Online Webinar  – Recorded January 11th, 2023
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider: Training Magazine Network

Surveys are key tools for evaluating training programs. Surveys are revered for their ease of use and promise of reaching many, but we must be able to craft rich, concise, and focused questions that yield useful data.

For this, we must understand the cognitive processes our respondents use to answer questions with accuracy and candor.

With rich examples and an interactive approach, Sheila will demonstrate why we must engage in a respondent-centered and research-based survey design process to craft high quality questions. Participants will increase their understanding of how to design high quality surveys and leave with resources for further skill development.

Floyd Fowler, preeminent survey researcher,  claims, “Poor [survey] question design is pervasive, and improving questions design is one of the easiest, most cost-effective steps that can be taken to improve the quality of survey data.”

Presenter: Sheila B. Robinson, Ed.D., (LinkedIn profile) Custom Professional Learning, LLC, is a speaker, educator, and consultant with a passion for the science of teaching and learning, presentations, and asking questions. Through her talks, professional development workshops and university courses, Sheila teaches people how to make the most of professional learning and how to ask good questions, along with program evaluation, survey design, data visualization, audience engagement, and presentation design.  Sheila is also a Certified Presentation Specialist (CPS)™, Director of Education, Training and Advocacy at the Presentation Guild, and Senior Design and Facilitation Consultant with Evergreen Data.

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Designing Surveys For Evaluating Training Programs

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Online Webinar – Recorded August 9th, 2023
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider: Training Magazine Network

Chat GPT has become wildly popular but you can get burned. Discover how to use Chat GPT (and Microsoft’s Copilot) responsibly to save time without making all your content sound “GPT-bland.”.

In this session you’ll learn:

1. How to cite Chat GPT and check for accuracy (yes, it’s sometimes wrong)
2. Some prompt ideas for realistic training tasks
3. How to turn Chat GPT’s content into YOUR content

We’ll have fun using Chat GPT live and take your prompt ideas to see the results!

Presenter:  Ellen Finkelstein (LinkedIn profile) is a recognized expert, speaker, trainer, and best-selling author on PowerPoint presentation skills. One of only 37 Microsoft-appointed PowerPoint MVPs (Most Valuable Professional) in the world, Ellen is a lively, confident speaker who freely shares her substantial experience in order to help others. In her books and webinars, she addresses the full range of issues associated with creating effective presentations, including:

• PowerPoint for Teachers: Dynamic Presentations and Interactive Classroom Projects (Grades K-12)
• How to Do Everything with Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003 (How to Do Everything)
• AutoCAD 2015 and AutoCAD LT 2015 Bible
• Flash Professional CS5 and Flash Catalyst CS5 For Dummies
• OpenOffice.org For Dummies
• Jakarta Struts For Dummies
• Macromedia Flash 8 For Dummies
• Syndicating Web Sites with RSS Feeds For Dummies ®

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Using Chat GPT Responsibly
To Generate Presentation Ideas & Do Research

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Online Webinar – Recorded January 24th, 2023
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider: Training Magazine Network

Learning online is now commonplace. We know how to use the platform features, but unfortunately, engaging attendees to participate, to come on camera, and to unmute can be like “herding cats,” as the saying goes.

The features of the platform are not what engages people, it is how we use them that makes an impact.

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 these learning activities and a “never fail” debrief strategy to involve them!

Invite participants to take charge of their learning and experience virtual training like they’ve never seen before.

Walk away with:

• 3-6 ready to use virtual learning activity examples, including one that uses escape game strategy for exploratory learning
• 1 “never fail” debrief strategy to reflect on, validate, and encourage learning
• 1 job aid to assist you to make your own virtual learning activities
• An understanding of the psychology behind virtual training design and delivery strategies that truly engage

Presenter: Kassy LaBorie (LinkedIn profile) Director of Virtual Training Services for Dale Carnegie Training, is an indemand keynote speaker & leads a consultancy  to develop online training strategies for organizations . Her book Interact and Engage! 50+ Activities for Virtual Training, Meetings, Webinars, has received rave reviews.  Previously Kassy served as the Product Design Architect and was a Master Trainer for InSync Training, & ExecuTrain.  Kassy also helped create the WebEx University.

