Live Webinar – June 14th, 2023 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider: Training Magazine Network

Chat GPT (Conversational Generative Pre-training Transformer) , is a language processing tool.

It aids users to answer questions – write, code. explain various things, provides diverse information, etc.

It is today’s trendy buzzword that has been humming through the AI world, the world of techies and even among us – ordinary workers and learners.

But is it a fad, a trend  or just another novel idea that will soon fade away?  It certainly is here to stay, With further exploration, research, testing and application in real-world scenarios like responses to complex questions, accuracy, reliability, validity, training, etc.

Chat GPT is progressively taking the world by storm and making its mark, bringing forth L &D benefits never seen before.

There is no denying that it is a sensational tool that continues to flourish and evolve..

There are different opinions floating around regarding its benefits to the learning industry hence, it is necessary to have a basic understanding  of what it is and how it can help us empower our learners in their quest for more knowledge and quick access to information for immediate application and solutions.

In fact it is being currently tried as a “teaching assistant” in certain fields of learning.

Join our panelists Megan Torrance (LinkedIn profile) AsCEO (Chief Energy Officer) of TorranceLearning, Josh Cavalier (LinkedIn profile) and Ray Jimenez (LinkedIn profile) – Chief Learning Architect and Founder of Vignettes Learning and StoryImpacts.com as they discuss these areas that may be powerfully impacted by leveraging ChatGPT:

• Instructional design and ChatGPT tools and technologies like video, writing, images, audio,etc.
• Leadership, strategies,  and data analytics
• Platform and systems integration with ChatGPT
• Impacts to learning systems

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ChatGPT Driven Instructional Design: Dreams, Results, & Horrors

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Live Webinar – June 13th, 2023 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider: Training Magazine Network

How can you collect deep insights from training participants (and others) to support your surveys or other training evaluation data?

Try focus groups! Focus groups offer the opportunity to go deeper and add detail and variety to a dataset – much more than would be obtainable with surveys alone.

A focus group is essentially a group interview or small group discussion during which a moderator asks questions in an interactive group setting where participants are encouraged to talk with each other as well as with the moderator.

They offer a great way to gather in-depth information about participants’ thoughts, feelings, experiences or opinions on a specific topic.

Learn:

• How to set up and prepare for focus groups and what to expect before, during and after focus group sessions.
• How to invite and encourage focus group participants to share their stories.
• How focus groups can be used to both develop surveys and to corroborate 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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Gathering Insights:
Collecting Quality Training Evaluation Data With Focus Groups

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Live Webinar – June 13th, 2023 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider: Training Magazine Network

When you think of animation, do you think of flying bullets and spiraling titles?

Many people do, unfortunately, and so animation suffers a bad reputation.

In fact, one of your best opportunities to shine as a presenter and storyteller is through smart, effective, and appropriate use of motion.

In this hour, Ruck will explore exactly what that means, using the Animation engine and the always-amazing Morph transition.

Highlights:

• The power of movement, for better or for worse
• When in doubt, use Wipe and Fade
• Sequence data chunks for better understanding
• Create trust with your audience

For another great Rick Altman Powerpoint PDU Check Out:
Awesome Makeovers From PowerPoint Slides That Suuuuuck

Presenter: Rick Altman (LinkedIn profile) Graphic Design GURU covers the whole of the content and delivery industry, from message crafting, through presentation design, slide creation, software technique, and delivery. Host of the Presentation Summit, now in its 16th season Rick regularly leads private presentation skills development workshops within organizations and is working on has released the 4th edition of the popular  Why Most PowerPoint Presentations Suck, and how you can make them better.

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How Animation Can Rock Your Storytelling

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Live Webinar – June 8th, 2023 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider: Training Magazine Network

In addition to facing the global pandemic, spiking inflation, and near-recession, today’s leaders must deal with trends such as the “Great Resignation,” “Quiet Quitting,” and “Bare Minimum Mondays.”

Likewise, they must figure out how to handle the dramatic changes that likely will result from emerging technologies such artificial intelligence-based tools.

All this while piloting their employees and organizations toward optimum performance.

But they can’t do it alone—and that’s where Learning and Development (L&D) comes in.

For the seventh year, Training magazine and Wilson Learning Worldwide teamed up to conduct the Annual Leadership Survey, which focuses on what organizations are doing to develop effective leaders in these constantly changing times.

In this year’s survey, we saw some tremendous swings in needs and expectations and a clear indication that L&D, as an industry, is exploring new avenues and methods of effectively delivering leadership development training.

Join Lorri  & Michael  for this webinar, which they explore:

• The current state of leadership development (including levels of investment, priority skills, generational shifts, and learning methods)
• How the hybrid work environment is affecting leadership development
• Best practices and tips from high-performing companies to reinvent leadership development amidst continued turbulent times and technological transformation

You’ll come away with a roadmap to achieve a greater return on your leadership development investments as you help your leaders successfully guide their teams, employees, and organizations boldly and inclusively into the future.

Presenters:

Michael Leimbach, Ph.D.,  (LinkedIn profile) Vice President of Global Research and Development, Wilson Learning Worldwide; has 30+ years experience in providing leadership for researching & design. Michael has managed major research studies in sales, leadership, and organizational effectiveness, & also developed Wilson’s impact evaluation capability and return on investment models. He has served as a research consultant for a wide variety of global client organizations, is Editor-in-Chief for a major professional journal and serves on the ISO Technical Committee on Quality Standards for Learning Service Providers. Authored Of several  books, 100’s of professional articles, and is a frequent speaker at national and global conferences.

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Leadership Development Tips For Today’s Turbulent Times

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Live Webinar – June 7th, 2023 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: MPUG WebnLearn ( REP 1369 )
Mpug Member Free – Members only event

Jira is one of the most popular tools for agile project management used by over 65,000 companies in nearly 200 countries.

You will likely encounter Jira if you manage projects that involve software engineers. But the question we have for you is this:

If you started working at a company that used Jira, how prepared would you be?

This webinar will help you prepare to use Jira by providing an overview of how Jira works, how to avoid Jira faux-pas, and best practices for creating a Jira ticket.

MPUG will discuss why Jira is so popular amongst agile teams (and what agile software development even is).

MPUG will also dive into Jira’s most popular features, how Jira Projects are typically structured, and what PMs need to know when taking of a Jira Board.

Lastly, MPUG will cover advanced topics like how to best use Jira data to keep your stakeholders in the loop (even if they don’t use Jira!).

Join this webinar to diversify the project and work management platforms that you’re comfortable using.

Learning Objectives:

• Why Jira is popular for agile development
• How Jira Structures Projects
• How to Create a Jira Ticket
• What NOT to Do in Jira
• Sharing Jira data & project plans with stakeholders

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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Intro To Jira (+ How To Use Jira Data To Connect Teams)

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Live Webinar – June 6th, 2023 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider: Training Magazine Network

Bring fresh energy and creativity to your virtual and classroom training by putting learners to work on their personal devices.

Discover free apps and tools that can add variety and enhance your sessions. It’s time to stop fighting the curse of the mobile phone in class and gently guide learners into your content with the very devices that might otherwise distract!

Key Outcomes:

• Discover 8 apps for interaction in your training
• Foster creativity and structure intentional student engagement
• Explore the technical elements of using apps to harness interaction

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

Click to register for:
There’s An App For That!

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