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Did you finish everything you needed to in February? Or did that sneaky, truncated little month whip you into a frenzy at the end? If you’re feeling like you’re being ambushed by the start of March, you’re not alone. Just remember to take some time to breathe. If you want to slow down for an hour but still feel productive, why not sample one of this month’s free webinars?

Wednesday, March 1, 2023, 9 a.m.–10 a.m. PT: 12+ Retrieval Practice Strategies for Instructors and Trainers
Retrieval practice is one of the most well-researched learning strategies, but for an individual learner outside of a course, it feels like hard, uncomfortable work with delayed results. That’s why learners resort to ineffective self-study practices such as highlighting material or rereading their notes. Building retrieval practice strategies into courses is easy. Sheila B. Robinson, Ed.D., Speaker, Educator, and Consultant at Custom Professional Learning LLC, will share more than a dozen ways to create low-stakes opportunities for retrieval practice into your courses that will result in high reward for participants.

Wednesday, March 1, 2023, 11 a.m.–12 p.m. PT: More Than High Potential: Developing Leadership Relationship Capacity (Free for ATD members)
Do you want to develop leaders in a more open, democratized way? Join Dr. Tim Scudder, Principal of Core Strengths, to identify the challenges organizations face as they move away from traditional, high-potential programs and discover how to enact change. Developing leaders from within requires thinking about leadership as a relationship between leaders and followers. The intention behind choosing whether to be a leader or a follower must be understood. Revolutionize the way you build leadership capacity by taking these steps:

Understand the limitations of focusing leadership development efforts on people with formal leadership roles.
Learn to redefine leadership capacity in the context of relationships, not just leadership skills or competencies.
Focus leaders on the importance of establishing relationships that build trust, generate commitment and drive results.

Thursday, March 2, 2023, 8 a.m.–9 a.m. PT: Leader Talk: Personalization and Learning Pathways
One-size-fits-all training doesn’t meet the needs of today’s employees. Employees are busy and don’t have the time to dedicate to long training programs. They need personalized learning solutions tailored to their job role to efficiently gain new skills. Creating individualized learning pathways can help employees gain the skills, capabilities and experience needed to become proficient in their roles. This Training Industry Leader Talk will help you get a better grasp of personalized learning and will offer practical steps you can take to create learning pathways for your employees.

Thursday, March 2, 2023, 11 a.m.–12 p.m. PT: Lights, Camera, Action: Behind the Scenes of Successful Hybrid Learning Events (Free for ATD members)
Have you wondered how to set up hybrid learning events to ensure success? Join Cindy Huggett, author of The Facilitator’s Guide to Immersive, Blended, and Hybrid Learning, as she shares a behind-the-scenes look at her proven process to get ready for her engaging hybrid learning programs. You’ll explore steps you should take before every hybrid event: from preparing participants, to preparing your technology, to preparing yourself. You’ll discover what belongs on your preparation checklist and actions you can take to be ready. From practical preparation tips to equipment recommendations, you'll walk away with ideas you can immediately use.

Tuesday, March 7, 2023, 9 a.m.–10 a.m. PT: How to Find and Fix the Skills Gaps that Matter Most (At Scale)
Only 25% of executives believe that training measurably improves business performance. To succeed in this new world of work, L&D professionals need an effective and scalable way to train the right people on the right skills in the right way. Join Matthew Shell, Learning Strategist at Capsim Management Simulations, to learn how leading companies around the globe are using inbox simulations — a virtual job simulation technology — to:

Build a data-driven learning strategy.
Develop transformative training programs.
Scale soft skills development.

Tuesday, March 7, 2023, 11 a.m.–12 p.m. PT: Bridging the Leadership Gap (Free for ATD members)
Leadership demands today are incredibly dynamic. Unfortunately, the number of quality leaders isn’t sufficient to meet global marketplace demands. Worse, traditional leadership development is designed to work in homogenous and predictable environments, neither of which are applicable in the current work and macroeconomic landscapes. There are myriad leadership gaps that need to be filled, so we need a deeper, more impactful approach to leadership development to prep talent for the uncertainty and complexity they must deal with. Join Sounding Board Vice President, Kevin Rockmael, and CEO at theBoardlist, Megan Wang, to hear how you can navigate these demands.

