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11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Some of life's biggest hurdles call for moments of sincerity and control. Too often we approach these high-pressure moments with fear and execute them with anxiety. Based on her bestselling book Presence, social psychologist Amy Cuddy will share revolutionary research and personal narratives during this impassioned, engaging, and innovative session. You will learn simple techniques to complete inner transformation, harness the power of presence, and perform at the highest levels of confidence.
Social Psychologist, Bestselling Author, International Keynote Speaker Harvard Business School Executive Education
12:15 PM - 01:15 PM
Despite today's business and employment landscape, career development operates much as it has for decades. Forward-looking organizations are grappling with how to address this challenge, but structures, processes, and even innovative technologies tend to simply put a new face on an old approach. This session offers a fundamental "reset" with an updated model and actionable tools for creating a system that's more effective, agile, and based upon current realities and expectations.
Author/Speaker/Consultant, Author, Help Them Grow or Watch Them Go
12:15 PM - 01:15 PM
As layoffs and unemployment claims escalated through the spring, stakeholders across the employment landscape took off on a collective sprint to develop better, faster systems for getting people back to work. Grouped in partnerships and coalitions that brought together educators, employers, technologists, and others, these initiatives tested new approaches to helping people learn the skills that industries need now. Now, several months into these efforts, it's time to take stock of what worked, what didn't, and what lessons employers can learn to strengthen their workforce going forward.
Senior Research Fellow, Strada Education Network
Managing Director of Research, Strada Institute for the Future of Work
12:15 PM - 01:15 PM
During this session you'll learn amazing ways to use your mobile, desktop, and cloud-based apps to quickly create, brainstorm, and deliver content. You'll explore how to use your phone or tablet to brainstorm, sketch, take notes, collaborate, create audio and video-based media, and animate using several mind-blowing apps. You'll leave the session feeling inspired and have the practical information to apply one or more apps before you even leave.
Learning Architect | CEO, Sealworks Interactive Studios
12:15 PM - 01:15 PM
Our societal challenges are calling for greater collaboration and innovation. Rather than relying on the same views and voices, how do we create the conditions for meaningful and inclusive conversations? In this session, we will explore facilitation methods to expand conversations and tap into often missed, but valuable perspectives. You will leave with practices that level power differences, elevate voices, and, ultimately, lead to higher levels of collaboration, learning, and innovation.
CEO, Q&A LLC
12:15 PM - 01:15 PM
Today, more than ever, organizations need a process that will ensure their investments in people, programs, and projects align with organizational needs. By clarifying needs up front, designing solutions to address those needs, and evaluating success by measuring what matters, program owners can ensure investments deliver the highest possible return. In this session, you will learn the basics of the ROI Methodology and how you can use it to design programs that pay off.
CEO, ROI Institute, Inc.
01:30 PM - 02:45 PM
You've already proven games are effective; now add the special sauce your learners crave. We'll explore how to keep your learners motivated by mixing solo gameplay with head-to-head challenges, team competitions, social collaboration, global leaderboards, achievements, and meaningful rewards.
Executive Vice President, Customer Success, The Game Agency
03:00 PM - 04:00 PM
How do you level up your learning organization? ADDIE, Agile, and Design Thinking are great but not enough to address modern business needs. During this session, you will meet the Learning Cluster Design (LCD) model to deliver on-the-job performance. Learn about delivering L&D's new job of empowering learners with a set of learning assets available across the flow of work. Supercharge your learning strategy; increase L&D organization effectiveness and reputation; and build modern learning design capability for your team. Become part of the next L&D evolution, an evolution built on the shoulders of L&D's tried-and-true models that focus on learners and business needs and adding just the right touch of digital tools—those that exist now and those being invented as we speak.
CEO, Learning Cluster Design Group
03:00 PM - 04:00 PM
In a post–George Floyd America, companies are being called on to snap out of color-blindness and demonstrate a higher level of racial consciousness almost overnight. Truly inclusive talent management requires our industry leaders to go beyond mitigating bias to being advocates for racial equity. This session will focus on moving talent development leaders from color-blindness to racial consciousness using a framework to increase racial intelligence.
Founder & Chief Results Officer, Path Forward Consulting
03:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Audience engagement is by design. Whether you're creating a one-time virtual class or a longer blended learning curriculum, you've got to intentionally design for engagement. Join this session to learn five proven techniques you can immediately put to use when designing your next online event. You will leave this session with many practical ideas that you can immediately implement in your next online event! Whether you are brand-new to live online training or have been using virtual classes for years, and regardless of which online platform you use, you will gain new ideas, tips, and techniques for improving your virtual events.
