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24 Breakout Sessions TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 14 8:00 – 9:00 AM 401 Better than Bullet Points: Creating Engaging E-Learning with PowerPoint Jane Bozarth, Author, Better Than Bullet Points: Creating Engaging e-Learning with PowerPoint Effective, engaging e-learning programs can be created with nothing more than PowerPoint and some creativity. In this fast, fun session we’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 e-learning with PowerPoint. ❙ Work through a sample scenario to choose an appropriate online treatment. ❙ Identify strategies for employing meaningful graphics, interactions, and animations. 402 Creating Engaging Technical E-Learning Programs Ray Jimenez, Author, 3-Minute e-Learning Do you know how to convert technical content on topics such as engineering, software, product and sciences into engaging e-learning In this session you’ll learn that converting technical content from the point of view of an engineer or technical writer is not as difficult as you may perceive. Learn to understand, follow and apply a conversion process that involves the unbundling of content, selecting value-added cases and weaving in these cases with the technical information to create engaging technical learning. 403 $6MM Game: Action Learning That Drives Results Matthew Richter, President; Sivasailam Thiagarajan, RMS, The Thiagi Group Learn about the $6MM Game — an action-learning development format that combines just-in-time training with on-the-job performance results. See how teams select a project with high potential value; develop a plan; pitch it to executive leadership; and execute, document and share their results. Learn how this real-world format uses these value-added projects to teach leadership, project management, organizational politics, negotiation, finance, presentations, teamwork, and more. The best part Discover how executives have buy-in and willingly participate because the impact is obvious and substantial. We’ll explore a case study where program participants generated $13MM in revenue and cost savings. Busy schedule Learn online! 404 Get Strategic: Match Training to Business Needs and Key Initiatives Darryl Sink, President, Darryl L. Sink & Associates, Inc. Do you ever hear comments like…“We need training put together on effective leadership.”… “We need a course on active listening skills.”…“Our people need training on how to troubleshoot.”... What’s missing Sink makes the case that we aren’t aligning our learning and performance programs directly to business and key strategic initiatives. Learn: ❙ About the necessity and benefits of aligning training design with business needs and strategic initiatives. ❙ Five proactive ways to identify business needs and key strategic initiatives for which learning and performance interventions can contribute to meeting the needs and supporting the initiatives. 405 Adult Learning Theory in 60 Minutes or Less Nanette Miner, President, The Training Doctor, LLC Although we might not explicitly state it, all good training design is reliant on an understanding of adult learning theory. This session provides a primer for the link between adult learning theory and workplace learning. Learn to: ❙ Name various theorists and their approach to adult learning. ❙ Name the seven tenets of adult learning theory and explain how they can be achieved or incorporated into workplace learning events. ❙ Explain various facilitation techniques that incorporate adult learning preferences. 406 Change Anything: The Science of Personal Success Ron McMillan, Co-Author, Change Anything, Crucial Conversations, Crucial Confrontations, and Influencer The fastest and surest way to dramatically improve results in any area of life is to change human behavior, often our own. This session shares important findings from VitalSmarts’ fouryear study of the personal change struggles and successes of over 5,000 people from around the world. While their goals were as diverse as getting promoted, losing weight, increasing sales, improving a relationship, or getting off drugs — those who succeeded and those who failed were remarkably predictable. In fact, those who followed three fundamental principles of change were an astounding ten times likelier to succeed than those who didn’t. In this presentation, McMillan will help you learn to apply these three breakthrough principles to any change challenge you face. 407 Using Video for Enterprise Learning and Knowledge Sharing Ted Cocheu, CEO, Altus365 The rise of YouTube has led many organizations to look at video as a cost-effective way to capture knowledge. This session explores how video is being used to effectively gather corporate knowledge for both informal and formal learning. We will discuss technical and cultural barriers to using video and how to overcome them. Learn how: ❙ Video is being used by sales and channel enablement to on-boarding, services training, and event capture. ❙ To systematically capture subject matter experts’ knowledge throughout the extended enterprise. ❙ The key to effective use of video for enterprise knowledge sharing is making media searchable and assessable at the point of interest. ❙ To transfer video into social media. 408 Zombie vs. Mutant Learning: Steps to Rapid Learning Evolution Matt Murdoch, Global Director of Online Learning; Treion Muller, Chief eLearning Architect, FranklinCovey Have your learners become Zombie Learners — half-alive, passively learning and unaware of all of the knowledge available Or are they Mutant Learners — rapidly adapting, evolving and changing to effectively harness today’s Learning Explosion Fueled by technological advances including social media, mobile devices, and cloud computing, this Learning Explosion is resulting in the worldwide distribution of ideas, innovation and learning. Learn how to create a Learning Explosion Lab — a controlled learning environment where learners continuously discover new knowledge, experiment with it, apply it, and organize it into salient concepts that can be easily accessed on your chosen devices. 409 Retention Desired Leadership Required! Tom Roth, Chief Operating Officer, Wilson Learning Retaining top talent is a strategic imperative. Organizations committed to talent retention must focus on keeping people emotionally connected and engaged. Having strong leadership character is essential to creating relationships with employees where engagement and trust occur. The session will focus on leadership character and the factors that create a climate of trust or distrust. You will use a Leadership Character Audit to assess your own sense of leadership character and to gain an understanding of what your leaders would experience in evaluating their own leadership character. Learn to: ❙ Understand the elements of leadership character. ❙ Identify behaviors that either lead to creating a climate of trust or one of distrust. Bookmark TrainingLiveandOnline.com for a calendar of upcoming Certificates and Clinics. Training 2012 Conference & Expo
