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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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 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 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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