Principal Consultant, Cindy Huggett Consulting LLC
03:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Join this session to learn how anybody can bring the power of visual storytelling to their training with tailored video. With a few case studies as examples, we'll explore practical applications for self-made video content across L&D, HR, and more. The speaker will demonstrate how she uses resources like Vyond—an animated video tool—to easily build engaging, context-specific training content. In this session, you'll be:
President / Chief Learning Strategist, Everest CS, Inc.
03:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Belonging is rapidly increasing in mention and popularity when discussing engaging corporate cultures offering a positive work experience for all its employees. Belonging, different from Inclusion, can enhance and increase the productivity, engagement, innovation and growth potential of an organization. However, Belonging is very elusive: Over 40% of employees in the USA feel emotionally and physically isolated at work regardless of age, ethnicity and gender, and the consequences of this fact, impact the top and bottom lines of a company. These challenges have only increased with the limitations and restrictions imposed by Covid-19. As leaders embrace Belonging as a culture attribute, they must understand how it drives the experience of their employees, but equally important, understand THEIR own experience, as an important step in becoming role models of inclusive leadership and establish a culture of emotional wellbeing for everyone.
Join Noni Allwood during an hour-long virtual workshop to get real strategies to increase your knowledge and ability to deploy the necessary tools to drive Belonging in your team and, alongside, engage your leadership as active partners in Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging.
Principal Noni Allwood & Associates
04:15 PM - 04:45 PM
Join your colleagues for a face-to-face Zoom discussion and make a new connection.
Founder and President, APK Strategies
04:15 PM - 04:45 PM
Connect with The Training Arcade® by The Game Agency team face-to-face and learn how their resources and expertise can enhance your professional journey.
You can also take this opportunity to ask any additional questions you have after watching their session 8 Ways to FUNkify Your Training With Next Gen Gamification: Motivate, Activate, and Celebrate Your Teams!
04:15 PM - 04:45 PM
Connect with the Vyond team face-to-face and learn how their resources and expertise can enhance your professional journey.
You can also take this opportunity to ask any additional questions you have after watching their session Vyond the Basics: Raising the Bar in Animated Video Production.
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
How do you create an environment of unity, safety, and confidence during an epic storm of uncertainty? How are leaders expected to demonstrate empathy, optimism, and compassion while struggling with questions they don't have answers for? During this session, Rita Bailey will share experiences and stories about leaders who boldly step outside their comfort zones to redefine how they lead. She will offer unconventional ways to connect, collaborate, and respond during these tumultuous times. You will learn ways to turn crisis into opportunity; foster hope and healing during stress and anxiety; create more cohesion and innovation; and make space for your team to tell their stories.
Owner, Up To Something, LLC
12:15 PM - 01:15 PM
Struggling to get supervisor buy-in for and participation in your training? Find out the game-changing question that will generate the support and involvement required for your programs to affect on-the-job performance and create meaningful results.
Senior Consultant, Kirkpatrick Partners
President, Kirkpatrick Partners
12:15 PM - 01:15 PM
This session aims to integrate the dimensions of future of work within the context of the organizational capabilities required for businesses to adapt and thrive today. During the session, you will learn how to advance HR technology and strategy in support of new operating systems that are emerging across the global enterprises of tomorrow. You will converge all elements of a transformation through the lens of employee experience and leadership journeys.
Head of Capabilities for Future of Work, Prudential
12:15 PM - 01:15 PM
Learning is a journey! Taking the time to map the path a learner takes to reach the end goal of growth and improved performance can help you build better learning experiences. Roll up your sleeves and get crafty as you create a learner journey to uncover opportunities and challenges that you may not have been aware of.
Program Manager, Amazon
12:15 PM - 01:15 PM
Are you ready for performance results that will make you look like a saint? When properly designed and built, results-oriented coaching programs will appear as effective as divine intervention. In this session, you will be motivated and inspired by stories and examples of the "holy" and proven principles of transformative coaching programs. Come join us on the virtual mountain to receive this valuable wisdom!
Principal, Professional Executive Coach & Powerful Speaker, PowerLab
12:15 PM - 01:15 PM
Many organizations rely on behavioral, cognitive, and other diagnostics to acquire, assess, develop, and coach employees and teams. Have you ever considered what challenges arise when organizational fit, which is often determined by these diagnostic tools, becomes steeped in bias, and runs counter to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) priorities? This session will provide techniques for creating synergy between talent and DEI goals through learning curation and by building a strategic learner-centric experience for all.
