Friday, January 27
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8:00 AM - 4:00 PM
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Cyber Cafe & Conference Registration Desk Hours
Check your email or print handouts at our Cyber Cafe.
The Cyber Café is sponsored by:
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6A Foyer |
8:30 AM - 9:00 AM
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Coffee/Soda Break
Use every minute of your time at the conference—including refreshment and lunch breaks— wisely. Check in with others to learn what nuggets they are getting out of Training 2017. |
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6A Foyer |
9:00 AM - 4:00 PM
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PRE-CONFERENCE CERTIFICATE PROGRAMS
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P01 |
Training Design, Delivery, and Facilitation for Engagement Certificate
In three days you will re-energize yourself, build your training toolkit, and learn how you can make an impact in your organization.
Day 1: Creative Training Techniques and Participant-Centered Models
Becky Pike Pluth, Chairman, The Bob Pike Group
Learn how to create a high-impact, high-retention, high-application environment where everyone learns through their total involvement. Discover how to achieve 90% retention, cut design time by 50%, and increase transfer by 75% with easy-to-apply techniques that create results and can be immediately applied to your programs. Learn to:
- Create powerful new openings for your training.
- Use a seven-step process to transform your current courses into high-impact, learner-centered courses.
- Ban lecture and choose 36 ways to add variety.
- Apply CPR and the 90/20/10 rule to all your training.
- Create valuable learning materials your participants will love to use.
- Create powerful new ways to demonstrate your training results.
Day 2: Applying Brain Science to Make Training Stick
Sharon Bowman, Author, Training from the Back of the Room
Toss outdated training assumptions and explore the most current cognitive neuroscience that explains how humans naturally and normally learn. Begin using these principles immediately in your own classroom and eLearning instruction. You will:
- Apply six learning principles based on current brain research every time you train, regardless of the complexity of the topic, size of the group, or level of the learners.
- Demonstrate a variety of brain science elements using your own training topics, and dramatically increase learners’ attention, retention, and engagement.
- Create your personal trainer’s toolbox of easy-to-use, brain-based training strategies.
- Access a collection of new brain science resources to enhance your instruction, both in the classroom and online.
BONUS! You’ll receive a copy of Sharon’s book, Using Brain Science to Make Training Stick.
Day 3: Designing and Conducting Training Games and Activities
Sivasailam Thiagarajan, Author, More Jolts! Activities to Wake Up and Engage Your Participants
Are you excited about training games and activities but anxious about losing control, wasting time, and being attacked by participants? Based on 20 years of field experience and research, Thiagi will share important secrets for effective training facilitation. Learn about:
- Structured sharing activities that facilitate mutual learning.
- Interactive lectures that transform presentations into training tools.
- Textra games that bring your dull, dry handouts to life.
- Jolts that provide powerful insights and concepts.
- Seven critical dimensions of activities-based training and how to select, maintain, and balance appropriate levels of each.
- The importance of the debriefing process for linking
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Pike Pluth, Becky
Bowman, Sharon
Thiagarajan, Sivasailam
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2 |
P02 |
Instructional Designer Certificate: Master the Fundamentals
Discover the keys to creating interactive and engaging learning programs that ensure learner success — whether in the classroom, online, or a combination of both. Using a case study, practice key steps in class and take home tools to help you apply what you learned back on the job. Through expert facilitation, practical exercises and group discussions, you’ll learn to:
- Incorporate learning and motivation principles into your designs.
- Follow a systematic learning process to ensure learning takes place.
- Select the right content for the right people.
- Plan a variety of presentation, application, and feedback methods.
- Align objectives and tests, and outline strategies to help learners close any remaining performance gaps back on the job.
- Write questions that engage the learners, test for understanding and encourage learning.
- Design interactive lessons that use a variety of processing methods to maximize retention.
- Create a validation plan that ensures learners achieve the desired performance Improvement.
- Decide which design shortcuts have the least risk.
BONUS! You’ll receive a 220-page Instructional Design Fundamentals participant manual plus case study documents and job aids. You’ll also receive a 190-page Support Manual full of instructional design best practices, and instructions for accessing online templates, worksheets, checklists and look-up tables. |
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Bailey, Geoff
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5A |
P03 |
Training Manager Certificate: Learn to Earn Bottom-Line Results
In this certificate, you’ll focus on practical, useful and effective methods to manage the entire scope of your organization’s training effort. Learn to:
- Identify key training and development roles needed in your organization.
- Develop a vision, mission and function priorities statement.
- Prioritize and keep your sanity as a ‘department of one’.
- Use audit tools to benchmark your function and identify areas for improvement.
- Apply an eight step consulting approach that focuses on performance improvement.
- Use seven key consulting roles and identify appropriate use of each.
- Utilize a nine-part plan to build alliances and work successfully with line managers and employees.
- Gain management’s commitment to performance improvement.
- Use five diagnostic tools to determine performance problems.
- Identify essential elements of performance enhancement plans and training proposals.
- Contract effectively with your internal clients.
- Identify powerful yet simple techniques to market your training function.
- Evaluate and develop trainers using a 16 point competency tool.
- Use four tools to supervise and coach instructors.
- Evaluate and develop course developers using a 32 point competency tool.
- Use five design tools to supervise and coach course developers.
- Apply five tactics to improve learning transfer.
- Identify methods to cost justify training and monitor a training budget.
- Develop an action plan to get results.
PROJECT: Participants will complete and interpret at least 3 key areas of the Training Function Systems Audit, identify strengths, areas for improvement and develop an action plan to implement tools and skills learned in the workshop.
BONUS: You’ll receive a Training Manager’s Tool Kit containing the Training Function Systems Audit as well as a 16-point Instructor Competency Inventory and a 32-point Course Designer Competency Inventory. CEUs are available for this certificate.
BYOD: Laptop recommended.
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Chilcote, Maria
Smith, Melissa
Barbazette, Jean
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3 |
P04 |
eLearning Bootcamp Certificate: Getting Up and Running — Fast!
If you are new to eLearning, it can be hard to know where to start! What’s a storyboard? Do you need an LMS? How long does it take to create a course? How much does it cost? If these are the types of questions you have, then this is the right course for you. Learn about everything from concept to execution. You’ll walk away with a good foundation about the strategy, planning, design, development, and launch of eLearning courseware. You’ll learn:
- The different types of eLearning.
- The advantages and disadvantages of eLearning.
- How to build a business case for eLearning.
- What goes into a project plan; how to gather requirements; and what key design and technology decisions need to be made up front.
- What goes into a storyboard.
- The types of activities and quizzing you can include.
- How to plan effectively for media.
- How to work with subject-matter experts and reviewers.
- How to convert classroom training to self-paced eLearning.
- What types of authoring tools are available out there.
- What it takes to build a course using a rapid development tool.
- What to do with your course once it is finished.
- How to design specifically for the virtual classroom (webinar) format.
- What you need to know about virtual classroom platforms.
BYOD: Wi-Fi enabled laptop required.
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Morrisey, Amy
Elkins, Diane
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1B |
P05 |
Learning Evaluation/Measurement Certificate: Prove Business Impact… Every Time
In this certificate program you will build the basic skills needed to demonstrate the impact and ROI of your programs and projects. You will learn the five critical success factors that make evaluation work and how to apply them in your organization. Specifically, at the end the program you will be able to:
- Categorize your results along the five-level evaluation framework.
- Align your programs with the needs of the business.
- Develop program objectives beyond learning objectives.
- Collect data using the most effective approach given your project.
- Isolate the impact of your program on results.
- Convert business measures to money.
- Tabulate the fully-loaded costs of your programs.
- Calculate the benefit-cost ratio, ROI, and payback period.
- Identify intangible benefits.
- Report results so that they resonate with stakeholders.
- Seamlessly integrate evaluation into your learning strategy.
- Forecast ROI at different time frames.
PROJECT: During the three days you will begin planning the evaluation of one of your programs.
BONUS: You will receive a copy of the book Real World Training Evaluation along with a detailed workbook, fold-out model of the ROI Methodology, application guide describing the 10-easy steps to ROI, case studies, and other tools and resources.
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Phillips, Patti
Phillips, Jack
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5B |
P06 |
Adobe Captivate Design Certificate: Build eLearning that Truly Does Captivate Your Learners
Captivate is the most popular eLearning development tool. With its powerful features, you can create and deliver the best instructional designs to your learners… but only if you know how to use those features! Now is your chance to learn the latest version of Captivate. You’ll be amazed at what you’ll be able to accomplish after only three days! Learn how to publish your lessons so they look and work perfectly on both desktop and mobile devices. You will build a real eLearning lesson that you’ll be able to take back with you and customize to your needs. How cool is that? Brand new to Captivate? No worries, you won't get lost in this class. Have some experience with Captivate? Don't worry, you won't get bored. You’ll:
- Start with combining text, audio, video, photographic and illustrator actor characters, and images appropriately — and learn all the options you have with each.
- Discover how to make your learning truly engaging with interactions of all types: Smart Shapes; Text Entry Boxes; Buttons and Click Boxes; lots of wizard-based interactions, and games.
- Use Captivate’s Responsive Design options to create learning that works perfectly across desktops, tablets and smartphones. If you're not yet designing lessons that are responsively designed, you soon will be!
- Learn the ins and outs of successful software simulations and also create a high-definition video when software simulations just won't cut it.
- Investigate all of the quizzing options Captivate offers and your options for SCORM and xAPI.
- Advance to writing scripts to make your lessons really shine and allow you to be more productive and your lessons more maintainable.
BYOD: A WiFi-enabled laptop with the latest version of Adobe Captivate installed. If you do not already own Adobe Captivate, download the latest trial version no sooner than 20 days before class (so that it doesn’t expire before class begins):
Go to www.adobe.com/captivate. Click the Free Trial option at the top right. Download and install Captivate.
Do not wait until class to download Captivate! It is a very large file and the wireless connection in class may not be optimal.
Make sure you test that Captivate is able to run on your system (Mac or Windows), especially if you are using a laptop provided by your employer as some IT departments will limit what you can install.
If you have Microsoft Word and PowerPoint on your laptop, you'll be able to take advantage of a couple of features we will cover in class. If you don't have Word and PowerPoint, that's OK.
Bring a mouse! Even if you don't normally use one, be sure to bring one because Captivate is much faster to use with a mouse rather than a track pad.
Your instructor will be in touch with you in advance of the conference so that you may ask him any questions you may have and also to ensure that you have everything you need for class. |
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Ganci, Joe
Jaisingh, Pooja
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4 |
10:15 AM - 10:30 AM
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Coffee/Soda Break
Use every minute of your time at the conference—including refreshment and lunch breaks— wisely. Check in with others to learn what nuggets they are getting out of Training 2017. |
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6A Foyer |
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
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Lunch
Use every minute of your time at the conference—including refreshment and lunch breaks— wisely. Check in with others to learn what nuggets they are getting out of Training 2017. |
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6AB |
2:15 PM - 2:30 PM
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Coffee/Soda Break
Use every minute of your time at the conference—including refreshment and lunch breaks— wisely. Check in with others to learn what nuggets they are getting out of Training 2017. |
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6A Foyer |
Saturday, January 28
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Session Code |
Session Title |
Speaker(s) |
Room |
8:00 AM - 4:00 PM
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Cyber Cafe & Conference Registration Desk Hours
Check your email or print handouts at our Cyber Cafe.
The Cyber Café is sponsored by:
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6A Foyer |
8:30 AM - 9:00 AM
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Coffee/Soda Break
Use every minute of your time at the conference—including refreshment and lunch breaks— wisely. Check in with others to learn what nuggets they are getting out of Training 2017. |
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6A Foyer |
9:00 AM - 4:00 PM
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PRE-CONFERENCE CERTIFICATE PROGRAMS
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P01 |
Training Design, Delivery, and Facilitation for Engagement Certificate
In three days you will re-energize yourself, build your training toolkit, and learn how you can make an impact in your organization.
Day 1: Creative Training Techniques and Participant-Centered Models
Becky Pike Pluth, Chairman, The Bob Pike Group
Learn how to create a high-impact, high-retention, high-application environment where everyone learns through their total involvement. Discover how to achieve 90% retention, cut design time by 50%, and increase transfer by 75% with easy-to-apply techniques that create results and can be immediately applied to your programs. Learn to:
- Create powerful new openings for your training.
- Use a seven-step process to transform your current courses into high-impact, learner-centered courses.
- Ban lecture and choose 36 ways to add variety.
- Apply CPR and the 90/20/10 rule to all your training.
- Create valuable learning materials your participants will love to use.
- Create powerful new ways to demonstrate your training results.
Day 2: Applying Brain Science to Make Training Stick
Sharon Bowman, Author, Training from the Back of the Room
Toss outdated training assumptions and explore the most current cognitive neuroscience that explains how humans naturally and normally learn. Begin using these principles immediately in your own classroom and eLearning instruction. You will:
- Apply six learning principles based on current brain research every time you train, regardless of the complexity of the topic, size of the group, or level of the learners.
- Demonstrate a variety of brain science elements using your own training topics, and dramatically increase learners’ attention, retention, and engagement.
- Create your personal trainer’s toolbox of easy-to-use, brain-based training strategies.
- Access a collection of new brain science resources to enhance your instruction, both in the classroom and online.
BONUS! You’ll receive a copy of Sharon’s book, Using Brain Science to Make Training Stick.
Day 3: Designing and Conducting Training Games and Activities
Sivasailam Thiagarajan, Author, More Jolts! Activities to Wake Up and Engage Your Participants
Are you excited about training games and activities but anxious about losing control, wasting time, and being attacked by participants? Based on 20 years of field experience and research, Thiagi will share important secrets for effective training facilitation. Learn about:
- Structured sharing activities that facilitate mutual learning.
- Interactive lectures that transform presentations into training tools.
- Textra games that bring your dull, dry handouts to life.
- Jolts that provide powerful insights and concepts.
- Seven critical dimensions of activities-based training and how to select, maintain, and balance appropriate levels of each.
- The importance of the debriefing process for linking
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Pike Pluth, Becky
Bowman, Sharon
Thiagarajan, Sivasailam
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2 |
P02 |
Instructional Designer Certificate: Master the Fundamentals
Discover the keys to creating interactive and engaging learning programs that ensure learner success — whether in the classroom, online, or a combination of both. Using a case study, practice key steps in class and take home tools to help you apply what you learned back on the job. Through expert facilitation, practical exercises and group discussions, you’ll learn to:
- Incorporate learning and motivation principles into your designs.
- Follow a systematic learning process to ensure learning takes place.
- Select the right content for the right people.
- Plan a variety of presentation, application, and feedback methods.
- Align objectives and tests, and outline strategies to help learners close any remaining performance gaps back on the job.
- Write questions that engage the learners, test for understanding and encourage learning.
- Design interactive lessons that use a variety of processing methods to maximize retention.
- Create a validation plan that ensures learners achieve the desired performance Improvement.
- Decide which design shortcuts have the least risk.
BONUS! You’ll receive a 220-page Instructional Design Fundamentals participant manual plus case study documents and job aids. You’ll also receive a 190-page Support Manual full of instructional design best practices, and instructions for accessing online templates, worksheets, checklists and look-up tables. |
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Bailey, Geoff
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5A |
P03 |
Training Manager Certificate: Learn to Earn Bottom-Line Results
In this certificate, you’ll focus on practical, useful and effective methods to manage the entire scope of your organization’s training effort. Learn to:
- Identify key training and development roles needed in your organization.
- Develop a vision, mission and function priorities statement.
- Prioritize and keep your sanity as a ‘department of one’.
- Use audit tools to benchmark your function and identify areas for improvement.
- Apply an eight step consulting approach that focuses on performance improvement.
- Use seven key consulting roles and identify appropriate use of each.
- Utilize a nine-part plan to build alliances and work successfully with line managers and employees.
- Gain management’s commitment to performance improvement.
- Use five diagnostic tools to determine performance problems.
- Identify essential elements of performance enhancement plans and training proposals.
- Contract effectively with your internal clients.
- Identify powerful yet simple techniques to market your training function.
- Evaluate and develop trainers using a 16 point competency tool.
- Use four tools to supervise and coach instructors.
- Evaluate and develop course developers using a 32 point competency tool.
- Use five design tools to supervise and coach course developers.
- Apply five tactics to improve learning transfer.
- Identify methods to cost justify training and monitor a training budget.
- Develop an action plan to get results.
PROJECT: Participants will complete and interpret at least 3 key areas of the Training Function Systems Audit, identify strengths, areas for improvement and develop an action plan to implement tools and skills learned in the workshop.
BONUS: You’ll receive a Training Manager’s Tool Kit containing the Training Function Systems Audit as well as a 16-point Instructor Competency Inventory and a 32-point Course Designer Competency Inventory. CEUs are available for this certificate.
BYOD: Laptop recommended.
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Chilcote, Maria
Smith, Melissa
Barbazette, Jean
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3 |
P04 |
eLearning Bootcamp Certificate: Getting Up and Running — Fast!
If you are new to eLearning, it can be hard to know where to start! What’s a storyboard? Do you need an LMS? How long does it take to create a course? How much does it cost? If these are the types of questions you have, then this is the right course for you. Learn about everything from concept to execution. You’ll walk away with a good foundation about the strategy, planning, design, development, and launch of eLearning courseware. You’ll learn:
- The different types of eLearning.
- The advantages and disadvantages of eLearning.
- How to build a business case for eLearning.
- What goes into a project plan; how to gather requirements; and what key design and technology decisions need to be made up front.
- What goes into a storyboard.
- The types of activities and quizzing you can include.
- How to plan effectively for media.
- How to work with subject-matter experts and reviewers.
- How to convert classroom training to self-paced eLearning.
- What types of authoring tools are available out there.
- What it takes to build a course using a rapid development tool.
- What to do with your course once it is finished.
- How to design specifically for the virtual classroom (webinar) format.
- What you need to know about virtual classroom platforms.
BYOD: Wi-Fi enabled laptop required.
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Morrisey, Amy
Elkins, Diane
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1B |
P05 |
Learning Evaluation/Measurement Certificate: Prove Business Impact… Every Time
In this certificate program you will build the basic skills needed to demonstrate the impact and ROI of your programs and projects. You will learn the five critical success factors that make evaluation work and how to apply them in your organization. Specifically, at the end the program you will be able to:
- Categorize your results along the five-level evaluation framework.
- Align your programs with the needs of the business.
- Develop program objectives beyond learning objectives.
- Collect data using the most effective approach given your project.
- Isolate the impact of your program on results.
- Convert business measures to money.
- Tabulate the fully-loaded costs of your programs.
- Calculate the benefit-cost ratio, ROI, and payback period.
- Identify intangible benefits.
- Report results so that they resonate with stakeholders.
- Seamlessly integrate evaluation into your learning strategy.
- Forecast ROI at different time frames.
PROJECT: During the three days you will begin planning the evaluation of one of your programs.
BONUS: You will receive a copy of the book Real World Training Evaluation along with a detailed workbook, fold-out model of the ROI Methodology, application guide describing the 10-easy steps to ROI, case studies, and other tools and resources.
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Phillips, Patti
Phillips, Jack
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5B |
P06 |
Adobe Captivate Design Certificate: Build eLearning that Truly Does Captivate Your Learners
Captivate is the most popular eLearning development tool. With its powerful features, you can create and deliver the best instructional designs to your learners… but only if you know how to use those features! Now is your chance to learn the latest version of Captivate. You’ll be amazed at what you’ll be able to accomplish after only three days! Learn how to publish your lessons so they look and work perfectly on both desktop and mobile devices. You will build a real eLearning lesson that you’ll be able to take back with you and customize to your needs. How cool is that? Brand new to Captivate? No worries, you won't get lost in this class. Have some experience with Captivate? Don't worry, you won't get bored. You’ll:
- Start with combining text, audio, video, photographic and illustrator actor characters, and images appropriately — and learn all the options you have with each.
- Discover how to make your learning truly engaging with interactions of all types: Smart Shapes; Text Entry Boxes; Buttons and Click Boxes; lots of wizard-based interactions, and games.
- Use Captivate’s Responsive Design options to create learning that works perfectly across desktops, tablets and smartphones. If you're not yet designing lessons that are responsively designed, you soon will be!
- Learn the ins and outs of successful software simulations and also create a high-definition video when software simulations just won't cut it.
- Investigate all of the quizzing options Captivate offers and your options for SCORM and xAPI.
- Advance to writing scripts to make your lessons really shine and allow you to be more productive and your lessons more maintainable.
BYOD: A WiFi-enabled laptop with the latest version of Adobe Captivate installed. If you do not already own Adobe Captivate, download the latest trial version no sooner than 20 days before class (so that it doesn’t expire before class begins):
Go to www.adobe.com/captivate. Click the Free Trial option at the top right. Download and install Captivate.
Do not wait until class to download Captivate! It is a very large file and the wireless connection in class may not be optimal.
Make sure you test that Captivate is able to run on your system (Mac or Windows), especially if you are using a laptop provided by your employer as some IT departments will limit what you can install.
If you have Microsoft Word and PowerPoint on your laptop, you'll be able to take advantage of a couple of features we will cover in class. If you don't have Word and PowerPoint, that's OK.
Bring a mouse! Even if you don't normally use one, be sure to bring one because Captivate is much faster to use with a mouse rather than a track pad.
Your instructor will be in touch with you in advance of the conference so that you may ask him any questions you may have and also to ensure that you have everything you need for class. |
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Ganci, Joe
Jaisingh, Pooja
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4 |
P07 |
Designing for Engagement Using Social Learning and Gamification Certificate
You’re great at creating courses and designing other learning experiences. But how can you extend your reach — and the learning — beyond the traditional or virtual walls of a traditional experience? New strategies like gamification and new tools for supporting social approaches can help move your efforts from event to process, from one-off to continual. You will:
- Learn how to apply social, collaborative tools that increase engagement in learning, working and communicating at work.
