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• Lunch & Learn: Rethinking What You Know About Communication Training & the Multi-Generational Workplace

  • When
    21 Jun 2013
  •  
    11:30 AM - 1:00 PM (CDT)
  • Location
    St. David's Episcopal Church 301 E. 8th St. - Austin, 78701

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  "Are you REALLY listening to me?" : 
  Rethinking What You Know About Communication Training & the Multi-Generational Workplace

  NOTE: Register by June 17 to reserve a lunch.

  Credit card users MUST pay in advance. If you are paying at the event, we can only take cash or check.

  Program Description:

  Here's something you've probably heard (and said) countless times: "I hear you saying that <insert parroting back here>."

  This is a common technique of "reflective" listening, which is frequently taught as a core listening competency...a key professional and interpersonal communication skill.

  But there's a few problems with this particular technique, especially in the workplace: 

  • Most people are pretty smart.
  • People generally KNOW what they just said.
  • At worst, it can become irritating - and a communication obstacle

  So why do we persist in training people to use it? And why do we use it ourselves? The answers may lie in how our culture has shifted now that -- for the first time in our history -- there are FIVE different generations active in the workplace, with each hearing and responding selectively. 

  The so-called millennials also see (and HEAR!) right through outdated "techniques." Over-usage of traditional communication tools may not be as effective today as they were in the past.

  Soooo...what can a skilled communicator, trainer, or coach do to keep up with the times? How can you boost your own listening skills, while helping to develop others?

  Join us for a (very interactive) session focused on:
  

  • Listening "cultures," and how different generations have varying needs
  • 3 types of listening skills
  • Listening for "The Big 5" (critical for coaching and creating agreements)

  Competencies for the Training & Development Profession:

  • Coaching
  • Training Delivery
  • Interpersonal Skills [Foundational]

  Click here for more about ASTD's Competency Model.

  About the Speaker:

  Several-time entrepreneur, Sherry Lowry is a strategist, a specialist in identifying career next steps for high potentials, and a legacy planning business mentor. Her client relationships include company founders, CEOs, their direct reports, or their recognized and emerging fast-track staff.

  Sherry has created and fully developed staff in six previous businesses, and her expertise is catalyzing others to put their best self and capability forward. She has been adviser to the International Coach Federation and carries their highest credential of Master Certified Coach.

  Sherry's primary leadership focus is what succeeds across all 5 generations (think Buffet = 5th generation) rather than what fails or divides. Members of her 5-generation Vision Enactors collective carry and practice core competencies that she will reference in this presentation. 

  Sherry lives in Austin with her family. She is an active member of ASTD and serves on several local boards, including All Blind Children of Texas. 

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• Training Field 101: Career Transition SIG

  • When
    24 Jun 2013
  •  
    5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
  • Location
    Café Express 3418 N. Lamar Blvd.

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  Training Field 101

  Have you ever done a job search and wondered “What does that job title actually do?” and “How does that fit with training?” 

  Here’s your chance to get a look at job titles and functions that fall under the Workplace Learning and Development Professionals’ bailiwick. 

  If you are transitioning into the training field, or even just considering it, this presentation is designed for you. It will include how different functions support each other within the training field. Star plans to include information from National ASTD’s research into the Areas of Expertise. This information was used to develop the Certified Professional of Learning and Performance (CPLP) accreditation.

  
  

  About The Speaker
  A co-worker once coined it best “You are a vast resource.” Jane "Star" Fisher offers more than 20 years of experience in the Learning and Development field. She has a M.S. in Instructional and Performance Technology and has earned and maintained the CPLP accreditation. She earned the unique recognition of “Exceptional CPLP Trainer” from the local ASTD chapter for providing years of facilitating CPLP study groups (each cohort is a 9-month program).

  Star Fisher has been labeled the “Games Guru” so most likely any presentation she provides will be interactive, allowing the learners to help shape the program.

  She is a Senior Associate with Caveo Learning, a learning consulting firm, providing learning solutions to Fortune 1000 and other leading organizations. She specializes in Instructional Design, and improving Caveo’s client’s development of their Learning and Development structure, systems, and personnel.

  Just for Fun: Star is also the Guild Principal of the European Medieval Dance Guild locally and teaches dance routinely.
  

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• Differentiating between Design Models and Process Models: ID/eLearning SIG Meeting

  • When
    27 Jun 2013
  •  
    6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
  • Location
    11525 Stonehollow Drive, Austin, TX 78758

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  Differentiating between Design Models and Process Models:  

  
  

  Everyone in a training organization wants their training to be more effective! A step towards reaching that goal is for your team to use design models that best fit the type of training your team is responsible for creating. 

  
  

  The phrase “design model” does not mean ADDIE, even though it is often referred to as a design model, it is actually a process model. People may use the terminology interchangeably, but the models are, in fact, very different. 

