Online Webinar  – Recorded December 6th, 2023
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider: Training Magazine Network

We’re constantly being told that AI will revolutionize the way we all work and what we do, but can you imagine ever not using PowerPoint?

It just feels like it’s too embedded into everything to be cast aside. Fortunately, Microsoft, and others, are also incorporating AI tools into PowerPoint, allowing people to benefit from the technological leaps, while still using familiar tools.

The anticipated launch of Microsoft Copilot will be a huge boost to storytelling, design, and visualization for many – enabling them to create better presentations much more quickly and easily.

It’s easily the most exciting thing to happen to PowerPoint, and the entire Office suite, since it was first launched 30 years ago.

But there are other, more subtle, but equally useful AI tools that help you in all sorts of ways. From creating custom graphics and layouts to finding suitable content to incorporating web cam feeds into your slides, to automatic subtitles and translations of your presentation – as you deliver it, live.

Frankly, given that this outline is being written months ahead of the session being delivered, who knows what else will happen in that time. Certainly, plenty to cover that will be highly relevant to people in an L&D environment who probably dream in PowerPoint.

1. Understand the range of AI tools available to support your presentation.
2. Create stunning presentations quickly and easily using PowerPoint and AI.
3. Share your presentation stories with your audience in an engaging and effective way.

For Another Great PDU With Richard Goring Check Out:
Become A PowerPoint Jedi
With The Force Of Templates & Masters

Presenter:  Richard Goring (LinkedIn profile) Director at BrightCarbon, (a specialist presentation agency). has helped to write and create thousands of presentations, and coached hundreds of teams to present more effectively using visuals, diagrams, and animated sequences that explain and reinforce the key points. Richard is passionate about improving the way that people present and believes that anyone can deliver a great presentation if given the right techniques and a bit of practice.

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PowerPoint & AI To Create Better Presentations, Faster

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Online Webinar– Recorded June 14th, 2023
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider: Training Magazine Network

Chat GPT (Conversational Generative Pre-training Transformer) , is a language processing tool.

It aids users to answer questions – write, code. explain various things, provides diverse information, etc.

It is today’s trendy buzzword that has been humming through the AI world, the world of techies and even among us – ordinary workers and learners.

But is it a fad, a trend  or just another novel idea that will soon fade away?  It certainly is here to stay, With further exploration, research, testing and application in real-world scenarios like responses to complex questions, accuracy, reliability, validity, training, etc.

Chat GPT is progressively taking the world by storm and making its mark, bringing forth L &D benefits never seen before.

There is no denying that it is a sensational tool that continues to flourish and evolve..

There are different opinions floating around regarding its benefits to the learning industry hence, it is necessary to have a basic understanding  of what it is and how it can help us empower our learners in their quest for more knowledge and quick access to information for immediate application and solutions.

In fact it is being currently tried as a “teaching assistant” in certain fields of learning.

Join our panelists Megan Torrance (LinkedIn profile) AsCEO (Chief Energy Officer) of TorranceLearning, Josh Cavalier (LinkedIn profile) and Ray Jimenez (LinkedIn profile) – Chief Learning Architect and Founder of Vignettes Learning and StoryImpacts.com as they discuss these areas that may be powerfully impacted by leveraging ChatGPT:

• Instructional design and ChatGPT tools and technologies like video, writing, images, audio,etc.
• Leadership, strategies,  and data analytics
• Platform and systems integration with ChatGPT
• Impacts to learning systems

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ChatGPT Driven Instructional Design: Dreams, Results, & Horrors

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Online Webinar– Recorded June 15th, 2023
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider: Training Magazine Network

What good does it do participants when the trainer shows he/she can do it?

The real measure of impact is whether the lesson is caught and applied by the audience.

Breakout rooms are a tool to help you facilitate peer learning and make your job as a trainer easier.

Becky’s rule of thumb is never do for participants what they can do for themselves—even in a virtual classroom. The more active they are in their learning, the more they remember and ultimately apply.