- Engage in supporting learning with social-media based tasks and activities, such as openers, quick-answer, reflective work, quiz games, and photo-based work.
- Explore ways to reach beyond traditional frameworks to support social learning as it naturally occurs across the organization.
- Discover game fundamentals as they relate to instructional design and learning — and how to implement serious games to spark employee engagement and drive learning retention.
- Explore best practices and case studies about both in-content and structural gamification.
- Choose social tools and approaches that support instructional goals.
- Learn how to ensure success with gamification through proper planning, metrics, implementation strategy, and post-deployment support.
- Receive supplemental guidelines for supporting change and contributing to conversations regarding governance around social learning.
Prerequisites: Some experience commenting on blogs or sites like LinkedIn, posting status updates to Facebook, participating in online communities, or using similar tools.The session is intended for people who are already comfortable with a few popular social tools and are excited about supporting social learning and use of social tools in their organizations?
BYOD: Wi-Fi enabled laptop required, with security configured to allow access to sites like Twitter and Facebook. |
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Bozarth, Jane
Hughes, Andrew
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10 |
P08 |
eLearning Video Producer Certificate: Craft Dynamic Videos on a Dime
Watch this special message from your instructor Steve Haskin on what you’ll learn in this program!
Online video content is everywhere and it’s becoming especially important to engage our eLearners. We all need to step up our video game. But how do we produce great video with microbudgets, little technical expertise, and short timelines? This certificate program will show you how to solve those problems. You’ll learn about:
- Making great video on a shoestring budget.
- Selecting the right video equipment and setting up a small studio.
- Video storytelling. It’s all about the story. Why taking video isn’t making video.
- Scripting and audio development.
- Shooting and editing for the small and large screen.
- Planning a video (pre-production).
- Shooting great video (production).
- Techniques that will make your video a cut above the rest (post-production, forgive the pun).
- Integrating your videos into compelling, engaging eLearning courses.
PROJECT: You will shoot and edit an eLearning video as part of this course. We’ll end the course with a video showcase where a winner will be celebrated! And the possibility of adult beverages for the award winner(s).
BYOD: You’ll need your laptop, pre-loaded with Adobe Creative Cloud programs including Premiere Pro, After Effects, Photoshop and Audition. These are the best programs for workflow, but you can use any video and audio editing programs you wish. Please have them pre-loaded. You may have to talk to your IT department. Also, while it’s perfectly fine if you use your phone as your video camera, a DSLR, point-and-shoot camera or dedicated video camera is preferred.
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Haskin, Steve
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7A |
P09 |
Master Trainer Certificate: Take Your Training to the Top
This program—both strategic and tactical—will give you the tools and the roadmap you need to ensure you are doing the right training, at the right time, with the right people, in the right way. This is a "learn and apply" session. Bring a program you want to revamp and you'll take what you learn in class and apply it immediately. You'll:
- Learn 117 ways to design and deliver training and performance improvement faster, better, and easier.
- Examine five performance solutions other than training—and how to have a conversation that focuses on the results to be achieved.
- Explore five capabilities all organizations leverage to achieve results—discover just which ones your organization focuses on. You'll also explore the 15 competencies that can help drive these capabilities.
- Explore more than 163 practical strategies for ensuring the transfer of training—and pick specific strategies to apply to your own training programs.
- Learn about the 3 people who most impact transfer of training.
- Apply C.O.R.E. strategies to your training.
- Explore 5 ways to kill adult learner motivation and 11 ways to motivate adults.
- Learn 9 ways to effectively teach across generations and cultures.
BONUS: You'll receive a copy of Pike's Master Trainers Handbook, a 160-page Master Class Train-the-Trainer Workbook, a personal Training Transfer Action Plan, and your own copy of Bob's Performance Solutions cube.
PROJECT: Bring a training program and in these two days you'll retool it, and take it to the next level. |
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Pike, Bob
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8 |
P11 |
The Science of Learning Certificate: Develop Learning that Sticks
This energetic program is for anyone who is interested in using the power of psychology and science to reshape their training organization. With Art Kohn, a renowned neuropsychologist, you’ll explore 10 core principles that will help you understand how the brain controls learning and behavior change. On day one, his demonstrations will provide an exciting understanding of how the mind learns and retains new information. These tips will enable you to create more effective training both live and online. On day two, we will take a deeper look at these principles and discover how to leverage neurological principles to create an effective after-training program that will ensure that your training sticks and produces sustainable behavior change. Do you want your training organization committed to learning and self-improvement? It will be once you understand these brain-secrets of learning and behavior change. You will learn to:
- Create social learning communities that are based on psychological principles of observational learning.
- Use authoring tools more effectively by understanding how the brain encodes metaphor and emotion.
- Develop an incentive system that reinforces desired behaviors and that is based on established principles of conditioning.
- Improve employees' attention within mobile learning by understanding the secrets to people’s levels of consciousness.
- Design effective “follow-up training” by tapping into mnemonic principles of memory.
- Deliver visual messages and auditory messages based on an understanding of the brain’s dual-coding mechanisms.
BYOD: Laptop recommended.
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Kohn, Art
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9 |
P12 |
Mastering the Training Business Certificate: A Crash Course for Professionals Working Internally and Externally
Beyond designing effective courses and masterfully facilitating them, successful trainers can comfortably handle the business tasks that play a central role in this work. This program identifies these business tasks and develops the skills needed to handle them. You will:
- Explore the customer-service nature of training, whether the trainers work internally or externally.
- Learn about the different models available for training groups, how they affect your influence with stakeholders, and the effort needed to change from one to another.
- Choose a business model for your training group that ensures you have the resources and clout to pursue the projects needed by your sponsors.
- Learn how working with key stakeholders and realistic data about the environment in which you work, you can develop a strategic plan as to where you want to take your training group in the medium- and long-term.
- Learn to develop a persuasive business case for a major training project.
- Be able to describe the impact of particular business processes on outside perceptions of the effective operations of training groups.
- Learn to market the services of training groups internally and externally.
- Explore at least 3 work habits that build confidence with your work among management.
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Carliner, Saul
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1A |
P13 |
Performance Consultant Certificate: Replace Jump-to-Solution Requests with Solutions that Work
How frequently does it happen that a manager calls you with a request to deliver a training program or do some team building? This is the jump-to-solution approach that rarely results in improved performance that is sustained over time.The challenge is to influence the thinking of managers so they discuss the business and performance results they seek, not the solutions they want… and then partner with you to take actions to achieve those results. Performance Consulting is a strategic process that produces business results by maximizing performance of people and organizations. In this program you will acquire skills to put this process to work in your organization. Specifically you will learn to:
- Define and align four needs: business, performance, organizational and individual capability.
- Identify the true client with whom to partner on any initiative.
Deepen client partnerships using the Access, Credibility and Trust model.
- Analyze requests obtained from managers, determining both information that is known and that is unknown… but critical to obtain.
- Ask powerful questions so you reframe a manager’s solution request into a discussion of the results the manager wants to achieve.
- Use six criteria to determine if the opportunity you have developed from a client’s request is a tactical or strategic one.
You will leave this program with:
- A list of powerful questions to ask the next time a manager contacts you with a solution request.
- A mapping tool to assist you in organizing information about a situation, clarifying what is known and unknown.
- A template to guide you in planning and conducting reframing discussions with your clients.
The flowchart of the nine steps included in the Performance Consulting Process. |
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Robinson, Dana
Adams, Chris
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7B |
10:15 AM - 10:30 AM
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Coffee/Soda Break
Use every minute of your time at the conference—including refreshment and lunch breaks— wisely. Check in with others to learn what nuggets they are getting out of Training 2017. |
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6A Foyer |
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
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Lunch
Use every minute of your time at the conference—including refreshment and lunch breaks— wisely. Check in with others to learn what nuggets they are getting out of Training 2017. |
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6AB |
2:15 PM - 2:30 PM
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Coffee/Soda Break
Use every minute of your time at the conference—including refreshment and lunch breaks— wisely. Check in with others to learn what nuggets they are getting out of Training 2017. |
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6A Foyer |
Sunday, January 29
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8:30 AM - 9:00 AM
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Coffee/Soda Break
Use every minute of your time at the conference—including refreshment and lunch breaks— wisely. Check in with others to learn what nuggets they are getting out of Training 2017. |
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6A Foyer |
8:30 AM - 5:30 PM
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Cyber Cafe & Conference Registration Desk Hours
Check your email or print handouts at our Cyber Cafe.
The Cyber Café is sponsored by:
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6A Foyer |
9:00 AM - 4:00 PM
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PRE-CONFERENCE CERTIFICATE PROGRAMS
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P01 |
Training Design, Delivery, and Facilitation for Engagement Certificate
In three days you will re-energize yourself, build your training toolkit, and learn how you can make an impact in your organization.
Day 1: Creative Training Techniques and Participant-Centered Models
Becky Pike Pluth, Chairman, The Bob Pike Group
Learn how to create a high-impact, high-retention, high-application environment where everyone learns through their total involvement. Discover how to achieve 90% retention, cut design time by 50%, and increase transfer by 75% with easy-to-apply techniques that create results and can be immediately applied to your programs. Learn to:
- Create powerful new openings for your training.
- Use a seven-step process to transform your current courses into high-impact, learner-centered courses.
- Ban lecture and choose 36 ways to add variety.
- Apply CPR and the 90/20/10 rule to all your training.
- Create valuable learning materials your participants will love to use.
- Create powerful new ways to demonstrate your training results.
Day 2: Applying Brain Science to Make Training Stick
Sharon Bowman, Author, Training from the Back of the Room
Toss outdated training assumptions and explore the most current cognitive neuroscience that explains how humans naturally and normally learn. Begin using these principles immediately in your own classroom and eLearning instruction. You will:
- Apply six learning principles based on current brain research every time you train, regardless of the complexity of the topic, size of the group, or level of the learners.
- Demonstrate a variety of brain science elements using your own training topics, and dramatically increase learners’ attention, retention, and engagement.
- Create your personal trainer’s toolbox of easy-to-use, brain-based training strategies.
- Access a collection of new brain science resources to enhance your instruction, both in the classroom and online.
BONUS! You’ll receive a copy of Sharon’s book, Using Brain Science to Make Training Stick.
Day 3: Designing and Conducting Training Games and Activities
Sivasailam Thiagarajan, Author, More Jolts! Activities to Wake Up and Engage Your Participants
Are you excited about training games and activities but anxious about losing control, wasting time, and being attacked by participants? Based on 20 years of field experience and research, Thiagi will share important secrets for effective training facilitation. Learn about:
- Structured sharing activities that facilitate mutual learning.
- Interactive lectures that transform presentations into training tools.
- Textra games that bring your dull, dry handouts to life.
- Jolts that provide powerful insights and concepts.
- Seven critical dimensions of activities-based training and how to select, maintain, and balance appropriate levels of each.
- The importance of the debriefing process for linking
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Pike Pluth, Becky
Bowman, Sharon
Thiagarajan, Sivasailam
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2 |
P02 |
Instructional Designer Certificate: Master the Fundamentals
Discover the keys to creating interactive and engaging learning programs that ensure learner success — whether in the classroom, online, or a combination of both. Using a case study, practice key steps in class and take home tools to help you apply what you learned back on the job. Through expert facilitation, practical exercises and group discussions, you’ll learn to:
- Incorporate learning and motivation principles into your designs.
- Follow a systematic learning process to ensure learning takes place.
- Select the right content for the right people.
- Plan a variety of presentation, application, and feedback methods.
- Align objectives and tests, and outline strategies to help learners close any remaining performance gaps back on the job.
- Write questions that engage the learners, test for understanding and encourage learning.
- Design interactive lessons that use a variety of processing methods to maximize retention.
- Create a validation plan that ensures learners achieve the desired performance Improvement.
- Decide which design shortcuts have the least risk.
BONUS! You’ll receive a 220-page Instructional Design Fundamentals participant manual plus case study documents and job aids. You’ll also receive a 190-page Support Manual full of instructional design best practices, and instructions for accessing online templates, worksheets, checklists and look-up tables. |
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Bailey, Geoff
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5A |
P03 |
Training Manager Certificate: Learn to Earn Bottom-Line Results
In this certificate, you’ll focus on practical, useful and effective methods to manage the entire scope of your organization’s training effort. Learn to:
- Identify key training and development roles needed in your organization.
- Develop a vision, mission and function priorities statement.
- Prioritize and keep your sanity as a ‘department of one’.
- Use audit tools to benchmark your function and identify areas for improvement.
- Apply an eight step consulting approach that focuses on performance improvement.
- Use seven key consulting roles and identify appropriate use of each.
- Utilize a nine-part plan to build alliances and work successfully with line managers and employees.
- Gain management’s commitment to performance improvement.
- Use five diagnostic tools to determine performance problems.
- Identify essential elements of performance enhancement plans and training proposals.
- Contract effectively with your internal clients.
- Identify powerful yet simple techniques to market your training function.
- Evaluate and develop trainers using a 16 point competency tool.
- Use four tools to supervise and coach instructors.
- Evaluate and develop course developers using a 32 point competency tool.
- Use five design tools to supervise and coach course developers.
- Apply five tactics to improve learning transfer.
- Identify methods to cost justify training and monitor a training budget.
- Develop an action plan to get results.
PROJECT: Participants will complete and interpret at least 3 key areas of the Training Function Systems Audit, identify strengths, areas for improvement and develop an action plan to implement tools and skills learned in the workshop.
BONUS: You’ll receive a Training Manager’s Tool Kit containing the Training Function Systems Audit as well as a 16-point Instructor Competency Inventory and a 32-point Course Designer Competency Inventory. CEUs are available for this certificate.
BYOD: Laptop recommended.
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Chilcote, Maria
Smith, Melissa
Barbazette, Jean
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3 |
P04 |
eLearning Bootcamp Certificate: Getting Up and Running — Fast!
If you are new to eLearning, it can be hard to know where to start! What’s a storyboard? Do you need an LMS? How long does it take to create a course? How much does it cost? If these are the types of questions you have, then this is the right course for you. Learn about everything from concept to execution. You’ll walk away with a good foundation about the strategy, planning, design, development, and launch of eLearning courseware. You’ll learn:
- The different types of eLearning.
- The advantages and disadvantages of eLearning.
- How to build a business case for eLearning.
- What goes into a project plan; how to gather requirements; and what key design and technology decisions need to be made up front.
- What goes into a storyboard.
- The types of activities and quizzing you can include.
- How to plan effectively for media.
- How to work with subject-matter experts and reviewers.
- How to convert classroom training to self-paced eLearning.
- What types of authoring tools are available out there.
- What it takes to build a course using a rapid development tool.
- What to do with your course once it is finished.
- How to design specifically for the virtual classroom (webinar) format.
- What you need to know about virtual classroom platforms.
BYOD: Wi-Fi enabled laptop required.
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Morrisey, Amy
Elkins, Diane
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1B |
P05 |
Learning Evaluation/Measurement Certificate: Prove Business Impact… Every Time
In this certificate program you will build the basic skills needed to demonstrate the impact and ROI of your programs and projects. You will learn the five critical success factors that make evaluation work and how to apply them in your organization. Specifically, at the end the program you will be able to:
- Categorize your results along the five-level evaluation framework.
- Align your programs with the needs of the business.
- Develop program objectives beyond learning objectives.
- Collect data using the most effective approach given your project.
- Isolate the impact of your program on results.
- Convert business measures to money.
- Tabulate the fully-loaded costs of your programs.
- Calculate the benefit-cost ratio, ROI, and payback period.
- Identify intangible benefits.
- Report results so that they resonate with stakeholders.
- Seamlessly integrate evaluation into your learning strategy.
- Forecast ROI at different time frames.
PROJECT: During the three days you will begin planning the evaluation of one of your programs.
BONUS: You will receive a copy of the book Real World Training Evaluation along with a detailed workbook, fold-out model of the ROI Methodology, application guide describing the 10-easy steps to ROI, case studies, and other tools and resources.
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Phillips, Patti
Phillips, Jack
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5B |
P06 |
Adobe Captivate Design Certificate: Build eLearning that Truly Does Captivate Your Learners
Captivate is the most popular eLearning development tool. With its powerful features, you can create and deliver the best instructional designs to your learners… but only if you know how to use those features! Now is your chance to learn the latest version of Captivate. You’ll be amazed at what you’ll be able to accomplish after only three days! Learn how to publish your lessons so they look and work perfectly on both desktop and mobile devices. You will build a real eLearning lesson that you’ll be able to take back with you and customize to your needs. How cool is that? Brand new to Captivate? No worries, you won't get lost in this class. Have some experience with Captivate? Don't worry, you won't get bored. You’ll:
- Start with combining text, audio, video, photographic and illustrator actor characters, and images appropriately — and learn all the options you have with each.
- Discover how to make your learning truly engaging with interactions of all types: Smart Shapes; Text Entry Boxes; Buttons and Click Boxes; lots of wizard-based interactions, and games.
- Use Captivate’s Responsive Design options to create learning that works perfectly across desktops, tablets and smartphones. If you're not yet designing lessons that are responsively designed, you soon will be!
- Learn the ins and outs of successful software simulations and also create a high-definition video when software simulations just won't cut it.
- Investigate all of the quizzing options Captivate offers and your options for SCORM and xAPI.
- Advance to writing scripts to make your lessons really shine and allow you to be more productive and your lessons more maintainable.
BYOD: A WiFi-enabled laptop with the latest version of Adobe Captivate installed. If you do not already own Adobe Captivate, download the latest trial version no sooner than 20 days before class (so that it doesn’t expire before class begins):
Go to www.adobe.com/captivate. Click the Free Trial option at the top right. Download and install Captivate.
Do not wait until class to download Captivate! It is a very large file and the wireless connection in class may not be optimal.
Make sure you test that Captivate is able to run on your system (Mac or Windows), especially if you are using a laptop provided by your employer as some IT departments will limit what you can install.
If you have Microsoft Word and PowerPoint on your laptop, you'll be able to take advantage of a couple of features we will cover in class. If you don't have Word and PowerPoint, that's OK.
Bring a mouse! Even if you don't normally use one, be sure to bring one because Captivate is much faster to use with a mouse rather than a track pad.
Your instructor will be in touch with you in advance of the conference so that you may ask him any questions you may have and also to ensure that you have everything you need for class. |
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Ganci, Joe
Jaisingh, Pooja
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4 |
P07 |
Designing for Engagement Using Social Learning and Gamification Certificate
You’re great at creating courses and designing other learning experiences. But how can you extend your reach — and the learning — beyond the traditional or virtual walls of a traditional experience? New strategies like gamification and new tools for supporting social approaches can help move your efforts from event to process, from one-off to continual. You will:
- Learn how to apply social, collaborative tools that increase engagement in learning, working and communicating at work.
- Engage in supporting learning with social-media based tasks and activities, such as openers, quick-answer, reflective work, quiz games, and photo-based work.
- Explore ways to reach beyond traditional frameworks to support social learning as it naturally occurs across the organization.
- Discover game fundamentals as they relate to instructional design and learning — and how to implement serious games to spark employee engagement and drive learning retention.
- Explore best practices and case studies about both in-content and structural gamification.
- Choose social tools and approaches that support instructional goals.
- Learn how to ensure success with gamification through proper planning, metrics, implementation strategy, and post-deployment support.
- Receive supplemental guidelines for supporting change and contributing to conversations regarding governance around social learning.
Prerequisites: Some experience commenting on blogs or sites like LinkedIn, posting status updates to Facebook, participating in online communities, or using similar tools.The session is intended for people who are already comfortable with a few popular social tools and are excited about supporting social learning and use of social tools in their organizations?
BYOD: Wi-Fi enabled laptop required, with security configured to allow access to sites like Twitter and Facebook. |
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Bozarth, Jane
Hughes, Andrew
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10 |
P08 |
eLearning Video Producer Certificate: Craft Dynamic Videos on a Dime
Watch this special message from your instructor Steve Haskin on what you’ll learn in this program!
Online video content is everywhere and it’s becoming especially important to engage our eLearners. We all need to step up our video game. But how do we produce great video with microbudgets, little technical expertise, and short timelines? This certificate program will show you how to solve those problems. You’ll learn about:
- Making great video on a shoestring budget.
- Selecting the right video equipment and setting up a small studio.
- Video storytelling. It’s all about the story. Why taking video isn’t making video.
- Scripting and audio development.
- Shooting and editing for the small and large screen.
- Planning a video (pre-production).
- Shooting great video (production).
- Techniques that will make your video a cut above the rest (post-production, forgive the pun).
- Integrating your videos into compelling, engaging eLearning courses.
PROJECT: You will shoot and edit an eLearning video as part of this course. We’ll end the course with a video showcase where a winner will be celebrated! And the possibility of adult beverages for the award winner(s).
BYOD: You’ll need your laptop, pre-loaded with Adobe Creative Cloud programs including Premiere Pro, After Effects, Photoshop and Audition. These are the best programs for workflow, but you can use any video and audio editing programs you wish. Please have them pre-loaded. You may have to talk to your IT department. Also, while it’s perfectly fine if you use your phone as your video camera, a DSLR, point-and-shoot camera or dedicated video camera is preferred.
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Haskin, Steve
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7A |
P09 |
Master Trainer Certificate: Take Your Training to the Top
This program—both strategic and tactical—will give you the tools and the roadmap you need to ensure you are doing the right training, at the right time, with the right people, in the right way. This is a "learn and apply" session. Bring a program you want to revamp and you'll take what you learn in class and apply it immediately. You'll:
- Learn 117 ways to design and deliver training and performance improvement faster, better, and easier.
