| “How
To Manage The Training Function” |
from
The Training Clinic
in partnership with
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pre-Conference
Certificate Program:
February, 2008 |
General
Conference:
February, 2008 |
| The
pre-Conference and General Conference sessions are being formulated now.
The topics and outlines below are based on 2007's program. The current
plan includes the Pre-Conference Certificate Program below. The exact
breakout sessions have yet to be determined. |
| Atlanta,
Georgia |
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Pre-Conference
Certificate Program
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| pre-Conference:
February, 2008 |
Atlanta,
Georgia |
Designed
for those new to training management, this certificate program focuses
on topics as diverse as creating a strategic action plan for your
department, proving training’s effectiveness throughout the
organization, gaining key management buy-in, ensuring transfer or
training and more.
You
may earn the "Training Manager Certificate" from The Training
Clinic by attending the following
three-day pre-Conference
Certificate Program: February, 2008:
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| "How
to Manage the Training Function" |
| by
Jean Barbazette, President |
| pre-Conference
Certificate Program: February, 2008 |
| This
comprehensive three-day workshop examines practical ways to manage your
organization’s training function while yielding tangible, bottom-line
results. Areas of emphasis include managing the training function;
developing internal consulting skills; diagnosing problems within your
department; developing an action plan; and facilitating partnerships
with management and learners. |
| Overall
workshop learning objectives include the following:
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Discuss possible vision, mission
and function priority statements.
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Identify
how to use department systems audit tools.
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Identify
and use eight steps to streamline the consulting process.
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Practice
ways to anticipate the changing training needs of your organization.
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Learn
how to use nine types of assessment tools to determine training needs.
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Practice
how to gain management's commitment to performance improvement.
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Use
a nine-part plan to build alliances and work successfully with line
managers and employees.
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Learn how to contract for
results, not just training activities.
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Identify
the essential elements of a performance-improvement plan.
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Identify
techniques for marketing your training function.
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Keep
up-to-date with new training trends.
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Develop
an action plan that yields results.
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| 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. |
Concurrent
Workshop Sessions
Following are
concurrent workshop sessions presented in 2007.
The 2008 schedule is
being formulated.
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| Conference:
February, 2008 |
Atlanta,
Georgia |
|
"How
to Manage a Training Budget"
|
| by
Jean Barbazette |
| Identify
ways to realistically manage a training budget and partner with business
needs of your internal customers. Demonstrate cost justification
for training and show return on dollars invested in training. |
| Workshop
objectives: |
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Cost justify training
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How
to create a training cost framework
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Conduct
a cost-benefit analysis
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Find
performance indicators to demonstrate training’s benefit |
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“The Trainer’s Journey to
Competence:
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Tools, Assessments and Models"
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| by
Jean Barbazette |
| Are
you curious about trainer competencies and certificate programs? Use
a new tool to measure trainer competencies. |
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Identify how competencies are
built from knowledge and skill
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Identify
what constitutes basic and advanced competence
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Measure
training competencies
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Identify
suggested uses for competency checklists
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Identify
steps to set up a competency assessment process
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What’s
the difference in certificate and certification programs?
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| "Make
Adult Learning Come to Life!" |
| by
Jean Barbazette |
| Through
hands-on activities, this session will teach you how to use several easy
and quick techniques to make your training more fun, interesting and
effective. |
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How to trigger
retention in learning activities
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How
to sequence activities for impact
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Identify
creative and fun activities that appeal to various learning styles
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