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Eggs & Issues Governmental Training Consortium

The ASTD Puget Sound chapter is looking to build a local government training consortium to improve the quality of public services by developing, accessing and expanding learning resources for public agencies. If you are from a local, state or federal governmental agency and interested in increasing communication among agencies to share best practices and strengthening the practitioner community, come and join us in an Eggs & Issues focus group. You’ll be joining training representatives from Pierce Transit, Renton Federal Reserve Police, City of Seattle, King County and the US District Court Western District of Washington. Our first meeting is on July 19th, 8:30 a.m. to 10:00 a.m.  at Endolyne Joe’s at 9261 45th Ave SW, Seattle, WA 98136. It will be a no-host breakfast if desired. If you are interested in participating, please contact Sandra Wong at Sandra.wong@seattle.gov or call at 206.684.7608. 

ASTDps members - don't forget to cast your vote for President-elect.  Ballots were sent out last week via e-mail.

Taught by Diane Darling, this is half-day, focused program for people who want to invest in themselves by organizing and strengthening their networking strategies and skills.

Why call it a retreat? It's a retreat from your daily work, be it doing sales calls, attending meetings, running your own business, or looking for a job -- it's time just for you!

Weds, June 20th, 8:30am - 12 noon, 2100 Building.
Click here for more information and register today!

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.

To register and to get more information:

The Creative Trainer: Strategies to Make Your Learning Events Sizzle

Next ASTD meeting:  7:30 - 9:30 a.m. is at a different location!

South Bellevue Community Center, 14509 SE Newport Way, Bellevue, WA 98009

This experiential presentation will share best practices for developing and delivering a Virtual Training Workshop.  We have all participated in the painful and drawn out Virtual sessions where learning does NOT take place.  This presentation will share based on real experience, how Virtual Training can be brought to life, how participants can be engaged and how effective learning can take place. 

Letter to chapter from ASTD National

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.

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