Pre-Conference Workshops: April 23rd 2012

  • Workshop A: Interactive “Learning Station”- New Tools and Technologies
  • Workshop B: Interactive “Learning Station”- Social Learning Solutions
  • Workshop C: Measuring the Success of Learning
  • Workshop D: Sales Enablement – A Mobile Approach

Corporate Learning Professionals

8:30 Registration for Workshop A

9:00 AM Workshop A: Interactive “Learning Station”- New Tools and Technologies

The function of learning, development, and training within an organization or company has been changing to incorporate new technologies and techniques for learning programs. In this workshop interact with and experience the emerging learning technologies that will help you launch your training and development programs even further!

What you will learn:

  • New, emerging tools to incorporate into your programs such as augmented reality, Kinect, HTML5, and much more!
  • Which tools are the right fit for your learning needs.

Benefits of attending:

  • Hands-on interaction with the latest technologies to better understand their uses and functions.
  • Gain a solid understanding of how learning technologies can advance your workforce.

Craig Weiss
CEO
E-Learning 24/7

11:00 AM Registration for Workshop B (Boxed lunch will be served)

11:30 AM Workshop B: Interactive “Learning Station”- Social Learning Solutions

Social Learning is becoming a mainstay in employee development; it is a new platform that allows employees to work collaboratively and communicate broadly to facilitate knowledge transfer and employee engagement. In this workshop discover the differing social media available for learning and how to incorporate those effectively into your organization’s learning strategy.

What you will learn:

  • The cost-effective social learning channels to leverage with your corporate learning program.
  • How to increase your learning and training reach through social platforms.

Benefits of attending:

  • Develop social learning content to improve learning accessibility and knowledge exchange.
  • Learn how to integrate social learning as part of your training initiatives and develop increased employee self-service.

Marie Sanguinetti
Organizational Development & Learning Manager
Jarden Consumer Solutions

1:30 PM Registration for Workshop C

2:00 PM Workshop C: Measuring the Success of Learning

With new learning technologies improving training programs there is a need to be able to measure success and gage your ROI on training programs. The metrics of learning and development now need to include more than just basic benchmarks and KPIs; new factors must be considered such as employee engagement, ease of use, and application of the learned material.

What you will learn:

  • The various assessment tools available to measure the effectiveness of your learning and development programs.
  • The metrics of your learning initiatives that need to be measured.

Benefits of attending:

  • Increase your ROI on training programs by effectively measuring learning strategies.
  • Gage your employee satisfaction with learning programs to improve employee development and engagement.

Bob Dick
Manager- Instructional Technology and Learning Performance Metrics
Humana Inc.

4:00 PM Registration for Workshop D

4:30 PM Workshop D: Sales Enablement – A Mobile Approach

Worldwide mobile device usage among consumers and businesses is growing at an exponential rate. This rapid adoption has increased the ubiquitous nature of these tools and as a result, learning, gaming, simulations, sales enablement, and more have become commonplace in learning and communication. Join us for a working session on how we build out a framework for using mobile devices as an essential business and learning tool.

What you will learn:

  • An improved understanding of the mobile eco-system.
  • Why mobile sales enablement and learning are changing the landscape of selling.
  • How learning and sales enablement can work together to drive value for your sales team.
  • A process to consider when deploying mobile devices with a mind for improving business outcomes.

Benefits of attending:

  • A practical process for conducting a discovery and design approach to deploying a mobile solution for non-technical people.
  • Hands-on interaction with mobile applications that integrate sales enablement and learning in one application.

Phillip Neal
Vice President of Business Development
Maestro elearning Inc.

Carla Torgerson
Senior Learning Strategist
Maestro

6:30 End of Workshop Day