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After some last-ditch beach weather, we’re now into actual autumn, featuring crunchy leaves, low-hanging fog in the morning and fruit flies dive-bombing whatever beverage we’re trying to enjoy in the evening. Fall is a great time to put on some socks and do indoor things — like enjoying a free webinar! If you have a spare moment to spend on some casual professional development, check out this month’s abundant offerings. 

Monday, October 3, 2022, 12 p.m.–1 p.m. PT: How to Create a Proactive Retention Strategy to Keep Your Employees
Join Dr. Bob Nelson, President of Nelson Motivation Inc., as he discusses how companies can be more proactive about retaining staff during the current market challenges. Build a stronger connection with your employees so they don’t have an interest in leaving, even for more money. Align individual aspirations of your employees with your company’s mission and create an ongoing conversation with each employee about their future with the company: what they’re learning, what they’d like to do next and what they need to prepare for future opportunities. 

Tuesday, October 4, 2022, 10 a.m.–11 a.m. PT: Extended Enterprise: Bring Training to Multiple Audiences
Learning can have a huge impact within an organization, but for many companies, learning is driving impact far outside the employee population. Getting extended enterprise learning correct requires a solid strategy with clear ownership and accountability. It also requires tools and technologies that can properly manage the complexity while delivering effective experiences. In this webinar, David Wentworth, Principal Analyst at Brandon Hall Group, and a subject matter expert from LearnUpon, will share research, insight, and expertise about why extended enterprise learning is important and what goes into getting it right.

Tuesday, October 4, 2022, 10 a.m.–11 a.m. PT: Reshape and Rebuild Your Organization with Learning
As we move to more hybrid approaches to work and grapple with global socio-political and economic challenges, we need to transform the way we learn and grow in the flow of work. Tom Whelan, Director of Corporate Research at Training Industry, and Krishna Gathwal, Director of Learning at KPMG, will share insights from their latest study on what high performing organizations are doing to train their workforce in a new human-centric hybrid working world and how they’re answering challenges in talent development, productivity and retention. 

Tuesday, October 4, 2022, 12 p.m.–1 p.m. PT: Tools for Training Program Evaluation
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. A robust program description and logic model are powerful tools that can inform a program evaluation plan. Well-designed surveys and focus groups are some of the most used tools for data collection. In this session, Dr. Sheila B. Robinson, Consultant at Custom Professional Learning LLC, will provide a brief overview of five phases of program evaluation and dive into key considerations for creating these tools.

Wednesday, October 5, 2022, 11 a.m.–12 p.m. PT: Three Keys to Unlocking Modern Team-Based Learning (Free for ATD members)
Team-based learning (TBL) carries many well-known benefits for organizations. However, today’s workforce presents multiple challenges that impact the efficacy of TBL, such as rising differences in individual and generational learning modalities, delivering content immediately relevant to team challenges, and making the learnings stick, especially as teams move to more asynchronous and remote communication tools. This webinar, with Ben Lowell, Head of Sales at BookClub, addresses the keys to unlocking each of these challenges. 

Wednesday, October 5, 2022, 12 p.m.–1 p.m. PT: Six Activities to Develop Leadership Skills in Your Employees
Most companies promote individuals to leadership roles first, then ask them to learn “new” leadership behaviours like providing feedback, collaborating, solving problems, coaching others and more. You’ll have more success if you begin to instill leadership skills in your employees early in their career so that “leadership” is simply standard operating procedure. Nanette Miner, Managing Consultant at The Training Doctor, LLC, offers six activities to develop leadership skills easily and cost-effectively in not only your future leaders but all employees in the organization. After all, a rising tide lifts all boats, right? 

Thursday, October 6, 2022, 9 a.m.–10 a.m. PT: Nine Practices to Energize Belonging in Your Organization
Every employee can build belonging from wherever they sit in an organization because the energy of belonging is built or destroyed one human interaction at a time. Wendy Gates Corbett, President of Signature Presentations, brings belonging out of your head and into your hands by equipping you with nine practices you can use to energize belonging in world as she shares real-world insights from her research on belonging. You’ll learn practices you can use tomorrow to deepen connections, recognize brilliance, and show others they are welcome and included. 

