Training 2009 Conference and Expo - (Page TCB25) metrics about SME involvement and time commitment, as well as overall time to completion and cost will be shared. 411 Selecting Optimal Activities and Media for Online and Blended Learning Patti Shank, President, Learning Peaks LLC Good activities and supportive media are key elements of online instruction, but often the activities selected are too few or irrelevant. You will: • Analyze instructional needs in a way that points out which activities and media are most needed. • Consider how a variety of activities can be done online and why they probably shouldn’t all be online. • Select practice and assessment activities and media based on analysis information for a variety of content types. • You’ll go home with an activity analysis process that can vastly improve your online and blended instructional materials, while speeding up the design process. 409 Instructional Systems Design for the Subject Matter Expert Nanette Miner, President, The Training Doctor, LLC Very often, the person with the most knowledge about the topic is asked to create the training program for the topic. This seems like a logical choice, yet many subject matter experts lack any knowledge about how to design training or the way in which workplace participants learn best. While the resultant training may be technically accurate, it is often ineffective and we find ourselves wondering why the participants “didn’t get it.” In this session you will learn an instructional design process for subject matter experts— cutting to the quick of what SME’s need, and how to design approaches and training materials that are effective and will be used back on the job—not left in the trash. Learn new ways to use performance evaluation measurements to: • Identify performance gaps. • Determine which business performance indicators you can use to evaluate the impact and effectiveness of your training. • Measure the success or failure of training and the ability to apply what is learned. • Understand the flow of steps an employee needs to execute an output that meets or exceeds standards. Vincent Kituku President, Kituku & Associates Speake Spotlightr #504 Overcoming Buffaloes at Work: What Learners Fear About Change and What Training Must Do #604 Inspiring Productivity with Stories and Metaphors 414 A Comprehensive Learning Strategy and Architecture: Leveraging Both What’s Traditional and New Lance Dublin, Founder/Chief Solution Architect, Dublin Consulting Do you have a learning strategy and architecture in place to ensure your learning approaches are keeping pace with your organizational change? Or, do you follow a ‘ready, fire, aim’ approach? To remain competitive, organizations need to have a learning strategy and a comprehensive, integrated architecture that supports and enables learning and performance. It’s important to build this foundation on the traditional approaches such as instructor-led training, mentoring and coaching, and e-learning. But, it’s critical to understand and incorporate new approaches such as simulations and games, blended learning, formalized-informal learning, and Web 2.0 technologies. Join Lance and take a serious look at your organizations’ approach to learning and on-the-job performance. 416 Leadership Competencies Simplified: They Work for the Entire Management Team Stephen Haines, Founder and CEO Haines Centre for Strategic Management Many organizations spend thousands of dollars having consultants build their leadership and management competencies from scratch with no real framework. In this session you will: • Learn to build a simple, yet complete set of organization-wide leadership and management competencies in a quick, fast and thorough fashion for all management and supervisory levels. • Learn to do this jointly with consultants at 80% less cost to your firm than normal. • Learn to conduct your own self assessment to discover your job’s core leadership competencies. • Learn to conduct your own self assessment and current performance vs. your leadership competencies. • Discover the Systems Thinking Framework that is based on 50 years of Scientific Research on the natural way the world actually works. • Discuss the difference between leadership and management competencies and business acumen competencies and how to develop these quickly as well. 410 Transforming Frontline Performance with Podcasting and Vodcasting Anders Gronstedt, Author, Training in Virtual Worlds and Basics of Podcasting Learning organizations around the world are reaping the benefits of the explosive popularity of iPods and other MP3 devices, and employees are seizing the opportunity to learn anywhere and any time. IBM employees can already select from 5,000 programs and have surpassed two million downloads. EMC is cranking out several new podcasts every day to its sales force. Training professionals who haven’t yet gotten into the game yet are destined to play catch-up while their competitors forge ahead. Learn how companies are transforming frontline learning with new brand of on-demand, on-the-go learning. We’ll explore how podcasting, vodcasting, blogs, and RSS feeds facilitate ongoing communication and reinforcements of skill. You will listen to excerpts of audio podcasts that are both informative and entertaining, and watch examples of video podcasts that are revolutionizing mobile learning. 412 Getting Ahead in a Slowing Economy: How to Gain More ROI from Your Talent Ann Herrmann-Nehdi, CEO, Herrmann International Research shows that leaders and HR professionals are getting requests for more in less time, with expectations of even greater performance outcomes. This is further complicated with the evergrowing talent attraction and retention challenges faced by organizations around the globe. Ann’s session gives you practical, proven tools used by organizations around the world that are applying Whole Brain Thinking to improve their ROI. This session will draw on specific case studies and highlight solutions to real challenges organizations are experiencing today. You will: • Evaluate your own organization using the ROI Scorecard. • Apply new research on the brain and the impact of change to your talent challenges. • Take away specific tools you can apply immediately. 415 GIFTS: Great Ideas for Teaching Staff Michele Deck, GAMES/Tool Thyme for Trainers What gifts do you bring to your job? Are you looking for some new ideas for teaching staff hard to grasp concepts like trust and collaboration? Do you want to find a new way to teach critical thinking skills? Come to this session and discover some teaching methods that can bring out the best in your staff and yourself. In this session you will: • Experience concrete ways to illustrate conceptual ideas so that everyone “gets it.” • Learn ideas and methods to teach difficult concepts your staff needs. • Discover a new way to hone critical thinking skills. 413 Now You’ve Trained ‘Em, Are They Making Any Difference? Mildred Brooks, Performance Consultant, Innovation Technology Inc. Are the performance expectations of the employees attending training in line with, or the same as, their job performance criteria? If not, why not? To continually improve business performance, you need a variety of tools to help you look at how the work is being done. 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM 501 Testing Right and Tight Betsy Allen, Senior Vice President, The Bob Pike Group Tests can be as engaging as a videogame or as painful as a root canal. Good tests measure, motivate, and consolidate learning. How do your tests measure up? In this session, you will critique test questions and determine how to For sessions by Role-Based Tracks, see pages 13-17. Log on to TrainingConference.com for a detailed schedule or to register. 25 http://www.TrainingConference.com
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