  
  

  Design models add value to the training team because they provide a structure for learning based on tested cognitive science. They also provide cohesiveness among team members, because they facilitate collaboration between designers and/or developers.
  
  This session will provide participants with an understanding of the differences between a process model, such as ADDIE, and a design model, such as First Principles, the 4-Mat Cycle, or the Star Legacy Model, to name a few. You’ll learn what it is that makes these three design models unique, the philosophy behind each model, as well as steps on how to apply these models using authoring tools such as Camtasia, Articulate Studio and Storyline.
  
  In this session, you will learn:
  · To differentiate between a process model and a design model
  · To differentiate between several design models
  · To select the most effective design model for each project
  · The benefits of using a design model
  · How to apply design models to e-Learning modules
   

  
  

  About the Speaker
  Adriana Ravelo Henry has worked in the training and development industry since 1996 and during that time she gained experience in a wide spectrum of areas. Currently, she is the training manager at Netspend, Inc. Prior to Netspend, Adriana worked at 3M and Dell, and then owned an eLearning Services company, Beyond Linear, which had 3M as its first customer. In 2008, she presented at the eLearning Guild conference, then its Online Forum, and is now pursuing her Master’s in Instructional Training Systems.
  
  
  Please Note New Location:
  Build-a-Sign - NOTE:  NEW LOCATION!
  11525 Stonehollow Drive, Austin, TX 78758
  

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• Career Transition SIG

  • When
    08 Jul 2013
  •  
    5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
  • Location
    Café Express 3418 N. Lamar Blvd.

  Register

  Our Mission

  To assist trainers in our community to find new positions in the training profession.

  To assist professionals who are interested in joining the training profession.

  To raise the visibility of ASTD and to serve Austin.

  Programs

  • To teach, to share and to inspire new job seeking strategies, techniques and tools.
  • To present the evolving training profession, and success stories of career changers
  • To share local job openings in the training profession.
  • To provide structured networking so that job seekers can help one another.

  
  To volunteer or to learn more about this new SIG visit: http://www.austinastd.org/ or contact Catherine Jewell, SIG Chair

  512-868-6886 cj@CareerPassionCoach.com

  “It’s great to meet other trainers and share ideas and opportunities for my job search.”

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• Cliff Notes SIG - The Business Model Innovation Factory: How to Stay Relevant When the World is Changing

  • When
    10 Jul 2013
  •  
    6:45 PM - 8:15 PM
  • Location
    The Learning Pad - 10435 Burnet Rd. Austin, TX 78758
  • Spaces left
    12

  Register

  The Business Model Innovation Factory: How to Stay Relevant When the World is Changing
  Author: Saul Kaplan

  
  

  Business models just don't last as long as they used to last. Historically, CEOs have managed a single business model over their entire careers. Today, all organizations must be capable of designing, prototyping, and experimenting with new business models.

  
  

  The author will show you how to create a pipeline of new business models in the face of disruptive markets and competition.

  
  

  Kaplan is the founder and chief catalyst of the Business Innovation Factory, or BIF, a real-world laboratory for exploring and testing new business models and social systems. BIF has attracted a global community of more than 5,000 innovators and organizes the BIF Collaborative Innovation Summit.

  
  

  This book will help you make your organization a business model innovator and stay competitive in today's turbulent world.

  
  

  
  

  
  

  About the Cliff Notes SIG:
  

  
  

  This group is designed to give busy professionals exposure to best-selling books in the areas of business, learning, development, and related topics.

  
  

  We start each session by listening to the audio Business Book Summary (with transcript) from AudioTech, and then finish with a participatory group discussion. 

  
  

  Please note:

  • Advance registration is required (see link on left) to ensure there are enough transcripts for everyone. You can also register by emailing the SIG Leader. 
    
  • Bring note-taking supplies. Transcripts will be available but collected back to preserve copyright. (If you wish, you can also order your own copy of the transcript or audio of the book summary from the Audiotech Store.)
  • It is not necessary to read the book before attending the meeting. 
  • Networking begins at 6:45 pm, and the audio review begins at 7 pm. Food and drink are allowed.
    

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• Engaging Participants & Responding to Them: Training Curve SIG

  • When
    12 Jul 2013
  •  
    7:00 AM - 9:00 AM
  • Location
    Café Express 3418 N. Lamar Blvd.

  Register

  Engaging Participants & Responding to Them

  
  

  The Training Curve SIG is focused at helping trainers with their delivery and platform skills. It may touch on some design, but it really is meant to develop you as a presenter. We are going to try once again, the breakfast meeting format. So we will be meeting at Café Express starting at 7 am. We should be finishing between 8:30 and 9:00.
  

