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  • May 03, 2012 6:00 PM | Nicole Forward
    Don't forget about our Career SIG tomorrow night at the Redmond Library!  Register by clicking on "Events" then "Interest Groups".  See you there!
  • April 25, 2012 4:00 PM | ATDps Admin (Administrator)

    Julie Clow, Book Signing & Reception – Author of “The Work Revolution: Freedom and Excellence for All”

    Intrepid Learning is proud to invite the members of ASTD Puget Sound to an exclusive book signing for Julie Clow’s new release, The Work Revolution: Freedom and Excellence for All. Join us for a wine and cheese reception to chat with the author and network with fellow learning professionals from the Seattle area.

    When: Wednesday, April 25th, from 4-6pm

    Where: Intrepid Learning, 411 First Avenue South, Suite 400, Seattle WA

    Cost: Free!

    Interested in knowing more about The Work Revolution? Join Intrepid CEO Sam Herring and author Julie Clow as they discuss the book in a complimentary webinar on Wednesday, April 25th at 11:00 AM PST. View details and register here: https://cc.readytalk.com/cc/s/showReg?udc=kljvravf8qq6

    About the Book:

    Embrace connectivity, increase empowerment, and achieve better work-life blending

    We live in a new age of global companies, hyper-access to information, and accessibility to tools that enable us to bring any idea life. Strangely, our workplaces are lagging behind the promise of this open and collaborative world. Most organizations are rule-based, top-down, dreary environments optimized for conformity and little else. The Work Revolution creates a compelling portrait of a different kind of work.

    "I believe freedom in the workplace is worth fighting for and every person and every organization can be excellent."

    Julie Clow articulates the rules we follow today in our work force, the reasons they no longer work, and what we can do instead. The Work Revolution deconstructs the magic behind thriving, liberated organizations (such as Google) into clear principles that any individual, leader, and organization can adopt to create sustainable and engaging lives.

    • Provides actionable changes anyone can make, regardless of where they work, to create a more sustainable work-life blend
    • Details concrete ways to influence existing organizations to change
    • Guides leaders to make tangible changes in their teams to enable greater autonomy and impact
    • Outlines organizational culture principles that support and nurture high-performance and healthy environments, providing clear options for instituting cultural change based on specific organizational challenges

    Rejecting productivity Band-Aids and quick fixes, The Work Revolution conceptualizes a completely new workplace that embraces the always-connected reality to create organizations in which high achievers can sustainably thrive.

    Buy the book online: The Work Revolution: Freedom and Excellence for All

    About Julie

    Julie Clow earned her Ph.D. at the age of 25 in Psychology at Auburn University in 2000. She started her career as an independent consultant, and subsequently joined a small woman-owned business, Carley Corporation, in Orlando, FL to produce custom training solutions for large-scale clients, such as such as the US Navy and Marine Corps, Asia-Pacific Economic Community, BellSouth, and SunTrust Bank. Julie joined Google in 2006 and spent five years there focusing on team effectiveness, leadership and management, and organizational culture, primarily for engineers. During her tenure, she discovered the power of freedom and autonomy for creating a thriving workplace. She now serves as the VP for Learning and Development for an equally inspired investment management company. Julie enjoys a wide range of outdoor activities, including triathlons, road biking, hiking, and surfing. She resides in New York, New York.

  • April 14, 2012 12:18 PM | Anonymous
    Seattle is one of the featured cities in a recent New York Times article on federal retraining funding. The article points out that fewer than 5% of the people who sought retraining to help them qualify for new opportunities in a still very tough job market were able to qualify for funding.  This is similar to the situation all across the nation.  

    Here is the paradox that ASTDps members need to get their head around. On the one hand, federal training funds for Washington State amount to tens of millions of dollars, far more than just about any one major corporation spends on workforce development.

    On the other hand, it is only small amount of what is needed to help people upgrade their skills and help their organizations and our society move ahead in an increasingly technical world -- and this level of funding is threatened by continuing girdlock in Washington, DC.  

    If we want to fulfill the National ASTD vision of wanting to create a world that works better, then we need to understand that these seemingly arcane public policy issues have a huge impact on our field and on our society.

    Find out more here.  (A paid subscription may be required for full access.)
  • April 05, 2012 12:27 PM | ATDps Admin (Administrator)

    Case Studies in Creativity
    18 Apr 2012
    5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
    Location: Invista Performance Solutions
    4500 Steilacoom Blvd SW, Bldg 19,Lakewood WA 98499

    REGISTER NOW!!

    How can you create intentional creativity for improved learning outcomes? The Creativity and Innovation Panel will feature creativity and innovation success stories from around the Puget Sound with compelling businesses cases.We hope you can join us!

    In this exciting session, you’ll learn:

    1) Top five habits of creative and innovative organizations and how your company and learning practice can apply them.

