3 Certification Tracks
Choose your track! Select from Track 1 – Certified Instructional Designer, Track 2 – Certified Virtual Presenter, Track 3 – Certified Virtual Presenter
Choose your track! Select from Track 1 – Certified Instructional Designer, Track 2 – Certified Virtual Presenter, Track 3 – Certified Virtual Presenter
Choose your 3- hour crash course:
Get the basics of virtual design—everything you need to know to quickly convert classroom content for online delivery.
During this 3-hour crash course, you will:
Experience the impact of participant-centered training as it’s modeled to you
Discover how you can improve student learning and your instruction when you creatively utilize assessments. Join this crash course to engage in several types of assessments and begin creating your own!
During this 3-hour crash course, you will:
One-Hour Training Sessions
9 -10 amOne of the most frequent comments we get from BPG clients of 10 or even 20 years ago: “I still have my handouts!” In this session, you’ll learn how to create handouts that add value to your session and can serve as a resource long after your training is done.
Transitioning content from classroom and elearning modules into bite-sized microlearning isn’t as difficult as it sounds. The biggest challenge is finding a simple, repeatable process that ensures learning sticks or even improves. In this session, you’ll discuss how to drill down to what learners need to know, keep it quick, and delivery it in a nice red bow! Acquire a template to transform existing content into micro lessons; discover 3 tips to successfully move elearning to microlearning; explore 8 new ways to make microlearning engaging.
Are you using Miro to replace some of the participant-centered activities you did F2F? The Bob Pike Group is all about working the wall, flip charts, games, survey, storyboard, mindmaps and displaying our work for the class to see (and keep!). With Miro, we’ve been able to bring that functionality and more to our virtual programs, and so can you!
One-Hour Training Sessions
9 – 10 amNever seem to have enough time to devote to training design? Does instructional design ever intimidate or overwhelm you? In this session you will explore a method of design that will help you quickly align content and activities to the behaviors necessary to reach your business goals. Teams win more with a playbook—and training makes a bigger impact with intentional design.
We are competing so much for the attention of our audiences. The "rinse and repeat” exercises of old just don’t cut it anymore, if you’re looking for learning to have any long-term impact on behaviour and performance. Getting your head around the basics of learning psychology will help you to create learning programs that center on brain-friendly learning experiences that genuinely help people retain information and develop their knowledge and skills in a way that sticks. This session provides nine ways to create more meaningful or “sticky” learning that will influence the effective design, development and review of learning programs within the vocational education and training (VET) context. It will also provide an example of how to structure this learning program to meet an identified need for a group of learners.
Mind-mapping is a visual brainstorming technique you can use to tap into the power of the brain, look at a subject in its entirety and organize around key learning objectives. It’s a tool that helps linear and lateral thinkers expand their sightlines beyond what comes naturally. Learn to mind-map and you’ll energize your training design and delivery! Rich has even been known to deliver entire 3-day programs with no guide besides a mind-map (ask and he’ll show you).
Choose your 3- hour crash course:
This 3-hour crash course models Openers, Closers, Revisiters, and Energizers essential to making Zoom work for you and your learners. Learn how to harness built-in platform tools like whiteboarding, chat, video, polling and breakout rooms to sharply increase participants’ motivation and interest in training. Discover what the free tutorials won’t teach you – Creative Training Techniques® to teach twice as much in half the time!
During this 3-hour crash course, you will:
One-Hour Training Sessions
9 – 10 amAfter a long stretch working remotely, teams have figured out new ways of sharing knowledge and upskilling. And we’ve all experienced setbacks when online feels like second-best. Join Becky to discuss how you can evaluate what components of training should continue online or resume face-to-face—and creative ways to seamlessly blend the two for greater results than before!
Ever wonder How am I doing? Don’t wait for the evals or boss to tell you something’s wrong. Instead, join Erin for a fast-paced hour focused on a diagnostic you can use to assess your virtual training programs. You will examine 4 vital signs of participant-centered webinars; explore 6 ideas you can use to put people in charge of their online learning; and discover the biggest threats to engagement and retention in a virtual classroom.
