Training 2021 Virtual Conference Agenda

Start your Training 2021 Virtual Conference out on the right foot! Ensure your technology works, know exactly how to get to your favorite sessions, get tips for making the most of your Conference experience, and begin to make new friends before next week’s Conference kick off.

Start your Training 2021 Virtual Conference out on the right foot! Ensure your technology works, know exactly how to get to your favorite sessions, get tips for making the most of your Conference experience, and begin to make new friends before next week’s Conference kick off.

Get design hacks to make a boring presentation look modern and bold. Learn easy presentation design guidelines, and quick tricks for making ugly or cluttered slides look polished and pretty. You’ll learn about chunking and highlighting, how to take advantage of Notes and Handouts to free up slide space, and how to use icons and SmartArt like a boss.

Learn five proven ways to make and give a successful presentation. These five silver bullets improve recollection, understanding and adoption. They can be cumulative or used individually and they work… Every. Single. Time. Great presenters use them all the time and you can too. Do not miss this high-energy, interactive session.

What are the cross-cultural presentation strategies used by today’s successful global leaders? Explore proven training techniques for honing executive presence and public speaking skills in the international business context. Ultimately, gain resources for training global professionals how to motivate stakeholders and create new opportunities.

Of late, webinars have generated infectious enthusiasm. Opportunities lurk in every corner of the virtual office. However, these valuable tools can be plagued by serious maladies. This session will examine six key causes of “Death by Webinar” and explore ways to breathe new life into your own virtual presentation style.

The most annoying aspect of PowerPoint is too much text and the primary reason for this is the handout. If you think you can create slides that will succeed as visuals and as handouts, think again. This lab identifies why this is bad practice and shows you precisely what to do instead.

Learn how to create beautiful slides that communicate clearly by understanding how design can be used in presentations to create elegant and engaging visuals and content, with effective layouts, consistent styles, and things beyond the slide to make your presentations more effective.

Virtual instructor led training is here to stay! It’s so normal to connect with participants (and family) using an internet connection and a webcam that it has now potentially become …boring. And boring can lead to complacent trainers and disengaged participants! So, what’s next? How can you take your virtual presentation and training skills to the next level? What is the next level? Let’s discover and explore these ideas together and while we’re at it, we will: Define advanced or next level virtual classroom training skills; design learning activities that use more features than the webcam and chat; use our voices to create an engaging and supportive learning environment; debrief learning in ways that provoke reflection and application.

We’ll identify a clear framework of best practices for facilitating virtual group sessions. You’ll explore a process that encourages constructive participation and active involvement in achieving desired outcomes, no matter what technical platform is used. We’ll discuss key actions required to keep remote participants engaged, involved, interested and directed toward accomplishing the desired results.

Adults learn by doing what they’re taught. It’s your job to get them “doing.” How do you accomplish this when everyone is virtual? Join this session for activities, tools, techniques and examples you can immediately implement to take your live online training beyond the basics to increase learner retention.

In this Tips & Techniques session, you'll hear from five industry experts in back-to-back pithy presentations. Later in the day, you'll have the chance to follow-up with one of them in a How-To session.

Subject-Matter Experts: Friend or Foe?
Diane Elkins, Co-Founder, Artisan E-Learning
Subject-matter experts have lots of expertise — that’s kind of the point. As instructional designers, it’s our job to translate that expertise into something useful for the learners. Sometimes that’s an easy process — and sometimes it can feel like a battle. Forging productive relationships with subject-matter experts can help us do just that.

Training’s Beacon of Hope in Global Gloom
Jim Kirkpatrick, Co-Owner, Kirkpatrick Partners
Discover how today’s challenging times create a unique opportunity for training to make a positive difference in the world and show unquestionable value.

The Secret to Massive Participant Engagement in Virtual Training
Sardek Love, President and Founder, Infinity Consulting and Training Solutions
Add this extraordinarily simple method to any virtual training course and watch your participant engagement skyrocket to new heights with ease.

The Instructional Design Game: Let's Build a Better Mousetrap!
Jean Marrapodi, Senior Learning Architect, MassMutual
Without it, your training is at risk of failure. Come learn the mantra for success.

Content Is Not King (& It Never Really Was)
Joe Urbanski, COO and Org Culture, Total Solutions Group (TSG)
People are drowning in content since the Internet arrived in 1995, so now it’s your job as a leader to transform how people experience that content in a way that improves recruitment, engagement, and retention in the 21st century!

In these Solutions Showcase sessions, you’ll explore strategies, tools, and technologies that address your training challenges. You’ll hear from four solution providers, and you’ll have the opportunity to follow-up with them in breakout discussion groups.

In this Tips & Techniques session, you'll hear from five industry experts in back-to-back pithy presentations. Later in the day, you'll have the chance to follow-up with one of them in a How-To session.

The Next Stage of Online Learning
Clark Aldrich, Managing Partner, Clark Aldrich Designs
Learn about Short Sims, a new approach to educational media that combines the best practices of traditional content creation with the best practices of educational simulations/serious games.

Designing the Learner’s Journey: Building Intrigue, Engagement, Confidence, and Joy
Michael Allen, Chairman & CEO, Allen Interactions
Knowledge and skill objectives are important, but we need emotive objectives defined and address as part of the overall instructional design effort. Here’s how to do it.

Mindset Matters
Cynthia Clay, CEO, NetSpeed Learning Solutions
Learn how your mental model and personal style make the difference in the virtual classroom.

Practical Augmented Reality (AR) for Learning Developers
Destery Hildenbrand, Sr. Instructional Designer, GP Strategies
Learners regularly need access to information at multiple points of their day. There isn't always time to attend training to get that information. Here we explore three ways AR can act as a just in time delivery tool for your workforce to gather and curate the necessary content they need to be successful.

