Live Webinar – November 15th, 2022 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm EST
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider: Training Magazine Network

Humans have evolved to learn through stories. Are you stuck on where to start with telling a story that can drive your content? Look no further than the last movie you watched or novel that you read! What made that story successful? What did you remember?

In this session Josh will describe how to utilize existing narratives to drive learning journeys. Attend to learn how to identify an appropriate story to adapt based on content, learning outcomes, and your intended audience.

We will workshop this concept with participants to further describe how these existing narratives can help to identify opportunities for learner engagement.

In this session Josh will clearly describe the importance of stories for training and provide practical tools to engage in developing learning journeys. Sessions at conference discussing writing for instructional design are often well attended as instructional designers often don’t see themselves as writers and feel the need to learn more.

We propose that training designers don’t need to be good writers, they just need to understand how to effectively leverage successful stories and be able to identify what makes them successful.

In doing so, they can adapt these narratives to suit their training needs either overtly or covertly resulting in increased learner engagement and clear assessable pathways to measure against training outcomes.

A practical job aid will be distributed to help guide future practice.

President: Josh Yavelberg, (LinkedIn profile) PhD  CEO of Flying Cloud Solutions, before joining the training world, Josh taught at the Art Institute of Washington for over a decade in many roles but consistently instructing the color theory course as a foundation for all design fields. Josh’s currently enjoys focusing his energy on design thinking, gamification, diffusion of innovations, training engagement, emerging technologies, and communities of practice.

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From Hobbit To Habit: Using Existing Narratives
To Drive Continued Engagement

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Live Webinar – November 17th, 2022 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm EST
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider: Training Magazine Network

In this session, Jim Johnson outlines what you should be looking for in your LMS including reporting and analytics, configurability, and learning to support the most complex businesses.

If you manage learning programs within a highly-regulated industry, you are responsible for ensuring the safety of your employees, the data of your customers, and the reputation of your company.

• Explore how your LMS can and should accommodate the complexity of your business.
• Identify the “must-have” LMS capabilities to ensure training compliance and to reduce regulatory risk.
• Use visual dashboards to show who is in compliance and who is not (completions, expirations) and reduce fines and risk.

Presenter:  Jim Johnson (LinkedIn profile) Product Manager PeopleFluent; is a reformed Florida politician,  who returned to  technology as a project manager for a small software consulting company. Jim shifted to the human capital management space in 2007 joining a company named Intelladon, later acquired by Tribridge, which was then acquired for DXC Technology.  Most recently, he moved to Raleigh, North Carolina to become part of the PeopleFluent product management team.

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Modern Learning Strategies For Compliance Training

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Live Webinar – November 8th, 2022 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm EST
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider: Training Magazine Network

Thankfully, both the ethical and practical value of DE&I has become more widely recognized.

But the extent to which an organization is fundamentally and culturally receptive to DE&I improvement is less often explored and less frequently addressed.

In this highly interactive webinar, award-winning author, CEO, and repeat Training Magazine presenter Ed Muzio (LinkedIn profile) will explore two aspects of management culture that directly impact the organization’s ability to realize results from DE&I programing.

1. First is the question of environmental receptivity:
   • Is the organization in the habit of routinely gathering people of different backgrounds, needs, and agendas?
   • Do regular management and team meetings make a concerted effort to equitably assess and value all contributions?
   • Does leadership and senior management model transparent and fair decision-making even for difficult issues or unpopular tradeoffs?
2. Second is the question of behavioral flexibility:
   • Does the culture allow members to intelligently contemplate and adopt novel behaviors of any kind?
   • Is new information met with interest, or resistance?
   • Is decision-making nuanced, or do simple ‘either/or’ type arguments dominate the discussion?

In this webina Ed will present a framework for thinking about, and answering, questions like these.

He’ll explore insight into and share language for thinking about how DE&I friendly the broader organizational culture may be, and what the Training or L&D function can do to make it friendlier.

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DE&I… and I: Foster an Environment that Enables DE&I Inside L&D
(Even if the Term Never Comes Up)

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Live Webinar – November 3rd, 2022 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider: Training Magazine Network

The 21st-century workforce is unique; people have endless options for learning in the ways that best meet their needs. Yet many of the design and development models in L&D seem dated.

That’s where Design Thinking comes in. It’s a modern approach to creative problem-solving that’s iterative, collaborative, experimental and fun.

In this active session, we will explore how Design Thinking is a mindset as well as a method for generating innovative solutions.

You will have an opportunity to participate in a Design Thinking cycle to see how this approach can stimulate ideas for creative, human-centered solutions that fit the modern workplace.

In this session you will learn to:

• Apply the phases of Design Thinking
• Interview learners to better understand their perspective
• Practice idea generation techniques
• Explore creating and testing low-fidelity prototypes

Presenter: Connie Malamed (LinkedIn profile) helps people learn and improve their instructional design skills so they can gain confidence and proficiency in this field. She has helped hundreds of people gain competence in instructional esign and I’d love to help you. Connie had her own ID business for 20 years, wrote two books on visual design, publish The eLearning Coach website and podcast, and was honored with the Guild Master award for contributions to the industry.

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Using Design Thinking To Craft Learning Experiences

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Live Webinar – November 2nd, 2022 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

Learn why the finish date predicted by Microsoft Project is NOT the date you promise to deliver to your customer.

Even with excellent estimating and execution, the project finish date predicted by scheduling software is usually unattainable.

Everything is subject to some uncertainty and even small amounts can result in projects being delivered

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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Protecting Contract Deliverables With
Schedule Risk Analysis & Schedule Margin

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Online Webinar – Recorded – Mar 9, 2018
Activity Type: Education – Online or Digital Media 1 PDU – Free
Provider:  TidalShift (Rep 1051)

Lead The Way

To better understand PMI’s Talent Triangle, this session looks at project management through the lens of the Leadership portion of the Triangle.

Plans are useless without effective execution. The role of the project manager is often viewed as a very technical role; tracking progress, measuring costs and filing reports.

TidalShift will look at how the role of the PM is actually a leadership role at its core and what leadership skills can be brought to bear that will not only make your project more successful, but make the job more enjoyable. Talent Triangle – Leadership

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Through the Looking Glass:
PM With A Leadership Lens

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