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Irresistible Virtual Training

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Online Webinar  – Recorded November 28, 2017
Activity Type: Education – Online or Digital Media 1 PDU – Free
Provider: ProjectManagement.com / Gantthead (REP #2488)
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Is available to PMI® members.

Disrespect happens. No matter how we reinforce expectations for workplace respect, every workplace encounters those who become workplace nightmares.

If ignored or handled badly, bad behavior can devastate a project, team or organization like a wildfire. If handled early and effectively, relationships and workplace culture will be enriched.

This makes disrespect management critical – it takes skill to effectively avoid arguments, clarify misunderstandings, deal with disputes, and repair relationships. Simply put – disrespect requires intervention and direct conversations.

Disrespect can be effectively managed and even avoided if steps are taken early to reinforce behavioral expectations and devise an action plan for going forward.

Furthermore, by applying a series of thoughtful steps and tools, most be behavior can be resolved effectively.  Critical to success is learning how to engage early, using skills to identify and confront the disrespect and avoid escalation.

The focus of this webinar is on providing leaders with tools for approaching and resolving disrespect issues, before they become full-blown conflicts. Participants will learn how to assess the situation early, maturely and how to change the context of the conversation.

This webinar helps leaders use direct conversations to take the initiative to confront the problem.

Critical to disrespect management, participants will develop strategies for changing the context of conflicts from negative to positive, from disrespectful to appropriate. Participants will learn how to turn a disagreement into an opportunity to provoke learning and enrich relationships.

This webinar will enable participants to understand how to effectively reduce and manage workplace disrespect. More specifically, it will enable participants to enhance their communication skills and awareness.

Learn:

• To proactively engaging to confront disrespect
• To address bad behavior
• To have difficult conversations
• To tackle tough behavioral challenges
• To improve listening skills
• To enrich relationships and workplace culture
• To change the context of disrespect from negative to positive

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Control Freaks, Queen Bees & Workplace Saboteurs: Preventing, Managing & Eliminating Your Project Nightmare

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Online Webinar – Recorded June 2nd, 2021
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: Gartner Webinars

The ambition to drive innovation is more complex than ever, as companies seek to innovate beyond products into services, ecosystems and business models.

Culture often acts as a barrier to innovation, but represents a substantial opportunity to improve innovation performance. Organizational culture comprises the values, beliefs, rules and norms that permeate throughout a company.

Unfortunately, cultures are hard to change and tend to do so slowly. However, organizational climates change more easily and quickly. A climate is a group’s shared perceptions of the nature of its work.

There are three things that can especially enable stronger innovation climates: Senior Leader Posture; Innovation Operationalization; and Creativity Development.

In this webinar Atul Dighe (LinkedIn profile) Gartner VP Advisory,  will help senior R&D leaders strengthen their innovation climates by consistently modeling the right behavior, and setting and communicating their innovation vision.

Discussion Topics:

• Importance of an innovation culture in the current scenario
• How commonly held beliefs about innovation culture get in the way of our desired outcomes
• Master the 3 keys of a strong innovation climate

Return to the web page to watch both the live and on-demand webinar.

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Establish A Strong Culture Of Innovation To Meet Your Business Demands

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LOnline Webinar – Recorded April 18th, 2023
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider: Training Magazine Network

Live virtual training has gone from a novelty to the instructional instrument of choice for many organizations. While audiences and trainers may feel Zoom-ed out, creative use of the latest generation of digital tools can supercharge your virtual training programs and deliver a better ROI than traditional, face-to-face learning experiences.

Brella Co-founder/Senior Creative Event Strategist Mark Mallchok (LinkedIn profile) and Brella Technical Director Joshua Stroud (LinkedIn profile) walk you through how to:

1. Bring an event-based mindset to your virtual training efforts
2. Create virtual trainings with meaningful interactions and gamification to achieve durable, measurable results
3. Integrate the power of vMix/OBS into Zoom and Teams meetings
4. Use these digital production tools to give your next training a broadcast-quality polish

By the end of the session, you’ll have a roadmap for transforming run-of-the-mill training into engaging, memorable learning experiences.

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Training As An Event: Achieving Superior Production
For Your Virtual Training

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