Thursday, October 6, 2022, Leadership Development: Navigating Chaos and Reaching the Modern Learner
As the world of work continues to pick up speed, proactive organizations are adapting to a more agile and effective learning function. In-person leadership training is no longer the default — hybrid and remote work environments continue to reshape corporate cultures globally, and turnover remains a top concern for many leaders. Lisa Fagan-Joseph, VP of GP Strategies, and Sam Shriver, Executive VP of Thought Leadership and Training Transfer from The Center for Leadership Studies, will tackle some of the most critical issues facing leaders in today’s business world. 

Thursday, October 6, 2022, 10 a.m.–11 a.m. PT: Level Up: Impactful Leadership Habits for Every Employee
Becoming an effective leader requires establishing new habits, which take time, practice and reinforcement to take hold. In this webinar, you’ll learn how to develop impactful leadership habits in your employees for individual empowerment and collaborative development through spaced learning, experiential learning, ongoing organizational support and peer accountability. Join Paul DePalma, CEO of ADEPT Leadership, Lynette Maynes, Director of Field Services for TDS Telecommunications, and Claude Werder, Senior VP and Principal HCM Analyst for Brandon Hall Group, as they provide strategies for developing leaders incrementally to create the foundation that unlocks their potential. 

Thursday, October 6, 2022, 11 a.m.–12 p.m. PT: Coaching for Sales Success in a Tough Economy
Economic news is not rosy, and buyers are changing their priorities. What are the best ways to coach your sales team to find new accounts, expand existing ones and retain more of them? Join Carole Mahoney, Founder of Unbound Growth, and author of the upcoming book Buyer First, to discover what sales research and the largest data set of sales performance suggests you focus on for more predictable revenue attainment and retention of your best sellers and customers. 

Friday, October 7, 2022, 8 a.m.–9 a.m. PT: The Four-Part Framework for Effective Content Curation
Choosing the right content for a diverse workforce of learners is time-consuming and difficult. How do you navigate all the choices out there? What content will resonate with different learning styles and increase engagement? Join Paige Kracke, Senior Manager of Curation at OpenSesame, as she explores the power of customized curation and the framework every organization needs in place to succeed. She’ll share success stories from customers who have used these tools to build an ideal curriculum at their organization, and the positive impact it has had on both their training program and their team’s day-to-day functionality. 

Tuesday, October 11, 2022, 10 a.m.–11 a.m. PT: Playing to Win: Adopting Gamification to Achieve Your Learning Goals
The past few years have seen a shift in the way training programs are structured. It’s not enough to simply enroll learners into courses and track their completions. The challenge becomes how to implement them within your LMS to evoke the change you’re looking for. Join David Wentworth, Principal Analyst with Brandon Hall Group, and Isobel Wallace, General Manager of Thinking Cap, for a discussion on the benefits of gamification, the role it can play in learning and strategies for implementation within your LMS. 

Tuesday, October 11, 2022, 12 p.m.–1 p.m. PT: Seven Practical Ways for Leaders to Be a Bit More Daring
As a leader, you’re barraged with problems everyday, and sometimes it’s easier to take the path of least resistance. Building your reputation as a courageous leader doesn’t necessarily mean making big, bold, game-changing moves. It happens everyday, little by little, as you learn your team members’ strengths, speak up, stand out and dare to take appropriate risks. This webinar, with Let’s Grow Leaders’ Karin Hurt, Founder and CEO, and David Dye, President, gives you practical methods to become a bit more daring everyday for greater influence and impact, to become the courageous leader you would want to work for.

