Watch & Learn

Watch past LeaderGuide Pro User Group sessions and Great Circle Learning Showcase Events for practical advice, tips, best practices, and current strategies to enhance your ILT & VILT development process.

Structure = Success

Structure plays a critical role in creating successful guidebooks. Watch and learn:

  • Importance of structure in guidebook development

  • Common structural mistakes to avoid

  • Structural strategies to employ

  • How to supercharge your guidebook development through structure

Master Class

PowerPoint & LeaderGuide Pro Master Class

In this LeaderGuide Pro user group special event, we walk through all aspects of working with PowerPoint slides in LeaderGuide Pro. Over these three sessions, we cover:

  • Understanding PowerPoint specific content blocks

  • Starting a guidebook from slides and or notes

  • How to create TOC from PowerPoint Slides

  • Creating slides from your LeaderGuide Pro document

  • How to make slide images accessible for screen readers

  • Slide numbering options

  • Extracting Text from PowerPoint Slides

  • How to add and/or replace slides

  • Dealing with hidden slides

Going Virtual: Developing Exceptional
Facilitator Guides

Creating a facilitator guide for VILT is essential for ensuring that your online training sessions run smoothly and effectively.

  • Learn the key distinctions between a classroom-based guidebook and one for virtual training.

  • Discover the similarities and differences between ILT & VILT when it comes to developing facilitator guides.

  • Learn best practices to employ and pitfalls to avoid.

Come away with the knowledge to develop facilitator guides for virtual training that unlock the potential of this unique training medium.

Create Engaging Visuals Using PowerPoint's
Morph Transition

Unlock the power of seamless animation and captivating visual storytelling with PowerPoint's Morph Transition!

  • Discover how to create professional and engaging presentations that leave a lasting impact on your audience.

  • Learn step-by-step how to transform your static slides into vibrant visual narratives that effectively convey your ideas.

Whether you're a business professional, educator, or creative enthusiast, this session is designed to empower you with the skills needed to elevate your presentation game.

LeaderGuide Pro October 2023 User Group

In this Halloween Edition of the LeaderGuide Pro user group, we delve into the spook-tacular side of developing ILT & VILT. This includes:

  • Three horrific items to avoid when using LeaderGuide Pro

  • Tricks to help you create training programs easier

  • Treat yourself to a smoother design & development process.

Word Up: Must Use Features in Microsoft Word

Join us for an enlightening workshop where we delve into the heart of Microsoft Word's most indispensable features.

In just a short span of time, you will unlock the full potential of this powerful word processing tool, making your document creation, and editing tasks more efficient and effective.

By the end of this workshop, you'll be equipped with a comprehensive toolkit to enhance your productivity and document creation abilities in Microsoft Word.

Structure Matters: Discover Guidebook Success Through Structure

Discover the critical role of structure in creating successful guidebooks. In this session, we will dive into:

  • Importance of structure in guidebook development

  • Common structural mistakes to avoid

  • Structural strategies to employ

  • How to supercharge your guidebooks development through structure

Streamline Your Writing, Editing, & Revising Process

This Showcase Series event demonstrates the following:

  • How to quickly set styles for your document for ease of formatting

  • Search your document for words, phrases, parts of speech, and many others.

  • The way to easily combine parts of several documents into a single one.

  • Create keystrokes for the words, phrases, and sentences you use repeatedly.

  • A quick way to check your document for its components before you finalize it.

The Two Roles of a Participant Guide

In this LeaderGuide Pro user group session, we delve into the two key roles of a participant guide, including:

  • The two roles all participant guides need to fill

  • Best practices to develop guides that meet the needs of those roles

  • Provide use case examples and scenarios

Six Ways to Reduce ILT & VILT Development Time

Supercharge your training development process and reclaim your time!

Learn six strategies to develop effective and engaging training that save you time, including:

  • Structure & Objectives

  • Templates & Technology

Facilitator Guides: An In-the-Moment Reference Aid

This LeaderGuide Pro user group session explores how & why facilitator guides should be constructed as an in-the-moment reference aid, including:

  • Why & how to format your facilitator guide as an at-a-glance document

  • How to use structure to enhance the facilitation process

  • Best practices for chunking instructional material

Create Professionally Formatted Facilitator Guides

Are you feeling overwhelmed by the thought of creating facilitator guides? Fear not!

  • This showcase event guides you through the best practices for creating guidebooks that look like they were made by a pro.

  • Plus, we'll explore all the benefits that come along with them.

  • Get ready to become a facilitator guide-making expert!

Ensure Consistency with a Facilitator Guide

In this LeaderGuide Pro user group session, we explore the role of a facilitator guide in ensuring consistency, including:

  • How your facilitator guide should play the role of a study guide.

  • Best practices to ensure the next trainer can successfully lead the course

  • How to take advantage of the collections and templates to fill the role of the study guide

Writing Effective Learning Objectives

This Showcase Series event demonstrates:

  • The importance of learning objectives in designing training

  • The ABCD method of writing objectives

  • Taxonomies of Knowledge, Skills & Attitude

  • How to easily write effective objectives

Building Job Aids with LeaderGuide Pro

This LeaderGuide Pro User Group addresses best practices to build job aids using LeaderGuide Pro, including:

  • Creating content parts instead of a full guidebook

  • Best practices for layout and content blocks

  • How to insert Numbered Process Steps

  • Building a guidebook from a series of job aids

The Power of Visual Cues in ILT & VILT

This Showcase Series event demonstrates how visual cues can elevate your ILT & VILT facilitator & participant guides, including:

  • Compares and contrasts material using and not using visual cues.

  • Provides best practices for implementing visual cues into your programs.

Participant Guide to Facilitator Guide Fast!

This Showcase demonstrates the process to quickly create a participant guide from a facilitator guide, including:

  • How to add the last-minute touches to ensure both roles of a participant guide are met

  • How to make revisions one guidebook and send those changes to the other guidebook.

From PowerPoint to a Facilitator Guide in 5 Minutes

This Showcase Series event demonstrates importing PowerPoint slides & their notes into a facilitator guide, including:

  • How to build the table of contents upon import

  • Several different layout choices to meet your specific needs

  • How to break the notes from PowerPoint into specific actions that your facilitator can understand at-a-glance.

Create Reusable Learning Objects with Librarian

This LeaderGuide Pro User Group addresses using Librarian to create reusable learning objects, including:

  • What is a reusable learning object?

  • The role of structure in repurposing material

  • How to archive & insert modules & lessons

  • How to apply a different collection to modules & lessons

Creating Consistent Design Documents

Creating a design document is an essential step in the process of building an instructionally sound training program. In this video we demonstrate how the Learning Design Tool

  • takes you from Analysis to Development, and ...

  • increases productivity, ensures consistency and supports your best practices.

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