Certificate Programs

Presenter: Geoff Bailey, Senior Consultant, Friesen, Kaye and Associates

Discover the keys to creating interactive and engaging training that ensures learner success and true productivity back on the job — whether in the classroom, online, or a combination of both. Take home electronic job aids and a detailed support manual to help you apply what you learned immediately when you are back on the job. You’ll learn to:

• Apply proven techniques for analyzing learner and organizational needs and plan the design and development of training materials to meet those needs.
• Incorporate adult learning principles, a systematic learning process, and a variety of processing methods to maximize retention and increase learner productivity post training back on the job.
• Link the science of the brain to effective instructional design methodologies to maximize training program success.
• Select the right training content and instructional strategy to support performance improvement for the target population, including multi-generational workforce issues.
• Align objectives and tests, and outline strategies to close any performance gaps.
• Create a validation plan that ensures the training design meets the organizational needs.
• Plan a variety of presentation, application, and feedback methods.
• Create questions that enable learning, encourage retention, and test for understanding.
• Promote interactivity in classroom and online designs.
• Strategize design time shortcuts.

BONUS: You’ll receive a 220-page Instructional Design Fundamentals Participant Manual, plus case study documents, job aids, a Kolb Learning Styles Inventory, and sample Self-Directed Learning Booklet. You’ll also receive a 184-page Support Manual full of instructional design guidelines, best practices, and templates with instructions for accessing the templates online.

ATD has approved this program for 16.5 points.

3-Day Certificate Program (Friday, February 23 - Sunday, February 25)

Presenter: Sardék Love, Master Facilitator and Engagement Expert

As a training professional, have you ever …

• Delivered training that even you would sleep through?
• Asked questions during training only to receive confidence-crushing silence?
• Wondered why participants are constantly distracted, disinterested, and disengaged?

If the answer is yes, you are not alone. A survey of more than 1,500 training professionals revealed the #1 problem trainers experience on the job is a massive lack of participant engagement. When participants are not engaged, it sets off an insidious cycle of disastrous outcomes. This program will equip you with the framework, tools, and ongoing skill development to become a dynamic and engaging facilitator.

Trainers begin to overuse lectures, creating an endless series of “monologues with hostages.” Participants start multitasking resulting in a lack of attention and retention. And training teams lose credibility and influence with their stakeholders. How do we overcome these all-too common challenges? Stop training, start facilitating. In this three-day transformational experience, you will learn to:

• Apply the Engagement by Design Blueprint to rapidly redesign any course to make it more participant-focused and engaging.
• Use the super-simple Facilitating with Impact! framework to deliver insanely engaging learning experiences for participants.
• Select and practice facilitating training activities that convert content-heavy, time-constrained courses into performance improving experiential learning.
• Use the high-impact storytelling formula to identify and tell wildly memorable stories that make learning stick.
• Apply the Curious Ask method to effectively address challenging and undesirable participant behaviors.
• Implement the Virtual Training Engagement Road Map to deliver continuously engaging online training for any topic.

PROJECT: Throughout this program, you’ll have the opportunity to immediately apply what you learn to your course(s) as you practice your facilitation skills.

BONUS: You’ll receive access to a private online portal containing 30+ training activities that you can immediately use in your training, six months of support and skill development through exclusive access to monthly live group coaching sessions with Master Facilitator Sardék Love, and a copy of the Presentation Essentials book.

ATD has approved this program for 16.5 points.

3-Day Certificate Program (Friday, February 23 - Sunday, February 25)

Presenters: John Moore, Senior Learning Director, Elizabeth Pawlicki, Senior Learning Consultant, Ron Price, Chief Learning Officer, Yukon Learning

Need to expand your knowledge about the magic of Articulate Storyline 360? Could you use help making branching, layers, triggers, and states easier to complete? Curious how to level up your Rise 360 content? This certificate program has all of this — and more! Whether you’re brand new to Rise and Storyline 360, or you are looking to level up your skills with these tools, this certificate program is for you.

This comprehensive three-day program provides much of what you’ll need to develop compelling, responsive elearning modules with Articulate Rise 360 and Storyline 360.

Day 1 will focus on best practices for using Rise 360 to create standard and microlearning courses, exploring new custom themes, developing engaging learning modules with interactive blocks, building quizzes with the Quiz blocks, and exporting your course for your LMS or Review 360.

In Days 2 and 3, you will craft highly interactive elearning modules with Storyline 360, including:

• Completing modules using elements from the Content Library, Storyline 360, and PowerPoint.
• Applying the basic building blocks of Storyline 360.
• Enhancing your course with audio and video.
• Creating visual interest with animation and motion.
• Adding more advanced Storyline 360 features, like conditional triggers and states.
• Discovering best practices for using Storyline 360.
• Exploring quizzes, screen recording, variables, and conditions.
• Experimenting with creative interactions, like dials or sliders.
• Exploring publishing options for the modules you build.

