Live Webinar – May 10th, 2023 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider: Training Magazine Network

Everyone knows that text-heavy slides are terrible presentation and learning experiences, and yet everyone still uses them.

Why?

1. A major contributor is that dreaded question – ‘can you send me your slides?’ And so you have to include all the text.
2. What if there was another way?
3. What if there were five other ways?

This session will look at techniques for you to create perfect slides AND the perfect content to accompany them. Layered presentations, notes pages, dedicated documents, narrated videos, interactive PDFs, and even microsites. All in PowerPoint.

Some will be quick and easy, others more in-depth but could be worth the investment.

You’ll come away with a range of options to choose to maximize the impact your presentations have, through the resources you share afterwards.

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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Send Me The Slides: Create Effective Handouts, Summaries,
Resources & Interactive PDFs In PowerPoint

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Live Webinar – March 9th, 2023 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider: Training Magazine Network

Are you struggling to get the support you need from stakeholders and managers for your programs to be successful?

If so, you are not alone.

In this webinar Dr Jim Kirkpatrick (LinkedIn profile) and Wendy Kirkpatrick (LinkedIn profile) will address the core challenges faced worldwide by learning and development professionals in getting a seat at the table, and securing the resources they need throughout the training and development process.

Join Jim and Wendy for this interactive discussion and learn concepts that will get you thinking and acting in new, more strategic ways.

You will come away from this action-packed hour armed to increase your interaction with stakeholders and drive program success. Transform yourself from a cost center to a trusted partner.

Objectives

• Explain the starting point for any successful initiative
• Define where the most value is created in the training and development process
• Identify specific ways you can increase your value in the eyes of stakeholders

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Getting The Resources & Support You Need For Key Programs

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Live Webinar – May 11th, 2023 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider: Training Magazine Network

Whether or not you consider yourself a techie, this is a must-attend session for you.

ChatGPT Impacts Microlearning, Just-in-Time and Just-Enough Learning, Workflow Learning, and Story-Learning Design

In this session Raye will cover topics on how ChatGPT impacts our own mental processes, emotional experiences, and skills in learning design, facilitation, and technology.

How does ChatGPT affect and enhance our lives, minds, and skill sets? Every L&D professional ought to wonder.

ChatGPT is the most recent, December 22, 2022 release, of OpenAI.com – a conversational interactive with A.I.

ChatGPT is so advanced and intriguing that Wall Street Journal estimated that OpenAI is valuated at $29 Billion. Observers say ChatGPT is the “Google Search killer”.

In this session, Ray will continue sharing his analysis and experiments with ChatGPT in the following areas.

1. Writer
   • How ChatGPT helps avoid “writer’s block”; shows the different levels of writing; assists in ghostwriting; helps with engaging writing
2. Facilitator
   • How ChatGPT assists in facilitating conversations and extension of experience sharing; creating prompts and questions
3. Graphics Designer
   • How ChatGPT helps conceptualize the visualization of your learning concepts
4. Technologists
   • How ChatGPT can merge and integrate with your learning platforms; gives birth to new creative platforms
5. Storyteller
   • How ChatCPT helps in creating stories and leverages the whole Internet 100 times faster than using search
6. Coach
   • How ChatGPT serves as an assistant coach to you and your learners
7. Never-Possible-Before Solutions
   • What are the potentials of ChatGPT in new learning and performance solutions that significantly improve our skills and mindsets and how does it scale our capacities to work better with it?

Demos and examples – Ray will provide video recordings of his own and others’ testings and experiments.

Join the webinar and download “10 TIPS for L&D ChatGPT Skills Enhancements” 

Presenter : Ray Jimenez (LinkedIn profile) – Chief Learning Architect and Founder of Vignettes Learning and StoryImpacts.com, a systems development and consulting company specializing in e-Learning and Performance Systems, eLearning course development and interactive tools and social learning community platform.

Ray has over twenty years experience in the consulting and training industry. Author of  3-Minute e-Learning: Rapid Learning and Applications, Amazingly Lower Cost and Faster Speed of Delivery: Plus Online Demos, Templates, Videos, Scenario-Based Learning: Using Stories To Engage e-Learners (Scenario-Based Learning, Volume 1) and  DIYEL 101 Tips for Do-It-Yourself eLearning. Ray teaches eLearning programs for the University of California, Irvine, University of Texas, Southwestern Medical Center and Assumption University, Bangkok.

