TLN live, recorded webinars available to employees

By Christi Weinzierl, Training Services

Did you know that as a WYDOT employee you have access to both live and recorded webinars on a variety of professional development and leadership development topics from the Transportation Learning Network taught by experts in the field?

Over the past year, TLN has offered 21 professional development webinars along with 8 leadership webinars. There have been 266 webinar completions recorded for WYDOT employees since October of 2022.

The following topics were addressed during the TLN season this year:

Professional Development

• Advanced Transportation Technologies and Innovation (ATTAIN) Program

• UAS Advances in Transportation

• Asphalt Production and Construction

• Understanding NEPA

• PE Exam Review for Civil Engineers

• Construction Negotiating

• Section 4(F)

• ATSSA Traffic Control Technician

• Bridge Deck Preservation

• Work Zone Safety: Controlling Speed and Mitigating Intrusions in Work Zones

• ATSSA Traffic Control Supervisor

• Slope Stability Analysis and Stabilization

• Innovation in Engineering

• Engineering Ethics: Managing Cognitive Bias and Fallacious Reasoning

• Primal Safety

• Longitudinal Joints

• Project Engineer to Project Manager: Look Before You Leap

• Work Zone Safety Roundtable

• 6-Part Project Scheduling Series: Planning for Success; The Basics; Submitting Reviewing, and Approving; Updating; Analyzing Delay; and Concurrency

• Paving Equipment Innovations: What’s Available, What’s Coming

• The What and Why of Distracted Driving Leadership Development

• Work with Difficult People

• Managing Workplace Stress

• Improving Project Communication: Within and Outside of the Project Team

• Leading Across Generations

• Skills for Resiliency

• Eat That Frog-Increase Your Productivity

• Critical Conversations

• A Healthy Workplace Culture is the “Secret Sauce” for Success

Whether you were unable to take part in any of these learning opportunities, or if you attended many TLN webinars during the past season, you’ll be glad to hear these three exciting pieces of news regarding TLN:

1. Most TLN webinars are recorded and available for you to watch after the event. Access them by logging on to the https://tln.learnflex.net/, creating a free account if you don’t yet have one, and clicking on “Recorded Presentations” to browse their archive catalog.

2. Another season of TLN webinar events will begin this coming October and will run through May of 2024. Watch your email for announcements with details about upcoming webinars addressing both professional or technical and leadership development topics.

3. Registering for TLN webinars is now easier than ever; you can register with only two quick clicks:

• When you get an announcement for a webinar you’d like to participate in, click the link in the email:

• You will be taken to the class in NEOGOV Learn. Click the “enroll” button:

Don’t hesitate to take advantage of all the valuable resources and events available to WYDOT employees through TLN this next season!