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Summer is going by faster than a hot-rod with the top down. How can we possibly squeeze the most value out of it before it’s gone? If you’re already juggling work and play, “sun time” and “shade time,” spare time is probably not abundant. But if you do have an hour or so to devote to learning, why not check out a free webinar? It’s a productive way to spend your time in the shade!

Tuesday, August 1, 2023, 11 a.m.–12 p.m. PT: How Will Generative AI Impact Learning Tech This Year? (Free for ATD members)
Generative AI has unleashed a world of possibilities in the realm of skill development and corporate learning. This technology can dramatically affect how you create and assign training, revolutionizing how skills are acquired. The implications for personalized learning, skill development plans, mentorship connections and more are truly transformative. Hear from Karie Willyerd, Chief Customer Strategy Officer at Learning Technologies Group, and Jeff Fissel, Vice President of Learning Solutions at Bridge, as they share insights into the potential of this technology in learning tech and some pitfalls to avoid.

Tuesday, August 1, 2023, 12 p.m.–1 p.m. PT: Turbocharging Your Creativity with AI
AI tools have been taking the world by storm — and can be used to turbocharge ideation, design and delivery of presentations and learning content. Leaning into and experimenting with these tools will help turbocharge creativity and gain a critical competitive career advantage. During this webinar, Yulia Barnakova, Emerging Technology Strategist at Accenture, will explore how AI can be used to enhance workflows around:

• Developing branding, content, and scripts.

• Making and editing images and video.

• Making characters and voiceovers.

Wednesday, August 2, 2023, 9 a.m.–10 a.m. PT: Enhancing Learning Development Through Generative AI: Unveiling the Possibilities
Discover the practical applications of generative AI. Explore cutting-edge tools, such as Adobe Firefly, Gling, ChatGPT and new generative AI features in Photoshop to unlock your creative potential and elevate your content. Jeff Batt, Learning Experience Designer at Amazon and the Founder of Learning Dojo, will demonstrate how to integrate generative AI into your learning development workflow. Learn how to enhance, modify and expand stock images using the new Photoshop beta. Additionally, he’ll showcase Adobe Firefly’s ability to generate unique images when your stock library doesn’t have what you need.

Thursday, August 3, 2023, 9 a.m.–10 a.m. PT: How to Leverage AI for Storytelling: The Secret Formula to Better Training Videos
Storytelling is proven to significantly improve the effectiveness of training, but people often hesitate to use it because they don’t know where to start or how to create a story. With the right prompts and best practices, you can easily leverage AI technology to help create a story your audience can relate to. Aaron Alpert, Global Creative Director of simpleshow, is going to share best practices that will help you create impactful storytelling videos that will enhance your training and improve both engagement and retention — all using AI technology to do the hard work for you. 

Tuesday, August 8, 2023, 12 p.m.–1 p.m. PT: Creative Branching Scenario Solutions with Twine
In this webinar, you’ll learn how to build branching scenarios with Twine, a free, open-source tool designed specifically for creating interactive stories and games. Christy Tucker, Learning Experience Design (LXD) Consultant, will start with a live demo of building a simple branching scenario prototype from scratch, so you can see how quickly you can publish a functional learning experience. Next, you’ll see several options to enhance scenarios with additional features, like scoring and conditional feedback. Christy will also share examples of how Twine can be used for different types of scenarios, such as chat simulations and games.

Wednesday, August 9, 2023, 9 a.m.–10 a.m. PT: Groundbreaking News: A Whole New Category in L&D
Use any combination of VR, gamification, video-based practice and traditional elearning apps in one integrated, easy-to-use platform. Mix and match these high-impact modalities in a recipe that makes your learning stick. See examples from clients getting their hands dirty. Join the CEO of ELB Learning, Andrew Scivally, with his fellow leaders, Christian Weibell, Chief Product Officer, John Blackmon, Chief Technology and AI Officer, Stephen Baer, Chief Creative Officer, with Chrisanna McMillan-Paxton, President of D3 Solutions and trusted consultant of ELB Learning, for an eye-opening glimpse at this emerging category.