BYOD: A WiFi-enabled laptop with Articulate 360 and Microsoft PowerPoint installed.

PROJECT: Bring your creativity, energy, and interest in trying new things.

ATD has approved this program for 16.5 points.

Presenter: Geoff Bailey, Senior Consultant, Friesen, Kaye and Associates

Discover the keys to creating interactive and engaging training that ensures learner success and true productivity back on the job — whether in the classroom, online, or a combination of both. Take home electronic job aids and a detailed support manual to help you apply what you learned immediately when you are back on the job. You’ll learn to:

• Apply proven techniques for analyzing learner and organizational needs and plan the design and development of training materials to meet those needs.
• Incorporate adult learning principles, a systematic learning process, and a variety of processing methods to maximize retention and increase learner productivity post training back on the job.
• Link the science of the brain to effective instructional design methodologies to maximize training program success.
• Select the right training content and instructional strategy to support performance improvement for the target population, including multi-generational workforce issues.
• Align objectives and tests, and outline strategies to close any performance gaps.
• Create a validation plan that ensures the training design meets the organizational needs.
• Plan a variety of presentation, application, and feedback methods.
• Create questions that enable learning, encourage retention, and test for understanding.
• Promote interactivity in classroom and online designs.
• Strategize design time shortcuts.

BONUS: You’ll receive a 220-page Instructional Design Fundamentals Participant Manual, plus case study documents, job aids, a Kolb Learning Styles Inventory, and sample Self-Directed Learning Booklet. You’ll also receive a 184-page Support Manual full of instructional design guidelines, best practices, and templates with instructions for accessing the templates online.

ATD has approved this program for 16.5 points.

3-Day Certificate Program (Friday, February 23 - Sunday, February 25)

Presenter: Sardék Love, Master Facilitator and Engagement Expert

As a training professional, have you ever …

• Delivered training that even you would sleep through?
• Asked questions during training only to receive confidence-crushing silence?
• Wondered why participants are constantly distracted, disinterested, and disengaged?

If the answer is yes, you are not alone. A survey of more than 1,500 training professionals revealed the #1 problem trainers experience on the job is a massive lack of participant engagement. When participants are not engaged, it sets off an insidious cycle of disastrous outcomes. This program will equip you with the framework, tools, and ongoing skill development to become a dynamic and engaging facilitator.

Trainers begin to overuse lectures, creating an endless series of “monologues with hostages.” Participants start multitasking resulting in a lack of attention and retention. And training teams lose credibility and influence with their stakeholders. How do we overcome these all-too common challenges? Stop training, start facilitating. In this three-day transformational experience, you will learn to:

• Apply the Engagement by Design Blueprint to rapidly redesign any course to make it more participant-focused and engaging.
• Use the super-simple Facilitating with Impact! framework to deliver insanely engaging learning experiences for participants.
• Select and practice facilitating training activities that convert content-heavy, time-constrained courses into performance improving experiential learning.
• Use the high-impact storytelling formula to identify and tell wildly memorable stories that make learning stick.
• Apply the Curious Ask method to effectively address challenging and undesirable participant behaviors.
• Implement the Virtual Training Engagement Road Map to deliver continuously engaging online training for any topic.

PROJECT: Throughout this program, you’ll have the opportunity to immediately apply what you learn to your course(s) as you practice your facilitation skills.

BONUS: You’ll receive access to a private online portal containing 30+ training activities that you can immediately use in your training, six months of support and skill development through exclusive access to monthly live group coaching sessions with Master Facilitator Sardék Love, and a copy of the Presentation Essentials book.

ATD has approved this program for 16.5 points.

3-Day Certificate Program (Friday, February 23 - Sunday, February 25)

Presenters: John Moore, Senior Learning Director, Elizabeth Pawlicki, Senior Learning Consultant, Ron Price, Chief Learning Officer, Yukon Learning

Need to expand your knowledge about the magic of Articulate Storyline 360? Could you use help making branching, layers, triggers, and states easier to complete? Curious how to level up your Rise 360 content? This certificate program has all of this — and more! Whether you’re brand new to Rise and Storyline 360, or you are looking to level up your skills with these tools, this certificate program is for you.

This comprehensive three-day program provides much of what you’ll need to develop compelling, responsive elearning modules with Articulate Rise 360 and Storyline 360.

Day 1 will focus on best practices for using Rise 360 to create standard and microlearning courses, exploring new custom themes, developing engaging learning modules with interactive blocks, building quizzes with the Quiz blocks, and exporting your course for your LMS or Review 360.

