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2 years of professional development plus a 5-piece online library for just $370

Thursday, March 8, 2012 from 8:00 AM to 12:00 PM (PT)

Seattle, WA

Join Barry Posner, co-author of The Leadership Challenge and Professor of Leadership at Santa Clara University, and your fellow learning professionals for this FREE event. Delve into the topic of building and sustaining leadership credibility in a changing world.

WHAT YOU'LL LEARN:

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Too often, vendor selection decisions are made in a vacuum. Without consulting others in your organization, utilizing research, and tying the decision to organizational objectives, you risk having the project rejected, a costly, drawn out implementation, or under-utilization of the system. This session addresses the entire selection process, and shares best practices along the way. In addition, attendees will receive templates to use in their own organizations to support the process. Attendees can plan ahead and avoid pitfalls associated with vendor selection. They will learn the step-by-step process of vendor selection, creating buy-in, presenting to executive level stakeholders, implementation, and continuous marketing.  Register here.

ILA 33rd Annual Convention

We ARE Listening: Advocate, Research, Educate

More details on our calendar

Exciting news!  Board Members Darren Nerland and Nicole Forward will be presenting at the conference~

The members of ILA cover a broad spectrum of interests and professions, from education, business, research, and general backgrounds. These include university professors, physicians and healthcare providers, business consultants, training and development professionals, business coaches, leadership professionals, musicians, and many other specialties. What field does not encompass some aspect of listening!
For this particular session, we will probably see mostly our business special interest group members, but we will also see members from the other specialties, as well.

The International Listening Association is a professional association dedicated to the study and teaching of effective listening in a wide variety of settings.
(Please see our website at www.listen.org for further information about the organization. There is additional information about the 2012 Convention on the site, as well.)

Our Convention typically has about 120-150 attendees, and they come from the U.S. and a number of foreign countries. We also have a special interest group in the organization that focuses on listening in a business setting, and we have partnered with several other ASTD chapters around the country at some of our past Conventions, offering special programs and mini-conferences that relate to training and development and listening.

Awards will be given for successful courses, sites, and products, in three categories: e-learning, blended learning, and mobile learning. Each category includes awards in both the Academic and Business divisions. The winners will be announced in June 2012 at the ICELW Conference in New York, though you do not need to come to New York in order to win an award.

The International E-Learning Association is a leading international group that brings together researchers and practitioners in all forms of e-learning. IELA's sponsorship of international conferences and journals, and its strong membership base, continue to advance the state of the art of the e-learning field worldwide in academic and business areas.

Submissions for the 2012 International E-Learning Awards - Business Division are due on March 1, 2012. For more details regarding the submission process, please check the IELA Awards Page at http://www.ielassoc.org/awards.htm . We look forward to your submissions!

I wanted to take a moment and personally invite all ASTD members from your local chapter to our 10^th annual Learning Analytics Symposium. It is March 5-7 in New Orleans. The event will feature workshops, breakouts and general sessions from world-class organizations including Microsoft, NetApp, Boeing, BlueShield, Verizon, P&G, Bersin & Associates, the ROI Institute and many others. The theme is Executive Reporting and will focus attention on how learning leaders report performance to business executives.

I would like to offer your local ASTD members a 50% discount pass to the event. If any local chapter member goes to http://www.knowledgeadvisors.com/events/symposium/ and enters code KAVS50Y they will receive half off the $1,500 registration fee.

We would value your membership participating in the event and feel it is a good use of their time to do so.

If your members do consider attending we suggest making arrangements soon as the hotel (which you can also book from our site) has a great rate that will soon be filled.