PROJECT CLINICS
Extend your conference experience when you choose from one of ten free project-based clinics. Learn by doing and in a hands-on, interactive, extended session. All clinics take place Wednesday, February 3, from 12:15 PM - 3:15 PM and include a working lunch.
C1 Using the Ordinary to Make Your Training Extraordinary! C2 Re-Wiring Learning for Today's Demanding Workforce
Sharon Bowman, Author, The Ten-Minute Trainer and Training from the BACK of the Room!

Discover over a dozen ways to use ordinary office and household objects to help make your training stick—with any topic and any audience.

Plus, leave with a 3-D trainer's toolbox that you create (loaded with ready-to-use training strategies), as well as a hand-out of great, economical resources guaranteed to make your training extraordinary.
Diane Gayeski, Professor of Strategic Communication; Interim Dean, Graduate and Professional Studies, Ithaca College

We'll explore key demographic data that drives new designs for organizational learning and how to adapt your training to comply with laws to accommodate the prevalent learning, physical, and psychological disabilities in the workforce.

This clinic will provide you with actionable data, real-life examples, and the time to work on a re-design of a key learning program you bring to the session so that it fits the needs and styles of the workforce of today and tomorrow. 

C3 Driving Creative Thinking and Innovation

C4 The Deceiving ROI and How to Conduct a ROI Quality Analysis
Ann Herrmann-Nehdi, CEO, Herrmann International

This clinic will introduce practical tools and techniques that can be applied to improve internal processes and team dynamics to build the culture of innovation necessary for driving growth. Using a highly actionable model based on three decades of brain research, it will provide a framework for assessing current programs and determining what systems must be put in place to encourage "creative abrasion" and build skills in innovative thinking. You will:
  • Learn how to improve problem definition for improved solutions.
  • Explore techniques to jumpstart and access creative thinking abilities.
  • Apply proven methods for building teams that are optimized for breakthrough thinking.
  • Learn to use the principles and patterns of creative abrasion and accelerate your potential to drive new revenue growth through innovation.
  • Develop a successful framework and common language for encouraging innovative thinking as an organizational strategy.
Ron Stone, President, Center for Performance and ROI, Inc.

A performance solution can achieve a ROI of 100%, 200%, or even greater. This seems like an acceptable and positive outcome. Experience activities and a tool that demonstrate how a positive ROI can be deceiving and an unacceptable result for an improvement initiative.

Bring your completed ROI evaluation project (training, OD, technology, etc.) and apply the acid test to examine the Quality of your ROI.

C5 The Successful Do-It-Yourself (DIY) E-Learning Developer

C6 Coaching for Talent Development and Employee Engagement
Ray Jimenez, Author, Scenario-Based Learning: Using Stories to Engage e-Learners

Are you a lone, DIY e-learning designer or developer? Learn how to successfully implement e-learning by using DIY methods and software. Bring your own e-learning project (or we'll provide you with a template to work with) and you'll apply the "Jump-Start and DIY E-Learning Process" to cut cost, time, and increase your success factor.

Explore shortcuts to instructional design, course development, programming, delivery of e-learning programs, and more. You are required to bring your own laptop computer to this session.
Terence Traut, President, Entelechy, Inc.

Developmental coaching is THE way to engage and retain talent AND develop even higher levels of performance.

Mid-level and front-line managers are key to developing talent and eliciting discretionary performance from employees, and coaching is their tool.

Learn the benefits of coaching for the employee, the manager or supervisor, and the organization and how to implement a coaching initiative within your organization.

C7 Strategies and Techniques for Building Moment of Need Performance Support

C8 Mobile Learning Fundamentals Lab
Bob Mosher, Global Learning and Strategy Evangelist, LearningGuide Solutions USA

This highly interactive clinic will share ways to expand your already successful formal learning into the informal domain. In this clinic, you'll build and experience best practices, design tools, and approaches to help your learners during their most important moment of need: when trying to APPLY what they have learned.

Bring your own laptop computer to this session.
David Metcalf, Senior Researcher, University of Central Florida, Institute for Simulation and Training; A.J. Ripin, Strategist, Future and Emerging Technologies, Moving Knowledge

According to the Yankee Group, mobile workers make up more than 40% of the U.S. workforce. Explore the latest information, most effective tools, and best resources to integrate mlearning within your learning strategy.

Bring your own laptop computer to this session.

C9 How to Audit and Benchmark Your Training Function

C10 Managing the Politics of Performance
Jean Barbazette, Author, Managing the Training Function for Bottom Line Results

Learn how to use the Training Function Systems Audit as an ongoing benchmarking tool, and audit and benchmark your training function in ten key areas. 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.
Judith Hale, Author, The Performance Consultant's Fieldbook

Discover how to appropriately use—but not abuse—politics to the benefit of your training department.

You will learn what distinguishes constructive from destructive politics; the 5 qualities required to influence decisions and actions; 3 processes for increasing their influence; and a guide for assessing their level of influence; and a strategy for countering resistance.
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