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Pre-Conference Workshops
This year the half day workshops will be offered on Monday prior to the beginning of the conference from 1 pm to 4 pm and Thursday 9 am to 12 pm.
Special Coaching Session Monday 4:00pm to 5:30pm
Coaching De-Mystified! 1 ½ hour Workshop
‘C’ Suite Goals – Does Your Learning Program Line Up?
1:00pm to 4:00pm
This workshop will explore a strategic model that maps out the expanding stages of organizational learning, from tactical to strategic. Many organizations struggle in the earlier stages of the learning life cycle, while others show visionary leadership in moving their traditional training effort to the higher stages of learning by utilizing formal and informal learning support and by addressing current business issues. The organizations in the higher stages of learning have closely aligned performance and human capital achievements.
This workshop will provide new insight that can expand your vision for your current learning program. We will include an overview of a five-stage model for organizational learning, with an understanding of how to use this model and how to map out where your organization is based on this model. We will also discuss the creation of a new view for learning that expands and supports your vision to go beyond traditional views and create new opportunities for productive learning within your company. Finally, we will detail a leadership model along with a practical process for building increased alignment and executive commitment to your vision.
What you will get by attending this workshop:
- A set of five-stage model documents outlining and clarifying the possible strategic growth of learning for your organization
- A copy of the presentation slides along with exercises you will participate in with your colleagues.
- Take away CD containing all workshop materials so you can extract the model and related documents for use within your organization.
Fundamentals of SkillPort Administration: Lab
1:00pm to 4:00pm
This workshop is designed for users who are new to SkillPort administration. You will learn about the different ways you can tune your site to best fit your needs. This hands-on tour of the administrative functionality will include best practices for:
- Adding and maintaining users and groups
- Assigning content to user groups
- Changing presentation settings
- Reporting on your e-learning program
By the end of the session, you will have the tools needed to initiate and maintain a SkillPort site.
Target Audience: For customers who are new to SkillPort or are considering SkillPort as their platform of choice, this session will teach you what you need to know about initiating your platform.
Transforming a Training Department into a Business Resource
1:00pm to 4:00pm
Today’s business environment is one where every dollar counts, which means simply reducing the cost of training is no longer enough. Learning has to add value. Effective training has been proven to influence the performance of the business and contribute to growth, profitability, and return on shareholder investment. How do learning departments reach this new level? In this panel discussion and workshop, we will introduce SkillSoft’s Learning Growth Model as a framework for helping your learning organization begin and/or further its strategic growth journey. You will hear directly from companies that have advanced their learning programs to more strategic levels. Panelists who will share their case studies and best practices include FMGlobal, Packaging Corporation of America (PCA), and OMYA. To help you carry these best practices forward you will complete an exercise to assess the current strategic state of your own learning organization using SkillSoft’s Learning Growth Model Assessment. After the conference, your SkillSoft Account Consultant will follow up to review this assessment with you and to assist in formulating a plan for leveraging identified strengths and developing key areas that will contribute to your team’s growth as a strategic business resource.
Align Learning with Corporate Objectives Using SkillView
1:00pm to 3:30pm
It is imperative to have the right people with the right talents performing the right assignments and developing along the right track. It requires that each member of your work force actively manage and develop their talents according to the needs of their jobs and the overall business. To do that, your employees need to understand how they measure up to proficiency standards, identify their strengths and their areas of developmental opportunity to bridge skill gaps.
SkillView is a competency-based software adjunct to SkillPort designed to suggest learning assets to your work force that are the most appropriate to each person's current and required talents.
In its barest essence, the SkillView solution identifies each member of your work force’s proficiencies and skill gaps, and points each person to pertinent learning and development solutions to overcome those skill gaps.
This interactive workshop will begin by introducing you to SkillView and then giving you hands-on access to SkillView. You'll be provided with several scripts, each giving instructions for you to drill-down into more detail of one particular aspect of SkillView, including:
- Individual Reports
- Group Reports
- 360-Degree Employee Assessments
- SkillView Administration
- SkillView's Recruiting elements
Coaching De-Mystified! 1 ½ hour Workshop
4:00pm to 5:30pm
The transformation of corporate training departments to present day organizational learning and performance groups has left many companies looking for ways to increase their ROI effectiveness and learning’s bottom line impact on the organization. While this is an exciting time, organizations are looking for innovative success strategies for high impact organizational performance. Coaching has become one of the fastest growing industries and is seen as a personal and corporate performance tool for action and change while fostering increased learning ROI.
This powerful, interactive session and demonstration will show you live coaching in action. The coaching process will then be de-mystified and analyzed identifying the various coaching skills that were used to move the client into a state of motivation, action and accountability.
Further group discussions on the implementation of corporate coaching programs will highlight best practices, ROI benefits, pilot programs and bottom line impact.
Registration for this interactive presentation will be limited to 30 people.
Thursday
Making a Business Case for Books24x7 for Senior Executives
9:00am to 12:00pm
This workshop will focus on building an ROI model to make a compelling business case for Books24x7 and will include:
- Discussion of what is ROI, ROA, ROV
- Usage reporting, how it works, what types of reports are available, what’s there, what’s not
- Web survey tool, how it works, how it can be used effectively, how/when it could be customized, best practices
- Experiences from the field: how some customers approach ROI
Marketing Mania!
9:00am to 12:00pm
Whether you have a learning program that is just getting started or one that just needs some rejuvenation, this is the workshop for you! Join a distinguished panel of SkillSoft customers as they take you through the twists and turns of how they have successfully marketed new and existing learning programs! This workshop is structured to include a lot of time for open discussion and sharing of ideas by all members of the audience. Some presenting companies include Houston Chronicle, City of Denver and Humana. Throughout the half-day workshop, the presentations will contain unique marketing techniques and strategies, open dialogue, interactive games and exercises. Attend this session and come away with a new bag of tricks for re-energizing your learning program!
Using Advanced SkillPort Features to Manage Successful Learning Programs: Lab
9:00am to 11:30am
This workshop is designed for users who already have a background in SkillPort administration. We will give you insight into some of the advanced features that SkillPort offers and how they can help your learners to achieve their learning goals. The specific features that we will cover are:
- How to build effective Learning Programs
- Blending online courseware with instructor led training
- Creating custom curricula that fit your company’s learning needs
- How Advanced Reporting can help you track the progress of you e-learning initiative
By the end of this session, you will have in-depth knowledge of the advanced features of SkillPort and how they can help you achieve your learning goals.
Target Audience: Now that you have your platform running, there are some specific objectives that you want to accomplish. This session was created to aid current SkillPort administrators to learn about some of the advanced functionality that can help you find solutions to common training problems.
Jump-Starting Your Blended Programs Lab
9:00am to 11:30am
This lab will provide hands-on with the SkillSoft blended learning tools and technologies including SkillBlends®, the Advanced Learning Program Designer and Dialogue Design. Attendees will be able to create and modify learning programs using a range of assets including Blended Learning Toolkits, SkillBlend instructional sessions, courseware, ILT events and custom content. Attendees will also gain access to the Blended Learning Resource Center for best practices and tips. Join us for a lively session with brainstorming and tools to help facilitate your blending processes and programs.
Target audience: curriculum designers and trainers involved in the design and creation of blended learning programs.
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