Vice President, Global Talent Enablement, Skillsoft
01:30 PM - 02:45 PM
Choose from one of our topical round tables discussions. Check back often for new topics!
01:30 PM - 02:45 PM
Join your colleagues for helpful tips and connections to maximize your job searching during the pandemic. This session is limited to the first 50 participants.
03:00 PM - 04:00 PM
It's all in the details, right? Whether you're talking attire, an essay, or decorating a cake, the small matters are what make an impression every time. It's no different for presentations. What if you could have small (and easy) ideas to take your presentation from being M-E-H to being O-M-G? You know that if you had them, then you know you could crush it! In this session, you'll learn phrases to avoid and what to say instead. You'll also find out how to avoid information dumps, what to do if you experience a misstep, and much more to take your presentations from "OK" to "Oh wow!"
Owner-Operator (Professional Speaker), BMcTALKS, LLC
03:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Roughly 19 percent of the population has a disability of some sort. As a TD professional, the course materials you create must be available and accessible to all learners. Whether you're designing for an online course, instructor-led classroom, or any other format, you need to ensure that your audience can access the content. Your "audience" may be anyone—an employee, partner, vendor, or even a customer—and they may have visual, auditory, physical, or cognitive access needs. An inclusion mindset helps you identify and focus on the access needs of your learners so you can effectively design and deliver fully accessible learning programs.
Founder/CEO, Workplace Learning & Performance Group, Inc.
03:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Delivering synchronous programs that attract and retain audience attention requires special skill. This affects both development and delivery. The temptation for participants to multitask and the limited social interaction present additional challenges for these types of programs. Yet, as virtual learning becomes more pervasive, learning professionals need to upgrade their programs to make them relevant and compelling to today's learner. Join this session to learn techniques for creating and delivering synchronous presentations and webinars that are truly engaging.
Co-founder, CareerBlast.TV
03:00 PM - 04:00 PM
What if we were to reimagine layoffs using human, technology, and data-first principles? In this session, we will explore a model for future layoffs that puts the human in the center, leverages AI to deliver personalized recommendations and track progress, and is powered by technology to support scalability. We'll draw inspiration from case studies from three continents.
CEO, FutureFit AI
03:00 PM - 04:00 PM
We've defined the concepts. We've talked about what diversity is, what inclusion is, and how the concepts relate to the workplace. We've told everyone why diversity and inclusion matters and have explained with charts, graphs, and statistics about return on investment and the business case for inclusion. But we are beyond talk and data. It's time for action. If you've found yourself asking "how?" then this session is for you. Discover how to handle the uncomfortable conversations your employees want you to have, how to authentically discuss race when you've never had to do it previously, and the steps you can take to be more inclusive.
Chief Diversity Strategist, Rework Work
04:15 PM - 05:15 PM
PowerPoint is the basis for much of the training material you use, yet it's text-heavy, dull, and boring. This session will help you revolutionize the way you use PowerPoint to make your presentations and other training material more effective through visuals, diagrams, and animations. You'll also learn how to incorporate interactive elements to actively engage people, whether in-person or online.
Director, BrightCarbon
04:15 PM - 05:15 PM
Leaders expect you to do more with less, better, and faster. They also expect learning to deliver results while minimizing disruptions to business processes. This session will explore how to integrate e-learning with the Lean learning methodology so that learning organizations never isolate learning or e-learning. When learning leaders collaborate to seamlessly integrate learning into existing Lean business processes it minimizes disruptions, increases productivity, lowers costs, and captures learning opportunities immediately, which then improves business performance.
Performance Strategist, Author, CentralKnowledge
04:15 PM - 05:15 PM
From automation to a growing skills gap, the enormous challenges we face related to the future of work have been heightened by the global pandemic and rising inequities. How can we best address these challenges and create a future of work that works for all? This session will share the design thinking behind New Profit's Future of Work Grand Challenge (powered by XPRIZE and MIT Solve) and explain how we can develop innovative, effective, and equitable solutions by partnering with diverse and proximate entrepreneurs, centering workers in the process, and engaging workforce boards.
Partner, New Profit
Managing Director, Strategy + Innovation @Corporate Citizenship, Accenture
04:15 PM - 05:15 PM
Whether you're brand new to e-learning or you've been developing training for years, you may be confused when someone asks you if your courses are accessible. Does it mean every course should have a transcript—or is there more to it than that? In this session, we'll answer that question and more by covering the five basic things you need to know about accessibility in e-learning. You'll leave this session with a deeper understanding of accessibility and how it affects your learners and your organization. I
Training Program Specialist Articulate
04:15 PM - 05:15 PM
Most organization development (OD) approaches were founded pre-2005. Simultaneously, we have learned more about the mind in the last 15 years than ever before. What this means is that most OD approaches do not incorporate the most important factor in the success of these initiatives pertaining to the minds of the leaders and employees within the organization. During this session we will explore the value of adding the mind to the OD equation and identify the circuit boards of the mind that dictate leaders' and employees' agility and future-readiness: their mindsets.