Wednesday, October 12, 2022, 11 a.m.–12 p.m. PT: Select and Optimize Coaching Solutions for Engagement and Retention (Free for ATD members)
Coaching is an impactful development opportunity that can also increase employee engagement and retention, and today there are more ways to deliver coaching effectively than ever before. In this session, Julie Hess, Founder of Catalyst Consulting and Coaching, will review the continuum of coaching solutions available today and consider how to craft a solution that meets the needs of your organization. She’ll pull back the curtain on a coaching engagement and explore how your organization can maximize the benefit of coaching.   

Wednesday, October 12, 2022, 12 p.m.–1 p.m. PT: Forget the Disney Pixie Dust. Get Some TEAM People Trust.
Walt Disney liked to proclaim, “It all started with a mouse.” Although it’s true that Mickey Mouse was Disney’s breakthrough, it actually started with the people who made the mouse. The Disney formula is simple: great leaders deliver satisfying employee experiences; motivated employees deliver satisfying customer experiences; satisfied customers become loyal and spend more money; profits increase. Join Lenn Millbower, President of Offbeat Training LLC, to learn a Disney-inspired four-step model you can apply to motivate your organization’s employees for higher customer satisfaction and greater profits. 

Thursday, October 13, 2022, 9 a.m.–10 a.m. PT: Screen Actors’ Secrets to Connect, Engage and Influence on Camera
Why are most virtual meetings still so awkward, unmemorable and ineffective? Because no one is born knowing how to talk to a camera. Like an actor going from stage to screen, being successful in a new medium requires new skills. Screen actors have spent decades developing techniques for connecting, engaging and influencing others through the camera. In this session, actor and author Julie Hansen shares the top actors’ secrets for more engaging and successful virtual meetings from her award-winning book, Look Me In the Eye: Using Video to Build Relationships with Customers, Partners and Teams. 

Thursday, October 13, 2022, 10 a.m.–11 a.m. PT: Equipping Managers to Nurture Psychologically Safe Environments
Managers experience constant pressure, but they need psychological safety in the same way their team members do to be great people managers. Capacity and confidence are just as critical to managers’ success as their capabilities, especially in a complex, evolving hybrid work environment. In this webinar, Laura Walker, Senior Associate Consultant for Hemsley Fraser, and Claude Werder, SVP and Principal HCM Analyst for Brandon Hall Group, will provide insights, research and practical examples on: 

• The real impact of engaged and thriving managers versus disengaged and burned-out ones.

• How leading employers are shifting what they do to boost the capacity, capability and confidence in the current context.

• What the best people managers are doing for themselves.

Thursday, October 13, 2022, 12 p.m.–1 p.m. PT: Listen, Let Go and Live: Strategies for Thriving Throughout the Decades
What if you had unlimited energy capable of self-generating as much as you needed, on demand, whenever you wanted it?  How would your life change? Because how you do one thing is how you do everything, imagine the impact on your professional career and personal life in the next twelve months when you optimize your energy. During this interactive session with Dr. Susan Lovelle, Author of Thrive Achitect, you’ll learn three timeless strategies that will allow you to thrive both at the work you love and at home with those you love.

Tuesday, October 18, 2022, 10 a.m.–11 a.m. PT: Getting Your Skills Strategy Right
Organizations are currently facing unprecedented change and volatility, and as a result, they’re realizing they must reskill and upskill their workforce to meet new demands. However, most remain challenged by just how to accomplish that. Organizations need to develop a skills strategy now to ensure success in the future. Join David Wentworth, Principal Analyst with Brandon Hall Group, and Ben Cowan, Director of Skills and Talent Strategy with Degreed, as they go over what goes into building an effective skills strategy.

Tuesday, October 18, 2022, 10 a.m.–11 p.m. PT: Ten Gamification Mistakes, How to Fix Them and Maximize Results
Gamification has been proven to increase employee participation, learner engagement and knowledge retention. In this session, Stephen Baer, Chief Creative Officer at The Game Agency, will discuss the ten most common mistakes you may be making with gamification, and how to transform your approach into a winning strategy to make your training more interactive and effective. He’ll discuss why those mistakes are keeping you from getting your desired results, and how to adjust to maximize employee participation and training effectiveness. 