Wednesday, August 9, 2023, 9 a.m.–10 a.m. PT: Using ChatGPT Responsibly to Generate Presentation Ideas and Do Research
ChatGPT has become wildly popular, but you can get burned. Discover how to use ChatGPT (and Microsoft’s Copilot) responsibly to save time without making all your content sound “GPT-bland.” In this session with Ellen Finkelstein, President of Ellen Finkelstein Inc., you’ll learn: 

• How to cite ChatGPT and check for accuracy (yes, it’s sometimes wrong).

• Some prompt ideas for realistic training tasks.

• How to turn ChatGPT’s content into your content.

Wednesday, August 9, 2023, 10:30 a.m.–11:30 a.m. PT: Use Power BI to Track, Analyze and Visualize Training Data for Free (Free for I4PL members)
Training analytics dashboards are challenging to implement, and every end-user wants something just a bit different. Some analytics tools require a graduate-level understanding of statistics to learn and use, but not Power BI. Join Dan Belhassen, President and Founder of Neovation Learning Solutions, to learn more about this free tool from Microsoft that makes it easy for you to rapidly create a custom suite of dashboards, and craft reports and data visualizations that can demonstrate the impact of training to managers or convince executives that elearning correlates to improvements in KPIs. 

Wednesday, August 9, 2023, 11 a.m.–12 p.m. PT: Unsung Heroes: Designing Leadership Development for Middle Managers (Free for ATD members)
All the trouble and none of the glory — this phrase is used often to describe middle managers. A recent McKinsey & Company study reflected on how leaders of leaders are not only undervalued and underutilized, but underdeveloped, too. They’ve already had basic leadership training, but don’t yet have access to executive development. How can you meet their unique development needs with valuable, authentic and relevant experiences? Join Lisa Rectenwald, Project Manager at DDI, to reimagine your midlevel leadership development strategy. 

Thursday, August 10, 2023, 8 a.m.–1 p.m. PT: Leader Talk: Managing Learning Technologies in the Age of AI
With the emergence of artificial intelligence in learning, organizations have needed to invest in a variety of technologies to improve training delivery. With so many tools available on the market, learning leaders must ensure they’re selecting the right tool to meet the learning needs of their organization. However, learning leaders are not technology experts, and managing all these technologies can be challenging. In this Training Industry Leader Talk, industry experts will share how to leverage the right AI tools for your company’s training needs and discuss strategies for managing your organization’s technology stack.

Thursday, August 10, 2023, 9 a.m.–10 a.m. PT: Survey Rating Scales Done Right: Let’s Use Best Practices to Dispel the Old Myths
Survey respondents get frustrated with questions that don’t have response options that match their experiences or confused by response options that are misaligned with question stems. Poorly constructed rating scale questions are a particularly common phenomenon, even for experienced evaluators and survey designers. Join Sheila B. Robinson, Ed.D., Speaker, Educator and Consultant at Custom Professional Learning LLC, for real-world examples of survey questions, practice in identifying common rating scale problems and some mythbusting, along with research-based strategies for designing high-quality rating scale questions. 

Thursday, August 10, 2023, 10 a.m.–11 a.m. PT: Eight Critical Moves to Empower Leaders to Increase Their Value
Despite never-ending investment, leadership development isn’t producing enough future-ready leaders to enable organizations to thrive in these turbulent times. Once and for all, now’s the time to make bold investments that truly equip leaders to deliver the business value that’s so badly needed. Join BTS expert, Lance Wilke, SVP and Partner, Fredrik Schuller, Head of BTS Coach, Executive VP, and Claude Werder, SVP and Principal Analyst of Brandon Hall Group, to dive into the eight critical moves for leaders to make now to transform their organizations. 

