What's unique about an Edge Interactive Webshop?
Learn ing professionals must find ways to meet business goals with reduced staff and resources. As the pace of business accelerates, the number of training projects increases and the timeframes for completion shortens. Our virtual Webshops will give learning professionals the knowledge and skills required to maximize resources, optimize training development efficiencies, and exceed business objectives.
For the learning profession with a tight schedule and limited budget for professional development, our Webshops provide the perfect solution to receive the knowledge and skills you are seeking. Our specialized Webshops provide the advantages and convenience of generalized informational webinars, industry specific sessions found at industry conferences, and the focus of hands-on workshops. You’ll receive the knowledge you need as well as the opportunity to work with your specific business challenges to develop a useful business solution to take away and utilize.
Our workshops utilize best practices refined during 19 years of course development for both traditional classroom training, e-Learning, and technology assisted performance solutions.
Who should attend?
- Learning leaders and professionals responsible for learning technology
- Learning leaders and professionals responsible for e-Learning and training development
Our Unique Approach
- Webshop Limited to 8 participants
- Pre-Webshop survey to identify specific business needs
- On going, post- Webshop, e-mail support
Our Curriculum of Webshops
An Introduction to Technology Based Learning Solutions
Training technology is changing rapidly and new technology-based learning solutions are becoming more inexpensive, easy to implement, accepted, and effective for our workforce. In this Webshop, we will introduce some of these new technologies, identify where they are being used, and offer some ways to decide if they are right for your organization. Some of the technology based learning solutions we will discuss are e-Learning, virtual classroom, Wikis, Blogs, collaboration tools, discussion, and user communities.
What you will learn:
- Identify and evaluate technology based learning solutions such as e-Learning, Virtual Classroom, Wikis, Blogs, Collaboration, Discussion Groups, and Social Networks
- Understand the capabilities of these solutions and their best fit
- Match technology based learning solutions to business goals
- Develop a cost benefit analysis for technology-based learning solutions
Time: 60 minutes
Cost: $69.95
Schedule: (All scheduled times are Mountain Standard Time): Contact us for a schedule.
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Getting Started with e-Learning
If your organization is considering implementing e-Learning, this Webshop is for you. In this Webshop, we will discuss the costs, skills, resources, and tools required to develop, implement, deliver, and manage e-Learning using a straightforward approach tailored to your company’s goals and resources.
What you will learn:
- Identify the types of learning content and objectives best suited for e-Learning deployment
- Describe the key considerations in implementing an e-Learning solution
- Understand the technology components of a complete e-Learning solution
- Evaluate course tracking, management, and reporting options
Time: 60 minutes
Cost: $69.95
Schedule: (All scheduled times are Mountain Standard Time): Contact us for a schedule.
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Managing e-Learning Projects
The project size, project duration, skill sets, project coordination, and interdependencies of an e-Learning development project are typically larger and more complex than traditional training development projects. In this Webshop, we introduce tools and processes that managers can use to accurately size the work effort, duration, skills, and risks of e-Learning development projects.
What you will learn:
- ·Build and implement e-Learning project resource plan
- ·Understand learning development metrics
- ·Estimate project workload and duration
- ·Manage the 5 skill sets needed for e-Learning development
- ·Limit project scope increases
Time: 60 minutes
Cost: $69.95
Schedule: (All scheduled times are Mountain Standard Time): Contact us for a schedule.
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Resource Planning in the Large Training Development Organization
For larger organizations with staffs of 10 or more, this Webshop will teach you the skills and processes to manage a portfolio of multiple training projects. In this Webshop, you will learn to develop resource plans, assignments, schedules, and milestones for training development portfolios of two to five projects including both traditional and e-Learning.
What you will learn:
- ·Develop and implement a project resource plan
- ·Understand the resources and skills required for successful e-Learning development
- ·Perform project management
- ·Control project risk and uncertainty
- ·Limit project scope increases
- ·Hire and manage integrated multi-skill e-Learning development teams
- ·Implement quality control processes
- ·Identify key indicators of good project trajectory
- ·Move your team forward by overcoming uncertainty
- ·Manage multi-tasking activities
Time: 60 minutes
Cost: $69.95
Schedule: (All scheduled times are Mountain Standard Time): Contact us for a schedule.
