Learning Right Sized: Best Practices for Enhancing the Manager as Trainer Program and Measuring Your L&D Program's Success
Managers and Measures can be a L&D professional’s great asset or
challenging liability when it comes to maximizing your learning and
development program—particularly when you’re on a tight learning
budget. So what to do?
In this workshop we will explore two main areas that can assist you in maximizing your L&D program effectiveness: how to involve managers as conduits in the training delivery process, and what metrics can be used to determine a program’s success. Guest speakers Bill Daniels and John Darling will share their years of experience designing, delivering and measuring learning programs, including a review of the "Speed to Proficiency" tool. Optimize the effectiveness of your learning program and advance your business success—Join us on October 28th!
Workshop Overview:
- Explore how to involve managers in the learning program
- Identify measurement options
- Learn practical implementation techniques
- Connect and network with your peers in this interactive session
Attend this workshop and you will:
- Understand how to maximize your learning program with a minimum budget
- Learn about technology that can help you measure the success of your learning program
- Review practical applications from peer organizations
Date: Wednesday, October 28th, 2009
Time: 1:30 – 5:00 pm
Location: Genencor, 925 Page Mill Rd, Palo Alto
Meeting Registration:
Members:
$60 in advance
$75 check at the door
Non-Members:
$60 *Special offer for eligible non-members through
October 21st at 5pm
$120 in advance
$150 check at the door
*Membership Criteria:
- Internal HR, training, OD and/or talent management professionals in the life sciences industry: biotech, pharma, medical device, diagnostics or tools companies
- HR, training, OD and/or talent management professionals in transition between internal positions
Click here to register online: www.learningrightsized.ezregister.com
Pre-Registration will conclude on October 26th at 5pm. Bring your confirmation number or receipt to the workshop and sign in at the door. Doors will open at 1pm on October 28th. Please be seated by the 1:30pm start time.____________________________
Session Topics:
Managers as Trainers by William Daniels
To
improve organizational productivity, there are high-leverage
opportunities for the use of managers as trainers. To make use of these
opportunities, organizational learning and development professionals
usually have to achieve two things. First, we make sure managers stop
teaching (and modeling) the wrong things. Their influence on others’
behavior is very real, but often unconscious and not very productive.
Second, we help managers be more effective in empowering others to get
their work done. Bill Daniels will share insights and processes he has
developed to improve organizational productivity by helping first-line
managers assist individual contributors to manage their own work:
Output, Feedback, Resource systems. For middle managers, the
methodology Bill will share is a new application of action learning.
Speed to Proficiency by John Darling
The difference between a key employee who's just OK v. one who is truly
proficient at their job can translate into millions of dollars to the
bottom line of any company. In any business arena where the
demonstrated mastery of new knowledge and skills is critical to the
success of the business speed to proficiency is the name of the game.
However, putting in place learning processes that build true
proficiency is a tough proposition. If it was easy, everybody would be
doing it – but it takes time, energy and resources to provide the
reinforcement and coaching required to do it right. In his presentation
John Darling will be discussing how to: (a) Create & implement
technology-enabled proficiency-based learning processes, (b) Leverage
informal learning and social learning to realize a huge ROI, and (c)
Lessons learned from 10 years of trial & error.
Learn, Do, Teach: Transforming Leaders into Learning Agents by Stacy Porter
Stacey Porter will present a case study of a learning initiative
designed to transform scientific leaders into organizational teachers
& story tellers. The results of this successful initiative were
widespread knowledge of the interdisciplinary nature of drug discovery,
deeper recognition and respect for internal leaders, and demonstrated
commitment from departmental leaders to share expertise throughout the
organization.
Speaker Bios:
William Daniels
William
R. Daniels is Workshop Designer, Senior Partner and Co-Founder of ACT,
based in San Rafael, California. He has assisted thousands of
executives and managers throughout the United States, Asia and Europe
to achieve breakthroughs in their managerial performance and
organizational productivity. Bill has facilitated team meetings to
design everything from the world’s largest microprocessors and chip
manufacturing plants to insurance industry software, internet sites,
and new beverages. http://www.actproductive.com/
John Darling
John
Darling has over 25 years of experience in successful design and
implementation of a wide variety of organization change initiatives for
clients including Chevron Texaco, Pacific Bell, Xerox, Hewlett Packard,
Siemens, PG&E and the Department of Defense. He has served as lead
architect on projects such as enterprisewide culture change, work
process redesign/implementation, self-managing team development,
strategic planning and alignment initiatives, workforce redesign and a
host of new technology introduction efforts. Mr. Darling has a
bachelor's degree in psychology from Pacific Lutheran University, and
he earned his master's degree in human resources and organizational
effectiveness at Pepperdine University. http://www.q2learning.com/index.shtml
Stacy Porter
Stacey
Porter brings 10 years of leadership development and organizational
learning experience in the technology, pharmaceutical, and medical
device industries. In process of completing her PhD in Industrial /
Organizational Psychology, and holding a Masters in Clinical Social
Work, Stacey possesses a unique combination of practical business
experience and management consulting skill with an academician’s deep
domain knowledge and expertise. Stacey has most recently headed the
Learning & Development function for Roche Pharmaceuticals. In this
position, she worked internally as an executive coach, organizational
design expert, and architect of leadership & management development
programs. Her coaching focuses on helping leaders gain awareness &
acceptance of their unique strengths, polishing & maximizing
winning attributes, and finally mining opportunities to teach and lead
at all levels within the organization.
HR Certification Institute Credit
This program, has been approved for 2.75 (General) recertification
credit hours toward PHR, SPHR and GPHR recertification through the HR
Certification Institute. For more information about certification or
recertification, please visit the HR Certification Institute website at
www.hrci.org.
The use of this seal is not an endorsement by the HR Certification Institute of the quality of the program. It means that this program has met the HR Certification Institute’s criteria to be pre-approved for recertification credit.
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