In Days 2 and 3, you will craft highly interactive elearning modules with Storyline 360, including:

• Completing modules using elements from the Content Library, Storyline 360, and PowerPoint.
• Applying the basic building blocks of Storyline 360.
• Enhancing your course with audio and video.
• Creating visual interest with animation and motion.
• Adding more advanced Storyline 360 features, like conditional triggers and states.
• Discovering best practices for using Storyline 360.
• Exploring quizzes, screen recording, variables, and conditions.
• Experimenting with creative interactions, like dials or sliders.
• Exploring publishing options for the modules you build.

BYOD: A WiFi-enabled laptop with Articulate 360 and Microsoft PowerPoint installed.

PROJECT: Bring your creativity, energy, and interest in trying new things.

ATD has approved this program for 16.5 points.

2-Day Certificate Program (Saturday, February 24 - Sunday, February 25)

Presenter: Heidi Matthews, Training Manager, Terracon

What does a training manager do? They manage — in other words, they supervise, administer, regulate, maintain control, and influence. Gee, is that all? The role is all of that and more depending on whether you are a “one-stop shop” or have a team. This program will delve into how to manage strategy, tools, the work, relationships, and finally, your own development. You will map out your plan while learning from other participants, business examples, and research.

• Manage the Strategy: Business alignment and governance, company culture, the who, what, where so we can figure out the how.
• Manage the Tools: Knowledge and content management, vendor resources, systems (including LMS and authoring), security needs, and new tech choices.
• Manage the Work: Project management and pipeline management, models you will use, skill alignment, curation, promotion, and results.
• Manage the Relationships: The 51%, company executive team, subject-matter experts, your direct supervisor, your coworkers, and direct reports.
• Manage the Development: Your own development, your staff’s development, and how you make it a regular part of your priorities.

You will learn how to:

• Stay on top of current learning and development trends with tips on how to integrate them.
• Map business needs for learning project alignment.
• Incorporate knowledge and content management structures that are supported by your systems and technology.
• Choose the right tools for your business with vendor management that is right for your budget.
• Build relationships that maximize your team’s abilities and efforts, while increasing your influence.
• Prioritize the pipeline of projects and get backing for “no.”
• Hire and develop a team that performs at a high level.

ATD has approved this program for 11 points.

2-Day Certificate Program (Saturday, February 24 - Sunday, February 25)

Presenters: Amy Morrisey, President, Diane Elkins, Co-Owner, Artisan E-Learning

Are you ready to take your elearning to the next level? Let's face it, a lot of what is out there isn't great. You want to design learning that's engaging and also helpful. This may involve having more productive conversations with subject-matter experts, turning data dumps into actionable learning, or connecting your learning and performance objective to the business need for the course you're designing. The list goes on.

Once you have your hands around the content, you need to know what's possible, given the tool you're designing for. How do you get your idea into an efficient and effective interaction?

In this hands-on workshop, you’ll actually design a segment of content over the course of two days. In teams, you’ll work with a hypothetical customer to determine business goals and instructional needs. You’ll learn how to uncover actionable content and design a course that has learners connecting the content to their work. You will leave with a design you can take back to your office and give to a developer. You will learn how to:

ATD has approved this program for 11 points.

2-Day Certificate Program (Saturday, February 24 - Sunday, February 25)

Presenters: Monica Cornetti, President, Jonathan Peters, Chief Motivation Officer, Sententia Gamification

Discover how to leverage the power of gamification and game-based learning for adult education and corporate training. In this interactive session, you'll actively participate in crafting new ideas and exploring the possibilities of how to apply game-like thinking to increase and sustain learner engagement, comprehension, retention, and motivation. You will:

• Examine the science and art behind using play to drive engagement.
• Gain an in-depth view on the psychology and motivations of player behavior.
• Discover how to do gamification successfully and how to avoid bad gamification.
• Explore reward systems for building loyalty and changing behaviors.
• Learn the basics of game design and explore popular game mechanics.
• Take a base set of rules and game materials and apply game design principles to modify the rules to fit your subject matter.
• Practice a "Fail Fast, Fail Often" development mentality by iterating, playtesting, and receiving feedback from other teams.
• Discover the value of capitalizing on using proven game designs for educational content.

If you are on the frontline of designing, developing, writing, and delivering adult education, corporate training, or HR compliance through instructor-led, elearning, and blended methods, join this program to take advantage of this new evolution in gamified and game-based learning to propel your company forward in the innovative use of gaming mechanics and playful design!

