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Here we are in the dog days of summer, but if you’re like most L&D professionals right now, you’re so busy that there’s little opportunity to lie in the shade. And it’s just getting busier. So, how can you keep up with all the latest developments in learning and development? One way is to carve out an hour and attend a free webinar. August has a good lineup! 

Tuesday, August 2, 2022, 8 a.m.–9 a.m. PT: Intersections in Learning
Susan Manos is the Director of Learning and Development for Corporate Quality Assurance at Procter & Gamble, with over ten years’ experience in building and sustaining a global learning program for Quality Assurance employees and their colleagues at P&G. She has a bachelor’s degree in Organizational Leadership and Supervision from Purdue University. Susan’s current L&D interests are all about providing opportunities for learning without a huge time commitment, oftentimes leading her right down the rabbit hole! 

Tuesday, August 2, 2022, 11 a.m.–12 p.m. PT: Five Ways to Elevate Leadership Development with Inbox Simulations (Free for ATD members)
While leadership is one of the most common training topics, most programs fail to provide the value companies hope for because they are generic, unscalable and lack the opportunity for knowledge application. Join Matt Shell, Market Development Manager at Capsim Management Simulations, to learn how innovative companies are using inbox simulations — a new simulation-based assessment technology — to: 

• Reinforce learning with authentic, on-the-job experiences.

• Objectively assess soft skills.

• Customize and personalize training.

• Measure the impact of training.

• Streamline succession planning. 

Tuesday, August 2, 2022, 12 p.m.–1 p.m. PT: Five Phases of Training Program Evaluation That Will Help You Know How Your Training Programs Are Working
Program evaluation is about applying systematic methods to collect, analyze, interpret and communicate data about a program to understand its design, implementation, outcomes or impacts. It’s asking good questions, gathering the right data and using what we learn to make good decisions. Sheila B. Robinson, Ed.D., Speaker, Educator and Consultant at Custom Professional Learning LLC, will provide a brief overview of five phases of program evaluation. She’ll share key questions you need to ask and answer during each phase, along with a list of the types of tools you can use to conduct a program evaluation. 

Wednesday, August 3, 2022, 9 a.m.–10 a.m. PT: Escape Games and Other Irresistible Virtual Training Activities
With online training, engaging attendees to participate can be like “herding cats,” as the saying goes. Establishing a comfortable, safe and technically sound online learning environment is essential. Meaningful and relevant activities are the secret. Like tasty treats and fresh catnip, attendees will be unable to resist actively participating in your virtual training when you use escape game strategies, irresistible learning activities and a “never fail” debrief strategy to help them reflect. Kassy LaBorie, Principal Consultant at Kassy LaBorie Consulting LLC, will show you how. 

Wednesday, August 3, 2022, 10 a.m.–11 a.m. PT: Breaking Down the Onboarding Challenge: How Personalized Learning Is the Answer
In this webinar, David Wentworth, Principal Analyst with Brandon Hall Group, and Manoj Kulkarni, CEO of Realizeit Learning, will discuss what goes into creating an engaging and productive onboarding experience that excites new hires and sets the table for a successful career path of learning. Understand where to focus your onboarding improvements and learn how to leverage intelligence and automation to improve learning, engage both new hires and their support network, and ensure new hires are competent and ready to work. 

Wednesday, August 3, 2022, 10 a.m.–11 a.m. PT: It’s Coming! It’s Here! Getting on Board with Tomorrow’s L&D Ecosystem
Between a remote/hybrid workplace, the new “metaverse” and the expectation of knowledge on-demand, it’s hard to keep up with today’s distracted workforce. Virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), microlearning, games and gamification, video-based practice and machine learning (ML) are getting better results, so how will you incorporate them in a practical way? Join ELB Learning’s John Blackmon, Chief Technology Officer, and Geoff Curless, Senior VP of sales, Learning Solutions, along with Stephen Baer, Chief Creative Officer at The Game Agency, as they share how to navigate these new technologies and how to integrate them into your learning environment. 