- Examine five performance solutions other than training—and how to have a conversation that focuses on the results to be achieved.
- Explore five capabilities all organizations leverage to achieve results—discover just which ones your organization focuses on. You'll also explore the 15 competencies that can help drive these capabilities.
- Explore more than 163 practical strategies for ensuring the transfer of training—and pick specific strategies to apply to your own training programs.
- Learn about the 3 people who most impact transfer of training.
- Apply C.O.R.E. strategies to your training.
- Explore 5 ways to kill adult learner motivation and 11 ways to motivate adults.
- Learn 9 ways to effectively teach across generations and cultures.
BONUS: You'll receive a copy of Pike's Master Trainers Handbook, a 160-page Master Class Train-the-Trainer Workbook, a personal Training Transfer Action Plan, and your own copy of Bob's Performance Solutions cube.
PROJECT: Bring a training program and in these two days you'll retool it, and take it to the next level. |
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Pike, Bob
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8 |
P11 |
The Science of Learning Certificate: Develop Learning that Sticks
This energetic program is for anyone who is interested in using the power of psychology and science to reshape their training organization. With Art Kohn, a renowned neuropsychologist, you’ll explore 10 core principles that will help you understand how the brain controls learning and behavior change. On day one, his demonstrations will provide an exciting understanding of how the mind learns and retains new information. These tips will enable you to create more effective training both live and online. On day two, we will take a deeper look at these principles and discover how to leverage neurological principles to create an effective after-training program that will ensure that your training sticks and produces sustainable behavior change. Do you want your training organization committed to learning and self-improvement? It will be once you understand these brain-secrets of learning and behavior change. You will learn to:
- Create social learning communities that are based on psychological principles of observational learning.
- Use authoring tools more effectively by understanding how the brain encodes metaphor and emotion.
- Develop an incentive system that reinforces desired behaviors and that is based on established principles of conditioning.
- Improve employees' attention within mobile learning by understanding the secrets to people’s levels of consciousness.
- Design effective “follow-up training” by tapping into mnemonic principles of memory.
- Deliver visual messages and auditory messages based on an understanding of the brain’s dual-coding mechanisms.
BYOD: Laptop recommended.
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Kohn, Art
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9 |
P12 |
Mastering the Training Business Certificate: A Crash Course for Professionals Working Internally and Externally
Beyond designing effective courses and masterfully facilitating them, successful trainers can comfortably handle the business tasks that play a central role in this work. This program identifies these business tasks and develops the skills needed to handle them. You will:
- Explore the customer-service nature of training, whether the trainers work internally or externally.
- Learn about the different models available for training groups, how they affect your influence with stakeholders, and the effort needed to change from one to another.
- Choose a business model for your training group that ensures you have the resources and clout to pursue the projects needed by your sponsors.
- Learn how working with key stakeholders and realistic data about the environment in which you work, you can develop a strategic plan as to where you want to take your training group in the medium- and long-term.
- Learn to develop a persuasive business case for a major training project.
- Be able to describe the impact of particular business processes on outside perceptions of the effective operations of training groups.
- Learn to market the services of training groups internally and externally.
- Explore at least 3 work habits that build confidence with your work among management.
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Carliner, Saul
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1A |
P13 |
Performance Consultant Certificate: Replace Jump-to-Solution Requests with Solutions that Work
How frequently does it happen that a manager calls you with a request to deliver a training program or do some team building? This is the jump-to-solution approach that rarely results in improved performance that is sustained over time.The challenge is to influence the thinking of managers so they discuss the business and performance results they seek, not the solutions they want… and then partner with you to take actions to achieve those results. Performance Consulting is a strategic process that produces business results by maximizing performance of people and organizations. In this program you will acquire skills to put this process to work in your organization. Specifically you will learn to:
- Define and align four needs: business, performance, organizational and individual capability.
- Identify the true client with whom to partner on any initiative.
Deepen client partnerships using the Access, Credibility and Trust model.
- Analyze requests obtained from managers, determining both information that is known and that is unknown… but critical to obtain.
- Ask powerful questions so you reframe a manager’s solution request into a discussion of the results the manager wants to achieve.
- Use six criteria to determine if the opportunity you have developed from a client’s request is a tactical or strategic one.
You will leave this program with:
- A list of powerful questions to ask the next time a manager contacts you with a solution request.
- A mapping tool to assist you in organizing information about a situation, clarifying what is known and unknown.
- A template to guide you in planning and conducting reframing discussions with your clients.
The flowchart of the nine steps included in the Performance Consulting Process. |
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Robinson, Dana
Adams, Chris
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7B |
10:15 AM - 10:30 AM
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Coffee/Soda Break
Use every minute of your time at the conference—including refreshment and lunch breaks— wisely. Check in with others to learn what nuggets they are getting out of Training 2017. |
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6A Foyer |
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
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Lunch
Use every minute of your time at the conference—including refreshment and lunch breaks— wisely. Check in with others to learn what nuggets they are getting out of Training 2017. |
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6AB |
2:15 PM - 2:30 PM
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Coffee/Soda Break
Use every minute of your time at the conference—including refreshment and lunch breaks— wisely. Check in with others to learn what nuggets they are getting out of Training 2017. |
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6A Foyer |
4:15 PM - 5:30 PM
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GTD |
Conference Kick-Off: Getting Things Done at Training 2017 and Beyond!
Time Magazine called Getting Things Done “the self-help business book of its time.” Here’s your chance to put this process to work so you get the most out of your conference experience (and life!).
Attend this event, led by Nancy LoCascio, Executive Coach with the David Allen Company, and get techniques and principles for stress-free productivity that you can use at the conference—and that you can take back to your organization for increased productivity in your life and work. You’ll learn about the two key elements of self and organizational management: staying in control and appropriately engaged. Then together, you’ll walk through the essential GTD practice of creating desired outcomes. What would your personal wild success look like for Training 2017? Here’s your chance to make that explicit so that you are set up to get the most out of your time in San Diego!
In daily sunrise check-in sessions, you’ll meet up with Nancy and other participants to share progress updates.
All kick-off participants will receive a copy of David Allen’s bestselling Getting Things Done book, and an 8-page handout that covers the key learning points for your reference.
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LoCascio, Nancy
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11AB |
Monday, January 30
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7:00 AM - 5:30 PM
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Cyber Cafe & Conference Registration Desk Hours
Check your email or print handouts at our Cyber Cafe.
The Cyber Café is sponsored by:
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6A Foyer |
7:15 AM - 7:45 AM
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GTD |
Getting Things Done: Morning Check-In
Getting Things Done at Training 2017
Don’t miss your check-in meeting with your coach Nancy LoCascio and other participants to share progress updates on meeting your goals!
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LoCascio, Nancy
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6CF |
Yoga |
Morning Chair Yoga
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Davis, Ronda
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7:30 AM - 8:00 AM
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Coffee/Soda Break
Use every minute of your time at the conference—including refreshment and lunch breaks— wisely. Check in with others to learn what nuggets they are getting out of Training 2017. |
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6A Foyer |
7:30 AM - 5:30 PM
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BOOKSTORE |
Satellite Bookstore
Read Between the Lines! Stop by the official Training 2017 bookstore to pick up the latest training resources. The bookstore is brought to you by BreakPoint Books.
Choose from two bookstore locations:
SATELLITE BOOKSTORE: (in 6AB Foyer)
Monday 7:30 am – 5:30 pm
Tuesday 7:30 am – 5:00 pm
Wednesday 8:00 am – 12:15 pm
OR VISIT OUR
MAIN BOOKSTORE: (in Expo Booth #719 in Expo Hall A-B1)
Monday 11:00 am – 5:30 pm
Tuesday 11:00 am – 5:00 pm |
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6A Foyer |
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
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BREAKOUT SESSIONS
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Building a Performance-Focused Function
Every organization aspires to be focused on performance and recognized for that focus. Alas, too often the training team is seen as ‘order takers,’ there only to deliver a favorite class, fulfill compliance requirements or slash a two-day offering to one-day. That’s not performance. That won’t make a consistent difference. Come and hear about what performance organizations do and how they respond to typical requests, with examples from real live organizations you know about. How do you and your organization change? What is the CPT and what are the 10 International Standards? Where does the transition confront obstacles and barriers?
This session, part of the International Society for Performance Improvement (ISPI) track, is open to all attendees.
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Rossett, Allison
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9 |
102 |
Freeing Your Creativity Through Constraint
“Don’t limit yourself” is terrible advice, yet getting into a creative rhythm is not always easy. When the pressure is mounting, often we can find ourselves blocked in our effort to present a new and fresh idea for the project we’re working on. How can you stay in the flow and find the next great idea for your work? Learn how you can use constraints to free your creativity, rather than limit it. You will learn the importance of not saying “no” to ideas, but rather embrace them and try to use them as the new parameters for your creative work. And you’ll find ways to build off of ideas rather than shutting them down and collect various tips you can use to jumpstart your creative process. |
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Casella, Cory
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7A |
103 |
Flip Your Onboarding Training
Let’s face it, in our busy workplaces, there is less time available to commit to onboarding new employees or volunteers. At the same time, you need strategies to get them up to speed fast. Flipping your onboarding training may be the answer. Not only will we help you apply the 6 components of a flipped model to your program, we will share the tools and samples of what we used to develop skill maps, build content collaboratively, integrate online content strategically, and optimize face-to-face time.
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Fisher, Corrinne
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6E |
104 |
Evaluating Informal Learning
The Kirkpatrick approach that dominates training evaluation is practically and intellectually inconsistent with informal learning, as Kirkpatrick-based evaluations require externally identified objectives and tests, both of which informal learning lack. So what can Training and Development professionals do? This session offers suggestions. After exploring the unique role of evaluation in informal learning, you’ll get a framework for evaluating it, identify some specific evaluation techniques you can use, and consider issues when reporting the results to stakeholders.
This session, part of the Measurement track, is open to all attendees.
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Carliner, Saul
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10 |
105 |
Got a Minute? 60-Second Activities that Help Learners Review, Repeat, and Remember
No time for training activities because you have too much content to teach? Experience dozens of one-minute instructional strategies you can use with any topic, any age group, and any size audience. Whether you teach, train, or present content-rich courses or hands-on training, these activities will increase learners’ long-term retention of important information. Plus, they’re just downright fun! In this high-energy, hands-on program, you’ll discover a variety of short, quick, and exciting ways to involve learners, one-minute openings and closings that begin and end with learners engagement, and easy energizers that will keep learners alert while reviewing what they’ve learned. |
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Bowman, Sharon
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6CF |
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How Science Fiction Can Help Make Your eLearning Better!
Star Wars takes place a long, long time ago in a galaxy far, far away. Star Trek takes place a few centuries from now. Fun adventures, sure, but what do they have to do with eLearning? Other fun adventures include Galaxy Quest, Serenity, Ghostbusters and, yes, It's a Wonderful Life. While watching them, don't you think to yourself, "Hey, I could apply that idea to my eLearning?" Joe Ganci does! Epic, mind-blowing ideas like those in The Matrix, Inception, Minority Report, Blade Runner, and so many others. They propose alternate realities, parallel universes, transporter beams and time travel. They pose a lot of "what-if" questions and allow us to see the answers. What does science fiction have to do with the needs of your eLearning audience? After all, they have to learn a new business process, customer service approach, software application, or other "real-world" needs! Joe has loved creating eLearning for 34 years and he has loved science fiction even longer than that. Come learn how to create truly engaging eLearning by applying the best ideas of sci-fi to your eLearning designs and have fun while doing it. You will learn to:
- Find the best "what-if" ideas and determine if they can help you reach your learners.
- Engage learners with story lines that you can borrow from the best sci-fi.
- Apply concepts from science fiction to your eLearning designs.
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Ganci, Joe
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Make Training A Want To (Not A Have To)
If you are tired or bored with ineffective training formats, attend this session and discover a proven, disciplined approach to boost employee performance, leadership, and organizational culture from the training programs you deliver. Learn to reverse-engineer the ultimate training experience to create real measurable results in personal and team development that last longer than a month. You’ll walk away immediately knowing how to engage learners with the unique and highly-researched Learn-Say-Do-Reflect Model to increase engagement, retention, and fun.
This session, part of the Boot Camp track, is open to all attendees.
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Urbanski, Joe
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1B |
108 |
Serious Game Best Practices
Effective serious games are living, evolving things that cannot simply be ignored after development and “put on a shelf” to collect digital dust. What makes one a success while others fail? Learn how to ensure success with proper planning, metrics, implementation strategy, and post-deployment support. Explore best practices and the pain points you’ll have to deal with should you choose the route of serious games and gamified learning experiences. You will walk away with best practices, what not to do, and how to support serious games at your organization. |
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Hughes, Andrew
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1A |
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Workplace Stories: Step-by-Step Inspiration for Engagement
We all know that people learn more from a story than they do from “taking a course.” But how do we apply this to our learning design? The answer lies in the workplace stories that are all around us. Attend and learn inspirational new ways to use the element of story in meeting lofty business goals. Use a basic model for finding and building instructional stories, and see examples on how to apply these stories in workplace training programs. You’ll see examples of tool sets that can be used to carry story throughout your instructional design process.
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Stroud, Katie
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7B |
110 |
Recharge Your Learning Function with an Audit
How does your learning department stack up when it comes to operating at its full potential? If you feel yourself running on empty, not able to keep up with monitoring performance or not fulfilling the organization’s needs in general, then it’s time for an audit! Learn to audit and benchmark your training function in ten key areas. Whether your training function is strategic or reactive (and wants to be more strategic), you’ll learn to clarify and identify how your function is operating.
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Barbazette, Jean
Smith, Melissa
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111 |
Instructional Design—Fast
Never seem to have enough time to devote to training design? Explore a method of design that will help you quickly align content and activities to the behaviors necessary to reach your business goals. Learn the three distinct roles Walt Disney played to bring his ideas to life…and how you as an instructional designer play those same three roles. Whether you’re a seasoned pro or just had your first project dumped in your lap, you’ll learn how to design faster, better, and easier. |
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Pike Pluth, Becky
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6D |
112 |
Instructional Techniques for OJT
Delivering effective training in an on-the-job (OJT) environment requires a unique set of skills for trainers. They must identify what helps and hinders the learning process and adapt basic instructional strategies to ensure the learner can apply the knowledge and skills immediately to their jobs. Learn to apply the Systematic Learning Process to OJT, to identify strategies to handle difficult OJT situations, and to integrate the principles of adult learning into OJT.
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Nolan, Michael
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113 |
Show me the Money! Moving from Impact to ROI
“Show me the money!” is the mantra of the day for executives who invest in workplace learning and performance. In this session, you’ll learn to calculate ROI, identify the improvement in business measures that result from the program, annualize the improvement, convert the improvement measures to money, and compare the annualized monetary value to the program cost. This session describes the framework, model, and guiding principles that make up the ROI Methodology and will teach you the five steps to move from business impact to ROI.
This session, part of the Boot Camp track, is open to all attendees.
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Phillips, Patti
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5B |
114 |
Leading Cross-Cultural Virtual Teams
In this session, you’ll get practical tips and best practices to help you better lead diverse, virtual teams. Learn:
- To identify communication skills and techniques ideally suited for supporting customers/clients and other key stakeholders in a virtual environment.
- About tools to effectively plan and lead a virtual meeting and/or presentation.
- Ways to better build relationships in the virtual workplace environment.
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Croft, Susan
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5A |
115 |
The Influence of Leadership
Intergovernmental Training and Development Center
Too often we don't recognize or give weight to our role as leaders in the training environment. Your actions, behaviors, and words have a direct and immediate impact on those that you lead and train. This session is about you and your leadership influence as a trainer. Learn about influential leadership, how your thinking process affects your actions, and how you are seen by others in your role as a trainer and a leader. We will also address aspects of servant leadership. Attend and change the way you look at yourself and others!
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Gray, Michael
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Strategies for Interviewing SMEs and Stakeholders
If you write training, you build stories out of facts—and everything you write is a story whether you’re writing a scenario where Matt needs to use his new supervisory skills or you’re explaining how a specific keystroke combination will submit data —it’s all a story. And like all nonfiction writers, our work depends on getting the information we need from people. Learn how to do just that—how to use the same interview strategies that writers and journalists use to get information out of strangers. Asking the right questions is only part of it. It’s mostly about strategically building an intimate relationship in a matter of minutes. You’ll learn and practice strategies that quickly build rapport and establish trust so that SMEs will share information with you, despite their own feelings of vulnerability and discomfort.
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Nuriddin, Hadiya
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11B |
9:00 AM - 9:15 AM
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Coffee/Soda Break
Use every minute of your time at the conference—including refreshment and lunch breaks— wisely. Check in with others to learn what nuggets they are getting out of Training 2017. |
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6A Foyer |
9:15 AM - 11:15 AM
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KEYNOTE |
It's a Triple Feature—Three Inspiring Keynotes—Back-to-Back
In Monday's opening keynote, you'll hear from these three inspirational speakers in back-to-back presentations.
These keynoters bring a new perspective to learning and training. So prepare to open your mind. These keynoters’ unique experiences and time in the trenches help them see the world through a different lens and envision a bright future for learning, full of innovation, collaboration, and transformation.
Focusing on All Kinds of Minds
Temple Grandin, Professor, Author, The Way I See It and The Autistic Brain
By the age of 2, Temple Grandin displayed all the signs of autism. Countless hours of therapy and intensive teaching enabled her to speak. Mentoring by her high school science teacher and her aunt motivated her to study and pursue a career as a scientist. An expert on animal behavior, Grandin has designed humane handling systems for half the cattle-processing facilities in the U.S. An HBO movie about her life received seven Emmy awards, a Golden Globe, and a Peabody Award. Learn about Grandin’s ability to “think in pictures,” which helps her solve problems that neurotypical brains might miss. She’ll show us how the world needs all kinds of minds, including people on the autism spectrum (visual thinkers, pattern thinkers, and verbal thinkers) — an important point Learning & Development professionals need to keep in our minds.
Reimaging Education
Anant Agarwal, CEO, edX (online education destination founded by Harvard and MIT), and Professor, MIT
Anant Agarwal is one of the world’s leading voices in reimagining education on campus, online, and now in the workplace. He created and taught the first MOOC on edX, which has facilitated extensive research into how people learn online. The revolution in education continues as Agarwal describes the new world of ‘unbundled’ learning in the corporate space. He will examine how new education models allow for flexible, innovative online credentials for professionals and why they matter. Discover Agarwal’s vision for bridging the gap between academia and the business world to develop tomorrow’s talent.
Taking a Wider View of Leadership
Ken Blanchard, Cofounder, The Ken Blanchard Companies
International management guru Ken Blanchard believes the world is in desperate need of a new leadership model — and that model is Servant Leadership. He asks one question of leaders, “Are you here to serve or be served?” Your answer to this question will reflect a fundamental difference in the way you approach leadership. If you believe leadership is all about you, where you want to go, and what you want to attain, then your leadership, by default, will be more self-focused and self-centered. On the other hand, if your leadership revolves around meeting the needs of the organization and th |
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Grandin, Temple
Agarwal, Anant
Blanchard, Ken
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6AB |
11:00 AM - 5:30 PM
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EXPO |
TRAINING EXPO HOURS
Browse top training products and services from our helpful exhibitors and gather a wealth of information to help you and your organization make the right decisions and save time and money.
CURRENT LIST OF EXHIBITORS. |
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Expo Halls A-B1 |
TTK |
Training Technology Test Kitchen
The Training Technology Test Kitchen is designed as a makerspace approach for sharing innovative tools, new media and approaches to integrating technology into online and instructor-led training design, development and delivery. This open and collaborative environment provides opportunities for individual or guided hands-on exploration.
The Training Technology Test Kitchen includes stations where participants are guided by Master Chefs who are available to talk about design, discuss “recipes” (quick how-to guides), use apps, brainstorm strategies, explore new media (hardware and software), and provide 1:1, hands-on sharing with technologies.
Participants are encouraged to bring their own devices (laptop, tablet, smart phone) and visit the Training Technology Test Kitchen area to learn, explore and share knowledge within a lab environment. Approaches focus on designer, developer, facilitator and participant applications, and include multiple platform and device applications.
Come join us for our chef demonstrations throughout the conference on the Expo Floor. Hear from the experts, download the recipes and start cooking! |
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Banner, Phylise
Bradley, John
Carlton, Bobby
Dahlberg, Steve
Grey, Daniel
Harter, Mark
Moore, Ryan
Musgrove, Ann
Tomsic, Frank
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Expo Hall Booth #119 |
BOOKSTORE |
Main Bookstore
Read Between the Lines! Stop by the official Training 2017 bookstore to pick up the latest training resources. The bookstore is brought to you by BreakPoint Books.
Choose from two bookstore locations:
SATELLITE BOOKSTORE: (in 6AB Foyer)
Monday 7:30 am – 5:30 pm
Tuesday 7:30 am – 5:00 pm
Wednesday 8:00 am – 12:15 pm
OR VISIT OUR
MAIN BOOKSTORE: (Expo Booth #719 in Expo Hall A-B1)
Monday 11:00 am – 5:30 pm
Tuesday 11:00 am – 5:00 pm |
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Expo Hall Booth #719 |
11:30 AM - 2:00 PM
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EXPO |
Expo Lunch
Use every minute of your time at the conference—including refreshment and lunch breaks— wisely. Check in with others to learn what nuggets they are getting out of Training 2017. |
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Expo Halls A-B1 |
12:15 PM - 12:45 PM
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ES01 |
Second City Works: Listening To Your 'Audience'
To train effectively, we have to listen impeccably — to the needs of our organization, employees and leaders. At The Second City, when we’re trying to reach an audience, the first thing we do is start listening.
