Online Webinar – Recorded  August 1st, 2019
Activity Type: Education – Online or Digital Media 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, or
Will it be an opportunity to check email instead?

Online meeting technology is powerful and has made it easy to connect with people from anywhere in the world at any time, yet  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.

In this session:

• 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 are the key to your success. Through them you’ll learn to manage the technology, get attendees to actively engage, and help presenters have a great time too!

Application on the Job

• Define virtual learner engagement to effectively design the appropriate activities.
• Analyze activities for specific engagement techniques and feature usage to apply to your own activity design.
• Create your own customized activities for immediate use in your virtual classroom programs.

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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Online Meetings – Interact & Engage!
Activities For Spectacular Training

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Online Webinar – Recorded January 19th, 2021
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider: Training Magazine Network

Virtual training and webinars are unfortunately known for their technical breakdowns. Ask anyone what they dislike about learning online and the answer is usually that it’s boring, it’s not engaging, and there are too many technical problems.

The first 10 minutes of live online sessions is often spent on struggles to get everyone connected and making the audio work. Identifying someone to be your virtual producer (or someone who performs that role) will transform not only the way you run your online training, but also how you and your attendees feel about them.

Producers help every aspect of virtual training run effectively starting with the technology itself, assisting the attendees as needed, and allowing trainers and presenters to focus on the learning experience.

Attend this energetic & engaging live session and you’ll learn these plus much, much more:

• Identify the different types of producers and when to use each depending on the virtual session being delivered
• Determine the necessary skills to develop people (including existing virtual trainers) to be effective producers
• Create an action plan to ensure the production of your virtual sessions are engaging every time

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Producing Engaging Virtual Training, Meetings, & Webinars

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Online Webinar  – Recorded January 20th 2021
Activity Type: Education – Online or Digital Media  1 PDU – Free
Provider: Training Magazine Network

Much of training is on skills and rules. So, when workers face problems their capacities are limited. They should be well-equipped to handle the unexpected, unknown and challenges never seen before.

Workflow Thinking breaks the dependencies on skills and rules to do unbounded thinking – empowered to fix, solve and improve work issues.

Join the session and download the “Guide to Workflow Thinking.”

This session will cover:

• What studies show that skills-and-rules-only training, limits workers in problem-solving incidents?
• What are the practices in training and learning that hinder proper handling of unhappy incidents?
• How do we design training and learning programs that goes beyond following rules and knowledge?
• What needs to be done with outdated policies, procedures, systems, and knowledge and skills ?
• How should we implement the 4-Step Process for Workflow Thinking?

5 Videos from Ray on Workflow Learning Ideas:

1. Workflow Learning Idea: Thinking Is the Ultimate Learning
2. Workflow Learning Idea: How to Make Learners Think
3. Workflow Learning Idea: Observation and Deliberation in Workflow Learning

Attend the session and obtain Ray’s “4-Step Process for Workflow Thinking Template.”

For another Great Ray Jimenez PDU Check Out:
10 Guaranteed Ways To Make Leadership Training Stick

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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Why Skills & Rules Only Training Fail:
Apply Workflow Thinking

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Online Webinar– Recorded November 3rd, 2021
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider: Training Magazine Network

It’s not as though culture change was easy before the pandemic.

Using training as a lever to move complex human systems into new patterns of behavior was more or less a ninja-level skill even before the whole world went on lockdown.

Then everything changed, again and again (and again!). We went virtual in a sort of all-or-nothing, emergency shutdown way… and then we came back in a sort of catch-as-catch-can, hybridized, random sort of way.

Now we’re trying to get our footing, adding new ways of working to old ways of working in hopes of getting ahead of – or at least, catching up with – a rate of change that seems to be ever-accelerating.

But what about culture?  What of those ever-present patterns of behavior that exert constant influence on how we work, even as they invisibly limit or enhance what we can accomplish?  What can training do about that?

In this interactive webinar, award-winning author, CEO, and repeat Training Magazine presenter Ed Muzio (LinkedIn profile) teams up with Iterative Management Executive Reggie Wilson (LinkedIn profile) to show you how a firm specializing in wholesale culture change adapted training through the pandemic, and what stuck.