Leadership Consultant and Professor, Ryan Gottfredson/California State University, Fullerton
05:30 PM - 06:00 PM
Grab your favorite beverage and join your colleagues for a face-to-face Zoom Happy Hour discussion.
Author/Speaker/Consultant, Author, Help Them Grow or Watch Them Go
05:30 PM - 06:00 PM
Connect with the Skillsoft team face-to-face and learn how their resources and expertise can enhance your professional journey.
You can also take this opportunity to ask any additional questions you have after watching their session Diagnostics and DEI: The New Face of Talent Assessments.
05:30 PM - 06:00 PM
Connect with the Articulate team face-to-face and learn how their resources and expertise can enhance your professional journey.
You can also take this opportunity to ask any additional questions you have after watching their session 5 Things You Need to Know About Accessibility.
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Each of us has a chance to build a practice—a way of committing to the process—to create work that matters. Bestselling author Seth Godin is here with a first-of-its-kind talk based on his new book, The Practice.
Founder, altMBA
12:15 PM - 01:15 PM
Immersive learning is a powerful tool that can help your team achieve learning goals in a meaningful and hands-on way. But within the L&D field, there's a lot of misunderstanding about what artificial reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) can do and how these methods can be implemented. And this can make it a challenge get everyone at your organization—and even just your team—on board with what you need to know to make an immersive learning program a success.
President, Creative Interactive Ideas
12:15 PM - 01:15 PM
Diversity, equity, and inclusion dialogue is a form of improvisational art. Every dialogue is unique, built upon the individual contributions and experiences of the people brought together in that moment. Yet there are foundational principles and practices that facilitators must practice to accomplish positive outcomes. This session will provide tips and tools for effectively facilitating DEI dialogues to ensure honest, heartfelt conversations and commitment to lasting behavior change.
President & Founder, MSM Global Concepts, LLC
12:15 PM - 01:15 PM
Delivering engaging e-learning involves more than dressing up bullets on a PowerPoint slide or using every feature of the latest e-learning tool. How can we design online learning experiences that make a difference in sharing knowledge, building skills, and ultimately improving performance? In this session, we'll investigate the different types of e-learning, check out some key principles of good design, look at tons of examples, and talk about what to avoid in e-learning courses.
Senior Solutions Consultant, Kineo
12:15 PM - 01:15 PM
Join this session to learn about the aspects of agility and resilience needed in this time of unrelenting change, global interdependence, and uncertain prospects. Calling on the latest research, the speaker describes techniques relevant for the DC and AC (During and After Coronavirus) world, including anticipating possible futures, the secrets of high performing workplaces, building smart organizations that are greater than the sum of their parts, and taking ownership for driving business results.
President, Sage Learning Systems, Inc
12:15 PM - 01:15 PM
When employees are missing a behavioral or performance mark, it's common for business leaders to assume that their people need more training. This thinking leads to a substantial backlog of online courses for training teams and often results in courses that don't address the root problem.
If the risk of a learner failing to perform a task doesn't jeopardize the organization, you may be better off designing something that's faster, cheaper, and easier to create and maintain than online training. During this session, we'll explore why you need to maintain a performance focus when evaluating requests for training, how creating unnecessary training undermines learning, and what to do instead. We'll show you an assortment of simple, creative alternatives to online training that learners will use—and love. And the best part of all: You can create most of these training alternatives with authoring apps you already have.
Sr. Manager Community and Customer Engagement, Articulate
01:30 PM - 02:45 PM
Work is fundamentally changing, requiring people at all levels to reimagine work and people development. Talent and learning teams can lead the way in helping businesses stay competitive during this time of extreme disruption, and efforts should be focused on skills and matching those skills to learning and career opportunities. Join this session to learn why upskilling our workforce is the most urgent issue of our time and provides actionable strategies that will help companies and individuals thrive in building skills for the future.
Chief Learning Officer, Degreed
03:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Few trainers have had specific instruction about how to speak well. The worlds of training, staff developing, and managing are populated with people who have succeeded at some aspect of the job meriting their advancement. Many have never been prepared, however, for the communication demands of their position. This session solves that problem. The complex art of effective delivery is broken into understandable, practical pieces that will give you a framework to prepare for any verbal communication opportunity. You will also learn the six keys needed to present powerfully.