Expo Stage Sponsored By:  |
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Eninger, Andrew
Murray Peyton, Colleen
Loos, John
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Expo Stage |
12:30 PM - 1:00 PM
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TTK01 |
AppSmashing
AppSmashing (or app mashing) is an innovative technique that has users mixing and matching features of various web-based and mobile applications, thus extending the abilities of each app if used alone in isolation. Join us for an interactive, hands-on session that embraces the philosophy “never settle” – when an app is missing what you need, it’s time to smash it (translation: combine it) with another app to create the ultimate learning object. |
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Musgrove, Ann
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Expo Hall Booth #119 |
12:45 PM - 1:45 PM
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SPONSORED SESSIONS
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SS01 |
The Secret to Rebranding Your Classroom
How can your employees learn how to do their jobs correctly when your training is a snoozefest in the making? Learn why quick, bite-sized videos will keep learners hungry for more and how to keep your employees on their toes (instead of in their seats). You won’t want to miss these easy-to-execute tips on creating training content that will wake up your brightest leaders and transform your run-of-the-mill training program into one that makes learning memorable and meaningful. |
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Irish, Kathy
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SS02 |
It’s About the Results We Want, Not the Training Programs We Do
As the demands and pressures in our businesses continue to change we must understand how to transform our training departments and programs to drive THE breakthrough results our organizations REALLY need. You will learn and immediately apply the 5-step process it takes to do that for any C-level, project-based, department or companywide training while ensuring that you can then align that to your strategy, people and processes. Learning leaders will learn how to drive greater:
1. Clarity- Create the strategic blueprint that will align the core objectives of your organization, the critical needs your training is focused on, along with the right approach to ensure you optimize the results you need to deliver on.
2. Accountability- Design and implement training that provides the experience people need to fully buy in before, during and after the training
3. Execution- Integrate the framework for results-based action planning and follow-up support that will yield real improvement inside of 90 days following your training
Theme- Being more Strategic & Results Oriented- Driving sustainable and breakthrough results through training that is strategically focused and aligned to the business |
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Gottlieb, Jack
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6D |
SS03 |
Make Training Matter
Do all your folks have goals they share?
And make a contribution there?
The knowledge, skill and training too?
Those expectations they should do?
You know that training holds the key,
To being all that you can be.
But can you use some help today?
To channel it the perfect way.
Let's see just how you spend that dime,
And how we fix the bottom line.
Is your return a winner now?
Or could you better it somehow?
We'll peel back training to the core,
Examine ROI and more.
And when we're done you'll feel so good,
To lead the team you knew you could. |
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Diamond, Mike
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SS04 |
Lifting the Fog for Learners: Why Visual Explanations Work!
Visual storytelling is a crucial part of training, but its much more than just stock photography and fancy graphs. True visual explanations help to make ideas and processes clear—even when they’re invisible, abstract, or complex. We call these visual explanations “Foglifters” because information presented visually is easier to understand, and crucially, easier to remember. This session will show you how a variety of Fortune 500 companies are using visual explanations in their training programs and how you can too. |
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Boevers, Marisa
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7A |
SS05 |
Everyday Leadership: Tools to Transform Technical Managers into Agile Leaders
How do you build leadership in leaders who are solely focused on operational results, with little attention paid to talent development, managing change, engagement, and team dynamics? By arming you and your leaders with proven, on-the-go tools, you will enable leadership development to happen--despite packed calendars. Using the acclaimed LEAD NOW! Leadership Development Model, you will learn how to fix lopsided leadership so your leaders can focus on leading change and developing people, while still achieving business results. Peter Stewart, a leadership consultant and executive coach, will lead this highly interactive and engaging session that will leave you with simple, results-driven tools and a clear action plan to build your organization's leaders! |
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Stewart, Peter
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SS06 |
Want to Save Time and Reduce Stress During the Development Phase of ISD Projects?
Richard Michaels, A Microsoft Word MVP and Work Process Automation Expert, Great Circle Learning
There never is enough time to get our work done and we stress over it, but it doesn’t have to be that way. Often we are the cause of the problem… to our project and to ourselves. This session provides tips, techniques, demonstrations and even free software that can help. You’ll:
• Learn how to Improve Your Development Phase Work Process.
• Learn how to Save Time by Automating Repetitive Tasks.
• Get tips for How to Use Microsoft Word Like the Pros Do.
• Explore demos of Productivity Software You Should Know About.
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Michaels, Richard
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SS07 |
Create Helpful Videos Faster and Easier with Camtasia
Camtasia, a well known screen recording and video editing tool, recently released its newest version and has a few new tricks and features, as well as a few previous ones you probably haven’t taken advantage of yet. This session will explore the possibilities that Camtasia provides for training and trainers. Whether you’re integrating video into an existing course, going all-in on video, or want to create supplementary content to help your students better understand key concepts, come learn what you can accomplish with Camtasia. This session will go beyond the features! Discussion will include tips to help speed up the video creation process and provide ideas to help you take your videos to the next level.
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Pierce, Matt
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7B |
SS08 |
Manners Matter: Training New Hires in Etiquette and Netiquette for Professional Development
You played the Ice-Breaker games, gave your Power Point presentations, quizzed for content, and graduated your New Hires out into the company. What else can you offer to assure your employees are successful? Onboarding training rarely focuses on the importance of Etiquette and Netiquette. Manners and Courtesy matter: they can increase confidence, camaraderie, and productivity. Etiquette and Netiquette are important for more than just the New Hires: Sales and Marketing, HR Specialists, and Management also benefit from this training. With the current emphasis on gadgets and gizmos, the power of human interaction is often overlooked and underused. Join Donna and Timothy and learn how Etiquette and Netiquette Training creates a favorable first impression of your employees and your company.
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Dettman, Donna
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SS09 |
Pokémon Go: 7 Lessons for Corporate Learning
After 20 years of game-based learning and gamification experience, Ibrahim Jabary has been able to master the art of training videogames and simulations. During this session, Ibrahim, named eLearning! Champion by eLearning! Magazine, will reveal the key success factors of the phenomenon Pokémon Go and its application to training. You will learn:
• The key characteristics of engaging training.
• The secret combination of tools to create out of this world training programs.
• How to get e-learning to actually develop skills through experiential learning.
• How to get your employees to love training again.
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Jabary, Ibrahim
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11A |
SS10 |
The Leadership Bermuda Triangle; Where Work Goes to Die!
How do we help leaders identify self-defeating behaviors that lead to lost productivity and attrition? In this fast-paced, intriguing session, participants will learn the dynamics of paradoxical leadership attributes that can become self-defeating and “kill” good work. This thought-provoking session uses a toolkit to dissect a triad of typical paradoxical traits that derail leaders.
Participants will:
• Identify behavioral patterns that create the most common leadership derailing blind spots.
• Examine how the most common "out of balance" behaviors contribute to self-defeating leadership habits.
• Explore compensating strategies for adjusting leadership behaviors to avoid the common traps of performance management.
Participants will be given an opportunity to receive their own personal Harrison Assessment and a complimentary 1 hour coaching session.
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Klepinger, Lee
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6CF |
SS11 |
The 7 Principles of Reinforcement
Reinforcement is not Re-Training, not Remembering, or just sending messages. A successful reinforcement program is based upon a proven methodology to create lasting impact. Each principle is highlighted with live examples from clients and connects to the speakers Olympic Judo career. You will learn the three stages of behavior change, how to define Reinforcement Objectives, how to close the five Reinforcement Gaps, and how to balance friction and direction in reinforcement. You will receive a science-based, proven methodology on how to create impact and behavior change using reinforcement. The session is highly interactive and filled with practical tips.
Creating behavior change and impact is on everybody’s mind. Whether you are a CLO, trainer or instructional designer, making sure that you get results!
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Wurth, Anthonie
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5B |
SS12 |
The Must-Have Skill Your Workforce Needs to Succeed in 2017
Wells Fargo. Samsung. Theranos. These are just a few renowned companies we saw in 2016 that had some mishaps due to a lack of accountability. Don’t let your organization fall victim to the perils of unmanaged workplace accountability in 2017, and instead, prepare and equip your workforce with this must-have skill. In this session, we’ll explore the importance of personal, positive accountability and how leadership teams must now, more than ever, prioritize Accountability Training as the essential building block for success. Expert facilitator and former Chief People Officer of Chili’s restaurants, Tony Bridwell, will walk you through building a foundation of positive accountability and demonstrate how it develops a stronger workforce for years to come. |
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Bridwell, Tony
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5A |
SS13 |
7 Fun and Powerful DISC Learning Activities
Ready to learn how to use DISC to GET RESULTS? Then see for yourself how 7 DISC Activities engage and inspire others to learn and grow. In fact, your mind will begin to burst at all the possibilities ... How you could use them to help one of your struggling teams, or maybe in your next leadership development series, or help to empower a sales staff that needs some serious motivation. Yes, these proven DISC Activities await you putting them to work in your organization and bringing more communication SUCCESS! |
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Burn, Bonnie
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1B |
SS14 |
Microlearning for Transformation, Not Information Transfer
The modern employee has 1% of their week to focus on training. What can we do with that time – roughly 24 minutes a week? A lot. Armed with digestible and easily accessible microlearning experiences, we can create meaningful changes in behavior across our organizations. Along the way, we can help elevate the role of L&D from order takers to change makers. In this session, you’ll learn to:
- Overcome the three misconceptions that block most L&D initiatives from being successful.
- Create microlearning experiences that capture attention, motivate action, and make learning stick.
- Prove and report on behavior change, not meaningless learning metrics.
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Khurgin, Alex
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1A |
SS15 |
Training Magazine Network Presents: Top 7 Secrets for Pulling Learners to Your Content
With so many choices in how, when, and where learners consume content, how do we as training professionals encourage them to use, reference, and learn from our program-related resources? Join Jennifer Hofmann, a blended learning expert, as she shares her "Top 7 Secrets for Pulling Learners to Your Content." You'll discover how to:
- Design effective pull learning for specific learning environments.
- Leverage MicroLearning to support different moments of learning need.
- Understand the importance of social collaborative tools in the pull learning process.
- Learn how to use the advanced tools and resources in Training Magazine Network to augment your learning, career path, and your own professional development.
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Hofmann, Jennifer
VanAntwerp, Gary
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Expo |
Your Expo Option
Looking for an option other than the sessions listed during this time? Stop by the Expo to visit with exhibitors, see what the Master Chefs are cookin’ up in the Test Kitchen, or browse the Bookstore. |
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Expo Halls A-B1 |
1:00 PM - 1:30 PM
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Special Top 125 Best Practice Awards
Congratulate the winners of the special 2017 Training Top 125 “Best Practice and Outstanding Initiative” Awards as they receive their crystal trophies on the Expo Stage.
Please note this is a separate event from the Top 125 Gala event on Monday evening (by invitation only).
Expo Stage Sponsored By:  |
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Freifeld, Lorri
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Expo Stage |
1:30 PM - 3:30 PM
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Future Forum: Reworking Learning at Work
We witness the changing workplace before our eyes every day. In the training world, these changes impact how we provide training experiences, how people learn, which technologies to deploy and which to dump, how to know if these approaches are having the desired impact, and what new roles and skills are required to adapt to these changes. In this interactive Forum, invited provocateurs will provide some context about these shifts in the way we work and the disruptions to the way we learn. Then, our facilitator from the Institute for the Future will involve you and the provocateurs in imagining ways of engaging this emerging future now. Topics include:
• Reworking learning at work.
• Workforce disruptions and key drivers.
• Next generation of work and workers.
• Emerging technologies (wearables, VR/AR, MOOCs, mobile, simulations) for today and tomorrow.
• New approaches to measuring and evaluating the impact of training. |
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Fidler, Devin
Agarwal, Anant
Castonguay, Jean
Doran-Houlihan, Maureen
Herrmann-Nehdi, Ann
Rowland, Neal
Tedrick, Lou
Willyerd, Karie
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2:30 PM - 3:00 PM
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Kicking it Up a Notch with Digital Storytelling Tools
With so many options for content development tools for online, blended and flipped learning, how do you choose? This demo will showcase digital storytelling apps which make content development fun and engaging for both you and your learners. Tools include easy to use audio and video applications that enable you to share your expertise and context with your learners, and provide a means through which you can assess learning. |
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Banner, Phylise
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Expo Hall Booth #119 |
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
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BREAKOUT SESSIONS
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Performance Improvement for the Training Professional: Tips, Tools and Techniques
Join Kenneth for an introduction to Performance Improvement Methodology (RSVP); including where we work, what we do, and how we think. You will:
- Explore the Performance Improvement Landscape and the Anatomy of Performance.
- Review the importance of defining the work, worker, and the working environment.
- Evaluate the alignment of Key Performance Objectives (KPO’s) for employees, departments, and the company.
This session will expand your toolkit to include training and performance improvement techniques to address challenges surrounding OD, Change Management, and Performance Management issues you face while serving customers.
This session, part of the International Society for Performance Improvement (ISPI) track, is open to all attendees.
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Roberts, Kenneth
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7B |
202 |
Getting Started in Designing with xAPI
↵The eXperience API (xAPI) opens new possibilities in creating amazing experiences from tracking data, to designing adaptive learning, to reporting. You’ll learn what the xAPI is, how it works, about analyzing and reporting and about free online tools. We’ll explore several examples and discuss what you need to get started.
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Floro, Nick
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1B |
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Map It! Using the 4Cs to Design and Deliver Great Training
Discover a quick and remarkably easy way to design and deliver effective training that is based on brain science instead of traditional instructional design (ID) methods: “The 4Cs Map,” a four-step instructional design model from Accelerated Learning. Practice using this ID model with your own training topics, and receive a handout of great ideas and resources to polish your ID skills. |
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Bowman, Sharon
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6CF |
204 |
Better than Bullet Points: Creating Engaging eLearning with PowerPoint
Effective, engaging eLearning programs can be created with nothing more than PowerPoint and some creativity. In this fast, fun session you’ll look at ways of eliminating bullet-based content and replacing it with a meaningful treatment, making better use of art and animations, and incorporating solid instructional design principles to support development of good online training. Learn to:
- Describe the 3-step process for creating engaging eLearning with PowerPoint.
- Work through a sample scenario to choose an appropriate online treatment.
- Identify strategies for employing meaningful graphics, interactions, and animations.
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Bozarth, Jane
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The Coolest Adobe Captivate Tips on the Planet
Too many Adobe Captivate features are hidden and not well known. Joe will show you some of the Captivate features you need to make the most of this powerful tool, including how combining the use of variables, Advanced Actions, and effects will result in a useful example that you couldn’t create otherwise. Learn to:
- Maintain your lessons now and in the future.
- Extend Captivate’s abilities.
- Take advantage of little-known features.
- Run rings around your Captivate friends!
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Ganci, Joe
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11B |
206 |
The Learning Experience Architect—The Hub of Modern Blended Learning
Today’s training professional is designer, developer, facilitator, and more. Ultimately, it is our job to deliver the right content, to the right audience, at the right time—as Learning Experience Architects. In this session, you’ll discuss the needs of the modern Learning Experience Architect, and gain an introduction to a set of resources that you can incorporate into your own Personal Learning Network. You’ll discuss a range of concerns for this role including: the Business of Learning, Managing Mindsets, Upskilling, Making the Right Design Choices, Connections and Collaboration, Keeping Ahead of the Trends, and more. Join us!
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Hofmann, Jennifer
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5A |
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Applying the Power of Positive Psychology
Based on the principles in Shawn Achor’s The Happiness Advantage and The Orange Frog (each participant will receive a complimentary copy), you will learn how the latest research in positive psychology can be applied to your benefit, and to the benefit of your colleagues. You will explore the seven principles of positive psychology that fuel success and performance in the workplace and create your own personal plan for incorporating happiness into your life and organization.
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Hughes, Devin
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Training the Google Way: Using Brain Science to Improve Learning Design
Join Art in an exploration of how the brain controls learning and memory and learn how Google is applying this knowledge to create engaging eLearning. Learn to:
- Train the way Google trains.
- Understand how the brain uses metaphor and emotion in the encoding process.
- Improve attention span by understanding the secrets to levels of consciousness.
- Design effective “follow-up training” by tapping into mnemonic principles of memory.
Improve long-term retention by understanding the connectionist model of memory. |
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Kohn, Art
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6D |
209 |
An Open and Shut Immersive Learning Strategy
Has the fall of Flash limited your ability to create immersive and fun learning experiences? Learn how Henkel's OSI brand of window sealant and foam designed an award-winning virtual window installation simulation without Flash—a mobile learning experience that trains the learner to install a window in under 10 minutes. You’ll have the opportunity to compete against one another to install a virtual window. Following the competition, we’ll detail the process and evaluate the myriad of game engines. Finally, we will discuss how effective immersive learning can be created using game engines like Construct 2.
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Keckan, Dan
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7A |
210 |
Chain of Evidence: Prove Learning Solutions Contribute to Business Results
Learning professionals want to show that implemented learning solutions are contributing to the business and its bottom line, perhaps even generating a positive ROI. How frustrating when measurement data is obtained and reported about the business results following a learning solution only to have leaders challenge the conclusion that the learning solution was a causal factor. In this session, you will be introduced to the Need Hierarchy, a model used to provide evidence that learning, and other solutions are contributing to business impact. The Need Hierarchy comprises four needs, each of which must be identified and addressed on the front end of any learning solution. Learn to discriminate between and among the four needs in the Need Hierarchy and use it to present a chain of evidence for a learning solution you are implementing. And avoid the three most common pitfalls to presenting a chain of evidence that is accepted by management.
This session, part of the Measurement track, is open to all attendees.
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Robinson, Dana
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11A |
211 |
Maximizing Performance as a Department of One
Ever feel like a rubber band that’s ready to pop? Then YOU must be a department of one! The good news is that you CAN do it. We’ll share with you some strategies and tips to help move you from feeling “over done” to “can be done!” Learn to:
- Examine the various roles and determine priorities when managing solo.
- Develop a Mission/Vision for your training function.
- Build your partnerships throughout the organization to increase your bench strength.
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Barbazette, Jean
Chilcote, Maria
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3 |
212 |
Gamifying Training to Produce Effective and Engaging Learning
Gamification is the application of game thinking and game elements to achieve organizational and personal goals. When applied to corporate employees, gamification can increase their productivity on a variety of job-related tasks. Learn to:
- Explain the logical connection between gamification and training.
- Identify and use standard templates for gamifying for different types of adult learning outcomes.
- Change the roles of trainers and learners to benefit from game design principles.
- Apply an agile approach for creating a gamified curriculum.
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Thiagarajan, Sivasailam
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5B |
213 |
The Accidental Instructional Designer: Designing Better eLearning
Chances are, you didn’t dream of becoming a designer of eLearning when you grew up, did you? Most instructional designers in the eLearning business got here by accident. So now that you’re here and doing this work, how can you become a more intentional practitioner? You’ll take a look at four key areas to focus on in order to become a well-rounded eLearning designer, talk about ways that you can take your practice to the next level, and share some quick tips for better eLearning design.
This session, part of the Boot Camp track, is open to all attendees.
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Bean, Cammy
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10 |
214 |
Coaching Informal Learning
The 70:20:10 model of learning and development states that 70% of learning comes from on-the-job experiences; 20% comes from getting feedback, observing others and developmental relationships; while only 10% comes from formal learning events. Giving managers, supervisors and peers a coaching framework that continuously nurtures individual development will help your organization meet the 20% need. This highly interactive session will define the coaching skills and strategies you need to improve individual performance and achieve better organizational results.
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Nolan, Michael
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8 |
215 |
Using Interactive and Experiential Exercises That Work
It doesn’t matter what topic you’re teaching: if your learners’ needs for safety, society and esteem are unmet, you’re getting half (or less) of the results you could be. To transform behavior we must first transform hearts. You’ll explore 12 interactive training exercises to use as ice breakers, community builders, and skill enhancers. Instructional handout included!
This session, part of the Boot Camp track, is open to all attendees.
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Poley, Michelle
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9 |
216 |
Top 10 Tips when Designing for Mobile
Designing either a web application being viewed on a mobile device or designing a mobile application is significantly different that designing for a desktop. Learn Top 10 Tips for mobile and significantly improve the User Experience (UX). Learn to:
- Define thumb swipe.
- Outline the importance of navigation being placed in the best location.
- Rethink screen design.
- Defend appropriate transitions and animations.
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Cowcill, Phil
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1A |
Expo |
Your Expo Option
Looking for an option other than the sessions listed during this time? Stop by the Expo to visit with exhibitors, see what the Master Chefs are cookin’ up in the Test Kitchen, or browse the Bookstore. |
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Expo Halls A-B1 |
4:00 PM - 4:30 PM
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TTK04 |
Employee Development on the Go with Pokémon Go
Join us to explore how Pokemon Go and other augmented reality apps can help managers with employee development. Bring your devices and we'll have a go with Pokemon Go! |
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Carlton, Bobby
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Expo Hall Booth #119 |
ES03 |
Second City Works: Co-Creating Your Learning
Based on the uncovered needs of your audience, how can we get them “in on the act?” Second City offers ideas and methods to include your audience and “bring a brick, not a cathedral.”
Expo Stage Sponsored By:  |
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Eninger, Andrew
Murray Peyton, Colleen
Loos, John
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Expo Stage |
4:30 PM - 5:30 PM
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EXPO |
Training Magazine Network's Expo Reception
Sponsored by: 
Enjoy some refreshments, explore the Expo Hall and stop by Training magazine booth #419 to learn more about the unique professional development tools and learning opportunities in Training Magazine Network (TMN), the Social Learning Community hosted by Training magazine. Basic TMN membership is free and includes Webinars, Recorded Webinars, White Papers, Annual Salary Survey, Training magazine Articles and Blogs, Path2X, P2X Evidence Based Certification, HRD Hall of Fame White Papers, Leaderships Studies, Research Reports and 100 eLearning Art images.
