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Meeting LocationsOur monthly chapter meetings are held at several different locations throughout the year. Please visit our Meeting Locations page for addresses, maps, and driving directions. Upcoming Monthly Meetings
January 2009 Meeting
TopicWith a new team in the White House, recession reports and continual talk of doing more with less, Juanita Coston kicks off 2009 by challenging us on how to work effectively in diverse cultures. Join us as we consider the makeup of our chapter, our community and how we can leverage those to benefit our companies, clients and customers. Diversity is not just about gender and race it is about diversity of thought. What you want to do is create an environment that is welcoming to top performers and where people know what it takes to succeed. Members will have an opportunity for interactive cultural conversations which will encourage 'team understanding'. Juanita will address diversity by showing organizations how not to lose sight of their business goals. What makes an effective diverse culture:
The Speaker
Juanita L. Coston (Owner/Senior Consultant J.L. Coston & Associates, Principal, and Organizational Consultant ) has achieved professional status as a Manager, Businessperson, Construction Project Manager, Executive Coach, and Organizational Consultant with over 20 years experience in diverse multicultural environments from construction and academic environments to large international corporations. February 2009 Meeting
TopicMost of us were taught that when it comes to managing your career you pick a profession; find a couple of great companies to work for, work hard and progress. Through this 90-minute presentation, we’ll discuss various challenges facing everyone and how to continually create career options and opportunities. We’ll cover three key tips that will help you maintain a successful career through recessions, downsizing/ restructuring and other life events. Challenging projects with attainable goals. The Speaker
Denise Cooper is a certified business and professional coach with 25 years as a senior human resources professional at Fortune 500 companies such as Monsanto, Budget Rent A Car, Gap Incorporated and the Integrys Energy Group. Denise earned her credentials from the International Coaching Federation program at North Carolina State University and received her MBA from Washington University. She is fully certified to administer and interpret results of the Hartman Mind Scan Assessment. Denise has over 20 years experience in designing competencies models and analyzing business processes to improve performance and sharpen the competitive edge. All this has enabled her to identify the key behaviors that make great leaders and HR professionals’ true business partners. March 2009 Meeting Register now...
TopicWhy is the concept of engagement important?
Simply put, engagement is the ability to capture the souls, hearts, and minds of people to instill an intrinsic desire and passion for excellence. It means creating a culture where employees are intellectually and emotionally tied to the company vision. Engaged team members are loyal, committed, creative, and innovative. They are also more productive than their disengaged counterparts and deliver high-level customer service while positivity impacting the bottom-line. This fun, energetic and interactive workshop will focus on the fundamental principles that successful organizations apply in order to create and foster engaging cultures. Learning Objectives:
The Speaker
Rich Schlentz is an international speaker, consultant, and leadership coach. Rich has been described as a passionate, inspiring, and engaging presenter. He speaks from the heart and offers a message of encouragement sprinkled with humor and enthusiasm. As one of his recent audience participants put it, “It is speakers such as this that result in cultivating and inspiring change from within.” Rich’s work has taken him throughout the East Coast, Honduras, Mexico, and the Dominican Republic. In his work with companies, teams, and individuals, Rich provides the tools to create “breakthrough” performance. With an emphasis on human relationship principles, he helps organizations develop strategies to increase employee engagement, commitment, and productivity. His areas of expertise include corporate culture change, collaborative leadership, consultative selling, high impact presentations, effective communication, etc. Rich is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. A former small business entrepreneur and corporate executive, he has played key roles in several corporate mergers and acquisitions. Rich is currently writing his first book, Your Employees Have Quit…They Just Haven’t Left. April 2009 Meeting Register now...
TopicHow do you bring over 500 employees with a wide range of computer skills up to date on the best of Web 2.0—blogs, wikis, RSS feeds, and all the 2.0 tools? More importantly, how do you accomplish this effectively in only two months with a limited budget and only a handful of trainers? Learn how the Public Library of Charlotte & Mecklenburg County created and implemented the award winning Learning 2.0/23 Things program that has been replicated by libraries, schools, universities, and businesses world-wide. This unique program focuses on collaboration and group interaction to teach Web 2.0 using Web 2.0. Best of all it's free and creative commons licensed so you can replicate the program for your organization. You'll also learn how to use Web 2.0 tools and free resources available from your local public library to support your own learning and career development. The Speaker
Lori Reed is the Employee Learning & Development Coordinator for the Public Library of Charlotte & Mecklenburg County and has over 15 years experience in the field of workplace learning and development. Lori speaks nationally about learning and libraries and blogs about her experiences at librarytrainer.com. Lori co-authored the cover story for the November 2008 issue of American Libraries which focused on the importance of leadership and learning and was honored by Library Journal as one of the nation's fifty Mover & Shakers in the library profession in March 2009. Lori is a board member of the ASTD Charlotte Chapter and serves as Co-VP of Membership. May 2009 Meeting Register now...