Tuesday, August 15, 2023, 8 a.m.–9 a.m. PT: The Secret to Doing More with Less: How to Double Your Content Development Output
You’re all being asked to do more with less, but any significant increase in efficiency — like doubling content development capacity without adding headcount — requires challenging the status quo. The truth is that you’re stuck in a rut. The development time per hour of instruction hasn’t changed significantly for a very long time. However, many innovative teams are challenging the status quo and seeing significant reductions in content development time and increases in learner satisfaction. Your host, Leslie Farinella, Chief Strategy Officer at Xyleme, will explain how to double your content development output. 

Tuesday, August 15, 2023, 9 a.m.–10 a.m. PT: Artificial Presentations: Best Thing Ever or Worst Ever?
Are ChatGPT and all the other rapidly emerging AI engines the new life-blood of presentation creation or are they a death knell? Join Rick Altman, Director at BetterPresenting, in this first look at how AI will impact your workflow as presentationists: how it can assist in research, photo search, fleshing out of content and actual building of slides. Soon, you might not be able to tell if a human authored those slides, and nobody really knows if that’s a good thing or a bad thing. This introduction and overview addresses these implications. It answers the question of how and how not, why and why not to use these powerful new building blocks.

Tuesday, August 15, 2023, 11 a.m.–12 p.m. PT: Beyond Diplomas: Unleashing the Power of Skills (Free for ATD members)
Explore the rising importance of skills over degrees in today’s job market. Discover the limitations of degrees in assessing real-world competence and the disparity between academic knowledge and practical skills. Delve into the benefits of skill-based hiring practices, including increased diversity and employer advantages. Learn strategies to bridge the skills gap, empowering individuals to unlock their potential. Join Ricky Kumar, Principal Solution Consultant at Pluralsight, for an inspiring dialogue on reshaping the future of work with the power of skills. 

Tuesday, August 15, 2023, 11 a.m.–12 p.m. PT: The Secrets of Sales Credibility: The Trust Accelerator
Based on his 30+ years of research and proven success, C. Lee Smith, Certified Behavioural Analyst and CEO of SalesFuel, will show you how to multiply your sales opportunities by attracting the high-value clients you want most, accelerating trust-building and earning repeat business. Sales credibility is a pre-requisite to reaching “trusted advisor” status with clients. This session will enlighten both sales managers and executive leaders on what credibility is, the vital role it plays in sales, and how to use it to gain access to the people and information that close deals. 

Tuesday, August 15, 2023, 12 p.m.–1 p.m. PT: Designing Virtual Learning to Deliver Application and Impact
Today, more than ever, there’s a need to ensure that virtual learning works to improve organizational outcomes. Unfortunately, program owners often face challenges to deliver results that executives appreciate and understand. Patti and Jack Phillips, Ph.D.s, CEO and Chairman of ROI Institute, respectively, will explain how designers, developers, providers and program owners can ensure that virtual learning delivers desired results by applying design thinking principles that focus on delivering application and impact. You’ll see real-world examples of virtual learning programs that delivered results.

Wednesday, August 16, 2023, 9 a.m.–10 a.m. PT: From Onboarding to Everboarding: Build Continuity Through Community
Join Chantelle Nash, Director of Digital HR Experience at Baker Hughes, and Jacob Nikolau, Head of Product Marketing at NovoEd, to find out how continuous onboarding can benefit your organization. Chantelle will share how Baker Hughes built a highly successful, community-oriented continuous onboarding experience named CORE, focused on the company’s four core values of Lead, Care, Grow and Collaborate. CORE has strengthened the company’s learning culture and driven significant, measurable impact across the organization. 

Wednesday, August 16, 2023, 9 a.m.–10 a.m. PT: The Key to Training and Coaching Is Self-awareness
In this webinar, Tim Hagen, Chief Coaching Officer at Progress Coaching, will teach the value of developing self-awareness and how to coach to self-awareness that will promote learning, as well as leveraging training. An estimated that 85% of people significantly lack self-awareness. Self-awareness is at the foundation of how people receive training, as well as coaching. You’ll learn the following:

• What self-awareness is.

• Why self-awareness is the major tenant of emotional intelligence.

• How to coach to self-awareness using a simple model.

