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Mark
your calendar for these upcoming events
Date |
Program
Type |
Topic |
Speaker |
July
23 |
Monthly
Program |
Juggling
Too Much With Too Few: Project Management |
Lou
Russell
Russell Martin & Associates |
July
23 |
Workshop |
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David Anderson & Tom Kuhlman of Articulate |
Aug 6 |
Webinar |
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Scott Thomas
ExactTarget
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August
18 |
Webinar |
Learning
2.0 |
Lisa
Meece
Bottom-Line Performance |
August
27 |
Monthly
Program |
How
to do more with
less time AND resources |
CJ
McClanahan
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Sept
15 |
Webinar |
What
Training Can Learn from Advertising |
Peter Lynch
Business and the Geek |
Sept 24 |
Monthly Program |
Virtual
Learning |
Conrad Gottfredson |
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 A
tidbit to keep us learning & growing
By:
Jim Smith, JR of Jimpact
From his book Crash and Learn: 600+ Road-Tested Tips to Keep Audiences Fired
Up and Engaged!
“To ensure your
evaluations are completed more comprehensively, distribute
the evaluations at the beginning, halfway point, or
three-quarter mark of the session.”
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Techniques,
Mistakes & Lessons
Learned
By: David Wachtel
Techniques -
• Thanks to
a session we did last year at CIASTD, I am much better at telling
stories. I never looked it at that way.
It is, indeed, acting to get a point across.
• Always refresh your material. Working with the same
material in the same way, indeed comes across that way. What
I also find is that without this process, I tend to not dig for
the details that make the training truly meaningful. Your clients
will see you are not engaged and bored, and that’s never
good.
Mistakes -
• Never depend on the client to totally be responsible
for producing materials. Arriving to learn the materials are
not done correctly, and it’s a half hour before the session
starts, is not good. Starting a session with an apology usually
gets things off to a really bad start from which you don’t
recover.
• Always have backup material and electronics (like carry
two laptop power cords). There’s not much better than having
your laptop shut down in the middle of a session because your
battery ran out due to a faulty power cord. “This is a
good time for a break!”
Lessons Learned -
• Learn as much as you can about your client’s
business. By this I am referring to their industry, especially
if it is
one with which you are not familiar. The more you can make material
relevant to them, the more they learn. I spent 22 years in insurance,
so I have many stories that I can tell about things that occurred
over that time. I can take those stories and use them with a
client, telling it as if it had occurred in their business. They
get that, and they listen.
• This was not a lesson I so much learned “on the
job” as it was advice. It was, “you are not the expert.” Simply
put, you are facilitating learning about a subject, not letting
them know that it’s amazing they could get the doors open
each day prior to your session.
• I do a lot
of work in the leadership arena. Simply put, advice I got years
ago when I was a new manager was this: Leaders
lead only with the permission of the followers.
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For the published author among us!
Congratulations to CIASTD member Andy Dix upon publishing his
first book, Life Matches: Fire Up Your Life! This book is a
business fiction work which teaches how to live a life using
one’s personal strengths based on an application of Gallup’s
StrengthsFinder 2.0 profile.
Any profits Andy receives from the sale of this book will be
donated to CHADD, the national non-profit organization which
helps people with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (AD/HD).
To read an excerpt of Life Matches, visit www.lifematchesbook.com.
To purchase Life Matches, visit http://www.booklocker.com/books/4765.html.
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| Twitter?
Tweeting? Followers? |
When will it end?
By: Kristin Thomas
If
you’re wondering when this Twitter fad is going to
end, come to our Twitter 101 webinar where you’ll learn
that not only is Twitter not going anywhere anytime soon, but
it has become as fundamental as considering different learning
styles when building training.
“At first, Twitter can be overwhelming, but think of it
as a river of data rushing past that I dip a cup into every once
in a while,” wrote David
Carr, a reporter for the culture
section of The New York Times and the Media Equation columnist
for the business section. “By carefully curating the people
you follow, Twitter becomes an always-on data stream from really
bright people in their respective fields, whose tweets are often
full of links to incredibly vital, timely information.”
From our Twitter webinar, you’ll see how the tool puts
you “in-the-know” on more things in a given moment
than you ever thought possible. Instead of spending hours Googling
the latest trends and info, you’ll get a sense of the day’s
news in the time that it takes to grab your morning Starbucks.
During this one-hour webinar on Friday, Aug. 6, Scott Thomas,
Director of Product Enablement at ExactTarget, will cover:
1) Twitter DeMystified
2) Twitter and You
3) Learning in 140 Characters or Less
4) Resources for Additional Learning
This webinar is FREE for CIASTD members and $10
for non-members. Register
here.
To complete the registration you will create a unique password
for Adobe Connect and will need that password to join the webinar.