  
  

  
  

  About The Speaker

  Jane “Star” Fisher, CPLP is all about developing others and herself.
  
  

  Star excels at creating Interactive Learning Events (ILEs) to maximize classroom learning and student participation and has been referred to as the “Games Guru”.

  
  

  She works as an Instructional Designer for Training Development and Program Management (TDP, LLC) along with being a consultant, coach, and public speaker specializing in Instructional Design, Training, and Performance Improvement. She has over 20 years experience in Workplace Learning and Performance. She holds a Master of Science in Instructional and Performance Technology from Boise State University.
  
  

  Star's a Certified Professional in Learning and Performance (CPLP) through the American Society for Training and Development (ASTD). Through the local ASTD chapter, Star has voluntarily provided four 9-month-long programs helping other CPLP candidates prepare in the 9 Areas of Expertise, including Instructional Design, Training Delivery, Improving Human Performance, and Facilitating Organizational Change. In 2011, Austin ASTD recognized her as “Exemplary CPLP Trainer,” a unique award
  
  

  Star founded and currently hosts the Cliff Notes Club SIG for Austin ASTD where people listen to an audio book summary and then discuss ways to leverage the ideas from the book. She is adding leading the Training Curve SIG helping trainers and would-be trainers develop their presentation skills.

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• Lunch & Learn: An Overview of Experience API (Tin Can API)

  • When
    19 Jul 2013
  •  
    11:30 AM - 1:00 PM (CDT)
  • Location
    St. David's Episcopal Church 301 E. 8th St. - Austin, 78701

  Register

  Emerging Learning Technologies: An Overview of Experience API (Tin Can API)

  NOTE: Register by July 15 to reserve a lunch. 

  Credit card users MUST pay in advance. If you are paying at the event, we can only take cash or check.  
  

  Program Description:

  Here's a common issue faced by most organizations: learning happens beyond the LMS and formal environments often available. Additionally, new demands and opportunities for mobile learning are often met with uncertainties for integration to a broader strategy. 

  But the Experience API (xAPI), or Tin Can API, is an emerging standard that promises to evolve the learning technology marketplace. In short, this is the next generation of SCORM and it's poised to change the paradigm of enterprise learning.

  Attend this session and learn:
  

  • What is Experience API?
  • Why do we need something new to replace SCORM?
    
  • What does xAPI mean for learning products and technologies?
    
  • What business problems can xAPI solve?
  • How do I keep up with current information on this critical new technology?

  Workshop to follow: "Planning & Designing for Experience API (Tin Can API) and its Affordances" This luncheon will be followed by a 3-hour interactive workshop that will give you a deeper dive into this topic. Registration for the luncheon and the workshop are separate. Click HERE to learn more about the workshop.

  Workplace Learning & Performance Competencies:
  

  • Learning Technologies

  Click here for more about the ASTD Competency Model.

  About the Speakers:

  Neil Lasher is a leading light both in the eLearning and mLearning industries. As a pioneer of both delivery methods, Neil has pushed the envelope at every opportunity and always challenges the existing rules of learning to forge new methods so that the end user takes away the very best content and has the most engaging experience. 

  A lively speaker, Neil has been sought by many conferences around the world to present in his trademark entertaining manner. Neil has also published many new papers on instructional design and mobile learning techniques, and he creates high-voltage learning events. In the summer of 2012, Neil worked for the London 2012 Olympics, helping to roll out 1 million hours of learning to 200,000 people...learning events don't get more high profile or mission critical than that!

  Neil sits on the advisory board of the UK's Learning and Performance Institute (LPI). He is also a past president of ASTD (UK Network) and past vice chair of eLearning Network. And he hosts a mobile "technical stage" each year for the eLearning Guid's mLearnCon (the world's premier mobile conference). 

  Neil lives in the United Kingdom. 

  Michael Hruska is a technologist and entrepreneur with diverse experiences spanning across standards, emerging technologies, learning, and science. He is a former researcher at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Gaithersburg, MD. Currently he is the President and CEO of Problem Solutions, which provides learning technology solutions to government, commercial, and nonprofit organizations.

  Michael and his team have been leading efforts for four years at the DoD on the future of a Training and Learning Architecture (TLA) which evolves from SCORM. They have created and stewarded projects to enable the Experience API (Tin Can API). He is a member of ASTD, the eLearning Guild, the Society for Applied Learning Technologies (SALT), and the National defense and Industrial Association (NDIA).

  Michael lives in Pennsylvania.

