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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Online Webinar – Recorded October 12th, 2022
Activity Type:  Education – Online or Digital Media 1 PDU – Free
Provider:  O.C. Tanner

Join thought leaders from the O.C. Tanner Institute for part one of their three-part webinar series exploring in-depth insights from the recently released 2023 Global Culture Report.

As the business landscape adjusts to new models of work and continued workplace changes, having a strong workplace community is more important than ever.

Evolving organizations that prioritize employee belonging and connection will be ideally positioned to leverage their talent and lead out on industry-changing innovation.

In part one of the series, Daniel Patterson (LinkedIn profile) of the O.C. Tanner Institute and Dr. Cristen Dalessandro (LinkedIn profile) of the O.C. Tanner Institute share their insights on how organizations can support two often-overlooked players central to the healthy workplace community: modern leaders and generalist employees.

Research reveals that the evolving demands on leaders are leaving mentors and managers stressed and underappreciated.

Generalists, those employees with diverse skillsets and interdisciplinary thinking, are also feeling the weight of feeling unsupported and unrecognized for their role in helping organizations navigate uncertainty in the workplace.

In this Global Culture Report deep-dive webinar you will:

• Explore data and perspectives from more than 40,000 employees and leaders worldwide
• Discover how integrated recognition can elevate performance and wellbeing for all employees, including leaders
• Learn practical strategies for retaining and growing the talent central to building a strong workplace community

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Strategies For Recognizing Leaders & Generalists

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Online Webinar – Recorded August 22nd, 2013
Activity Type: Education – Online or Digital Media 1 PDU – Free
Provider: Training Magazine Network

1. You slave away at designing your training programs.
2. You struggle to get people excited, enrolled, and in the ‘seats.’
3. The program commences and everyone gives you awesome feedback.
4. You feel successful.

Then the momentum dies. How do you keep training excitement alive?

How can you boost pre-training anticipation and post-training involvement?

Enterprise Social Networks, in combination with your training efforts, can provide the solution you need. Instituting an ESN can not only help you be more successful as a trainer, but can make your trainees more successful at their given jobs. Everyone wins. Harness the Force in this webinar.

This webinar will answer these questions:

• What is an ESN?
• Why do companies use ESN?
• How can they integrate with training?
• How can they help post training efforts?
• What statistical/data benefits can training programs enjoy?
• What should a trainer look for in an ESN?

Speakers:

Heidi Farris (LinkedIn profile) VP of Marketing at Idera Software. Previously Heidi was Bloomfire’s Vice President of Marketing led successful marketing teams at TV Guide and SolarWinds. Crediting much of this success to open communication, team collaboration, and ongoing adaption. Heidi is a champion of social networks that enhance the already ongoing efforts of all departments within an organization.

Kim Carlson (LinkedIn profile) Manager Customer Success at BlackLocus.  Kim  is dedicated to the success of integrating social technologies throughout your organization. With a background in corporate training departments at Bloomfire, United Airlines and LifeSize, a division of Logitech, Kim has been working with cross-functional teams for over 10 years to ensure that organizations are well armed with information to do their jobs.

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“Help Me Obi-Social Kenobi. Social Is My Only Hope”
Using the Force of Enterprise Social Networks To Keep Training Alive

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Online Webinar – Recorded – Nov 11, 2021
Activity Type: Education – Online or Digital Media 1 PDU – Free
Provider: Training Magazine Network

Virtual Training

• How’s the health of your organization’s virtual training?
• Is it as successful as it can be?
• Are your learners actively engaged in your online classes?
• Are your facilitators fully prepared?
• Are your designs interactive?
• Are your administrative processes seamless?
• Are you achieving measurable results? Join us in this interactive session to learn a 5-step “prescription” for virtual training success.

During this session, Cindy will give you proven strategies and techniques to make your organization’s live online learning more effective.  

