Wrap up Training 2012 with a not-to-be-missed FREE hands-on clinic. Lunch is on us. Just let us know which clinic you'll attend on the registration form.

Wednesday, February 15
12:15 PM – 3:15 pm

C01 BRAND NEW JOLTS: ACTIVITIES THAT WILL WAKE UP AN ENGAGE YOUR PARTICIPANTS
Tracy Tagliati, Senior Associate; Sivasailam Thiagarajan, RMS, The Thiagi Group

Jolts are powerful learning tools to jump-start your sessions in less than 5 minutes and provide an emotional impact resulting in surprise and discovery. Your participants will sit-up, listen, learn, and gain instant insights into your training topics. The entire session will be hands-on, using jolts to teach you about jolts. You will take home a hefty handout, access to a Website with hundreds of training activities, and a new attitude toward experiential learning. Learn to:

• Identify and use different sources of powerful jolts.
• Segue between one training topic and the next.
• Leverage your participant's introspection and interaction with follow-on debriefs.

C02 JUMPSTART YOUR PROJECTS
Lou Russell, Queen, Russell Martin & Associates

Pack your gnarliest project, and join Russell for an accelerated, hands-on adventure. You'll leave with a Project Charter and the start of a Project Schedule for your project. After this real-world experience, you will be able to improve your project success by applying fast, flexible and measurable techniques in a realistic and consistent way. Learn to:

• Create a Project Charter in 45 minutes that answers 'WHY is my organization doing this project?'
• Leverage the Project Charter to jumpstart a Project Plan.
• Leverage the Project Plan to create a powerful status report to gain stakeholder support.
• Apply these techniques to manage your portfolio more effectively, and scale your own capacity.

C03 CARE AND FEEDING OF SMEs: EXTRACTING REAL-WORLD REHEARSALS FOR PERFORMANCE SUCCESS!
Sheila Krejci, President, Sheila K Training, Inc.

Even the most enthusiastic Subject Matter Experts have difficulty getting what they know out of their heads in a way that can be used to teach others. Your job is to discover the most critical elements of what the SME does — and where and how she does it — and from this create a training experience that is powerful enough to impact participant performance in the Real World. Learn a process for collaborating with SMEs, making them your allies in whittling down content to a highly focused, context-rich training aligned with the ultimate success of participants. This clinic is crammed with tested and refined techniques to confirm business objectives and metrics; identify required participant behaviors; and develop experiences that serve as rehearsal for real-world performance.

C04 HOW TO NEGOTIATE SO EVERYONE WINS — ESPECIALLY YOU!
Jeff Cochran, Master Facilitator, Shapiro Negotiations Institute

Based on the award-winning book, The Power of Nice: How to Negotiate So Everyone Wins — Especially You!, this program focuses on a systematic process for negotiating deals with suppliers, vendors, and customers that helps to maintain an ongoing relationship long after “the deal is done.” You'll learn how to negotiate in a way that is profitable, while also satisfying the needs of the other side so that negative ramifications down the line are minimized. You will:

• Learn habits and tools that can be applied immediately to achieve greater negotiation success.
• Undergo Real Deal coaching.
• Participate in interactive exercises.
• Be able to train others in your organization in this process.
• Please bring live deals you'd like to work through in this clinic.

C05 AUDIT AND BENCHMARK YOUR TRAINING FUNCTION
Jean Barbazette, Author, Managing the Training Function for Bottom Line Results; Melissa Smith, Managing Partner, The Training Clinic

Audit and benchmark your training function in ten key areas. Whether your training function is strategic or reactive (and wants to be more strategic), it is helpful to clarify and identify how your function is operating. First consider which of the ten key areas apply in your organization. Then, identify the stage of development at which your function is operating in the applicable areas. Finally, decide specific activities to move your function to the next level. You will:

• Clarify which roles and responsibilities apply to ten key functional areas.
• Complete and interpret a minimum of four key areas of the Training Function Systems Audit.
• Learn how to use the entire Training Function Systems Audit as an ongoing benchmarking tool.

C06 CREATING eLEARNING STORIES AND EXERCISES WITH ARTICULATE STORYLINE
Ray Jimenez, Author, Scenario-Based Learning: Using Stories to Engage e-Learners

This clinic will present proven ways in using stories and exercises to engage learners as well as step-by-step methods to develop events, characters, choices, and consequences and to quickly convert them into eLearning by using Articulate's new software, Storyline. Learn how to:

• Develop engaging stories, scenes, events, and characters.
• Add tension, discoveries, flurries, loops, choices, and consequences.
• Use Articulate Storyline to create micro-scenarios and stories.
• Convert PowerPoint and Presenter files into Storyline scenarios.
• Integrate Engage scenario branching and interactions into Storyline.
• Apply Storyline features such as layers, branching, built-in images and templates, videos, and others.

