Learning About eLearning
Steve Talbott,
New Horizons

CBT (Computer Based Training), WBT (Web Based Training), OLL (Online Learning), LDL.(Long Distance Learning), CAL (Computer Assisted Learning), LMS (Learning Management System), LCT (Learner Centered Training), JIT (Just In Time) learning/training, asynchronous, synchronous, multi-sensory, streaming video, chunking, modularity, mapping. The training world is filled with a confusing array of options and acronyms.

Join Steve Talbott, General Manager of New Horizons, for a hands-on overview of how technology is impacting our training industry.

Servant Leadership
Tim Sievers,
Highland Community College

For the past five years, Highland Community College has embraced a concept called "Servant-Leadership." This presentation will describe what Servant Leadership entails, how it can be used to create a better and more productive working environment, and how the organization and individuals can benefit.

It will also provide resources for further information on the program and an overview of the college's Student Servant Leadership Program, which involves High School juniors and seniors from area schools.

"If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else,
you will have succeeded."
Maya Angelou

Strategies for Successfully Creating and
Evaluating Consulting Proposals
Pat Lee,
Ablesoft Solutions
Whether you are an independent training services provider who gains new work through the proposal process, or a corporate decision-maker who evaluates proposals, you won't want to miss our this meeting.

Learn the three most important considerations for proposal development and submission. Understand the ways that subjective, often unrelated events can impact the review of your proposals and what you can do to neutralize such situations and improve your success rate.

Proposal reviewers gain insight into the forces at work in the evaluation and decision-making process.

Eliminating the
Four Frustrations of Training
Ronald T. Schwarz,
Technical Director of Training, Liberty Mutual

Are the results of your training efforts frustrating?

Do your employees seem to forget everything they learned 2 weeks ago?

Has your company invested significant time and money into the training programs, but yet the same performance lapses still continue to occur?

If you answer yes to any of these, you should attend this meeting.

The presenter will cover:

Online Meetings and Presentations
Facilitated by:
Sherrie Hedman
Rock Valley College
and
Christie Mason
Managers Forum

We'll meet on the Internet and tour different web sites that offer a variety of services that support meeting and presentation tools.

While we're touring these sites, there will also be presentations on how you can successfully use these tools to meet some of your daily challenges.

There'll be opportunities to interact, ask questions and add comments with audio and text "chat" tools.

Performance Technology –
When Training Isn’t the Solution
Daniel Nelson
Location: YWCA - E. State, Rockford

Have you faced a workplace performance problem and found that training had no effect or even seemed to make things worse?

It may be that Performance Technology holds a solution for you. Dan will informally share some case studies demonstrating how PT solutions saved the day for him while also saving time, money and sanity in the process.

Attend this session to learn:
- Ways to apply methods that don't have to be high tech or high cost to be highly effective.

- How you can reduce, or sometimes eliminate, the need for conventional training.