Project: You'll work on your own elearning, ILT, vILT, or hybrid project and learn how to apply the proven gamification framework and game-based learning strategy to help change behaviors, while increasing meaning, mastery, and autonomy.

Bonus: Every participant receives a Design Journal, Pirate Tales Gamification of Learning Treasure Map, and a Deliberate Fun Game Design Card Deck.

ATD has approved this program for 11 points.

2-Day Certificate Program (Saturday, February 24 - Sunday, February 25)

Presenter: Judy Hale, Principal, Hale Associates

Want to learn how to work on the right problems and offer workable solutions? This program is for internal consultants who want to help their organizations grow their talent, improve their processes, and eliminate waste and inefficient practices. Whether your title is trainer, coach, training manager, talent manager, organizational developer, change manager, chief people officer, or instructional designer, this workshop will add tools to your performance improvement toolkit.

This practical workshop walks you through the process of identifying needs, uncovering causes, designing workable solutions, guiding groups as they implement changes, and evaluating the worth of the effort. The workshop draws on the concepts documented in the Performance Consultant’s Field Book: Tools and Techniques for Improving People and Organizations. You will receive a digital workbook containing the slides and a Toolkit with job aids, templates, and guidelines you can personalize for your own work. You will be able to:

• Apply proven guidelines for performance consulting.
• Identify opportunities for improving efficiency and organizational agility.
• Uncover barriers to team performance.
• Design solutions that are cost feasible and politically workable.
• Identify the critical-mass to improve the odds of success.
• Evaluate the cost effectiveness and value gained of the change.
• Explain the benefits of applying a performance improvement approach.

ATD has approved this program for 11 points.

2-Day Certificate Program (Saturday, February 24 - Sunday, February 25)

Presenter: Carla Torgerson, Instructional Strategy & Design Expert, Torgerson Consulting

Everyone wants to go micro. Many already have. But going micro is more than just delivering bite-sized content. There are many different use cases and formats for developing microlearning. So when people say they’re using microlearning, they’re likely all doing something different — creating challenges to identifying the best design practices, delivery approaches, and implementation methods. In this 2-day certificate program, you will:

• Determine what kinds of microlearning to use for greatest impact.
• Identify where microlearning best fits into your learning content.
• Explore use cases for microlearning.
• Apply various strategies and formats to your projects to make your microlearning more learner-centric.
• Use best practices to design a piece of microlearning in one of the five formats.
• Break down a large amount of content into bite-sized pieces for microlearning delivery.
• Determine how to use microlearning to make the greatest impact in your curriculum.

You will use a variety of ways to help connect your learning to the project work:

• Evidence-informed strategies and examples.
• Guided practice using your work projects.
• Examples that illustrate various approaches.

You will leave this program equipped with a set of tools for completing your projects back at work:

• 4 Uses of Microlearning
• 5 Formats of Microlearning
• 20 Ways to Go Micro
• Identifying and Designing a Micro Resource
• Creating a Microlearning Program
• Creating Effective Microlearning Learner Guide

ATD has approved this program for 11 points.

2-Day Certificate Program (Saturday, February 24 - Sunday, February 25)
 

Presenters: Jed and Roz Buck, Principals, Roz and Jed Training & Consulting

“Best Session Ever!”... If you want to hear these words as participants leave your training sessions, then this program is for you. Discover how to integrate fun and impactful activities that involve your participants in experiential learning. In this high-energy program, you will help guide the content and participate in a wide variety of activities that you can take back to your organization and easily incorporate into your in-person AND on-line training sessions. For 20 years, Roz and Jed have developed, collected, and used more than 300 different activities to help create teachable moments on a wide variety of topics. You will experience and learn:

• The six key factors that create memorable training moments.
• A variety of activities that can be used to open and close your training sessions effectively.
• A wide range of activities that convey your key training messages.
• A collection of energizers and reviewers to incorporate into all your training sessions.
• The importance of the debrief or reflection that creates the teachable moments with your audience.

ATD has approved this program for 11 points.

2-Day Certificate Program (Saturday, February 24 - Sunday, February 25)

Presenter: Ken Phillips, CEO, Phillips Associates

No matter how well learning is designed and delivered within your organization, you are probably experiencing increased demands to demonstrate its value. Yet, many L&D professionals do not excel at collecting and making sense of training evaluation data.

A 2019 ATD study found that only 40 percent of organizations view their L&D department's evaluation efforts as helping the organization achieve its business goals, while only 50 percent see their efforts as assisting the L&D department in achieving its learning goals.