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• Workshop: Planning & Designign for the Experience API (Tin Can API)

  • When
    19 Jul 2013
  •  
    1:30 PM - 4:30 PM (CDT)
  • Location
    St. David's Episcopal Church 301 E. 8th St. - Austin, 78701

  Register

  Emerging Learning Technologies: Planning & Designing for the Experience API (Tin Can API) 

  Program Description:

  The Experience API (xAPI), or Tin Can API, is an emerging standard that promises to evolve the learning technology marketplace. In short, this is the next generation of SCORM and it's poised to change the paradigm of enterprise learning.
  

  The xAPI allows the capture of streams of learning activities and experiences, both online and offline -- and has major implications to capture and improve formal, informal and experiential learning in organizations. Market opportunities and emerging products are quickly evolving out of the affordances of the effort.

  
  

  This 3-hour workshop will give participants the basics to understanding this cutting-edge technology, it's impact on training and development, and how to apply it strategically in the workplace and training environment. All participants will receive useful materials to take back to the workplace.

  
  

  Attend this session and learn:

  • An understanding of what Experience API is
  • What xAPI will enable compared to SCORM
  • How training value can be measured for mobile and eLearning activities
    
  • How data is collected across multiple technologies into a single-user learning session
  • How learning paths can be created to measure behavior change
  • How mobile technologies can enhance learning interventions

  Target audience:

  • Training managers
  • Instructional designers
  • Developers
  • Project managers
  • C-level executives in L&D

  Recent feedback on this workshop:

  "This workshop was great! While I had a basic conceptual understanding of Tin Can API / Experience API before I attended, Mike and Neil provided concrete examples and use cases, which helped me learn how I can help my clients incorporate this emerging technology...."  

  - Jennifer Rose, Training Divas

  Workplace Learning & Performance Competencies:

  • Learning Technologies

  Click here for more about the ASTD Competency Model.
  

  About the Facilitators:

  Neil Lasher is a leading light both in the eLearning and mLearning industries. As a pioneer of both delivery methods, Neil has pushed the envelope at every opportunity and always challenges the existing rules of learning to forge new methods so that the end user takes away the very best content and has the most engaging experience. 

  A lively speaker, Neil has been sought by many conferences around the world to present in his trademark entertaining manner. Neil has also published many new papers on instructional design and mobile learning techniques, and he creates high-voltage learning events. In the summer of 2012, Neil worked for the London 2012 Olympics, helping to roll out 1 million hours of learning to 200,000 people...learning events don't get more high profile or mission critical than that!

  Neil sits on the advisory board of the UK's Learning and Performance Institute (LPI). He is also a past president of ASTD (UK Network) and past vice chair of eLearning Network. And he hosts a mobile "technical stage" each year for the eLearning Guid's mLearnCon (the world's premier mobile conference). 

  Neil lives in the United Kingdom. 

  Michael Hruska is a technologist and entrepreneur with diverse experiences spanning across standards, emerging technologies, learning, and science. He is a former researcher at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Gaithersburg, MD. Currently he is the President and CEO of Problem Solutions, which provides learning technology solutions to government, commercial, and nonprofit organizations.

  Michael and his team have been leading efforts for four years at the DoD on the future of a Training and Learning Architecture (TLA) which evolves from SCORM. They have created and stewarded projects to enable the Experience API (Tin Can API). He is a member of ASTD, the eLearning Guild, the Society for Applied Learning Technologies (SALT), and the National defense and Industrial Association (NDIA).

  Michael lives in Pennsylvania.

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• Career Transition SIG

  • When
    22 Jul 2013
  •  
    5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
  • Location
    Café Express 3418 N. Lamar Blvd.

  Register

  Our Mission

  To assist trainers in our community to find new positions in the training profession.

  To assist professionals who are interested in joining the training profession.

  To raise the visibility of ASTD and to serve Austin.

  Programs

  • To teach, to share and to inspire new job seeking strategies, techniques and tools.
  • To present the evolving training profession, and success stories of career changers
  • To share local job openings in the training profession.
  • To provide structured networking so that job seekers can help one another.

  
  To volunteer or to learn more about this new SIG visit: http://www.austinastd.org/ or contact Catherine Jewell, SIG Chair

  512-868-6886 cj@CareerPassionCoach.com

  “It’s great to meet other trainers and share ideas and opportunities for my job search.”

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• Career Transition SIG

  • When
    12 Aug 2013
  •  
    5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
  • Location
    Café Express 3418 N. Lamar Blvd.

  Register

  Our Mission

  To assist trainers in our community to find new positions in the training profession.

  To assist professionals who are interested in joining the training profession.

  To raise the visibility of ASTD and to serve Austin.

  Programs

  • To teach, to share and to inspire new job seeking strategies, techniques and tools.
  • To present the evolving training profession, and success stories of career changers
  • To share local job openings in the training profession.
  • To provide structured networking so that job seekers can help one another.