Tuesday, October 18, 2022, 11 a.m.–12 p.m. PT: Best Practices for Meeting the Demands of Today’s Learner (Free for ATD members)
In today’s world of learning and consuming information, employees have more options than ever, are savvy and adapt quickly to new ways of consuming media. Companies can (and should) take advantage of this evolving way of learning, training and gaining new skills. Join Bridge’s Jeff Fissel, VP of Learning Solutions, and Mark Probert, VP of Revenue, to learn: 

• Why connecting employees, partners, and customers with the knowledge they need and want is critical to enabling success.

• How to use consumerized learning approaches to engage learners.

• What a multimedia, multichannel learning strategy looks like and the tools you’ll need.

Wednesday, October 19, 2022, 11 a.m.–12 p.m. PT: Burnout and the Bottom Line in the Era of Constant Change (Free for ATD members)

Businesses today are in a tug-of-war. High turnover and burnout are further complicated by economic uncertainty, creating new challenges for leaders trying to support business goals while building an empathetic culture. Stephen Bailey, CEO and Co-Founder of ExecOnline, will be joined by Dr. Srini Pilly, CEO of NeuroBusiness Group, for a discussion on how leaders can use organizational psychology and leadership development to support well-being and bottom-line results. 

Thursday, October 20, 2022, 9 a.m.–10 a.m. PT: Creative Breakouts: New Ideas for Successful Group Activities in Virtual Classes
In this interactive session with Cindy Huggett, Author of Virtual Training Tools and Templates: An Action Guide to Live Online Learning, you’ll learn exactly how to set up, facilitate and manage small group virtual class activities to create an engaging participant experience. You’ll see how to create teams for group involvement and how to use breakout rooms for collaboration. You’ll discover new and creative uses for breakout activities that you can immediately apply in your virtual classes. You’ll leave this session with new ideas for engaging, collaborative online classes. 

Friday, October 21, 2022, 8 a.m.–9 a.m. PT: The (Video!) Boost Your Sales Team Needs
Video is an extremely useful tool in training and communication, but oftentimes, people are intimidated by the thought of creating one. Join Andrea Acosta, VP of Sales and Marketing at simpleshow, and Kelly Clem, Sr. Director of Sales Effectiveness at Becton Dickinson, for this interactive webinar where they’ll show you how to easily create your own explainer video in just minutes, and share five simple rules you can apply to ensure your sales training videos (and all your training videos) are engaging, easy to understand and drive results. 

Tuesday, October 25, 2022, 9 a.m.–10 a.m. PT: Cutting the Fat Out of Training to Deliver Business Value
Leaders expect your learning efforts to do more with less. They also expect learning to deliver business-value results while minimizing disruptions to operational processes. In this webinar, with Ajay M. Pangarkar, CEO and Partner of CentralKnowledge.com and LRNOnline.com, you’ll explore how to integrate elearning and the proper use of learning technologies with the context of the Lean business methodology known as Lean learning. Applying this methodology, learning organizations will never again develop learning initiatives in isolation, but ensure its complete operational integration. 

Tuesday, October 25, 2022, 11 a.m.–12 p.m. PT: Maximizing Microsoft Teams for Learning (Free for ATD members)
With more than 250 million active users, Microsoft Teams has become one of the most used collaboration platforms in the increasingly hybrid workplace. Are you using Microsoft Teams and are looking for ways to drive efficiency, productivity and collaboration among learners? If so, join Christopher Rousset, Managing Director Americas and Head of Sales at LMS365, to learn from real-life examples of embedding learning in Microsoft Teams to maximize learning participation and retention throughout your organization. 