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| Lots
of Bang for Your Buck |
CIASTD University Is MORE
than CPLP Preparation
By: Linda Mayer
The CIASTD University supports to two types of Workplace
Learning Professionals (WLP):
1. WLPs seeking to develop their knowledge and skills in
one or more of the ASTD Competencies
2. WLPs preparing for the CPLP certification process
The benefits you’ll see - -
Development Related:
• Series of seven sessions that cover topics most relevant
to our industry
• Special award for participation in the series
• Opportunity to network and share ideas and experiences with
other Workplace Learning Professionals
CPLP Related:
• Information to help determine if the CPLP is right for you
• Direction and support in developing an individual plan to
prepare for CPLP certification
• Support in articulating the benefits of the CPLP designation
to your employer and peers
Get started on or continue your professional journey by joining
us on July 14th from 4 – 7 PM at the Fishers Public
Library. The next session is “Designing Learning” with
Cheryl Alfred.
You can now enroll for just one or two sessions!
Single Session/Members - $75
Two Sessions/Members - $125
Single Session/Non-members - $95
Two Sessions/Non-members
- $150
Register
today!
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| Feel Like You
Need Superpowers? |
This may be the solution
you need
Faster than a speeding bullet. Able to leap tall orders
in a single bound. It's a bird! It's a plane! It's your
job!
Feeling like it takes tremendous super powers to accomplish
what you are asked to do on a daily basis?
Join CIASTD on July 23 and add to your training and development
repertoire. "How to Become a Rapid E-Learning Pro," led
by David Anderson and Tom Kuhlman of Articulate, looks
at one of the hottest trends in the industry - finding
ways to bring training on-line in a way that is both
effective and efficient.
This session provides you with the following powerful tools:
- How to Get Results with Rapid E-Learning: Explore e-learning
strategies and course authoring technology
- Quickly Create Reusable Assets: Learn to create e-learning
assets and templates that can be shared and used across
courses
- Develop Rapid Instructional Design Models: Look at some
instructional design models that work well with rapid e-learning
to create effective courses that impact performance
Register
online today!
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| WANT
TO BE MORE INVOLVED? |
An Exciting
Opportunity Awaits
Indianapolis
is hosting the regional ASTD Conference this year! The
Regional Conference Planning Committee is looking for
one more dynamic volunteer to join its team, join us
and help with this exciting conference.
Regional Awards Coordinator
This exciting volunteer position helps coordinate the organization and selection
of regional awards for the regional conference.
Job
Description
**If you are unable to open the job description,
go to http://www.ciastd.com/enews/quickenewsVolunteers2010.htm and
try from there.
Are you looking to help a great event and have interest in this area? For interest
or more information contact: CIASTD Vice President of Regional Event, Andy
Bergman at Bergman@deltau.org before
July 14, 2010.
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| More With Less |
Teach yourself!
By: Lou Russell
"Successful
adaptation to the environment requires that an organism
be capable of learning." - Richard
Restak, MD, "The Brain"
"
Learning disabilities are tragic in children, but
they are fatal in corporations." - Peter Senge
If you have experienced the sinking feeling
that you can't keep up, but you must keep up, that
the world has
changed again, that you haven't enough time, that you'll
lose your job...change your strategy. Instead of trying
to learn harder, learn better. Work less, learn more.
Learning can be such a joy when done in a way that
is best for your personal preferences.
Increased learning can lower stress, reduce conflicts
and build self-esteem. In contrast, limiting learning
can increase stress, cause defensive arguments and challenge
your feelings of self-worth.
Intake Styles:
Studies on how individuals prefer to get new information
into their heads have tend to fall into three categories:
• Visual intake by seeing
• Auditory intake by hearing
• Kinesthetic intake by doing, touching
Each individual could have any combination of these three.
Also, whether you prefer to learn by seeing, hearing
or doing has no bearing on how intelligent you are. There
are certain physical characteristics that tend to track
with these preferences.
Visual learners tend to prefer books or videos tend
to speak quickly and somewhat high pitched, stare up
when they are thinking, and use language like "I
see what you mean". In the U.S., 60 - 72% of the
population prefers to learn this way. Auditory learners
tend to prefer speeches, discussions or tapes, tend to
speak slowly and quietly, stare straight ahead when they
are thinking, and use language like "I can hear
what you are saying". They make up 12 - 18% of the
population. Finally, kinesthetic learners tend to prefer
to try something first, speak quickly and with great
changes in intonation and body language, stare down when
they are thinking, and use language like “I get
it”.
Although across the general population, 18 - 30% prefers
to learn kinesthetically, I have found in my own training
classes that there is a higher percentage of both kinesthetic
and auditory preferences in technical occupations. Also,
training people tend to be kinesthetic.
"Each individual is always following
a sensible strategy for getting along in the kind
of world they
think they live in." - Unknown
So what? If you are trying to communicate something
new to someone (like a client), you tend to communicate
in the way you would like to be communicated to, reflecting
your own preferences. For example, if you are a visual
learner, you will create beautiful graphics and fancy
documents to communicate. If your client is an auditory
learner, they don't want the picture; they want words,
short and brief. Immediately, a barrier is set up. In
a learning situation, you may have to learn something
fast, like Windows 7, for example. Perhaps your training
department has arranged for video training to be held
during lunch. You go to the video presentation and come
out sleepy and with no idea what you just saw. Chances
are you are not a visual learner. Your time might have
been better spent playing around with Windows 7 (if you
are kinesthetic) or listening to an audiotape while playing
around (if you are auditory). Better and faster learning
comes from better choices.
