March 16, 2010 Program
Leadership Development
with
Gary
Craig
April 1, 2010
Breakfast
Network and share ideas
April 21, 2010
Program
Evaluating Training Programs
with
Don
Kirkpatrick
May 12, 2010 Program
Teamwork with Christie Ward
July 8, 2010
Breakfast
Network and share ideas
August 19, 2010 Program
Using Today's Technology with Gina Schreck
Partner Events
Upcoming ASTD-NRC partner events and other events of interest.
Welcome to the
March 2010 Newsletter!
Join us on March 16th at The Moot House for a lunch program on
leadership development with Gary Craig. The topic is great – see below.
We are
very excited to be hosting Don Kirkpatrick, industry legend who invented
the four levels of program evaluation, here April 21 for a workshop on planning, executing and
measuring training, including a session on managing the change to get
the desired behaviors. Co sponsored with Denver ASTD-RMC. Don’t Miss
It!!
We tried a breakfast networking meeting last month at the Egg & I and it was a success! Excellent networking and discussion in a relaxed, no rush environment. So, we are planning two more: April 1 and July 8, both 7.30-9.00 am at the South College Egg & I. Price is only $10 for members/partners and $15 for non members. Register for the April 1 breakfast now.
New members include Mary Sovich and Paul Smith. Welcome! We look forward
to getting to know you.
Renewing members include Richard Barnhart and Stan Chapman. Thank you for
renewing! We appreciate your continuing support.
In this month’s president’s corner find Sue Fody’s review of the virtual version of January’s ASTD TechKnowledge Conference. If you cannot attend in person, this is a real alternative! Also, read about the fascinating history of Don Kirkpatrick and his four levels.
We are
looking for a couple of volunteers to help staff our booth at the April
14th Fort Collins Spring Showcase which runs from noon to 5 pm at the
Hilton. Just a few hours would be a big help. Let Dave know if you
would be willing to help
at
jansunsnow@aol.com.
Join us
for an entertaining session as Gary Craig shares his insights on
leadership. At the end our luncheon program you will be able to
• Describe an organization by the alignment of three driving forces
• Define leadership in it most simple terms
• Identify your own Leadership Style
• Compare and contrast leadership and management behaviors (Functional
Leadership Model)
• Describe Three Functions of Leadership and two approaches to
Leadership
• Describe four negative reactions to change and four leadership actions
to counter them
Gary Craig is the Managing Partner for Vector Group, LLC. For almost 25
years he has helped people and organizations move through dramatic
change. His expertise in organizational effectiveness helps individuals
and groups to determine root causes of organizational issues and resolve
them. Gary is Past President of the American Society for Training and
Development (ASTD)-Rocky Mountain Chapter in Denver, CO and was a member
of the national ASTD Board of Directors.
Date:
Tuesday, March 16, 2010 11:30 am - 1:30 pm
The Moot House on South College, Fort Collins, CO
$15 Members and Partners/ $25 Nonmember
Register Here
Eat, learn and share.
Share what you're working on and learn what others are doing.
Do you have tips and ideas that can help others? Get ideas from others!
Round table discussion groups as well.
A great way to start your day.
Date:
Thursday, April 1, 2010 7:30-9:00 am
Egg & I on College Avenue in Fort Collins
$10 member/ $15 Nonmember
Register Here
Meet
Don Kirkpatrick, a legend in the training industry who invented the four
levels of evaluation - the most widely used evaluation model for
decades. In the morning session Don will explore how training should be
planned, executed and measured to deliver its intended impact on
results. He will focus not just on how to measure results after the
training is completed, but how training needs to be planned with the end
results in mind and then appropriately reinforced if it is to deliver
value. After lunch Don will address managing change and share his
insights on what is required to get the desired change in behavior. Hear
it all from the master, himself, and ask him your questions about
applying the concepts to your real-world work situation.
Co
Sponsored by ASTD-NRC and ASTD-RMC (Denver)
For more information
click here.
For a recent whitepaper on Don’s work,
visit Kirkpatrick Resources.
Date:
Wednesday, April 21, 2010 8.30 am – 2.30 pm Lunch is provided
The
Embassy
Suites in Loveland on I25 at Crossroads
$139 Members and Partners/ $179 Nonmembers
Register Here
In the workplace today, people are stressed
to the max and sabotage is the norm. Getting credit for your work, his
work and her work is the new goal. Why? Protecting turf and looking good
are standard operating procedure. So how do you lead with grace, care
about people, and not get run over? How do you stay authentic and be
yourself in all this? How does your style WORK in today's environment?
And how on earth can you fix those people who really need fixing?
As workplace learning professionals, we are called on to "fix" teams,
managers, conflicts and attitudes all the time! Come for some tools to
make this a little easier. You'll actually experience some tools in this
session, through lively discussion, video clips, and your own
reflection. You'll leave with a profile code to go online and receive a
$75 assessment FREE. One code per paid attendee only, please. These
tools could make the difference for you in your job and anywhere those
human interactions are really annoying!
Objectives for our session together:
1) Simplify how to motivate and influence people, particularly those you
have trouble with
2) Get actual verbiage to help you "get buy in" from your boss, or that
client you're trying to win over
3) Hone your tone and your questioning skills to take your "appreciative
inquiry" to the next level
Click here
for Christie's bio.
