Free June webinars

The month of June offers a great variety of free T&D webinars on some interesting topics including mobile learning which has been gaining ground in the industry and garnering a lot of interest lately. 

Thursday, June 2, 2011: How to Implement Mobile Learning: Practical Considerations

Wednesday, June 8, 2011: How Learning Technologies impact training, sales and marketing functions

Wednesday, June 15, 2011: Supporting a Mobile Learning Workforce: Challenges and Solutions

Thursday, June 16, 2011: Performance "To Go": Where is Mobile Learning Going, How do We Go Too?

Tuesday, June 21, 2011: The Serious Role of Play in Learning

Wednesday, June 22, 2011: How to select an LMS for your small/medium business

Wednesday, June 29, 2011: How to Develop Elegant, Enthralling Learning Experiences

Wednesday, June 29, 2011: Best Practicies in Mobile Learning Authoring

Thursday, June 30, 2011: Using Courage to Transform the Workplace (click on View All Webinars)

Stephanie and I will be signing up for a number of the June seminars.  Hope to "see" you there.

Check out these free T&D webinars

Training Magazine’s online website has a number of free webinars coming soon:

Tuesday, March 22, 2011: Creating High-Impact, Ah-Ha! Learning Moments with Videos, Slides, Webinars and Games. Join Ray Jimenez to learn proven techniques that can be used in preparing and organizing videos, slides, webinars and games to immediately create long-lasting learning experiences and Ah-Ha! moments.

Tuesday, March 29, 2011: The New Science of Leadership Advantage.  Join Judith Blair and Nancy Maresh to learn how leaders expecting more from their workforce need to know what works and what doesn't for creating motivation and replenishing energy. Keys for program design include brain-based skills for overcoming resistance, sparking fresh thinking and resilience and helping to ensure peak performance results.

Wednesday, March 30, 201: Apples & Oranges: Employee Skills Assessment Driving Business Performance. Join Ajay Pangarkar as he explain how within organizations there is an expectation for learning professionals to connect their training efforts (Kirkpatrick Level 2) to business objectives (Kirkpatrick Level 3 and 4).  This session directly addresses the need to develop and implement real-time employee training assessment strategies specifically designed to meet targeted business objectives.

Tuesday, April 4, 2011: Change Happens - Be Ready for It! Change Management for Learning Professionals. Join Lance Dublin to learn or review the basic principles and techniques of change management and communication as they apply to the learning environment. You will take away a working knowledge of the proven I-3 Change Implementation model that draws upon concepts and proven practices from change management, communications and consumer marketing.

If you’re not already a member, all you need to do is sign up at http://www.trainingmagnetwork.com.  Once you're signed in, click on the Home page to view the list of free webinars.  The site also includes links to archived webinars if you've missed past sessions.

Free summertime webinars

Summertime is here and there are lots of opportunities to learn new ideas and catch up on some of the latest trends in learning and development.

Training Magazine's online website has a number of free webinars including:

Tuesday, July 13, 2010: Project Team Triage. Join Lou Russell to learn about ways to facilitate project team discussions quickly and effectively, and improve your project throughout before it’s too late.

Wednesday, July 14, 2010: Creating a High-Performing Workplace with Games, Social Media, and Virtual Worlds. Join Anders Gronstedt to learn how the future of learning is about online conversations and communities, podcasting on the go, and shared immersive-3D virtual-worlds experiences.

Thursday, July 15, 2010: Active Contributors in Social Learning: Helping Learners Acquire Motivation and Skills. Join Dr. Ray Jimenez to learn how the growth and success of social learning and mobile learning are accompanied by a new type of learner - the Contributor and how theyrequire a new set of skills and motivation to become active contributors.

Tuesday, July 20, 2010: Faster, Cheaper, Better: Really Rapid Instructional Design. Join Sivasailam Thiagarajan “Thiagi” and Tracy Tagliati as they show you how you can replace the traditional systematic instructional design model with a continuous, concurrent, creative, co-design approach to designing corporate training materials faster and cheaper to produce more effective transfer to the workplace.

Thursday, August 12, 2010: Emerging Challenges in Learning: Proving the Business Value. Join Jeffrey Berk to learn about the major challenges leading organizations face in measuring the value of learning and development. 

If you’re not already a member, all you need to do is sign up at http://www.trainingmagnetwork.com.  Once you're signed in, click on the Home page to view the list of free webinars.  The site also includes links to archived webinars if you've missed past sessions.

ASTD is also sponsoring a free webinar that is facilitated by NetSpeed Learning Solutions:

Tuesday, July 20th 10am PST: From Blah to Aha! Ten Best Practices for the Virtual Classroom. Learn about ten best practices to help you move from Blah (boring, talking head presentations) to Aha (engaging, interactive classroom facilitation).

Space is limited so if you're interested, register at http://www.netspeedlearning.com/webinar/bestpractices/

Free training webinars

On February 20^th, 2010, Training Magazine announced that it would be closing its doors.  It had been one of the most well respected publications in the training industry.  I remember even in the early days of my career eagerly awaiting the next edition of my subscription to Training Magazine.  But the good news is that Training Magazine is back and their online site is up and running again at www.trainingmagnetwork.com.

Glad to see them back, I was checking out their online site and found a number of free webinars being offered.  If you’re not already a member, all you need to do is sign up at http://www.trainingmagnetwork.com.  Once you're signed in, click on the Events/Resources tab for the list of free webinars.  The site also includes links to archived webinars as a bonus!

One of my personal favorite presenters is Thiagi (Sivasailam Thiagarajan, Ph.D.). He offers a free monthly webinar on the Training Magazine site. Many years ago I sat in a two-day simulation gaming workshop and have been a fan of his ever since.  He has a wonderful sense of humor and a wealth of knowledge to share!  Don't miss him.  His next free webinar is called “Jolt Participants into Awareness and Action” on June 15^th.  Check it out here http://www.trainingmagnetwork.com/profile/show/1984



Take advantage of free upcoming Brandon Hall webinars

I subscribe to the Brandon Hall newsletter and was recently sent information about three free upcoming webinars that sound interesting:

Wednesday, April 21^st  -  New Possibilities for Mobile Learning.Join Dr. Gary Woodill as he explores this new world of mobile learning and find out how you can use it in employee training.

Wednesday, May 5^th  -  Learning Management Systems: Trends and Issues. Join Tom Werner, a Brandon Hall Research senior analyst who will talk about the recent trends in learning management systems, where these trends will lead and some of the issues that LMS vendors and users face today.

Wednesday, May 12^th – Collaborative Learning and Collective Intelligence. Join Dr. Gary Woodill as he presents his understanding of both collaborative learning and collective intelligence, as well as how they work together to make smarter organizations. 

They’re free but preregistration is required.  Check out more details here:  http://www.brandon-hall.com/webinars/webinars.shtml