Events

May – Learning Professionals Roundtable: How to Launch a Peer Coaching Program

May 25, 2022

12:00 PM – 1:00 PM – Virtual Event

Learn about peer coaching programs, what they are and how they are being used. Also learn a little bit about what has worked in the past and how you set guidelines.

Then, we invite you to participate in a conversation to brainstorm how a small startup company looking to implement a peer coaching program with a limited budget could go about it. Participants will leave with some crowd-sourced ideas that they can take away and potentially implement it in their daily work.

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

About the Speaker:

Meredith Bell is co-founder and President of Grow Strong Leaders, a global software company providing assessment and development tools for the workplace. Their award-winning software and books guide leaders and team members to make the shift from KNOWING to DOING. The result is permanent improvements in the way people interact with each other at work.

Meredith is an expert in leader and team communications, the author of three books, and the host of the Grow Strong Leaders podcast. She has worked with thousands of business leaders, Human Resources professionals, and Learning & Development executives to successfully implement their tools. Meredith co-authored her latest books, Connect with Your Team: Mastering the Top 10 Communication Skills, and Peer Coaching Made Simple, with her business partner, Dr. Dennis Coates. In them, Meredith and Denny provide how-to guides for improving communication at work and serving as a peer coach to others.

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ATD-GTC Learning Lab – Creating Learning Strategy

June 29, 2022

9:00 AM – 12:30 PM – Virtual Event

How to build learning programs that your executives will love and have a bigger 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 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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October Transforming Learning – Bobcat

October 25, 2022

12:00 PM – 1:00 PM – Virtual Event

ATD-GTC’s Transforming Learning series features presentations from learning leaders at some of the biggest Twin Cities’ brands. Our transforming learning sessions often visit recent case studies to showcase how our members are tackling real-life issues.

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

About the Speaker:

Speaker information coming soon…

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June Transforming Learning – WEX Inc.

June 7, 2022

12:00 PM – 1:00 PM – Virtual Event

Several years ago, Jess Almlie was tasked with a business challenge: to centralize the training function in a rapidly-growing organization while eliminating duplication, maximizing efficiency, and increasing the effectiveness of training provided for every employee. The result is a success story that combines learning theory, team structure, and business outcomes into a robust onboarding program.

Listen as Jess shares this story of onboarding transformation–from a program that blasted employees with information to a program built on a simple formula of learning and practice. Upon completion, the new onboarding program cut the time for an employee to enter production in half and significantly increased new employee confidence. This is the story of a creative, collaborative, and holistic approach to solving a business challenge in a way that worked for everyone – new employees, the learning team, and business stakeholders.

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

About the Speaker:

Jess Almlie
Vice President, Learning Experience – Benefits
Wex, Inc.

Jess Almlie has worked in the talent development field for over 20 years. Her experiences span for profit, non-profit, and higher education sectors. Currently, she serves as the Vice President of Learning Experience in the Benefits division of WEX, Inc. where she is responsible for developing and sharing the vision for effective learning for both employees and customers.

A thought leader in the space of corporate learning strategy, Jess writes a regular newsletter on LinkedIn, “Learning Must Change.” She earned an M.S. in Educational Leadership and a B.S. in Organizational Communication as well as a certificate in Improving Human Performance through ATD. Jess volunteers as a National Advisor for Chapters (NAC) for ATD and is a member of the Talent Development Think Tank, a community of forward-thinking talent development professionals from around the world. She also serves as a business advisor to several start-up organizations in the learning field.

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September Transforming Learning – Taylor Corporation

September 14, 2022

12:00 PM – 1:00 PM – Virtual Event

This presentation will take you on the journey Taylor Corporation took to introduce a Front Line Leadership Certification as well as some real-time results from Taylor’s first cohort of certified graduates.

Background on Taylor Corporation and the Front Line Leadership Certification:

84% of Taylor Corporation’s 1200 leaders directly manage 75% of our workforce. In today’s labor market, where attracting and retaining talent is more important than ever before, Taylor recognizes that front line leaders have a direct impact on the success of our employees and company. But like many organizations, Taylor has promoted our top performing individual contributors into supervisory, management and leadership roles by throwing them into the deep end of the pool and hoping they can swim. Many of our front line leaders have been in their role for a decade (or more) and have had limited opportunities for leadership development.

Taylor recently introduced a comprehensive Front Line Leadership certification program that includes world-class leadership content (outsourced but delivered by internal facilitators) combined with internal, Taylor specific-content. This six-week certification program is conducted virtually and includes classroom training, e-learning, individual and small group activities, assessments, and evaluations.

After completing all required coursework which includes a teach back with their manager, participants are certified as front line leaders and all certified graduates receive a 1% pay increase to demonstrate Taylor’s commitment and belief in the importance of strong leadership to their collective success.

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

About the Speaker:

Denise La Mere-Anderson is responsible for enterprise talent acquisition; field HR service delivery; and talent management for Taylor’s 10,000 employees worldwide. She brings over 20 years of progressive HR experience from companies including UnitedHealth Group and Best Buy, and she is passionate about helping employees reach their full potential at work.

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