Workshop and briefing participants describe Ray as fun, engaging, Technically savvy, has depth in e-learning experience, balances theory and hands-on experience  and inspiring. Visit Ray’s website and his blog.

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How ChatGPT Impacts Our Mindsets, Emotions, Skills In Writing,
Facilitation, Storytelling, Visual Designer, & Content Designer

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Live Webinar May 9th, 2023 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: PMTA  Project Management Training Alliance

It is too easy to punish top performers and let the under-performers slide.

In this session Vicki will discuss how to recognize and reward top performers, understand and stop those that are toxic (maybe that is you!), and address under-performers to improve group performance.

NOTE: The session includes a handout.

Presenter: Vicki Wrona (LinkedIn profile) is the founder and President of Forward Momentum, LLC, a woman-owned REP offering Project Management and Instructional Design services. Vicki has 20+ years of leadership & PM experience, & more than 15 years presentation / development experience. Viki was selected to serve on PMI’s committee to write & review the PMBOK® Guide 4th edition, &i also  co-developed the program that won PMI’s Professional Development Product of the Year award.

Vicki is extremely passionate about equipping individuals and organizations with practical knowledge and tools so that results – and bottom-line impact – are consistently achieved. For free eBooks, blogs, infographics and more, go to  Forward Momentum’s Resources Page.

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Don’t Punish Your Top Performers

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Online Webinar  – Recorded November 17, 2022
Activity Type: Education – Online or Digital Media  1 PDU – Free
Provider: Training Magazine Network

The software industry is embracing Agile project management and there is much that we in learning & development can learn from them.

Whether you’re using SAM, LLAMA®, Scrum or still exploring your options, there’s a lot to be learned from Agile teams in the ways that they manage their relationships and communications with the business in order to deliver their work on time, in budge and in line with expectations – even as those expectations evolve throughout the project.

Agile provides a framework for adapting to change as it happens and working with the project sponsor to deliver what’s most needed by learners.

In a rapidly changing environment, the Agile mindset helps us harness change for good (instead of resisting it) and Agile techniques offer solutions for making constant change a practical reality. Rapid iterative cycles of design & evaluation allow us to test our solutions before full implementation, opening the doors to constructive change along the way.

And yet, software development projects face different challenges and have different needs than instructional design projects. A strict implementation of Agile methods may not apply to your L&D work.

What can we borrow from this useful mindset and approach, and what do we need to shape specifically for an instructional or learning experience type of project?

In this session, Megan will start with a quick definition of Agile and its use within the L&D space, then spend most of our time exploring how L&D teams that use Agile handle constant change, build relationships and get the job done.

Specifically you will learn:

• How Agile in L&D is applied differently from the rest of the organization
• How Agile helps L&D teams meet business needs when those needs are rapidly changing
• How L&D teams can build strong relationships with SMEs, sponsors and stakeholders
• How iterative development and evaluation moves projects along faster

Presenter: Megan Torrance (LinkedIn profile) As CEO (Chief Energy Officer) of TorranceLearning she sets direction for instructional design, technical and media delivery, client relationships, team member development and overall business management. She has 20 years of experience in the learning industry, covering everything from instructional design, to change management and project management.

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Harnessing The Power Of Change:
Using Agile Methods In Training Projects

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Live Webinar – May 4th, 2023 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider: Training Magazine Network

Drawing on decades of psychological research and data from 96,000,000 responses across 550 organizations, Matthew Champagne, Ph.D (LinkedIn profile) identified 5 key practices for trainers, speakers, evaluators and survey practitioners:

1. Timing – ask key questions BEFORE your event
2. Frequency – generate huge WIIFM for your attendees
3. Closing-the-Loop – prove their voice was heard and show how they compare to others
4. Internal Incentives – using (free) feedback
5. Sharing results with non-responders – the “oops method” to increase response rates

A methodology called “Survey Conversation” combines these 5 practices into a Win-Win for all parties:

1. For hosts, trainers and speakers, it invariably results in higher engagement and audience satisfaction;
2. For attendees, it creates a far more memorable and impactful experience at virtual/in-person events;
3. For those who evaluate and gather feedback from learning events, it maximizes response rate and generates more accurate and actionable results.

Matthew will describe each key practice, provide specific examples from a wide variety of clients (cruise lines, universities, telecoms, membership organizations, digital marketers, utilities) and show how to apply

Survey Conversations to your own educational or sales webinars, training events, masterminds, and conferences.

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Survey Conversations:
5 Practices To Make Your Virtual & In-person Training Remarkable

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