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Certificate Programs
Wednesday, December 3 - Friday, December 5
8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
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| Continental breakfast, lunch and two refreshment breaks are included each of the three days |
| 7:30 - 8:30 a.m. |
Registration |
| 8:00 - 8:30 a.m. |
Continental Breakfast |
| 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. |
Certificate Programs |
| 10:00 - 10:30 a.m. |
Refreshment Break |
| 12:00 - 1:00 p.m. |
Lunch |
| 2:30 - 3:00 p.m. |
Refreshment Break |
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TMI3: Training Coordinator Certificate*
A Consulting Approach to Coordinating
the Training Function*
Jovie Masters, Senior Instructor, The Training Clinic |
Take a consulting approach to coordinate and administer training more
efficiently and effectively. In this unique three-day certificate, learn how to
develop a training plan, be active--not reactive--, and maintain management
support for training. This certificate explores how to hire consultants, coach
and develop subject matter experts as trainers, set up a resource center, market
and administer a registration system, and schedule training (along with
facilities and materials coordination). Learn skills to help you better:
■ Clarify your role in your organization.
■ Transition to an internal consulting approach and partner with internal
customers.
■ Diagnose problems within your organization and put together a proactive plan
to address them.
■ Identify what good training looks like so you can be a wise consumer of
training products and services.
■ More easily develop and maintain training resources.
■ Manage training enrollment, record keeping, and follow-up.
■ Create effective training schedules and administer facilities arrangements.
This certificate is designed for training coordinators and administrators and instructors who coordinate a training function for an organization or business unit, or those interested in becoming more efficient and effective. As part of this session, you will receive the tools and skills necessary to be more proactive in your ability to meet and anticipate your organizations needs.
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TMI4: Training Instructor Certificate
Accelerated Learning in the Classroom
Sharon Bowman, Author, The Ten-Minute Trainer |
Accelerated Learning strategies help turn passive listeners turn into active
learners. This certificate program will give you the rationale, brain research, and proven training techniques that will enable you to keep learners engaged, motivated, and learning—even while covering dry, lengthy, or technical material.
After actively participating in this certificate program, you will be able to:
■ Choose from over 36 Accelerated Learning instructional strategies that you can
use with any topic, any size group, and any age learner.
■ Use a variety of "interactive lecture" formats to liven up even the most technical, "dry," or complex information.
■ Apply brain research that dramatically increases learners' attention, involvement, and retention.
■ Design training with the 4 Cs of Accelerated Learning—four steps that are
based on the way people naturally learn, not the way they were made to learn.
■ Boost long-term retention of important concepts with 6 important memory tools, and with exciting opening and closing activities that engage learners from the moment they walk into the room.
■ Identify 4 general learning styles or preferences, and "style-stretch" to meet the needs of each type of learner.
■ Lessen the time it takes to design, develop, and facilitate effective training that works for the learners.
■ Form your own “mastermind group” to continue sharing best practices with each
other after the certificate program is over.
This certificate is designed for trainers with all levels of experience, instructional designers and facilitators, and anyone interested in Accelerated Learning and who trains, teaches, or facilitates learning.
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TMI5: Technical Trainer Certificate*
How to Design and Present Technical Training with Impact*
Elaine Slonina, Senior Instructor, The Training Clinic |
Learn both design and presentation skills to make training "come to life" in a technical environment. In this three-day certificate, learn the basics of program design and development, climate setting, and techniques to increase participation and discussions. During this highly interactive workshop you teach a five-minute lesson to a partner and get feedback on your natural teaching style. Participants will also identify a future training topic for development during the workshop. Learn skills to help you better:
■ Apply adult learning principles to make technical training stick.
■ Plan for technical training and write realistic learning objectives.
■ Develop technical training methods and materials.
■ Practice techniques to effectively facilitate adult learning in a technical
environment.
This certificate is designed for the subject matter expert or instructor who develops and/or presents training. As part of this session, you'll receive a resource tool kit to help you immediately implement the skills and knowledge learned during this workshop to design and present technical training.
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TMI6: Training Manager Certificate*
Managing the Training Function for Bottom-Line Results
Jean Barbazette, Author, Managing the Training Function for Bottom Line Results |
With the right practices, any training program can accelerate performance while delivering economic benefits . . . and as a focused and practical manager of a training function, you can lead the charge within your own organization.
In this certificate, focus in-depth on effective methods to manage the entire scope of your organization's training effort. You will examine practical ways, sound techniques, and proven ideas to manage your organization?s training and yield tangible, bottom-line results. Learn skills to help you better:
■ Manage your training function.
■ Develop internal consulting skills.
■ Diagnose problems within your organization.
■ Formulate an action plan.
■ Build partnerships with management and learners.
■ Understand the trainer's, manager's, and learner's role in the transfer of learning.
■ Cost justify training.