This informative, highly interactive course will teach you practical tips and best practices for creating valid, scientifically sound Level 1, 2, 3, and 4 evaluations. Further, the emphasis is on creating evaluations that produce credible data with high perceived value in the eyes of business executives and L&D professionals alike. You will be able to:

• Use the five-level evaluation model to build a "chain of evidence" demonstrating a program’s value and identifying areas for improvement.
• Create Level 1 evaluations that produce highly valued data and can predict participant post-training behavior.
• Create scientifically sound multiple-choice, true/false, matching, and fill-in-the-blank Level 2 test questions that prove whether participant learning occurred.
• Write multiple-choice test questions that measure job application, not the mere recall of facts and information.
• Create scientifically sound Level 3 participant surveys that measure on-the-job behavior change.
• Use a two-phase eight-guideline process for conducting Level 4 evaluations that connect a learning program with business results and isolate the effects of the training.
• Use statistics to summarize the collected quantitative and qualitative evaluation data and interpret and draw conclusions from the results.

Bonus:

You’ll receive a comprehensive participant workbook covering everything in this program, a series of articles about levels of evaluation, an ebook on The Sad State of Measurement and Evaluation, a Mastering M&E Project Implementation Guide, and a voluntary post-program 60-90-minute virtual coaching session.

ATD has approved this program for 11 points.

Presenter: Geoff Bailey, Senior Consultant, Friesen, Kaye and Associates

Discover the keys to creating interactive and engaging training that ensures learner success and true productivity back on the job — whether in the classroom, online, or a combination of both. Take home electronic job aids and a detailed support manual to help you apply what you learned immediately when you are back on the job. You’ll learn to:

• Apply proven techniques for analyzing learner and organizational needs and plan the design and development of training materials to meet those needs.
• Incorporate adult learning principles, a systematic learning process, and a variety of processing methods to maximize retention and increase learner productivity post training back on the job.
• Link the science of the brain to effective instructional design methodologies to maximize training program success.
• Select the right training content and instructional strategy to support performance improvement for the target population, including multi-generational workforce issues.
• Align objectives and tests, and outline strategies to close any performance gaps.
• Create a validation plan that ensures the training design meets the organizational needs.
• Plan a variety of presentation, application, and feedback methods.
• Create questions that enable learning, encourage retention, and test for understanding.
• Promote interactivity in classroom and online designs.
• Strategize design time shortcuts.

BONUS: You’ll receive a 220-page Instructional Design Fundamentals Participant Manual, plus case study documents, job aids, a Kolb Learning Styles Inventory, and sample Self-Directed Learning Booklet. You’ll also receive a 184-page Support Manual full of instructional design guidelines, best practices, and templates with instructions for accessing the templates online.

ATD has approved this program for 16.5 points.

3-Day Certificate Program (Friday, February 23 - Sunday, February 25)

Presenter: Sardék Love, Master Facilitator and Engagement Expert

As a training professional, have you ever …

• Delivered training that even you would sleep through?
• Asked questions during training only to receive confidence-crushing silence?
• Wondered why participants are constantly distracted, disinterested, and disengaged?

If the answer is yes, you are not alone. A survey of more than 1,500 training professionals revealed the #1 problem trainers experience on the job is a massive lack of participant engagement. When participants are not engaged, it sets off an insidious cycle of disastrous outcomes. This program will equip you with the framework, tools, and ongoing skill development to become a dynamic and engaging facilitator.

Trainers begin to overuse lectures, creating an endless series of “monologues with hostages.” Participants start multitasking resulting in a lack of attention and retention. And training teams lose credibility and influence with their stakeholders. How do we overcome these all-too common challenges? Stop training, start facilitating. In this three-day transformational experience, you will learn to:

• Apply the Engagement by Design Blueprint to rapidly redesign any course to make it more participant-focused and engaging.
• Use the super-simple Facilitating with Impact! framework to deliver insanely engaging learning experiences for participants.
• Select and practice facilitating training activities that convert content-heavy, time-constrained courses into performance improving experiential learning.
• Use the high-impact storytelling formula to identify and tell wildly memorable stories that make learning stick.
• Apply the Curious Ask method to effectively address challenging and undesirable participant behaviors.
• Implement the Virtual Training Engagement Road Map to deliver continuously engaging online training for any topic.

PROJECT: Throughout this program, you’ll have the opportunity to immediately apply what you learn to your course(s) as you practice your facilitation skills.

BONUS: You’ll receive access to a private online portal containing 30+ training activities that you can immediately use in your training, six months of support and skill development through exclusive access to monthly live group coaching sessions with Master Facilitator Sardék Love, and a copy of the Presentation Essentials book.

ATD has approved this program for 16.5 points.

