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• Leverage Change: 8 Ways to Achieve Faster, Easier, Better Results - In-Person Event

  • When
    06 Oct 2022
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    5:30 PM - 8:00 PM
  • Location
    Washtenaw Community College- Morris Lawrence
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  October 6, 2022

  TIME: 5:30 - 8:00 pm

  Leverage Change: 8 Ways to Achieve Faster, Easier, Better Results

  
  

  People struggle with change. They complain it is hard. Takes too long. Costs too much. And at the end of the day is all too often, ineffective.

  Look at your own experience. Wouldn’t you jump at the chance to make the changes in your own life and work faster, easier and better?

  From Fortune 500 conglomerates to start-up operations, change is the challenge of the day. Leaders want to create more competitive businesses. People want to create safer, more livable cities. Governments would love to find faster, easier and better ways to get more done with less. Individuals strive to realize more of their potential.

  Wouldn’t it be great if there were a systematic way to make all of these dreams come true?

  There is.

  It’s called Leverage Change. Pull on any of the 8 Levers and you’ll accelerate and sustain any and all change work you are doing. There’s no need to radically shift course. No requirement to stop doing what you’ve been doing. Just supplement your current change work with these 8 tried and true strategies and you too can find your way to a world of faster, easier and better change. In the case of the 8 Levers, strategic adjustments lead to big changes that directly correlate to the speed, ease and effectiveness with which you accomplish the change you are seeking.

  
  

  Objectives

  Making change easier, faster, and more effective- no matter what you're trying to achieve! 
  

  
  

  Agenda:

  5:30 pm  Doors Open

  5:30 - 6:15 pm  Networking and Dinner

  6:15 - 6:25 pm  Welcome & Introductions

  6:30- 7:30 pm  Learning Session

  7:30-8:00 pm  Learning Wrap-Up, Meeting Close, and Open Networking

  
  

  Location:

  Washtenaw Community College

  Morris Lawrence Building, Room 150

  4800 E. Huron River Drive,

  Ann Arbor MI 48105

  
  

  Visit this link for more location information: https://www.wccnet.edu/visit/room-locator/sc.php

  
  

  Registration:

  • Chapter members = $25
  • Student members = $15
  • Non-member guests = $45

  Registrations are not considered definite or confirmed until payment has been submitted.

  
  

  About the Presenter:

  

  Jake Jacobs
  

  For more than 35 years I’ve worked in 61 industries, from high tech to manufacturing to hospitality to entertainment to financial services. I’ve consulted to 96 organizations, from Fortune 50 to national non-profits and community theaters. I’ve supported more than 210,000 people directly on important changes they are making to their business. What kinds of changes? Everything from strategy implementation to culture change to mergers and acquisitions and leadership development.

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• Coffee Chats! TD as a Consultant: How to say NO (and still keep your job!) (Virtual Event)

  • When
    17 Oct 2022
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    12:00 PM - 12:45 PM
  • Location
    Virtual Session
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    2 registrants

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  October 17, 2022

  TIME: 12:00 - 12:45 pm

  Coffee Chat! (Virtual Event)

  TD as a Consultant:
  How to say NO (and still keep your job!)

  
  

  We're back with our coffee chats- a new forum and time for our members to connect!

  These informal events are a great way to get to know your board members and share with one another.

  This Coffee Chat starts at 12 PM—bring yourself and bring your coffee!

  Topic for this month's chat: This casual session will explore how we as TD professionals can offer our insights and expertise and- at times- objections! - to what the busoness is asking us to do. Whether you're an internal TD team member or working as a consultant, being able to say "no" is required if we;re going to be a good partner- but how do we do that without getting veto'd, left out, or even fired?

  Bring your success stories and challenges- no matter the size!- and let's learn from each other!

  Agenda:

  12:00 - 12:05 am Welcome & grab a coffee (or lunch!)!

  12:05 - 12:40 am Discussion

  12:40 - 12:45 am Meeting Close

  Location:

  Virtual

  Registration:

  • Chapter members = Free
  • Student members = Free
  • Non-member guests = $10
    

  Registrations are not considered definite or confirmed until payment has been submitted.

  
  

  About the Facilitator: Jen Laidlaw

  
  

  Jen Laidlaw is the owner of TeamWerks Talent Development and Consulting where she supports small businesses in team and leadership training with a focus on values and positive company culture.

  With a degree in Chemical Engineering, Jen spent time in manufacturing and also in digital marketing before starting her own practice. Her experience includes:

  • training and coaching front-line leaders
  • applying agile practices to cross-discipline teams and managers
  • developing custom learning programs to nurture and solidify positive company culture

  Her training focuses on the learner experience, engaging participants for learning that has meaningful outcomes including increased team satisfaction and retention, a sustained people-focused culture, and increased profitability.

  She partners with owners to solve talent development problems by creating learning experiences that are honest, fun, practical, and effective.