1. You’ll use a rating sheet to assess your own virtual programs and create an individual action plan.
2. You will leave this session with practical tips, strategies, and checklists that can be applied right away to improve your virtual training classes.

Topics Covered:

• Explore causes of common virtual training challenges
• Use a checklist to measure the “health” of your current virtual training programs (and create an individual action plan for improvement)
• Apply 5 key steps to virtual training success

Presenter : Cindy Huggett (LinkedIn profile) is the author of Virtual Training Basics, and coauthor of two ASTD Press Infolines, Simple, Effective Online Training (Infoline) (Infoline ASTD) and Designing for the Virtual Classroom (Infoline ASTD). Cindy was one of the first training professionals to earn the Certified Professional in Learning and Performance (CPLP) designation. She serves on the national ASTD Board of Directors, and lives in Raleigh, North Carolina.

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Virtual Training: A Prescription For Success

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Online Webinar – Recorded January 13, 2022
Activity Type: Education – Online or Digital Media 1 PDU – Free
Provider: Training Magazine Network

In an environment of nonstop meetings, there are few tools as indispensable as the icebreaker.

If you’ve tried to run meetings with Zoom, Google Meet, or other video conferencing software, you’ve probably noticed screens can impose a distance that is challenging to overcome.

When participants don’t feel engaged, meetings are less productive. But when you deploy the right icebreaker at the start of your virtual meeting, you help participants get mentally in the room, connect with one another, focus on a common goal, and  get energized to contribute.

Becky will …

• Explain the necessity and methods of connecting with your audience immediately
• Identify and list criteria to include in a virtual icebreaker
• Experience effective virtual icebreakers

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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Icebreakers To Awkward-Proof Your Virtual & F2F Training

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Online Webinar – Recorded July 8th, 2020
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider: Training Magazine Network

Whether it’s an online meeting, a presentation via webinar, or live online training, engagement is the main question on everyone’s mind:

• Will it be worth my time to attend,
• Will it be an opportunity to check email instead?
• Is it effective learning?
• How do you make sure that your learners interact with the experience and are really learning?

Online meeting technology is powerful and has made it easy to connect with people from anywhere in the world at any time, yet L&D professionals often still struggle with getting everyone to interact.

Interaction is the answer to successful engagement and using the features of the platform is the answer to interaction. However, the features alone do not engage the participants.

It is what you choose to do with those features that will make the difference in your next virtual training, webinar, or meeting.

During this session, you will learn what you can do to be successful in the virtual environment and avoid having everyone ask for a recording or a copy of the slides five minutes into your next virtual event.

You’ll analyze the activities demonstrated and brainstorm where the techniques could be applied to your virtual training programs.

You’ll explore the specific challenges of managing the technology, and brainstorm solutions to the engagement problems you are likely to experience with your live online attendees when technical problems arise. Activities that align with better learning principles such as authentic, relevant, fun, accessible, timely, efficient, and engaging are the key to your success.

Through them you’ll learn to manage the technology, get attendees to actively interact, and help presenters have a great time too!

Application On The Job:

1. Define virtual learner engagement to effectively design the appropriate activities.
2. Analyze activities for specific engagement techniques and feature usage to apply to your own activity design.
3. Create your own customized activities for immediate use in your virtual classroom programs.
4. Design an experience that aligns with better learning principles including authentic, relevant, fun, accessible, timely, efficient, and engaging.

Presenters: 

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. You can find Kassy on her her website

Dan Keckan (LinkedIn profile) CEO of Cinecraft Productions & author;  leads a team of amazing designers, developers and video producers that help organizations create authentic, relevant and effective learning. The organizations he works with include The Sherwin-Williams Company, Hyatt Hotels and Ace Hardware to name a few. His expertise includes designing effective learning strategies and aligning the strengths of different modalities with the actual skill or behavior to be demonstrated. Dan and his team have won dozens of awards including the International eLearning Awards.

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Activities For Spectacular Live Online Training
That Aligns With Better Learning Principles

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