Training Magazine - October 2007 - (Page i5) Certificate Programs • Boost long-term retention of important concepts with 6 important memory tools, and with exciting opening and closing activities that engage learners from the moment they walk into the room. • Identify 4 general learning styles or preferences, and “style-stretch” to meet the needs of each type of learner. • Lessen the time it takes to design, develop, and facilitate effective training that works for the learners. • Form your own “mastermind group” to continue sharing best practices with each other after the certificate program is over. This certificate is designed for trainers with all levels of experience, instructional designers and facilitators, and anyone interested in Accelerated Learning and who trains, teaches, or facilitates learning. P6 Really Rapid (and Different) Instructional Design Sivasailam Thiagarajan, Author, Design Your Own Games and Activities: Templates for Performance Learn how to design training within budgets and schedules in today’s workplace with a unique, rapid instructional design approach developed and field tested by Thiagi. Use eclectic principles from extreme programming, improv theater, and creative engineering to reduce cost development time while providing quality instruction that benefits your organization. Stop using your grandfather’s instructional design model and jump the curve to Thiagi’s continuous, concurrent, creative, codesign (CCCC) approach. Find the wisdom in such wild ideas as letting the inmates run the asylum and building airplanes while flying them. In this certificate, learn to: • Apply the CCCC approach to rapidly design your training package with greater motivational and instructional impact. • Use a variety of templates to structure content and to design appropriate learning activities. • Incorporate abundantly available content materials in your training packages and programs. • Redefine the role of learners, participants, trainers, and subject-matter experts to require and reward greater participation in the learning process. • Rapidly design training packages by ignoring, combining, re-sequencing, and accelerating the traditional steps of the process. This certificate program is designed for instructional designers who want to add more short-cut techniques to their toolkits, subjectmatter experts who want to convert their lectures into interactive training that motivates learners, instructors who want to reduce their lesson preparation time, and training directors who need to speedily coordinate the production of instructional packages. P5 Instructional Developer: Applying ISD Methodology Darryl L. Sink & Associates, Inc. Presenter: Paul Swan, Ph.D. The Instructional Developer certificate focuses on the practical aspects of developing training and educational programs that will get the results you need, while providing an opportunity to apply what you learn directly to a project of your own. This certificate, now offered with Darryl L. Sink & Associates popular Instructional Developer Workshop, takes you through basic and advanced techniques for applying the Instructional Systems Development methodology (ISD), and helps you focus on a business problem or opportunity your training program is facing. Learn the techniques and skills necessary to develop professional training while meeting the challenges of today’s quality-driven business environment. You’ll learn how to better: • Conduct Needs Assessment/Analysis: Selecting data gathering techniques. • Conduct Subject Matter Expert Analysis: Selecting and interviewing SMEs. • Implement Task Analysis: Analyzing task/content for structure and sequence. • Specify Learning Objectives: Writing performance-based objectives. • Develop and Select Learning Activities and Materials: Using a lesson design procedure, using criteria for selecting existing materials, developing instructional strategies for four different content types, selecting media, writing objective-based presentations. • Apply Levels of Evaluation: Developing plans for transfer and payoff evaluation, including ROI. This certificate is ideal for training managers and supervisors, instructional designers and developers, trainers, and content experts. Some exposure to the development of training programs is helpful, but not required. for learning and performance, organizational development, human resources, technology, change, and quality solutions. You will learn to apply the ROI Process Model— a results-based method for developing application impact objectives, developing data collection plans, collecting various types of hard and soft data, isolating the effects of the program, converting data to monetary values, tabulating appropriate program costs, calculating return-on-investment, and identifying intangible benefits. In this certificate, you will: • Build critical skills necessary to implement ROI. • Evaluate specific training and performance improvement programs. • Select appropriate data collection methods. • Isolate the effects of a program and convert data to monetary values (with five easy techniques). • Learn to calculate return on investment and identify intangible measures. • Discover how to implement the ROI process and improve the effectiveness of programs. This certificate is designed for instructional designers, training managers, training executives, and anyone who wants to measure the impact of learning and performance solutions—and who needs to develop the skills to determine the return-on-investment for specific programs, and align training programs to business objectives and budgets. You are asked to bring a real-time project to maximize transfer of learning by enabling you to build your skills with an example relevant to your professional responsibilities. P8 Performance Consultant: Moving From Training to Improved Performance Roger Chevalier, Author, A Manager’s Guide to Improving Workplace Performance In this certificate, learn to look at training with the eye of the performance consultant and balance learning activities with other complementary solutions to improve on-the-job performance. Training is about the transfer of knowledge. But for training to add value to your organization, what is learned in the classroom must be used successfully in the workplace. You will practice hands-on techniques to apply Standards of Performance Technology developed by ISPI (International Society for Performance Improvement) to improve individual and organizational achievement. In addition to highly interactive case studies, you will have the opportunity to systematically analyze a current performance shortfall from your own organization—and learn how to determine the real causes; design, develop, and implement P7 Measuring the ROI of Training Patti Phillips, Co-author, Show Me the Money: How to Determine ROI in People, Projects, and Programs This certificate will prepare you to conduct effective ROI studies using the Phillips ROI Methodology—proven evaluation techniques used by organizations in over 40 countries. Build the skills needed to develop and deliver effective return-on-investment (ROI) evaluations Log on to TrainingConference.com to register today! 5 http://www.TrainingConference.com
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