Job and Career Training Courses

Be properly prepared as the role of the trainer evolves and more is demanded of your talent and time. The ATD Master Trainer Program is a unique assessment-based offering that covers the entire process of delivering training, including assessment, preparation, creating a positive learning environment, facilitating learning, and evaluating learning. Grounded in theory and focused on practice and application, this program will develop your professional capacity in this area of expertise.

As more organizations focus on delivering results through improved systems and processes, it is important for performance consultants to have the tools necessary to achieve that goal. The ATD Master Performance Consultant Program is a unique assessment-based program that provides you the opportunity to assess, refine, and enhance your performance-consulting skills, while gaining hands-on experience applying proven tools and methodologies to real-world performance improvement situations.

Discover how to use rhetorical writing techniques to articulate your desired training outcomes effectively. Learn through hands-on practice how to write to clarify, simplify, illuminate, and explain. Hone your editing skills so that you can eliminate hyperbole and cut unnecessary words to manage participant cognitive load. Find out how to use tone, point of view, and personality to keep your audience actively engaged.

Many contemporary job roles require problem-solving and critical thinking skills to take on new and unanticipated workplace challenges. Traditional training that uses a directive approach, while useful for procedural learning, lacks what is needed to build problem-solving skills. In addition, some work skills either cannot be practiced at all on the job (due to safety or other high-risk adverse consequences) or can only be learned over a long period of time. Scenario-based e-learning presents employees with job-realistic situations that often use multimedia to solve them in a matter of minutes instead of days or weeks. This allows scenario-based e-learning to accelerate job competency.

This highly practical two-day workshop draws on both media psychology and learning theory. Participants will be taken through a step-by-step planning process for structuring learner-centered didactic video. Participants will learn how to plan a storyboard and write an engaging script. Participants will also learn the video production process, including how to streamline it to turn out video faster; how to use a camera; how to compose shots so they are clear and aesthetically pleasing; editing basics; and how to cut video together so it both reinforces learning and looks professional.

Performance support is about providing your learners with the right information and tools at the right time—the moment they are applying their knowledge in the workplace. Whether it’s blending your learning programs to extend beyond the formal classroom; embedding mobile and performance support; or providing coaching, mentoring, and collaborative learning opportunities to maximize knowledge transfer, a variety of options exist to harness the power of informal learning. These approaches do not have to be costly or complicated. Discover how to implement various performance support tools, strategies, and frameworks to support your training and foster greater performer competence.

During this two-day workshop, facilitated by a seasoned practitioner, you will learn to “go slow so you can move fast” when taking on a project. Gain access to invaluable data collection tools and methods you can use on the job immediately to assess business and performance needs. Through an ATD-exclusive needs assessment process, reap the benefits of identifying individual or organizational needs prior to developing learning strategies, so you can be sure the programs you develop will be effective.

Companies are aggressively looking for ways mobile technologies can give them a competitive edge. A significant area in which to find this advantage is in mobile learning and performance improvement. Mobile learning (m-learning) is becoming an important area of focus for many organizations looking to push learning and development to a growing mobile audience that has smartphones, tablets, and other mobile devices. How do companies take their significant investment in e-learning and convert it for use in a mobile world? There is still a strong belief among people who are not intimately familiar with mobile learning that mobile learning is nothing more than e-learning on a mobile device. But the fact is that proper conversion of content to mobile learning requires instructional design and development skills for mobile learning. Strategy, media development, deployment strategies, and everything in between will be discussed in this series.

Learning professionals have a major role in enabling access to critical knowledge and expertise in real time, wherever and whenever work gets done. More than just repositories of content, emerging knowledge management (KM) practices include fostering collaboration and access to experts. KM also requires a multidisciplinary approach where knowledge is directly and systemically integrated into the workplace, often as a function of the job itself. With the emergence of web 2.0 tools in areas of knowledge creation and distribution, the characteristics and design of knowledge management solutions become more flexible and less complex. When this expertise is incorporated into everyday business practices, everyone can participate in generating and managing organizational intelligence. We will consider the implications of new information technologies in this non-technical and strategic workshop.

Get hands-on experience making powerful PowerPoint presentations, slides, graphics, and more. Learn to discover, build, and deliver your content in PowerPoint to improve understanding, recollection, and adoption. This interactive class shares the four critical success factors to planning a successful educational presentation. Learn how to quickly engage your audience and keep them focused. Discover how to make a presentation that connects the outcomes to your content so that your audience knows why each slide matters. Get the secret to making high-quality handouts and slides in one PowerPoint deck. Become skilled at making professional graphics and infographics using built-in PowerPoint tools. Find out the tips, tricks, and secrets the pros use to eliminate errors, save time and money, improve success rates, and deliver with confidence.