Wednesday, March 8, 2023, 9 a.m.–10 a.m. PT: PowerPoint Turned Up to 11 with Add-ins
If you’re using PowerPoint all the time, then you need add-ins in your life to make things quicker, easier and better. And if you’re not using PowerPoint all the time, you’ll want to. In this session, with Richard Goring, Director at BrightCarbon, see what add-ins can do to completely change how PowerPoint works, from quick one-hit wonders (that are seriously wonderful), to fully fledged toolsets that provide a plethora of tools to boost your productivity and make you leap for joy, up to add-ins that provide brand new capabilities for PowerPoint and make it do far more than you could before.

Wednesday, March 8, 2023, 10:30 a.m.–11:30 p.m. PT: Awesome PowerPoint Tricks for Effective Presentations (Free for I4PL members)
PowerPoint is such an essential tool for all types of communication, but it's badly used. Revolutionize your content with amazing visuals, engage your audience with compelling animations and impress them with beautiful, professional design, all using only PowerPoint. Richard Goring, Director at BrightCarbon, will show you a host of visual storytelling techniques, all demonstrated live, that you can use immediately to create amazing presentations or interactive content. You'll see how to apply these to training content, elearning and other resources, plus get free sources for graphics and productivity boosting tools.

Thursday, March 9, 2023, 9 a.m.–10 a.m. PT: Five Mistakes That Sink Hybrid Training Events
If you’re responsible for delivering successful hybrid training events, you know it’s not as easy it looks. Of course, you could just video a live event for later playback and call it a day, but you want to reach both your in-person and your virtual audiences in real-time and allow engagement for everyone. Join Cynthia Clay, President and CEO of NetSpeed Learning Solutions, to explore the best and the worst of hybrid events. Commit to delivering the best for both audiences by offering training that is engaging, inclusive and interactive for all involved.

Thursday, March 9, 2023, 10 a.m.–11 a.m. PT: The Time Is Now: Reimagine Training Ops to Train More with Less
With the return-to-office wave and transition from a fully digital asynchronous approach to more instructor-led training (live and virtual), age-old learning resource management challenges have returned in force. Join Matt Pittman, Principal HCM Analyst for Brandon Hall Group, as he shares research and insights on the state of training practices, along with Stephan Pineau and Peter Olyarchuk from Training Orchestra. You’ll learn how automating and optimizing scheduling, internal resources and the management of training assets enables learning teams to do more with less.

Tuesday, March 14, 2023, 9 a.m.–10 a.m. PT: Commanding a Zoom: Communication Expertise for Virtual Leadership
When it comes to commanding the room, many trainers have presence, polish and passion. When they talk, trainees listen. However, when Zoom arrived on the scene, things changed. Any talking head can light up a square, but compared to stand-up training, commanding a Zoom is an even greater challenge. A total of 300 million people a day are Zoomed out; monotony and lethargy creep in easily. This session, with Dr. Constance Staley, Professor of Communication at the University of Colorado, is about displaying presence, polish and passion virtually in four categories that work together to create communication leadership acumen: visuals, sounds, slides, and body language.

Tuesday, March 14, 2023, 11 a.m.–12 p.m. PT: Leading by Example: Tools for Your Well-Being as a Leader (Free for ATD members)
Science supports the claim that well-being is a skill that can be learned. It only takes five minutes of practice a day to see sustained benefits, such as reduced stress and anxiety. This webinar will provide insights and tools to support your mental health to help you navigate the ups and downs of life at work and beyond. Join Stephanie Wagner, Lead Trainer and Program Specialist at Healthy Minds Innovations, to learn how you can cultivate and measure well-being. She partners with organizations to help them understand how to leverage their strengths and self-awareness to make positive, sustainable change in any dimension: physical, social, spiritual, professional and emotional well-being.