Wednesday, August 3, 2022, 12 p.m.–1 p.m. PT: Engaging Virtual Meetings — The Sure-Fire Latest Way To Beat The #1 Virtual Meeting Challenge
Engaging Virtual Meetings shows you the key secrets to having your attendees say, “I have more energy (rather than less) after 60 minutes meeting with you!” In this webinar, with John Chen, CEO and The Big Kid at Geoteaming, you’ll learn how to: 

• Apply the six-step ENGAGE method to solve your virtual meeting challenges.

• Fix attendees talking over each other.

• Look good virtually.

• Engage everyone even if someone else is talking.

• Use virtual tools to get work done.

• Close your meeting and take steps to make your next meeting even more engaging. 

Thursday, August 4, 2022, 10 a.m.–11 a.m. PT: Connecting Learning to Doing
Organizational learning is an ongoing exercise in Change Management. Emergent technologies, demographic shifts, learner expectations and accelerated hybrid and remote models driven by the pandemic are but a few of the forces we contend with on a daily basis. In this webinar, David Wentworth, Principal Analyst at Brandon Hall Group, and Bob Szostak, Director of Business Development at Vertex, will explore the advantages of taking this approach to learning, as well as strategies for shifting your learning approach. Your business needs learning to result in performance. 

Thursday, August 4, 2022, 11 a.m.–12 p.m. PT: DEI Training in Healthcare: Moving from Current State to Ideal (Free for ATD members)
Healthcare leaders have been incorporating the principles, policies and programs of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion to impact their employees, patients, members and communities, to varying degrees of success. Join Greg Rider, Director of Corporate Compliance; Imelda Wicks, Program Director of Diversity and Inclusion at The University of Texas – MD Anderson Cancer Center; and Nicole Thomas-Sealey, VP of Clinical Education at ACPNY, who will share best practices for shifting DEI training from its current state to a more ideal, future state. 

Friday, August 5, 2022, 8 a.m.–9 a.m. PT: Podcasts in Your Learning Solutions
Podcasting provides a simple, low-investment option to meet the need for informal or casual learning. It’s an accepted and easy way to provide and consume content. Organizations are adopting podcasts every day to disseminate and deliver important information to their employees. In this session, Betty Dannewitz, Immersive Experience Designer, will talk about podcasting in learning development. You’ll explore how podcasts are being used today, what the benefits of podcasting are for your organization, popular podcast formats and even brainstorm podcast ideas for your organization. 

Tuesday, August 9, 2022, 9 a.m.–10 a.m. PT: “Will Everyone Please Stop Animating PPTs So Stupidly?”
When you think of animation, do you think of flying bullets and spiralling headlines? Many people do, unfortunately, so animation suffers a bad reputation. In fact, one of your best opportunities to shine as a content creator and presenter is through smart, effective and appropriate use of animation, and in this hour, Rick Altman, Director at BetterPresenting, will explore exactly what that means. You’ll run the gamut from basic animation through advanced techniques, and of course, explore Morph, the dynamic first cousin to animation. 

Tuesday, August 9, 2022, 11 a.m.–12 p.m. PT: Interweaving Vertical and Horizontal Development: A Whole-Person Approach to Scale Leadership (Free for ATD members)
Horizontal development — building skills, expertise, knowledge and competencies — is what people usually refer to when discussing leadership development. It’s necessary, but alone, it doesn’t develop leaders who can operate effectively in today’s ever-changing world. Vertical development is less understood, often neglected and more nuanced. It’s critical for leaders to effect systemic change. During this webinar, with Carlo Bos, Co-CEO of Co-Active Training Institute, and Lori Mazan, Co-Founder, President, and Chief Coaching Officer at Sounding Board, you’ll: 

• Explore the importance of connecting vertical and horizontal leadership in pursuit of scalable leadership.

