Online Webinar – Recorded August 10th, 2023
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider: Training Magazine Network

Surveys are important tools for gathering the data we use for training evaluation, and they’re easy to compose, right? Wrong!

Survey respondents get frustrated with questions that don’t have response options that match their experiences, or confused by response options that are misaligned with question stems.

Poorly constructed rating scale questions are a particularly common phenomenon, even for experienced evaluators and survey designers!

Did you know that the rating scales we use with survey questions actually influence response?

This makes our decisions about which scales or which intervals to offer even more impactful. We also hold onto myths about how many scale points are best, how to label them, or whether to use an odd or even number of response options.

These beliefs prevent us from asking clear, easy-to-answer questions that yield meaningful, actionable data.

Join Sheila for real-world examples of survey questions, practice in identifying common rating scale problems, and some mythbusting, along with research-based strategies for designing high-quality rating scale questions.

Participants will be able to:

• identify common problems with survey rating scales
• identify common myths in rating scale design
• determine when to use an odd or even number of scale points in a given survey item
• determine when to use midpoints and non-substantive response options in rating scale items
• apply best practices for labeling rating scales

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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Survey Rating Scales Done Right:
Let’s Use Best Practices To Dispel The Old Myths!

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Online Webinar – Recorded August 15th, 2023
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider: Training Magazine Network

Are ChatGPT and all the other rapidly emerging AI engines the new life-blood of presentation creation or are they a death knell?

Maybe they will be both! Join in on this first look at how AI will impact our workflow as presentationists: how it can assist in research, photo search, fleshing out of content, and actual building of slides.

Soon, you might not be able to tell if a human authored those slides and nobody really knows if that is a good thing or a bad thing.

This introduction and overview addresses these implications. It answers the question of how and how not, why and why not to use these powerful new building blocks.

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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Artificial Presentations: Best Thing Ever Or Worst Ever?

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Online Webinar – Recorded July 13th, 2023
Activity Type: Education – Online or Digital Media 1 PDU – Free
Provider: Training Magazine Network

Now three years in with virtual presenting being a thing, few people really love it and fewer still are truly good at it.

Let’s change that this month with an exploration of some vital fundamentals, well-kept secrets, and a few OH WOW moments to help you jumpstart your virtual game.

HIGHLIGHTS

• If you could only have audio or video, which would you choose?
• Avoid being a talking head – nobody likes them
• What it means to “warm to the camera”
• Spoiler alert: Microsoft Cameo is awesome!

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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10 Secrets To Killing Your Next Virtual Presentation

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Online Webinar – Recorded August 15th, 2023
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider: Training Magazine Network

Only 1 in 4 U.S. adults views salespeople as credible in what they say and do [The American State of Credibility, 2020]. This means most salespeople start new business relationships from a position of weakness.

Based on his 30+ years of research and proven success, Global Sales Credibility Authority C. Lee Smith will show you how to multiply your sales opportunities by attracting the high-value clients you want most, accelerating trust-building, and earning repeat business.

Lee will share insights from his Amazon bestseller SalesCred®: How Buyers Qualify Sellers on how to get the respect from buyers you deserve, plus:

• Fresh data from his firm’s 2023 “Voice of the Buyer” study of more than 1,000 B2B decision-makers
• How to build credibility with each buyer using The Hierarchy of Sales Credibility™, a 5-layer framework that unlocks your ability to win their trust
• Examples of how salespeople harm their credibility with the little things they do and say every day

Sales credibility is a pre-requisite to reaching “trusted advisor” status with clients.

This session will enlighten both sales managers and executive leaders on what credibility is, the vital role it plays in sales, and how to use it to gain access to the people and information that close deals.

As a live attendee, you will receive an exclusive electronic version of Lee’s acclaimed book, SalesCred®: How Buyers Qualify Sellers. This invaluable resource will continue to guide you long after the webinar concludes. Reserve your spot now.

Presenter:

C. Lee Smith (LinkedIn profile) President & CEO of SalesFuel, empowers sales teams to both Sell Smarter® and Manage Smarter™ through intelligence-driven sales enablement and management strategies to remain competitive. Lee is also the creator of TeamKeeper® – a Team Leadership+Development System – and AdMall®– the nation’s leading provider of consultative sales intelligence for local advertising and digital media. Lee received his bachelor’s degree in advertising from the E.W. Scripps School of Journalism at Ohio University, and his certificate in Executive Leadership from Cornell University. He is an avid distance cyclist frequently for diabetes research and other nonprofit causes.

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The Secrets Of Sales Credibility: The Trust Accelerator

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Online Webinar – Recorded December 2nd 2022
Activity Type: Education – Online or Digital Media 1 PDU – Free
Provider: Training Magazine Network

Three widely used authoring platforms are all very different – and each one has evolved over the years. Storyline, Captivate, and Lectora have unique strengths and weaknesses.

So how do you pick the best fit for your project needs?

Two learning solutions engineers, , Josh Bleggi (LinkedIn profile) & Domenic Caloia (LinkedIn profile) from ELB Learning, are authoring tools experts and have used all three.

Curious to see how each tool handles the most common tasks?

From assessments and publishing to responsive design and translations, you might be missing out on each tool’s most valuable benefits.

Join Josh & Domenic to look under the hood at the ultimate authoring tool match up!

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Authoring Tools Smackdown:
Storyline, Captivate & Lectora Go Head-To-Head

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Online Webinar – Recorded August 15th, 2023
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider: Training Magazine Network

Today, more than ever, there is a need to ensure that virtual learning works to improve organizational outcomes.

This requires program owners to design virtual learning with desired outcomes in mind to deliver results—and demonstrate that they do. Unfortunately, program owners often face challenges to deliver results that executives appreciate and understand.

In this session Patti & Jack explain how designers, developers, providers, and program owners can ensure that virtual learning delivers desired results by applying design thinking principles that focus on delivering application and impact.

During the session, you’ll see real-world examples of virtual learning programs that delivered results and demonstrated that they do.

Note: Based on the books Proving the Value of Soft Skills: Measuring Impact and Calculating ROI & Show the Value of What You Do: How to Measure and Achieve Success in Any Endeavor By Jack and Patti Phillips

Presenters:

Patti Phillips, (LinkedIn profile) Ph.D.Is president / CEO of the ROI Institute. She is an expert in measurement and evaluation,and author of Measuring Leadership Development: Quantify Your Program’s Impact and ROI on Organizational Performance. Patti applies ROI Methodology to leadership development programs, coaching initiatives. Patti also authored over 30 books including her latest books: The Bottom Line on ROI: Basics, Benefits, & Barriers to Measuring Training & Performance Improvement and Measuring the Success of Coaching (to be released 2012, ASTD).

Jack Phillips, (LinkedIn profile) Ph.D. is co-founder and chairman of ROI Institute, Inc & developer of the ROI Methodology, the most applied approach to demonstrating value of programs, projects, and initiatives. With  experience in the aerospace, textile, metals, construction materials, and banking industries, Jack served as training and development manager, as Sr human resource officer, as president of a regional bank, and a management professor at a major state university.

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Designing Virtual Learning To Deliver Application & Impact

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