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North Mississippi Health Services Building Measurement & Accountability into Your Leadership Training Model. How can leadership training be delivered in a format that is engaging, targeted toward dramatic end results, measurable, and sustainable? Learn about the QED model (quod erat demonstrandum, or QED based on a mathematical theorem meaning, "We have proven the proposition we set out to prove"). Specific details of a working model of leadership training easily adaptable to your corporate needs are shared in this interactive session. Presenter: Beth Stone Frick, Director of Education, North Mississippi Medical Center |
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Ohio Health Integrating High Tech into a High Touch Healing Environment. OhioHealth opened Dublin Methodist Hospital in 2008 with a new approach to patient-centered care and the intent to operate in a paperless environment. The OD department used a blended education model to help 500 new associates learn to use more than 100 clinical systems in a 10-week orientation while also committing to a culture of caring for patients' medical, spiritual, and emotional needs. Presenters: Rebecca Schmale, System Vice President, Organization Development; Leslie Coonfare, Director, Organization Development |
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WakeMed Health and Hospitals Thinking Outside the Box: Innovative Strategy Using Medical Simulation to Retain New Graduate Nurses. National research shows retention data for new nurse graduates ranges between 40–60% at 12 months. We will provide an overview of how integrating medical simulation in the New Nurse Graduate Orientation Programming is a piece of the puzzle which has improved recruitment, staff satisfaction, and overall staff retention. Presenters: Harriet Stephenson, Director, Nursing Education Department; Amar P. Patel, Manager, Medical Simulation Center |
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Air Products 50 Years of Building Tomorrow's Leaders: A New Approach. Air Products Career Development Program is a global, university-hiring program for engineers, IT/HR professionals, MBAs, and PhDs designed to hire the best talent from top universities. The session details the unique program that differentiates Air Products from competitors. Presenter: Joe Lamack, Global Career Development Program Manager |
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AlliedBarton Security Services Unlocking Employee Engagement. How does a company that has grown from 9,000 to more than 50,000 employees in less than five years build the leadership infrastructure necessary to maintain its place as the premier provider of services in its industry? AlliedBarton Security Services unleashed the power of its leaders to drive performance, reduce manager turnover, and increase customer retention to all-time highs through its employee engagement initiatives. Presenter: Rich Cordivari, Vice President, Learning and Development |
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B&W Pantex Mission: Error-Less Performance. Learn how to promote "error-less performance" in a high-consequence, safety-critical production environment. The discussion will include using lessons learned tools to learn from error events. Presenter: Scott Elliott, Technical Training Department Manager |
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BB&T
Developing Leaders at All Levels. Learn about BB&T's progression from a one-size-fits-all leadership training program to a targeted multi-tiered learning strategy for all levels of managing leaders. This approach aligns and integrates leadership development with business strategy, talent management, and overall performance. Presenter: Rosalind Guerrie, Senior Vice President, Leadership and Professional Development Manager |
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Carter & Burgess
From Strategy to Implementation: A Learning Journey. It is critical that today's training and development function be closely aligned to the business. Carter & Burgess will reveal their secret to creating a learning strategy that allows the firm to successfully deliver on their business strategy. Discover the tips and techniques they used to translate that strategy into an innovative learning brand and infrastructure that delivered significant business results. Presenters: Jim Garman, Chief Human Resources Officer; DeDe Watkins, Senior Manager, Training and Development; Lori Partain, Manager, Training and Development |
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CIGNA Corporation
Alliances, Alignment and Other Strategies to Further Corporate Goals. Learn about key focus areas for furthering corporate goals through learning and development. Strategies include aligning the learning strategy to support the company-wide business strategy and delivering value to strategic partners and other stakeholders. Presenters: Karen Kocher, Chief Learning Officer; Stu Cohen, Client Business Director; Sheila McCormick, Learning Director, Consumer Engagement |
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ETS Risky Business; Learning to the Core. The core of ETS's business is developing assessments in a global market, a complex and exacting process that involves multiple checks and balances and painstaking attention to detail. The focus for this discussion is how to implement an effective learning strategy for a new system in the test development process without risking the company’s core business and impacting test takers. Presenters: Felicia Devincenzi, Executive Director of Talent Management; Kirk Messick, Director of Learning and Development; T.J. Elliott, Vice President and Chief Learning Officer |
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Farmer's Insurance Exchange Learning CAN Boost Business Results: Here's How! Targeting everything from claims employee recruiting and hiring, to curriculum redesign and delivery, to the launch of a new learning content management system, the University team took it all on. The results: drastically reduced new-hire turnover, more efficient and effective training, more satisfied customers and a declaration from our executive vice president that Farmers Claims is a "values-based, performance-driven LEARNING organization." Presenter: Mike Cuffe, Vice President, University of Farmers, Claims |
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Grant Thornton, LLP