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Expo Halls A-B1 |
4:45 PM - 5:15 PM
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ES04 |
Second City Works: Allow Discovery, Not Invention
Is your content allowing participants to experience and discover “a-ha” moments? Second City believes true retention comes from discovery and the ability to make connections — join us to experience our 60 year-plus methods and how they can apply to your organization’s training.
Expo Stage Sponsored By:  |
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Eninger, Andrew
Murray Peyton, Colleen
Loos, John
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Expo Stage |
5:15 PM - 8:00 PM
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DINE |
Dine Around MIxer Event
Expand your connections with dedicated dining options at San Diego restaurants that meet your budget. Facilitated by industry veterans, you’ll choose from various dining locations and experts for a fun dinner get together. Take a chance — maybe you’ll meet that one key connection at the Dine Around Mixer!
All current groups listed are full! Please stop by the Expo Hall Stage at 5:15 pm to connect with groups that are in the process of being added.
5:15 pm – Groups meet at Expo Stage
5:30 pm – Groups leave for restaurants
5:45 pm – Dinner with Facilitator at each Group’s restaurant
This is a pay-on-your-own event.Pre-registration required.
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Expo Stage |
Tuesday, January 31
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7:15 AM - 7:45 AM
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GTD |
Getting Things Done: Morning Check-In
Getting Things Done at Training 2017
Don’t miss your check-in meeting with your coach Nancy LoCascio and other participants to share progress updates on meeting your goals!
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LoCascio, Nancy
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6CF |
7:30 AM - 8:00 AM
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Coffee/Soda Break
Use every minute of your time at the conference—including refreshment and lunch breaks— wisely. Check in with others to learn what nuggets they are getting out of Training 2017. |
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6A Foyer |
7:30 AM - 5:00 PM
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Cyber Cafe & Conference Registration Desk Hours
Check your email or print handouts at our Cyber Cafe.
The Cyber Café is sponsored by:
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6A Foyer |
BOOKSTORE |
Satellite Bookstore
Read Between the Lines! Stop by the official Training 2017 bookstore to pick up the latest training resources. The bookstore is brought to you by BreakPoint Books.
Choose from two bookstore locations:
SATELLITE BOOKSTORE: (in 6AB Foyer)
Monday 7:30 am – 5:30 pm
Tuesday 7:30 am – 5:00 pm
Wednesday 8:00 am – 12:15 pm
OR VISIT OUR
MAIN BOOKSTORE: (in Expo Booth #719 in Expo Hall A-B1)
Monday 11:00 am – 5:30 pm
Tuesday 11:00 am – 5:00 pm |
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6A Foyer |
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
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BREAKOUT SESSIONS
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301 |
Transform Your Future: Building Tactical and Strategic Business Bridges
Training is still on trial and all too often, the verdict from the business is coming back, “guilty of training costs exceeding business value.” Join Jim and learn actions you can take to not only ward off budget cuts and pink slips, but to drive your career and influence forward. Jim will inspire and encourage a journey down a path that will likely earn you the distinction of “strategic business partner.” You will:
- Explain why it is critical that L&D reinvents itself.
- Enhance your working relationships with colleagues and business partners.
Begin a journey whereby you will influence on-the-job behavior and subsequent business results. |
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Kirkpatrick, Jim
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9 |
302 |
Instructional Designs that Drive Results
Explore an innovative instructional design model that connects people, content and design to drive engagement, energize learners and keep their voice front and center. You’ll learn techniques for developing instructional designs that create a learner-centered mindset—designs that focus not on figuring out how smart learners are, but how they are smart.
This session, part of the Boot Camp track, is open to all attendees.
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Halsey, Victoria
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8 |
303 |
Simple Steps to Create Stunning eLearning Interactions with Captivate
The best way to beat the boredom in eLearning courses is to make them engaging and interactive. But adding learner interactivity in the courses can be time-consuming, and to some extent, challenging as well. These interactions also need to be relevant to the learning goals as well as help make the learning experience interesting. Learn simple ways to add interactivity in your eLearning courses using interactive objects, multi-state objects, drag and drops, effects, and actions in Adobe Captivate. You will also learn about the best practices to quickly convert drab and boring content to vibrant interactive eLearning.
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Jaisingh, Pooja
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2 |
304 |
Did You See That Zombie? Learning Games That Measure Performance
Discover the steps taken to conceptualize, develop, and deliver an immersive 3-D game that both engages the learners and encourages them to practice the sales process over and over. Examine the required trade-offs, discover obstacles to implementation, and learn how the combination of fantasy and branching story techniques helped make the game drive performance skills. You’ll examine how an underlying sales model is used to evaluate the effectiveness of the learner’s game play and provide constructive feedback to improve their performance in the field; building sales capability and closing skill gaps along the way.
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DeNure, Deb
Hull, Deborah
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11B |
305 |
Design for All: Creating Accessible Learning Experiences
Accessibility is about more than compliance. It's about making sure everyone has equal access to what you've designed. In the real world, this can seem like a daunting task. We're here to help you learn how to design for everyone. Learn from real-world situations and stories about accessibility and how we've used best practices to design universal or inclusive solutions. You'll learn how to start the conversation with stakeholders, create accessibility standards, and teach others about accessible solutions.
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Dusablon, Brian
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1A |
306 |
Secrets of Successful Simulations
Simulations increase learner involvement and engagement, both good things in any learning environment. But it is difficult to find anything beyond superficial descriptions of what simulations are and how they might be implemented. It is as if all simulations are created equal. We’ll take what we know about human learning and cognition and reveal the specific instructional benefits of simulations. Then, based on that understanding, we’ll outline five specific design requirements to ensure that educational simulations are not only engaging but are also effective in creating lasting performance change.
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Edwards, Ethan
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3 |
307 |
Engaging Managers to Coach New Learning
Managers matter; they play a critical role in coaching new skills, supporting learning, and providing a culture that values continuous improvement. But how do you engage managers to coach and support learning? Research shows that manager coaching is at an all-time low, resulting in as much as 85% of new skills never being used to drive performance. Learn about the three primary barriers to manager engagement in coaching. And learn to:
- Apply techniques to address the three major barriers to manager coaching of new skills.
- Analyze your current efforts to engage managers through a Manager Coaching Audit.
- Develop a plan for successfully implementing manager coaching.
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Leimbach, Michael
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6CF |
308 |
Apps, Augmented Reality, and Gamification: New Solutions to Old Performance Problems
Step into the world of new training tech as we explore apps, augmented reality and gamification and how they can be used to improve employee performance. You will:
- Identify the main features of apps that most motivate employees.
- List at least three ways augmented reality can be used to improve employee performance.
- Set relevant and achievable overarching objectives and Key Performance Indicators when using new technologies.
- Identify tracking and reporting methods for each technology.
This session, part of the Boot Camp track, is open to all attendees.
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Kunkel, Vicki
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1B |
309 |
Agile Project Management for eLearning
On time. In budget. What they need (even if that changes!). These are moving targets and yet, you're expected to deliver all three. The software development industry is embracing agile to address these issues and there is much we can learn from them. Agile provides a framework for adapting to change as it happens and working with the client to deliver content most needed by learners. Learn about the Agile project management methods adapted specifically for the instructional design & development projects—Lot Like Agile Methods Approach (LLAMA)—and how you can use them on the job. You'll learn about the tools and supplies you need and how to choose a project to pilot. You'll also see how Agile supports the estimating, planning, and managing tasks within an eLearning design and development project. |
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Hass, Alison
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10 |
310 |
The Great Free eTool Giveaway
Tracy will share and showcase some of the best tools from an ever expanding curated list of over 400 free, online tools. With over 25 categories of tools that will assist designers and developers in creating projects faster, easier, and dynamically there is something for everyone. Participants will leave with a list of free tools as well as some ideas for how to incorporate them into your design and development processes immediately.
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Parish, Tracy
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4 |
311 |
Measuring the Return on Investment for Soft Skills Programs
For years, the effects of soft skills development have been a mystery for some executives. The hard skills of IT, maintenance, technical, and product training use straightforward tasks and procedures to drive business impact. But the connection of soft skills to business value seems vague even though they represent huge expenditures for an organization. Therefore, there is a need to show the return on investment and business value of those soft skills applications. In this session, you will learn techniques to measure and provide qualitative, quantitative, non-financial, and financial outcomes of your soft skills programs.
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Phillips, Jack
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6E |
312 |
Building Interactive eBooks for Mobile Learning
Does your organization still use paper-based guides, manuals, and job aids, but can’t keep up with the updates? Or have you gone paperless, but are neglecting to use the full potential of virtual? Learn to create your own mobile project—an interactive eBook. Discover how to format content for multiple devices, the types of media that can be included, and various free and paid tools that can be used in the process. Learn a basic workflow to develop a project with a few simple media types to an EPUB format, and make that file available to download directly to mobile devices. Bring a laptop with Google Sigil downloaded (https://github.com/Sigil-Ebook/Sigil/releases/tag/0.9.6), and a mobile device (tablet, smartphone, laptop) with an eReader application installed (Apple iBooks, Kobo, Nook).process.
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Gilbert, Sarah
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5A |
313 |
Blowing Your Millennial Mindset: Research Challenges Conventional Generational Wisdom
Recent research suggests far greater similarities than differences when it comes to what's important to (and the underlying beliefs held by) all generations at work. As a result, it's time to let go of limiting millennial stereotypes and offer leaders and learning professionals alike a more comprehensive snapshot of workplace priorities, viewpoints, and strategies for engaging and developing everyone regardless of their age. Learn to:
- Clarify and challenge personal stereotypes about generations at work.
- Describe recent research into workplace priorities and beliefs across generations.
- Explain high-impact areas of commonality shared across generations.
Leverage these similarities to develop leadership & learning practices to meet the needs of all employees. |
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Winkle Giulioni, Julie
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11A |
314 |
How Training Top 125 Winners Implement Level 3 and 4 Evaluation
What gets measured gets achieved. Today, it’s not just about learner satisfaction with a training program or test scores. It’s all about behavior change and business impact. Here’s your chance to learn how Training magazine Top 125 winners have implemented Kirkpatrick Level 3 and 4 evaluation. Learn how:
- Ricoh Portfolio training's virtual delivery model produces improved level 3 and 4 results. Explore their journey to get those results including—lessons learned, getting a return on training investment and requiring more sales manager involvement in sales rep training!
- Western Union extended its use of their Talent Development Reporting principles beyond learning programs, into areas of manager effectiveness and productivity. In addition, learn how they use learning as a core change management tool and demonstrate measurable results.
- Buckman International ensures fundamental sales processes are implemented worldwide; and how through a system of account audits, sales manager steering team meetings, and analysis of sales performance, they create a tight feedback loop between the realities in the field and their corporate strategy.
- Nationwide is measuring learning results linked to corporate strategic goals, about their groundwork for building meaningful Level 3 and Level 4 metrics, and their Learning Metrics Guiding Tenets.
This session, part of the Measurement track, is open to all attendees.
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Mahoney, Dawn
Waterson, David
Narus, Michael
Craver, Joshua
Dowdy, Michael
August, Diane
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5B |
315 |
Twice as Much in Half the Time
Twelve seconds. When you train or speak, that’s how long you have before the audience decides whether or not to tune you out. Learn how to SCORE by integrating super closers, openers, revisitors, and energizers into your training. Becky will model and share 37 alternatives to lecture that help people learn twice as much in half the time.
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Pike Pluth, Becky
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6D |
TH01 |
Learning Leaders Town Hall #1: Content Curation — A Deeper Dive
Last year’s Town Hall started the conversation on content curation, but only managed to scratch the surface. This is your chance to drill down further as both organizations and learners are faced with oceans of available content. Topics for exploration include:
• Curation governance
• Browse vs. search
• Liberating the learner
• Utilizing user-generated content |
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Freifeld, Lorri
Haynes, Candace
Tedrick, Lou
Reavis, Michael
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7A |
9:00 AM - 9:15 AM
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Coffee/Soda Break
Use every minute of your time at the conference—including refreshment and lunch breaks— wisely. Check in with others to learn what nuggets they are getting out of Training 2017. |
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6A Foyer |
9:15 AM - 10:45 AM
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KEYNOTE |
It's a Double Feature—Two Inspiring Keynotes—Back-to-Back!
In Tuesday morning's keynote, you'll hear from these two inspirational speakers in back-to-back presentations.
These keynoters bring a new perspective to learning and training. So prepare to open your mind. These keynoters’ unique experiences and time in the trenches help them see the world through a different lens and envision a bright future for learning, full of innovation, collaboration, and transformation.
Envisioning the Possibilities
Isaac Lidsky Author, Eyes Wide Open: Overcoming Obstacles and Recognizing Opportunities
in a World that Can’t See Clearly At age 36, Isaac Lidsky has already experienced more than people twice his age. He was a child television star in both commercials and series (we’ll leave it to him to reveal which ones). He graduated with degrees in math and computer science from Harvard (at 19!) and then added a law degree magna cum laude from the same university. He clerked for U.S. Supreme Court Justices Sandra Day O’Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg and argued a dozen cases in federal court on behalf of the U.S. Justice Department, not losing any. He’ll reveal a secret during his keynote — something that has changed his perspective and his perception of reality. “At the end of the day, we’re blessed to be in full control over the reality we choose for ourselves and the way we want to live it,” Lidsky says. “It’s all about accountability — if you’re prepared to accept that responsibility.”
Observing from the Inside Out
Piper Kerman Author, Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women’s Prison
Piper Kerman’s memoir, Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women’s Prison, chronicles the 13 months she spent in a Federal Correctional Institution. That memoir was adapted into an award-winning Netflix series of the same name. Since her release, Kerman has worked to promote the cause of prison and criminal justice reform, including speaking at the White House on reentry and employment to help honor Champions of Change in the field. What has stuck with her the most from her experience, Kerman says, is the power of women’s communities, “the incredible ability of women to step up for each other, and to be resilient and to share their resiliency with other people.” Kerman emphasizes that same need for resiliency in the workplace, stressing the importance of learning from one’s mistakes and the power of communities. |
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Lidsky, Isaac
Kerman, Piper
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6AB |
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
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BREAKOUT SESSIONS
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401 |
Getting the C-Suite’s Attention
Take the next steps to get the attention of executives and become passionate about your ability to influence and lead. Get a framework that will help you easily shift from being a learning professional to transitioning to a real human performance professional. Learn about the factors that influence human performance, how to conduct needs assessments slightly differently, how to embed training solutions into the corporate environment, and what to offer to ensure what was learned in courses transfers to the job and ultimately improves performance.
This session, part of the International Society for Performance Improvement (ISPI) track, is open to all attendees.
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Wittkuhn, Klaus
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4 |
402 |
How to Produce Learning Transfer and Sustainable Corporate Change
As trainers, our success is measured by whether we can get people to transfer learning and behave differently. You’ll examine scientific research demonstrating how to produce sustainable learning transfer and behavior change and specific technologies and incentive programs that are tailored to “readiness for change.” You’ll also review myths that often interfere with effective behavior change. And, you’ll get strategies that will help you monitor changes, including how the judicious use of social media can define new standards of action.
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Kohn, Art
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6E |
403 |
How to Engage Modern Learners: When to “Push” and When to “Pull”
The modern workplace requires you to develop strategies that engage your learners, keeping your audience and the anticipated learning environment in mind. The design of your learning will be influenced by where and when learning is anticipated to occur, and success will be dependent on the technology selection, implementation strategy, and design approach. While formal “'push” training is often best for when people are learning something new, and for when things change, a strong argument can be made that “pull” learning lends itself to moments of need. In this session, we’ll explore best practices from experts, including the "5 Moments of Learning Need," "Principles of Modern Workplace Learning," and comparing the "Push" training culture to the "Pull Learning Culture."
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Hofmann, Jennifer
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2 |
404 |
Adaptive Learning: Unleashing the Holy Grail of Deep Learning Measurement
Adaptive learning is a methodology that intelligently adapts the learning experience to each individual learner, based on the learner's actions, decisions, abilities, and even other external factors. The result is more engaging, effective, and efficient training and reduced cost through a decrease in time for training for the organization. More important, the dynamic branching nature highlights the critical differences between learners, achieving deep data and enabling truly informed business decision making. In this session, you will discover true adaptive learning and how to leverage this methodology to optimize your training engagement, effectiveness, and deep learning measurement within your organization.
This session, part of the Measurement track, is open to all attendees.
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Bull, Glenn
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11A |
405 |
Training Culture Instead of Surveying It
An organization’s culture is nothing more than a set of behaviors—precedents that have worked in the past and get applied to the present. And since behaviors can be influenced and improved by training, who better to tackle the complex issue of organizational culture than you? Too often the first step taken is an all-hands survey. Let’s take a clear, empirical look at what it is about culture than can be trained—and what high performing culture actually looks like when it’s working. You’ll learn about modern neuroscience concepts in support of the behaviors we need, and how we can achieve them. Join us for a look at the corporate culture—and there won’t be a survey in sight. |
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Muzio, Ed
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8 |
406 |
Becoming a Master Trainer: Tips, Tactics, and Techniques for Getting Results from Your Training!
A master trainer empowers, inspires, and prepares people by delivering the right training to the right people, the right way, and at the right time---with excellence. Explore the knowledge and skills needed to become a master trainer including: why every master trainer is really a performance consultant; why training is a master trainer's sixth, not first, answer; getting to the C.O.R.E of training-closers, openers, revisiters, and energizers---and about the 90-20-8 Rule, and why it's so important. A specially designed handout will serve as an invaluable reference long after the session is over.
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Pike, Bob
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6CF |
407 |
Affordances in eLearning
You’re designing training and don’t know what mode to use or why. Live? Online? Synchronous? Asynchronous? Video? Slides? Motion graphics? Audio? Those are just some of the affordances we have in training. An affordance analysis can tell what training mode is most appropriate. The concept of affordances has been around for a long time. Many of us in training haven’t paid much attention to what they can really tell us about the training we create. In this session, you’ll learn how to do a simple affordance analysis, and then how to apply it to your training. At the end of this session, you’ll know why affordances are important in training and how to determine training modes.
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Haskin, Steve
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10 |
408 |
Hello Stay Interviews, Goodbye Talent Loss: A Manager’s Playbook
With more pressure and more change in their daily routine than ever before, today’s manager must somehow find time to also engage and retain the vital talent on their current teams. This session provides a solid, time sensitive suggestion. Instead of waiting until the exit interview to learn why individuals are leaving, create a pattern of stay interviews instead. Learn to:
- Distinguish the warning signs that suggest that an individual may be considering a change.
- Learn the research that suggests that pay is not the key factor in retention.
- Practice using several of the questions that comprise the stay interview.
- Explore the multiple possible opportunities to fit the stay interview into daily work.
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Kaye, Beverly
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1B |
409 |
Creating a Mobile Learning Library with Modern Learning Technologies
Whether you are doing a full-blown mobile learning course, mobile microlearning, job aids, or mobile performance support tools, you can add flexibility, convenience and just-in-time access to courses, job aids, and informal learning resources by using this modern learning development approach with HTML5 and Google Docs. Steve will demonstrate the best practices of creating reusable HTML5 learning objects for mobile learning that rely on externalized content created collaboratively using tools like Google Docs. He will share: adaptive designs, dynamic simulations, presentations, quiz engines, performance support tools and more, all built with technologies that allow for changes in minutes and automated localization. You’ll learn how to use a spreadsheet you can update and maintain your courseware without relying on third party rapid authoring tools that will just slow you down and limit your designs.
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Lee, Steve
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11B |
410 |
The New Science of Influence
Hardly a day passes that we don’t try to influence others to change—writing an email, making a phone call, holding a meeting. In today’s world, what are behavioral scientists teaching about influence? What works? What doesn’t? If you’re done with haphazard approaches to increasing your meaningful impact on employees as well as increasing their positive impact on others, it’s time to embrace the new science of influence. Come learn an empirical-based, proven influencer model that can change entrenched negative behaviors across teams and organizations.
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Maxfield, David
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6D |
411 |
How Training Top 125 Winners Implement Level 3 and 4 Evaluation
What gets measured gets achieved. Today, it’s not just about learner satisfaction with a training program or test scores. It’s all about behavior change and business impact. Here’s your chance to learn how Training magazine Top 125 winners have implemented Kirkpatrick Level 3 and 4 evaluation. Learn how:
- USAA’s dedicated team focuses on analyzing and measuring business impact as a result of training—and how through insightful recommendations, their leaders make informed learning investment decisions and anticipate future needs.
- TCS builds on and customizes Kirkpatrick's Evaluation Model to measure the impact of their digital learning strategy, designed for delivering speed and scale of leadership development, to ensure a digital-ready workforce and a global leadership pool.
- Allianz has incorporated the Kirkpatrick Model into their programs including an integrated all-video solution, a simulation, and an instructor-led program—and about their pre- and post-metrics and their links to business goals.
- Valvoline correlates employee-level business metrics including sales, service levels, and more with granular training data—and how they calculate a reasonable return on investment even when the desired data isn't available.
This session, part of the Measurement track, is open to all attendees.
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Mahoney, Dawn
Icaza, Lya
Dunn, Edward
Hinely, Jamie
Soyring, Lori
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5B |
412 (New) |
Visualizing Data: It’s More than Just Another Infographic
Analytics and infographics are everywhere these days, but are we using our big data to tell the right stories and engage our learners? How can we learn from the learner analytics that we have at our fingertips? This session will explore data visualization and literacy, focusing on various tools and techniques that will help translate data into meaningful stories, and enable our learners to think more critically about the data we present to them in the form of infographics, tables, charts, maps, and the like. Along with gaining a more comprehensive understanding of data visualization, you will be introduced to new ways of managing, analyzing, and visualizing data sets, as well as writing about the relationships that are brought to light through these processes.