Author, speaker, consultant, Erik Palmer Consulting
03:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Analyze. Design. Develop. Implement. Evaluate. The tried-and-proven method of instructional design serves us well. But the science of our craft can often overshadow the fact that we need to speak the language of our learners. Stories make content memorable and actionable. They connect to our audience emotionally. Story design uses the familiar process of instructional design to develop stories that train.
Story Designer, needastory.com
03:00 PM - 04:00 PM
The world of work is in the midst of accelerated disruption due to new business models, emerging technology, and evolving definitions of the workforce. Talent professionals must not only adapt but also innovate to future-proof both their organizations and their employees.
Managing Partner, HR + People Strategy, Peridus Group
03:00 PM - 04:00 PM
These are truly extraordinary times. Social distancing puts us at risk for social disengagement and threatens to deplete one of our most important and relevant resources—our social capital. Perhaps more than ever, how we are connected is essential for determining productivity, innovation, and individual wellbeing. Based on years of organizational network research, this session will share a proven, tested methodology for enabling tacit learning and innovation, even in a virtual world.
VP Talent and Development, Amazon
03:00 PM - 04:00 PM
With several months past the initial shock of the COVID-19 pandemic, one thing remains certain: Employees are the most important drivers for digital transformation success. This session will expand on this tenant by exploring the drivers of change that will continue to shape the workplace of the future. Using them as guides, we will reimagine workplace learning to be more effective, more resilient, and better positioned to create and deliver value.
CEO, Assima
North American Director for Banking, Finance, and Insurance, Assima
04:15 PM - 05:15 PM
Build an organization that capitalizes on change. One that is fueled by change and leverages it as a positive force in individual, team, and organization results. You will leave with a framework to integrate with your current business plans, and your leadership team will never ask, "Are we ready for change?" again.
Founder and President, APK Strategies
04:15 PM - 05:15 PM
Let's admit it: Most e-learning content just plain sucks. The sad reality is that most e-learning courses require learners to sit through disappointing experiences where information is poorly organized, the content isn't relevant, and the interactions seem contrived and without purpose. During this session you will explore many of the reasons why most e-learning fails and the components that contribute to bad e-learning design. You'll explore several practical methods you can immediately apply to fix your bad e-learning courses.
Founder, The eLearning Designer's Academy
04:15 PM - 05:15 PM
How do you build authentic stories into the learning experiences you create? In this session, we'll start with mining your own life and experiences for relevant stories. We'll pull from disciplines like film and writing to help you shape stories that can facilitate connections. You'll also learn about the characteristics of stories that are most useful for facilitating learning. Finally, we'll discuss helping learners find and tell their own stories. You'll leave this session with templates and strategies that will help you apply what you've learned about facilitating with stories back on the job.
Learning Strategist, Duets Learning
04:15 PM - 05:15 PM
How can you start integrating emerging technology into your learning initiatives? Could using chatbots help you reduce the struggle of evaluating and creating sustained behavior change from your learning initiatives? One and done approaches to learning typically fail. In this session, you will learn how chatbots present an exciting opportunity to offer one-on-one coaching post-event to really make the learning stick.
CEO and Founder, Lever - Transfer of Learning
04:15 PM - 05:15 PM
When you hear augmented and virtual reality, do you automatically think about either Pokémon GO or putting goggles on your face? Did you know you could experience VR without a headset? Did you know you could augment a sandbox? To fully appreciate AR and VR and how they could be useful, you should understand the entire spectrum of extended reality technologies. In this session, we'll discuss cutting-edge examples from across the industry. If you want to have a better understanding of extended reality, what it looks like applied across a broad spectrum of technologies, and what it could look like for you in five to 10 years, then this is the session for you.
CEO, Quantum Improvements Consulting, LLC
05:30 PM - 06:00 PM
Connect with the Rise team face-to-face and learn how their resources and expertise can enhance your professional journey.
You can also take this opportunity to ask any additional questions you have after watching their session 10 Things You Can Create Instead of More Online Training.
05:30 PM - 06:00 PM
Connect with the Degreed team face-to-face and learn how their resources and expertise can enhance your professional journey.
You can also take this opportunity to ask any questions of Kat Kennedy, Degreed Chief Experience Officer.
Chief Experience Officer Degreed
05:30 PM - 06:00 PM
Connect with the Assima team face-to-face and learn how their resources and expertise can enhance your professional journey.
