Online Webinar – Recorded March 05th, 2024
Activity Type: Education – Online or Digital Media 1 PDU – Free
Provider: Training Magazine Network

PowerPoint templates should work well for everyone who uses them. Contrary to popular belief, templates are not easy to get right. In fact, thousands of steps go into building a solid template.

Seeing some of the things I look for in a template to determine if it functions well should help you make your own templates more efficient.

Presenter: Echo Swinford (LinkedIn profile) A Microsoft PowerPoint MVP since 2000, holds a Master’s degree in New Media from the Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis School of Informatics. Echo is the owner of Echosvoice, a PowerPoint consulting firm specializing in custom template development; presentation creation, makeovers /  cleanup; and training for large and small corporate clients. Echo has a string of tech-editing and video training credits to her name; and has also written or co-written four PowerPoint books, the most recent of which is Building PowerPoint Templates v2 with Julie Terberg. Visit Echo’s website at www.echosvoice.com.

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PowerPoint Templates Top 10

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Online Webinar – Recorded February 29th, 2024
Activity Type: Education – Online or Digital Media 1 PDU – Free
Provider: Training Magazine Network

Building on the success of our previous session, this 45-minute webinar delves deeper into AI FOMO with the antidote of tangible actions. Aimed at learning and development, as well as HR professionals, this webinar will guide you through advanced strategies for nurturing an adaptable and growth-oriented organizational culture.

Michael Hruska, (LinkedIn profile) President/CEO of Problem Solutions, will explore the nuances of change management in the context of AI, focusing on cultivating resilience, fostering innovation, and promoting a mindset of continuous improvement.

Participants will learn how to build on their existing AI strategies, overcome advanced challenges, and ensure that their teams are ready and excited for the future. This session promises to arm you with the tools and insights needed to turn the challenges of AI integration into opportunities for growth and development.

Learning Objectives:

1. Deepen Change Management Skills: Enhance your understanding of change management by learning how to build resilience and adaptability in your team, fostering an easy and natural transition for AI-induced changes.
2. Foster Innovation and Growth Mindset: Discover advanced techniques for encouraging innovation and a growth mindset within your team, making your organization a fertile ground for new ideas and continuous improvement in the face of AI advancements.
3. Develop Advanced AI Integration Strategies: Learn to anticipate and overcome complex challenges in AI integration, ensuring your strategies are robust, forward-thinking, and capable of guiding your team confidently into a future shaped by AI.

Presenter:  Michael Hruska, (LinkedIn profile) Allen Interactions, is a technologist and design thinking (DT) practitioner with experiences spanning across standards, emerging technologies, learning, and science. Michael is a former researcher at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) & he provides technology, business model and innovation solutions to Fortune 500, government and startups. Michael researches, strategizes, designs, and makes advanced technology solutions and products. His team has built award-winning products and delivered solutions that support millions of users and billions of hits of daily web traffic.

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AI & Change Management: Cultivating Adaptability & Growth

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Live Webinar – March 20th, 2023 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: MPUG WebnLearn ( REP 1369 )
Mpug Member Free – Members only event

Efficiency and automation are key. Power Virtual Agents combined with PMO Data can create a game-changing assistant for project managers.

This webinar aims to show how to harness the capabilities of Microsoft’s Power Virtual Agents to effectively handle PMO data, and improve project management operations.

Learning Objectives:

• Understand the basics and architecture of Power Virtual Agents.
• Learn how to integrate PMO Data with Power Virtual Agents.
• Demonstration of a PMO-minded Power Virtual Agent.
• Discuss best practices.

If you are NOT ALREADY a member JOIN MPUG!

This event is for members only BUT… You can take one of the MPUG Certificated Masterclass (Usually 6 Category A PDUs) Or over 30 other Category A PDUs for free each year.  The $129 Per Year Membership Fee is a terrific value!

MPUG Membership includes:

1. MPUG’s Project Server and SharePoint certificated courses available to members
2. Over 30 other virtual PDU events per year
3. You can network with other MPUG (Microsoft Project Users Group) members at in person meetings and events.
4. Work with Microsoft MVPs in MS Project Project Server & SharePoint
5. And so much more …

Seriously consider joining MPUG if you work with SharePoint or Project & earn all the PDUs you will need as a member of MPUG!

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Power Virtual Agents + PMO Data:
Crafting The Ultimate Assistant

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Online Webinar – Recorded March 6th 2024
Activity Type: Education – Online or Digital Media 1 PDU – Free
Provider: Training Magazine Network

How many failures do you allow in your organization? Is it something you try to minimize or try to encourage? And while you might claim to “fail fast and cheap,” how often do you end up doing the exact opposite?