This session, part of the Boot Camp track, is open to all attendees.
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Banner, Phylise
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1A |
413 |
Best Practices for Updating Your LMS
If you’re thinking it might be time to re-evaluate your learning management system (LMS), you’re certainly not alone. With the rate of change in business today and an evolving learning technology landscape, a whopping 44% of organizations have plans to replace their existing LMS solution according to a recent Brandon Hall survey. David will share practices for replacing your LMS to ensure a smooth and successful transition. Learn:
- How to navigate each phase of the LMS selection process, from building the business case and evaluating vendors through implementation.
- A technology migration framework, highlighting both the risks and rewards in the migration process.
- Strategies for incorporating the latest learning technologies, including social, mobile and collaboration tools.
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Wentworth, David
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7B |
414 |
The Seven Deadly Sins of Screencasting
Screencasts can be a powerful tool for eLearning developers. Well-produced screencasts can be great for software simulation, process demonstration, or providing background and context within an eLearning course. However, poorly produced screencasts can be, at best, boring—and, at worst, injurious to your learning goals. In this session you'll learn the seven deadly sins of screencasts—what you must avoid if you want your screencasts to be compelling and effective—and 10 tips to make your screencasts more engaging.
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Lassoff, Mark
Floro, Nick
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415 |
L&D Best Practices: 5 Approaches to Be More Strategic
Ensuring that organizations have the skills to execute strategy is a top priority for executives. This responsibility rests squarely with the internal L&D function to create and implement talent development solutions for their organizations. Learn about research conducted by Training magazine and Wilson Learning Worldwide which examined what it means for L&D to be more strategic and:
- Understand the data so you can benchmark your organization.
- Examine the five best practices to be more strategic in an L&D organization.
- Use an audit that will foster conversation during and after the session.
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Yesford, David
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TH02 |
Learning Leaders Town Hall #2: L&D as Performance Consultant
Can the Learning & Development function become a trusted advisor to business leaders? The answer is “Yes!” A look at L&D’s role as a performance consultant and how it can achieve a partnership with the business to:
• Identify business challenges and solutions
• Deliver on stakeholder expectations
• Drive business impact |
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Freifeld, Lorri
Hughes, Glenn
Johnston, Graham
Harwood, Jim
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7A |
Expo |
Your Expo Option
Looking for an option other than the sessions listed during this time? Stop by the Expo to visit with exhibitors, see what the Master Chefs are cookin’ up in the Test Kitchen, or browse the Bookstore. |
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Expo Halls A-B1 |
11:00 AM - 5:00 PM
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EXPO |
TRAINING EXPO HOURS
Browse top training products and services from our helpful exhibitors and gather a wealth of information to help you and your organization make the right decisions and save time and money.
CURRENT LIST OF EXHIBITORS. |
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Expo Halls A-B1 |
TTK |
Training Technology Test Kitchen
The Training Technology Test Kitchen is designed as a makerspace approach for sharing innovative tools, new media and approaches to integrating technology into online and instructor-led training design, development and delivery. This open and collaborative environment provides opportunities for individual or guided hands-on exploration.
The Training Technology Test Kitchen includes stations where participants are guided by Master Chefs who are available to talk about design, discuss “recipes” (quick how-to guides), use apps, brainstorm strategies, explore new media (hardware and software), and provide 1:1, hands-on sharing with technologies.
Participants are encouraged to bring their own devices (laptop, tablet, smart phone) and visit the Training Technology Test Kitchen area to learn, explore and share knowledge within a lab environment. Approaches focus on designer, developer, facilitator and participant applications, and include multiple platform and device applications.
Come join us for our chef demonstrations throughout the conference on the Expo Floor. Hear from the experts, download the recipes and start cooking! |
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Banner, Phylise
Bradley, John
Carlton, Bobby
Dahlberg, Steve
Grey, Daniel
Harter, Mark
Moore, Ryan
Musgrove, Ann
Tomsic, Frank
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Expo Hall Booth #119 |
BOOKSTORE |
Main Bookstore
Read Between the Lines! Stop by the official Training 2017 bookstore to pick up the latest training resources. The bookstore is brought to you by BreakPoint Books.
Choose from two bookstore locations:
SATELLITE BOOKSTORE: (in 6AB Foyer)
Monday 7:30 am – 5:30 pm
Tuesday 7:30 am – 5:00 pm
Wednesday 8:00 am – 12:15 pm
OR VISIT OUR
MAIN BOOKSTORE: (Expo Booth #719 in Expo Hall A-B1)
Monday 11:00 am – 5:30 pm
Tuesday 11:00 am – 5:00 pm |
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Expo Hall Booth #719 |
11:30 AM - 2:00 PM
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Expo Lunch
Use every minute of your time at the conference—including refreshment and lunch breaks— wisely. Check in with others to learn what nuggets they are getting out of Training 2017. |
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12:00 PM - 12:30 PM
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TTK05 |
Learning Tools, Tricks and Trendy Media for Non-Graphic Designers
Ever wanted to create a game or an infographic, but didn’t know where to start? Join us to learn about tools that make it easy to create infographics, games and other trendy media for learning. You may even get more use out of your PowerPoint with some of these cool tricks! |
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Grey, Daniel
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Expo Hall Booth #119 |
12:30 PM - 1:00 PM
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ES05 |
Emerging Training Leaders Awards Program
Training recognizes 25 training professionals who have been in the industry for two to 10 years and have demonstrated exceptional leadership skills, business savvy, and training instincts.
Expo Stage Sponsored By:  |
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Freifeld, Lorri
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Expo Stage |
1:00 PM - 1:30 PM
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TTK06 |
Video Success with These Less-Common Ingredients
Spice up your stale videos and try something new! Discover less-common ingredients you can use to bring your videos to life. Get DIY instructions on how to make your own equipment. Learn hardware and software tips. Understand what type of cameras really make a difference. This session is filled with low tech, high tech, instructions, examples and demonstrations to leave you inspired to make better videos! |
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Harter, Mark
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Expo Hall Booth #119 |
1:15 PM - 1:45 PM
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ES06 |
Second City Works: Telling Your Learning Story
Our organization’s internal messages deserve as much craft and attention as the external. Unpack what elements make a compelling story and engage your learning audience.
Expo Stage Sponsored By:  |
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Eninger, Andrew
Murray Peyton, Colleen
Loos, John
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Expo Stage |
1:45 PM - 2:15 PM
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TTK07 |
Virtually There!
The way we interact and learn is changing. Soon, the days of entering a classroom to learn and train will be gone; replaced by virtual environments. Come experience the power of Virtual Reality and the level of immersion it offers. See how you can use your own mobile device to explore a virtual world! |
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Bradley, John
Moore, Ryan
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Expo Hall Booth #119 |
1:45 PM - 2:45 PM
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BREAKOUT SESSIONS
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501 |
Mission Possible: Applying a Systematic Performance and Training Approach to Organizational Culture Change
Mission Possible: You are an investigative analyst on a journey to solve your mission: Use the information presented in a case study to apply your training skills to perform a strategic assessment and implement change. Given current and optimal state, determine gaps, keep stakeholder buy-in, and determine business impact to implement significant change. Learn practical tips and proven methods. Will you accept this mission?
This session, part of the International Society for Performance Improvement (ISPI) track, is open to all attendees.
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Casad, Scott
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502 |
The 7 Greatest Mistakes Trainers Make and How to Avoid Them
We’ll explore the worst mistakes trainers make when designing and delivering training and show you how to avoid them. We’ll cover learning transfer strategies; chunking content; the amount of content being presented; asking and answering questions; being off schedule; evaluation; keeping participants energized; opening and closing the training program; and handout development.
This session, part of the Boot Camp track, is open to all attendees.
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Pike, Bob
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6CF |
503 |
Building the Bridge—Helping Your Learners Find the Training They Need
You have learning resources scattered across your LMS, intranet and beyond, but your learners don’t know how to find them. When they are discovered, users are often overwhelmed, leaving the resources underutilized and your associates frustrated and still unable to meet their performance improvement needs. There isn’t existing middleware between the numerous platforms and the learning content that you want to highlight which bridges the gap. In this case study session, you will learn how Nielsen addressed the issue by building a dynamic portal.
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Ward, Trish
Floro, Nick
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11A |
504 |
Next Level Assessment Design Using Articulate Storyline
We put a lot of time and effort into designing the best online instruction we can. But we’re under tight deadlines and the end of course quiz tends to be an afterthought and assembled with out-of-the-box templates, with little to no design effort. Learn how with a little forethought into designing end of course quizzes or assessments, we can completely change the overall user experience. We’ll look at ways to design custom quizzes and assessments, save new designs as templates for future projects, customize feedback for questions and choices, and more. You will get a free Storyline (v2) custom assessment template as a takeaway source file. |
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Thorn, Kevin
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505 |
The Deceiving ROI: It’s Time We Discovered the Truth
ROI is a powerful tool to demonstrate the accountability of learning solutions. But ROI calculations and impact studies can seriously overstate and misrepresent the business contribution of a learning solution. It’s time to learn the truth about analyzing and communicating results from learning interventions. Learn:
- To demonstrate how seven key evaluation variables contribute to any ROI calculation and how each can be misapplied to inflate the ROI.
- How to analyze the quality of any ROI calculation to discover and communicate the truth about the ROI.
- How to apply the ROI Quality Analysis Job Aid to discover flaws in three case examples of actual ROI calculations.
This session, part of the Measurement track, is open to all attendees.
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Stone, Ron
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1A |
506 |
The MicroLearning Revolution: A Bold New Model for Developing Talent
The appeal of microLearning is clear: short, narrowly defined bursts of learning. Tech-enabled. On-demand. Millennial- and mobile-friendly. But microLearning, like ILT, is most effective when organizations excel at learning adoption. Unfortunately, many organizations pay too much attention to selecting learning content, and too little to making sure that content actually gets deployed effectively on the job. The good news is that microLearning is easier to make stick than legacy learning methods. Learn why it is best deployed as a blended learning solution and explore an adoption process called “Flipping the Funnel”—a paradigm shift in organizational learning.
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Meyer, Stephen
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6D |
507 |
Project Management 3.0: Influencing Project Stakeholders
To successfully complete your project, you must borrow the brains and approval of many people in your organization including business experts, executives, customers, technical resources, compliance staff and legal. Learn how to influence these people who are critical to the success of your project even when your project is not critical to them.
This session, part of the Boot Camp track, is open to all attendees.
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Russell, Lou
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3 |
508 |
Mapping a Continuous Learning Model that Drives Business Impact
Want an amazing continuous learning culture—incorporating formal learning, informal learning, on-the-job experiences and performance support—but aren’t sure how to start (or advance) your efforts? We’ll explore Bersin’s Continuous Learning Model (Education, Experience, Exposure, Environment) and some tried-and-true examples of non-formal systems, measurement and learning at SAP. You’ll gain new language and techniques to transform reactive/order-taking conversations with business owners (“You’d like a class? Okay!”) into empowered, L&D-led discussions (“Let’s integrate learning throughout your team to advance that business issue”).
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Rider, Kelly
Whitaker, Laura
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6E |
509 (New) |
My Way or the Highway: Engaging Learners in the Age of Personalization and Overloaded Brains
Since the first Training Conference was held 40 years ago, almost everything has changed—especially our learners’ increasingly overloaded brains. No wonder the new expectation for learning is “just-in-time, just-for-me, just-enough.” Ann will draw on more than 35 years of research on thinking and learning, along with new studies and real-world examples, to show you how to build engaging “just-for-me” learning experiences while extending the learning cycle using brain-friendly approaches. You’ll discover how to artfully navigate learner needs to keep ahead of a changing world while helping learners get a handle their ever-increasing mental load. And you’ll get an easy-to-apply framework and practical “mind hacks” to help you help your learners really engage to get the results you both need. Learn to:
- Apply brain-based approaches to design the most engaging learning possible.
- Identify how to personalize learning based on learner preferences.
- Provide practical “mind hacks” to make it easier for you and your learners to get the learning they need even with an already overloaded brain.
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Herrmann-Nehdi, Ann
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510 |
Building Strategic Linkages to Map and Measure Learning Strategy
Business leaders have made learning a priority. But they expect learning initiatives to connect with organizational objectives, ensuring improved performance though a cause-and-effect effort. Discover how to do this through a performance management framework. Using a case study you’ll see how the learning and growth component of a “balanced scorecard” ensures that learning aligns with the company’s existing metrics and strategic objectives.
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Pangarkar, Ajay
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511 |
Think Social Learning is Just Social Media? Think Virtual Training!
Social media tools are just one way you can enable greater social learning in your organization. When done right, virtual classroom training can be an outstanding social learning experience. To some degree this is likely already happening in your best live online classes, but if you haven't focused on it strategically, you aren't gaining the maximum benefits. In this session, you will be given several examples of social learning elements that can be found in highly-engaging synchronous virtual classroom programs. Learn to:
- Define social learning and identify how its benefits can arise during live online training programs.
- Leverage virtual classroom tools and activities that provide robust social learning experiences.
- Enable greater social learning in your organization using the training tool investments you have already made.
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LaBorie, Kassy
Stone, Thomas
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512 |
4 Non-Negotiable Things Your PowerPoint Slides Need to Increase Learning
Most PowerPoint slides violate basic principles of cognitive science. We’ll explore four critical, research-based principles every PowerPoint slide must follow in order to increase learning. You’ll learn to:
- Recognize when you have too much information on a slide and know how to fix it.
- Write text so it's easy to present and easy to understand.
- Select when to use pictures to increase understanding, and which pictures to use.
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Gabrielle, Bruce
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7B |
513 |
How to Negotiate and Influence More Effectively
Learn an approach that improves your negotiation and influencing abilities—critical skills for employees in any function. This session focuses on preparing more effectively, asking questions that get to the other side's interests, and proposing solutions in a more persuasive manner. Learn to become more confident in any situation and translate that confidence into results. Most importantly, learn tips and tricks that you can pass on to your team immediately!
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Tames, Chip
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514 |
Cure For Chronic LMS
What exactly is “Chronic LMS”? You inherited the LMS and a list of problems with it, when you took the job. Your IT department isn’t willing to help with finding solutions. Your Reports from the LMS make no sense. Any of this sound familiar? Spend your time in this session discussing various options for working with your present LMS, things to consider when looking for a replacement, and a few work around tips, too.
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Mahoney, Dawn
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5B |
515 |
Mastery-Based Training: Unlocking Potential Through Personalized Learning Pathways
Mastery-Based learning—the idea that progression through material should be based on proficiency rather than seat-time—is revolutionizing higher education and corporate training. Technologies like adaptive learning and machine learning are just beginning to reveal the full potential of this method, enabling learners to progress at their own pace, both saving time and increasing the likelihood that they master challenging material. Learn to:
- Identify opportunities where mastery-based learning is ripe for implementation.
- Identify key pitfalls of mastery-based learning and recognize how to avoid them.
- Develop a framework for creating a data-driven learning ecosystem (with a foundation in mastery-based learning).
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Posner, Zach
Yu, Christina
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5A |
TH03 |
Learning Leaders Town Hall #3: Leadership Development Challenges
Leading people is no easy task. And teaching people leadership skills sometimes is even more difficult. We often hear about the dearth of women in leadership roles and how 70 percent of change efforts fail. A look at how L&D can help organizations:
• Foster gender and ethnic diversity
• Guide change
• Measure and track leadership
development results |
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Freifeld, Lorri
Piersol-Stockton, Kristen
Sandera, Laura
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7A |
Expo |
Your Expo Option
Looking for an option other than the sessions listed during this time? Stop by the Expo to visit with exhibitors, see what the Master Chefs are cookin’ up in the Test Kitchen, or browse the Bookstore. |
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Expo Halls A-B1 |
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM
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TTK08 |
AppSmashing
AppSmashing (or app mashing) is an innovative technique that has users mixing and matching features of various web-based and mobile applications, thus extending the abilities of each app if used alone in isolation. Join us for an interactive, hands-on session that embraces the philosophy “never settle” – when an app is missing what you need, it’s time to smash it (translation: combine it) with another app to create the ultimate learning object. |
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Musgrove, Ann
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Expo Hall Booth #119 |
ES07 |
Second City Works: Creating Inclusive Ensembles
Your teams understand the importance of Diversity, but do they know how to practice Inclusion? Second City offers tangible skills that can evolve behaviors and mindsets towards a more inclusive environment.
Expo Stage Sponsored By:  |
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Eninger, Andrew
Murray Peyton, Colleen
Loos, John
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Expo Stage |
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
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SPONSORED SESSIONS
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Drive a REAL ROI That You Can Sustain and Replicate, Not Just Measure
Training is not about the programs we put on, the number of people we train, or the data we collect. It is about driving a Real ROI that your employees WILL take ownership of and replicate going forward. To do that, learning leaders need to build functions that are true strategic partners that can turn into viable revenue-generating functions. Learn to:
- Implement The Right Infrastructure--Create the blueprint that will ensure your department or training builds the capability that your organization needs not just the skills we think our people need to have.
- Define The Right Metrics--Use the 4-step process that will define and implement the KPI’s (quantitative & qualitative) you must have for your training department and programs to make better decisions and drive greater value to your organization’s top objectives.
- Drive a Real ROI--Learn the lean-based approach to building and converting training programs into results based initiatives that will align your organization’s strategy, your customer’s true needs with your employee’s day-to-day focus.
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Gottlieb, Jack
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6D |
SS17 |
18 Awesome PowerPoint Tricks for Effective Presentations and eLearning
PowerPoint is the basis for much of the training material you use, and yet it’s text-heavy, dull, and boring. See how you can revolutionize your presentations, eLearning, and other training material using visuals, diagrams, and animated sequences, with some helpful how-to guides, and a collection of awesome PowerPoint tricks, plus a free PowerPoint toolkit to kick start your efforts for everyone that attends. Steps to take: 1. Attend this session. 2. Become a PowerPoint Legend. |
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Goring, Richard
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6E |
SS18 |
Cutting-Edge Mobile Apps -Taking Training to the Next Level
Today it is even more critical for organizations to deliver cutting-edge training that is engaging, efficient, and scalable. Above all, your training needs to drive your workforce's performance to a higher level while also delivering higher efficiency from a time, resources, and investment perspective so that your organization builds a competitive advantage.
In this session, Tatiana Sehring will share some thoughts on best practices and sample of how organizations can move beyond the traditional tools available today to deliver customizable training through a cutting-edge mobile app solution that helps address current organizational challenges ranging from limited budget, concerns of time spent away from the job, scalability and growth of the workforce, etc. As an attendee you will learn a valuable framework and top considerations you can use to inform and develop an organizational mobile strategy that can take your training the next level. |
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Sehring, Tatiana
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SS19 |
As Learning Changes, So Should Measurement… Here’s How
Learning is changing at the speed of business or at least at the speed of new technology tools that enable learning. Gone are the days of a single LMS and a simple web portal to communicate organizational information. Now learners reach out to a wide variety of resources—usually digital platforms like Lynda.com, Google, Sharepoint and many others, but sometimes the resources are individuals within their network—to gain instant insights that can be applied immediately in the work flow. Learning record stores (LRS) are beginning to track informal and social learning events, but even these tools only capture a fraction of the actual learning that occurs.
As learning methods change, so should measurement. Methods for assessing the quality of learning and more importantly the impact of learning on individual and organizational performance must adjust to remain relevant. Evaluation should focus on leading indicators of effectiveness like relevance and alignment while also measuring gaps that need to be filled. Join us as we share best practices for measuring formal learning events and emerging practices for evaluating impact in the robust digital landscape. |
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Parskey, Peggy
Straetmans, Mark
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SS20 |
Learning Awards 101: A Practical, FUN Guide to Winning
Want to bring home the glory but aren’t sure how? In this highly-rated, high-energy, hands-on session, get unique advice on selecting awards, telling your story, tackling logistics, and wowing judges. Bring your thinking cap and an award-worthy program to practice with. Expert Deb Arnold will share top tips that have helped clients win 80+ awards, including: #1 on the Training Top 125 (three times), ATD Best, CLO LearningElite AND Learning! 100.
You’ll leave ready to:
• Assess award-readiness using Deb’s Four Fundamentals of a Winning Program.
• Persuasively describe learning impact.
• Apply Deb’s golden rule of metrics.
• Avoid common applicant mistakes.
Use Deb’s popular “Learning Program Mad Lib” and other award resources.
“Valuable.” “Practical.” “Eye-opening.” “Fun.” – Previous attendees
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Arnold, Deb
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SS21 |
Hit the Mark with Hybrid Learning, Meet Business Objectives, Improve the Learning Experience
You can’t beat the convenience and cost savings of virtual learning, but this often comes at the expense of the learning experience and overall effectiveness of your training. Hybrid learning allows organizations to meet the business objectives of their training, while still realizing the learning benefits of live, instructor-led training. During this interactive session, you will receive easy-to-understand insights on:
- What hybrid learning is.
- The advantages of implementing a hybrid learning model.
- How to utilize hybrid learning to maximize your training ROI.
- A demonstration of a hybrid learning platform – providing a first-hand look at the possibilities provided by hybrid learning.