You can also take this opportunity to ask any additional questions you have after watching their session Employee Empowerment Makes or Breaks Your Adoption: Drivers and Future Possibilities.
05:30 PM - 06:00 PM
Grab your favorite beverage and join your colleagues for a face-to-face Zoom Happy Hour discussion.
CEO, Torrance Learning
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Speaking on camera is unnatural for most people. Staring into a camera lens with virtual learners can also be disorienting for trainers. This session offers five key principles to be more effective on video when teaching live or recorded sessions. You will learn how to convey personal instructor presence, focus learners on what's most important, communicate verbally, project a more credible and professional on-camera image, and more. You will also leave with actionable principles to apply to your own virtual training sessions.
CEO and Co-founder, Howles Associates, LLC
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
When someone selects the correct answer in an assessment, how do you know if they "know" it? Many talent development practitioners don't prioritize writing measurable assessments in their design process. Due to this, assessments often measure deduction skills instead of content knowledge. How do you know if your assessments are effective? In this session, you will explore common test-writing pitfalls for multiple-choice items and discover how smart test-takers excel without learning the content.
Operations Training Manager, Silfex
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
During this session, you will hear an analysis of emerging technologies that are gaining traction during the pandemic. Using the BUILDS framework, the speaker will profile five emerging technologies that you should be tracking during this challenging time.
Managing Partner, Float
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
As Agile methods become the norm in software development, more and more L&D teams are adopting them as well. Whether you're using SAM, LLAMA, Scrum, or are still exploring your options, there's a lot to be learned from Agile teams in the ways that they manage their relationships with the business to deliver their work on time, in budget, and in line with expectations—even as those expectations are ever-evolving.
CEO, Torrance Learning
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Imagine conducting an interview with a finalist candidate for a very important leadership role in your organization. At the end, the candidate asks you: How are leaders in this organization expected to lead their employee teams? To what leadership model does this organization subscribe? If you don't have an answer, you're in the majority. Research suggests that an overwhelming number of employers (in all sizes and sectors) are not able to articulate and train to an established set of leadership expectations and behaviors. In essence, organizations have allowed the universal approach of "letting the star technician lead" prevail, thus leaving talent management to luck and chance. In this session, you will hear how one institution developed, designed, and delivered a custom-made leadership model for current and aspiring leaders.
Vice President, Human Resources & Technology Services and Solutions, American Institute of Architects
12:15 PM - 01:15 PM
Virtual training and webinars are unfortunately known for their technical breakdowns. Ask anyone what they dislike about learning online and the answer is usually that it's boring, it's not engaging, and there are too many technical problems. The first 10 minutes of live online sessions is often spent on struggles to get everyone connected and making the audio work. Identifying someone to be your virtual producer (or someone who performs that role) will transform not only the way you run your online training, but also how you and your attendees feel about them. Producers help every aspect of virtual training run effectively starting with the technology itself, assisting the attendees as needed, and allowing trainers and presenters to focus on the learning experience.
Principal Consultant, Kassy LaBorie Consulting, LLC
12:15 PM - 01:15 PM
Whether you're presenting to the executive team or newly hired employees, your slides need to clearly, visually, and simply communicate your point. For those who deliver presentations that need to move your organizations and its people forward (nowadays, who doesn't?) and for the professionals who design them, the ability to make clean, crisp, engaging slides that make sense is mission critical. This session shares seven simple slide rules based on skills you already have.
President, Refresher Training, LLC
12:15 PM - 01:15 PM
Discover the 51-item Periodic Table of Elements of Effective Instructional Design. Following a brief overview of the various kinds of commonly used elements (solid elements are tools, radioactive elements can be highly combustible, gas-like elements are hardly noticed unless they're absent), you'll explore them in action through a case study, then decide which elements could be right for your own situation.
Co-founder and CEO, Endurance Learning, LLC
12:15 PM - 01:15 PM
The world of work is experiencing accelerated disruption due to new business models, emerging technology, and evolving definitions of the workforce. Given unexpected disruptions amid a pandemic, business models are changing at an exponential speed. Talent development professionals must adapt and innovate to future-proof their organizations and their employees by:
CHRO, Wagstaff, Inc
12:15 PM - 01:15 PM
Our initiatives to transform our customer and employee experience were in progress—then suddenly the COVID-19 pandemic hit. Our learners and leaders needed us, as their world changed daily. So, we did what we do best: We got creative with our digital tools and technology, leveraged every partnership, and stayed laser-focused on our learner experience. Ultimately, we delivered on both—learning for each "business as unusual" role change and critical business transformation learning.
