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• SOUTH BAY: Creating a Learning Culture

  • When
    27 Mar 2019
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    5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
  • Location
    Intuitive Surgical, Inc. 1020 Kifer Road Sunnyvale, CA
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  Whether you know it or not, your organization has a culture, and a learning culture as well. Are you directing that culture, or are you allowing your organization’s culture, particularly when it comes to learning, to develop on its own?
  
  This session is for people who are interested in learning tips to influence an organization’s culture as a Talent Development professional.
  
  During this session you will:

  • Learn what is culture and how talent development influences it
  • Learn how culture can be created through a deliberate process
  • Learn how to have more influence in your organization
  • Network and share with each our experiences with what worked and what didn’t

  AGENDA:
  5:30 - 6:00pm       Networking/Refreshments
  6:00 – 7:00pm       presentation/discussion
  7:00 – 7:30pm       Networking/Close
  

  
  

  PRESENTER:
  Tony Morris, has worked as a consultant for 22 years with FranklinCovey, a global performance improvement organization. Tony’s mission is to teach simple truths that inspire and empower other people to achieve the things that matter most in their lives. Tony is a subject matter expert in leadership, productivity, and customer loyalty. He is also one of the company’s subject matter experts for The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People®. Before coming to FranklinCovey, he spent seven years in hotel management and eight years as a training and human resource manager for Marriott Hotels. His dynamic style of teaching and results-driven consulting to a wide variety of industries makes him a favorite amongst FranklinCovey clients.
  
  

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• SF Networking Event

  • When
    29 Mar 2019
  •  
    6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
  • Location
    Fire Pit Bar, Spark Social SF, 601 Mission Bay Blvd. North, San Francisco
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  If you love meeting like-minded professionals, making meaningful connections, and food trucks; this event is for you!
  
  The ATD Golden Gate San Francisco community is long overdue for a networking event. And, since we’ve got solid programming lined-up for April and May, there’s no better time to do it.
  
  We’re excited to host this event at Spark Social SF, where we have a social firepit area reserved. The setting should be perfect for our agenda of relaxing, and light networking games.
  
  There is onsite food trucks and a bar. Arrive early enough to grab yourself some food, and catch you there!
  
  AGENDA:
  6:00p – Arrive, grab food, informal meet-and-greet
  6:30p – Networking Games
  7:30p – Continue information meet-and-greet (as desired)
  8:00p – Event adjourn
  
  
  
  Spark Social SF is located in SF's Mission Bay district, and is just 2 block from the Muni T Line. Metered parking is available, but public transit is advised.

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• Instructional Design Workshop

  • Start
    09 Apr 2019
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    9:00 AM
  • End
    10 Apr 2019
  •  
    5:00 PM
  • Location
    Cal State East Bay Development Center, 1000 Broadway, Oakland, Glenview Room
  • Spaces left
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  Hone your instructional design skills and learn how to design engaging and effective lesson plans and courses! Receive feedback and coaching on a course you are working on.
  
  Design compelling and effective lesson plans. Learn how to use accelerated learning techniques and the 5-step lesson plan to increase participant involvement and get better results.
  
  During this two-day workshop, you will learn how to: 

  • Identify performance problems that can be solved by training.
    
  • Conduct a participant analysis so the training is geared toward them.
    
  • Conduct a task analysis so participants know exactly what they are expected to do.
    
  • Write the key points so that participants will remember them.
    
  • Write learning objectives that follow the ABCD format.
    
  • Use the key 5 instructional steps that achieve skill mastery and job results.
    
  • Design instructional activities for any type of learning objective.
    
  • Design a measurement strategy.
    
  • Write an instructional design document.

  During the workshop, you will: 

  1. Write an instructional design within the first 3 hours. That’s accelerated!
     
  2. Experience 10 different ways to change boring instruction and lectures into interactive exercises.
     
  3. Get coaching on your instructional design.
     
  4. Enjoy designing training that fun.

  Takeaways:
  

  1. A very comprehensive workbook with job aids that walk you through the instructional design process.
     
  2. A one-page instructional design template.
     
  3. Templates for the various elements of writing your instructional design.

  Bring your laptop. You will apply what you’re learning to a workshop you’re designing, and will have limited time to work on your project and get some coaching.

  AGENDA: 

  Day 1
  

  • ADDIE – the importance of design before development
    
  • Needs analysis -- ensure training will solve the performance problems
    
  • Conduct a participant analysis
    
  • Conduct and test a task analysis
    
  • Write a lesson plan
    
  • Gather and write your key points and memory aids
    
  • Write the learning objectives

  Day 2
  

  • Write the 5 parts of the lesson plan
    
  • Learn at least 10 accelerated learning methods.
    
