Today's talent management and learning leaders must align their programs with key business drivers to support the company in achieving objectives. This track will provide you with ways to develop integrated solutions that give employees the opportunity to develop the skills and knowledge they need, and provide the organization maximum return on investment.
Improving Training ROI with Web-based Simulations
Speaker: Don Duquette, GP Worldwide
Looking to provide effective hands-on training without having to use software or equipment? Simulations provide an effective way to emulate the operation of a software application or piece of equipment. And, when simulations are imbedded into Web-based training, they can provide employees with the perfect task-based training, including:
- Hands-on equipment experience without having to use software or equipment
- Accessible training anywhere and anytime
- Significantly lower costs compared to instructor-led programs
Join us for this informative session to learn more about Web-based simulations and how they can add value to your employee training.
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Using Podcasting as a Performance Tool
Speaker: Tim Keelan
, StoryQuest Inc
What is podcasting, and how can we leverage this new technology in learning and performance? Get an overview of podcasting for the "non-techie" and discover how it is being used in the areas of training, investor relations, marketing support and customer communications. You'll learn how to get started with podcasting, the technologies available, the costs involved and how you can enhance programs using music and graphics.
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Pathlore Upgrades to SumTotal7
Join us to learn the details around upgrading from your current Pathlore version to TotalLMS. This session will focus on functionality comparisons, business process improvements, and available upgrade packages. Jeanette Ullery, Director of Education for St. Luke's Regional Medical Center will also discuss her recent upgrade implementation and share her lessons learned and user feedback.
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Optimizing the use of Macromedia Breeze by Adobe, Flash and Captivate
Speaker: Thomas Person, Adobe Systems
Maximize your eLearning outcomes with this session, which will focus on optimizing the use of Macromedia Breeze by Adobe, Flash and Captivate. Participants will review usage of various media types in a rapid training context, tracking and configuration tips and tricks for Breeze and SumTotal integration, design and development best practices, and approaches to facilitate content reuse.
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Business Performance Integration- Lessons from the Digital Battlefield
Speaker: Brian Popken, Pinneast
Brian Popken will discuss how technology and business performance are linked, as well as present ways of aligning learning with business objectives. He’ll also offer a strategy for managing enterprise-level learning programs, and best practices for successful courseware integration.
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The Starting Line for Workforce Performance: New Hire Orientation
Speaker: Thomas Payne, Stranix
Learn how the ability to tie new hire orientation to a philosophy of performance will set the stage for new employees to understand their roles and expectations, leading to success for the employee as well as the business.
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The Importance of Integrating Learning and Performance Management Systems
Speaker: Rob Bernshteyn, SuccessFactors
Organizations have become caught in a constantly changing environment where adaptation is critical to survival and success. So when the market mandates change, will your people be ready? In order to have the right workforce to address current and future strategic needs organizations must be able to identify employee's performance and competency gaps and have a program in place to improve those skills. An integrated performance and learning management system is the key to this process. Join this session and learn how continuous investment in employee development ensures your organization will be ready as business needs evolve.
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Creating, Scheduling, Administering & Reporting on Computerized Assessments
Learn the basics of writing, scheduling, delivering and reporting on assessments using Questionmark Perception™. See the latest innovations in the use of online surveys, quizzes, tests and exam, including workflow management, distributed authoring, drag-and-drop publishing, WYSIWYG HTML authoring, and content management. This session will benefit instructors, test center managers and others involved in administering assessments.
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NETg's Integration with SumTotal Showcase
Speaker: Dean Brown, Thomson NETg
This presentation will showcase how NETg's integration with the SumTotal Learning Management System has provided clients with an enterprise-learning platform for employees to develop their skills and knowledge. Learn about the implementation specifically with the setup and interaction with Content Server and behind the firewall applications. The session will focus on lessons learned and recommendations for implementation and how systems can be successfully implemented.
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Competency Management: A Multi-Purpose Tool
Speaker: Phil Kaufman, ITG Competency Group
Learn how Competency Management can be used to achieve a variety of organizational objectives and what some critical success factors and pitfalls are. Competency Management (CM) can seem like a panacea if you believe all you read and hear. If you believe the hype, it helps with everything from hiring to succession planning, from productivity to retention, from individual development planning to organizational risk assessment, and from staff morale to project staffing and more. Can it really do all that? Should you try to make it do all that? With over 15 years in the business, ITG Competency Group has accumulated a lot of expertise. We'll discuss some different objectives CM can achieve, what it takes to succeed, and some common obstacles. We'll get you thinking about what CM might contribute to your organization and how it might be accomplished.
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Integrate WebEx with SumTotal to take your Online Training to the Next Level
Speakers: Nancy Gatwood, Susan McEvilly
Maximize the effectiveness of your training by using a single, integrated solution to manage your employee, customer, and partner learning. Pair the functionality of SumTotal's learning management system, TotalLMS with WebEx Training Center's online virtual classroom. Engage your remote learners with the training application that received top ranking from the experts of both Training Magazine and eLearning Guild.
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SkillSoft Strategic Direction: Open Learning Services
Speakers: Paula Thoren, Dori Abele
SkillSoft will be speaking about Corporate Direction and Strategy, including the web services initiative, Open Learning Services Architecture. The goals of the Open Learning Services are to simplify and minimize the effort required from our customers to integrate SkillSoft capabilities into their own environments, including the SumTotal platform
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