Breakout Sessions 25 410 Why Training ROI and Other Misnomers Undermine Training’s Credibility Ajay Pangarkar, Performance Strategist, CentralKnowledge Inc. Internally, training’s credibility is fragile — and attempting to prove its worth and validity is often questioned. Discover how to gain organizational support for training while developing your ability to demonstrate training results in business terms. You will: ❙ Itemize why ROI is undermining training efforts. ❙ Translate Kirkpatrick’s evaluation into business terms. ❙ Develop techniques that add business and strategic value. 411 Secrets of Simulation Design Rich Mesch, Senior Director, Strategy & Innovation, Performance Development Group “Simulation” has become a buzzword. This session will help you identify appropriate uses for different types of simulations, common mistakes and misconceptions about designing and using them, and how you can begin developing a strategy for using them in your environment. You’ll see many effective examples using both “traditional” methods and cutting-edge Web 2.0 technologies. Learn: ❙ The attributes of effective simulations (and attributes of really bad simulations). ❙ How to create compelling simulations through the use of storytelling. ❙ When simulations are most effective — and when they aren’t. ❙ How technology enhances, but doesn’t drive, simulations. 412 Maximizing Informal Learning: Making True Blended Learning Work! Bob Mosher, Chief Learning & Strategy Evangelist, LearningGuide Solutions, USA Blended learning has been around for years. Although many successful blended learning programs have been developed, not all have achieved the desired outcome. It can be difficult to get the results to truly impact the workflow after training. This session will introduce the concept of Informal Learning as a true complement to formal instruction. Learn how it is only when these two powerful disciplines are united that we get REAL blended learning. We’ll discuss the design implications of making this journey and review working examples which are delivering powerful results from the classroom to the handheld mobile device. 413 Building Collaborative Learning Communities: The Secret to Social Technologies Karie Willyerd, Vice President, Learning and Social Adoption, Success Factors For social learning to make a business impact, effective social learning communities must grow and become self-sustaining. Learn how the role of training professionals will shift significantly to foster these learning communities. The tools available for social technologies are powerful, but are we ready for the governance of such tools 414 What Works at Work Panel Feed your need for learning at high speed! Join our room host, Eric Parks and enjoy these rapidfire presentations. Each presentation will last 10 minutes and we’ll have time for Q&A at the end of the sessions. • Meaningful Mandatory Training for a Multinational Workforce: Amy Clark, Global Health Training Specialist, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention/Center for Global Health • Transforming Tech Talent for Tomorrow: Jeanne Beliveau-Dunn, Vice President, Learning@ Cisco, Cisco • How Often Are We Solving the ‘Wrong’ Problem Sandra Bruner, HR Management Specialist; Cynthia Harris, Program Manager, Office of Organizational and Employee Development, U.S. Geological Survey Props, Magic, and Object Lessons — 11 Ways to Involve Participants Bob Pike, Founder/Editor, Creative Training Techniques Newsletter Magic, Props, and Object Lessons can energize and anchor learning — when they make a point. The story is the key! You’ll see each demonstrated in a compelling way — and then Bob will pull back the curtain and take you behind the scenes so you can learn how to do it yourself. You’ll walk away with at least four examples you can immediately use in your own training. Come to learn, be amazed, energized, and inspired. Leave prepared to do the same thing for your classes. Participants will get secret links to videos demonstrating the various examples. Ten Questions You Need to Ask Before You Adopt Mobile Learning Scott McCormick, Partner, Float Mobile Learning Organizations of all sizes are considering moving training to a mobile platform. We’ll discuss essential considerations to think through before you embark on your journey. You’ll: ❙ Dispel some of the mystery and alleviate some of the trepidation you may have as you consider mobile learning for your organization. ❙ Lay the groundwork for a higher potential of positive outcomes in mobile learning initiatives. ❙ Leave with a list of potential action items — real-world choices that can support your initiatives. A Best-in-Practice Design for Live Virtual Training Martyn Lewis, Founder, 3g Selling Get a new strategy for delivering live virtual training that leverages production techniques from broadcast media. We’ll describe these broadcast media techniques and demonstrate how they can be integrated with the other elements of live virtual training, such as video, interactive dialog, assignments, and collaboration. Finally, we’ll show why this approach to live virtual training results in engaging, motivating, and improving performance over the long term. Creating Sophisticated, Answer-Judging Interactions (using ZebraZapps by Allen Interactions) TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 14 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM 501 What Would Disney Do Eight Strategies to Pixie-Dust Your Presentations Lenn Millbower, The Learnertainment Trainer, Offbeat Training LLC Walt Disney was a creative genius, a master showman, and an amazing teacher. He once proclaimed, “The gap between ‘entertainment’ and ‘educational’ represents an old and untenable viewpoint.” The entertainments Disney created were both informative and enjoyable–unlike many learning programs. Lenn, drawing on his experience as a training leader at Walt Disney World, will share how Walt Disney’s entertainment principles apply to learning. You’ll: ❙ Examine techniques Disney used to transform amusements into immersive environments. ❙ Discover Walt Disney’s approach to making a message memorable so you can create your own magical results. 502 So No One Told You You’re a Marketeer Maria Chilcote and Melissa Smith, Managing Partners; Jean Barbazette, Founder, The Training Clinic Like it or not, marketing training is part of the job! Identify a variety of ways to improve attendance at training events. Build alliances and a presence in your organization. Meet organizational needs, rather than put on events that have marginal participation. Learn practical tips and tricks: ❙ How to partner with management. ❙ Fully utilize ALL marketing techniques from networking to navigating the digital world. ❙ Make your “marketing job” manageable, effective and fun! Log on to TrainingConference.com to register today!
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