This program will teach you how to determine if there is a need for learning or knowledge that can be addressed by a job aid (for example, skills development). You will then learn to plan and design a job aid to bridge that skills or knowledge gap. You will measure the overall impact of job aids on achieving organizational goals, test and validate the effectiveness of the job aid, and learn where this knowledge should reside.

Take a deep dive into instructional strategies that are specific to software training. Adopt techniques for successful software instruction using a careful combination of context, documentation, examples, and analysis within your training design. Tell the story of your software so your learners care about the application they are about to learn. Create course materials that are useful to all your learners. Go beyond simply providing solitary classroom activities and create social exercises that provide a deeper understanding of your organization’s specialized software.

In today's complex work environment, the learning and development professional plays a pivotal role in integrating talent management. Learn how to build your organization's workforce planning and talent acquisition, employee engagement and retention, succession planning, rewards and compensation, and performance management capabilities with an integrated approach. This program gives you a blueprint to align all your human capital processes with organizational strategy so that you can move towards building a high-performing workplace.

This unique ATD program uses a blended learning approach to model the concepts taught in the workshop. You’ll begin by completing a pre-work assignment that you’ll continue to work with throughout the course. Following the classroom-based workshop, you’ll reconvene with your peers in an online session. Throughout the learning experience, collaborate with your fellow participants and the facilitator(s) in an interactive discussion forum. And finally, one of the most important elements of the workshop is the opportunity to bring your own training program to adapt to the blended format through various application activities.

The term synchronous means happening at precisely the same time, and refers to an online learning experience in which an instructor and a group of participants speak and interact in an online classroom. Designing learning for this environment requires a different way of thinking about participant engagement and interactivity. But the fact is most virtual classroom platforms provide the tools to allow participants to collaborate on meaningful group activities. This program, presented by ATD in partnership with synchronous learning experts InSync Training, provides twelve hours of live, online instruction. Templates for a facilitator guide and participant guide, and an interactivity planning tool will be provided. Participants will leave this program with skills and tools to successfully design synchronous training programs, including establishing learner engagement, creating collaborative activities, and creating appropriate instructional materials for a synchronous program.

This program supplies participants with an ATD exclusive model for creating leadership development programs. Using data from their organizations, participants are able to immediately apply what they are learning to their own organizational leadership development initiatives. Most importantly, the ATD leadership development model includes a process to demonstrate the business value of the leadership development programs.

This three-day program will prepare you to provide leadership in developing your organization's people to execute organizational strategy. The ATD Competency Study identified managing learning programs as a critical area of expertise for the training and development professional. The content of this program is based on the ATD Competency Model and helps in preparation for obtaining the Certified Professional in Learning and Performance (CPLP) Credential. Learn more about Certification.

In this highly interactive workshop, learn the three primary principles that underlie Human Performance Improvement (HPI). Understand how contributors from such disciplines as behaviorism, management sciences, organization development, and systems theory have created a systematic approach to solving organizational problems. See how the HPI model unites these principles under a common process, and jumpstart your move to a performance improvement mindset today.

Delivering training in this environment requires a facilitator to engage their audience and create interactivity in non-traditional ways, be sensitive to how they use their voice, and be comfortable multitasking in a new technical and logistical environment. This online program, presented by ATD in partnership with synchronous learning experts InSync Training, provides ten hours of live, online instruction. Participants will learn to maximize the engagement of remote participants and manage the logistics of facilitating synchronous learning. The workshop also includes a two-hour practice facilitation session where each participant, along with an assigned partner, is given a piece of content to deliver live via the virtual classroom using the techniques that were modeled during the previous synchronous sessions. Participants will leave this program with the skills and confidence to successfully facilitate synchronously learning events.

The Adobe Captivate Certificate program is a practical workshop that covers everything you need to know to create visually rich, artistic, and highly interactive customized e-learning. Discover how easy it is to use this powerful software when you apply best practices in production techniques that significantly cut development time. Learn how to effectively interact with other software programs, including Microsoft Word, to optimize your design. With the help of gurus in Adobe Captivate, leave this up-to-date workshop knowing how to apply in-depth development techniques on a tight budget, using effective simulations, quality quizzes and assessments, and standard objects and widgets. You will also learn to insert images and record, import, and edit audio.