Attend this session and download ten Storyline templates using stories and micro-scenarios for free. Please bring your Wi-Fi enabled laptop.

C07 IMPLEMENTING LEVELS OF EVALUATION: LEARNING FROM AN EXPERIMENT
Darryl Sink, President, Darryl L. Sink & Associates, Inc.

The standard procedures and processes for implementing all 5 levels of evaluation are a great place to start, but they don't take into account the nuances and barriers that may be present in your organization and context. How about doing an experiment with a training program in your organization to discover what's really necessary to implement the levels of evaluation? We'll explore: formal and informal communications, responsibilities and roles of those who will implement evaluation, ways to collect and analyze the data, and incentives. You'll:

• Set up and execute an experimental project to implement all 5 levels.
• Discover how to adapt the procedures and processes to work in your unique environment.
• Standardize the process to scale up the implementation of the levels of evaluation in the context of your organization.

C08 CREATING INTERACTIVE eLEARNING
Ethan Edwards, Chief Instructional Strategist, Allen Interactions

Instructional interactivity is the key for creating effective learning experiences that motivate learners to improve performance. Learn a design methodology, consisting of four key elements of instructional interactivity; explore these design principles through examples from organizations who have implemented successful e-learning programs. Finally, you'll apply the design principles learned by building an interactive application in a new cloud-based authoring system. You will:

• Learn a design methodology for creating effective e-learning applications.
• Explore successful e-learning programs which illustrate effective design principles.
• Build an interactive application in a new authoring system, applying the design methodology.
  

Please bring your Wi-Fi enabled laptop.

C09 DESIGNING SYNCHRONOUS LEARNING
Kassy LaBorie, Synchronous Learning Expert, InSync Training, LLC

Explore how to keep participants engaged and active in the online classroom environment. We'll focus on what the instructional designer can do via the design process to help the Facilitator provide a quality learning experience. Working with a partner, you'll create collaborative synchronous exercise designs based on what you've learned. You'll share your designs, and then to submit them to a community area so everyone has the opportunity to review, comment on, and learn from others, even after the conference has concluded. Learn about:

• Interaction vs. collaboration.
• Concurrent and serial collaboration.
• Best practices for designing synchronous exercises for: breakout rooms, whiteboard, chat, synchronized web browsing, and application sharing.

You'll receive a workbook with best practices, articles to review, and other resources that support effective synchronous design.

Please bring your Wi-Fi enabled laptop.

C10 DOWN & DIRTY VIDEO: STRATEGIES FOR PRODUCING E-LEARNING VIDEO ON A BUDGET
Greg Owen-Boger, VP & Trainer, Turpin Communication

Often e-learning courses include video of the instructor or SME speaking directly to learners.
This can be a daunting task if you’re not equipped with the know-how to plan, shoot, edit and deploy the video. It’s even more challenging
when you or your SMEs are not at ease in front of the camera. This session will provide practical hands-on strategies for producing “talking head” videos on a budget. Learn:

• Best practices for developing and rehearsing a script.
• Best practices for setting up a make-shift studio and the placement of the camera, lights and sound equipment.
• Strategies for engaging learners and sounding conversational (and coaching others to do the same).
• Guidelines for editing and producing the finished product.

This lively session will be led by Greg Owen-Boger, a presentation and facilitation skills trainer and former actor/director, and will include demonstrations and copies of job aids.

C11 MEASURING THE ROI OF COACHING
Lisa Ann Edwards, Founder, Bloom Coaching Institute

It is widely accepted that coaching programs are effective in developing and retaining top talent, the challenge is how to credibly measure coaching's impact. In fact, many may wonder if it's possible to credibly measure the impact of coaching and report return-on-investment. Indeed, it is possible to measure the impact of coaching; and, you'll learn how to measure the real impact of coaching and how to demonstrate ROI. This will be illustrated through a case study. You will:

• Identify an appropriate coaching project to measure.
• Create a data collection plan.
• Develop a plan to measure the ROI of coaching for your coaching project.
• Walk away with an action plan of next steps for measuring and evaluating your next coaching project.