Senior Manager Development Program. In 2004, Grant Thornton launched its Partner Candidate Development Program for senior managers who were being groomed for partnership. Learn about the critical success factors and continuous innovation that were keys to the successful transition to the new Senior Manager Development Program. Presenter: Don Beeman, Director of Leadership Development |
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Infosys Technologies Ltd. Scaling Up to Address the Competency Needs of the Business. Meeting the increasingly complex business needs of customers while operating on a changing technology landscape means that Infosys Technologies must constantly fine tune its competency engine. Learn what mechanisms the company has used for addressing its ever-evolving competency challenge in ways that are scalable and effective. Presenter: Tan Moorthy, Vice President and Head of Education and Research |
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Janus Capital Group 70-20-10 Development Philosophy. This philosophy defines development as occurring in three main ways: on-the-job experiences; relationships, networking and feedback; and formal training opportunities. Learn how Janus tied their training programs to on-the-job training and about the structured mentoring and networking programs they created. Presenters: Michelle Thompson, Director, Leadership and Professional Development; Thomas Toth, Senior Instructional Designer |
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Perkins+Will Achieving and Maintaining Accreditation and Licensure Perkins+Will faces the challenges of achieving LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) accreditation for almost 800 design professionals while maintaining the continuing education and licenses of over 1000 architects and interior designers. Learn how Perkins + Will are improving process and how you can adapt the approach for your organization. Presenter: Garrett Dickinson, Director of Learning and Development |
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Reliance Industries Limited Learning Function’s Strategic Role in Business Performance. The learning function can be a strategic business partner in supporting organizational needs. Learn how Reliance Industries created the link between people, performance, and business results with a number of initiatives. Presenter: Sadanand R. Yadwadkar, President, Nagothane Manufacturing Division |
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Shangri-La Hotels & Resorts Bringing out the Best in Our People for Better Business Results.
Learn about the people strategies for meeting three key business goals: training and development programs that meet the needs of our employees and develop them to their maximum potential; creating a service culture through our Shangri-La Care training program; expanding operations into international markets by helping employees translate Asian values and experiences into North American markets. Presenter: Eng Hwee Ong, Director of Corproate Training |
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Sun Microsystems Learning in a Web 2.0 World. With information and knowledge resources readily available at the click of a mouse, where do learning functions carve a meaningful contribution? To what degree can we use the tools of the next generation web to not only enable personal development, but to create social networks that foster collaborative learning environments? Learn about these topics along with demonstrations of Web 2.0 tools at work in a mobile, open learning environment, and how the world of instructional design changes to adapt to these new ways of delivering learning. Presenter: Karie Willyerd, Vice President and Chief Learning Officer |
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The Schwan Food Company Creating an Enterprise-Wide Pull for Continuous Improvement. This discussion provides a road map for creating a culture of continuous improvement across the enterprise. Organizational development is combined with Lean Thinking to create a blueprint for sustainable change that transfers capability and hardwires it into the DNA of the organization Presenters: Robert Petruska, Manager, Continuous Improvement; Don Jones, Director of Organization Development and Continuous Improvement; Betsy Roesler, Learning Solution Specialist |
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Toshiba America Business Solutions
LEAD Toshiba. . . Leadership Education And Development for Leaders at all Levels. "Our people are our #1 asset." Learn about the LEAD Toshiba successes including: great consulting partnerships, key programs targeting a multi-generational workforce, a High Potential Leaders Action Learning program which changed the company's strategic focus, and the balancing of a blended learning approach providing the appropriate platform for the learning experience. Presenters: Terry Kristiansen, National Education and Development Manager; Steve Bamberger, National E-Learning Manager |
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T. Rowe Price Integrating Front-Line Supervisor Accountability for Learning and Development on Business Initiatives. Learn how to ensure a successful implementation of core sales skills training by supporting the front-line supervisors’ learning and coaching needs prior to training their associates. This discussion focuses on strategies to develop front-line leadership buy-in and accountability to a business unit training initiative, and prepare supervisors to effectively coach and reinforce skill development with their associates. Presenter: Michael Lazo, Senior Training Consultant and Assistant Vice President |
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UT-Batelle, LLC Using Division Training Officers for Successful Implementation of Training Processes and Functions. At Oak Ridge National Laboratory, a network of 46 Division Training Officers (DTOs) was used to successfully implement training and qualification processes and functions. Learn about the DTO role and responsibilities in five primary areas, training and ongoing assistance to support the role, established communication mechanisms, and assessment results. Presenter: Allen White; Training Manager, Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
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Wipro Strategic Learning Initiatives – Blending with Business. Wipro has strategic learning initiatives to support high growth business areas which face severe talent crunch in niche skills. Sponsored and supported by the business units, these initiatives have significant business benefits. Learn about ‘blending with business’ to provide business-enabling learning solutions. Presenter: Channa Basavaraja, Practice Head, Learning Solutions |