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Chapter Meeting March 16, 2010


“Using Visual Facilitation to Enhance your Presentations, Meetings and Communication.”

Research has shown that visuals help the brain incorporate new information faster and retain it longer. We all instinctively know that images have power beyond words, but many of us don't include pictures or drawings in our presentations. Let's change that! Register Now!

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ASTDps :: March 2010 Chapter Meeting (March 16, 2010)

Mar 16 2010 - 7:30am
Mar 16 2010 - 9:30am


“Using Visual Facilitation to Enhance your Presentations, Meetings and Communication.”

Research has shown that visuals help the brain incorporate new information faster and retain it longer. We all instinctively know that images have power beyond words, but many of us don't include pictures or drawings in our presentations. Let's change that! Register Now!

CREATIVITY -- JUST A YOUNG PERSON'S GAME?

The Wall Street Journal recently published a feature that revives a long-simmering controversy in the field of creativity, namely, is breakthrough creativity limited mostly to young adults? It also provides me with a vehicle to make some important points for WLP practitioners.
 
The article raises the issue to explore concerns about research funding, particularly U.S.

VAST NEED FOR RETRAINING IN WASHINGTON STATE

Eleni Papadakis, executive director of Washington State's workforce Training and Education Board (and a member of ASTDps's Employee Learning Week Advisory Board) reports a startling statistic on her blog.

Addressing the need of "those adult workers who have not gone beyond high school and are unable to find and hold a family-wage job," Papadakis observes as follows:

ASTDps SIG-Technology - 3D Immersive Learning (Feb.24)

Experience how virtual 3D technologies are being used by corporate, association, government and non-profit organizations for cutting edge business learning solutions, seminars and in world meetings.

Register at:
http://www.eventbrite.com/event/467992779?ref=ecal

Learning Objectives

THE DISMAL STATE OF WLP EVALUATION RESEARCH

Kevin Oakes, one of our region's high-profile WLP thought leaders (and a member of the ASTDps Employee Learning Week Advisory Board) has written a much needed, sobering account of the state of evaluation research in our field today. 

EX-MICROSOFT EXEC QUESTIONS FIRM'S FUTURE IF IT DOESN'T REGAIN 'CREATIVE SPARK'

Dick Brass, a former vice president at Redmond-based, global software giant Microsoft, recently issued a grim forecast about the company's future on the New York Times op-ed pages:

"... while the company has had a truly amazing past and an enviably prosperous present, unless it regains its creative spark, it’s an open question whether it has much of a future."

RESEARCH BULLETIN: What Really Motivates Workers?

If you have been in the WLP profession for any length of time, you are likely to have encountered one of those lists about what motivates workers. The lists are particularly important in leadership development work to help managers and supervisors overcome the all-too-prevalent, simplistic and naive notion that money is the prime motivator at work.

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