Online Webinar  – Recorded November 6th 2020
Activity Type: Education – Online or Digital Media  1 PDU – Free
Provider: Training Magazine Network

When creating eLearning at speed and scale, it can be easy to let visual design standards slip. But visual design in eLearning matters. It improves the learning experience, helps keep learners engaged, and provides a much-needed lift to unexciting (or old) learning content.

So what are some easy changes you can make to refresh the look and feel of your eLearning?

Gomo’s Huw Edwards (LinkedIn profile), Business Development Executive, and Simon Waldram (LinkedIn profile), Customer Success Manager, talk us through some top tips we’ve seen our customers using that catch learners’ attention.

Join Huw & Simon as they cover:

• Tips on picking the right graphics
• How to brand a course using a style template
• How to spot and fix common design mistakes

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Improve Your eLearning: Visual Design Tips That Work Every Time

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SHORT NOTICE WEBINAR – Highly Recommended!
Live IIL Webinar – May 19th, 2023 6:00 am – 7:00 am EDT
Live IIL Webinar – May 19th, 2023 11:00 am – 12:00 pm BT
Activity Type: Education – Online or Digital Media 1 PDU – Free
Presented by : IIL (Rep 1003) – Course No: AS8304

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Unfortunately, there’s a lot of silence about what happens before iteration 1. But isn’t everything supposed to happen after the first iteration? Doesn’t the Product Backlog just evolve on its own after starting the project?

Yes, we could just get started with a number of user stories. And we would make some progress and get some things done. But is that really effective? Are we reaching the full potential of what could be created?

There are some key elements you should have in place before the first iteration. Let’s state (or re-state) the overall vision and purpose of the product. We need to truly understand the people who are going to use it, for now, and for the future. And let’s analyze what can affect our outcome. These critical factors will inform the initial product backlog creation.

Having these important things will ensure a better start for your Agile project.

What You Will Learn

After this one-hour session, learners will be able to:

• Identify the key factors that contribute to a successful Agile project start
• Focus on personas and journey maps and a business canvas
• Recognize the attribute of an initial product backlog

Presenter: Rubin Jen (LinkedIn profile)is a coach, consultant, and trainer with 25+ years of experience and success in Agile, traditional project, program, and portfolio management. Rubin is also a Disciplined Agile Certified Instructor and Certified ScrumMaster and specializes in organizations transitioning to an Agile environment. Rubin is one of the top instructors in the world, independently validated by Course Conductor.

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Sprint Zero: Starting Off Right

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Live Webinar – May 18th, 2023 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider: Training Magazine Network

In this webinar Tim will teach a fundamental methodology of applying coaching design principles to your training initiatives for maximum results.

The results include supporting the training initiative as well as its application post training period this methodology is very easy to use and provides training departments with an approach that elevates the brand of your training.

During this session Tim will teach you the following:

1. How to design questions that support your training
2. How leaders can include activities that leverages training into practical application
3. How leaders can deliver accountability within the coaching process to support training
4. How leaders can coach using motivation that drives coaching and training success
5. How leaders can use a technique called supplemental coaching that requires no time and supports training at multiple levels

Presenter:  Tim Hagen (LinkedIn profile) Progress Coaching, has been helping organizations implement highly effective coaching for 20+ years.  Tim is the author of “Quit Managing and Start Coaching” and “Coaching…Corporate America’s #1 Weapon ” and the creator of  the Progress Coaching Training Methods.   A pioneer in the coaching movement, Tim continues to innovate and build solutions that drive and retain top talent.

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How To Design Coaching Solutions That Support Your
Training & Maximize Talent Development

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Live Webinar – May 17th, 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

Whether you need to build an Excel-based dashboard, perform some serious data analysis, or simply summarize data for a personal project, Pivot Tables are one of the most powerful tools in Excel’s data analysis and Business Intelligence (BI) toolkit.

With just a few clicks of the mouse (and no complicated formulas!) you can quickly and easily build the reports, dashboards and charts that help you to summarize, analyze, interpret and understand your data which in turn helps you to spot trends and get answers to the important questions on which you base your key business decisions.

