The ATD24 Virtual Platform is available here. All registered attendees should have received an email on May 15 with their virtual platform credentials (email and registration confirmation) from atd@mcievents.com.
Please log in with the email you used to register and your registration confirmation number.
You can request your confirmation here.
As a live online trainer, you compete against many distractors during your online training. Fortunately, a lot of research has been done on attention span and brain power, and we can use this research to improve our online training programs. Join this session to gain practical tips and learn about 10 brain boosting activities that will keep your online participants engaged.
You already know how branched-path scenarios engage and immerse your audience. Now, join this session to learn how to create them faster, with more realistic choices and tailored feedback, using the power of generative artificial intelligence (AI).
Do you struggle with aligning your team’s capabilities and capacity to business needs? Do you know how to create learning operational processes that are scalable across all learning mediums? Join this session to learn about frameworks for building your learning operations blueprint and enabling your team to deliver efficiently and effectively every time.
Training isn’t about information; it’s about behavior change. Neuroscience says that changing a person’s behavior requires focusing on three elements: specificity, connection, and context. Join this session to examine learning design from a neurological perspective and effectively change behavior.
What if everyone in your organization could anticipate shifts in trends and embrace uncertainty? Strategic foresight can create that capability. In this session, you will gain an understanding of a unique dynamic foresight process, and as a bonus, leave with a richer understanding of the future of learning and development.
Don’t put your data on mute! Data cannot speak for itself—it needs you to voice its story and provide context and meaning. Data dumps often lead to analysis paralysis, rather than kindling discussion or driving decisions.. Instead, transform dry data into juicy anecdotes that drive results by applying three easy strategies.
High impact evaluation (HIE) is a new, evidence-based alternative to traditional evaluation. It is designed to drive impact, not just measure it. This session will give an overview of HIE and describe three key innovations that will transform your reactive training evaluations into a more proactive approach to drive performance and bottom-line results.
Even the most well-intentioned and experienced leaders and certified coaches unintentionally undermine people’s energy to pursue and achieve their goals. Join this session to learn three common traditional coaching techniques that sabotage people’s optimal motivation and three globally tested alternatives based on empirical motivation science that keep inspiration flowing.
Even the most well-intentioned and experienced leaders and certified coaches unintentionally undermine people’s energy to pursue and achieve their goals. Join this session to learn three common traditional coaching techniques that sabotage people’s optimal motivation and three globally tested alternatives based on empirical motivation science that keep inspiration flowing.
What’s the secret? Join this session to find out how to get 90 percent of your employees to participate in your engagement survey from an organization that has been doing it for years. The speaker will share the required steps and inspire you with the potential gold mine of cultural data found in surveys. Leave with simple action items to implement for success.
Apply the three steps of creating learner personas in this session. Through activities, relevant training examples, and application, you'll discover how the insights from learner personas help you change behavior and engage learners. You'll leave this session with practical tips to apply to your next training project.
Accountability conversations are one of the most important and challenging leadership tasks. Master the art of accountability conversations by avoiding three common traps and implementing a proven template. Gain clarity around your role as a leader and boost confidence to get results while building stronger relationships.
For reasons from accelerated promotion to more purposeful work, the demand for more meaningful career development continues to grow. In a crowded marketplace of potential solutions, peek into how a rapidly growing software company flipped career conversations upside down and empowered its emerging workforce to own their progression.
Why is the work of DEI so often championed by women and people of color? Are we checking boxes or changing behaviors? Are we aiming for revolution or evolution? Join us to explore these tough questions and hear some fresh approaches to help you drive the DEI improvements you want for your teams and your organization.
In today’s competitive marketplace, with two of three consumers saying their social values shape their buying choices, sales are being won and lost based on whether sales teams understand the fundamentals of inclusion. Equip your teams with the knowledge, tools, and behaviors to incorporate and demonstrate inclusion from start to finish in the sales process to win more sales.
It’s time to take a new approach to L&D, one that puts the learner at the center of the process and leverages the power of marketing to create more engaging, relevant, and effective learning experiences. Learn about the lizard brain, learner personas, attention-grabbing visuals, and writing good copy to enhance your L&D strategy.
There are crucial leaders in your organization right now who could change the future of your organization. The problem? You may not know who they are, what they are capable of, or how to make sure they are ready for bigger challenges. Join this session to update your high-potential development and succession strategy.
