Chief Learning Officer at NYC’s Department of Education. 

Thursday, June 16, 2022, 10 a.m.–11 a.m. PT: Five Strategies to Optimize and Accelerate Onboarding
Getting new employees up to speed on the culture, processes and knowledge base of a company can cost up to 30% of a new hire's annual salary. Optimizing your onboarding process can help reduce early turnover by as much as 25% and save the nearly $11,000 it costs to fill a new vacancy. L&D decision-makers must standardize, optimize, and accelerate employee onboarding and training so that new hires become productive and add value as soon as possible. In this webinar, with Chris Knowlton, Video Evangelist at Panopto, you'll discover industry trends, case studies and the essential strategies you’ll need to achieve onboarding excellence. 

Thursday, June 16, 2022, 12 p.m.–1 p.m. PT: Learning Design for Remembering and Use, Part 1
When training courses are designed, it’s hoped that participants will remember what they learned and use it back on the job. The bad news is that what is taught doesn’t adequately influence job performance. One major reason is that learning tactics that promote the brain processes needed for remembering aren’t used. In this session, Dr. Patti Shank, CPT, President of Learning Peaks LLC, will discuss how human memory, especially encoding, storage and retrieval, work and the implications for designing instruction. This is the first half of a two-part series on designing for remembering and use.

Tuesday, June 21, 2022, 12 p.m.–1 p.m. PT: Answers to Ten Thorniest Questions in Learning and Training — The Root Causes and Solutions
A lot has changed in L&D philosophy and principles, but many continue to ask old questions. The cause is that many who asked these questions have not changed their assumptions. The consequences of not finding answers to the thorniest questions and applying the solutions impede learners’ ability to learn, contribute and have passion in what they do. In the webinar, Dr. Ray Jimenez, Architect of TrainingMagNetwork.com and Chief Learning Officer of Vignettes Learning, will share some foundational answers to these questions. 

Wednesday, June 22, 2022, 11 a.m.–12 p.m. PT: Moving from Consumers of Talent to Creators of Talent with Skills from Pluralsight (Free for ATD members)
Forward-thinking companies invest in L&D programs that close critical tech skill gaps. However, L&D leaders often find it difficult to accurately benchmark and improve tech skill proficiency. During this webinar, discover how you can use Pluralsight to develop tech skills and demonstrate their impact on key company initiatives. Brandon Eccles, Product Marketing Manager at Pluralsight, will show you how to:

• Accurately assess the tech skills, proficiency levels, and knowledge gaps of your organization’s workforce.

• Align skill development to key initiatives with learning programs that leverage the depth and breadth of our tech coverage.

• Ensure learners are on track to deliver critical business outcomes, with access to skill development performance and insights.

Thursday, June 23, 2022, 8 a.m.–9 a.m. PT: Visual Design: Take Your Elearning from Boring to Bold
Did you know that the visual design of elearning and slides has a big impact on learner success? Well-designed materials can motivate learners, improve comprehension and assist retention. If you need a rapid way to improve your elearning and training slides, join this webinar to learn the power principles that will have the biggest impact on your designs. Connie Malamed, Founder of Mastering Instructional Design Community, will look into ways that you can apply each principle for maximum success. The goal is to quickly increase your visual design skills as much as possible in one hour. 

Tuesday, June 28, 2022, 10 a.m.–11 a.m. PT: The Modern Era of Blended Learning: Guidelines for Upskilling
In the past, a program was considered “blended” if it added a small amount of web-based training to support a series of classroom experiences, but businesses’ urgent need for new and different skills requires an entirely different definition of what blended learning can be. Join David Wentworth, Principal Analyst with Brandon Hall Group, and Nancy Dietz, Senior Manager, Training and Development of Meridian Knowledge Solutions, to discuss how companies can strategically leverage blended learning to upskill and reskill the workforce to drive business outcomes.

Tuesday, June 28, 2022, 12 p.m.–1 p.m. PT: How to Redesign Onboarding to Support a Patient-Centric Culture
It has become progressively more difficult for seven generations of healthcare workers to stay on the same page, given obstacles like language barriers and proliferating new technologies from robotics to electronic medical record keeping systems. Join Stephanie Clark, Chief Learning Officer for Baptist Memorial Health Care, and Todd Moran, Chief Learning Strategist for NovoEd, to learn about how BMHCC redesigned their onboarding process for new team members with a hybrid model that acculturates them more effectively and at a faster pace. 

Wednesday, June 29, 2022, 8 a.m.–9 a.m. PT: L&D Leadership Masterclass: How Any Company Can Use Video-based Learning to Boost Employee Performance?
In the last decade, videos have become the most consumed content format. It's in the best interest of companies to take advantage of the video content wave. But have you adopted video content effectively? And have you been able to adopt video content at scale? Join Animaker's Stephen Shartzer, VP of Global Sales, and Sahlin Ahamed, Product Expert, to learn the answers to: 

• How can you make your training videos binge-worthy?

• How L&D teams Fortune 500 companies are scaling video learning without breaking their bank?

• How can you make an animated L&D video in just 30 mins?

Wednesday, June 29, 2022, 10:30 a.m.–11:30 a.m. PT: A Before C: Quality Assurance vs. Quality Check (Free for I4PL members)
You spend your time planning and developing a learning experience for a client. You have thought about learner engagement, spent hours poring over appropriate images, sent the storyboard back and forth, and then they find a spelling mistake, or worse, an interaction is disabled. This session, with Shannon Webb, Founder, Director and Learning Experience Designer of The Learning Designers Incorporated, is designed with the everyday designer and developer in mind, the person who works freelance or within a company as an individual team.  

Thursday, June 30, 2022, 12 p.m.–1 p.m. PT: Five Ways to Measure and Communicate the ROI of Training
Corporate training plays an essential role in maintaining employee engagement and the success of a company. With the shift to remote and hybrid business environments, your training program needs to adapt as well, despite limited resources. To keep stakeholders invested and advocate for budget, L&D leaders must demonstrate their role in strategic innovation and illustrate how they support business objectives in a competitive market. Join Panopto's Chief Video Evangelist, Chris Knowlton, in this interactive webinar to discover five ways to measure and report on the effectiveness of your training program.

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