Summary:
In 1910 Brigadier General Billy Mitchell said that using
airplanes to sink battleships was "damn nonsensical".
In fact, he offered to stand on the bridge of any battleship
and let them try. This is the position that any person
in today's business climate is in if they do not know
how to learn. By leveraging the best way you learn,
you can make a dramatic improvement in your abilities
to learn thoroughly and quickly.
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| Have Knowledge to Share? |
A local opportunity is
ready to hear from you!
The
Crossroads Regional Conference on November 15 will be
forging a path to performance for 200-300 learning professional
from across the Midwest, and guest speakers are needed.
Sessions will cover the following competency areas: coaching,
designing learning, human performance improvement, delivering
training, and measuring and evaluation. More details are
available here.
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| How LinkedIn Are You? |
Here’s
some steps to get you going
By: Kristin Thomas
New Features in LinkedIn Groups
LinkedIn
has released new features for the Groups pages, which
will help you more easily navigate,
connect and share with the CIASTD group. The first time
you visit a Group page, you will get a pop up with “What’s
new in Groups?” Click the “Learn more about
what’s new in Groups” link for more info.
How (and why) to start a conversation in the CIASTD LinkedIn
group
You can build better relationships quickly with others
in the T&D industry by getting more engaged with the
CIASTD LinkedIn
group. Sharing consistently
in a group is a quick way to brand yourself as an expert
in your field or industry. To learn more, view this LinkedIn
Groups video.
Why you should connect your Twitter and LinkedIn Accounts
Join your accounts, and all sorts of wonderful things will
happen. You can paint a broader picture of your professional
interests and ideas by making your Twitter ID appear
right on your LinkedIn profile.
To add your Twitter account to your LinkedIn account:
1. Go to “Edit My Profile” under the Profile
menu on LinkedIn
2. Click “Add Twitter account” next to the
Twitter field
3. Twitter will ask you to verify your account name and
password
4. Once the account is verified, you’ll be asked
how you’d like to share your tweets on LinkedIn
You can change
this setting at any time by clicking “Edit” next
to your Twitter account name on your profile. Note that
in order to send tweets from Twitter to LinkedIn, your
Twitter account must be set as public. Make sure the “Protect
my tweets” box is not checked in your Twitter settings.
How to simultaneously post Twitter and LinkedIn status
updates
You can choose which LinkedIn status updates you share
with Twitter, as well as which tweets are displayed as
your LinkedIn status. This gives you complete control over
which networks see your updates and what they see, automatically
or manually.
To share updates
from Twitter to LinkedIn, visit the LinkedIn Twitter
Settings page. Here you have the option to share
all tweets, to share only tweets that contain #in or #li,
or not to share tweets at all. You can change these settings
at any time by clicking “Edit” next to your
Twitter account name.
To share updates from LinkedIn
to Twitter, check the box
next to the Twitter icon on the LinkedIn home page. The
first time you do this, Twitter will verify your account
name and password. Whenever the Twitter box is checked,
that update will publish to your Twitter feed.
Note that LinkedIn filters out “@ replies” so
if you begin a tweet with @linkedin, for example, it
will not appear in your status. Also, if your tweets
don’t show up in a Twitter
search, they won’t
show up on LinkedIn.
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| Don’t
Forget ~ CH5010 |
The ChIP code is an investment
in our chapter!
By: Deb Lang
Remember to use our chapter code - CH5010 - when buying ASTD
goods and services from the National
ASTD,
such as books, national conferences (such as the upcoming International
Conference and Expo in Chicago), seminars, and national membership
(new and renewals). Each time you use the code, ASTD donates
funds to our chapter.
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| Can’t
Make the Monthly Meeting? |
Signup
to follow CIASTD on Twitter! http://twitter.com/ciastd. Receive
140 character snip-its from the meeting regardless of where
you are.
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Come see who's joined the CIASTD membership ranks!
CIASTD
is an ever-growing group of those dedicated to helping
others
learn. Since the last issue of The Facilitator, we have signed
1 new member.
Bundles & Packages Do Just That!
Need
to renew your CIASTD membership? Check out the new membership
bundles! Also, buy your monthly meeting tickets in a package
to save on per meeting costs.
| We
Want to Hear from You! |
CIASTD is always looking for new contributors both to the
monthly programs and The Facilitator newsletter.
- For information
on speaking at a future CIASTD meeting, visit www.CIASTD.org.
- If writing
is your specialty, we are always on the lookout for articles which
further learning in the areas of training and development. While
we may not be able to publish every article we receive, we believe
each issue of The Facilitator would be enriched by the
addition of articles from CIASTD members. As a bonus, there’s
VIP bucks awaiting each published article! Submit articles by
emailing them to martie.hoofer@salliemae.com.
We prefer files in Microsoft Word or Adobe pdf format.
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