Tuesday, October 25, 2022, 12 p.m.–1 p.m. PT: Advance Yourself from Trainer/Designer to Performance Adviser
The L&D specialists of today must have their mindset, skills and knowledge rooted in understanding the business problems they’re to help solve with training. Sadly, many of them focus on the training activities and not on the outcomes that impact the results that are needed. Consequently, their training efforts reflect poor results and are undervalued by top management. In this session, Dr. Ray Jimenez, Architect of TrainingMagNetwork.com and Chief Learning Officer of Vignettes Learning, will cover: 

• Understanding the new L&D challenges.

• Assessing one’s mindset, skills and knowledge.

• Developing four critical skills to focus on performance.

• Persuading others to implement changes.

Wednesday, October 26, 2022, 10 a.m.–11 a.m. PT: Integrating Learning Experience Into Business
Organizations are changing their approach to learning, just as they are changing how learning acts as a lever to drive business beyond mandatory workforce training. Defining when and how learning is delivered, is also a key factor in driving stellar learning experiences. Join David Wentworth, Principal Learning Analyst at Brandon Hall Group, and Dr. Allen Partridge, Director of Digital Learning Evangelism at Adobe Digital Learning Solutions, as they explore: 

• The key factors that define effective learning experiences.

• How learning experience impacts both rational and emotional aspects of the learners.

• Speed of content delivery versus quality of content delivery — what to choose when.

• How do integrations impact the experience of the learner and the administrators.

Wednesday, October 26, 2022, 10:30 a.m.–11:30 a.m. PT: Managing the Middle Years of Your Career (Free for I4PL members)
In an economic environment characterized by great speed, incessant change and much uncertainty, a real challenge facing workers is keeping their jobs and remaining employable. The challenge reaches a peak as workers reach mid-career, 10 to 25 years from starting careers, with at least another 10 to 25 years remaining. This session, hosted by Saul Carliner, Professor of Educational Technology at Concordia University, explores some of the economic and business issues that affect long-term employability, specifically challenges that arise during mid-career. 

Wednesday, October 26, 2022, 12 p.m.–1 p.m. PT: Training the Tech Workforce in 2023 and Beyond: Investing in Relevance
Join CompTIA’s Chief Technology Evangelist, Dr. James Stanger, as he outlines the key skills that business require as they strive to differentiate themselves from competition and move forward with confidence. Dr. Stanger will also discuss the unique learning tactics that organizations worldwide are bringing to bear as they empower the workers today. He’ll reveal insights that he has gathered from hiring managers and workforce developers around the world, and how leading organizations have turned to upskilling existing employees in creative ways and are now reaching out to the non-traditional workforce. 

Wednesday, October 26, 2022, 2:25 p.m.–3:25 p.m. PT: Getting Training Right with Personalization When it Matters Most
Training today’s workforce has become increasingly challenging. Poor speed, quality and learner engagement are often common challenges in traditional training environments. It’s time to reimagine the conventional methods deployed in standard LMSs and LXPs for required training. In this session, hosted by Manoj Kulkarni, Chief Executive Officer at Realizeit, you’ll discover how personalized, adaptive learning technologies can accelerate training times, increase quality, raise confidence in job readiness, and improve engagement for critical, frontline and customer-facing roles by providing deeply relevant required training to every employee. 

Wednesday, October 26, 2022, 3:30 p.m.–4:00 p.m. PT: Reach Your Learning Goals Faster Through Video
Many small and large companies shy away from utilizing video because they are intimidated by what they perceive as high barriers to entry, as well as not fully understanding the great benefits that video can provide. Kelly Jura, Vice-President of Brand and User Experience (UX) at Screencast-O-Matic | ScreenPal, will outline how to integrate an effective unified video strategy into your learning and development program quickly and with minimal resources. After seeing how easy it can be, you won’t see video creation as being big and scary, but will want to embrace it rather than hide from it. 

