Training 2009 Conference and Expo - (Page TCB24) Breakout Sessions Jack & Patti Phillips Co-authors of The Value of Learning and Show Me the Money including stages to Educate, Engage, and Reinforce key behaviors. • Having an organizational structure that includes a business analysis team and a customer stakeholder team. 403 Ten Communication Strategies Every Leader Needs to Know Dianna Booher, Author, The Voice of Authority: 10 Communication Strategies Every Leader Needs to Know Learn ten guidelines for measuring your communication across functional lines and up and down the chain of command. You will walk away with guidelines for deciding what to communicate, when to communicate, and how to communicate both routine and highly sensitive messages. Learn to: • Structure clear, concise messages—whether responses to questions in the classroom, hallway interactions, or extemporaneous presentations. • Develop an information-sharing strategy to ensure departmental communication that is credible, complete, reliable, and timely. • Assess your personal communication style to determine effectiveness. 406 Getting the Inside Track: Selling Your Training Solutions Internally and to Management Ajay Pangarkar, Co-author, Building Business Acumen for Trainers Increasingly, you need to gain “buy-in” from participants, middle managers and senior management. In this session you’ll learn to: • Identify your organization’s training stakeholders. • Understand and recognize the needs of each level of stakeholder. • Build a case for training and develop an appropriate message for each level of stakeholder. rs Speakeght otli Sp 316 Sponsored Session: Integrating Sharepoint with Your LMS Marc Blumenthal, CEO, Intelladon Learning 2.0 is all about blending and connecting content—any content—so that users can access what they need, when they need it regardless of where it resides. One click access to content leverages your organization’s investments in multiple platforms including, but not limited to, your LMS. #C6 Measuring ROI in Training and Performance Improvement #111 ROI for People Who (Think) They Hate ROI #211 Show Me the Money: Moving From Impact to ROI #309 Beyond Learning Objectives 407 Right from the Start: What Beginning Trainers Need to Know Sharon Bowman, Author, Going Lightly! Terrific Tips To Lighten Your Daily Load Get practical and useful tips for delivering great training right from the start. Discover the unspoken things that experienced trainers know, and how to use this “secret” information as you begin to train. Leave with a tool bag full of ideas, strategies, and suggestions that you can use with any audience and any topic. After participating in this high-energy session, you will be able to: engage and involve learners in five powerful ways, while remaining calm and relaxed the entire time; use crucial instructional strategies to make your training “learner-centered”; use five practical, “how-to secrets.” TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 10 8:30 – 9:30 AM 401 Platform Skills 101: 37 Star-Studded Strategies for Delivering with Impact 314 Future Trends in Learning Technology: A View from the Laboratory Rovy Branon, Executive Director, Academic Advanced Distributed Learning Co-Lab When trying to make forecasts and judgments on where to invest your training technology dollars, the landscape of learning technology can quickly become overwhelming. The Academic ADL Co-Lab is currently involved in more than 23 R&D projects covering: LMSs, cloud computing, educational games, courseware development, and standards. Join Rovy for an exploration of where training technologies are headed. Learn to: • Describe three trends that are changing the future of learning technology. • Identify at least one key trend that will impact your business environment. • Distinguish future trend “noise” from critical changes. Priscilla Shumway, Senior Consultant, The Bob Pike Group You’ve been asked to make a presentation. Your hands sweat… your pulse races… your stomach feels like it’s tied in knots. You’re not alone. Almost everyone gets nervous before presenting in front of a group. The key is to learn how to re-channel that energy to be productive and engaging. Learn to dispel the myths and discover the truths of presenting. You will: • Explore the myths and truths of speaker success. • Vary your voice in 12 different ways. • Practice using gestures to enhance your presentation. 404 If You Build it, Will They Learn? Michael Nolan, President, Friesen, Kaye and Associates Every year organizations are relying more and more on e-learning— both as standalone solutions and as part of blended solutions—to meet their training needs. How successful is all this e-learning? In this session you’ll discover innovative ways to maximize not only learning from the e-learning you build, but performance and results too. You will: • Examine the link between business needs and e-learning initiatives. • Explore ways to ensure learning, performance and results from your e-learning initiatives. • Identify factors that influence e-learning success. 408 Wiki-Wise: True Collaborative, Online, Course Development Avis Beiden, Learning Consultant, AdeptMinds Learning Corporation Despite recent online document sharing and collaboration tools, developing courses with remote teams can be a daunting challenge. Document-driven course development is an iterative process that requires as much management as collaboration. Wikis provide a cost-effective, hosted and collaborative solution that encourages participation and visibility in the course development process that isn’t limited to e-learning-only courses. Wikibased development is a new way of thinking about course development that is much more akin to mind-mapping than document creation. We’ll discuss two different case study examples of Wiki-based course development and explore how wiki-based development was used, who was involved, how the content was structured, and how the output was generated. Key 402 Turning Classroom Trainers Into Online Facilitators Jennifer Hofmann, Synchronous Learning Expert; Kassy LaBorie, Synchronous Learning Expert, InSync Training, LLC Making the transition to the live virtual classroom requires facilitators to develop skills that maximize engagement and learning for their participants. After discussing the changing roles of the training team, and creating a job description for the online facilitator, we will give special attention to creating effective learning environments for your participants and maximizing the engagement level of your audience using facilitation techniques specific to the online environment. You will take away templates that will assist you in preparing to deliver online learning events. 405 Managing E-Course Development: It’s a Team Approach Jon Aleckson, CEO, Web Courseworks Project managing for online development is a specialty. The quality of management has a direct impact on the success of an e-learning project. This session takes the triple constraint of time/cost/ quality and drives home a commonsense model for applying it successfully.You will: • Explore the need for developing a culture of project management within the organization. • Discover how schedules and goal setting will improve course quality. • Learn how to establish a team with the right set of skills to create on-time and on budget engaging online courseware. 315 Accelerate Business Impact with Talent Development Initiatives Chip Cleary, VP, Advisory Services, NIIT CognitiveArts We will discuss the growing need and opportunity to execute key talent development initiatives with excellence and will illustrate best practices that go beyond the typical “develop and launch.” These practices include: • Providing a blended solution that strategically integrates mentoring. • Leading participants through the lifecycle of a change process, Training 2009 Conference & Expo
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