Training 2009 Conference and Expo - (Page TCB10) Training magazine’s Headliner Sessions Ideas, best practices, and practical advice from top-billed names in the industry; enjoy these presentations from the best of the best. H1 Moving Employees from Compliance to Commitment: Leadership’s Challenge Kenny Moore, and Robert Catell, Co-authors, The CEO and the Monk: One Company’s Journey to Profit and Purpose To ensure the success of any corporate initiative, executives need to stop mandating employee participation—and start inviting it. How can you create a committed workplace? Allow workers to voice opposition (and refuse participation). It’s counterintuitive, yet has a firm foundation in business practices, and favorably impacts the business bottom line. This session will explore practical application of this principle, as well as proper business strategy on how to respond to and engage with resistance and dissent, and non-traditional—but successful—ways to engage employee passion, increase employee morale, and improve corporate performance. H3 Beyond E-learning: New Approaches to Managing and Delivering Organizational Knowledge Marc Rosenberg, Management Consultant and Author, Beyond eLearning While online training has great promise, it can’t, on its own, provide all the learning and performance support that’s needed in the workplace. How can the formal, instructional side of learning coexist with the informal, informational side, and what benefits does this integration bring? You’ll explore e-learning from a strategic perspective and go beyond a focus on technology and courseware to advocate new ways to think about what e-learning really is and what it can, and cannot, do. H6 Virtual World–Real Learning Anders Gronstedt, Author, Basics of Podcasting, and Eilif Trondsen, Program and Research Director, SRI Consulting Business Intelligence Fortune 500 companies like Cisco, IBM, and Dell are using Second Life and other virtual worlds to build immersive, interactive learning for employees—IBM alone has 15,000 employees in virtual worlds. This presentation takes you “in-world,” where you’ll learn how companies are using Second Life and other virtual world platforms to recruit, onboard, network, inspire, teach, coach, mentor, and engage their talent. A live demo will explore how virtual worlds can be used for visualizing 3-D objects, data and concepts, manipulating scale and perspective, role playing, simulating, and collaborating. H4 Whole Brain Teaching and Learning for Results Ann Herrmann-Nehdi, CEO, Herrmann International Do you get requests for “more” in less time? Use the best tool available, the brain, to accelerate the learning process and improve your outcomes. Explore the latest research on learner diversity, and learn to design and implement training based on the four different thinking styles of the whole-brain model. Discover how to align training design, e-learning, and activities with multiple thinking models—and improve the impact of your training. H2 Integrated Talent Management at MasterCard Rebecca Ray, SVP, Global Talent Management and Development, MasterCard Worldwide Discover how an enhanced talent management system at MasterCard drove success across the globe and helped build MasterCard Worldwide into a high-performance organization. After MasterCard became a public company in 2006, an integrated talent management program was created including competencybased talent acquisition processes, new employee onboarding, change management processes, and more. Learn the methods through which this system successfully changed the landscape at MasterCard through special learning portals, assessment and development programs, communication methods, and technology. Roger Bunting DIRECTOR OF PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT California Redevelopment Association H5 Influencer: How to Make Behavior Change Achievable and Training Successful Steve Willis, Vice President of Professional Services, VitalSmarts You’re meeting with your financial advisor, who says, “I’ve got a great new fund —put $10,000 in this fund and next year it will lose 90 percent of its value. Shall we?” Ridiculous, yet that’s the offer most training professionals make to executives—asking for funding although research suggests that less than 10 percent of training changes workplace behaviors. In this session, you will learn strategies and techniques—from the New York Times best-seller Influencer: The Power to Change Anything—to make training results and behavior changes stick. H7 Leadership, Positive Psychology and Emotional Intelligence: The Role of Optimism in Creating and Sustaining a Vision Eileen Rogers, Managing Director, Leadership Sigma Recent research has shown a compelling link between emotional intelligence and the critical leadership skills required in today’s enterprise—building strong relationships, decisiveness, communication and composure, and doing whatever it takes to get the job done… endurance! Join Eileen in a discussion of positive psychology—the emerging science of strengths and virtues that enable individuals and communities to thrive—and an exploration of the critical dimensions of emotional intelligence in a leader’s actions to create, sustain, and inspire commitment to a successful, attainable vision of the future. Carla Myrie TRAINING & DEVELOPMENT OFFICER Financial Services Commission, Jamaica 10 “ “ The Training Conference & Expo has consistently exceeded my expectations for professional development. Training 2009 Conference & Expo “ “ This is a very well-run event with substantive content and extremely useful, skill-building sessions.
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