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Now, with "Masterful Virtual Trainer Online Workshop" you’ll learn simple methods to convert your training and presentations into proven and tested Interactive Approaches. You’ll discover how to use Interactive Stories based on real-life events to add meaning, engagement and immediate usefulness to content. Your learners stay focused and involved. They learn and remember your ideas better. Your webinars will become exciting and refreshing.
Topics Covered
Session 1 - Designing Engaging Webinars
- Aiming for the high-impact moments in training technical, software, compliance and other topics
- Melding technical knowledge with episodic experiences
- Creating memorable small bites and chunks of ideas that matter
- Finding the right interactive story: incidents, trouble-shooting, problem-solving, cases, workarounds, etc.
- Adding the story types: metaphor, humor, analogy, simile, meme, etc.
- Making presentations come alive with characters and visualization
- Achieving a total make-over of long, boring, tiring, and tedious PowerPoint presentations
Session 2 - Facilitating Highly Interactive Webinars
- Hosting an engaging virtual cocktail party
- Adding your presence, despite the virtual environment
- Designing questions that provoke discussions and exchange of stories
- Setting up high-speed conversations
- Letting learners lead the conversations without their knowing
- Adding challenge, excitement, and discoveries through stories
- Employing easy, fast, and riveting story-based exercises
- Delivering a no-lecture webinar
Session 3 - Extending the Power of Webinars
- Strategic usage of the different types of content: before, during, and after webinars (examples: what is covered in each, peak points, application points)
- Raising the anticipation of learners before the webinars with a provocative story and experience sharing
- Sustaining learners’ interest in recordings and post references
- Gauging learning and experience impact from your webinars
- Creating viral stories to generate pre/post-webinar conversations
- Building a “story-sharing community”
- Awarding participants with certificates and badges
This session is not about learning how to use the virtual tools. The workshop is about design and delivery. The sessions will use Adobe Connect. However, all ideas in the sessions are applicable using other leading virtual tools.
April 2023 WORKSHOP
Session 1 - April 12, 2023
Session 2 - April 19, 2023
Session 3 - April 26, 2023
Fallback Date - May 3, 2023
(In case a session is moved due to technical issues.)
September 2023 WORKSHOP
Dates and Times :
Session 1 - September 28, 2023
Session 2 - October 05, 2023
Session 3 - October 12, 2023
Fallback Date - October 13, 2023
(In case a session is moved due to technical issues.)
Session Times:
8:30 am - 10:30 am - Pacific
9:30 am - 11:30 am - Mountain
10:30 am - 12:30 pm - Central
11:30 am - 1:30 pm - Eastern
For interested participants outside of the US. Please click on this link to see time conversion example and find your related time. Thank you.
Registration Fees:
One participant - $750.00
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10% Early Bird Discount
(for registration not later than 30 days before the workshop)
Other Discounts:
5% for second participant from the same company.
5% Government Discount
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Group Attendance:
Group discount for several participants.
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“Ray is a master webinar presenter. He makes participants alive, active, engaged, at ease, learning – never a dull moment.”
Ray is the architect and strategist of the webinar community TrainingMagNetwork. In partnership with Training Magazine, Ray’s team has grown TrainingMagNetwork to 100,000 members with hundreds of webinars.
Ray Jimenez, Ph.D., spent 15 years with Coopers & Lybrand in the areas of management consulting and implementation of learning technology solutions. Ray is the author of 3-Minute e-Learning, Scenario-Based Learning, Do-It-Yourself eLearning,Story Impacts Learning and Performance eBook and an upcoming book, Story-Based eLearning Design. Ray has worked with American Bankers Association, Neiman Marcus, the U.S. Air Force, NASA, Blue Cross, Goodwill Industries, Pixar Studios, Edison Missing Group, Dendreon, Netafim, Progressive Insurance, Bridgepoint Education, California Institute of Technology to name a few.
