ISPI Atlanta Chapter Webinar – Via Zoom

Featured Speaker: Bonnie Beresford

August 28, 2023 – 11:30am–12:30pm EST

Watch the Recording:

https://us02web.zoom.us/rec/share/SE0GUtkNzH24v_-dg5DvOWRcsSGesf-BcsJ8mugoa2silKnWGRjYNI-379XkBzjn.8m_9uCw8kQ-fIK_j

Data guru Edward Tufte has said, “Power corrupts. PowerPoint corrupts absolutely.” We have all been victims of cluttered, confusing, misleading charts and tables. Just because we have graphics tools does not mean we are good at designing compelling visuals. By understanding basic data visualization principles, you can improve your ability to communicate with data. This session focuses on the importance of good visual design in succinctly telling a story with data. Using rich examples, the presenter will share techniques to de-clutter graphs, draw attention to key information, and reduce the audience’s cognitive load. By seeing the evolution of visualizations as the principles are applied, participants will recognize the value of intentional design in their data storytelling.

After attending in this session, participants will be able to:

• • • Reduce clutter from charts and graphs
    • Visually focus an audience’s attention on key messages
    • Discuss the science of why all this works.

Bonnie Beresford Bio

Bonnie’s professional hallmark as a Performance Consultant has been linking human capital investments with business outcomes. With a PhD in human capital management, she thrives when helping learning teams develop and implement rigorous measurement strategies. Her business impact work has earned CLO “Business Impact” awards for four different clients. She has written about these practices in her book, Developing Human Capital: Using Analytics to Plan and Optimize Your Learning and Development Investments. She considers ISPI her professional home where she has served as both a chapter and an International board member and has been an ISPI volunteer and presenter since 2006.

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ISPI Atlanta Chapter Webinar

Featured Speaker: DAVID CORY, B.Ed., M.A., C.P.C.C.

April 13, 2022 – 12:00–1:00pm EST

Program Description:

The Emotional Intelligence Employee Development Blueprint

We now have over 3 decades of research on emotional intelligence (EI). Yale University has its Centre for the Study of Emotional Intelligence. Google, Nike, Amazon and Microsoft base their leadership development programs on EI. The World Economic Forum has listed EI as a top-ten employment skill. And yet, the concept of EI or EQ remains poorly understood by many. What exactly is EI/EQ and why is it so important that HR professional know and understand why it matters to employee development and organizational effectiveness?

Research provides us with concrete, evidence-based models of EI, which allow us to assess levels of competency (EQ) and provide roadmaps or ‘blueprints’ for development. Join David Cory, Canada-based coach and leadership development specialist, as he shares with you what you need to know as an HR professional for yourself and your own career and how to best help your employees to develop their emotional intelligence skills.

Participants will be able to:

1. Explain what we mean by emotional intelligence and how it is foundational to the ability to make an impact, resilience, agility and inclusion.

2. Describe one of the world’s leading models of emotional intelligence.

3. Take away 5 Keys for developing EI competencies.

SPEAKER’S PROFILE – DAVID CORY, B.Ed., M.A., C.P.C.C.

David Cory is a leadership development coach, trainer, and consultant known for his expertise in applying the concept of emotional intelligence to individual and organizational performance improvement. David founded one of the first companies in North America to focus on the development of leadership based on emotional intelligence in 1998. In the course of his work, David has been an invited guest of the Sultan of Brunei, worked under armed guard in Nigeria, been kicked out of a restricted area in Saudi Arabia, chased by an elephant in Zambia, and

sang for royalty in Malaysia. David’s company completed the design of a leadership course based on emotional intelligence for the citizens of the Republic of Botswana. Finally, David was a key-note speaker at an international EQ conference at the Harvard Medical School in 2013 and was the closing key-note speaker at the Asia HRD Congress in Malaysia in 2016.

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ISPI Atlanta Virtual Trivia Challenge

March 16th – 12:00pm-1:00pm E.S.T.

Let’s start 2022 off with fun and fellowship! Bring your lunch and your mind palace of arcane facts to the first ISPI ATL Trivia Pursuit Challenge. We will play three fast rounds of pub- style trivia. Participants will be randomly sorted into small teams where you will collaborate on answers to questions such as:

• What element is denoted by the chemical symbol Sn in the periodic table?
• How many films have Al Pacino and Robert De Niro appeared in together?
• What is the capital of New Zealand?

