ChapterMeeting

Congratulations to Pierce Transit, and to our own Kelly Johnston, winners of one of the coveted National ASTD BEST Awards. "The ASTD BEST Awards recognize organizations that demonstrate enterprise-wide success as a result of employee learning and development. We are looking for organizations that get it: They use the learning function as a strategic business tool to get results."

Human Performance Improvement for HR Managers and Performance Improvement Professionals

According to William J. Rothwell in ASTD Models for Human Performance Improvement, human performance improvement is the
 

• systematic process of discovering and analyzing important human performance gaps,
• planning for future improvements in human performance,
• designing and developing cost-effective and ethically justifiable solutions to close performance gaps,
• implementing the solutions,
• and evaluating the financial and nonfinancial results.

In common sense terms, Dan Hardin will introduce the basics to improving human performance in the workplace, how to classify a performance gap and make recommendations on how an organization can close or eliminate the gap.

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ASTD-Puget Sound July Chapter Meeting

Putting the “Ready” in Business Readiness

Communication, training, support, and change management. Business Readiness is a new term and encompasses components that are familiar to learning and development. However, look it up on Google, Wikipedia, or other search engines and it's not there. At least not in the way we have been talking about it. Why? Is it because it is so new and the components such as change management, communications, training and end user support are typically run by project managers? Or are they? How do you, as a learning professional, affect these components? Register Now! to get the answers!

  A NATIONAL TRENDS REVIEW

Many of us were not able to attend the recent ASTD International Conference and Exposition that was held in Chicago . This does not mean that you cannot learn what happened there! As Workplace Learning and Performance professionals, it's critical that we are updated on what is happening in the industry and on the state of learning and development in general. Register Now!

"Why Metrics Matter: From Analysis to Evaluation."

Have you struggled to measure the impact of your efforts as a Workplace Learning Professional? Are you disappointed that training and development investments are often the first items to be cut in a budget crunch, when other budgets are often approved with little or no scrutiny? Do you feel under-equipped to discuss the business impact of workplace performance with your clients in terms they understand? Do you want to more effectively influence business decision makers to support your work? Register Now!

“CoreClarity® - A New Way To Engage”

In Tom Rath’s most recent book “Strengths Based Leadership” he writes, “The most effective leaders are always investing in strengths. In the workplace, when an organization's leadership fails to focus on individuals' strengths, the odds of an employee being engaged are a dismal 1 in 11 (9%). But when an organization's leadership focuses on the strengths of its employees, the odds soar to almost 3 in 4 (73%). When leaders focus on and invest in their employees' strengths, the odds of each person being engaged go up eightfold.” REGISTER NOW!