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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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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Online Webinar – Recorded – June 09, 2016
Activity Type: Education – Online or Digital Media 1 PDU – Free
Provider: Training Magazine Network

Whether it’s an online meeting, a webinar, or live online training, engagement is on everyone’s mind. Will it be worth the time to attend, or will it be an opportunity to check email?

Interaction is the key to engagement, and using a platform’s features is the key to interaction.

However, the features alone do not engage the participants. It is what you do with those features that will make the difference in your next online event.

Join us for this one-hour webcast to learn what you can do to build interaction and engagement to get results.

You’ll learn:

• how engaging live online meetings, webinars, and training events are delivered
• the appropriate level of interaction to create impactful live online events
• how to optimize the investment in your virtual classroom technology using a platform-features checklist

Speakers:

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.

Thomas Stone  (LinkedIn profile) is a seasoned veteran in the L&D field serving in a variety of roles with Element K, Taleo, and now Dale Carnegie Digital. Tom is an industry speaker, writer, and evangelist, focusing on the latest technologies and trends and how they can be leveraged inside organizations to increase training and performance.  Tom’s book Interact and Engage! 50+ Activities for Virtual Training, Meetings, Webinars, has received rave reviews.

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Engaging Activities For:
Live Online Meetings, Webinars & Virtual Training

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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 July 23rd, 2015
Activity Type:  Education – Online or Digital Media 1 PDU – Free
Provider: Training Magazine Network

This is the second session in a 4 part webinar series.
Click for more info on the other sessions.

All consultants are not created equal. And all consultants do not earn the same amount of money. And some consultants know more — and get paid less. Why?

For more than 40 years Bob Pike has been one of the most highly respected – and highly compensated consultants in the training and performance field.

In the session, Bob will pull back the curtain and reveal the strategies that he has used time and time again to boost his visibility, his credibility, and his income. And he’ll share the strategies he has adapted from the beginning of his career in 1969 so they are still highly effective today.

Speakers:

Bob Pike (LinkedIn profile) CSP, CPAE-Speakers Hall of Fame, CPLP Fellow is the “Trainers Trainer” is a highly sought after keynote speaker and a leading authority on Training the Trainer. He is the author of more than 30 books on training and performance improvement. His books including  “Creative Training Tools” are the best-selling train the trainer books ever published . More than 125,000 trainers on 5 continents have graduated from his 2 day “Creative Training Techniques” course. He has also presented at every ASTD ICE Conference since 1977 and at every Training Magazine Conference since they began.

Check out some of Bob’s other Great Titles:

• Creative Training Techniques Handbook Tips, Tactics, and How-To’s for Delivering Effective Training
• 50 Creative Training Openers and Energizers
• 50 Creative Training Closers: Innovative Ways to End Your Training with IMPACT!
• 101 Games for Trainers: A Collection of the Best Activities from Creative Training Techniques Newsletter
• Dealing with Difficult Participants: 127 Practical Strategies for Minimizing Resistance and Maximizing Results in Your Presentations
• Managing the Front-End of Training: 101 Ways to Analyze Training Needs – and Get Results
• One-on-One Training: How to Effectively Train One Person at a Time

Trish Uhl (LinkedIn profile) OWL’S LEDGE Founder,  is the author of Mastering the CPLP: How to Successfully Prepare for – and Pass! – the CPLP Knowledge Exam and a globally recognized expert providing performance training and coaching to customer-focused, results-driven, achievement-oriented L&D professionals. Trish is known for her leadership in learning pro peer development,  and for leading transformation projects that deliver results by “professionalizing the profession” formerly known as training.

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Ways To Increase Your Credibility & Visibility As A Consultant

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