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As the calendar turns to 2025, make January a month of possibility and learning and kick off the year with a free webinar or two. From sparking innovation to refining your expertise, this month’s webinars are designed to help you start 2025 on the right foot. There’s no better time to invest in yourself and explore fresh perspectives. Invite your network to join you — and make this a year of meaningful growth!

Tuesday, January 7, 2025, 9 a.m.–10 a.m. PT: Five Things You Should Do in 2025 to Leverage AI for Learning
As an expert in educational AI and talent development, Margie Meacham, Founder and Chief Freedom Officer at Learningtogo.ai, will guide through some of the most significant advancements in large language models, adaptive learning platforms, and emerging AI capabilities that are transforming the L&D field. You’ll explore how these technologies are not just enhancing traditional learning methods but fundamentally altering how we approach skill development and knowledge transfer in organizations. Whether you’re a trainer, instructional designer or senior leader, this webinar will equip you with the insights and strategies you need to thrive in the rapidly changing, AI-driven present of talent development.

Tuesday, January 7, 2025, 10 a.m.–11 a.m. PT: Beyond the Basics: Creating Interactive Elearning Scenarios in Storyline
Are you seeking to enhance engagement in your scenario-based training? Transition from traditional lecture-style and passive learning approaches to foster behaviour change and knowledge retention. By incorporating scenario-based learning, participants immerse themselves in realistic situations, enabling them to analyze, apply existing knowledge and hone critical thinking skills in risk-free settings. This interactive training method, with Michaelle Mata, Instructional Designer at Insight, is effective across diverse subjects like sales, compliance, safety and communication, emphasizing the importance of proficient decision-making skills.

Tuesday, January 7, 2025, 10 a.m.–11 a.m. PT: How to Align HR with the Business and Drive Breakthrough Results
HR leaders today face mounting pressure to show tangible business value while navigating complex workforce transformations. The key to proving this value is HR’s ability to build a compelling business case for how it will support the needs of the organization. Join Alan Mellish, Principal Analyst at Brandon Hall Group, and Rebecca Warren, Marketing, Director on the Talent-Centred Transformation team at Eightfold, as they discuss best practices in aligning HR to the business. The expert speakers will share research driven insights, real-world examples and practical strategies to help organizations position HR as a strategic asset to the business.

Tuesday, January 7, 2025, 12 p.m.–1 p.m. PT: Imposter Syndrome Steals Talent! Spot It and Stop It!
Imposter Syndrome is stealing your talent and opportunities. When you have imposter syndrome, you feel inadequate, like a fraud, undeserving of your position or success — despite evidence that you are fully qualified and deserving. In this session, hosted by Betty Dannewitz, Founder and CEO of ifyouaskbetty, you’ll learn to spot your own internal imposter monster and gain resources and techniques to help you stop it effectively.

Wednesday, January 8, 2025, 12 p.m.–1 p.m. PT: Using AI to Train and Assess Soft Skills: Examples from Healthcare
Nowadays, too many entry-level candidates lack the necessary soft skills to collaborate with co-workers and communicate effectively with clients. Soft skills are also essential for people aspiring to leadership positions. However, training and assessment of soft skills is difficult, particularly in an elearning context. In this webinar, Lewis Johnson, CEO of Alelo, will show you how to harness generative AI to train and assess soft skills. Trainees will be able to practice skills in role-plays with AI avatars playing roles as clients, co-workers, etc. They’ll get immediate constructive feedback, so they can learn and improve. You can try out these training techniques yourself using common generative AI tools such as ChatGPT.

Thursday, January 9, 2025, 9 a.m.–10 a.m. PT: The Future of Learning: AI-Driven Personalization
As AI transforms learning design workflows, the role of instructional designers is evolving. Josh Cavalier, Founder of JoshCavalier.ai, will explore how AI-driven personalization revolutionizes workplace learning, shifting from adaptive models to deeply personalized, real-time support embedded in workflows. Discover how AI harnesses physiological and behavioural data to tailor content to learners’ attention, fatigue, stress and performance, enabling seamless integration with their daily tasks. Through real-world examples and research, you’ll gain actionable insights into measuring learner states, leveraging AI’s predictive capabilities and designing content for an AI-enabled ecosystem.

