ASTD Certificate Programs - January 28-30, 2007

All Certificate Programs have sold out. Please visit the ASTD Website for information on future program dates.

ASTD Certificate Programs provide practical content presented by expert practitioners and time for skill-building with your peers. Become a top performer back on the job while enhancing your competitive advantage. Two new Certificate Programs have been added for 2007: Managing Organizational Knowledge and Measuring and Evaluating Learning.

Certificate program fees are in addition to the conference registration fees. Advanced registration is recommended, many certificate programs sell out weeks in advance.

 

E-LEARNING INSTRUCTIONAL DESIGN CERTIFICATE PROGRAM - SOLD OUT!

This original course of study was development by Michael Allen, creator of Authorware and founder of Allen Interactions, in conjunction with ASTD. The workshop helps you develop e-learning experiences for users that are “meaningful and memorable” and motivate learners to actually change their behavior. This two-day class reinvents instructional design common wisdom with fresh e-learning examples from real clients using real budgets, focusing on making your instructional design approach better than most who create e-learning. This is not a tools class. The focus is on skillfully meeting instructional design challenges in any industry.

Typical comments from participants are “awesome,” “outstanding,” “expert presenters with a passion for the subject and a real-world perspective.”

By the end of the program, participants are able to

• Understand the components of effective e-learning instructional design and learner motivation
• Describe how interactivity affects learning
• Determine e-learning success prerequisites
• Understand the steps of successive approximation for e-learning projects
• Apply the principles of effective e-learning navigation.

Audience
The ASTD E-Learning Instructional Design Certificate Program is designed
for practitioners new to e-learning technology but not inexperienced in training
and performance; practitioners wanting to brush up on the newest techniques;
instructional designers; curriculum builders; learning managers; courseware producers; sales, safety, health-care, finance, higher education, and government trainers. If you’re moving from instructor-led training into the world of e-learning, this certificate is a uniquely valuable place to start.

This class has sold out.

 

MEASURING AND EVALUATING LEARNING CERTIFICATE PROGRAM - SOLD OUT!

This comprehensive three-day certificate program addresses critical aspects of evaluation: gathering data, the impact of individual programs, measuring learning, and leveraging findings to increase effectiveness and provide recommendations for change. This program focuses on developing the skills for measuring and evaluating learning solutions and other interventions. An overview of business impact and ROI is also provided.

Based on ASTD’s Competency Model for measuring and evaluating, the program covers designing effective assessments and checking them for accuracy, validity, and reliability while ensuring that learning is measured adequately within the resources available to the organization. A survey of 14 different evaluation models is introduced. The content of this program helps in preparation for obtaining the CPLPTM credential.

By the end of the program, participants are able to

• Build a credible business case for increased evaluation in their organization
• Select appropriate data collection methods to measure a variety of soft and hard data
• Manage data collection and data integration
• Analyze and interpret data
• Present evaluation data in a compelling and convincing way.

Audience
The ASTD Measuring and Evaluating Learning Certificate Program is for professionals new to measurement and evaluation or anyone responsible for determining the impact of learning and change interventions. Individuals looking to strengthen and expand their organization’s evaluation efforts will also benefit.

This class has sold out.

 

RAPID INTERACTIVE DESIGN FOR E-LEARNING CERTIFICATE PROGRAM - SOLD OUT!

If you haven’t considered using a rapid prototyping approach in designing your e-learning programs, you could be short-changing your learners and your organization. Rapid prototyping is a specialized process used to very quickly—and inexpensively—create realistic, disposable models of interactions online, rather than through specs and storyboards. Prototypes provide better visualization of the final design in order to more quickly consider alternatives and to gain consensus.

In this workshop, you’ll look at how the rapid prototyping methodology—using successive cycles of analysis/evaluation, design, and development—can bring tremendous cost efficiency, and creative benefits to e-learning. You’ll look at finished examples and prototypes, and have plenty of time to brainstorm your own projects.

By the end of the program, participants are able to

• When and how to complement or replace storyboards by using rapid prototyping in your design process to result in much richer instructional designs
• The critical management considerations of the rapid prototyping process: selecting the right project team, setting/managing client expectations, and avoiding scope creep by knowing “when to say when”
• A method of developing an actionable plan for using rapid prototyping to boost your e-learning designs
• How to return to your role with a new perspective on rapid prototyping to boos your e-learning designs
• How to return to your role with a new perspective on rapid prototyping and an understanding of how to implement this powerful method.

