Learning 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.
Our Curriculum of Speaking Topics
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.
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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.
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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 projects.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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About Your Speaker
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.