  Jen is also President of the Ann Arbor chapter of the Association for Talent Development (that's us!) and a board member of the New Enterprise Forum (NEF).

  Her belief: For training to be truly successful, something must feel different afterward!

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• Putting Performance First (In-Person Event)

  • When
    03 Nov 2022
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    5:30 PM - 8:00 PM
  • Location
    Washtenaw Community College- Garrett's
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  November 3, 2022

  TIME: 5:30 - 8:00 pm

  Putting Performance First

  
  

  How can you begin whispering in your clients’ ears about improving performance with non-training solutions, while continuing to develop skill-and-knowledge interventions?

  Join Innovative Learning Group CEO Lisa Toenniges as she shares video examples from several projects to illustrate performance-focused discussions that occur throughout the ADDIE process. The sessions will be interactive with live discussion and debriefs. It covers: Project Definition, Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, and Design.

  You'll be sure to walk away with lots of practical examples and take-aways that you can start applying the very next day to put performance first!

   

  Agenda:

  5:30 pm  Doors Open

  5:30 - 6:15 pm  Networking and Dinner

  6:15 - 6:25 pm  Welcome & Introductions

  6:30- 7:30 pm  Learning Session

  7:30-8:00 pm  Learning Wrap-Up, Meeting Close, and Open Networking

  
  

  Location:

  Washtenaw Community College

  Garrett's Student Center

  4800 E. Huron River Drive,

  Ann Arbor MI 48105

  
  

  Visit this link for more location information: https://www.wccnet.edu/visit/room-locator/sc.php

  
  

  Registration:

  • Chapter members = $25
  • Student members = $15
  • Non-member guests = $45

  Registrations are not considered definite or confirmed until payment has been submitted.

  
  

  About the Presenter:

  
  

  Lisa Toenniges
  

  Lisa Toenniges is the owner and chief executive officer of Innovative Learning Group, a company she founded in March 2004. A dynamic and respected leader, Lisa has more than 30 years of experience in the performance improvement industry and has consulted with many Fortune 1000 companies about their learning and performance strategies and solutions. ILG was born out of Lisa’s passion for building a business, providing for her employees, and doing what is right for clients. Her entrepreneurial spirit, positive outlook, and hands-on leadership style have been the drivers behind ILG’s profitable annual compound growth. Currently, Lisa is the Secretary of the Executive Committee and member of the Board of Trustees for On My Own of Michigan and a volunteer grant reviewer for the Arts & Culture Committee of Impact100 Oakland County. Lisa has a master’s degree in instructional technology from Wayne State University in Detroit and a bachelor’s degree in music education from Michigan State University.

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• Level 3 Evaluations Made Simple, Credible, and Actionable VIRTUAL EVENT

  • When
    01 Dec 2022
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    6:00 PM - 7:15 PM
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    Virtual Session
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  December 1, 2022

  TIME: 6:00 - 7:15 pm

  Level 3 Evaluations Made Simple, Credible, and Actionable

  (Virtual Event)

  Knowing whether or not participants apply back on the job what they learned in a training program is a critical issue for both L&D departments and the businesses they support. Demonstrating that learning is applied speaks directly to L&D's ability to be viewed as a credible partner by senior executives. An ROI Institute research study makes this very point. It found that employee application of training is one of the top three metrics senior executives are most interested in seeing from their L&D partners. However, when asked to what extent they were currently getting this type of data, only 11% of CEOs reported receiving it. 

  So, why don't more L&D departments conduct Level 3 evaluations? A frequent answer is because it's too complicated. A second reason is that L&D team members lack the knowledge and skills needed to collect and analyze Level 3 data.

  In this informative, highly engaging session, participants will learn how to use a revolutionary new easy-to-implement Level 3 evaluation methodology. A method that is simple and produces credible, actionable Level 3 evaluation data.     

  Learning Objectives:
  

  After attending this session, participants will be able to:
  

  • Use facts from a recent ATD research study to benchmark the use of Level 3 evaluations in an organization.
  • Conduct a focus group using three key questions to collect the data needed to conduct a Level 3 evaluation.
  • Calculate a best case, a worst-case, and a most likely case training transfer percentage associated with a learning program.

  Agenda:

  6:00 - 6:05 pm Welcome & Introductions
  

  6:05 - 7:05 pm Presentation

  7:05- 7:15 pm Learning Wrap-Up & Meeting Close

  Location:

  Virtual

  Registration:

  • Chapter members = Free
  • Student members = Free
  • Non-member guests = $10
    

  Registrations are not considered definite or confirmed until payment has been submitted.

  
  

  About the Speaker: Ken Phillips

  
  

  Since 2008 I have presented at the ATD International Conference and Expo and since 2013 at the Annual Training Conference and Expo on topics related to measurement and evaluation of learning. I've also presented at a host of local ATD chapters on topics related to measurement and evaluation.

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