Director - Global Learning & Development, Verizon
01:30 PM - 02:45 PM
Join your colleagues for a Zoom discussion about your conference experience so far. Everyone will introduce them self and include 1 takeaway that they plan to put into action straightaway. This session is limited to the first 50 participants.
Founder and President, APK Strategies
03:00 PM - 04:00 PM
What are the facts that show training's effectiveness? Is there evidence for the effect of learning on performance? Are there clues that reveal the connection between learning, performance, and business goals? We'll solve one of the greatest mysteries in learning and development: "What is the impact of training and learning?" We'll examine how to use measurement to conduct an impact investigation. And we'll explore how to use data and fact-based evidence to build the case for learning's influence on performance and performance's influence on achieving business goals.
L&D Detective, Measurement Advisory Services
03:00 PM - 04:00 PM
In this session, we'll look at four key ways you can use microlearning and share five recommendations for designing effective microlearning resources in various formats. The speaker will exemplify those recommendations by showing real pieces of microlearning that organizations are using to improve performance. You will learn best practices for creating your own microlearning resources through these examples and leave with new ideas for successfully incorporating microlearning into your organization.
Director of Instructional Design, Bull City Learning
03:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Did you know that your brain runs on algorithms? Those 100 billion neurons inside your head are constantly talking to one another—and their language is math. Computational neuroscience helps make sense of the complex processes inside your brain and sheds new light on the process of learning. In this session, we'll explore how the brain learns by breaking down the mathematical patterns that determine learning behaviors.
Chief Freedom Officer, Learningtogo
03:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Are we ready for a different and uncertain future? Before the pandemic we would predict that the future of work would be more digital, leverage smart technology (AI, VR, and more), change at a rapid pace, and require deeply agile workplaces and workforces. The degree of changing formats, structures, roles, and careers adds to the disruption of the shared global pandemic experience. The speaker will lay out how talent development professionals must be ready for a reboot—of work, of the workforce, of learners' approaches, and of our skills and approaches. The speaker has conducted briefings with more than 100 chief learning officers in recent months, and his team has interviewed 200 learners from organizations around the world about these changes. You'll gain perspectives on how we must adjust our learning approaches to the uncertainty and shifts in the economy and at the same time increase the levels of empathy and workforce support as they cope with change.
Chair, The Learning CONSORTIUM
03:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Trouble in onboarding paradise? Either a new employee doesn't make it their first 90 days, or a newly promoted employee struggles to find their fit in their new position. Join us in this session to ignite your onboarding program and make the most of your resources.
Project Lead AllenComm
Chief Learning Strategist ThinkLearnEngage, LLC
04:15 PM - 05:15 PM
The world is changing faster than we ever imagined. Leaders and teams have to dig deep within themselves to break through and find opportunity in uncertain times. Before becoming a best-selling author, playing basketball at the White House, having beers with Prince Harry, or living out his other dreams, Ben Nemtin suffered from crippling depression.
After committing to a series of positive life changes, Ben had a shift in perspective that changed his outlook on life and opened himself up to endless possibility. From there he committed to following his buried dreams and helping others through acts of service. The rest is history and his life-changing message has opened audiences around the world to cultures of service, gratitude, and endless potential.
Keynote Speaker, Impossible to Possible
05:30 PM - 06:30 PM
Wrap up your experience at Unleash Potential by joining us for live demonstration brought to you by Liquid Lab NYC on how to make three popular Classic Rum beverages; Berry Honey Mule, Cuban Style Mojito, and Rum Tiki Punch. The bartender will share mocktail alternatives through the program so everyone can enjoy the experience. An ingredient list will be provided in advance so you can follow along at home.
Not your favorite flavor? Grab your favorite beverage at home and join the discussion via chat during the demonstration.
Cheers to a successful week!
11:00 AM - 01:30 PM
You learned the importance and the necessary elements of running a successful OD program during this virtual conference. Now dive into how to implement one of those programs in this bootcamp-style workshop. You will go step by step through tactics and strategies for how to confront your most likely naysayers and win approval and support for your most important programs.
Vice President, Organization & Leadership Development, Vidant Health System
11:00 AM - 01:30 PM
When the early weeks of the COVID-19 pandemic sent waves of unemployment rippling throughout the United States, the immediate focus was on getting people back to work. As the months went on and the nation struggled to reckon with the much more deep-rooted pandemic of racial injustice, the goal of getting back was replaced by the imperative to move forward.