Audience
The Rapid Interactive Design for E-Learning Certificate Program is for learners with specific training projects in mind; activities will involve applying the course principles to individual student projects. Facility with a prototyping tool such as Authorware, Flash, Dreamweaver, or PowerPoint will greatly enhance the usefulness of the workshop. Students are encouraged to bring a laptop with the software of choice already loaded. However, participation is NOT limited to students with laptops or prior prototyping experience.

This class has sold out.

 

HUMAN PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENT IN THE WORKPLACE CERTIFICATE PROGRAM - SOLD OUT!

In this foundation course in the series, you are introduced to the world of human performance improvement and prepared for the shift from a training mindset to a human performance improvement mindset. This course is not about a new way of training employees; it’s about a new approach to improving performance, which may or may not include traditional training methodologies.

Learn how to use the HPI process to help your clients articulate their business goals, link these goals to human performance, understand the current state of performance in the organization, find the root causes for performance deficiencies, implement solutions, and evaluate the results. You will also glimpse at what it feels like to do performance consulting and what it takes to manage the change that accompanies interventions.

By the end of the program, participants are able to

• Understand the origin and three primary principles that underlie HPI
• Explain the relationship between the steps in the HPI process
• Apply analysis models to determine performance gap and its root causes
• Describe a process to evaluate the impact of interventions
• Outline a strategy for addressing the root causes of performance gaps

Audience
The ASTD HPI Certificate Program is designed for experienced practitioners in both the private and public sectors of training, human resources, and organization development who are responsible for improving employee performance for their organization. HPI in the Workplace is a prerequisite for all other HPI Certificate Program courses.

This class has sold out.

 

MANAGING ORGANIZATIONAL KNOWLEDGE CERTIFICATE PROGRAM - SOLD OUT!

Effective sharing of knowledge throughout an organization enhances employee performance, fosters innovation, and facilitates the exchange of an organization’s most important commodity—the knowledge of the people who make the difference between success and failure. Managing Knowledge combines the organizational culture, strategic goals, individual needs, and expertise of people to create an atmosphere of learning and growth. Philosophically, knowledge management must be a vital part of corporate principles and individual jobs for knowledge sharing to succeed. So how do organizations transform their current structure and processes to become learning organizations that leverage knowledge management? This workshop covers the essential components of knowledge efforts. The content is based on the ASTD Competency Study and helps in preparation for obtaining the CPLP credential.

By the end of the program, participants are able to

• Develop a vision and strategy, for a knowledge-centric organization ensuring that it integrates with the organization’s business strategy
• Assess, select, and apply current and emerging information, learning tools, and technologies to support work-related learning and knowledge development
• Manage the life cycle of information from creation through organizing, categorizing, disseminating, including knowledge mapping, and rewards and incentives
• Examine the design of workplace and social environments that encourage and facilitate knowledge creation, sharing, and innovation
• Assess organizational learning capabilities, maximize learning at the individual level; use knowledge capture and sharing; facilitate drawing tacit knowledge from experts; make knowledge explicit so that others can learn
• Assess the effectiveness of strategies, practices, and initiatives

Audience
The Managing Organizational Knowledge Certificate Program is designed for professionals who want to understand how to manage organizational knowledge and how to provide leadership in their organizations to become knowledge-creating and knowledge-sharing entitities.

This class has sold out.

 

ASTD TRAINING CERTIFICATE PROGRAM - SOLD OUT!

This is the trainer’s training program. It is a practical, how-to overview of the entire training function. It prepares new trainers with critical training skills and introduces seasoned practitioners to the latest techniques for delivering powerful training.

The workshop is based on the ASTD Competency Model and covers the key actions and knowledge necessary to deliver world-class training. The content of this program helps in preparation for obtaining the CPLPTM credential.

By the end of the program, participants are able to

• Prepare effectively for a learner-focused training delivery
• Understand learner-focused learning solutions and align activities with course objectives
• Manage the learning environment and participants
• Understand different adult learning styles
• Deliver effective training that increases the retention of learning

In addition, participants will practice their new skills and receive real-time feedback on their progress.

Audience
The ASTD Training Certificate Program is for practitioners beginning their training career. However, it also offers fresh ideas and concepts for seasoned trainers.

This class has sold out.