  • Add openings and closings
    
  • Format the design document
    
  • Design a measurement strategy
    
  • Write an experiential design that changes minds and hearts
    

  
  

  There will be a continental breakfast each day and a lunch break.  One hour Lunch is “on your own”.  There are numerous places to eat or get take-out food nearby.
  
  8:30 - 9am ARRIVAL AND BREAKFAST
  9am – 5pm WORKSHOP
  
  
  
  REGISTRATION DEADLINE: Sunday, March 31
  

  
  PRESENTER:
  Kris Schaeffer, CPLP, has 40 years of experience in human resource development. When Kris got her CPLP from ATD, she aced her work product assignment in instructional design. She also did the content edit for the first version of ATD’s Learning System. Kris knows her stuff!
  
  Kris’s professional work has focused on the analysis and design of customized training. Her instructional designs for customer service, sales, and safety training have been adopted by entire industries such as the cable + phone, direct store delivery (soft drinks, beer, snacks), and food manufacturing. A lot of other people believe that Kris knows her stuff!
  
  Kris teaches subject experts how to design training so they can pass along their knowledge and skills so others can master them.
  
  Kris has conducted this workshop for over 200 participants for the Chapter when it was designed for our Community Outreach Program volunteers. Now this revised workshop has a broader focus – for anyone who designs training that improves performance. The workshop now includes accelerated learning and other state of the art instructional methods. 
  
  

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• How to Show Evidence of Learning Impact

  • When
    11 Apr 2019
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    5:30 PM - 8:00 PM
  • Location
    Learn iT! 33 New Montgomery St #300, San Francisco, CA 94105
  • Spaces left
    30
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  This presentation will help learning professionals glean insight on practical yet valid ways to tell the story of learning impact. In this session you will learn understand how to present evidence, review the types of evidence available to L&D, and learn how to collect, report and discuss evidence to tell the story of impact.
  
  A top priority of L&D executives is to demonstrate value and show impact. This does not need to be complex or cumbersome nor a project. It can be reasonable, reliable and repeatable. This workshop will discuss how to use an evidence-based measurement process to demonstrate value and show learning impact.
  
  Collection

  • Understand how to fuse learning measurement methodology with performance improvement methodology.
  • Review sample assessments to understand how to create simpler, impact- oriented instruments.
  • Determine how to edit questions to make them more human and fun.
  • Discuss how to create and use business and activity metrics to associate and correlate to learning over time.

  Reviewing Reports

  • Map audience types to report various impact ratings.
  • Learn how to build less reports with more insights.
  • Understand how to review tactical data for improvements.
  • Understand how to do exploratory analysis to find evidence of impact.
  • Understand how to build a scorecard to convey impact and value.
  • Discuss methods to more effectively review verbatim/comments.
  • Review how to incorporate artificial intelligence (AI) to support analysis.

  Data Action

  • Learn how to change the narrative of executive conversations to be more collaborative vs. controversial.
  • Understand how to develop and use action plans to improve performance.
  • Review the importance of workflow automation to create accountability.

  
  

  PRESENTER:
  Jeffrey Berk, COO, Performitiv Performitiv is a program impact optimization technology company. As COO Jeffrey helps shape the strategy and manages day-to-day operations. Jeffrey has been in the learning measurement field for nearly 20 years. He has co-authored 2 books on human capital analytics. He is an adjunct professor on performance measurement and process improvement in Chicago.

  
  VENUE DETAILS:
  Public Transportation (BART, MUNI): Exit the Montgomery station on Market street. Go south of Market on New Montgomery. 33 New Montgomery is the 2nd building on the left. Our location is also very accessible for Golden Gate Transit and many MUNI bus lines.  Please call us for details. Nearby Parking Garages Parking in the financial district can be expensive. We recommend taking public transit, but if you are driving in, here are the locations of the 2 nearest parking garages.
  
  Hearst Parking Center  45 3rd Street  San Francisco, CA  415.989.4000
  
  Central Parking System  71 Stevenson Street  San Francisco, CA  415.495.7017

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• NORTH BAY: SSU OD Master Students' Presentations

  • When
    15 May 2019
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    5:30 PM - 9:00 PM
  • Location
    Sonoma State University Student Center – 2nd Floor Grand Ballroom 1801 E. Cotati Ave., Rohnert Park
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  Join us to observe the SSU MAOD Students present their final graduation projects. Support our local university OD program and learn from the students the latest OD Industry trends.
  

  There will be four groups presenting in rounds of 15 minutes each.
  
  Refreshments and networking from 5:30
  Main event starts at 6:00
  
  
  
  

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