He is the Chief Learning Architect for www.VignettesLearning.com. Ray teaches at the University of California, Irvine, University of Texas Southwest Medical Center, Dallas, Assumption University, Bangkok and Open Learning University, Hong Kong. He is a sought-after expert and workshop facilitator for Training Magazine, eLearning Guild and ATD Conferences. Ray has authored and developed hundreds of Story-Based eLearning lessons including Story Impacts, Vignettes, Storytakes and Micro-Scenarios.
Webinar participants describe Ray as “fun,” “engaging,” “technically savvy,” “provocative,” “inspiring,” and “has depth and experience in Story-Based Webinar Design.”
Mentors and Co-Presenters
Jonathan Workman
Jonathan Workman has been in the learning industry for more than 20 years designing and delivering solutions for instruction-led, web-based, video- or computer-based training, and elearning for national and international companies. In all his work, Jonathan incorporates elements of micro-lesson design, collaborative learning, social learning and storytelling, a skill he learned first during his stint in improvisational comedy and later on honed in story-based design learned through his association with Dr. Ray Jimenez. Jonathan has experience in areas of manufacturing, financial and operations safety, processes and equipment training and learning design.
Melissa Erceg Dougherty
Melissa is an Instructional Designer for a company in the financial services industry. She also mentors for Vignettes Learning, helping others learn how to hone their scenario-based instructional design skills. She has been in the Training world delivering and creating training for a little over 11 years. Melissa has written several articles for the eLearning Industry website and enjoys sharing her knowledge of instructional design with others.
Delia Smola
Strategic-thinking Training Consultant with more than 18 years experience in training and course development: delivering training, designing and managing training projects internationally. In addition, served as an organizational development lead supporting initiatives in 7 languages and in 14 countries. Adept at assessing needs, generating options and implementing learning solutions in collaboration with clients and stakeholders. Expertise in designing and implementing strategic plans and develop high performing teams. A genuine passion for elevating organizational perfromance and employee satisfaction.
Aimee Lantzy
Aimee Lantzy is currently the Director of Learning & Development at GitHub. She has over ten years of experience in content creation, instructional design and learning strategy and has worked with some of the top performing eLearning companies in the country. She holds the Certified Professional in Learning and Performance (CPLP) certification from ATD as well as additional certifications in content rights management, intellectual property rights management, story-based learning design, scenario-based learning design and mobile learning development. Aimee is currently a doctoral student in education at Johns Hopkins University.
Brenda LaRose
Brenda LaRose has been involved in training for most of her career, beginning with the design and delivery of art courses for adults. She has designed and delivered solutions for instructor-led, web-based and computer-based training such as eLearning for her own training organization and for national organizations, incorporating creative elements whenever possible. She now incorporates micro-lesson and story-based design elements that she learned through association with Dr. Ray Jimenez to engage learners and ensure that lessons have an impact. Brenda has experience in areas of retail, leadership, mentoring, processes, health & safety, facilitation and learning design.
Crystal L. Fernandes-Harris
Crystal L. Fernandes-Harris has more than 10 years of experience in instructional design, training and e-learning video creation, and editing and developing documentation. Crystal is passionate about the Flipped Learning Model and continuously supports the implementation of engaging and creative blended learning methods, especially micro-learning and story-based design. In 2016, Crystal was a recipient of the 2016 Emerging Training Leader from Training Magazine and in 2017 she received the Academy of Human Resources Development’s (AHRD) Excellence in Scholarly Practice Award for the submission - Flipping the Corporate Classroom: Challenging the Norm in Legal Technology Training.
Crystal has experience in the areas of electronic medical records, new employee orientation, various legal technologies, processes and software training and design.
Cara North
Cara North has worked in learning and development for 10 years in both corporate and higher education settings. In her learning and development career, Cara has developed an expertise in learning technology evaluation, job and task analysis, and curriculum development. After attending a conference where Dr. Ray Jimenez had a session, Cara wanted to learn more. Now she applies story-based design and storytelling throughout her instructional design projects. She is interested in microlearning research and is working towards earning her Ph.D. in Educational Studies with an emphasis in Learning Technologies. An avid networker, you can find Cara on Twitter at caranorth11, sharing information about learning technology and instructional design.
