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BOLD Workshop: October 28, 2009

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!

Host Organization Sought for Survey Collaboration

Stacey Porter, a graduate student in organizational psychology (and former head of L&D at Roche) seeks a partner company to collaborate on the design and administration of an employee attitude survey.  The benefit to the partner organization is the ability to gain valuable insight into attitudes & behaviors within their employee population through a data-driven methodology for FREE!  The average price tag for a customized employee attitude survey is $100,000, so this is an awesome opportunity to pulse your people without the financial burden!  The benefit to Stacey is that she can test her research hypotheses and ultimately complete her graduate degree.  If you are interested in this opportunity please contact Stacey at stacey@norwellbuilders.com / 650-464-3557. 

Commitment: A Key to Engagement?

“Employees at Best Companies experience more cooperation and commitment” said Lindsay Nelson of Great Place to Work.

“Highly committed and engaged employees add 57% more discretionary effort, and have a greater than 87% chance of staying” reported Steve Knight from Integral Talent Systems. 

These experts were among the five presenters at the BOLD workshop “Clarifying Employee Engagement:  Helping People Go the Extra Mile” last Wednesday.