Thursday, January 9, 2025, 11 a.m.–12 p.m. PT: The Three Groups That Most Need Leadership Training Now!
The newest research shows that three groups in every organization need the attention of those responsible for training and development. The survey asked more than 1,000 executives, managers and L&D employees throughout the last six months where the most urgent needs for training exist. The answer was virtually the same regardless of industry or company size. Join members of the Lone Rock Leadership faculty, led by Russ Hill, Co-Founder and Senior Partner, for an eye-opening webinar as they present the findings and share the stories that emerged from the study, exposing how performance is being impacted when these three groups aren’t prioritized.

Tuesday, January 14, 2025, 9 a.m.–10 a.m. PT: Six Strategies for Better Engaging Learners
Learn how to increase your organization’s training effectiveness by 90% in this fun and practical session. Best-selling author (5+ million books sold) Bob Nelson, Ph.D., President of Nelson Motivation Inc., will explain how to apply positive reinforcement, dubbed “The Greatest Management Principle in the World,” to your training function and classes. Help make your training more exciting and the application of what’s learned back on the job more engaging. Leave this session with practical techniques and strategies that will increase learning effectiveness and fun for all trainees.

Tuesday, January 14, 2025, 12 p.m.–1 p.m. PT: Advertiser’s 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, a field that does this well. If commercials can get people to purchase items they don’t need, how can you use these marketing secrets to influence learners? Danielle Wallace, Chief Learning Strategist at Beyond the Sky Custom Learning, will delve into what makes some ads so compelling they persuade you to buy and how to use these techniques in learning and development. You’ll explore the strategic framework to use when creating a training video strategy, as well as the essential design considerations for video.

Wednesday, January 15, 2025, 10 a.m.–11 a.m. PT: Maximizing Training ROI: How Dell Technologies and United Airlines Scale Instructor-Led Programs
When organizations try to scale their programs, they often hit a wall of spreadsheets, manual scheduling and wasted resources. The result? Millions in unnecessary costs and underutilized training staff. Want to learn how leading companies solved this problem? Join this roundtable discussion with Training Orchestra and learning leaders from major enterprises who transformed their training operations. They’ll share their experiences improving instructor utilization and achieving measurable ROI from their initiatives. You’ll hear practical insights on building efficient systems that scale without ballooning costs or sacrificing quality.

Thursday, January 16, 2025, 9 a.m.–10 a.m. PT: Why It’s Time to Update How We Evaluate Our Training Technologies
Judith Hale, Ph.D., President of Hale Associates, will introduce a new approach to evaluating the technologies you use to create, administer and deliver your training. The approach is both proven and practical. Register now and leave with rules, tips and techniques for getting numbers your clients care about and telling the story of the value you bring. See examples of how training technologies shortened the time to bringing people to competence and reduced the cost of compliance. Learn how to select measures in a way that engages clients in the process of proving what you do works.

Thursday, January 16, 2025, 10 a.m.–11 a.m. PT: Taking Training to Your Partners: Role of Elearning Standards
As technologies and products become more advanced, needing to train your customers on your products is increasingly important, and L&D departments are becoming more involved in developing external training content. When creating a customer education program, you need a strategy for handling the different system behaviours and customer experiences. In this session, Rustici Software’s, Chris Tompkins, VP of Business Development, and Elizabeth Mohr, Client Success Manager, will discuss the technical considerations for distributing training across multiple systems, including the importance of elearning standards and which ones are more prevalent in different industries.

Thursday, January 16, 2025, 12 p.m.–1 p.m. PT: Flow-Based Leadership: Transform Your Team with Neuroscience-Backed Strategies
Leadership can be the make-or-break factor in team performance and business success. But what sets extraordinary leaders apart? In this webinar, Gerrit McGowan, Human Performance Coach and Managing Partner at Gestalt Advisors, will explore how neuroscience and flow-states can revolutionize the way you create and lead high-performing teams. Learn the latest science-backed techniques for developing a leadership style that is both brain-based and results-driven. Discover the secrets behind the flow state — what it is, how to cultivate it, and how it transforms workplaces into environments of productivity, creativity and deep engagement.

Tuesday, January 21, 2025, 9 a.m.–10 a.m. PT: How to Build a Podcast Media Empire for You and Your Business
Join Jeffrey Hayzlett, Chairman and Founder of C-Suite Network, as he reveals the secrets to building a podcast media empire for your business. In this webinar, you’ll learn how to create, grow and monetize a podcast that boosts your brand, expands your reach and positions you as an industry leader. Don’t miss out on this opportunity to elevate your business through the power of podcasting.

