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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Online Webinar – Recorded October 27 2021
Activity Type: Education – Online or Digital Media 1 PDU – Free
Provider: Training Magazine Network

Pivot is the word of the 2020s,
But SCARY is more like it.  

Join Lou to rebuild your confidence by using project management to invent innovative learning and development.

It’s time for L&D to shine, step out of the shadows and create a new frontier, not just what everyone else is doing.

Although there are many exciting new processes and tools in L&D, the way we work with people and learning needs has to stay top of mind.

The combo of your brain and the DPMR Project Plan will drive new advancements.

You’ll identify the best bets for employee learning methods for your community.  You’ll also be aware of bias – are we attracted to doing what we think is a fun challenge rather than helping the organizations in need right in front of you?

To vet both old and new requires us to look at our L&D future as an exciting and well-defined but simple project.

Join Lou and she will create a Project Charter for the future of learning for your organization including the roles you’ll need.

The new L&D doesn’t have to stay with or blow up the old… it’s time to take the best thoughts and talents to create flexible, customer based L&D projects.

Presenter: Lou Russell (LinkedIn profile) is President and CEO of L+EARN and Russell Martin & Associates. Lou delivers learning experiences that are fun, flexible, fast and measurable. She believes that learning and earning go hand in hand and focuses on faculty development, retention and recruitment of students, project management, leadership and organizational learning opportunities. Lou is the author of The Accelerated Learning Fieldbook and IT Leadership Alchemy, Project Management for Trainers, Training Triage: Performance-Based Solutions Amid Chaos, Confusion, and Change, and her newest book 10 Steps to Successful Project Management. A popular speaker, Lou addresses national and international conferences such as the Career College Association, ACCET, Training 2008, Project Management Institute, Project World, LotuSphere, ASTD and the Society of Information Management (SIM).

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The Next Frontier For Learning & Development… SCARY!!

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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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Online Webinar – Recorded December 3 rd, 2019
Activity Type: Education – Online or Digital Media 1 PDU – Free
Provider: Training Magazine Network

4 Vital Signs to Measure
Participant Centered (PC) Health!

Ever noticed how physical examinations always start with the doctor or nurse checking your pulse rate, respiration, and temperature?

Those vital signs of health are critical to the body working, so we start there.

In your training world, there are also vital signs of health.

1. Is your content truly participant centered?
2. Do your learners experience the power to choose and a sense of belonging?
3. Does training feel like a mandated requirement or an anticipated event?

When you PC vitals are healthy, retention and application improve dramatically.

In this one-hour webinar you will:

• Examine 4 vital signs of participant-centered training
• Explore 6 ideas you can use to put people in charge of their own learning.
• Discover the biggest threats to engagement and retention

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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Is Your Training Truly Participant Centered (PC)?

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Online Webinar – Recorded November 10th 2021
Activity Type: Education – Online or Digital Media 1 PDU – Free
Provider: Training Magazine Network

In this evolving era of the hybrid office, training managers are responsible for delivering flexible and effective programs that keep employees informed, involved, and invested — whether in-person or remote.

Trainers are increasingly expected to balance in-person programs with digital resources like documents, emails, and video conferencing.

Yet this approach can often result in communication gaps and fragmented experiences for both trainers and learners, resulting in loss of productivity and knowledge.

How can you align your tools and processes to optimize your hybrid training programs?

Dalnaz  will investigate this growing issue for trainers and how you can strengthen your training initiatives and team communications.

Dalnaz  will cover:

• Training gaps in the hybrid workplace and why it’s essential to fill them
• How to create flexible and impactful training in the hybrid age
• 6 actionable steps to building a future-proof hybrid learning and development strategy

Presenter: Dalnaz Hasan (LinkedIn profile) Senior Video Evangelist Panopto; has worked in the video space  supporting both businesses and higher education institutions to find innovative and scalable ways to solve communication and training challenges with video. She empowers individuals with the resources they need to successfully leverage technology to communicate training.

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Optimizing Hybrid Training: 6 Strategies For Delivering
Flexible & Effective Learning

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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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