Training 2009 Conference and Expo - (Page TCB21) Breakout Sessions They achieve long-term and shortterm results by employing rational and intuitive approaches. Figure out why the opposite of every profound truth is also a truth and learn how to bring about a healthy multiple-personality syndrome. This session will answer all your questions—and question all your answers. Learn how systems thinking and empirical research clearly demonstrate the fallacy of naïve either-or thinking. 115 Building a Learning Culture Marc Rosenberg, Author, Beyond eLearning Creating a culture where learning thrives is vital to achieving market leadership, but how is it done? What’s the role of training, knowledge management, and workplace learning? How do leadership, incentives, change management, collaboration, and communication affect a learning culture? And where does technology really fit in? The answers are not always neat and clean. Explore one of the most difficult challenges organizations face. Examine why most learning initiatives are destined to disappoint and how to increase the likelihood of success. See why building a learning culture is even more critical as organizations deal with increasing competitive pressures. • Experience 13 customizable mind-changing content frames. • Reshape a content frame to use immediately. Dianna Booher Author, The Voice of Authority: 10 Communication Strategies Every Leader Needs to Know 202 Flash for E-learning: Flash Media Server Chris Florio, Director IDV Media/Passion Records; Professor Interactive Media, New England Institute of Art Take advantage of the popularity and ease of Flash to create multiuser experiences with Flash Media Server. Learn how easy it is in Flash to create rich online learning experiences that download quickly from any Web connection, including live video streams, chat rooms, white boards, video-conferencing, instant messaging, and multi-user games. r Speakeht Spotlig 113 Accelerating Leadership Training for Managers Tom Dell, National Manager, Hyundai Motor Company; Damon Stephens, Executive Vice President, Paradigm Learning Hyundai found its leaders in the two usual ways: by bringing them in from other companies or promoting them from within. Interestingly, research showed of those brought in from the outside, only 22% remained after five years, while 75% of those promoted from within remained. Cultivating homegrown leadership was worthy of attention. But how should the company go about nurturing and developing its future? Learn how: • Hyundai is tackling leadership development and how you can do the same. • Discovery learning is key to ensuring that your future leaders understand roles and responsibilities. • To develop your own “MBA” program. #403 Ten Communication Strategies Every Leader Needs to Know #503 Creating Executive Presence: Communicate with Confidence in the C-Suite 116 Proactive vs. Reactive: A New Level of Maturity for Compliance and Regulatory Training Bryan Chapman, Chief Learning Strategist, Chapman Alliance In a world governed by complex legislation and accountability, you are challenged with keeping your company in compliance, or risking regulatory exposure and costly penalties. Learn how to leverage innovative learning technologies for paperless automation of compliance reporting, use bestpractice blends of online and on-the-job training to meet and exceed compliance expectations, and reuse regulatory training simulations for performance support. See how forward-thinking companies have moved from a simple “read-and-understand” sign-off model, meeting only minimal requirements, to empoweredlearning organizations. Learn to: • Assess your own readiness. • Create a model of self-empowered learning that exceeds regulatory compliance. 9:15 – 10:15 AM 203 Make New Employee Orientation a Success Jean Barbazette, Author, Successful New Employee Orientation, President, The Training Clinic What impression does your orientation make on new employees? Is it boring and overwhelming? Identify how to use the orientation process to turn new employees into long-term employees. Compare your orientation to best practices that reap benefits for major organizations. Learn to: • Benchmark your orientation process against twelve wellresearched best practices. • Identify how to use retention checklists to enhance your orientation. • Use a master orientation checklist to identify the who, what, when, and how of every task a new employee will perform during the orientation process. 205 Beyond the Blend: Optimizing the Use of Your LMS Bryan Chapman, Chief Learning Strategist, Chapman Alliance The concept of blended learning is key to optimizing your learning strategy and alignment in your LMS. In a cohesive learning strategy, blended learning can align initiatives such as blending learning and work performance, balancing the use of informal learning techniques without creating new content silos, leveraging content management to compress learning delivery, and even facilitate blended-learning development practices. Join Bryan in an exploration of award-winning best practices from organizations such as IBM, SAP Education, Ameriprise, and others to illustrate the impact of blended learning and provide tips and techniques for how to move beyond the traditional blend. 114 Accelerating Transfer and Application: The New Frontier of Learning Calhoun Wick, CEO, Fort Hill Company E-learning, learning management systems, simulations, and action learning were all important innovations in their time, but they are no longer the frontier of corporate learning. Today only one thing counts: better results on the job. Great learning adds no value until it is transferred, applied, and put to work. Learn how to use the six components of effective transfer to ensure that knowledge is put to work. Based on new research with more than 100 Fortune 500 companies, you will use a Transfer and Application Score Card to rate your program’s “results readiness” and pinpoint opportunities to create a breakthrough in transfer and application. 206 Mindset and Skills for Making a Critical Difference in Your Organization Patti Shank, President, Learning Peaks LLC; Katica Roy, Senior Learning Consultant, Kaiser Permanente Colorado Learn to hone in on critical skills for becoming a problem solver rather than an order taker, enabling you to respond to requests for training in a way that allows you to solve real problems and thereby improve the measurable results. Discover methods to: • Reframe training requests to solving problem requests. • Turn business needs into needed performance results. • Use an intake process that helps stakeholders tell you what they really need. • Consider guiding principles that facilitate solving problems. 204 Project Management Improv: Tips for Dealing with Chaos Lou Russell, Author, Project Management for Trainers Project management processes and techniques look really great on paper and can come out perfectly when applied to a case study. But in the real world, do projects ever go that way? How do you develop and deliver interactive software training on software that isn’t written? How do you develop a compliance program when the company is under investigation? How do you grow a process improvement initiative when the subject matter expert is on indefinite medical leave? Through real success stories, you will hear how to save ‘the impossible project’. 201 Powerful Presentations Betsy Allen, Senior Vice President, The Bob Pike Group How do you grab attention, make your message stick and change behavior with presentations or training? Intrigue and inspire your audience with content that can be reshaped for your message as an opener, closer or interactive learning activity. Experience 13 intriguing puzzles from the book Powerful Presentations, create your own and discover favorites of other colleagues. You will: • Examine the importance of memory hooks to frame major messages. For sessions by Role-Based Tracks, see pages 13-17. Log on to TrainingConference.com for a detailed schedule or to register. http://www.TrainingConference.com
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