    2) How workplace learning professionals play a vital role in using creative thinking to grow business and achieve results.

    3) The magic synthesis and conditions of corporate creativity and tools for the workplace learning professional to foster enhanced creativity and innovation.

    ASTDps is launching a new series through its Creativity and Innovation SIG (Special Interest Group) to help raise awareness and provide initial training related to increasing organizational innovation. Our intent is nothing less than to lay the crucial foundations of learning and knowledge that will help the Puget Sound region stand out as the innovation leader in the world. Be part of this exciting undertaking!

    National ASTD has called upon learning practitioners to play a leading role in helping the organizations we serve become more innovative -- because, as CEOs, government officials, and thought leaders all increasingly recognize, new technologies, new industries, new wealth, new jobs, and many other good economic things flow from innovation

  • April 03, 2012 2:36 PM | ATDps Admin (Administrator)
    Don't miss the Bob Pike's Train-the-Trainer Boot Camp - Seattle, WA from May 17, 2012 till May 18, 2012.

     

    Achieve 90% retention, cut presentation time by 50% and increase transfer by 75%. These easy-to-apply techniques will bring immediate results to your programs! More than 100,000 trainers who have attended the Creative Training Techniques / Boot Camp 2-day Train-the-Trainer seminar have learned alternatives to lecture which allow their participants to achieve higher levels of content retention in less classroom time.

    This comprehensive seminar also allows you to:

    • Create powerful new openings for your training.
    • Cut your preparation time by 50% with three powerful techniques.
    • Use the C.O.R.E. processes to increase retention and on-the-job application
    • Apply CPR to all your training

    All this and much more only at Bob Pike's Train-the-Trainer Boot Camp - Seattle, WA.

  • March 29, 2012 3:53 PM | ATDps Admin (Administrator)
    ASTD Upcoming Programs Near You:
     
    Designing Learning Certificate
    April 16-18 in Los Angeles, CA

    In this program, you'll learn to apply a structured step-by-step process toward designing learning programs and help learners apply their skills back on the job.
    Learn more...
     
    Training Certificate
    April 16-18 in Los Angeles, CA

    This program is a practical, how-to overview of the entire training function. It prepares new trainers with critical training skills and introduces seasoned practitioners to the latest techniques for delivering powerful training. Learn more...
     
    ASTD LearnNow Conference
    April 23-24 in San Francisco, CA


    Give your learning strategy a refresher with the latest trends and technologies, including informal, social, and mobile learning. Learn more...
  • March 27, 2012 3:46 PM | ATDps Admin (Administrator)

    Plan ahead for this terrific SPECIAL EVENT coming in May!

    The human mind is capable of fantastic things. Once new material or skills are learned and the mind is changed, it never goes back to its original shape. The challenge for trainers is to create an environment and deliver information that taps into the full potential of a learner’s brain. This can be done through novelty, change, and many other concepts that brain-based researchers have found enhances the ability to acquire, retain and recall information.

    In this program, participants will explore many ideas, concepts and techniques that can be used to enhance virtually any training program or presentation topic. A modified “behavioral modeling” approach will be used to help accomplish this. In using this technique, the facilitator will introduce a concept or technique, demonstrate it, and then discuss the methodology behind it with participants.  Read more . . .

  • March 20, 2012 2:53 PM | Karen Thornton

    Hello ASTDps Members,

    Thank you so much for your kind attention and participation this morning – I have heard from some of you that you came away with a few good ideas or perspectives from the material, and I am so pleased!

    This morning’s presentation is online at this link - http://t.co/OwymW8ZF. Please review, download, share with your friends and colleagues, put in the closet to give as a holiday present, etc.

    If you would like to connect on LinkedIn or follow my communications thoughts on Twitter, see below, in my signature file, and click the right links. And if you need communications or audience engagement help, or know someone who does, please find me via email or give a call! Make sure you mention that you found me through ASTDps; from now through May I can arrange welcoming “introductory rates” for anyone who does. I hope to see you again at an ASTD event!

    All the best, Bryan

    Bryan M. Rutberg | Partner
    bryanr@agconsultingpartners.com

    (206) 251-6911

    "Like" the AG Consulting Facebook page

    Follow my communications-focused Twitter feed

    Connect with me on LinkedIn 

  • March 12, 2012 4:21 PM | ATDps Admin (Administrator)

    NEW OFFERING FOR CPLP EXAM PREP FOR 2012: Rita is planning a CPLP intensive face-to-face study session on Saturday, March 17, 2012 from 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM at the Mercer Island Library! The primary goal is to collaborate on last minute preparation for individuals planning to sit for the CPLP Knowledge Exam, so this is purposefully planned for the CPLP Knowledge Exam window of March 17 – April 6. People interested in attending will shape the study session. Send email with interest before March 17.

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