In recognition of ISPI’s 60^th anniversary in 2022, there will be a special round of questions about our field: performance improvement and learning science.

Did you resolve to improve your professional network in 2022, then this event is for you. You never know who will turn up, so save the date and invite all your friends. It’s virtual, so invite all your friends! Players need not be ATL ISPI members to participate – but there is a $5 fee for non-members.

Winning team members receive a one-year membership to the Learning Development Accelerator, a global membership community that brings professionals together to support and learn from each other, explores research-aligned practices, builds professional standing for the field, and advocates for all professionals in L&D. This prize generously donated by Matt Richter, LDA co-organizer.

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The Digital Divide

Featured Speaker: Shannon Tipton

ISPI Atlanta Chapter Webinar:
November 17, 2021, 12:00 – 1:00pm EST

Program Description:

While L&D leaders met the urgent need to move more into a digital environment during the pandemic, some have thrived, but others have dived. Rapid conversions from the classroom to virtual and reliance on vast online libraries have left both learning leaders and learners with a severe case of content fatigue at best, and at worse on the brink of opening up a major digital divide. Has rush meant have we missed the opportunity to drive real business value? What can we learn from our past that will better prepare us for our future? Does the digital divide apply to businesses? The term digital divide typically describes a gap in terms of access to and usage of technology in households and communities and was traditionally considered to be a question of having or not having access to technology. When we shift the lens to organizations today, and with a global mobile phone penetration of over 95%, the organizational digital divide represents the inequality between those who have more and less bandwidth combined with more or less skills.

How can L&D partner with the business to prevent a collapse of organizational social learning structures, focus on innovation and collaboration to prevent a digital divide? How can L&D step up to the plate and add value? How can L&D better partner with organizations to support employee emersion into the digital world, which can be at their disposal in any given situation? If a valued partnership is not created, are organizations at risk of experiencing an even larger gap?

In this session we will discuss In this session we will discuss how the divide is present in different technological skill levels of employees and this divide may be a main reason of slowed or delayed productivity or upskilling. In addition, we will explore the following topics:

• • Is technology bringing us together or driving us apart?
  • How to focus on digital innovation and collaboration
  • How does L&D help bridge the divide while partnering with the business

Shannon Tipton

As Owner of Learning Rebels, Shannon Tipton is a skilled learning strategist with over 20 years of leadership experience developing successful infrastructures for training departments across North America and Europe. Shannon is excited to work with organizations to develop learning solutions to achieve applicable business results. Recognized as bringing real-world expertise into the learning field, Shannon integrates learning technologies to strengthen workplace alignment, enhance collaboration and increase learning connectivity. As author of “Disruptive Learning” Shannon frequently speaks at conferences across North America and Europe. Recently named in the top 100 elearning “Movers and Shakers” by eLearning Industry, Shannon’s blog “Learning Rebels” is in the top 100 elearning blogs and can be found at learningrebels.com.

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ISPI Atlanta Chapter Webinar:
October 20, 2021, 12:00 – 1:00pm EST

Program Description:

Any working ID can tell you that there are a lot of risks associated with client feedback. Late feedback, feedback from the wrong people, good feedback at the wrong time, conflicting feedback, missing feedback—all of these can strain your budget, your relationships, your effectiveness, and your sanity! Catherine Tencza (MS, 1985) has been working as a consultant for over 25 years, and she has tricks up her sleeve for minimizing these risks. In this session, she’ll share some best practices for managing client feedback. Time permitting, she will welcome questions related to her clients and projects (she has over 50 projects listed on her LinkedIn profile).

Let’s Share Ideas!

Catherine would like to find out what you think about this topic. What are you curious about? What are you passionate about? What do you know that you can share with others? Click here to see the Padlet she is developing for the presentation, shown below. You can see articles, post questions, “like” entries, and add your own tips (use the + buttons). Let’s collaborate and learn from each other!

 

Catherine B. Tencza

Catherine Tencza, MS, is the founder and lead consultant with Tencza Designs.  Her favorite part of the job is the wide variety of industries that she has worked in. Based in the Atlanta area, she also is very active in local organizations, serving on the boards of a variety of professional and community organizations. