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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 2008 Meeting
February 2008 Meeting
March 2008 Meeting Register now...
TopicCompared to other companies, how effective and efficient is your workplace learning function? What are other companies doing? Global, as well as local, best practice benchmarking results in workplace learning will be shared and discussed. Key trends will also discussed. You will leave with solid benchmarking data and an "audit" worksheet to guide you in furthering assessing highly effective and efficient work place learning functions. Understanding where you "rank" relative to best practice will support business case. The objectives are:
Take away materials include an executive summary of benchmarking results and a Workplace Learning "audit" worksheet 50% of lecturette with use of polling devices, 30% small group discussion, 20% large group discussion 30 minutes Open with a series of questions posed by the CEO/CFO of a company relative to effectiveness and efficiency of the meeting attendees' learning function. (create sense of urgency). Ask an ASTD State of Industry and/or other researched benchmarked question. Have small groups discuss their table response. Best practices can be shared at this time, too. Using polling devices, small groups(tables) provide their response. Real time polling results will come on the screen. The Speaker
Rita Mehegan Smith is Vice President, Enterprise Learning for Ingersoll Rand and Dean for the Ingersoll Rand University. Ingersoll Rand is a $10 billion global, diversified industrial company. Ingersoll Rand University is responsible for developing strategic organizational competencies, providing leadership education, and for driving the IR culture across the globe. Dr. Smith has over 26 years of progressive leadership roles in the learning and development field. She has led learning functions in a variety of Fortune 500 companies; including the travel, financial services, and high tech manufacturing industries. The combination of her MBA, and EdD, coupled with her Six Sigma background, enables her to leverage a practical, applied business approach to learning and development. Her professional writings, most recently in the 2005 Pfeiffer Annual, similarly reflect this pragmatism. Dr. Smith has served ASTD in a variety of leadership roles, including her current role as an ASTD Board of Director. She was most recently profiled in the September issue of CLO Magazine. April 2008 Meeting Register now...
TopicBenchmarking is the process of determining
In business, you could argue that 40 years of unprecedented growth would make Starbucks the benchmark in food retail sales. As professional trainers responsible for Human Performance Improvement it should be important for our organizations to understand in the field of Corporate Education:
This program is designed to provide a practical step by step guide on:
Bob Cestaro (Ingersoll Rand University), Scott Neeley (Newell Rubbermaid Training Center) and Kristy Temple (Ingersoll Rand University) will share practical benchmarking templates, processes and data that they are currently using in their learning organization benchmarking efforts. There will opportunities for Q&A and sharing of best practices from our members in the audience. Please take the opportunity to provide the speakers with your benchmarking questions prior to the session by emailing programming@astdcharlotte.org (with the subject line: Benchmarking Question) so we can include your topics of interest in the presentation. The Speakers
May 2008 Meeting Register now...
TopicThe May 15th chapter meeting will be an evening of best practices and problem solving. Bring what you are currently working on, bring a problem, or bring your brain, and we’ll share tips, tricks, and best practices with each other on a variety of workplace learning topics. June 2008 Meeting Register now...
TopicThere are many ways to describe yourself and those around you. Those descriptions can range from accurate to absurd, and from nurturing to disparaging. Typology, (or personology), used constructively, provides us with filters through which we can gain more accurate interpretations of who people really are, resulting in improvements to our day-to-day interpersonal relationships, our work environment, and ourselves. The most accurate and usable interpretation of temperament type comes to us through more than 50 years of research and application by Dr. David Keirsey. This presentation, based on Dr. Keirsey’s work, is designed to help you:
All attendees will be provided with the opportunity to use the Keirsey temperament sorter and to access a report on their own temperament type. The Speaker
After having worked for the major banks in Charlotte, with an academic background in Education, Language Arts and Psychology, Les has been a technical writer and instructional designer for more than twelve years in the pulp and paper, financial, and software development industries. In keeping with his temperament type, Les was so overwhelmed with the accuracy and value of Keirsey temperament theory that he became a Keirsey temperament certified professional in 2006. Les was an ASTD board member of the Charlotte chapter during 2007. July 2008 Meeting Register now...
TopicWe have all rushed (or are in that process) to e-learning…but is it good e-learning? That can be a subjective judgment, depending on who you ask. In this session, we will review six (or however many) effective e-learning principles and how those principles are (or are not) being applied to e-learning solutions. We will begin by examining the principles, positions, and ideas of several industry experts. We will then review samples of e-learning—good and bad—to see how the principles were (or were not) applied. Following the initial presentation, there will be a short discussion panel with e-learning practitioners fielding questions and challenging conventional wisdom in the production of e-learning. This session will be interactive with audience participation (conversation, debate, and crying). Panel members include Chris Prigmore of Handshaw, Inc., Mike Perkins of Newell-Rubbermaid, and Scot May of Capital Bank. The SpeakersScot May is Director of Training for Capital Bank in Raleigh, North Carolina. He has over 15 years experience in the field of workplace learning, ten of these in the financial services industry. Chris Prigmore is a Senior Designer for Handshaw, Inc., in Charlotte, who focuses on the human side of e-learning. She ensures that Handshaw solutions meet both the business needs of clients and the learning needs of the audience, while making the best use of technology to improve employee performance. Chris manages the instructional design process, seeing projects through the needs assessment, analysis, design, and production phases. After training programs are implemented, she evaluates learner performance against the original business goals. She provides strategic direction and mentoring to the Handshaw design team on the design and development of unique solutions. Previously, she worked in the technical training industry as an operations manager and account representative. Chris received her BSBA in Finance from University of Florida and her Masters of Education in Instructional Systems Technology at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Mike Perkins is responsible for the strategy, design and implementation of the Learning Management System for Newell Rubbermaid. His team also develops web content and video solutions to support the Newell Rubbermaid business units. Newell Rubbermaid Inc. is a global marketer of consumer and commercial products with annual sales of approximately $6.5 billion and a powerful brand family including Sharpie, Paper Mate, Parker, Waterman, Rubbermaid, Calphalon, Graco, Levolor, BernzOmatic, Vise-Grip, IRWIN and Lenox. Mike has a strong background in designing Global LMS’s including Husqvarna University. Prior to joining Husqvarna, Mike was the Manager of Content Development for CompuMaster, a division of SkillPath Seminars, the largest public seminar company in the world. Mike hails from Kansas City, MO where he also has a background as a High School Chemistry teacher and coach for 5 years. Mike is a Microsoft Certified System Engineer (MCSE), earned a Master’s degree in Teaching from Webster University and a BS in Psychology from Truman State University. August 2008 Meeting Register now...
TopicThis presentation is centered around two ASTD-identified categories: Improving Human Performance and Facilitating Organizational Change. Have you wondered what it takes to move your presentation skills and style to new levels? In this interactive and information-based program led by award winning TV producer and international communicator Joe Carleo of Advanced Language and Media Services, you will learn:
The Speaker
Joseph Carleo, APR is the founder and owner of a boutique international HR, PR and Media agency, Advanced Language and Media Services. Joe speaks English, Spanish, and French and has experience with nuances of culture and language in the global workplace. He graduated from SUNY/New Paltz, NY and has over 20 years experience as an HR consultant, Public Relations practitioner and Telly® Award winning broadcaster. September 2008 Meeting Register now...
TopicEffective, engaging e-learning programs can be created with nothing more than PowerPoint and some creativity. Jane Bozarth returns with a fast, fun session on making magic with PowerPoint. We’ll look at ways:
The Speaker
Jane Bozarth, M.Ed. is E-Learning Coordinator for the state of North Carolina’s HRD Group and the author of these titles: A popular, dynamic workshop presenter, Jane is a winner of the Rooney Award for Innovation in State Government, a Live and Online (LOLA) Award, and a Training Magazine Editor’s Pick Award. She lives in Durham, NC. October 2008 Meeting Register now...
TopicISD in one form or another has been around for over sixty years. In this world of “here today, changed tomorrow” theories and “concept of the moment” learning, that’s a pretty long run, but after all the changes that have occurred, is ISD still relevant? Join with George as we explore if and where ISD, and the entire process of instructional design, fit into this age of training the individual by podcast, PDA, and wiki. The Speaker
George Piskurich is a leading authority on Instructional Design and Organizational Learning. His design and performance consulting company based in Macon, Georgia provides consulting services and workshops in Instructional Design, Management Development, Classroom Facilitation, and Performance Management to clients throughout the country. He specializes in e-learning interventions, performance/training analysis, distance learning, the design and development of self-directed/individualized learning programs for all levels of the organization, telecommuting interventions, and knowledge management. His workshops on instructional design, classroom facilitation skills, self-directed learning, structured mentoring, interactive distance learning, performance management, and telecommuting have been rated as “outstanding” by participants from organizations world wide. With over twenty years of experience in every phase of Learning Technology, he has been a classroom instructor in both the public and private sector, designed development systems for managers, developed and instructed training programs ranging from communications theory to computer based training techniques, and created industrial and health care training departments as a corporate training director and CLO. In his specialty of self-directed learning he has created individualized programs on topics ranging from the biological sciences to instructional and supervisory techniques, using print, slide, video, and computer based formats. George holds a PH.D. in Instructional Design from The University of Pittsburgh, and has been on the faculty of The North Carolina State University, Mercer University, and Peace College.November 2008 Meeting Register now...meeting info here. December 2008 Meeting Register now...meeting info here.
See What You Missed—2007 ProgramsIn 2007 we up’ed the level of the chapter meeting programs. Here’s a list of the speakers and their topics. 2008 will see a similar lineup as far as the diversity and quality of programs and workshops. 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!
Back To Basics Conference—Friday, October 17
Back to Basics Conference
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