Wednesday, January 22, 2025, 9 a.m.–10 a.m. PT: From Basic to Brilliant: Tools to Transform Your Elearning Projects
Unlock the potential of your elearning projects by transforming basic tools into brilliant solutions. Garima Gupta, Founder and CEO of Artha Learning Inc., will guide you through a curated selection of free and low-cost tools that can elevate your content from ordinary to extraordinary. Learn how to creatively use these tools to enhance media, interaction and engagement within your elearning modules. You’ll gain insights into practical applications, see real-life examples and participate in hands-on activities that demonstrate how to implement these tools effectively. By the end of the session, you’ll be ready to take your elearning projects to the next level with minimal investment and maximum impact.

Wednesday, January 22, 2025, 12 p.m.–1 p.m. PT: Using AI to Accelerate ID
Today’s workforce needs increased retooling of skills that will only accelerate in the coming years. AI tools now take repetitive tasks and create deliverables in a fraction of the time it once took. Judith Hale, Ph.D., President of Hale Associates, and Jerry Sullivan, President of Dynacom, will demonstrate how to use AI to develop a course. Join this webinar and learn more about the power of AI. Also, find out how Jerry integrates his technology, mass media, video production and instructional design experiences. Using AI tools, he’s finding new ways to dramatically raise productivity, especially related to course development, which he’ll share with you in this session.

Thursday, January 23, 2025, 9 a.m.–10 a.m. PT: AI for Trainers
Are you ready to dip your toes into AI for training, but feeling a bit intimidated? This session is an introduction for trainers, a friendly starting point. Whether you tap into AI to design innovative training programs, automate tasks or personalize the learning experience, it all begins with leveraging prompts. Becky Pike Pluth, President and CEO of The Bob Pike Group, will be joined by William Rintz from UMU for an overview of effective prompt-writing strategies and tools that can improve how you interact with AI.

Tuesday, January 28, 2025, 12 p.m.–1 p.m. PT: The Science of Stunning: Creating Presentations That Demand Attention
In this webinar, Carmen Simon, Ph.D., Cognitive Neuroscientist and Founder of Enhancive, and Mike Parkinson, Owner of Billion Dollar Graphics, will share the latest techniques in cognitive science and design to engage and captivate your audience. Learn how to craft presentations and learning materials that not only inform, but also leave a lasting impact. Discover science-based and practical techniques to improve understanding, recollection and adoption.

Wednesday, January 29, 2025, 9 a.m.–10 a.m. PT: The Neuroscience of Learning
Research on the neuroscience of learning continues to evolve, adding new understanding to how the brain learns, builds memories, processes failure and shifts behaviour. These findings are shaping how learning should be designed by educators and experienced by learners. At the same time, technology has completely transformed what’s possible in learning, making it not only faster, but also more realistic, effective and affordable… IF it’s used correctly. In this webinar, Britt Andreatta, Ph.D., author, speaker and consultant, will discuss how.

Thursday, January 30, 2025, 8 a.m.–9 a.m. PT: L&D’s Role in Building Skills-Based Organizations
As organizations pivot towards a skills-focused workforce to drive success, learning leaders play an important role in identifying, tracking and mapping the core skills needed for each job role. In this Leader Talk, industry experts will explore how L&D should approach their upskilling and reskilling initiatives in a rapidly evolving workplace. You’ll dive into new technologies and methodologies learning leaders can use to more efficiently support the skills development of their learners, while fostering more productive performance and career growth conversations.

Thursday, January 30, 2025, 11 a.m.–12 p.m. PT: The Skill Code: How to Save Human Ability in an Age of Intelligent Machines (Free for ATD members)
Join Matt Beane, Assistant Professor, Technology Management Department at UC Santa Barbara, to discuss key themes in his newly published book, The Skill Code, which reveals the hidden dynamics that fuel successful skill development, given intelligent machines. Drawing from more than 12 years of research across diverse environments, Matt has identified the “three Cs” of skill development: challenge, complexity and connection. Just as DNA is composed of four essential amino acids, these elements are fundamental to honing your abilities. Discover how to:

Implement the “three Cs” of skill development: challenge, complexity and connection.
Integrate intelligent technologies in a way that supports, rather than hinders, skill development.
Create a culture of active mentorship in an era dominated by technology.

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