3-Day Certificate Program (Friday, February 23 - Sunday, February 25)

Presenters: John Moore, Senior Learning Director, Elizabeth Pawlicki, Senior Learning Consultant, Ron Price, Chief Learning Officer, Yukon Learning

Need to expand your knowledge about the magic of Articulate Storyline 360? Could you use help making branching, layers, triggers, and states easier to complete? Curious how to level up your Rise 360 content? This certificate program has all of this — and more! Whether you’re brand new to Rise and Storyline 360, or you are looking to level up your skills with these tools, this certificate program is for you.

This comprehensive three-day program provides much of what you’ll need to develop compelling, responsive elearning modules with Articulate Rise 360 and Storyline 360.

Day 1 will focus on best practices for using Rise 360 to create standard and microlearning courses, exploring new custom themes, developing engaging learning modules with interactive blocks, building quizzes with the Quiz blocks, and exporting your course for your LMS or Review 360.

In Days 2 and 3, you will craft highly interactive elearning modules with Storyline 360, including:

• Completing modules using elements from the Content Library, Storyline 360, and PowerPoint.
• Applying the basic building blocks of Storyline 360.
• Enhancing your course with audio and video.
• Creating visual interest with animation and motion.
• Adding more advanced Storyline 360 features, like conditional triggers and states.
• Discovering best practices for using Storyline 360.
• Exploring quizzes, screen recording, variables, and conditions.
• Experimenting with creative interactions, like dials or sliders.
• Exploring publishing options for the modules you build.

BYOD: A WiFi-enabled laptop with Articulate 360 and Microsoft PowerPoint installed.

PROJECT: Bring your creativity, energy, and interest in trying new things.

ATD has approved this program for 16.5 points.

2-Day Certificate Program (Saturday, February 24 - Sunday, February 25)

Presenter: Heidi Matthews, Training Manager, Terracon

What does a training manager do? They manage — in other words, they supervise, administer, regulate, maintain control, and influence. Gee, is that all? The role is all of that and more depending on whether you are a “one-stop shop” or have a team. This program will delve into how to manage strategy, tools, the work, relationships, and finally, your own development. You will map out your plan while learning from other participants, business examples, and research.

• Manage the Strategy: Business alignment and governance, company culture, the who, what, where so we can figure out the how.
• Manage the Tools: Knowledge and content management, vendor resources, systems (including LMS and authoring), security needs, and new tech choices.
• Manage the Work: Project management and pipeline management, models you will use, skill alignment, curation, promotion, and results.
• Manage the Relationships: The 51%, company executive team, subject-matter experts, your direct supervisor, your coworkers, and direct reports.
• Manage the Development: Your own development, your staff’s development, and how you make it a regular part of your priorities.

You will learn how to:

• Stay on top of current learning and development trends with tips on how to integrate them.
• Map business needs for learning project alignment.
• Incorporate knowledge and content management structures that are supported by your systems and technology.
• Choose the right tools for your business with vendor management that is right for your budget.
• Build relationships that maximize your team’s abilities and efforts, while increasing your influence.
• Prioritize the pipeline of projects and get backing for “no.”
• Hire and develop a team that performs at a high level.

ATD has approved this program for 11 points.

2-Day Certificate Program (Saturday, February 24 - Sunday, February 25)

Presenters: Amy Morrisey, President, Diane Elkins, Co-Owner, Artisan E-Learning

Are you ready to take your elearning to the next level? Let's face it, a lot of what is out there isn't great. You want to design learning that's engaging and also helpful. This may involve having more productive conversations with subject-matter experts, turning data dumps into actionable learning, or connecting your learning and performance objective to the business need for the course you're designing. The list goes on.

Once you have your hands around the content, you need to know what's possible, given the tool you're designing for. How do you get your idea into an efficient and effective interaction?

In this hands-on workshop, you’ll actually design a segment of content over the course of two days. In teams, you’ll work with a hypothetical customer to determine business goals and instructional needs. You’ll learn how to uncover actionable content and design a course that has learners connecting the content to their work. You will leave with a design you can take back to your office and give to a developer. You will learn how to:

ATD has approved this program for 11 points.

2-Day Certificate Program (Saturday, February 24 - Sunday, February 25)

Presenters: Monica Cornetti, President, Jonathan Peters, Chief Motivation Officer, Sententia Gamification

Discover how to leverage the power of gamification and game-based learning for adult education and corporate training. In this interactive session, you'll actively participate in crafting new ideas and exploring the possibilities of how to apply game-like thinking to increase and sustain learner engagement, comprehension, retention, and motivation. You will:

• Examine the science and art behind using play to drive engagement.
• Gain an in-depth view on the psychology and motivations of player behavior.
• Discover how to do gamification successfully and how to avoid bad gamification.
• Explore reward systems for building loyalty and changing behaviors.
• Learn the basics of game design and explore popular game mechanics.
• Take a base set of rules and game materials and apply game design principles to modify the rules to fit your subject matter.
• Practice a "Fail Fast, Fail Often" development mentality by iterating, playtesting, and receiving feedback from other teams.
• Discover the value of capitalizing on using proven game designs for educational content.

