Free L&D Webinars from Endurance Learning

Brian Washburn and the team at Endurance Learning regularly host free Learning & Development (L&D) webinars to share practical lessons about a variety of learning and development topics.

If you’re interested a training experience focused on building your L&D skills, consider the L&D training offered through the L&D Pro Academy.

Upcoming Free Webinars for Trainers and L&D Professionals

Register now for upcoming free webinars designed to build practical skills for L&D professionals.

Leaning into Nostalgia to Create Effective Learning Activities

Ever notice how a familiar theme song, toy, or game can instantly transport a room full of adults back to childhood? That’s not just a fun icebreaker moment; it’s your brain’s memory and emotion systems doing exactly what makes learning stick. Emotional connection in your training session will boost retention, but we must be honest about the pitfalls of assuming everyone shares the same nostalgic touchstones.

Pre-Recorded Free L&D Webinars

These free on-demand learning & development webinars provide actionable advice for instructional designers, trainers, and L&D professionals. When you sign up you’ll receive an email with:

The handouts and job aids that are used during the session. Each webinar has a variety of free resources including planning and evaluation tools to help you improve your training design and delivery.
A link to watch the free webinar. You’ll see the full hour-long video with links to jump to key moments in the webinar.

Reimagining In-person Engagement for Virtual Training Delivery

From Flipcharts to Breakouts

Moving a training session from a physical classroom to a virtual space is more than just uploading a PowerPoint deck and turning on your webcam. True engagement when delivering training virtually requires translating why an in-person activity works and how its virtual counterpart activity thrives online.Move past surface-level challenges (such as: "I can't see people when they don't use their webcams!") and dive into the mechanics of deep virtual engagement. Join us as we draw on 18 months of proven public webinar strategies and 11 years of train-the-trainer insights to learn how to assess the level of effort required for ...

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Help SMEs Be Effective Trainers

When tasking Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) with designing or delivering training, it’s tempting to overwhelm them with adult learning theory just to prove that telling isn't teaching.That hard truth is that most SMEs just want to train effectively and get back to their day job. Discover how to give your SMEs exactly what they need to succeed, without overloading them.

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Giving Better Feedback to Trainers

Using a defined structure for trainer feedback will help you move from subjective opinions to objective growth. Transitioning from "I liked your energy" or "you offered great stories" to actionable coaching requires a structured approach to observation. In this free webinar, we remove the subjectivity of trainer evaluations. You will identify the four fundamental pillars of effective presentation and receive an observation framework designed to drive measurable performance. You will leave the session with a ready-to-use observation tool and some practice providing feedback that actually moves the needle.

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Scenario-Based Instructor-Led Training

While branching scenarios are a staple of advanced elearning courses, they can be just as effective—and often even more dynamic—when brought into instructor-led training.If you are ready to drive performance and improve critical thinking, designing instructor-led training activities that lead to behavior change is your challenge. Join our free, 60-minute webinar to master two powerful strategies for the classroom: role play and branching scenarios. You’ll explore the key elements of effective decision-making design and collaborate in small groups to build a scenario using our custom planning template.

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How To Engage Challenging Training Participants

Challenging training participants aren’t just being difficult; they are likely reducing the value of the training session for all participants. As a trainer, you have an opportunity to improve the training session for the difficult participants and for everyone else attending. Using some typical challenging participant personas, you can quickly diagnose the problem and apply strategies that will help redirect the training session and improve the overall experience.

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The Art (and a Little Science) of the Training Experience Debrief

When you’ve managed to make your training activity attention-grabbing, interactive, and engaging, is your job done? Not quite. As training designers and facilitators, we’re also responsible for making sure our learners can connect their ah-ha moments to the real world, and that’s where the art of the debrief comes in. Even if you’re running short on time, making sure that your learners have a chance to think a little more deeply about what they learned and experienced will go a long way to making sure they can and will apply their key lessons learned.

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Let’s Cook!

High energy, activity-centered training is great. But high impact training is better. If your learners leave your training session happy, but aren't able to do anything new, different, or better on the job, the training has failed. Join Brian Washburn for a free L&D webinar that focuses on the essential building blocks of effective training design, helping participants move from vague ideas to instructionally sound, actionable plans. Participants will review how to develop clear, instructionally sound learning objectives, apply Endurance Learning’s 4-step training design model to create an engaging and well-aligned lesson plan, and use a Training Plan Accountability Checklist ...

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Design Training activities to boost performance

Beyond Engagement

Join Brian Washburn as he demonstrates specific, engaging learning activities (that you may never have considered), while using a 4-step training design model. Based on decades of learning design theory that reflects a combination of Malcolm Knowles’ theory of adult learning, Robert Gagne’s 9 events of instruction and Jane Vella’s 12 principles of Dialogue Education, this 4-step training design model will set both you and your learners up for not only an engaging session, but a session that directly improves your learner’s ability to do something new, different, or better.

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AI in Action: Hands on Instruction Design Using AI Tools

AI in Action: AI Tools for Instructional Design

AI isn’t replacing instructional designers—it's accelerating them. This session is all about discovering how to use AI tools for instructional design.