Wednesday, March 15, 2023, 9 a.m.–10 a.m. PT: Part 1 – How ChatGPT Impacts Microlearning, Just-in-Time and Just-Enough Learning, Workflow Learning, and Story-Based Learning
Every L&D person now wonders how ChatGPT would aid and enhance their design, methods, technologies and their tools. What we are curious about in L&D are these questions: “Is this another new shiny object or perhaps just another tech platform with bells and whistles? Does it disrupt learning and design?” In this session, Ray Jimenez, Ph.D., Architect of TrainingMagNetwork.com and Chief Learning Officer of Vignettes Learning, will share his analysis and experiments with ChatGPT in the following areas: microlearning’ just-in-time and just-enough learning; workflow learning; story-based learning; and never-possible-before solutions.

Wednesday, March 15, 2023, 9 a.m.–10 a.m. PT: How Leaders Can Leverage Questioning Skills to Support Training and Drive Performance
This webinar will teach specific questioning skills that support training while driving employee performance. During this webinar, Tim Hagen, Chief Coaching Officer at Progress Coaching, will teach questioning skills that drive awareness and action in the following areas:

Teamwork
Positive attitude
Motivation
Career development

Wednesday, March 15, 2023, 10 a.m.–11 a.m. PT: How to Deliver Equitable and Engaging Hybrid Training with a Human Connection
Web conferencing platforms have not kept pace to provide an equitable environment where remote participants feel a sense of belonging and are an equal contributor in the same way onsite participants are. Discover X2O OneRoom, an advanced hybrid training solution that creates immersive and engaging real-time environments. Join X2O Media president, Mansour Brek, and senior product manager, Kevin Ramesan, as they explain and demonstrate how OneRoom met the needs of an international aerospace pioneer for immersive hybrid training that is connected, engaging and secure.

Thursday, March 16, 2023, 12 p.m.–1 p.m. PT: Building an AR Learning Experience
Augmented reality (AR) is a widely used technology in games, marketing and everyday apps, but what about learning and development? Where do you get started? How should you use it? Destery Hildenbrand, XR Solution Architect at Intellezy, will introduce you to a low-cost toolset and resources to make developing an AR project simple, effective and engaging. You’ll create a custom AR experience from start to finish in this session. You’ll also explore other interactive AR experiences and learn where AR fits in your learning design workflow and the ways it can enhance different learning scenarios.

Tuesday, March 21, 2023, 9 a.m.–10 a.m. PT: Dos and Don'ts of Learning Experience Design
Content often isn't enough when it comes to improving human performance. It’s critical that your learning experiences take into account content and the context which can be unlocked using learning experience design. Join Cara North, Instructional Development Specialist at The Ohio State University, to learn more about tools and approaches that can help you design effective learning experiences. In this session, you'll walk away with:

Process to implement learning experience design in your own development.
Examples of learning experience design wins and fails.
Ideas to support people after the content is delivered.

Tuesday, March 21, 2023, 10 a.m.–11 a.m. PT: Transforming Succession Management from Business Liability to Strategic Strength
The elements of great succession planning are so vast that many HR teams can’t connect the dots and partner effectively with business leaders. For example, employers often focus on transitioning a candidate to a new role without identifying and developing candidates to replace the promoted leader. This can create a domino effect that leaves leadership gaps across an organization. Join executive advisors Lisa Sprenkle and Sarah Woods of BTS, Lynn Collins, Head of Talent Development Solutions of BTS, along with Claude Werder of Brandon Hall Group. They’ll reveal how HR can transform succession planning and management from liability to strategic strength.

Wednesday, March 22, 2023, 9 a.m.–10 a.m. PT: Transforming What Your SMEs Know to What Your Learners Need
When creating learning content, SMEs with the best intentions can end up creating content that’s long on information, short on practical application and wrapped up in a bullet-point PowerPoint bow. In this session, Artisan E-Learning’s Co-owner, Diane Elkins, and President, Amy Morrisey, will show you five key strategies for working more effectively with subject-matter experts to create content that sticks. You’ll gain practical insights, tips and resources for making the most of your SMEs’ expertise and for harnessing that power in a productive and helpful way. You’ll walk away better able to move your online content from simply conveying information to helping your learners solve the real problems they face every day.