  
  To volunteer or to learn more about this new SIG visit: http://www.austinastd.org/ or contact Catherine Jewell, SIG Chair

  512-868-6886 cj@CareerPassionCoach.com

  “It’s great to meet other trainers and share ideas and opportunities for my job search.”

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• Cliff Notes SIG - Web Analytics 2.0: The Art of Online Accountability and Science of Customer Centricity

  • When
    14 Aug 2013
  •  
    6:45 PM - 8:15 PM
  • Location
    The Learning Pad - 10435 Burnet Rd. Austin, TX 78758
  • Spaces left
    12

  Register

  Web Analytics 2.0: The Art of Online Accountability and the Science of Customer Centricity
  Author: Avinash Kaushik

  
  

  The Web online marketing and advertising have been revolutionized in the past few years. yet, the approach to using data has remained largely the same as a decade ago. Our summary will show you how doing rigorous otcomes analysis can lead to understanding the impact and economic value of your Web site. The goal is to help you change how you make decisions online so you can think smart and move fast.

  
  

  The Web, on-line marketing, and advertising have been revolutionized in the past few years, yet the approach tousing data has remained largely the same as a decade ago.

  
  

  This book will give you a framework that redefines what data means on-line. It will show you how doing rigorous outcomes analysis can lead to understanding the impact and economic value of your Web site. The goal is to help you change how you make decisions on-line so you can think smart and move fast. 

  
  

  Kaushik is the Analytics Evangelist for Google and author of the best-selling book, Web Analytics: An Hour a Day. He works with some of the largest companies in the world to help them evolve their on-line marketing and analytics strategies to become data-driven and customer-centric organizations. 

  
  

  This book will help you use data to determine how to market effectively, how to truly connect with your audiences, how to improve the customer experience on your Web sites, how to invest your finite resources, and how to improve your return on investment.

  
  

  
  

  
  

  About the Cliff Notes SIG:
  

  
  

  This group is designed to give busy professionals exposure to best-selling books in the areas of business, learning, development, and related topics.

  
  

  We start each session by listening to the audio Business Book Summary (with transcript) from AudioTech, and then finish with a participatory group discussion. 

  
  

  Please note:

  • Advance registration is required (see link on left) to ensure there are enough transcripts for everyone. You can also register by emailing the SIG Leader. 
    
  • Bring note-taking supplies. Transcripts will be available but collected back to preserve copyright. (If you wish, you can also order your own copy of the transcript or audio of the book summary from the Audiotech Store.)
  • It is not necessary to read the book before attending the meeting. 
  • Networking begins at 6:45 pm, and the audio review begins at 7 pm. Food and drink are allowed.
    

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• Lunch & Learn: Impact of Emotions & Defensiveness on Organizational Change

  • When
    16 Aug 2013
  •  
    11:30 AM - 1:00 PM (CDT)
  • Location
    St. David's Episcopal Church 301 E. 8th St. - Austin, 78701

  Register

  The Impact of Emotions and Defensiveness on Organizational Change

  NOTE: Register by Aug 12  to reserve a lunch.
  
  Credit card users MUST pay in advance. If you are paying at the event, we can only take cash or check. 

  Program Description:

  Our emotions can create passion and drive, resulting in great achievement -- or they can derail our best-laid plans. In the workplace, the impact of emotions is magnified during any period of organizational change. When leaders fail to manage emotions effectively, the result can be organizational chaos.

  In this session, Ethan Schutz, President of The Schutz Company, will use a model called FIRO theory to understand how underlying emotions are tied to behavior and how and why we become defensive and resistant to change. 

  Join us for lunch, and learn about:
  

  • FIRO® Theory
  • How behavior impacts performance
  • Common defenses, and what triggers them

  Understanding and working with emotions and defenses holds great promise for real, lasting behavioral change and sustainable organizational change. 

  Competencies for the Training & Development Profession:

  • Change Management

  Click here for more about ASTD's Competency Model.

  About the Speaker:

  Ethan Schutz is President of The Schutz Company, a consulting and publishing company, and provider of the LIFO® Method and The Human Element® Approach. With practitioners and partners in over 30 countries, he delivers training, coaching, and in-depth practitioner training programs to support consultant excellence and creativity.

  Formerly an architect, Ethan managed projects and encountered people - inspectors, engineers, contractors and others - who did not work collaboratively with each other. Motivated by this experience, he now applies his business experience and knowledge of human interactions to his consulting and training work. 

  Ethan has worked for a variety of clients in many industries, including the United Nations, NASA, Toyota, the Center for Creative Leadership. He holds a Master's degree in Organizational Psychology from Columbia University. 

  Ethan currently lives in New York.

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• Career Transition SIG

  • When
    26 Aug 2013
  •  
    5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
  • Location
    Café Express 3418 N. Lamar Blvd.

  Register

  Our Mission

  To assist trainers in our community to find new positions in the training profession.