Intro to Effectively Evaluating eLearning
Steven Yacovelli, Owner & Principal, TopDog Learning Group, LLC
Your eLearning is complete (made by you or someone else) … but what are the right criteria to measure its effectiveness before you deploy it to the masses?

Learn how your mental model and personal style make the difference in the virtual classroom.

Learners regularly need access to information at multiple points of their day. There isn't always time to attend training to get that information. Here we explore three ways AR can act as a just in time delivery tool for your workforce to gather and curate the necessary content they need to be successful.

In these Solutions Showcase sessions, you’ll explore strategies, tools, and technologies that address your training challenges. You’ll hear from four solution providers, and you’ll have the opportunity to follow-up with them in breakout discussion groups.

In this Tips & Techniques session, you'll hear from five industry experts in back-to-back pithy presentations. Later in the day, you'll have the chance to follow-up with one of them in a How-To session.

Chatbots for Learning 101
Vince Han, CEO, Mobile Coach
Even though chatbots have been around for years now, they are still very new technologies for learning teams. Learn the basics about why chatbots are great for learners.

Shifting Focus from Telling Learners to Letting Them Think
Ray Jimenez, CEO, Vignettes Learning
Learn to help learners fix, solve and improve work issues. Ray will discuss how to apply Workflow Learning.

It’s Time to Get Serious with Evaluation
Patti Phillips, CEO, ROI Institute
Because studies continue to show L&D programs are rarely measured at the impact and ROI levels, although executives want these results, it’s time to get serious with evaluation.

Presentations Skills Matter!
Becky Pluth Pike, President and CEO, The Bob Pike Company
This quick session will give you tips on presenting well — in person or live online. Becky will share simple, creative methods to refine your content into an engaging presentation.

Leverage Agile Techniques for Learning Experience Design
Megan Torrance, CEO, TorranceLearning
Agile techniques dominate in the software industry because they can be incredibly effective. Let’s explore some of the Agile techniques we can use in L&D to create better learning experiences that solve real organizational challenges.

Measuring L&D at the impact and ROI levels is not that difficult, and the rewards are high. Learn how to do this in a step-by-step approach, protect your L&D budget, and secure more support for your programs. A leadership development case study brings this session to life.

In this session you’ll have an opportunity to practice two techniques from the LLAMA approach to Agile in L&D. Bring your own project and get some work done as we design a kickoff session that gets you off on the right foot. Then we’ll spend the balance of our time designing a plan for iterative development & release … and evaluation!

Whether training, running a meeting, reporting progress, or pitching an idea, presentation skills matter and practicing your presentation is key. In this session you will practice presentations tips and techniques and get immediate feedback using artificial intelligence.

A smart phone is required for the afternoon practice session.

In these Solutions Showcase sessions, you’ll explore strategies, tools, and technologies that address your training challenges. You’ll hear from four solution providers, and you’ll have the opportunity to follow-up with them in breakout discussion groups.

In this Tips & Techniques session, you'll hear from five industry experts in back-to-back pithy presentations. Later in the day, you'll have the chance to follow-up with one of them in a How-To session.

Five Real-World Learner Engagement Tips from Disney
Pete Blank, Training and OD Manager, Personnel Board of Jefferson County
Discover why you have to engage all five senses in your training from a former L&D Manager at Disney University.

Useful Tools You Probably Don't Know When Creating eLearning
Joe Ganci, President, eLearningJoe, LLC
Hear about Joe Ganci's favorite tools (many free) that he uses every day as he designs and develops eLearning!

Reimagine Post-Pandemic Learning with VR and Games
Anders Gronstedt, President, The Gronstedt Group, Inc.
Reimage a post-pandemic future of learning powered by multi-player virtual reality (VR) simulations and learning games in every pocket.

Five Secrets to Interactive Virtual Training Sessions
Karen Hyder, Online Event Producer, Kaleidoscope Training and Consulting; Christopher Benz, Principal, Benz Information Consulting
Learn the preparation and presentation tips that will make your virtual online sessions look polished and professional and will help you maintain participant engagement throughout any live session.

Make Your Live Online Training Effective and Engaging with LOLAs
Sivasailam Thiagarajan, Resident Mad Scientist, The Thiagi Group
Hear how to select, design, and facilitate Live Online Learning Activities (LOLAs) to make your training effective and engaging.

Reskilling, Upskilling, and High-Quality Learning at Scale

Keep ’Em Coming Back for More

Your virtual or classroom-based training MUST engage as many senses as possible in order to keep your participants engaged. After Blank shares some high-level ideas, you’ll learn how you can implement your own “Disney Show” in your training events.

The Holodeck has arrived. Thing-forward companies are harnessing new low-cost mobile VR technology for experiential and embodied learning, state-dependent retention, deliberate practice, visualization, and analytics. They’re also maximizing reps and sets of skill practice with mobile games. Learn how to prepare your organization for a post-pandemic era of learning.

Creating quizzes in Captivate can seem rather easy, but you may find yourself wishing some tasks were easier. During this session with Captivate Expert Joe Ganci, you will learn a number of ways that you can make quizzes work exactly as you’d like, with tips that will blow your mind!

With so many online meeting tools available, it can be difficult to determine which software will best support your learning activities. This session will showcase critical tools including polls, chat, and breakout groups and compare functionality across products; AC, Zoom and WebEx. Review 21-questions to ask when choosing online software tools. Identify workstation setup and hardware checklist items, too!

In these Solutions Showcase sessions, you’ll explore strategies, tools, and technologies that address your training challenges. You’ll hear from four solution providers, and you’ll have the opportunity to follow-up with them in breakout discussion groups.