Are you wondering how artificial intelligence (AI) could help you overcome your evaluation challenges? In this session, you’ll experiment with seven prompts that can help you design and analyze evaluation. Learn how to make learning evaluation more fun, easier, faster, more cost-efficient, and better overall—continuous improvement is possible within your organization.
How can your company prepare employees for the future while benefiting the business? A capability academy may be the answer. Join this session to find out what a capability academy is, its benefits, and how one company developed its academies. Leave with a strategy and ideas for how to identify the most critical capabilities and key components for your academies that align with your business needs.
Every trainer offers a unique set of gifts to every group of learners they meet. That uniqueness is personal, like a signature. It adds deeper meaning and purpose to the work they do. In this session, you’ll work with various personas to help you accelerate the discovery process, identify natural strengths, and uncover your signature style.
Equip yourself and your L&D team to soar by identifying leadership metrics for success. Position yourself as the ideal candidate for your dream leadership job and make a personal action plan for the role. Explore how to recruit, select, and retain top L&D talent, and define your team’s mission, vision, and value proposition to stakeholders.
While some organizations are far along in their people analytics journey, the vast majority are in the very early stages. With access to data and the sophistication of analytics and technology tools increasing every day, people analytics will be a significant strategic differentiator for organizations that can gain expertise in differential utilization.
What if every salesperson on your team learned or improved just one skill every week? At the end of one year, think of how much better your team would be than your competition. In this session, the speaker will share practical steps you can take to achieve this outcome by becoming a learning sales organization. You’ll learn from real-world examples and take a self-assessment.
Failure offers experiences and memories we do not soon forget, yet most organizations fail to use failure as an effective mechanism for growth. This session will address the need for organizations to embrace failure, to create “safe to fail” learning environments, and to build understanding and confidence through “constructive struggling.”
Whatever kind of leader you are, experience design leadership invites you to recast yourself as an experience designer for your teams, clients, and yourself. Join this session to explore how this research-based approach can empower you to design life-changing experiences starting with these three questions: What are you doing? Why are you doing it? Who are you becoming while you do it?
Learn how to extend Articulate Storyline’s capabilities without coding. Discover how to add JavaScript snippets to triggers for advanced logic and custom animations. Enhance your courses with timers, adaptive content based on date and device type, and engaging animations. Unleash the full potential of Storyline beyond its out-of-the-box features.
Just about everyone carries a production studio in their pocket—their smartphone. Join this session to learn how to craft training videos that look professional and support learning with your smartphone. Walk away with tips for planning, filming, and editing effective training videos.
Just about everyone carries a production studio in their pocket—their smartphone. Join this session to learn how to craft training videos that look professional and support learning with your smartphone. Walk away with tips for planning, filming, and editing effective training videos.
Is your workforce running on empty? Join this session to learn how to transform change fatigue into change readiness. Gain practical strategies for energizing leaders, engaging teams, and moving from exhaustion to engagement amid constant change.
Building a compelling change narrative is crucial to a successful organizational change initiative. Knowing the eight components of crafting that narrative will not only help leaders and managers articulate the vision more effectively, it will enlist others to engage and adopt the change more rapidly.
The concepts of sustainability and equity have become paramount for organizations striving to thrive in the future. This session will prepare leaders for the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead. Learn how your organization can implement experiential-based programming—at scale—to support leadership and innovation development at all levels.
One wrong post online can destroy your professional reputation. But a minimal digital presence can leave you invisible. In today’s competitive market, societal leadership is a core part of business. Unleash the power of your leadership brand online to break through the digital noise and attract the right clients, talent, and opportunities to you and your firm.
Join this session to answer key questions about your business situation and how you are meeting the needs of your learners and achieving your organization’s goals. You’ll also develop an overview of your potential learning strategy and how it can drive your operational tactics to become a true business partner focused on adding business value.
Elevate your peer influence by leveraging the benefit-relationship matrix. In this session, you’ll learn about the benefit-relationship matrix through hands-on activities. You’ll create your “ask” using a three-step plan—build relationships, make beneficial asks, and communicate your objective—then refine it by balancing logic and emotion.
Join this session to explore how the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and Environmental Justice Executive Order No. 12,898 (EJEO) provide government agencies, regulatory decision makers, and government-focused learning and development professionals with a framework to predict (and mitigate) the negative impacts of policy.