  To assist professionals who are interested in joining the training profession.

  To raise the visibility of ASTD and to serve Austin.

  Programs

  • To teach, to share and to inspire new job seeking strategies, techniques and tools.
  • To present the evolving training profession, and success stories of career changers
  • To share local job openings in the training profession.
  • To provide structured networking so that job seekers can help one another.

  
  To volunteer or to learn more about this new SIG visit: http://www.austinastd.org/ or contact Catherine Jewell, SIG Chair

  512-868-6886 cj@CareerPassionCoach.com

  “It’s great to meet other trainers and share ideas and opportunities for my job search.”

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• Career Transition SIG

  • When
    09 Sep 2013
  •  
    5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
  • Location
    Café Express 3418 N. Lamar Blvd.

  Register

  Our Mission

  To assist trainers in our community to find new positions in the training profession.

  To assist professionals who are interested in joining the training profession.

  To raise the visibility of ASTD and to serve Austin.

  Programs

  • To teach, to share and to inspire new job seeking strategies, techniques and tools.
  • To present the evolving training profession, and success stories of career changers
  • To share local job openings in the training profession.
  • To provide structured networking so that job seekers can help one another.

  
  To volunteer or to learn more about this new SIG visit: http://www.austinastd.org/ or contact Catherine Jewell, SIG Chair

  512-868-6886 cj@CareerPassionCoach.com

  “It’s great to meet other trainers and share ideas and opportunities for my job search.”

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• Cliff Notes SIG - UnMarketing: Stop Marketing. Start Engaging.

  • When
    11 Sep 2013
  •  
    6:45 PM - 8:15 PM
  • Location
    The Learning Pad - 10435 Burnet Rd. Austin, TX 78758
  • Spaces left
    12

  Register

  UnMarketing: Stop Marketing. Start Engaging.
  Author: Scott Stratten

  
  

  If you're like most people, you don't enjoy having your dinner interrupted by a cold call from a telemarketer. You probably don't bother to read the "junk mail that clutters your mailbox or the "spam" that makes your email inbox overflow. And it's a safe bet that you don't listen carefully to the commercials that interrupt your favorite television show. If these experiences are "marketing," then you - and your customers - probably prefer whatever's the complete opposite.
  

  
  

  So instead of trying these same tired methods to build brand and loyalty, what if you could have a new kind of conversation with your customers and prospects? If you're ready to stop marketing and start engaging, then welcome to UnMarketing.

  
  

  Straten provides you with innovative ways to get out of the old "Push and Pray" marketing rut, which assumes that messages sent out blindly and broadly will magically lead to loyal, long-term customers. With his "Pull and Stay" approach, you'll learn to bring the right customers to you through listening and engagement, enabling you to build trust and position yourself as their logical choice when they need you.

  
  

  Stratten is the president of UnMarketing.com. His clients' viral marketing videos have been viewed more than 60 million times and have generated major returns. He speaks and consults globally on how businesses can engage their current and potential customer base using social media.

  
  

  This book will give you a winning approach to stop ineffective marketing and put relationships first, so that you can reap the long-term, high-quality growth that follows.

  
  

  
  

  
  

  About the Cliff Notes SIG:
  

  
  

  This group is designed to give busy professionals exposure to best-selling books in the areas of business, learning, development, and related topics.

  
  

  We start each session by listening to the audio Business Book Summary (with transcript) from AudioTech, and then finish with a participatory group discussion. 

  
  

  Please note:

  • Advance registration is required (see link on left) to ensure there are enough transcripts for everyone. You can also register by emailing the SIG Leader. 
    
  • Bring note-taking supplies. Transcripts will be available but collected back to preserve copyright. (If you wish, you can also order your own copy of the transcript or audio of the book summary from the Audiotech Store.)
  • It is not necessary to read the book before attending the meeting. 
  • Networking begins at 6:45 pm, and the audio review begins at 7 pm. Food and drink are allowed.
    

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• September Lunch & Learn

  • When
    20 Sep 2013
  •  
    11:30 AM - 1:00 PM (CDT)
  • Location
    St. David's Episcopal Church 301 E. 8th St. - Austin, 78701

  Register

  September Lunch & Learn

  NOTE: Register by Sept 16  to reserve a lunch.
  
  Credit card users MUST pay in advance. If you are paying at the event, we can only take cash or check. 

  Program Description:

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  Competencies for the Training & Development Profession:

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• Career Transition SIG

  • When
    23 Sep 2013
  •  
    5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
  • Location
    Café Express 3418 N. Lamar Blvd.

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  Our Mission

  To assist trainers in our community to find new positions in the training profession.

  To assist professionals who are interested in joining the training profession.

  To raise the visibility of ASTD and to serve Austin.