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McCullen, Hugh
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SS22 |
Training Magazine Network Presents: Learning by Doing, Curating, and Storytelling
We learn continuously through experiencing and using knowledge to solve problems, fix things and develop new solutions. Join Ray Jimenez in this session that will demonstrate through examples and interactivity how to improve your learning design through integrating important but often ignored or taken-for-granted skills into your design. Within this same session, the Training Magazine Network team will guide you through a discovery of how to apply what you learn through advanced and undiscovered tools to enhance your own learning, professional development and career-pathing. |
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Jimenez, Ray
VanAntwerp, Gary
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SS23 |
Bridging the Skills Gap Through Interactive Gameplay
Learn how strategy games can develop flexible thinking, self-awareness, and focus amongst you and your staff. We will share a proven methodology— developed by game theory experts, with more than 4,000,000 graduates— that blends traditional learning and personal coaching with state-of-the-art technology. You’ll:
• Discover how applying tools in the areas of analysis, problem solving, and decision making can make professionals more methodical.
• See how the best way to learn is through immediate, authentic, engaging experiences.
• Explore how games can create a deep sense of involvement, while using a variety of ideas and dilemmas applicable to the corporate landscape.
• Learn how game-playing promotes cognitive development without fear of mistakes or criticism. |
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Coon, Kim
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SS24 |
Finding Your Hook: Engaging Your Audience using First Person Narratives in Digital Training
People respond to stories; specifically, first person narrative. From cave paintings and oral tradition to documentary films, podcasts and the latest hit reality TV show, people connect with accounts that come from a place of sincerity. For trainers, tapping into the authenticity of first person narratives can be a powerful way to engage learners. But how?
Brella Learning’s Mark Mallchok shows how personal stories in all forms of media can be used to create memorable digital training experiences.
Compliance training. Onboarding. Safety protocols. Sales staff education. Across all types of digital learning situations and industries, Mark will demonstrate how first person narratives and technology can breathe new life into your content.
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Mallchok, Mark
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11A |
SS25 |
Overcoming the Top 5 Challenges of Video Training
Video is a unique beast. It's more engaging than a training manual, but it's a pain to record and produce. It helps you scale your training worldwide, but it can bog down your corporate network. It's a great solution for mLearning, except when it's incompatible with employees' devices. And it's ideal for just-in-time learning, if only it could be effectively searched. In this session, you'll learn how advances in video technology are helping L&D teams overcome the 5 biggest challenges of video-based training.
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Rozillis, Steve
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11B |
SS26 |
Developing Leadership Awareness Through Experiential Learning
How do you create a leadership program that actually develops leaders? Leaders need a safe space to practice real business scenarios. Discover how experiential learning methods engage participants and make learning more relevant. Examine why Leadership Awareness (a thorough understanding of self, team, and business) is critical for the evolution of your leaders. Explore how successful programs use experiential methods to elevate leadership awareness in a learning laboratory environment.
Together we will:
- Recognize why so many leadership development programs aren’t developing leaders
- Define why managers fail to reach senior leadership positions
- Revise what should be included in your leadership program
- Propose how you can make your leadership program more experiential, relevant, and engaging
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LiVigni, Joe
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5B |
SS27 |
Mindfulness Matters
Mindfulness Matters: Learn about our Flagship introductory program and why introducing mindfulness at your organization can benefit your employees and improve sales, customer service, decision making, and employee engagement while reducing stress and healthcare costs
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Scheffer, Andrew
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5A |
Expo |
Your Expo Option
Looking for an option other than the sessions listed during this time? Stop by the Expo to visit with exhibitors, see what the Master Chefs are cookin’ up in the Test Kitchen, or browse the Bookstore. |
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Expo Halls A-B1 |
3:45 PM - 4:15 PM
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ES08 |
Second City Works: Follow the Follower: Learning for Leaders
Today’s leaders navigate a volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous landscape. Second City will share ideas and skills that can arm leaders with the skills needed to remain flexible, agile and others’ focused.
Expo Stage Sponsored By:  |
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Eninger, Andrew
Murray Peyton, Colleen
Loos, John
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Expo Stage |
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
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EXPO |
Expo Popcorn and Ice Cream Break
Use every minute of your time at the conference—including refreshment and lunch breaks— wisely. Check in with others to learn what nuggets they are getting out of Training 2017. |
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Expo Halls A-B1 |
5:30 PM - 8:30 PM
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PARTY! |
40th Anniversary Celebration : A Yacht Cruise
Your ship has come in! To recognize the Annual Training Conference & Expo’s 40th Anniversary, we are inviting Conference attendees (at no charge!) on a relaxing, elegant San Diego Harbor Yacht Celebration Cruise after the close of the Expo Hall on Tuesday, January 31. You’ll depart from the Seaport Village Pier*, about a 15 minute walk from the San Diego Convention Center (and, no, it doesn’t involve walking the plank). You’ll cruise aboard the Inspiration yacht — which ties in perfectly with our conference theme! — and sail the sparkling sapphire waters of the San Diego Bay. Join us for good times, good food (appetizers), and good company. Anchors aweigh!
*Yacht location changed from the Marriott Marina to the Seaport Village Pier
Special event added to the cruise! David with TrivWorks, a company specializing in live customized team trivia events, will lead us in this fun and engaging event! Check out his website: www.TrivWorks.com.
This event is available to all 3-Day Conference participants at no charge, pre-registration is required.
Tuesday, January 31
2:30-5:00 pm: Stop by Training magazine Booth #419 to exchange the ticket included with your Name Badge for your Yacht Boarding Pass
5:30 pm: Yacht Boarding
6:15 pm: Cruise Departs
8:30 pm: Cruise Returns to the Seaport Village Pier*
*Yacht location changed from the Marriott Marina to the Seaport Village Pier |
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Wednesday, February 01
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POST-CONFERENCE, OFF-SITE TOURS
Space is limited and priority is given to 3-Day Conference attendees. Additional fee; please register by Friday, January 27.
CT1 Hyper-Realistic Training: A Movie Studio Tour
Thursday, February 2, 8:30 am – 12:30 pm
Experience how Strategic Operations, Inc. (STOPS) provides Hyper-Realistic training environments for military, law enforcement, first responders, and other organizations responsible for Homeland Security, using state-of the-art movie industry special effects, role players, training scenarios, sets, and props. Note: The special effects utilized during these simulations are very realistic and some may find them disturbing.
Bus loads at 8:30 am, departs at 8:45 am and returns by 12:30 pm at the San Diego Convention Center, Front Drive, Lobby B Doors Entrance.
Fee: $65
CT2 Naval Education and Training Command Tour
Thursday, February 2, 8:00 am – 12:30 pm
Join the tour of the Naval Education and Training Command —the Navy’s premier training organization and see firsthand how one of the largest commands in the Navy uses classroom, hands-on labs, simulation and computer-based training to prepare sailors. Don’t miss your chance to try out a world-class simulator! Note:
Note: Tour participants will not need to meet for a briefing on Wednesday, February 1.
Bus loads at 8:00 am,departs at 8:15 am and returns by 12:30 pm to the San Diego Convention Center, Front Drive, Lobby B Doors Entrance.
Fee: $65
CT3 San Diego Zoo Academy & Private Tour
Thursday, February 2, 8:00 am – 11:30 am
Start your day with a continental breakfast at the zoo, followed by a presentation from San Diego’s Chief Global Human Resources Officer. Learn about their programs in customer service, leadership development, and get a glimpse of their online training portal. Afterwards, you’ll take a narrated bus tour of the zoo grounds and visit an exhibit area not accessible by the general public.
BONUS: At the end of the tour, you can return to the Convention Center or you can stay to explore the zoo at no additional entry fee!
Bus loads at 8:00 am, departs at 8:15 am and returns by 11:30 am at the San Diego Convention Center, Front Drive, Lobby B Doors Entrance.
Fee: $100
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SDCC Convention Center Entry Door B |
7:45 AM - 8:15 AM
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GTD |
Getting Things Done: Morning Check-In
Getting Things Done at Training 2017
Don’t miss your check-in meeting with your coach Nancy LoCascio and other participants to share progress updates on meeting your goals!
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LoCascio, Nancy
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6CF |
8:00 AM - 8:30 AM
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Coffee/Soda Break
Use every minute of your time at the conference—including refreshment and lunch breaks— wisely. Check in with others to learn what nuggets they are getting out of Training 2017. |
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6A Foyer |
8:00 AM - 12:15 PM
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BOOKSTORE |
Satellite Bookstore
Read Between the Lines! Stop by the official Training 2017 bookstore to pick up the latest training resources. The bookstore is brought to you by BreakPoint Books.
Choose from two bookstore locations:
SATELLITE BOOKSTORE: (in 6AB Foyer)
Monday 7:30 am – 5:30 pm
Tuesday 7:30 am – 5:00 pm
Wednesday 8:00 am – 12:15 pm
OR VISIT OUR
MAIN BOOKSTORE: (in Expo Booth #719 in Expo Hall A-B1)
Monday 11:00 am – 5:30 pm
Tuesday 11:00 am – 5:00 pm |
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6A Foyer |
8:00 AM - 12:30 PM
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Cyber Cafe & Conference Registration Desk Hours
Check your email or print handouts at our Cyber Cafe.
The Cyber Café is sponsored by:
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6A Foyer |
8:30 AM - 9:30 AM
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BREAKOUT SESSIONS
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601 (New) |
Everyone is a Top Performer: Where are the Results?
Several factors will come together in 2017 impacting Human Resources’ role in bottom-line success. Do you know the impact your hiring and succession plan is having on your bottom-line? If not, this session is for you. Learn basic principles and best-practice processes for alignment of human capital initiatives with greater focus on outcomes and performance. Beginning with skill gap analysis and concluding with organizing human capital activities to ensure results, this session will provide you with a framework for your organization’s human capital process. |
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Bernard, Valerie
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7A |
602 |
Using your Mobile Device to Create Amazing Content
Are you looking for some new ways to create amazing content using your mobile device? If yes, this session will provide you with inspiration and practical information. We'll demonstrate and discuss:
- How to improve audio- and video-based recordings with your mobile device.
- Several add-on mics and accessories to improve your quality.
- Apps and resources to record, edit, create graphics and animation that can be used immediately in your next project.
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Floro, Nick
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10 |
603 |
Secrets of Master Virtual Trainers: 5 Ways to Rock the Virtual Classroom
There are five things that master virtual trainers do to deliver effective virtual classes. Learn how by preparing relentlessly; engaging an unseen audience; multitasking effectively; making the most of your voice; and handling unexpected challenges; you can be a rock star in the virtual classroom. Whether you are brand new to live online delivery or have been facilitating virtual classes for years, and regardless of which virtual training software platform you use, you will be sure to leave this session with new ideas, new tips, and new techniques for improving your virtual delivery skills.
This session, part of the Boot Camp track, is open to all attendees.
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Huggett, Cindy
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604 |
Micro-Learning Design for On-the-Go-Learners
Move beyond the antiquated, costly and slow method of designing and delivering learning with Micro-Learning. You’ll get a 5-step process for creating Micro-Learning lessons, an implementation checklist, five free source codes, and links to demos and examples.
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Jimenez, Ray
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4 |
605 |
Blended Learning Continuum Understanding Roles, Curriculum and Leveraging MOOCs
Much has been written about Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) and how they will impact Higher Education, however very little has been explored about how these curricula can be leveraged in a blended learning environment and the corporate training room. Learn how by using a “Blended Learning Continuum”—from face-to-face to virtual course delivery—you can effectively infuse technology tools, including MOOCs, into your classroom.
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Brannan, Timothy
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1A |
606 |
CANCELLED: How to Create a Slack Collaborative Learning Environment with xAPI Compatibility
Slack, a collaborative tool that allows people to communicate in real time, builds communities— and extends learning from single courses into micro-communications and context-related expert sourcing—is particularly positioned to be successful as a learning tool. See how these multi-access environments can be combined with analytics tools available both inside Slack and in other tools such as Google Analytics. Learn how with the added compatibility of xAPI and LRMS cloud-based data, this design is the answer to the request for more immediate, adaptive, and context-based learning environments.
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5A |
607 |
The Human Element: Making Video More Engaging and Effective
Video has grown in popularity, and its ease of availability has made it a more accessible tool. However, like many tools, just because it's easily available doesn't mean that we have a good grasp on how to make it work for us. It's easy enough to record a video, but how do we get beyond "just making a video?" How do we make it so it's not another thing to do for our learners and make it more engaging, effective, and impactful? Whether you're doing a high-end video production, creating a video with your phone, or a screen video, this session will look at enabling the human element.
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Pierce, Matt
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5B |
608 |
The Future of Training is Here; Come See It
Imagine true real-time training—learning at the moment it is most needed. Better yet, come see it! See how Plex has been pushing the envelope of wearables and augmented reality to deliver personalized, specific training to the person at the precise moment they need it—when they are performing the work and applying their learning (i.e. manufacturing sites require safety glasses and helmets, so we fitted them with the power of learning and knowledge). See what that looks like and what it could mean for you and your organization. The possibilities will blow your mind. Be astonished, but more importantly open your mind to the new and dynamic ways to deliver training that you may not have ever realized was possible. Knowing what is possible is only the start.
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Rowland, Neal
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9 |
609 |
10 Wicked Cool Classroom Training Tricks!
Sometimes we find even our best sessions falling flat. Our learners are tapping their fingers, rolling their eyes, yawning, and generally itching to do just about anything except listening to our content. Learn 10 proven tricks that can be used anywhere in a session where you start to see a lull. You’ll grab their attention, get them on the edge of their seats, and instantly re-engage their minds to an optimal state. Yes, it CAN be done!
This session, part of the Boot Camp track, is open to all attendees
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Snow, Mark
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6CF |
610 |
7 Amazing Ways to Make Video Work For You On Any Budget
What do you do when your online learning system has low usage and a poor reputation, yet your business depends on it to drive productivity? Learn how Ace Hardware reinvented its learning management system by integrating more video and making it more engaging, ultimately doubling user adoption and driving a measurable increase in store revenue—all without the disruption of a major systems overhaul. Learn:
- 7 ways to add video learning to your LMS to drive better results on any budget.
- How to avoid common complaints surrounding video training such as mobile device incompatibility.
- A practical approach to make your LMS more engaging and deliver a more Netflix and Amazon like learner experience.
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Stevlic, Stevan
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7B |
611 |
Techniques and Tools for Streamlining the eLearning Review Process
When designers, developers, and SMEs collaborate to create eLearning, a painful part of the process can be the back-and-forth between the team members during the alpha/beta review. After much trial and error, we have defined techniques and tools for streamlining the SME review. In this session, we will share techniques for communication during the review process, tools that can streamline the feedback you receive, and share examples of tools you can immediately implement with your team. |
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Watkins, Danielle
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3 |
612 |
What Every Leader Should Know About Strategic Planning
For learning practitioners to gain the ear of senior executives, we must be able to speak and understand strategy. Learn a road map for building strategy that demonstrates the critical difference between mission versus vision, goals versus objectives, values versus guiding principles, and critical success factors versus strategies. You will also explore the 10 pitfalls to avoid in strategy. You will leave knowing how to confidently discuss strategy and its components with business unit leaders as well as how to apply a strategic planning framework to solving both business and L&D issues. |
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Wilkinson, Michael
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6D |
613 |
Using the Visualization Process to Create Dynamic & Effective eLearning
This session explores a process to help you get away from Death by PowerPoint and click-through eLearning, so that your content can become more visual and bring your points to life. Learn to:
- Get rid of bullet points and delight your audiences with compelling visual slides.
- Explain complex concepts with diagrams that help people understand.
- Ensure that you focus on the right message and objective for each component of your course.
Tell stories that come to life with visual sequences and incorporate animation to fully engage learners. |
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Goring, Richard
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11A |
614 |
Boost Training Transfer Using Predictive Learning Analytics
Scrap learning, the gap between learning that is delivered and what is actually applied back on the job, is a critical business issue for organizations—and for you! It not only wastes scarce organizational resources, it threatens your professional credibility. Learn a proven method to reduce scrap learning by targeting those learners least likely to apply the training they have received—Predictive Learning Analytics (PLA). Learn to:
- Explain the 3 phases and 9 steps comprising the PLA methodology.
- Build a predictive learning analytics algorithm that identifies those learners who least likely to apply what they learned.
This session, part of the Measurement track, is open to all attendees.
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Phillips, Ken
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8 |
615 |
Bite-Size Learning in a Traditional Training World
When given the choice, learners will choose mobile abstracts over books, YouTube DIY over lecture, online single-point lessons over instructor-led training (ILT), and JIT mobile reinforcement over daylong training. Treion and Matt will share bite-size principles reinforced by brain science, irrefutable research, and current reality to show what the future of learning looks like. You will learn how to apply digital MicroLearning principles to your existing ILT courses and other forms of traditional training. And together we’ll troubleshoot your traditional training challenges and come up with bite-size solutions. |
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Murdoch, Matt
Muller, Treion
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6E |
616 |
Developing Leaders Without Real-World Experience Using Brain Science
There are not enough people to fill the gaps left by the baby boomers as they exit the workforce. Have you even started looking at this potential crisis in your own organization? It takes time to develop the skills needed by leaders today, so how will you "grow" your leadership team in the short few years you have left? Traditional methods may not be enough. Learn about evidence-based best practices culled from real-world experience and validated by the latest research in the science of learning. You’ll explore the top five cognitive skills needed by tomorrow's leaders and learn to evaluate your current leadership pipeline in terms of leaders who must be ready in 5, 10 and 20 years. |
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Meacham, Margie
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1B |
9:30 AM - 9:45 AM
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Coffee/Soda Break
Use every minute of your time at the conference—including refreshment and lunch breaks— wisely. Check in with others to learn what nuggets they are getting out of Training 2017. |
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6A Foyer |
9:45 AM - 10:45 AM
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BREAKOUT SESSIONS
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The 4 Secrets of Training for Maximum Business Impact
Learn four super-simple secrets for designing, developing, and delivering training that achieves maximum business impact. You will learn to:
- Conduct a rapid needs assessment in as little as 10 minutes.
- Create high levels of participant engagement and retention of learning using highly targeted and very relevant experiential activities.
- Ask three specific questions to measure the return on investment of training.
This session, part of the Measurement track, is open to all attendees.
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Love, Sardek
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9 |
702 |
Next Generation Gamification, Simulation and Virtual Reality Learning
How do you leverage the explosion of screens and devices to change behavior among learners of all generations? Join us for a session packed with demos and case studies of how leading organizations are harnessing gamification, simulation, virtual reality, and digital video to build organizational capabilities:
- Sales skills taught in a spy-themed game with live-action video.
- Cyber security awareness taught with an engaging game.
- Leadership skills taught with 3-D immersive simulations.
- Coaching skills taught in short mobile, vertical video-based reinforcement modules.
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Gronstedt, Anders
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8 |
703 |
“Oh Yeah… Make Me!” Techniques for Handling Resistant Learners
“I was told to be here.”...“How long will this last?”... “I’ve done this kind of training before.” Learn simple techniques that will instantly shift resistant participant thinking, whether expressed verbally or non-verbally. All trainers dread dealing with negative participants, so you will be pleased to discover that it is possible to quickly and easily transform them into focused, contributing learners. Learn how to assess the Roots of Resistance and deploy the appropriate strategies before, during, and after a session using principles from Accelerated Learning and Whole Brain Thinking.
This session, part of the Boot Camp track, is open to all attendees.
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Arellano, Laura
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6E |
704 |
Competencies and Competency-Modeling Done Right
Organizations spend a lot of money and resources identifying competencies and creating competency models only to see them not used as intended. This session is about how to define competence and create models that users embrace because they make their lives easier. You will be given examples of competencies that support decisions and promote effective behavior on the job and examples of those that do not. You will get a checklist you can use to guide your work related to defining job behaviors and outcomes that correlate with business results. You will practice comparing two sets of competencies and competency models in terms of their clarity, utility, and relevance.
This session, part of the Boot Camp track, is open to all attendees.
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Hale, Judith
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705 |
There's an App for That: Using Apps to Deliver Self-Service Training
As apps become a primary method for delivering customer experiences to users, the training industry needs to do more to adopt apps as a training delivery model. We’ll discuss lessons learned while planning, designing, and implementing training apps. You will:
- Gain insight into the advantages of app-based training modules.
- Understand the extent to which UX principles and methods can be implemented in the development process.
Determine how to ensure your app trainings are marketable to your users. |
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Howard, Sam
Larsen, Jeri
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11A |
706 |
Put Virtual Learners in the Driver’s Seat: Increase Learner Retention
Adults learn by actually doing what they’re being taught. As a virtual trainer, it’s your job to get them “doing.” But how do you do this within the confines of your virtual platform? If you’re conducting virtual sessions on a regular basis, you’re likely already implementing some virtual tools: Using chat, feedback tools, a few polls and occasionally opening the phone lines. What’s next? How can you creatively implement interaction to increase learner retention? Learn about fun activities, tools, techniques and real-life examples you can immediately implement to take your live online training beyond the basics, and ultimately increase learner retention.
BYOD: Bring your own fully-charged laptop to join an online training demo, engage in activities and fully participate in this interactive session.
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Jeavons, Sheri
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1B |
707 |
Creating Hyper Stories for The “Must-Learn,” “Must-Get,” “Must-do-Now” Learners
Learn about an approach that helps designers and leaders find the high value and useful content and match them with work-related stories that are full of emotional experiences. As a result, learners pay attention. They learn and apply the ideas quickly. Learn to:
- Apply steps in dissecting big content and find what is most useful.
- Identify, write and formulate hyper stories to match the value of the content.
- Apply the Hyper Story lessons to compliance, technical, people skills and other types of learning.
- Learn from live demos and examples and obtain templates for design application.
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Jimenez, Ray
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708 |
Using Clues to Get from Objectives to Interactions
Getting from learning and performance support objectives to an excellent functioning course is not a trivial exercise. In fact, it requires quite a bit of expertise: instructional design, interface design, information design, interaction design, programming, graphics, etc. See examples of different types of mobile learning solutions. And learn to make the connections between the learning and performance objectives to the interactions to be developed and the tools to be used to develop them. You’ll have an opportunity to practice making these types of connections yourself using scenarios related to mobile websites, apps, and different authoring tools.