In this webinar, we will explore how our society developed such an aversion to failure. We’ll see how 20th-century education models and business plans are designed to minimize mistakes, even though research shows that mistakes are one of the biggest precursors to success. We will see how true innovators, from James Dyson to Thomas Edison, had failure rates well above 90%. And we will compare these rates to our own as we ask ourselves, “How can we get better by getting it wrong?”

Through discussion and hands-on mini-exercises, this webinar will reveal that professional environments have a lot to learn from the commercial gaming industry, the one spot in a society where failure is actually expected and encouraged. Attendees will receive case studies and ready-to-use tools for creating fail-forward approaches within their own organizations and building a playful and fearless learning culture.

Perfect for designers, trainers, and HR leaders, this session will give you the data and tools you need to improve any project or initiative through the lost art of trial and error.

Learn:

• To identify how adult learners have come to fear failure
• How to analyze and compare failure ratios, rates, and costs
• How to use game-based thinking to create environments that increase reflection and self-efficacy
• To get comfortable creating business metrics, even when they might fail
• How to “gamify” any learning environment with a provided template

Presenter:  Scott Provence (LinkedIn profile) is an award-winning instructional designer and author. He has delivered programs throughout the U.S. and Canada, and built material for everyone from one of the world’s largest private employers to the U.S. Department of Justice. Using a unique combination of instructional and game design, Scott’s passion is turning expert-level concepts into engaging products for a general audience. He is the author of the new book, Fail to Learn: A Manifesto for Training Gamification.

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Fail To Learn: How To Grow Your Organization
Through Trial, Error, & Play

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Online Webinar  – Recorded  July 13th, 2017
Activity Type: Education – Online or Digital Media 1 PDU – Free
Provider: Training Magazine Network

Lets face it, managers AND employees alike hate your current once a year annual process.

Einstein says that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expect different results.

Learn why you need to kill your current process, and replace it with a be BOLD new alternative  – one that you can get started in 7 minutes!

Join Employee Engagement expert Bob Kelleher as he facilitates a dynamic presentation of a new performance appraisal process…one that will ROCK your workforce.

This webinar will include:

• The latest trends in performance appraisals
• Successful case studies
• Why you shouldn’t just eliminate appraisals without an alternative
• A cool 4 Touch Point process that you can implement right away

Bob will introduce you to, The Engagement Accelerator™, a brand new concept in assessments, that begins with a simple 7 minute assessment of an employee’s preferred workstyles.

Unlike other assessments, which measure personality, behavioral, and or leadership profiles,  The Engagement Accelerator™ measures 13 preferred work preferences and engagement drivers , and serve a stimulus for both self-reflection and for sincere dialogue between employees and managers.

During this webinar, Bob will highlight the research and ideas from his latest book I-Engage, which provides the framework for The Engagement Accelerator’s™ foundational questions, and provide the latest in employee engagement research and trends – including why only 33% of your employees are engaged (according to Gallup).

Bob will also share practical case studies on how firms are using The Engagement Accelerator™ as the platform to revolutionize their performance appraisal process, as an on-boarding tool, and as part of a management training program.

Presenter: Bob Kelleher (LinkedIn profile) is the founder of The Employee Engagement Group a best-selling author, thought leader, keynote speaker and consultant, sharing his insights on employee engagement, leadership, and workforce trends. Bob is the author of the best seller, Louder Than Words: 10 Practical Employee Engagement Steps That Drive Results,  Creativeship: A Novel for Evolving Leaders  and the just released Employee Engagement for Dummies! The Employee Engagement Group recently introduced the world’s first virtual employee engagement resource center, Engage On-Demand, Resource Library.

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How To END Your Dreaded Annual Performance Appraisal Process…
In 7 Minutes!

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Online Webinar – Recorded February 29, 2024
Activity Type: Education – Online or Digital Media 1 PDU – Free
Provider: Training Magazine Network

It’s that time of year, your business goals have been aligned and solidified. You’ve identified the knowledge gap in your learners and that eLearning is how you’d like to bridge it. You’ve got your measurable learning objectives on which to base your learning on. Now it’s time to build it, in PowerPoint. Yes, PowerPoint.

Join this masterclass to learn how you can use PowerPoint to produce a range of eLearning formats that are widely editable and how to use some of PowerPoint’s inbuilt features to maintain graphic design and instructional design consistency. Oh, and we’ll have some tips and tricks to share with you too, that we’ve learned on the way.

For a great Nolan Haims PDU OpportunityCheck Out:
Using Imagery In PowerPoint Like A PRO

Presenter: Vincent Thompson (LinkedIn profile)  is a Principal Design Consultant at BrightCarbon, the specialist presentation and eLearning agency. He has helped to 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, which is supported by plenty of resources and tips at www.brightcarbon.com.

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Create Effective eLearning With PowerPoint

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