Are we there yet? Kids get restless and eventually stir trouble from the backseat on long road trips. In the same way, participants wonder Are we done yet? when they’re kept to the “backseat” on webinars. But with the right techniques, you can harness your audience into the driver’s seat for an exciting virtual training. In this session you’ll identify difficult online training behaviors and specific strategies to minimize, redirect and cleverly overcome them without breaking a sweat.
One-Hour Training Sessions
9 – 10 amDon’t let your e-learning session get bogged down by “Zoombies!” The key to active, engaging virtual learning is to keep your sessions participant-centered. Learn how to create online classes that are engaging and enlivening using strategies that encourage learners to become invested in their own educations.
What good does it do participants when the trainer shows he/she can do it? The real measure of impact if whether the lesson is caught and applied by the audience. Breakout rooms are a tool to help you facilitate peer learning and make your job as trainer easier. A favorite rule of thumb at BPG is never do for participants what they can do for themselves. The more active they are in their learning, the more they remember and ultimately apply.
It’s time to make your job training online easier. And there’s no better or more effective way than putting people in charge of their learning with interactive techniques. This session will model effective use of the most common tools across online platforms. Experience the difference in energy, engagement and fun—and see how easy it is to incorporate these tools into your training.
Choose your 3- hour crash course:
The old-fashioned meeting isn’t going away—it’s evolving. This crash course will help you master the art of virtual meetings whether you are tech-minded or not. These essential skills will help any professional who facilitates online meetings or manages remote/distanced teams.
During this 3-hour crash course, you will:
Online meetings, trainings, and pitches all have unique challenges that occur due to technology and distance. In just three hours, learn the skills you need to present like a pro to virtual audiences with ease!
During this 3-hour crash course, you will:
One-Hour Training Sessions
9 – 10 amCompanies wouldn’t invest in training—or your role—if it wasn’t essential employees apply the concepts you teach back on the job. The first step in making training stick is helping people remember what was taught! Join Collin to discuss strategies that help move concepts from short- to long-term memory. This session is a grab bag full of creative techniques you can use to make your training worth remembering!
A recent study by Deloitte reveals the number one trend in organizations is changing the way people learn. Why is learning trending on top? Because 86% of respondents ranked it ahead of teamwork, leadership, and talent mobility! What are you doing to change the way people learn inside your organization? This session will explore how to harness presentation techniques to increase engagement and upskill talent.
Delivering an effective and powerful presentation is critical in supporting learning messages and maintaining the attention of the audience. To avoid slideshow overkill, presenters need to evaluate how to get the most from their slides and create the best impact from their slide presentations. This session will provide seven principles that can be used to create more powerful slideshow-based presentations (e.g. PowerPoint, Keynote, Haiku Deck) and deliver a better learning experience for participants.
One-Hour Training Sessions
9 – 10 amWhether you a looking to create more dynamic presentations or improve the look and feel of your courseware, digital resources play an important role in organizing content, capturing attention and supporting your message. This session will explore where to source and how to use a variety of digital resources including icons, images, fonts, stock video and music. It will also curate online options to edit these resources to create exciting and engaging training options.
In an environment of nonstop meetings, there are few tools as indispensable as the icebreaker. If you’ve tried to run meetings with Zoom, Google Meet, or other video conferencing software, you’ve probably noticed screens can impose a distance challenging to overcome. When participants don’t feel engaged, meetings are less productive. But when you deploy the right icebreaker at the start of your virtual meeting, you help participants stay get mentally in the room, connected with one another, focused on a common goal, and energized to contribute.
The pros make presenting look easy, but the reality is it involves hours of preparation and practice. Discover 25 tips for designing and delivering powerful virtual presentations. Borrow ideas from the best so you can confidently present to handful or hundreds every time.