Explore…

• How systematic, disciplined application of simple behavioral principles becomes culture
• How anyone, at any level, can create real impact on the broader environment – effecting permanent change gradually and systematically
• How to seed productive, positive culture yourself, simply by enabling your colleagues and associates to create more output and experience less stress in their own work
• What approaches the speaker’s firm added, and what they kept, as they went from live to virtual to blended, always with the same goal of changing culture through changing behavior

Enjoy this example of Ed’s famous Whiteboard Videos:

Presenter: 

Ed Muzio (LinkedIn profile) CEO of Group Harmonics and author of the award winning books Four Secrets to Liking Your Work and Make Work Great: Super Charge Your Team, Reinvent the Culture, and Gain Influence One Person at a Time & his latest book Iterate: Run a Fast, Flexible, Focused Management Team.  A leader in the application of analytical models to organizational effectiveness, Ed has been featured in international media and servos as an  adviser/educator to executives worldwide. Ed conducts keynotes, professional and leadership education, and executive and management coaching.

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Changing Culture Through Training In A Virtual, Blended World

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Online Webinar – Recorded Jul 17, 2024
Activity Type: Education – Online or Digital Media 1 PDU – Free
Provider: Training Magazine Network

Everyone uses PowerPoint and everyone finds it both annoying and irritating. Especially the repetitive tasks, or times when you cry out in frustration that it can’t do something.

Oh, and that’s not to mention 508 compliance issues, which are incredibly difficult to overcome in PowerPoint.

But, you can change things by using add-ins for PowerPoint – magical tools that give you superhuman abilities to do things at light speed, or even things you couldn’t do before.

This session has a brief introduction to what add-ins are and how they work, and then live demonstrations of the best add-ins you can get, from the simple to the complex, including:

• Shape,
• Size, and position tools,
• Ways to seamlessly add graphics,
  • Create custom color palettes,
• Format tables,
• Set master guides, and
• Store an animations library,

… All designed to fulfill your deepest desires to make PowerPoint actually work.

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 Add-Ins To Transform PowerPoint’s Capabilities

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Live Webinar – July 25th, 2023 3:00 pm – 2400 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider: Training Magazine Network

Wondering what all the AI fuss is about? You’re not alone! The question is not if AI can help us, but how?

In this workshop you will leave equipped with the skills to leverage AI as your instructional design partner. Together we will explore AI’s capabilities and limitations, ensuring you can use different AI tools effectively.

Be prepared to get hands-on! Working side-by-side, we will put theory into practice! By using the provided cheatsheet, we will analyze learning content to develop rock-solid learning outcomes. As a bonus we will use those outcomes to design engaging activities based on Gagne’s Nine Events of Instruction.

Get ready to:

• Examine AI’s abilities and limitations, setting the stage for its effective use in instructional design
• Using appropriate prompt engineering, direct AI to develop learning objectives that are more action-focused and align with Bloom’s Taxonomy
• Then practice engineering prompt formulas to receive lesson plans and activites that are more targeted and relevant, and less neutral (or generic)
• Identify how the use of roles and personas will direct your AI sidekick to be more helpful and effective

By the end of this workshop, you’ll walk away with a practical toolkit of skills, allowing you to design with greater efficiency and welcome AI as your creative partner in the instructional design process. Ready to supercharge your learning design and have some fun?

Presenter:  Shannon Tipton  Owner / Chief Learning Rebel of Learning Rebels LLC,  & author of “Disruptive Learning: Discover Your Inner Learning Rebel” is a skilled learning strategist with 20+ years of leadership experience developing successful infrastructures for training departments across North America, Europe, and Korea. Recognized as bringing real-world expertise into the learning field, Shannon integrates learning technologies and microlearning tools to strengthen workplace alignment, enhance collaboration and increase learning connectivity. Shannon frequently speaks at conferences across North America and Europe. The Learning Rebels blog is in the top 100 elearning blogs.

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AI: Your New Instructional Design Sidekick

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