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February Learning Lab – Creating Learning Strategy

February 9 & 10, 2022

9:00 AM – 12:00 PM – Virtual Event

How to build learning programs that your executives will love while having stronger alignment and impact on your organization

With multiple change initiatives, critical program launches and an imperative to engage and retain employees, today’s Learning and Development professionals are challenged to ensure their training programs have a clear and demonstrated impact on company performance.

Yet so many of us are still faced with tackling a laundry list of development needs and urgent deliverables, operating strategically can often be an afterthought.

This workshop will introduce principles of strategic analysis, strategic thinking and strategy creation to build a Learning Strategy so that instructors, instructional designers and department leaders ensure their learning programs are strategically aligned with company objectives and stakeholder agendas.

Participants will learn ways to develop a strategic approach to learning:

  • Ensure training plans are viewed as a strategic tool that helps achieve company goals
  • Leverage change theory to build support and adoption while the training project is underway
  • Build executive support for the training initiative, ensuring it gets proper funding and resources
  • Connect learning strategy to course development to ensure training programs achieve strategic goals

Participants will also receive handouts, templates and frameworks that they can use to quickly apply these key concepts to their own projects.

About the Speaker:

Mary Rapaport is a change and learning strategist who has spent the past 25+ years helping organizations launch their transformative initiatives in a way that engages, excites and empowers front-line employees, customers, and partners.  Leveraging a powerful combination of change methodology, influence science and proven approaches to learning design, Mary build learning strategies that support product launches, program implementations, and other widespread change initiatives. She has been working with some of the Twin Cities biggest brands, she helps organizations leverage LEARNING as a growth engine.

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Transforming Learning: Stories from Andersen Windows

December 16, 2021

12:00-1:00 PM – Virtual Event

Hear from Learning Leader Katie Sorensen about how they are tackling critical In 2018 Andersen started rethinking customer learning as a core driver of customer engagement and loyalty, with an eye specifically on digital platforms and online learning. Andersen will share how they are moving from a decentralized customer training approach to a more integrated, intentional, and blended one that meets customers where they are, while delivering skills and knowledge critical to their businesses. Hear where Andersen started, the obstacles faced and how they’ve navigated them, and how each success (and a little lucky timing) along the way has propelled them to where they are now.  

This program is FREE for all ATD-GTC members. Members may bring one complimentary, registered guest.  

About the Speaker:

Katie Sorensen is a Manager Talent Development for Andersen Corporation.  She’s served in learning and development roles for the Animal Humane Society, Goodwill-Easter Seals of MN.  She has a Masters in Leadership from the University of St. Thomas and holds a certificate in Organizational Development from the University of Minnesota with a concentration in change management and coaching.

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