• The five stages of self-awareness.

Wednesday, August 16, 2023, 11 a.m.–12 p.m. PT: Leading with Well-Being: Creating Environments Where Humans Thrive (Free for ATD members)
Imagine a workplace with reduced burnout and increased human thriving, performance and morale. Well-being at work involves multiple levels, from self-care to leadership behaviours to organizational policies and cultures. Discover science-backed tips and resources for individuals and explore six areas where leaders can focus to help others thrive. During this event, Paige Graham, Global Portfolio Manager at Consultative Solutions, CCL, will cover:

• Resources for self-care.

• Seven-Day Well-Being Challenge.

• Tips and best practices for inspiring and developing others to create environments where everyone thrives.

Thursday, August 17, 2023, 9 a.m.–10 a.m. PT: Cracking the Learning Code with Neuroscience and John Medina’s “Brain Rules”
Scientists now know for sure how our brain works and its these advances in the brain sciences that should “shape” how you design and deliver training to your learners. If you’re designing and delivering learning and not taking these invaluable insights into account, you’re doing your learner audience a huge disservice. John Medina’s “Brain Rules” is an amazing introduction to the very fascinating world of neuroscience and in this interactive session, David Smith, Founder and Virtual Guru at DS Virtually, will explore six key brain rules that should inform you on how to design and deliver every learning experience. 

Thursday, August 17, 2023, 11 a.m.–12 p.m. PT: Using DISC for Leading / Selling / Relationship Building / Communicating / Team Building and Negotiating
Understanding the personality styles of your team members, prospects, customers, boss, direct reports and clients will improve your effectiveness 25% and help people buy into your requests, as well as improve your understanding of others. Greg Nanigian, President and CEO of greg@gnatraining.com, will reveal four different personality styles, the “dos and don’ts” when dealing with people of each style and the easiest way to spot others’ styles. Learn how to “flex your style” in a conversation and in writing for improved results. The material in this program is based on a proven, time-tested model, but the approaches are the latest. 

Tuesday, August 22, 2023, 10 a.m.–11 a.m. PT: The Future of Work: Immersive Learning Innovation
How do learning leaders successfully create an inclusive immersive learning strategy at the speed of business? In this webinar, Kelly Lake, Chief Strategy Office of EI, along with Comcast’s Michael O. Hopkins, Executive Director, Business Partner Strategy & Support, CXSO, and Cathleen Nowlin, Senior Director, Partner Training Strategy & Support, and host Claude Werder, SVP and Principal Analyst of Brandon Hall Group, will provide valuable insight into new extended technologies and how to implement them into a sustainable strategic immersive learning plan. 

Tuesday, August 22, 2023, 10 a.m.–11 a.m. PT: Mastering the Art of Global Learning: Strategies for a Multicultural, Multilingual Workforce
Struggling with global employee training? What about tailoring strategies for different regions? Ingenuiti has designed this live virtual event specifically for learning leaders like you. They aim to bridge the global learning performance gap and provide real solutions that can enhance the effectiveness of your learning initiatives. Join Dr. Jerry Zandstra, Ingenuiti’s Senior Director of Learning, for a live virtual event, designed to address the global learning performance gap and provide real solutions for learning leaders. Key from takeaways from this webinar:

• Identifying and navigating potential pitfalls when creating learning experiences for a global, multicultural and multilingual audience.

• Designing and developing learning programs that cater to the unique needs of a global company.

• Understanding the crucial steps involved in translation and localization, which will enable you to deliver culturally relevant and impactful training across different regions.

Tuesday, August 22, 2023, 12 p.m.–1 p.m. PT: How to Have Deep Learning in Virtual and Webinar Sessions
Most webinars and virtual sessions are content dumps. They try hard to accomplish a lot of ideas within a very limited time. To add interactions and engagement, they resort to breakout sessions, polls, and/or chatting — just to add interaction. However, meaningful and insightful conversations are absent. Therefore, deep learning and reflections are missing. In this session, Ray Jimenez, Ph.D., Architect of TrainingMagNetwork.com and Chief Learning Officer of Vignettes Learning, will share new insights and experiments on how to structure virtual and webinar sessions to promote deep learning and reflections to help improve learning.