TopicOrganizational learning is trending toward online e-learning and educational design systems are responding by developing learning programs to be more realistic and interactive to capture the attention of learners. What are the hidden costs of simulated learning and why are organizations trying to replace yet replicate the first form of learning...from other people? This presentation / discussion / demonstration makes the case for experiential learning and the tremendous amount of informal and social learning that occurs, often unplanned and unaccounted for in the planning and implementation of learning programs. Performance Instruction & Training provides an innovative motorsports themed program that is unique in creating fanatical enthusiasm using highly interactive learning experiences to foster long-term commitment, an environment of teamwork, and effective results.
“Think Inside the Box,” the most commonly requested program theme, utilizes a variety of formats for inclusion in keynote speeches, hands-on team building events, and multi-day experiential learning workshops customized to reinforce corporate initiatives and messaging. Calling on his background in collegiate athletics and speaking from the motorsports perspective, Breon and the “Think Inside the Box” program advocate that businesses would realize bottom-line results with less waste and more productivity by planning, preparing, and executing with the precision and quality of a pit crew. The Speaker
Breon M. Klopp is the Senior Director of Development for Performance Instruction & Training (PIT). PIT provides professional Motorsports pit crew training, coaching, and placement services as well as Motorsports-themed corporate team building and Lean performance events. Mr. Klopp is responsible for the development, delivery, and facilitation of events and programs correlating performance in high-level motor sports to success within business and industry and associated pit crew training and coaching programs offered at PIT. He is the founder of 5 OFF 5 ON Race Team Performance and served as president until acquired by PIT in 2003. Breon Klopp has served as pit crew coordinator for teams in USAR, ARCA, and NASCAR® Craftsman, Nationwide, and Sprint Cup series. Through Pit Crew U, the professional pit crew education division of PIT, he has overseen the training of more than 600 individuals from 48 states and 4 countries outside the United States. Graduates of Pit Crew U have gone on to be win races and series championships in the highest divisions of NASCAR® and include 3 individual and 1 team champion in the Sprint All Star Pit Crew Challenge competition. Nine former students and staff members have advanced to coaching positions within the NASCAR® ranks. As an invited presenter, Mr. Klopp works with and speaks on behalf of companies, events, panels, workshops, and conferences in many industries including sales, manufacturing, health, and maintenance including: Intel International Manufacturing, ConocoPhillips, Shaw Air Force Base, NC Department of Commerce, Textron, Productivity Inc., and the Association of Air Medical Service. Breon Klopp is also a contributor to the books The Complete Idiot’s Guide to NASCAR and 365 Low or No Cost Workplace Team Building Activities. Mr. Klopp is a native of Port Washington, Wisconsin and resides in Mooresville, North Carolina with his wife and son. June 2009 Meeting Register now...
TopicThis workshop will provide you with the same strategies used by the world's top achievers to attain outstanding success and fulfillment. Learn cutting edge tools that will help people overcome challenges and rapidly achieve their personal and professional goals. Learn why it's not 'who you know' but "who wants to know you". The learning objectives are:
Tamara uses case studies, games to illustrate why people do what they do, and also incorporates NLP into the learning method. The Speaker
Tamara Bunte is the Founder and Senior Facilitator of The Institute for Advanced Results. Tamara advises and consults with Fortune 500 companies, executives, managers, success coaches and sales professionals in the areas of Peak Performance, Leadership, Organizational Behavior, and the Psychology of Achievement and Sales. Over the past 10 years, Tamara has excelled in the world of coaching, working with top peak performers and inspiring people to become the best version of themselves. July 2009 Meeting Register now...
TopicEvery day thousands of organizations waste money on employee development because it isn’t effectively integrated, inspected or reinforced. Every day millions of employees sit through training programs that they know are just the flavor of the month and they don’t take ownership of the material covered or apply it for the long term. Every year thousands of training executives and managers deliver training programs that just don’t get the job done for a variety of reasons. During this session Tim will focus on one vital area—Why don’t people use what they learn? There are two key factors that must be understood if you want your training to ‘stick’. The physiological and the psychological reasons that contribute to why people either don’t or can’t learn or why the learning only lasts a few weeks. Learning Objectives:
The Speaker
Tim Connor is the best selling author of over 70 books including several international best sellers, including - Soft Sell (The Number One Best Selling Sales Book In The World Now In 21 Languages), 81 Management Challenges, Your First Year In Sales, 91 Mistakes Smart Salespeople Make, Life Is Short, SOLD and Above Ground. He is the President and CEO of Connor Resource Group and Peak Performance Institute and he has been a full time professional speaker, trainer, coach, consultant and best selling author for 36 years. Since 1973 he has given over 4000 presentations in twenty-one countries around the world to a wide variety of audiences. Tim has been a member of the National Speakers Assn. for over 25 years and he is one of only 400 Certified Speaking Professionals in the world, a designation given by the National Speakers Association since 1979. He is also a Certified MasterStream® Sales Trainer and ChangeWorks Analyst. Tim Connor, CSP tim@timconnor.com 704-895-1230 August 2009 Meeting Register now...