Date:
Wednesday, May 12, 2010
11:30
am - 1:30 pm
The Moot House on South College, Fort Collins, CO
$15 Members and Partners/ $25 Nonmember
Register Here
Eat, learn and share.
Share what you're working on and learn what others are doing.
Do you have tips and ideas that can help others? Get ideas from others!
Round table discussion groups as well.
A great way to start your day.
Date:
Thursday, July 8, 2010 7:30-9:00 am
Egg & I on College Avenue in Fort Collins
$10 member/ $15 Nonmember
Register Here
Gina Schreck will speak on How Organizations
Are Using Today's Technology to Create More Engaging and Effective
Learning.
Date:
Thursday, August 19, 2010
11:30
am - 1:30 pm
The Moot House on South College, Fort Collins, CO
$15 Members and Partners/ $25 Nonmember
Register Here
Northern Colorado Coaches Alliance
(NCCA)
No events currently scheduled.
Northern Colorado Human
Resources Assn. (NCHRA)
April 13, 2010
11:15am-1:00pm
Emotional Intelligence at Work
Click here for details.
Colorado Career Development Assoc.
(CCDA)
April 16, 2010
Full Day Training 8:00 - 4 PM
Click here for more information.
Visit the
website.
ASTD Rocky Mountain Chapter
March 24,
2010
5:30 p.m. to 7:45 p.m.
Stuffing 10 Pounds of Training into a 5 Pound Bag: How to train significant
industry change in real time
Visit the website.
Loveland Chamber of Commerce
April 20, 2010
Cyber Chat Series: Where Brands Get into People's
Time: 07:30 AM - 09:00 AM
For details,
click here.
Visit the
website for more events.
ASTD TechKnowledge Virtual Conference
Did you ever wish you could go to a conference but it just wasn’t in the
budget? Yeah, me too. So when that happened to me and I got an e-mail
announcing the ASTD Tech Knowledge Virtual Conference. ..Wow! I
could attend at night, on weekends, during or after work…for $199!
This virtual conference has presentations captured from the actual
conference in Las Vegas and presented online in webinar format. I can
attend scheduled synchronous sessions, chatting with others who are
watching when I am. I can participate asynchronously as well. If someone
else happens to be watching the same session, we can chat.
The presentations are grouped in categories such as Platforms and
Authoring Tools, E-Learning Design, Implementing Learning Technologies,
Implementing Strategies, Next-Generation Technologies, Virtual Delivery
and Facilitation, Keynotes and the Exhibitor Demos. Most sessions are
between 1 – 1 ˝ hours.
My challenge this year is to develop highly interactive webinar training for my company. I’m learning from both the content and the presentation styles offered. I even watched Bob Pike this past weekend. I gave him a round of applause when he finished presenting in my home office. How convenient is that! Thank you ASTD National!
Sue Fody
Past President
The
Fiftieth Anniversary of the Kirkpatrick Four Levels
…a Little History
Don Kirkpatrick first published his four levels fifty years ago in the
Journal of the American Society of Training Directors which was the
predecessor to today’s’ T&D (both published by ASTD). Since then
the Kirkpatrick model and the four levels have become the most commonly
employed evaluation concepts in the field of learning and development.
The four recommended levels for measurement are reaction, learning,
behavior and results.
The history is actually very interesting in itself. When Don was working
on his PhD at the University of Wisconsin in the early 1950s, there were
no accepted evaluation procedures beyond simply asking for some
rudimentary feedback from class participants. So, Don created four,
logical steps to be used in evaluation as part of his dissertation which
was entitled Evaluating a Human Relations Training Program for
Supervisors to Measure Learning Behavior and Result. The
dissertation was published in 1954. For the rest of the decade Don
taught at the University of Wisconsin’s Management Institute and gained
more experience with his own evaluation methodology.
In 1959 the editor of the Journal, who had been hearing
about this four step approach to evaluation, asked Don to write it up so
the profession could benefit from his work. Since the article would be
too long for one issue, Don proposed to make it a four-part series
starting in November 1959. Don described one step each month through
February 1960. Following publication in four parts, the four steps
became known as the four levels and the entire framework became known as
the Kirkpatrick Model.
Throughout the 1960s and 1970s learning professionals began to apply this
new model. For his part, Don held numerous positions in the private
sector gaining experience as a training director and an HR Manager. He
published books on leadership and change management but none on the four
levels, although he often talked about them at conferences.
One of those who applied the four levels in the 1960s and 1970s was Jack
Phillips. Realizing there was no book to tell practitioners exactly how
to conduct the four levels of evaluation, he published a handbook in
1983. It was in this work that he introduced the concept of ROI (Return
on Investment) to the learning field which would eventually be
considered Level 5.
By the early 1990s, learning professionals were having a hard time
finding the ASTD Journal articles from 1959-1960. Phillips and
others were writing more articles on evaluation and describing the four
levels in their own terms. So Don wrote his first book on evaluation
which was published in 1994 entitled Evaluating Training Programs. (Phillips’s
first book describing the five levels also was published in 1994.)
Evaluating Training Programs is now in its 3rd edition.
He and his son, Jim, have published several more books over the last few
years on evaluation.
Don will be here April 21st for our program at the Embassy Suites in Loveland so be sure to join us. He will talk about two of his passions (evaluation and change management) and I am sure it will be an interesting day. He has lots of knowledge to share, stories to tell and experiences to relate. Don’t miss it!
Dave Vance
President
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