However, Pivot Tables suffer from several limitations, leaving users frustrated and looking for workarounds. Enter Power Pivot, a free pre-installed add-in from Microsoft. Power Pivot helps you to overcome those limitations.

From global enterprises to early-stage startups and small businesses, people everywhere use Pivot Tables to summarize and understand their data. Learning how to create Pivot Tables is one of the must have skills for anyone who needs to use Excel to quickly build reports and summaries. This training will provide you with a solid foundation that you can use to build your own pivot tables and reports.

Learning Objectives (This Session ):

• Filtering a Pivot Table
• Creating Slicers
• GETPIVOTDATA
• The “Group By” problem and how to solve it
• Calculated Fields
• Understand the Benefits of Power Pivot and The Data Model
• Import data into The Data Model – the why and how
• Create Pivot Tables from Multiple Lists or Sources

Learning Objectives (This Series):

• Use Pivot Tables to turn raw data into meaningful and insightful reports and summaries
• Structure your raw data in the right way
• Design and format your Pivot Table reports so that they are easy to read and understand
• Summarize your data in different ways including totals, counts and percentages
• Convert a Pivot Table into a chart
• Use Slicers to create interactive Pivot Table Filters
• Understand the benefits of Power Pivot and The Data Model
• Import data into The Data Model – the why and how
• Create Pivot Tables from multiple lists or sources
• Avoid the issues that surround working with large datasets
• Understand the basics of the DAX formula language to create Pivot Table based formulas

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!

Click to register for:
Excel: From Raw Data To Actionable Insights.
Mastering Pivot Tables & Power Pivot

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Live Webinar – 17th, 2023 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider: Training Magazine Network

• Q: Arrrgggghhh!  Too many tools and not enough time to get to know them!  How can L&D Pros keep up on all the many tools and technologies being released every day???
• A:  Let TrainingMagNetwork help you with short, bite-sized introductions and comparisons in this series of 60-minute webinars exploring tools for trainers, ID’s and training managers, led by seasoned L&D professional, Kirsten Rourke.

In this session Kirsten Rourke (LinkedIn profile) will cover a high-level comparison of these three products. The goal is to make it easier to decide which presentation tools is best for you.

From this webinar, you will walk away with the following:

• What are the main differences between the tools
• What are the best features of each tool
• What are the pros and cons of choosing a specific tool

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Useful Tools For Trainers:
A Powerpoint, Keynote, & Prezi Comparison

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Live Webinar – May 16th, 2023 11:00 am – 1:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider: Training Magazine Network

Branching scenarios can engage learners and provide relevant decision-making practice.

While branching scenarios can be very valuable, nothing is the right solution for every training problem.

Branching scenarios can be challenging to design and time-consuming to build.

That might leave you wondering:

1. When is it worth the time and effort to create a branching scenario?
2. When do the benefits of branching scenarios outweigh the costs to create them?
3. Are there any easier alternatives that could work, or might even work better in some situations?

In this webinar, Christy Tucker  (LinkedIn profile) Instructional Designer, Syniad Learning will discuss how to evaluate training problems to decide when to use a branching scenario or another approach.

You’ll review criteria for deciding when branching scenarios provide enough benefit to justify the effort required to create them.

This will help you use branching scenarios when they matter most, saving you time and effort while creating quality learning experiences.

During this webinar, you’ll also explore alternatives to branching scenarios such as constrained branching and one-question mini-scenarios.

These alternatives use some elements of branching scenarios but are simpler to design and develop.

Christy will review several examples of different approaches to scenario-based learning.

You’ll leave this session with criteria to decide which scenario-based approach to use and ideas on how to apply them.

In this session, you’ll learn:

• How to decide if a branching scenario is the best approach
• Why branching scenarios are an effective solution for certain types of training problems
• How branching scenarios and other scenario-based approaches can be used in different learning domains and kinds of training
• How to save time and effort by using alternatives like one-question mini scenarios and constrained branching
• What criteria can help you choose branching scenarios or other strategies

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To Branch Or Not To Branch:
When & How To Use Branching Scenarios & Alternative Approaches

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