Deliverables
- ·Sample e-Learning project plan
- ·Project team job descriptions
- ·Resource planning spreadsheet
- ·Project manager check list
- ·Quality control check list
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Maximizing the Business Impact of Your Learning Organization
Leaders in learning and performance must develop strategies that will facilitate achievement of critical business objectives. Resources must be closely aligned with both strategic and tactical goals to ensure maximum bottom line business impact and achievement of corporate, business unit, and departmental goals. Our workshop will introduce a comprehensive process for learning leaders that will maximize business impact, increase visibility, and optimize your organizational resources.
What you will learn:
- Develop a strategic plan for your organization that is aligned with defined business goals
- Gain support and sell your ideas by becoming a consultative business partner and agent of change
- Develop learning solutions to support business objectives drawing from the wide range of learning solutions currently available
- Develop a project intake process and project portfolio management strategy to optimize available resources and maximize business impact
- Ensure outcomes and business impact meet planned project objectives
Time: 60 minutes
Cost: $69.95
Schedule: (All scheduled times are Mountain Standard Time): Contact us for a schedule.
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The Role of Knowledge Management in the Learning and Performance Strategy
As we transition to a knowledge based economy, innovation, creativity, and workforce productivity will be the critical success factors in a company’s success. This webinar will discuss strategies to maximize learning resources by optimally matching learning delivery mediums with business objectives, learning and performance content, and learner characteristics. In addition, we will focus on methodologies to practically implement learning and performance solutions by balancing and optimizing delivery mediums.
What you will learn:
- The position of social media as an addition to the existing learning solution portfolio
- Evaluating and deploying formal and informal learning solutions
- How to develop business cases for social media as performance improvement tool
- Developing identification, capture, access, and oversight strategies for user generated learning content
- Identify and manage potential risks associated with user generated learning content
Time: 60 minutes
Cost: $69.95
Schedule: (All scheduled times are Mountain Standard Time): Contact us for a schedule.
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Building a High Impact Project Portfolio
Businesses today have an ever increasing demand for new learning initiatives that is often constrained by reduced learning development staff. Learning and performance organizations must increase business impact through enhanced project intake and portfolio management that selects and completes learning projects that provide the highest business value.
What you will learn:
- Describe the characteristics of a high-impact learning project portfolio
- Identify employee development and training needed to support the company’s business objectives
- Evaluate and select learning programs based on key business criteria
- Ensure all programs are aligned with and support the company’s business objectives
- Evaluate other project criteria determining the potential impact of each program including audience size, longevity, training breadth, and sustainability of the training
- Identify the potential positive financial impact courses might have on business
Time: 60 minutes
Cost: $69.95
Schedule: (All scheduled times are Mountain Standard Time): Contact us for a schedule.
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Practical ROI
Learning leaders must implement criteria to select the highest impact projects based on the business value they will provide to develop a high impact project portfolio. This ensures projects completed by learning and performance provide the highest business impact. In this process, we must think outside the box and ask ourselves tough questions. This webinar considers alternatives to traditional evaluation methodologies that can serve our businesses more effectively in a growth-oriented business climate.
Questions you will address include:
- Are there better ways to build our project portfolios that are more consistent with the pace and priorities of our current business environment?
- Can we look forward and place value on our learning projects not based on what they did but on what we expect them to accomplish?
- Is it possible to rely on information other than quantitative criteria and still make prudent business decisions?
Time: 60 minutes
Cost: $69.95
Schedule: (All scheduled times are Mountain Standard Time): Contact us for a schedule.
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Training Operations Snapshot
Businesses today must constantly seek ways to minimize expenses and maximize the impact of their budget dollars. Corporations typically spend millions of dollars on the development, deployment, and maintenance of their training assets often without clear goals, standards, measurements and accountability. We believe training operations can be executed as rigorously as other business disciplines. This webinar will provide the tools necessary in understanding the six key factors that govern the impact and performance of your training organization.