  Programs

  • To teach, to share and to inspire new job seeking strategies, techniques and tools.
  • To present the evolving training profession, and success stories of career changers
  • To share local job openings in the training profession.
  • To provide structured networking so that job seekers can help one another.

  
  To volunteer or to learn more about this new SIG visit: http://www.austinastd.org/ or contact Catherine Jewell, SIG Chair

  512-868-6886 cj@CareerPassionCoach.com

  “It’s great to meet other trainers and share ideas and opportunities for my job search.”

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• Career Transition SIG

  • When
    07 Oct 2013
  •  
    5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
  • Location
    Café Express 3418 N. Lamar Blvd.

  Register

  Our Mission

  To assist trainers in our community to find new positions in the training profession.

  To assist professionals who are interested in joining the training profession.

  To raise the visibility of ASTD and to serve Austin.

  Programs

  • To teach, to share and to inspire new job seeking strategies, techniques and tools.
  • To present the evolving training profession, and success stories of career changers
  • To share local job openings in the training profession.
  • To provide structured networking so that job seekers can help one another.

  
  To volunteer or to learn more about this new SIG visit: http://www.austinastd.org/ or contact Catherine Jewell, SIG Chair

  512-868-6886 cj@CareerPassionCoach.com

  “It’s great to meet other trainers and share ideas and opportunities for my job search.”

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• Cliff Notes SIG - The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves

  • When
    09 Oct 2013
  •  
    6:45 PM - 8:15 PM
  • Location
    The Learning Pad - 10435 Burnet Rd. Austin, TX 78758
  • Spaces left
    12

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  The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves
  Author: Matt Ridley

  
  

  Life is getting better, and it is getting better at an accelerating rate. All across the globe, food availability, income, and life span are up. Disease, child mortality, and violence are down.

  
  

  Although the world is far from perfect, necessities and luxuries alike are getting cheaper. Population growth is slowing. The Internet, the mobile phone, and genetics are enriching people's lives like never before. The pessimists who dominate public discourse insist that we will soon reach a turning point and things will start to get worse. But they have been saying that for 200 years.

  
  

  Matt Ridley sets the record straight so you can understand why things are truly getting better, and why they will continue to get better. He is the author of Genome and other books on evolution, genetics, and society that have sold more than 800,000 copies, been translated into 27 languages, and won several awards. 

  
  

  This book will arm you with the facts that will help you to avoid the pessimism all around you so that you can anticipate - and participate in - the prosperity of the 21st century.

  
  

  
  

  
  

  About the Cliff Notes SIG:
  

  
  

  This group is designed to give busy professionals exposure to best-selling books in the areas of business, learning, development, and related topics.

  
  

  We start each session by listening to the audio Business Book Summary (with transcript) from AudioTech, and then finish with a participatory group discussion. 

  
  

  Please note:

  • Advance registration is required (see link on left) to ensure there are enough transcripts for everyone. You can also register by emailing the SIG Leader. 
    
  • Bring note-taking supplies. Transcripts will be available but collected back to preserve copyright. (If you wish, you can also order your own copy of the transcript or audio of the book summary from the Audiotech Store.)
  • It is not necessary to read the book before attending the meeting. 
  • Networking begins at 6:45 pm, and the audio review begins at 7 pm. Food and drink are allowed.
    

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• Technologies Boosting Presentation: Training Curve SIG

  • When
    11 Oct 2013
  •  
    7:00 AM - 9:00 AM
  • Location
    Café Express 3418 N. Lamar Blvd.

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  Technologies Boosting Presentation

  The Training Curve SIG is focused at helping trainers with their delivery and platform skills. It may touch on some design, but it really is meant to develop you as a presenter. We are going to try once again, the breakfast meeting format. So we will be meeting at Café Express starting at 7 am. We finish between 8:30am and 9:00am.

  
  

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• Lunch & Learn: The Power of Emotional Effectiveness (EQ) in Talent Management

  • When
    18 Oct 2013
  •  
    11:30 AM - 1:00 PM (CDT)
  • Location
    St. David's Episcopal Church 301 E. 8th St. - Austin, 78701

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  The Power of Emotional Effectiveness (EQ) in Talent Management

  NOTE: Register by Oct 14 to reserve a lunch.

  Credit card users MUST pay in advance. If you are paying at the event, we can only take cash or check.

  Program Description:

  Emotional Intelligence (EQ) has been the talk of organizational development for over two decades...and it's as relevant today as it has ever been. The concept has also evolved, and this session will bring you up to date on the latest research, terminology, and the key measurement tool - the EQi 2.0.

  In this session, you'll discover how emotional and social effectiveness impacts your organization...whether or not it is being directly addressed.