• Determine the cost of focusing largely on horizontal leadership development and why it still dominates the market.

• Identify vertical development and see how it scales leadership and can be nurtured.

• Discover how these two forms of development combine to produce tangible results. 

Wednesday, August 10, 2022, 9 a.m.–10 a.m. PT: How to Use Assessments to Develop Greater Talent Development
In this webinar, Tim Hagen, Chief Coaching Officer at Progress Coaching, will teach a specific coaching mapping methodology taught to leverage the results of assessment tools such as Myers Briggs, DISC, Predictive Index, etc. Assessments have tremendous value when they are properly leveraged and this webinar will teach the following strategies: 

• How to use results to drive behavioural change.

• How to map specific coaching strategies to assessment results.

• How to use assessment results and coaching together for greater performance improvement.

• How to use coaching to drive improvement within assessments.

Wednesday, August 10, 2022, 12 p.m.–1 p.m. PT: Using Gamification to Engage Your Audience in Virtual and Hybrid Events
Monica Cornetti, Founder and CEO of Sententia Gamification, will show you how to use gamification in your events to create a fun and engaging experience that’s both meaningful and memorable for all attendees. It’s time to go beyond points, badges and leaderboards — gamification must evolve from being a few loose game mechanics sprinkled on an event to a more integral part of the design from start to finish. Employee disengagement and high turnover rates are real challenges that conferences, event coordinators, and employers face and companies in every industry are looking for actionable solutions. 

Thursday, August 11, 2022, 10 a.m.–11 a.m. PT: Structured On-the-Job Training — Personalized Job Skilling to Drive Performance
Improving performance starts with properly training people to do their jobs efficiently and effectively. Skills are learned inconsistently with varying quality, and many employees will get discouraged as they struggle to learn. This inefficient way of skill building can be turned into a high-performance learning engine by adopting a personalized, structured on-the-job training approach. In this webinar, T.J. Kuhny, VP of Product Marketing at Realizeit, will provide insights on: 

• What “structured” on-the-job training is and how it’s different from typical ride-along on-the-job training.

• Creating a seamless learning experience that guides the learner on a flexible OJT path across self-learning, mentor-led learning experiences and skill validation.

• Enabling mentors and coaches with personalized insights to guide the employee to peak performance.

• Empowering each employee to take control of their learning path and reach their potential in their current role as well as expand into new roles.

 Thursday, August 11, 2022, 12 p.m.–1 p.m. PT: Work Smarter, Not Harder – Adobe Captivate Template-Based Authoring
Need to create beautiful elearning courses quickly? Adobe Captivate offers multiple quick start projects (templates) that are easily customized. The quick start projects provide numerous examples of interactions that are set up and ready to go. Just add your own content and you are good to go. They’re not just beautiful, creative and engaging, but are also fully responsive. Anita Horsley, VP of Product Management at Connect for Education, will show you how to add your own content, and get up and running with your elearning courses in no time. 

Tuesday, August 16, 2022, 10 a.m.–11 a.m. PT: It’s Time to Elevate the Virtual Classroom
The permanently remote population of the workforce is now large enough for organizations to change their approach to learning and development. VILT (Virtual Instructor-Led Training) stands as the best way to tackle formal learning, while also including informal and experiential opportunities. Organizations can no longer continue to simply replicate in-person learning virtually, but rather lean into the potential that digital solutions provide. Join David Wentworth, Principal Analyst with Brandon Hall Group, and a subject matter expert at Maestro Learning, for a webinar that discusses what goes into making effective VILT programs. 

Tuesday, August 16, 2022, 11 a.m.–12 p.m. PT: Culture Change: Coaching Leaders to Manage Diverse Teams (Free for ATD members)
There can be many advantages and challenges to managing diverse teams. One of the most critical features of building and sustaining a diverse and inclusive organization is developing and coaching cultural competence in your managers so they can lead and develop diverse teams. Join this webinar, hosted by OpenSesame’s Tara Cooper, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Strategist, and Kristina Wilson, Senior Recruiting Team Lead, to learn how to coach managers to maximize the opportunities and advantages inherent in leading diverse teams. 