The six factors will help you:
- Determine your organization’s total expenditure for training development, deployment, and maintenance including all staff, expense, infrastructure, and outsourcing costs
- Identify the tangible learning assets your company produces for this expenditure
- Calculate how cost effectively your organization produces these assets in relation to other organizations
- Analyze how efficiently these assets are utilized
- Determine the measurable business results this investment made on company performance
- Identify opportunities for improved processes and procedures that will reduce costs and improve results
Time: 60 minutes
Cost: $69.95
Schedule: (All scheduled times are Mountain Standard Time): Contact us for a schedule.
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A Primer in LMS Selection
Learning professionals are challenged to build teams and consensus in the selection of a learning management solution while prioritizing what is often a sizeable list of requirements. This complexity will increase as learning management incorporates self service performance support, knowledge capture, storage, and search as well as integrating with additional enterprise systems. The challenge to learning professionals is to stay current in what their business needs really are in relation to the vast array of capabilities and tools available for learning management, all while keeping an eye on the present as well as the future. So how did the learning management system evolve to its current role in businesses?
To better understand the transformation and evolution of the learning management system, this article will address five characteristics of learning management:
- How did the comprehensive number of features that learning management systems now offer come into existence? Do we really need them?Do they help us do our job?
- What are these features? How do we categorize them? How are they relevant to our business?
- How do we deal with the selection and implementation of a learning management system as it becomes more technologically sophisticated and feature rich?
- Why are many companies on their second or third learning management system implementation? Is this waste of time and resources really worth the gains we make by changing systems?
- Where is learning management going in the future? What functions must it perform and what will be its role in business?
Time: 60 minutes
Cost: $69.95
Schedule: (All scheduled times are Mountain Standard Time): Contact us for a schedule.
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The Business of Training for the New Learning Leader
Whether you are new to learning and performance or a seasoned veteran, this webinar will help you understand the critical success factors in running a successful learning and performance organization, considering both the internal operation of your department and its overall presence in the larger enterprise.
You will learn how to:
- Create the strategy and setting the appropriate investment level
- Align the learning enterprise with the business
- Improve individual and organizational performance
- Design efficient and effective development and delivery strategies
- Manage the learning enterprise as a business
- Develop productive partnerships
- Manage organizational talent for business growth
- Demonstrate the value of the learning enterprise
Time: 60 minutes
Cost: $69.95
Schedule: (All scheduled times are Mountain Standard Time): Contact us for a schedule.
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The Role of User Generated Learning Content
Most businesses realize that if they could capture and utilize the best and brightest ideas of their workers, there would be value in that information. As Blogs and Wikis are more widely utilized in business, we are seeing this potential realized. The technology and communication capability of Blogs and Wikis enable workers to easily share a wide range of information. An important category of this information is “user-generated learning content”. This user-generated learning content will be a key component in the way workers will learn and develop skills.
In this webinar you will learn:
- The position of social media as an addition to the existing learning solution portfolio
- How to evaluate and deploy formal and informal learning solutions
- How to develop business cases for social media as performance improvement tools
- How to identify, capture, access, and develop oversight strategies for user-generated learning content
- How to identify and manage potential risks associated with user-generated learning content
Time: 60 minutes
Cost: $69.95
Schedule: (All scheduled times are Mountain Standard Time): Contact us for a schedule.
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About Your Facilitator
Mark Bower, Principal of Edge Interactive, has successfully served leaders in workforce learning and performance since 1989 and managed over 220,000 client consulting hours in course development, training technology, and e-Learning. Mark will share the best practices, processes, and management techniques that enabled Edge Interactive to become a leader in outsourced learning development and technology services.
Mark is Vice President, Strategic Partnerships ASTD and an ASTD Board member. Mark holds a BS in Learning Theory from University of Massachusetts and an MBA from Boston University.