If you are on the frontline of designing, developing, writing, and delivering adult education, corporate training, or HR compliance through instructor-led, elearning, and blended methods, join this program to take advantage of this new evolution in gamified and game-based learning to propel your company forward in the innovative use of gaming mechanics and playful design!

Project: You'll work on your own elearning, ILT, vILT, or hybrid project and learn how to apply the proven gamification framework and game-based learning strategy to help change behaviors, while increasing meaning, mastery, and autonomy.

Bonus: Every participant receives a Design Journal, Pirate Tales Gamification of Learning Treasure Map, and a Deliberate Fun Game Design Card Deck.

ATD has approved this program for 11 points.

2-Day Certificate Program (Saturday, February 24 - Sunday, February 25)

Presenter: Judy Hale, Principal, Hale Associates

Want to learn how to work on the right problems and offer workable solutions? This program is for internal consultants who want to help their organizations grow their talent, improve their processes, and eliminate waste and inefficient practices. Whether your title is trainer, coach, training manager, talent manager, organizational developer, change manager, chief people officer, or instructional designer, this workshop will add tools to your performance improvement toolkit.

This practical workshop walks you through the process of identifying needs, uncovering causes, designing workable solutions, guiding groups as they implement changes, and evaluating the worth of the effort. The workshop draws on the concepts documented in the Performance Consultant’s Field Book: Tools and Techniques for Improving People and Organizations. You will receive a digital workbook containing the slides and a Toolkit with job aids, templates, and guidelines you can personalize for your own work. You will be able to:

• Apply proven guidelines for performance consulting.
• Identify opportunities for improving efficiency and organizational agility.
• Uncover barriers to team performance.
• Design solutions that are cost feasible and politically workable.
• Identify the critical-mass to improve the odds of success.
• Evaluate the cost effectiveness and value gained of the change.
• Explain the benefits of applying a performance improvement approach.

ATD has approved this program for 11 points.

2-Day Certificate Program (Saturday, February 24 - Sunday, February 25)

Presenter: Carla Torgerson, Instructional Strategy & Design Expert, Torgerson Consulting

Everyone wants to go micro. Many already have. But going micro is more than just delivering bite-sized content. There are many different use cases and formats for developing microlearning. So when people say they’re using microlearning, they’re likely all doing something different — creating challenges to identifying the best design practices, delivery approaches, and implementation methods. In this 2-day certificate program, you will:

• Determine what kinds of microlearning to use for greatest impact.
• Identify where microlearning best fits into your learning content.
• Explore use cases for microlearning.
• Apply various strategies and formats to your projects to make your microlearning more learner-centric.
• Use best practices to design a piece of microlearning in one of the five formats.
• Break down a large amount of content into bite-sized pieces for microlearning delivery.
• Determine how to use microlearning to make the greatest impact in your curriculum.

You will use a variety of ways to help connect your learning to the project work:

• Evidence-informed strategies and examples.
• Guided practice using your work projects.
• Examples that illustrate various approaches.

You will leave this program equipped with a set of tools for completing your projects back at work:

• 4 Uses of Microlearning
• 5 Formats of Microlearning
• 20 Ways to Go Micro
• Identifying and Designing a Micro Resource
• Creating a Microlearning Program
• Creating Effective Microlearning Learner Guide

ATD has approved this program for 11 points.

2-Day Certificate Program (Saturday, February 24 - Sunday, February 25)
 

Presenters: Jed and Roz Buck, Principals, Roz and Jed Training & Consulting

“Best Session Ever!”... If you want to hear these words as participants leave your training sessions, then this program is for you. Discover how to integrate fun and impactful activities that involve your participants in experiential learning. In this high-energy program, you will help guide the content and participate in a wide variety of activities that you can take back to your organization and easily incorporate into your in-person AND on-line training sessions. For 20 years, Roz and Jed have developed, collected, and used more than 300 different activities to help create teachable moments on a wide variety of topics. You will experience and learn:

• The six key factors that create memorable training moments.
• A variety of activities that can be used to open and close your training sessions effectively.
• A wide range of activities that convey your key training messages.
• A collection of energizers and reviewers to incorporate into all your training sessions.
• The importance of the debrief or reflection that creates the teachable moments with your audience.

ATD has approved this program for 11 points.