What does it mean to think like a scientist? Imagine how your talent could thrive if more people adopted a mindset of favoring curiosity over conviction. Join in discussions about what would it take to break down silos in your healthcare organization and allow for discovery and innovation to flourish. We will also engage in “what if” exercises to best learn from one another.
Humor is a powerful tool to improve learning, but humor in the workplace can also be risky. Join this session to explore the dos and don’ts of using humor in training design. You’ll gain culturally sensitive, practical, and effective ways to engage your funny bone to improve retention, problem solving, engagement, and creativity.
Experience the evolution of L&D with the power of artificial intelligence (AI)! This session dives into three potent AI amplifiers—personal assistants, performance support, augmentation—that are supercharging working and learning capabilities. You’ll experience the transition of the learning function from order taker to value creator, guided by L&D business models.
Most of us have heard about psychological safety. There is a lot of information out there on why psychological safety is important. And there’s also a lot on what to do. But how you do it is another question—one we struggle to answer. This session will take you through four simple tips on how to operationalize psychological safety and make it a habit for everyone.
Improv is simply performing without a script or an opportunity to plan. Behaviors learned through improv training are positively correlated with the psychological safety of teams. In this session, you’ll participate in five improv exercises, learn to implement them back on the job, and engage in powerful debriefing questions to make your learning events more relevant.
Learn how a global diversified technology and industrial business transformed onboarding and structured career-long learning to build capability in a technical workforce. This case study details the challenges faced and solutions implemented to create learning programs that ensure employees are equipped to serve customers safely and effectively.
Gamification is often used in L&D as a Band-Aid for engagement. But as L&D professionals, we can do so much more for our learners. In this session, the speaker will go beyond gamification and discuss how you can build full learning games that drive your employees’ skill development and are just as engrossing as modern games such as Catan, Dominion, and Wingspan.
Are the questions you ask met with silence? In this session, we’ll explore how to stimulate learner participation by asking better questions. Learn five methods for prompting responses from learners and seven rules of discussion to get learners responding to your questions and eliminate the awkward silence.
Establishing the value of soft-skills training is impossible—or is it? Learn to harness the wisdom of crowds to establish actual dollar values for soft-skills training. In no time, you’ll be able to demonstrate how important training is to the bottom line after every class. The speaker will even calculate the dollar value of attending this session live!
Imagine you’re in a brand new place and feel completely lost. You don’t know how to find your way around, speak the language, or navigate the culture. What do you do? As a program designer, supporting exploration in an evolving environment can be tough. Join this session to learn how one global learning program did it with six experiential practices.
This session will use a unique paradigm to define organizational equity. The speaker will identify two types of unconscious bias and introduce specific steps you can take to mitigate the negative impact of these biases, create a more equitable environment, and serve as an ally to potentially disenfranchised individuals.
Equipping coaches to meet the needs of a government organization with more than 70,000 employees is an unfolding process. In this session, the speaker will discuss all aspects of one government organization’s coach program and internal coach training program, from development through assessment, lessons learned, continuous improvement, and organizational impact.
From artificial intelligence (AI) to hybrid working, organizations and individuals are in the midst of a revolutionary shift that transcends industries. It’s hard to know how to respond. This session combines thought leadership with practical strategies to activate your awareness and empower you to thrive in a constantly evolving landscape.
Hear a storyteller’s perspective on the limits and leverage points when using ChatGPT to create learning content. Learn how to use ChatGPT to generate ideas and draft content, allowing you to spend more time developing content reflecting your unique abilities and perspectives. Future-proof your work by creating content that artificial intelligence (AI) can’t.
Join this session and learn the art of managing up. You will take away five actionable insights that will help you accelerate and take charge of your career, influence decision making, effectively showcase your value-add, positively affect the wider business, and foster a more harmonious and productive work environment.
In this session, we’ll explore the skills that define great facilitation, enabling you to assess facilitator performance accurately and benchmark with world-class organizations. Leave with practical approaches to increase facilitator impact.
Why are the same knowledge and skills so difficult to apply across different contexts? During this session, we will dive into the issue of transfer, consider what is required for effective transfer to occur, and discuss what this means for the modern C21 skills movement. Further, we’ll explore the only future-proof skill research has ever found.
.png)
.png)
.png)
.png)
.png)
.png)
.png)
.png)
.png)
.png)
.png)
.png)
.png)
.png)
.png)
.png)
