After attending this workshop, you'll be able to avoid costly e-Learning mistakes by knowing how to distinguish between good and bad e-Learning, how to assemble the talent for your next e-learning project and how to ask the right questions of eLearning specialists. You'll have the confidence and knowledge to contribute in the e-Learning decision-making process for your company.
After attending this workshop, you will be able to:
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Recognize e-learning's core concepts and vocabulary
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Acquire best practices for online facilitation
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Research core technologies and milestone products
- Examine instructional design models
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Practice writing learning objectives
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Practice searching techniques
- Validate search results
- Experience multiple e-Learning modules and assess the good and bad techniques used
- Evaluate the advantages and disadvantages to different e-learning components
- Discuss characteristics and qualities of a successful e-learning design team
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Examine multiple career opportunities (job roles for e-learning)
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Examine instructor-led and participantcentered insrtuctional model for e-learning
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Examine online content and determine what is memorable and media-rich
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Recognize content delivery options
WHO:
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Any professional getting started with e-learning
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Classroom trainers/instructors mandated to move courses to an online platform
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Seasoned trainers with little or no formal training in e-learning
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"Instructional designers" and performance consultants seeking electronic solutions
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Subject matter experts (SME's) exploring performance solutions
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Subject matter experts (SME's) or information technology staff charged to make e-learning happen
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Technical writers doing online documentation expanding to e-learning
Making Meetings Work
Unproductive meetings cost organizations thousands of hours and dollars each week. This workshop focuses on what type of meetings matter, how often to meet and who should attend. Walk away with a checklist of what to do before, during, and after a meeting and ways to make your meetings more engaging and memorable.
Learning Objectives:
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Calculate the cost of your unproductive meetings
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Determine when to meet face to face, who should meet, and for what purposes
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Define meeting guidelines and reinforce them
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Choose from over 25 meeting management skills
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Develop the skills of an effective meeting facilitator
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Practice meeting management techniques and skills
Storytelling for Trainers/Presenters
Stories are one of the most powerful ways to communicate, illustrate, and reinforce a point. Long after our participants leave our training session, it's often the stories we tell that they remember.
So often, we as trainers don't use stories enough or in the most effective way. This one- day workshop will help anyone who delivers training or makes presentations to create their own story and see how to use it to help others.
Learning objectives:
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Understand how stories get crafted
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Learn 6 main purposes for telling a story
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Basic story structure for building a great story
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Use personal or business experiences that offer content
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Strategy of what makes a good story
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Choosing the right words for impact
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Participants will create their own personal stories.
Performance Consulting/Training Needs Analysis
Today's challenges demand bold action, common language, and clear business metrics as evidence of results. This workshop hits hard on the fundamentals - needs assessment, learning contracts and evaluation - with an emphasis on results. We provide the tools that will help shift your trainers from training providers to trusted advisors and business partners in your organization.
Learning objectives:
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Deliver immediately applicable questions, contracting and interviewing techniques for conducting need assessments with managers, supervisors and vice presidents
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Link learning to perceived performance gaps
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Capitalize on a strong business acumen developed by applying the generic tools to real business issues through customized cases.
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Explore evaluation and transfer strategies to drive Level Three application of performance improvement interventions.
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Build confidence in the trainers' ability to work as a partner with their clients
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Understand the difference in roles between an "order taker" and a "strategic partner"
Customized for on-site delivery- contact us using the number or form below.
Training Project Management
Stop wasting assets by reinventing the wheel with each new project! Provide new project leaders and team members with a simple yet durable process for building a project management map. This two-day workshop is designed to provide project leaders and participants with a process that is visual and repeatable. It will help you create a road map that is necessary to clearly defining and achieving project goals on time, within budget and at or above quality standards. It's one of The Bob Pike Group's most powerful consulting tools.
Learning objectives:
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Create an accountable project team culture
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Clarify what a project is and isn't
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Define a project - Select a team, define roles, design the scope, cost and performance measures
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Identify project team, scope of authority and project role
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Pre-plan to the finest detail with a project work breakdown
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Schedule project work - Identify the fastest and most flexible critical path
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Compute network start and stop times
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Successfully change or flex - You are never in control, yet you can be in charge!
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Drive effective team performance processes in meetings, processes and stages.
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Leverage success - A project isn't closed without a Process Review.
Keynotes
Planning a trainers 'conference, sales meeting, or training retreat? The Bob Pike Group staff delivers interactive keynotes that participants will remember for years! Ask us for details.
Coaching for Success™ is a recently created program that helps managers and leaders get results while growing people--it trains managers or trainers how to coach. Participants will be able to respond to coaching needs quickly and effectively by learning to assume one of five roles:
This workshop is effective for new supervisors, seasoned managers, executives and and other leaders. It can be used to create alignment around strategic plans, core values and special projects. It can enhance your change initiatives and improve communication and trust.
Learning Objectives:
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Discover a model for effective coaching
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Create a culture of accountability
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Develop the skills of excellent questioning and listening
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Choose when to use five different coaching roles
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Practice giving effective feedback
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Develop a win-win coaching strategy
Bring this program on-site or ask us about Coaching for Success™ certification.
For information on how to purchase blocks of public workshops click here.
To help you determine which solution best meets your objectives,
contact our Client Solutions Team at: 1-800-383-9210 or use our online form below