TopicLearn the crucial skills of giving and receiving feedback, and start using them immediately. These skills lie at the root of professional—and personal—success. This method and training is unique and powerful; it does not teach the “rules” or "language" for feedback, but rather how to attain the right attitude when giving and receiving it. Participants also identify and handle common barriers to feedback. Then they develop a specific plan for using these skills at work and at home. The program is fast-paced, entertaining and filled with experiential exercises. Dr. Sanford Danziger and Mr. Thomas White have taught the program dozens of times throughout the USA. Learning ObjectivesParticipants will:
Presentation ModeInteractive lecturette followed by real-situation practice (in dyads) of giving and receiving feedback. Participants then develop an action plan for those areas of life, or circumstances in which they will apply the method. The SpeakersMr. White and Dr. Danziger are founders and co-presidents of TRP Enterprises, Inc., a training and consulting company in Winston-Salem, NC. Their workshops and training in emotional intelligence and the concept of the Totally Responsible Person® (TRP) ® has been used to train over 130,000 people worldwide. They are winners of the Piedmont ASTD’s David Campbell Award for Creativity and Innovation in Training. They have presented programs to ASTD chapters throughout the South. Their business, TRP Enterprises, offers trainer certification, videos, books, CD’s, online courses and coaching. The Web site is www.trpnet.com
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TopicIn today’s age, many learning groups struggle to keep up with the ever-changing needs of their clients when it comes to performance improvement. It is necessary to ensure that learning advocates seek out new and innovative ways of reaching out to their learners. This may require stepping out of a comfort zone and moving away from static learning interventions to offer a continuous opportunity. Many learning groups focus solely on formal learning interventions and leave behind the very approach that fosters collaboration and knowledge increase. This session is about one company’s journey to evolve as a learning group and focus on formal and informal modes of learning to close the gap on performance issues and engage employees. The presentation will take you through the vision of implementing a 3-D immersive virtual world. We will discuss research findings of 3-D Worlds, the pilot our company is currently undergoing, and finally the achievements to date. Part of the presentation will be delivered from within the 3-D virtual world. The Speaker
Heather Fausnaugh has dedicated more than nine years to the field of learning and development. She began her career in learning at Delta Air Lines as an Instructional Designer creating instructor-led, self-paced, and video-instructed learning. She also was instrumental in creating one of Delta’s first multi-media simulations to train customer service agents on how to operate loading bridges. Heather went on to manage the facilitation staff for Delta Air Lines Reservations Call Center. In 2004, Heather began a career with LogicBay as an Advanced Distributed Learning Project Manager. In this role she consulted with companies such as 3M, Caterpillar, Ecolab, and Hewlett-Packard to development and implement web-based and instructor-led training curriculums, performance support systems, competency modeling, e-commerce sites, performance centers, LMS upgrades and migrations, and LMS hosting. To further expand her skills in learning arena, Heather transitioned to a performance improvement consultant at Bank of America, where she earned her Six Sigma Green Belt on a project to create an Enterprise Credit Curriculum. This project is yielding a 45-course curriculum that is estimated to save the bank $1.5M. Currently, Heather is the Learning Director at TIAA-CREF. Because of her passion for performance consulting and ensuring training is tied to the business goals, she has re-vamped work flow processes for the learning department that can be used as a toolkit that includes proactive performance consulting methods. No meeting in December. See you in January!
Special Interest Groups (SIG)The Chapter has two Special Interest Groups—the eLearning SIG and a newly-formed Job Seekers SIG. Job Seekers SIGContact: Lara McKinnon (704-364-3574) LaraMcK@bellsouth.net In the best market ASTD is a wonderful place to meet new people as well as be renewed by presentations about topics that matter to us. So what happens when our economic forecasts seem to be getting bleaker, the networking opportunities seem smaller and more of us are unemployed? While the first statement is still true, there are some new items that become part of the conversation.
If you are interested in exploring any of these questions, participating in some informal Learning Labs, or just offering your wisdom, please join us at 5:00 at the next ASTD monthly meeting. For more information contact Lara McKinnon at 704-364-3574 or LaraMcK@bellsouth.net eLearning SIGContact: Dawn Adams Miller (704-451-7987) dawnladams@hotmail.com Web link The eLearning SIG meets the fourth Wednesday of every month at 6:00PM. Many of the meetings are held at Lodestone Digital, located near I-77 and Tyvola Road, and sometimes include web conferencing that allows you to attend the meeting from home! See and hear what fellow elearning practitioners are doing at their companies, the technologies and tools being used, new developments, and more.
Please try to make it for the face-to-face at Lodestone. It will be worth the trip! IMPORTANT NOTE FOR MAY 27 MEETINGUse the link below to access the May 27 session instead of the WebEx information you currently have. http://lodestonedigital.acrobat.com/elearning Everyone should just enter the room as a guest. The host, Josh Cavalier, will let people in. Once we get started Josh will give a brief overview of how the Connect environment works. WebEx webconferencing InformationSession Number: 207 040 411 See What You Missed—2008 ProgramsHere’s a list of the 2008 speakers and their topics. If you aren’t already a member, please consider joining the chapter so you can take advantage of this great professional development opportunity and enable the chapter to continue to bring this level of programming to Charlotte!
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