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AI in Instructional Design

AI can do a lot, but are we using it for the right things? In L&D, the key isn’t asking what should I use AI for?; it’s asking what challenges do I have, and how can AI help me overcome them? Join Brian Washburn, Erin Clarke, and Heather Mason for this 60-minute webinar to see how they’ve applied AI in instructional design to make work faster, smoother, and more effective.

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Managers Matter: Manager involvement in training initiatives is essential for success

Managers Matter: Driving Better Training Outcomes

Training is an investment, but the true return isn't measured by attendance—it's measured by performance. This isn't just a challenge for learners, or even trainers, but rather a shared responsibility among a variety of stakeholders. Join Brian Washburn for this free L&D webinar that will help you shift your focus from "what was taught" to "what was learned and applied," and identify the key players who drive learning success. The webinar ends with small group work to discuss practical strategies for engaging stakeholders—especially managers—who are critical to a learner’s success.

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The Fix for Lecture-Heavy Training

Use a simplified, 4-step adult learning model based on Gagne's 9 Events of Instruction to design training that is less dependent on lecture. Use Endurance Learning's Activity Cookbook which is loaded with activities and content delivery options and leave with a vision for an instructionally sound lesson plan. This session might help you organize your ideas for upcoming training sessions.

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From Drab to Fab: Trick Out Your Existing Elearning

Join Endurance Learning’s Director of L&D Client Relationships, Erin Clarke, and SMART Recovery USA’s Gus Curran, Sr. Director, Training and Program Development, as they walk through the steps they took to upgrade SMART Recovery’s existing elearning modules. You’ll leave this webinar inspired from their story and ready to use an elearning assessment to review your existing elearning.

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Boring Trainers? Not in My Organization (A Train-the-Trainer Crash Course)

Have you ever wished that there was an easy button to help your subject matter experts (SMEs) add more engagement to their training sessions. Brian Washburn walks you through practical steps for creating a simple, effective train-the-trainer program for anyone serving as a “part-time trainer” across your organization.

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Boring Training Activities? Not on My Watch!

“Can you help me make my training more engaging?” is one of the most frequently asked questions I get. Instead of answering each person individually, I’ve decided to do a whole webinar on the topic, and we can all get together and talk about engaging activities at the same time!

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Beyond the Click: How to Create Elearning That Drives Action

When our learners join us for a virtual or in-person training session we can lead activities and observe whether learners are making connections and learning new skills. When it comes to elearning, many designers struggle to design interactions that help learners demonstrate that they are "getting it"?

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Instructor-Led Training (ILT) that Doesn't Waste Time or Break the Bank - - Free Webinar for Trainers

Instructor-Led Training That Doesn’t Waste Time or Break the Bank

For any training program that is limited by by budget or time, this free L&D webinar will help you return to the foundational elements of learning can set your L&D initiatives up for success, while saving time and energy.

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About Endurance Learning

In addition to providing free webinars for trainers, Endurance Learning is a full-service training development partner, specializing in elearning, instructor-led training, and train-the-trainer programs. Since 2015, our team of expert instructional designers and developers has helped professionals with deep subject matter expertise design and develop training that delivers real impact.

The team at Endurance Learning helps organizations of all sizes build instructor-led training and elearning solutions that fit their needs. Set up a call to learn more.

This series of free L&D webinars is just one way that Endurance Learning gives back to the community. We also have a variety of free resources available including the Endurance Learning Activity Cookbook.

About Brian Washburn

Brian Washburn has over 20 years of experience helping subject matter experts become confident, engaging facilitators. His Train-the-Trainer sessions focus on practical tools, tailored guidance, and hands-on practice, equipping teams to deliver clear, effective training that sticks.

Brian has facilitated workshops on presentation skills and instructional design across North America, South America, Asia, and Africa for international NGOs, nonprofit organizations, and Fortune 500 companies. These experiences have helped him identify and refine certain training and facilitation principles that have proven effective across geographic borders, cultures, types of organizations, age groups, and languages.

Trainers can experience these sessions in:

A customized Train-the-Trainer session
The self-paced Training Delivery Basics

In addition to his practical experience, Brian is the author of two books. What’s Your Formula? Combine Learning Elements for Impactful Training (2021) and Instructional Design on a Shoestring (2024). He has also contributed chapters to several publications by the Association for Talent Development (ATD), including “ATD’s Handbook for Consultants” and “ATD’s Handbook for Training and Talent Development.”

Brian holds an MA in Organizational Psychology, is a past President of ATD Puget Sound, and serves as a Commissioner for the International Accreditors for Continuing Education & Training (IACET).

Endurance Learning has been pre-approved by the ATD Certification Institute to offer educational programs that can be used towards initial eligibility and recertification of the Certified Professional in Talent Development (CPTD) and Associate Professional in Talent Development (APTD) credentials. Each free webinar for trainers and L&D professionals qualifies for a maximum of 1 point.

Free L&D Webinars from Endurance Learning

Upcoming Free Webinars for Trainers and L&D Professionals

Leaning into Nostalgia to Create Effective Learning Activities