2-Day Certificate Program (Saturday, February 24 - Sunday, February 25)

Presenter: Ken Phillips, CEO, Phillips Associates

No matter how well learning is designed and delivered within your organization, you are probably experiencing increased demands to demonstrate its value. Yet, many L&D professionals do not excel at collecting and making sense of training evaluation data.

A 2019 ATD study found that only 40 percent of organizations view their L&D department's evaluation efforts as helping the organization achieve its business goals, while only 50 percent see their efforts as assisting the L&D department in achieving its learning goals.

This informative, highly interactive course will teach you practical tips and best practices for creating valid, scientifically sound Level 1, 2, 3, and 4 evaluations. Further, the emphasis is on creating evaluations that produce credible data with high perceived value in the eyes of business executives and L&D professionals alike. You will be able to:

• Use the five-level evaluation model to build a "chain of evidence" demonstrating a program’s value and identifying areas for improvement.
• Create Level 1 evaluations that produce highly valued data and can predict participant post-training behavior.
• Create scientifically sound multiple-choice, true/false, matching, and fill-in-the-blank Level 2 test questions that prove whether participant learning occurred.
• Write multiple-choice test questions that measure job application, not the mere recall of facts and information.
• Create scientifically sound Level 3 participant surveys that measure on-the-job behavior change.
• Use a two-phase eight-guideline process for conducting Level 4 evaluations that connect a learning program with business results and isolate the effects of the training.
• Use statistics to summarize the collected quantitative and qualitative evaluation data and interpret and draw conclusions from the results.

Bonus:

You’ll receive a comprehensive participant workbook covering everything in this program, a series of articles about levels of evaluation, an ebook on The Sad State of Measurement and Evaluation, a Mastering M&E Project Implementation Guide, and a voluntary post-program 60-90-minute virtual coaching session.

ATD has approved this program for 11 points.

1-Day Certificate Program (Sunday, February 25)

Presenter: Josh Cavalier, Founder, JoshCavalier.ai

This immersive, one-day program will catapult you into the world of ChatGPT and AI-driven learning and development. This hands-on experience is designed for L&D professionals, educators, and business leaders who want to leverage the power of AI in their work. You will learn:

• About ChatGPT and the AI Revolution: Understand the implications of AI and how to leverage ChatGPT for maximum benefit.
• To Master Freeform and Structured Prompts: Craft compelling prompts that resonate with your audience.
• Advanced Prompt Crafting Techniques: Explore sophisticated techniques to elevate your AI interaction.
• To Create an AI Chatbot: Get hands-on experience in developing a chatbot using ChatGPT.
• Prompt Strategies & Tactics: Uncover actionable tactics to optimize your prompts.

Consider deepening your AI-for-learning skills in this certificate program if you are an L&D professional, educator, business leader, content creator, or an AI enthusiast!

BYOD: A WiFi-enabled laptop that will allow access to websites, such as ChatGPT. Note: Keep in mind when using ChatGPT that it remembers prompt content, so do not input any proprietary data.

ATD has approved this program for 5.5 points.

1-Day Certificate Program (Sunday, February 25)

Presenter: Cindy Huggett, Author, The Facilitator’s Guide to Immersive, Blended and Hybrid Learning

Think you know how to create effective and engaging virtual classes? Think again! Even though virtual training has been around for more than two decades, everything has changed in the past few years. The virtual landscape has evolved, and participant expectations have increased. Therefore, designers and facilitators alike need to update their toolset and skillset to create engaging virtual learning experiences.

In this hands-on interactive session, you will learn how to create an engaging online learning experience that captures and keeps participant attention and more importantly, leads to learning transfer. In Part 1, we’ll focus on Design, and in Part 2, we’ll focus on Facilitation: two equally essential components of a successful virtual class.

You will learn how to set the stage for engagement, how to open a virtual class with immediate interactivity to capture attention, and how to design for collaboration. You will also learn the key facilitation skills needed to engage remote audiences for learning success. You’ll walk away with a set of tools and templates that you can immediately use in your virtual classes. Topics include:

• Apply 5 principles of engaging design to each live online event.
• Select appropriate activities for maximum participant involvement.
• Design visual aids (including slides) to support attention and engagement
• Create a collaborative learning environment.
• Ask inclusive questions to involve everyone in discussion and dialogue.
• Interpret digital body language to read the virtual room and respond accordingly.
• Partner with producers and co-facilitators for smooth delivery and transitions.
• Use common virtual classroom tools creatively.

BYOD: A WiFi-enabled device to try out multiple virtual classroom platforms throughout the day (Zoom, WebEx, Teams, and Adobe Connect). Note: This is a platform-agnostic session and the concepts/principles will apply regardless of which platform you use.

ATD has approved this program for 5.5 points.