Dozens of new programs that focus on reskilling displaced workers have emerged in the past few months. But to the millions of Americans who are out of work, the value of these training programs will be judged by what comes after—whether they lead to meaningful jobs with opportunities for growth. Skills-based training and hiring can create more equitable pathways across the education-to-employment landscape, but for that to happen, employers must value skills in the hiring process and be prepared to support their workforce with ongoing learning opportunities.
We will discuss how talent development professionals can be at the forefront of driving a more equitable economic recovery. We'll provide an overview of the reskilling landscape and a framework to create better opportunities for the most vulnerable adults. We will discuss opportunities and challenges employers face in building a more inclusive talent pipeline. We'll tackle questions like:
Senior Research Fellow, Strada Education Network
Managing Director of Research, Strada Institute for the Future of Work
11:00 AM - 01:30 PM
Stories are good for training? No way! OK, it's not a huge surprise, but designing the right story for training can be a challenge, unless there's a method that syncs with the instructional design process. Good news—there is! It's called instructional story design. This interactive workshop focuses on building relatable characters and strong conflict that align with learning objectives. Training is for humans. Stories are our language. In this workshop, expect to give as much as you receive as the group decides what makes a character relatable and discovers how to keep conflict alive for a riveting training experience. This live workshop will take the concepts the speaker introduced in his education session and present them in more detail. To get the most out of the workshop, watch his education session in advance.
Story Designer, needastory.com
11:00 AM - 01:30 PM
Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) dialogue is a form of improvisational art. Every dialogue is unique, built upon the individual contributions and experiences of the people brought together in that moment. Yet there are foundational principles and practices that facilitators must practice to accomplish positive outcomes. This live workshop will build upon the concepts the speaker introduced in her education session and present them in more detail with opportunities to discuss and practice facilitation techniques for effective DEI dialogues. To get the most out of the workshop, watch her education session in advance and prepare to work in small, collaborative groups to brainstorm ideas and solutions before selecting and pitching your best ideas.
President & Founder, MSM Global Concepts, LLC
02:30 PM - 05:00 PM
In this bootcamp-style session, you will take a futurespective approach to ideating, action planning, and implementing the next new OD program for your company.
Head of Global Management Development, VMware
02:30 PM - 05:00 PM
It's no secret that understanding your customers better—their thoughts, motivations, and actions—helps you design better learning products and experiences. In this workshop, you will create products out of your learning solutions, take a macro view of the learning experiences you create, and explore their effects on the economics of learning within your organization. You will gain the tools you need to develop innovative strategies and ideas that reach far beyond your immediate learning development projects. In addition, we will discuss how to expand your scope to align with business goals and better understand your customer's problems and challenges to create innovative learning experiences that provide the greatest impact. Once you're back on the job, use your new toolkit to gain buy-in, earn trust, build confidence, and position yourself as a talent development leader.
This live workshop will take the concepts the speaker introduced in her education session and present them in more detail. To get the most out of the workshop, watch her education session in advance and prepare to work in small, collaborative groups to brainstorm ideas and solutions before selecting and pitching your best ideas.
Program Manager, Amazon
02:30 PM - 05:00 PM
A combination of capabilities is required to demonstrate a talent development program's impact and ROI. Among the foundational skills required to conduct an ROI study are critical thinking, listening skills, and basic math. This session will allow you to practice applying the ROI Methodology to a case study. During this interactive workshop you will consider strategies addressing the three most challenging areas: collecting data post-program, isolating the effects of programs on improvement in business measures, and converting measures to money. You will receive tools, templates, and case studies to support their use with the concepts presented in this workshop. This workshop will take the concepts the speaker introduced in her education session and present them in more detail. To ensure the best learning experience, it is important that you have a fundamental knowledge of the ROI Methodology. You can gain this knowledge by watching her education session.
CEO, ROI Institute, Inc.
02:30 PM - 05:00 PM
Articulate Storyline and Adobe Captivate allow you to build interactive online and mobile courses, but that interaction can seem a bit stale to the modern learner in the era of instant gratification. In this hands-on workshop, you will build an e-learning course that prompts, challenges, and supports the learner through a conversational chatbot, using either Storyline or Captivate. You will learn the building blocks of easy-to-use software that allows you to create e-learning with personality, with no coding required. You'll combine the basics you already know about your authoring tool of choice with the new tools introduced in the workshop to build and integrate a functional chatbot.
This workshop is recommended for intermediate designers and developers who have basic computer skills and are familiar with the basics of Adobe Captivate or Articulate Storyline. You will need a laptop (PC or Mac) running Windows and Articulate Storyline (360, 3 or 3) or Adobe Captivate.
Chief Freedom Officer, Learningtogo
All session times are in EDT.