Wednesday, August 17, 2022, 9 a.m.–10 a.m. PT: Who’s Sinking Your Sales Team’s Boat?
While it’s true that employee engagement starts at the top, engagement is truly dependent on us as individuals, and knowing our own engagement is exponentially important because research tells us that if a manager is disengaged, his/her employees are three times more likely to be disengaged themselves. This impactful talk, with Bob Kelleher, President and Founder of The Employee Engagement Group, includes pragmatic best practices and takeaways, while reinforcing that today leaders need to engage the “whole” person, demonstrate empathy and lead change, even when the destination is uncertain. 

Wednesday, August 17, 2022, 10 a.m.–11 a.m. PT: Advertisers’ Secrets to Compelling Learning Videos
With the need to “break through the clutter,” how can your learning videos leave your audience remembering your message? Try looking to advertising. If commercials can get people to purchase items they don’t need, how can you use these marketing secrets to influence learners? In this interactive session, Danielle Wallace, Chief Learning Strategist at Beyond the Sky: Custom Learning, will explain what makes some ads so compelling that they persuade you to buy. You’ll explore the strategic framework to use when creating a training video strategy, as well as the essential design considerations for video. 

Wednesday, August 17, 2022, 10:30 a.m.–11:30 a.m. PT: All In! Universal and Equity-Centred Design for Impact (Free for I4PL members)
As learning professionals in increasingly diverse workplaces, there’s a need to ensure that your learning environments, resources and approaches reflect, include and benefit all learners. In this highly interactive session, with Corrie Melanson, a dynamic and creative facilitator and instructional designer with over 20 years of experience, you’ll: 

• Explore equity-centred guiding principles for learning design and implementation that bring together Universal Design for Learning (UDL), and Culturally Responsive Pedagogy (CRP).

• Use an equity-centred assessment tool to help you understand the strengths and gaps of your current inclusion practices.

• Apply equity-centred principles to case studies focused on self-paced, synchronous, and blended learning approaches in-person and online.

 Thursday, August 18, 2022, 12 p.m.–1 p.m. PT: How to Fast Track Effective Sales Enablement Training with Cohort-Based Learning
Join Roslyn Jones, Vice President of NetApp Learning Services, and Todd Moran, Chief Learning Strategist at NovoEd, to learn how to facilitate connection, community and competition through cohort-based sales onboarding education. In this webinar, Roslyn and Todd will explore the evolution of NetApp Learning Services and the development of their asynchronous, cohort-based sales training. The program uses leaderboards, gamification and video collaboration galleries to spark discussion and create environments where new sellers can learn as much from each other as they can from the course’s content.  

Friday, August 19, 2022, 8 a.m.–9 a.m. PT: Take Your First Steps with TechSmith Snagit, Part 2
In this webinar, Damien Bruyndonckx, Elearning Expert, Founder and CEO of One2Learn, will highlight ten helpful tools in the Snagit Editor that will improve your screenshots. Whether it’s quickly removing unwanted parts of your screenshots, adding steps to an image with a few clicks, extracting text from an image or blurring personal and confidential information, there will be something for everyone and every workflow in this webinar. 

Tuesday, August 23, 2022, 10 a.m.–11 a.m. PT: Getting Started with a Skills-Based Learning Strategy (Free for ATD members)
Does your organization discuss skills? Does it have a plan to roll out skills to your people? How will this impact workforce development? Can your managers use skills to support their workers? Join Ben Cowan, Director of Skills and Talent Strategy at Degreed, to explore these questions and more as you discover the key ingredients of a successful skills strategy and launch. Find out how to overcome obstacles and measure your success. During this webinar, you’ll: 

• Learn how to use skills to support your workers.

• Learn what you need for a successful skills strategy.