This certificate is designed for training managers, training coordinators, and "departments-of-one" who run a training function for an organization or business unit, or those interested in joining their ranks.
As part of this session, you'll receive the Training Manager's Tool Kit, which contains a Training Department Benchmarking Tool, 100-point Classroom Instructor Skills Inventory, and a Performance Improvement Plan Template.
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TMI7: Instructional Developer Certificate
Applying ISD Methodology
Paul Swan, Senior Instructional Designer, Darryl L. Sink & Associates, Inc. |
The Instructional Developer certificate focuses on the practical aspects of developing training and educational programs that will get the results you need, while providing an opportunity to apply what you learn directly to a project of your own.
This certificate, now offered with Darryl L. Sink & Associates popular Instructional Developer Workshop, takes you through basic and advanced techniques for applying the Instructional Systems Development methodology (ISD), and helps you focus on a business problem or opportunity your training program is facing. Learn the techniques and skills necessary to develop professional training while meeting the challenges of today's quality-driven business environment. You'll learn to better:
■ Conduct Needs Assessment/Analysis: Selecting data gathering techniques.
■ Conduct Subject Matter Expert Analysis: Selecting and interviewing SMEs.
■ Implement Task Analysis: Analyzing task/content for structure and sequence.
■ Specify Learning Objectives: Writing performance-based objectives.
■ Develop and Select Learning Activities and Materials: Using a lesson design procedure, using criteria for selecting existing materials, developing instructional strategies for four different content types, selecting media, writing objective-based presentations.
■ Apply Levels of Evaluation: Developing plans for transfer and payoff
evaluation, including ROI.
This certificate is designed for training managers and supervisors, instructional designers and developers, trainers, and content experts. Some exposure to the development of training programs is helpful, but not required.
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TMI8: E-Learning Designer Certificate
Ray Jimenez, PhD, Author, 3-Minute e-Learning, CEO and Chief Learning Architect, www.TrainingPayback.com |
In this certificate, learn the step-by-step process of designing and developing effective e-learning programs that help learners to learn faster and at lower costs, including how to:
■ Design e-learning where it counts the most - identify where, how, and when to
design an e-learning program that matters to your organization and learners
■ Construct lessons - learn a streamlined approach to transform your classroom training or new training programs into an e-Learning format
■ Engage and Involve learners – learn activities, exercises, and games which help learners transform learning to on-the-job applications
■ Use rich media –learn how to use video, audio, images, and animations to make
your learning more effective
■ Create blended learning – design e-learning that supports, extends, and
enhances classroom programs, coaching sessions, and other learning activities
■ Assess learning – learn to assess the effectiveness of e-learning and show
results to your organization
■ Controlling costs of development – learn valuable cost control practices and
methods
■ Apply new rapidly evolving methods - fit Web 2.0 and Learning 2.0 technologies like wikis, blogs, and social networking into your e-learning design
This certificate is designed for instructional designers, trainers, writers, managers, and project leaders who must implement e-learning, and instructors moving from classroom to e-learning. This certificate will provide basic software exposure designed for the "non-techie"– it is designed to encourage you to experience first-hand the construction of a basic e-learning program and give you the option of developing a small project before, during, and after the certificate.
BONUS ONE-ON-ONE TIME: Register for this certificate now, then contact
support@vignettestraining.com to book up to 20 minutes of Q&A with the facilitator. Space is limited.
You are required to bring your own laptop to access online exercises and demos, examples and illustrations, and hands-on activities.
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TMI9: Learning Technology Strategist Certificate
Bryan Chapman, Chief Learning Strategist, Chapman Alliance; Brandon Hall Research Associate |
A learning strategy is not something you create once and then execute-rather, it's a constantly moving target with opportunities to improve, innovate, and succeed. The practice of e-learning has now become a mainstream component for many organizations looking to enhance traditional training with new methods-and better align learning with company objectives. However, most organizations are still experimenting with better alignment and adjusting to emerging technologies and practices. In this certificate, learn to better:
■ Integrate informal learning techniques,
■ Use rapid development techniques without sacrificing instructional integrity
■ Provide more experiential models that allow simulation-based learning
■ Use the right delivery methods at the right time
■ Integrate learning technologies with other parts of the business such as Human Resources (Talent Management).
This certificate is designed for learning professionals in organizations that have already seen some success in implementing e-learning and are ready to take e-learning to the next level by evolving their strategy and optimizing use of learning technologies.
You are required to bring your own laptop computer to the event to participate in hands-on exercises using authoring, simulation, and Web 2.0 tools.
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Contact Us
Leah Nelson
Senior Conference Program Manager, Training magazine Events
E-mail: Leah.Nelson@nielsen.com
*Earn CEUs!
You will receive two continuing education units (CEUs) from "The Training Clinic" after successfully completing this certificate program. Twenty contact hours equal two CEUs. For questions on CEUs call 800.937.4698.
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