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Kurtin, Matt
Toenniges, Lisa
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5B |
709 |
5 Steps to Empower Mentors and Supercharge Learners
Mentoring relationships create lasting impact and drive results. However, while these organic relationships can create and enable leaders, the supporting programs often fall short of expectations. Most often, there are missed steps and a lack of direction because practitioners do not have a cohesive model to follow. We’ll dive into the power of mentoring programs and how they address the most critical talent issues in organizations. We’ll explore the industry's only standard model for developing mentoring programs, and follow the steps to creating an effective program. You will complete take-and-use worksheets so you can start applying the model right away.
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Labin, Jennifer
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6CF |
710 |
Coaching for Their Dual Role: 5 Ways to Help SMEs Facilitate Learning
SMEs bring depth of experience, enterprise-wide perspective, and credibility to the learning process. But asking SMEs to perform this dual role also brings risk. While they want to do well in the classroom, it is an environment outside their expertise. In this session, we’ll explore the unique needs of SMEs and examine ways to design learning to help them be successful. We’ll also introduce new language and explore nonthreatening coaching techniques to help them deliver content effectively.
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Owen-Boger, Greg
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6D |
711 |
Captivating Training Tidbits: Trackable Chunks of Content
Learn to create a trackable chunk of content using Adobe Captivate, quickly and competently. You’ll see how to enhance your message with images, illustrations, and video content, without needing graphic design expertise. And, how to craft the content, illustrate the information, and track the deployed training using Captivate and your favorite LMS.
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Palmer, Jared
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5A |
712 |
Project Management for Video Learning
In this session, we’ll answer questions such as who to solicit/accept feedback from, how to sidestep IT roadblocks, where to store those massive source files, what content should never be made into a video in the first place, and how to know when your project has gone off track. We’ll also examine the proven strategies and methodologies that will allow you to produce more cost-effective videos faster, increase learning quality, and stay sane in the middle of crazy. |
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Rogers, Sam
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7A |
713 |
Brand You, Brand Your Department: Creating Value
Do you struggle to build buzz and credibility around your work? It's time to build some brand awareness! If you build it, they will come is no longer a solid marketing plan, and L&D credibility isn't built solely on word of mouth. It is time to think like marketers! Marketing departments understand how to talk to potential customers, and what makes them tick. They understand how to drive value to their product. It's time to learn how to best communicate with our "customers." In this session, you’ll get four solid marketing-based ideas to create that all important buzz, putting your learning courses on the must attend list!
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Tipton, Shannon
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714 |
Use Your StoryLine 2 Illustrated Characters to Create Useful and Easy Animations
Learn to create animations that are meaningful to the story you are telling by repurposing the illustrated characters in StoryLine2 and editing them in PowerPoint. Learn to:
- Export illustrated characters from Storyline2.
- Import the characters into PowerPoint.
- Edit the characters' features, expressions, poses, hair, and clothing.
- Import the characters back into Storyline or other development tool.
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Laudone, Michael
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7B |
715 |
Responsive Technology: Giving You the Edge in the Changing Landscape of eLearning
Today’s learners want to be able to access materials from a mobile phone, tablet, or laptop computer, and they don’t want to download yet another app to do it. Traditionally, eLearning has lagged behind in the implementation of new technology. It’s time to catch up! You’ll learn the reasons for Responsive Technology and get specific examples showing the accessibility of Responsive Technology to developers and Subject Matter Experts. Catch the vision of how this approach can apply to your own design and development process, and leave with the tools to make it happen.
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Cannon, Adam
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1A |
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
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BREAKOUT SESSIONS
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801 |
Strategies for Integrating Learning with Cloud Technology
Discover how to create aggregated learning playlists and evaluate and propose implementation and integration strategies for cloud applications. You’ll learn about tools that foster personalized curriculums, projects that support self-learning, and hybrid or flipped classrooms, as well as online courses. You’ll see demonstrations of: Evernote, a personalized student digital notebook; Learni.st, a site-to-store annotated URLs and learning documents; several online libraries; Wikispaces.org, a free learning management system; and MOOCs (massive open online courses). You will leave with a strategy—the 5-Finger Rule for Picking Your Online Tools—to make the most of integrating mobile learning with cloud capabilities. |
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Burruss, Laurie
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1A |
802 |
Creating Results-Oriented eLearning with Narrative and Stories
Unfortunately, eLearning is still thought of as a ‘get-it-out-there’ delivery method; best suited to something like a compliance training you can export from PowerPoint, upload to an LMS and roll up participation to say you did. I.D.s are challenged to be creative with little development time. So how can it be better with these constraints? Learn powerful methods to engage learners through narrative, scenarios and stories in order to make it relatable to learners. It’s time to take eLearning to a new level with some simple steps.
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Senffner, Diane
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803 |
Experiential MicroLearning: Aligning Content across Multiple Levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy
Is simulation still the King on experiential learning? Can it be done without expensive simulation-based software? Is it possible if you don’t have a “sandbox” system? We’ll explore how the explosion of micro learning techniques has opened the door to experiential micro learning moments. You’ll learn when experiential learning works best and receive a list of extenders for lower levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy.
This session, part of the Boot Camp track, is open to all attendees.
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Azim, Ayana
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7B |
804 |
Harnessing the Power of Informal Learning
Studies show that up to 75% of learning in the workplace comes through informal learning, rather than through formalized, traditional classroom training. In this session, you’ll:
- Experience and evaluate methods of informal learning.
- Discover techniques to integrate informal learning into existing training delivery methods.
- Assess the value of tracking engagement in informal learning activities.
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Davis, Ronda
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6D |
805 |
Agile Career Development: 5 Essential Tips in a VUCA World
Are you ready for the next step in your career? Do you have a plan? It is vital that we as learning professionals keep our skill sets sharp, are open to change, and ensure we are agile and flexible in our careers to keep pace in our VUCA (volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous) world. Whether early, mid, or late career, what are you doing to adapt, flex, and grow to not be left behind? During this experiential session, you’ll be introduced to “5 Essential Tips” for career agility, as well as receive templates and tools, including an agile career development plan that you can implement immediately upon returning to the workplace.
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Downs, Lisa
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9 |
806 |
Game-Based Learning for Behavior Change
This session will explore the power of full game-based learning. While gamification is a relatively well-understood process, a full learning game introduces more risk, effort and expense. You’ll learn how its benefits can easily justify these costs. Using the example of a game recently completed at Boeing, you will learn to mitigate risk, constrain cost, and minimize the effort required. You will go beyond the gamification perspective, and learn to estimate the value and the cost of full game-based learning.
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Jacobson, Dov
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10 |
807 |
Performance Support Primer: Tools, Techniques, and Examples!
Do your learning solutions still end when your learners walk out the classroom door? Are you meeting your learners back in the workflow, when they shift from “Learners” to “Performers?" We know that formal learning isn’t sufficient to measurably improve workplace performance. How do you decrease Time to Competency for learners? Simply follow them home after formal learning with informal learning and Performance Support. Join us to review the leading methodology for designing Performance Support. We will dive into some actual Performance Support tools that are in action and deployed now. If you have been on the fence about this approach to a holistic learning experience, check in with us!
This session, part of the Boot Camp track, is open to all attendees.
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King, Christopher
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808 |
How Failure Has Contributed to Becoming an Award-Winning L&D Team
“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” ~ Thomas Edison… Hear how Bridgepoint’s 10-year old learning and development department, despite a huge decrease in budget, staffing, and resources has enjoyed a tenfold increase in productivity. Learn from their failures including: being order takers for their business partners, chasing the bright shiny objects, not reporting out on both wins and losses, and more. Rebecca will share examples of process, examples of strategic alignment, as well as copies and examples of their measurements and reporting.
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Magnuson, Rebecca
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809 |
Take Your Programs from Classroom to Blended
Experience a case study of program transition. You will hear how a multi-day, in-person training program was changed into a blended learning solution that includes in-person, video, and online learning. You will hear about the planning and development process, see examples of the program, learn about the implementation, hear lessons learned, and find out the impact on the business. Get a planning framework to begin the transition for one of your programs. And, hear how to determine the right mode of learning for the various parts of the program. Finally, you will learn how to leverage mobile learning as part of the solution.
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Peterson, Lora
Aderhold, Sue
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6CF |
810 |
Houston We Have a Problem: Our Onboarding Program Needs Help!
Do you want your employees to be engaged with your organization’s values their first days on the job? Do your employees know why their jobs matter for your customers? Learn how to bring your corporate values to life in your onboarding programs. Discover a simple tool that we used to guide us as we built our content, focusing on our values and our customers. We’ll share activities used to engage our learners and how we enlisted leadership support and buy in, and our assessment and follow up tools.
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Stolp, Lynn
Smith, Karissa
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6E |
811 |
Management’s Real ROI: Capitalizing e/mLearning Investments
Training efforts are often viewed by management as a line expense for a specific period. e/mLearning initiatives are considered investments since they require tangible financial requirements including technology and supporting infrastructure viewed as “capital expenditures.” We’ll discuss specific financial literacy tools you can use to build a comprehensive financial structure to support these projects and to gain senior management buy-in.
This session, part of the Measurement track, is open to all attendees.
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Pangarkar, Ajay
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1B |
812 |
Universal Design for Learning: Implications for eLearning and Beyond
One-size-fits-all eLearning may not meet all learners’ needs. How can you design eLearning to reduce barriers and meet the needs of all learners? We’ll explore universal design for learning and its set of principles for curriculum development that give all individuals equal opportunities to learn. You will discover an educational framework based on research in the learning sciences, including cognitive neuroscience, that guides the development of flexible learning environments that can accommodate individual learning differences. Learn to recognize changes that are needed in your design practices and be able to implement UDL paradigms moving forward.
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Marrapodi, Jean
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8 |
12:00 PM - 12:15 PM
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Box Lunch Pick-Up (For Hands-on Clinics)
Grab a box lunch and head on into your clinic for a working lunch and session! |
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6A Foyer |
12:15 PM - 3:15 PM
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HANDS-ON CLINICS
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C01 |
Ready to Play: How to Design, Develop and Engage with Games
This is a game intensive event. You’ll start by playing a business game two weeks prior to the conference. During the conference, you’ll deconstruct the game and describe how a game is designed from the initial point of engagement through to deployment and active participation. The concepts, constraints, technologies and the possibilities of gaming will be illustrated and practiced. You’ll experience the use of collaborative and social media to capture, convey and communicate shared knowledge of the game and walk away with a game plan to implement in your organization.
BYOD. Bring a laptop. Be sure to pre-register for this clinic so you are included in the pre-conference game play. |
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Goodman, Dave
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10 |
C02 |
Quick, Sure-Fire, Easy-to-Use Tools for Creating a Corporate Certification
Learn what it takes to certify employees, customers, and aftermarket partners such as dealers, distributors, and on-site customer support staff. You’ll explore six things needed to create defensible, cost-effective certifications, micro-credentials, and digital badges to reduce the cost of service and sales; strengthen brand image; and be more competitive. During this hands-on clinic you will practice using a series of certification development tools specifically designed for corporations.
BYOD: Bring a laptop. |
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Hale, Judith
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3 |
C03 |
Developing Excellent Facilitation Skills
Get the skills you need to be an excellent facilitator from a master—Wilkinson is a Certified Master Facilitator and Board member of the International Institute for Facilitation. Practice applying each of the facilitation techniques—the Seven Separators—to facilitate a group in a step-by-step framework. Learn to:
- Establish and maintain a high energy level.
- Ask starting questions that draw a vivid image.
- Employ a full toolkit of follow-up question types.
- Respect the “power of the pen.”
- Carry the group through the process.
- Prevent, detect and resolve dysfunction.
- Isolate and address sponsor’s key needs.
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Wilkinson, Michael
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6D |
C04 |
Leveraging Analytics to Bridge Gaps Between Training and Results
It's time to get tenacious about training transfer. Explore how one water utility company leverages learning analytics and training transfer to bridge the gap between training events and improving human performance, using metrics, measures, and milestones to proactively direct outcomes and drive toward future bottom-line results. You’ll:
- Understand step-by-step how to connect training events to people performance, and people performance to organizational outcomes and bottom-line results.
- Leverage training data and learning analytics to create laser focused, targeted interventions to get and stay on track in achieving goals and demonstrating measurable value.
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Uhl, Trish
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6E |
C05 |
Have an App Ready to Publish By the End of This Session
You have amazing training content. Ever want to turn it into an app? Afraid of coding? No worries. Learn how to build the app with absolutely no coding required. Neal will walk you through the simple steps needed to produce an app using Windows App Studio and a few other optional programs.
BYOD Bring a laptop. |
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Rowland, Neal
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9 |
C06 |
YouTube for Training: Make and Distribute Videos the Easy Way
In this hands-on clinic, you will:
- Configure a YouTube channel from scratch.
- Upload videos from computer and mobile.
- Create and edit YouTube Live streaming content.
- Secure videos or maximize discoverability.
- Determine the most important video analytics for your organization.
- Discuss a simple production methodology and put it into practice.
BYOD: Bring a laptop running Google Chrome browser, mobile device running YouTube app, Google/YouTube/Gmail account, and headphones with a built-in microphone.
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Rogers, Sam
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7A |
C07 |
Releasing Your Inner eLearning Hero with Storyline
Learn to build unique and engaging interactions using advanced actions in Storyline. We’ll share source files to be used in the activities and the finished sample project. Learn:
- How to use Variables, States, and Triggers to create advanced interactions.
- Ways to make the slider interaction in Storyline 2 your new best friend.
- How controlling multiple layers on the same screen can create an inventive interaction.
- How to use triggers and variables to simulate a saved state when revisiting a screen (and why you would want to do that).
- To create a menu screen that enhances navigation and keeps track of the learner’s progress no matter where they are in a course.
- To use JavaScript to execute advanced actions like: forced completion to an LMS, email generation, and date/time displays using a few simple steps.
BYOD: Bring a laptop running Storyline 1 or 2 or Storyline 360. You may download a complimentary 30-day trial version of Storyline 360 prior to arriving on site here. Session materials and other source files will be available in class on optical drive, USB drive, and via download. |
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Brown, John
Blitz, Alicia
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1B |
C08 |
Marketing Your L&D Brand
During this hands-on session, you will develop an 18-month marketing proposal aimed at improving the visibility of L&D as an essential component of your corporate culture. You will create an L&D Marketing Plan Template and Marketing Messages at a Glance to document the key factors of a comprehensive marketing plan, including learning philosophy, strategic alignment, what needs to be marketed and how, and ways to measure your marketing approach. You’ll:
- Learn to align the L&D Brand to the company vision, mission and/or strategy.
- Determine what L&D should/needs to communicate.
- Complete an 18 month marketing worksheet.
PROJECT: You are encouraged to bring a copy of your company’s vision, mission and/or current key strategic drivers. |
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Drennan, Heather
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8 |
C09 |
High-Impact, Low-Cost Experiential Activities that Engage Any Audience
An astonishing 75% of all training is never applied back on the job because participants are disengaged. Let’s stop this epic waste of time, money, and resources by putting an end to boring training! You’ll experience and practice super-simple, time-tested training techniques that will maximize participant engagement and eliminate dull, tiresome training. You’ll receive a Playbook containing the instructions for facilitating the activities as well as access to a portal with videos demonstrating the activities. |
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Love, Sardek
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1A |
C10 |
Podcasting 101, 201, and 301 Best Tips and Tricks
Get the latest techniques for recording, editing and hosting your podcasts. Explore the hidden secrets behind what works and does not work in iTunes. Discover methods for promoting your work in social media—and learn which marketing techniques are bogus! You’ll learn to create an audio recording, setup podcast hosting and your RSS feed, and know where and how to submit your RSS feed to get your podcast out to the masses.
BYOD: Bring a laptop with the latest version of iTunes and pre-loaded with your favorite audio-recording/editing software. If you have not used recording/editing software for a Mac, please make sure you have GarageBand installed; for a PC, install Audacity. |
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Walch, Rob
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7B |
C11 |
ROI by Design
Learn how to capitalize on current best practices to create the chain of evidence starting with design. You will walk away with a clear understanding of how to design programs that can be measured, how to measure learning, and how to align learning programs with organizational goals/metrics. Learn to:
- Identify how to standardize learning design to enable the measurement of learning outcomes (in terms of knowledge and behavior changes), and to show how programs impact the learner, the job, and the organization.
- Convey examples of a measurement methodology being utilized in organizations to create evidence of learning impact and establish accountability for learning results.
- Recognize the data generated by the learning measurement stages and used for data-driven decisions in organizations.
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Paramoure, Laura
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5B |
C12 |
Micro-Learning in Micro-Time: Developing Impactful Just-in-Time Learning
Get the tools you need to rapidly build your own micro-learning element and leave with a design that is effective, usable, and sustainable. At the end of three hours, you will have:
- A micro-learning strategy applying the, “what, how, when, and why” of micro-learning.
- Your own micro-learning design that takes you from inception to implementation.
- New tools to use that you can customize to your needs (i.e video, self-directed lesson building, live stream recording, social groups etc).
BONUS: You will receive a Micro-Learning Development Workbook, a Content Map Template, and Media Checklists. You will leave with a project plan outline.
BYOD: Laptop or mobile device with smartphone is recommended. |
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Tipton, Shannon
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2 |
C13 |
Create Better Instruction in Any Setting Using the Science of Learning
Learning content is often difficult to learn and apply. Too much content leading to overloaded memory (and less learning), poorly organized content making it harder to understand and more difficult to use…and the list goes on. The (very) good news is research provides instructional, writing, and information design principles that show us how to make it easier to learn from instructional content. Patti and Karen will show you how to break down these principles into tactics you can use to make your instructional content easier to learn, use, and apply—regardless of your delivery method. In this very hands-on session, you will learn to use TRALM (the tasks and realities of adult learning model); select tactics to help people link to prior knowledge; and identify why the most common myth about remembering is...WRONG.
BYOD: Bring a laptop with a word processing program, and a portion of content you want to work on. Leave with better content! |
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Shank, Patti
Hyder, Karen
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4 |
C14 |
Photoshop for Online Instructors: Create Visually Stunning Courses
Do you want to make striking, clear course visuals, but you struggle with graphic design and software? Attend this clinic and learn to create attractive, effective visuals to complement your courses. You’ll become familiar with Photoshop as a tool for digital design; and you'll learn some basic rules and techniques that will improve your design greatly—even if you don't have an "artistic eye." Learn to:
- Create compelling slides for inclusion in eLearning courses.
- Create Lower Thirds that can be used for screencasts or video.
- Understand how type works and always pick complementary typefaces.
BYOD: Bring a laptop with Photoshop installed (30 Day free trial version is fine). |
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Lassoff, Mark
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11A |
C15 |
An Exercise in Motivation with Gamification Design
Keeping employees engaged isn’t easy—especially in today’s easily distracted and multitasking workforce. And that’s where a solid gamification strategy comes in. Rather than approaching gamification by applying cookie cutter, meaningless game mechanics to a program, learn how use a proven process to create cohesive, challenging, collaborative gamification experiences. In this “can’t miss” session, you’ll learn how simple gamification design concepts, when applied properly, can inspire your employees to take action in ways that matter to your business. You’ll get to try your hand at Proto Persona creator—designed to help you stay focused when creating employee onboarding, learning, and engagement programs. |
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Cornetti, Monica
Peters, Jonathan
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5A |
Thursday, February 02
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TOURS |
POST-CONFERENCE, OFF-SITE TOURS
Space is limited and priority is given to 3-Day Conference attendees. Additional fee; please register by Friday, January 27.
CT1 Hyper-Realistic Training: A Movie Studio Tour
Thursday, February 2, 8:30 am – 12:30 pm
Experience how Strategic Operations, Inc. (STOPS) provides Hyper-Realistic training environments for military, law enforcement, first responders, and other organizations responsible for Homeland Security, using state-of the-art movie industry special effects, role players, training scenarios, sets, and props. Note: The special effects utilized during these simulations are very realistic and some may find them disturbing.
Bus loads at 8:30 am, departs at 8:45 am and returns by 12:30 pm at the San Diego Convention Center, Front Drive, Lobby B Doors Entrance.
Fee: $65
CT2 Naval Education and Training Command Tour
Thursday, February 2, 8:00 am – 12:30 pm
Join the tour of the Naval Education and Training Command —the Navy’s premier training organization and see firsthand how one of the largest commands in the Navy uses classroom, hands-on labs, simulation and computer-based training to prepare sailors. Don’t miss your chance to try out a world-class simulator! Note:
Note: Tour participants will not need to meet for a briefing on Wednesday, February 1.
Bus loads at 8:00 am,departs at 8:15 am and returns by 12:30 pm to the San Diego Convention Center, Front Drive, Lobby B Doors Entrance.
Fee: $65
CT3 San Diego Zoo Academy & Private Tour
Thursday, February 2, 8:00 am – 11:30 am
Start your day with a continental breakfast at the zoo, followed by a presentation from San Diego’s Chief Global Human Resources Officer. Learn about their programs in customer service, leadership development, and get a glimpse of their online training portal. Afterwards, you’ll take a narrated bus tour of the zoo grounds and visit an exhibit area not accessible by the general public.
BONUS: At the end of the tour, you can return to the Convention Center or you can stay to explore the zoo at no additional entry fee!
Bus loads at 8:00 am, departs at 8:15 am and returns by 11:30 am at the San Diego Convention Center, Front Drive, Lobby B Doors Entrance.
Fee: $100
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Off-Site |