Online Webinar – Recorded January 24th, 2023
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider: Training Magazine Network

Learning online is now commonplace. We know how to use the platform features, but unfortunately, engaging attendees to participate, to come on camera, and to unmute can be like “herding cats,” as the saying goes.

The features of the platform are not what engages people, it is how we use them that makes an impact.

Establishing a comfortable, safe, and technically sound online learning environment is essential. Meaningful and relevant activities are the secret.

Like tasty treats and fresh catnip, attendees will be unable to resist actively participating in your virtual training when you use these learning activities and a “never fail” debrief strategy to involve them!

Invite participants to take charge of their learning and experience virtual training like they’ve never seen before.

Walk away with:

• 3-6 ready to use virtual learning activity examples, including one that uses escape game strategy for exploratory learning
• 1 “never fail” debrief strategy to reflect on, validate, and encourage learning
• 1 job aid to assist you to make your own virtual learning activities
• An understanding of the psychology behind virtual training design and delivery strategies that truly engage

Presenter: 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.

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Irresistible Virtual Training

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Online Webinar  – Recorded 1st Mar 2017
Activity Type: Education – Online or Digital Media  1 PDU – Free
Provider: Association for Project Management – APM

Stakeholder Engagement helps us understand what people involved with a project want, and how to engage them to help achieve project success. For both new and experienced project managers, a big challenge is where to go for guidance on the topic.

The Stakeholder Engagement Focus Group, part of the APM People SIG , has started to collate stakeholder engagement resources on the APM Website.

This webinar provides an overview of the information and tools currently available and how you can help add to and improve this facility.

There are many reasons why projects may struggle to meet their goals but a lack of effective stakeholder engagement is widely acknowledged to be one of the main issues.

The Stakeholder Engagement Focus Group (SEFG), now part of the APM People SIG, was established to encourage practitioners to make stakeholder engagement a higher priority.

The first project for the SEFG was to start collating stakeholder engagement resources.

The aim is to support project professionals by sharing case studies, creating an introduction to the key principles of stakeholder engagement, and pointing to relevant and useful reference materials.

These APM Stakeholder Resources are now available on the APM website and .accessible to anyone!

In this webinar Fran and Ian will introduce the Stakeholder Engagement Focus Group, provide an update on the SEFG’s progress to date and the materials available on the APM site, and plans for improving and building on these resources.

Presenters:

Fran Bodley-Scott: A veteran marketing & communication consultant with many years experience  and founder of Marketing In Control, Fran specializes in customer retention and stakeholder engagement solutions. She’s been involved with projects throughout her career, ranging from product development to organisation change and business strategy implementation. Fran is an active member of the SEFG. She is a keen supporter of the PMO Flashmob and is also an active member of the APM Stakeholder Engagement Focus Group.

Ian Cribbes (LinkedIn profile) has worked with a wide variety of organisations within the UK and internationally, leading projects with values in excess of £35 million pounds.  Ian is a co-opted member of the People SIG committee and an active member of the Stakeholder Engagement Focus Group.  Ian now runs his own company assisting organisations with programme and project management issues and advising on stakeholder engagement processes.

Call for case studies:

Another important message from the webinar was a request for case studies. To help the SEFG support other practitioners, project managers are encouraged to provide case studies about their stakeholder engagement experience, tips and recommendations. If you have a case study to share, use the template provided below and send it to: SEFG@apm.org.uk.

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To download the document to view at your leisure.

OR…Click to watch on YouTube:
Stakeholder Engagement Resources For Project Managers

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LOnline Webinar – Recorded April 18th, 2023
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider: Training Magazine Network

Live virtual training has gone from a novelty to the instructional instrument of choice for many organizations. While audiences and trainers may feel Zoom-ed out, creative use of the latest generation of digital tools can supercharge your virtual training programs and deliver a better ROI than traditional, face-to-face learning experiences.

Brella Co-founder/Senior Creative Event Strategist Mark Mallchok (LinkedIn profile) and Brella Technical Director Joshua Stroud (LinkedIn profile) walk you through how to:

1. Bring an event-based mindset to your virtual training efforts
2. Create virtual trainings with meaningful interactions and gamification to achieve durable, measurable results
3. Integrate the power of vMix/OBS into Zoom and Teams meetings
4. Use these digital production tools to give your next training a broadcast-quality polish

By the end of the session, you’ll have a roadmap for transforming run-of-the-mill training into engaging, memorable learning experiences.

Click to register for:
Training As An Event: Achieving Superior Production
For Your Virtual 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.

Click to register for:
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.

Click to register for:
Why Skills & Rules Only Training Fail:
Apply Workflow Thinking

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