Wednesday, August 23, 2023, 9 a.m.–10 a.m. PT: Elearning for All: Creating Accessible Courses with the All-New Adobe Captivate
Accessibility is crucial for ensuring that all users, regardless of their abilities, can access and interact with elearning content. Join Sharath Ramaswamy, Senior Elearning Evangelist at Adobe, in shaping a more inclusive elearning landscape and ensuring that education is accessible to all learners. In this session, Sharath will explore the exciting possibilities of creating inclusive and accessible elearning experiences using the latest features of Adobe Captivate. The agenda: 

• Understanding the importance of accessibility in elearning

• Exploring Adobe Captivate’s enhanced accessibility tools.

• Creating accessible elearning content in Adobe Captivate.

• Testing and validating accessibility compliance.

Wednesday, August 23, 2023, 10 a.m.–11 a.m. PT: Using Microsoft “Power” Tools to Gain Insight into Your Training
In this session, with Mark Stauffer, Senior Manager of Global Learning & Development at Brink’s, you’ll see how to use Microsoft PowerBI Desktop and Power Automate, to enhance the reporting of your training programs. LMS reports can show you how your user base is doing, but sometimes, these reports are limited and aren’t always readily available to those who need them. Using PowerBI and data from an LMS, you can answer the exact questions that you’re wondering about. Couple PowerBI and Power Automate, and you can deliver data results to exactly who needs it on a regular basis.

Wednesday, August 23, 2023, 3 p.m.–4 p.m. PT: Community Member Showcase: Leigh Ann Morgan
Leigh Ann Morgan is a corporate instructional designer with a master’s degree in instructional design and technology from Indiana University of Pennsylvania. She designs with intention, by thoroughly assessing clients’ needs and constructing impactful elearning that will develop skills and inspire better performance and growth. Leigh Ann believes instructional design is both a science and a form of art. With a sound understanding of various design methods, theories and technical skill, she takes the learner on a journey that’s focused, fulfilling and fun.

Thursday, August 24, 2023, 8 a.m.–9 a.m. PT: Leader Talk: Cohort-Based Learning: Why It Works and How to Make It Work for You
Learning leaders must design and deliver engaging learning experiences that bring their teams together — no matter where they are. Cohort learning is a viable way to train and develop a workforce and build team engagement. Learning leaders must gain new skills to optimize the use of technology to deliver training that fosters connectivity and collaborative learning experiences. During this Training Industry Leader Talk, you’ll learn about some of the tools, resources and engagement tactics that can help you deliver more effective cohort-based learning.

Thursday, August 24, 2023, 9 a.m.–10 a.m. PT: How Learning Dev Pros Are Using AI Voice in 2023
AI and Generative AI have begun to dominate industry newsletters, and learning & development is no exception. The problem most instructional designers face today is understanding what AI tools are easy to learn, work well in team environments and have a high return on investment. AI Voice is one of those tools, and in this webinar, with Marta Mueller, Customer Success Manager at WellSaid Labs, you’ll learn why companies like Boeing, Snowflake, Five9, Intel and Peloton spend less time and money sourcing professional voiceovers, without sacrificing quality

Thursday, August 24, 2023, 10 a.m.–11 a.m. PT: Performance Focused Onboarding: How to Maximize Early Success
Most organizations fall well short in delivering effective, impactful onboarding. This can lead to a lack of early success for team members who are in a new role and an increased risk of turnover in the first year of employment. Join Ganesh Krishnamurthy, EVP from Newgen Enterprise, and Matt Pittman, Principal HCM Analyst, as they look at ways to build a performance focused onboarding cycle that achieves both a strong sense of belonging and a shortened time to impact in their work for employees new to critical job roles.