Thursday, October 27, 2022, 8 a.m.–9 a.m. PT: Training Industry Leader Talk: Sales Enablement and the Customer Experience
The two areas where L&D is most uniquely positioned to have direct impact on revenue generation and the bottom line are sales enablement and the customer experience. From the training provided to your sales team to make the sale, to the ongoing training and support provided to buyers, the experience of your customers can be directly enhanced by a good training program. Join this webinar to gain insights on how you can prepare your sales and customer-facing functions for success through continuous learning. 

Thursday, October 27, 2022, 10 a.m.–11 a.m. PT: The Evolution of Learning: Personalized Learning Journeys at Scale
Organizations must be able to create and deliver personalized learning to develop career paths, retain top talent and drive business growth. Some of the world’s largest and most “people-first” employers are already leveraging technology to deliver personalized learning at the scale the business requires. David Wentworth, Principal Analyst at Brandon Hall Group, and Hawley Kane, Director of Product Marketing at Docebo, will share research, insights and expertise to help you get a better handle on what personalization looks like, how it helps and what it takes to make it work across the entire organization. 

Thursday, October 27, 2022, 10:10 a.m.–11:10 a.m. PT: Journey to Extraordinary — Lessons in Skills-Based Learning Techniques
Extraordinary outcomes can happen when companies invest in their people. In this webinar, Ben Betts, Chief Executive Officer at Learning Pool, will address how learning and development can move from just implementing an organization’s strategy to helping drive it. By putting an organization’s people at the heart of everything you do, you can not only increase internal skills and capability, but also ensure your people are confident and capable, and can drive the future direction of the organization. 

Thursday, October 27, 2022, 11:10 a.m.–12:10 p.m. PT: Know Your Video: The Online Streaming Essentials to Learner Experience
If you already stream videos online, delighting viewers is critical to your business. If your business is to educate, a seamless online streaming experience is a must have. But what makes a great online streaming experience that won’t get in the way of learners? Join Matheus Cardoso, Sr. Developer Advocate at Bitmovin, as he answers this question and more in the context of media preparation, validation, playback and measurement. You’ll learn about the foundations of video and online streaming, what impacts, and how Bitmovin’s products may be used to achieve your goals. 

Thursday, October 27, 2022, 12:15 p.m.–1:15 p.m. PT: What’s New in Articulate 360
As a course creator, you’re often tasked with creating magic at your organization through transformative learning experiences. As learning needs evolve, the tools you rely on to create that learning should evolve, too. During this session, Madison McCartney, Manager of Customer Engagement at Articulate, will demo the latest feature set across Articulate 360, including: 

• Professionally designed and carefully researched course and lesson templates, featuring real and placeholder content, to help you jumpstart course creation.

• Prebuilt and customizable course theme options for creating cohesive learning experiences with a distinct look and feel in Rise 360.

• Exciting new features in Storyline 360 that save you time and delight your learners.

• Accessibility enhancements that empower you to create engaging experiences for all learners.

Thursday, October 27, 2022, 1:15 p.m.–2:15 p.m. PT: AI and the Race for Intelligent Content Creation

AI is one of those things where you can get on the bus or get run over by the bus. AI will revolutionize everything you do, specifically including the creation of courses and videos. Join Vyond’s CEO, Gary Lipkowitz, and get your bus ticket to understanding: 

• The basics of machine learning.

• CANs (Creative Adversarial Networks), GANs (Generative Adversarial Networks) and the engines of intelligent content creation.

• If machines can “think” or “be creative.”

Thursday, October 27, 2022, 2:25 p.m.–3:25 p.m. PT: The Metaverse and the Evolving Learning Ecosystem
The logical next step in providing realistic learning experiences in a controlled environment is the Metaverse. In this webinar, Kelly Lake, Global Head of Corporate Learning at KnowledgeWorks Global Learning, will describe how learning ecosystems are adjusting to the needs of today’s workforce. You’ll hear about the metaverse and how it’s providing the opportunity to augment learning and performance for organizations while also positively impacting ROI. She’ll share advancements in new disruptive technologies that provide realistic virtual engagement that learning leaders will need to embrace.

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