  Join us for lunch, and learn more about:

  • What Emotional/Social Effectiveness is - and how it can build or destroy organizations
  • How neuroscience research has defined core needs for motivation, productivity, and retention
  • The 4 key emotional factors for leadership success
  • Measuring Emotional/Social Effectiveness with the EQi tool
  • • How the EQi can streamline hiring for reliable matches
    • How the EQi can be interpreted for coaching emotional effectiveness (one example case study)
  • Best practices for creating a culture of emotional effectiveness -- to deliver greater employee satisfaction and bottom-line results

  You will also have an opportunity to thumbnail your own EQ profile and receive tips to enhance it.

  Competencies for the Training & Development Profession:

  • Integrated Talent Management
  • Change Management

  Click here for more about ASTD's Competency Model.

  About the Speaker:

  Steve Whiteford is a trainer, executive coach, and owner of Whiteford Resources. His business creates highly-effective practices for meeting the challenges of interpersonal communication in the workplace, and Steve is well known for his engaging, intuitive, and practical approach. 

  Whiteford Resources has worked with an array of corporate clients, from start-ups to Fortune 50 companies, in a variety of industries and sectors. Some of his local clients include ______.

  Steve is certified in EQi and EQ360, and he has used the instrument to design corporate leadership programs that include training and coaching. Steve is also Master Certified in MBTI, has taught DiSC since 1997, and is skilled in using multiple instruments and 360s. 

  He has also authored articles featured in The Bulletin of Psychological Type, Entrepreneur, TWA’s Ambassador, Training & Development Journal, Idea Magazine, and on Air-America Radio.

   

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• Career Transition SIG

  • When
    21 Oct 2013
  •  
    5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
  • Location
    Café Express 3418 N. Lamar Blvd.

  Register

  Our Mission

  To assist trainers in our community to find new positions in the training profession.

  To assist professionals who are interested in joining the training profession.

  To raise the visibility of ASTD and to serve Austin.

  Programs

  • To teach, to share and to inspire new job seeking strategies, techniques and tools.
  • To present the evolving training profession, and success stories of career changers
  • To share local job openings in the training profession.
  • To provide structured networking so that job seekers can help one another.

  
  To volunteer or to learn more about this new SIG visit: http://www.austinastd.org/ or contact Catherine Jewell, SIG Chair

  512-868-6886 cj@CareerPassionCoach.com

  “It’s great to meet other trainers and share ideas and opportunities for my job search.”

  Show details
• Career Transition SIG

  • When
    04 Nov 2013
  •  
    5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
  • Location
    Café Express 3418 N. Lamar Blvd.

  Register

  Our Mission

  To assist trainers in our community to find new positions in the training profession.

  To assist professionals who are interested in joining the training profession.

  To raise the visibility of ASTD and to serve Austin.

  Programs

  • To teach, to share and to inspire new job seeking strategies, techniques and tools.
  • To present the evolving training profession, and success stories of career changers
  • To share local job openings in the training profession.
  • To provide structured networking so that job seekers can help one another.

  
  To volunteer or to learn more about this new SIG visit: http://www.austinastd.org/ or contact Catherine Jewell, SIG Chair

  512-868-6886 cj@CareerPassionCoach.com

  “It’s great to meet other trainers and share ideas and opportunities for my job search.”

  Show details
• November Lunch & Learn

  • When
    15 Nov 2013
  •  
    11:30 AM - 1:00 PM (CST)
  • Location
    St. David's Episcopal Church 301 E. 8th St. - Austin, 78701

  Register

  November Lunch & Learn

  NOTE: Register by Nov 11 to reserve a lunch.
  
  Credit card users MUST pay in advance. If you are paying at the event, we can only take cash or check. 

  Program Description:

  Check back soon for more details!!

  This session covers the following topics:
  

  • 
    

  Competencies for the Training & Development Profession:

  • 
    

  Click here for more about ASTD's Competency Model.

  About the Speaker:

  Check back soon for more details!

  Show details
• Career Transition SIG

  • When
    02 Dec 2013
  •  
    5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
  • Location
    Café Express 3418 N. Lamar Blvd.

  Register

  Our Mission

  To assist trainers in our community to find new positions in the training profession.

  To assist professionals who are interested in joining the training profession.

  To raise the visibility of ASTD and to serve Austin.

  Programs

  • To teach, to share and to inspire new job seeking strategies, techniques and tools.
  • To present the evolving training profession, and success stories of career changers
  • To share local job openings in the training profession.
  • To provide structured networking so that job seekers can help one another.

  
  To volunteer or to learn more about this new SIG visit: http://www.austinastd.org/ or contact Catherine Jewell, SIG Chair

  512-868-6886 cj@CareerPassionCoach.com

  “It’s great to meet other trainers and share ideas and opportunities for my job search.”

  Show details