2005 - 2006
RV-ASTD Event Schedule

Join us to share best practices, member experiences and new ideas on evaluating training and learning processes. We’ll not only address putting into practice Kirkpatrick’s well known four level evaluation process, but the latest 5 level model.

We encourage all attendee’s to bring examples of what you have used and to share what has worked and what hasn’t. Experienced training and performance improvement practitioners will facilitate the discussion to ensure all participants take away new ideas on proven, practical evaluation methods.

• Decoding Value by Theresa Seagraves, June 2004.
  This web-article from Learning Circuits (v5 n6) defines the typical value chain of most organizations and describes how to tap into that chain to illustrate the value of performance solutions.
• Using Business Goals as Learning Metrics by Andrew Joseph and JoAnn Wallace
  This is a slide presentation given at the ASTD TechKnowledge 2004 Conference. This case study describes how a training intervention was linked to an organization’s Business goals for evaluation purposes:
• Measuring Success: Capturing the Right Metrics by Chris Moore, Workforce Performance Solutions Magazine, August 2005.
  Addresses the measurement of success at the individual level by aligning organization and individual goals to identify the right measures or key metrics.
  

Do performance management systems make a difference? According to research conducted by Hewitt Associates and the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business the answer is a resounding “Yes!”

Companies with performance management systems perform better financially than those without. If you want to learn more about performance management or are considering implementing a performance management system in your organization, this presentation is for you.

Key topics to be covered include:

1) What performance management is and isn’t;
2) How performance management differs from performance appraisal and MBO
3) How performance management can help a company
4) Assessing the need for a performance management system
5) Two key ingredients inherent in all effective performance management systems.

Build the performance improvement skills essential for being a persuasive, competent professional who gets phenomenal results. Become the resource your organization needs to meet its commitment to ongoing learning and increased employee satisfaction.

Reasons you should attend this program:

• You’ll create a strategy based on workplace trends that aligns training to business results.
• You’ll rate your skills against professional competencies so you can fill your skill gaps.
• You’ll share best practices in the “areas of expertise” and bring back current information to your organization .
• You’ll learn about professional certification and what it means for your future .
• You’ll use the new competency model to help direct hiring decisions .
• You’ll plan your next moves for a new position if you are in transition.

Join us and take a deeper look into the future of the workplace learning and performance profession.

A web based product demonstration illustrating three different types of courseware to include text (with rich media), video and Flash. To include general conversations of cost of development and the need for sound instructional design strategies.

The demonstration will also include actual case studies of two customized virtual campus projects (Learning Management Systems) whereby each contained specific scopes; one to standardize and launch the company orientation and the other to convert text material to an on line deliverable while catering to a computer illiterate target market.

Throughout the presentation discussions will include cost savings associated with web based learning, automatic grading of tests, trainer’s ability to change course material and testing options without the need for technical authoring skills, real time accessibility for student test scores and skill based assessments. 

Upon request from each attendee, an Interactive CD will be made available. The CD provides information on how to use web training technology and the cost benefits associated with better managing the organization’s knowledge capital and human capital. Also included on the CD are printable educational documents which will aid stakeholders in the cost savings and considerations for incorporating web based training technology in to the organization

Time:	12:00pm - 1:30 CST
Location:	Online
Fee:	Free
Reservations:	Click Here to Make Your Reservation!

• Christina Kamer, HR Capital Management Consultants
• Susan Clancy-Kelly, Northwoods HRD Consultants, LLC

Consideration should be given to whether there is business strategy in the organization pertaining to developing employees and what that strategy is. If  not, then training is a 'flash in the pan' kind of exercise with no investment in employees to grow the organization. 

This workshop will focus on developing a formal training strategy linking employee and organization development to ensure that resources have been used wisely to improve workplace performance. The use of metrics to provide a 'before and after' snap shot will be discussed and a checklist of key questions will be provided by the presenters which can be used in your own organizations.