Thursday, August 24, 2023, 12 p.m.–1 p.m. PT: How to Integrate ChatGPT in Your Elearning Modules
Curious about how generative AI can transform your elearning modules? Join Garima Gupta, Founder and CEO of Artha Learning Inc., in this fun, interactive session, where you’ll dive into integrating ChatGPT with Articulate Storyline, putting the power of AI right in the hands of your learner. (You could use the same techniques with any other leading authoring software.) Garima will also talk about critical dos and don’ts while planning to use ChatGPT integration in elearning modules. Some experience playing with ChatGPT will be helpful.

Tuesday, August 29, 2023, 8 a.m.–9 a.m. PT: Leverage AI Tools to Design High-Impact Microlearning
With the power of AI tools, you can now unlock new levels of personalization and interactivity when creating effective microlearning experiences. However, as tempting as it is to use these tools for faster, more creative solutions, the role of learning architects is crucial to identify the right fit for the right training needs. Join CommLab’s Howard B. Lewis, Ph.D., CPT, as he explores:

• Distinguishing microlearning from other instructional strategies.

• Identifying the form of microlearning through discovery questions.

• Understanding the role of microlearning in offering spaced retrieval, refreshers and reinforcement.

• Developing microlearning assets with artificial intelligence tools, along with samples. 

Tuesday, August 29, 2023, 9 a.m.–10 a.m. PT: Create a Fresh and Captivating Canva Presentation
Is it time to level up your Canva skills? Are you feeling uninspired and bored with your current presentation tool and want to take your design skills to the next level? Eye-catching visuals are the secret sauce to getting your audience engaged. In this session, with Danielle Watkins, Owner, Instructional Designer and Trainer at Zenith Performance Solutions, you’ll learn how to create training presentation slides in Canva that are visually appealing and engage your learners, and reusable across your team.

Tuesday, August 29, 2023, 11 a.m.–12 p.m. PT: Building a Learning Culture to Combat Employee Burnout (Free for ATD members)
In today’s fast-paced and demanding work environments, burnout has become a widespread concern, taking a toll on well-being and organizational performance. Research has shown, however, that building a learning culture can serve as a powerful tool to combat burnout and create resilient, engaged teams. Join Sarah Reynolds, West Coast Business Manager at LMS365, for an insightful webinar in which she’ll delve into the connections between learning culture and burnout reduction, exploring practical strategies and best practices to foster continuous learning, employee development and overall well-being.

Wednesday, August 30, 2023, 9 a.m.–10 a.m. PT: Introduction to the TechSmith Camtasia Fundamentals and Beyond Live-and-Online Certificate
Video and video training is in demand, and organizations increasingly use more video technology — especially instructional and explainer videos. TechSmith’s Camtasia is an exceptional all-in-one tool for Instructional Designers to have in their toolbox for screen recording, video editing and animation. In this webinar, Kevin Thorn, Chief NuggetHead at Nuggethead Studioz, will peek into the “Creating and Recording Videos with TechSmith Camtasia Certificate: Fundamentals and Beyond” by introducing video editing tips, techniques for screen recording and animation effects for creating eye-catching videos.

Wednesday, August 30, 2023, 11 a.m.–12 p.m. PT: What You Need to Know About Using AI on Your Global Trainings (Free for ATD members)
Join Sergio Atristain, Managing Director at Idea Translations, in this webinar to learn about AI-powered translation, AI-powered transcription and AI-powered narration, as well as the benefits and risks of including these in your next global training program. Topics covered include: 

• What global training services can be created using AI.

• The benefits and risks of doing so.

• How to determine whether using AI makes sense.

Thursday, August 31, 12 p.m.–1 p.m. PT: How to Host an Accessible Hybrid Training
In this webinar, Belo Miguel Cipriani, Ed. D., Founder and Digital Inclusion Strategist at Oleb Media, will cover accessibility best practices for hybrid learning that goes beyond captions and ramps. You’ll learn how to:

• Make decisions on tools and platforms you choose based on accessibility fundamentals.

• Craft support services based on personas.

• Understand accessibility best practices as they pertain to physical learning spaces.

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