• Understand how to align skills to business strategy.

Tuesday, August 23, 2022, 12 p.m.–1 p.m. PT: How to Add Critical Thinking to Your Learning Designs
The new important skill for all workers is critical thinking. The reality is that we are in a global economy where change is rapid, events are unpredictable, the workforce is shrinking and, of course, there’s digitalization. Many of the new roles demand what’s beyond the usual tasks and usual roles. They need to be self-directed and constantly critically thinking about how to solve and manage the unknowns and unpredictability of work. In this session, Dr. Ray Jimenez, Architect of TrainingMagNetwork.com and Chief Learning Officer of Vignettes Learning, will address these questions: 

• How do unpredictability, uncertainty and rapid change mould the new workers?

• How do training and learning address these problems?

•    How does the new Critical Thinking compare to the old one?

• What’s the new skill in expanding thinking capacities?

• What are the cases that show the value of critical thinking to banks, credit unions, farming, manufacturing, processes, government and IT?

• How would you design learning that starts with critical thinking and ends with learning as a result?

Wednesday, August 24, 2022, 9 a.m.–10 a.m. PT: Five Social Learning Strategies to Put Into Practice
Since the pandemic hit, there’s been an increase in remote learning, and companies have been faced with an ongoing challenge — how to maintain a strong work culture while continuing collaborative efforts between employers and employees. This is where social learning comes in. Join Panopto’s Chief Evangelist, Chris Knowlton, in this interactive webinar to discover five social learning strategies to implement for the growth of your organization, creating a culture of continuous learning that helps workers stay connected and motivated. 

Wednesday, August 24, 2022, 11 a.m.–12 p.m. PT: Secrets of Influence for Sales
Sometimes, it seems as if today’s “winners” have some kind of magic going for them. They always seem to make just the right impression and get exactly what they want. But the ability to persuade others isn’t a magical gift bestowed on a lucky few. It’s a set of practical skills anyone can learn, practice and master. Discover with expert, Elaina Zuker, author of the best-selling book, The Seven Secrets of Influence, how you can learn the effective use of influence. Elaina will share her own theory of Influence and how to apply these simple, but powerful ideas in your everyday personal and business relationships. 

Tuesday, August 30, 2022, 10 a.m.–11 a.m. PT: Demystifying Artificial Intelligence in Learning Technology
AI technology, including conversation intelligence, has consistently been touted as a game changer for learning technology. However, many organizations have yet to discern what role this technology plays and what kind of impact it can have. In this webinar, David Wentworth, Principal Analyst with Brandon Hall Group and a subject matter expert at Allego, will dispel some of the myths around AI and conversation intelligence by discussing how they work within learning technology and showing concrete examples of the value they can provide. 

Wednesday, August 31, 2022, 9 a.m.–10 a.m. PT: Five PowerPoint Myths Busted
In the hands of someone who understands basic design principles, not only will a PowerPoint presentation keep your audience engaged, but it’ll also leave a lasting impact. Whether you want to make a sale, teach a subject or just share information, the whole point is to make your presentation memorable. In this webinar, with Cindy Tingley, CPS, from Tingley Presentations, you’ll get a chance to see five PowerPoint myths busted. Eliminating these bad design practices will immediately improve the impact your presentation has on its audience. 

Wednesday, August 31, 2022, 11 a.m.–12 p.m. PT: The Four Pillars of Performance Learning (Free for ATD members)
Performance learning is a digital-first approach to sales enablement that effectively delivers at-scale training experiences. This organizational learning design strategy leverages frontier AI technology to enable the creation of online content, interactions and simulations that promote the long-term memory and real-world application of product and sales knowledge. Join Nicolas Berthiaume, Global Program Director at UMU, to learn tried-and-true use cases of Performance Learning in multiple industries. You’ll find out how you can easily adopt the basic tenets of performance learning to quickly ramp reps up, foster behaviour change and drive sales performance within your own organization.

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