During this free 1-hour webinar, you will:

• Discover when to use breakout rooms and how to do it effectively
• Discuss common objections from presenters and participants—and how to overcome them
• Explore how you can add a variety of exercises to keep breakout rooms engaging
• Experience effective breakout room learning activities live on Adobe Connect

Presenter:  Becky Pike Pluth (LinkedIn profile) President and CEO, The Bob Pike Group Becky has more than 17 years of exposure to Bob Pike’s Creative Training Techniques (CTT) and vast experience in cross-functional training design and delivery, project management and business operations. She easily employs a participant-centered approach to classroom training, one-on-one training and blended e-learning and author of numerous professional development training materials including:

• 101 Movie Clips that Teach and Train
• Webinars with WOW Factor: Tips, Tricks and Interactivities for Virtual Training
• SCORE 3: Super Closers, Openers, Revisiters, Energizers
• SCORE for Technical Training, volume 4
• SCORE! for Webinar Training, volume 5

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Hidden Gems Of Breakout Rooms

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Online Webinar – Recorded June 21st, 2023
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider: Training Magazine Network

Learn about the power and awesomeness of vector graphics in PowerPoint.

Use simple vector elements to make professional PowerPoint slides and graphics in minutes.

Geek out with Mike as he breaks down pro tips and techniques to make your job easier, lower file size, and blow everyone away with incredible new skills.

• Understand vector in PowerPoint
• Make pro graphics
• Use vector to cut out photos fast
• Know where to go to get pro vector graphics

For Another Great PDU With Mike Parkinson Check Out:
Billion $ Graphics’
Top 10 PowerPoint Tips, Tricks, & Tools

Presenter: Mike Parkinson (LinkedIn profile) Microsoft PowerPoint MVPs & CPP APMP Fellow, is an internationally recognized visual communication expert, professional speaker, and trainer, and a multi-published, award-winning author of Do-It-Yourself Billion Dollar Graphics: 3 Fast and Easy Steps to Turn Your Text and Ideas Into Persuasive Graphics & A Trainer’s Guide to PowerPoint: Best Practices for Master Presenters. Mike’s  creative services firms, 24 Hour Company & Billion Dollar Graphics helps organizations, and agencies & he regularly contributes articles and conducts training seminars to companies, organizations, agencies like Microsoft, Fed Ex, Motorola, Dell, Lockheed Martin, Subaru, and the NSA as well as at learning institutions and organizations such as STC, ATD and Training Magazine.

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Victory With Vectors (PowerPoint Advanced)

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Online Webinar  – Recorded November 16th 2022
Activity Type: Education – Online or Digital Media  1 PDU – Free
Provider: Training Magazine Network

1. Have you ever felt like a fraud in your field of expertise?
2. Do you feel like you have to constantly do more to look like an expert?

In this webinar, Audrey Cavenecia (LinkedIn profile), Chief Content Officer and award-winning Podcast Producer for Pete Carroll, explores the feelings associated with imposter syndrome and translates imposter syndrome in simple words for anyone who wants to know how it feels.

You’ll learn how women in leadership are disproportionately impacted by imposter syndrome and examine three effective strategies to overcome feeling like an imposter in the workplace. After this webinar, you’ll feel more confident as a leader.

Join Audrey for an honest, unfiltered take on the imposter phenomenon and let it flow past you like a breeze.

In this webinar, you will learn:

• What imposter syndrome is and if you are experiencing it
• The impact of imposter syndrome on women in leadership
• The three effective strategies for combating imposter syndrome

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3 Simple Steps To Get Past Imposter Syndrome &
Restore Confidence As A Leader

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Online Webinar – Recorded August 10th, 2023
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider: Training Magazine Network

Surveys are important tools for gathering the data we use for training evaluation, and they’re easy to compose, right? Wrong!

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!

Did you know that the rating scales we use with survey questions actually influence response?

This makes our decisions about which scales or which intervals to offer even more impactful. We also hold onto myths about how many scale points are best, how to label them, or whether to use an odd or even number of response options.

These beliefs prevent us from asking clear, easy-to-answer questions that yield meaningful, actionable data.

Join Sheila 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.

Participants will be able to:

• identify common problems with survey rating scales
• identify common myths in rating scale design
• determine when to use an odd or even number of scale points in a given survey item
• determine when to use midpoints and non-substantive response options in rating scale items
• apply best practices for labeling rating scales

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.

Click to register for:
Survey Rating Scales Done Right:
Let’s Use Best Practices To Dispel The Old Myths!

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