Wednesday, March 22, 2023, 12 p.m.–1 p.m. PT: Creating Super Short Story-Based Lessons to Engage Learners
Learners learn best with stories. But do most designers and developers have difficulty creating them? Most often these narratives sound like “Once upon a time” tales. These are long and laborious to develop. They’re expensive and difficult to produce. So, what is another option to consider? Super short stories. These are very brief and simple but relatable scenarios that quickly convert lesson content into highly engaging lessons. They’re cheaper and faster to create. Join Ray Jimenez, Ph.D., Architect of TrainingMagNetwork.com and Chief Learning Officer of Vignettes Learning, and get live demos and source codes for three short lessons authored in Adobe Captivate and Articulate Storyline.

Thursday, March 23, 10 a.m.–11 a.m. PT: Reigniting Employee Motivation to Drive Innovation in Your Workforce
Improving the employee experience is top of mind for most organizations. Join Samer Saab, Founder and CEO of Explorance, and Claude Werder, Senior Vice President and Principal HCM Analyst for Brandon Hall Group, as they identify and illustrate ways to reignite the motivation for innovation and excellence in your workforce. The key is effectively listening to employees, collecting feedback from them and acting on it. Through leading-edge technology, you can gain valuable feedback and insights to:

Build meaningful growth opportunities linked to employees’ aspirations and purpose.
Upskill and reskill for the mutual benefit of employers and the organization.
Forge uncommon connections between employees no matter where they are located.
Improve work/life balance and wellness.
Reduce leadership skill gaps.

Thursday, March 23, 12 p.m.–1 p.m. PT: Boost Training Transfer using Predictive Learning Analytics
There’s now a revolutionary new way for L&D professionals to measure, monitor and manage the amount of “scrap learning” (the gap or wasteland between training delivered and not applied) associated with a training program. In this informative, highly engaging session, Ken Phillips, CPTD, Founder and CEO of Phillips Associates, will examine this new three-phase, nine-step measurement and evaluation methodology for increasing training transfer. Particular emphasis focuses on how to use data to pinpoint the underlying causes of scrap learning associated with a training program and how to mitigate or eliminate these causes.

Wednesday, March 29, 2023, 11:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m. PT: Define Your Leadership Brand (Free for I4PL members)
Connecting with your leadership brand is a great way to become more effective and confident in leading in today's complex environment. Leadership brand is all about how people experience you as a leader; it's the impression you leave. This is an opportunity to think about how you want to show up as a leader, and what experience you want to create for your teams so you can help them be and do their best. At the end of this webinar, presented by Brianne Ligori and Belinda Clemmensen, M.Ed., Co-founders of the Leader Coach Intensive (LCI), you’ll walk away with your Leadership Brand and a plan for how to apply it.

Wednesday, March 29, 2023, 12 p.m.–1 p.m. PT: Accessibility Smackdown Storyline, Captivate and Lectora Go Head-to-Head
How do you build an accessible yet engaging and interactive course with utmost efficiency? It depends on the tool you use. Storyline, Captivate and Lectora are all great authoring tools that support Section 508 and WCAG requirements, but operate very differently. What are the advantages and shortcomings of each tool? Join two superstar learning solutions engineers, Josh Bleggi and Domenic Caloia from ELB Learning, who are familiar with all three tools, including how they handle accessibility. Want to see a hands-on look and how-to comparison? Attend this webinar to look under the hood at the ultimate authoring tool accessibility match-up.

Thursday, March 30, 10 a.m.–11 a.m. PT: Onboarding to Everboarding Through Cohort Based Learning: Lessons from The Capital Group
The Capital Group, which offers a broad portfolio of institutional and consumer financial products and services, prides itself on creating an industry-leading customer service experience. Join Sheldon Ellis, Vice President of Training and Development at The Capital Group; Todd Moran, Chief Learning Strategist at NovoEd; and Claude Werder, Senior Vice President and Principal HCM Analyst at Brandon Hall Group, to learn how they leverage learning and training to drive success across their many business lines and client personas. You’ll learn:

How to enhance virtual instructor-led training by enmeshing it into a cohesive, social experience with sustainment activities.
Strategies to help learning organizations scale reach without adding headcount or compromising program effectiveness.
How you can blend peer coaching, fun, short videos, discussion, confidence gauges and knowledge checks to increase engagement in your learning.

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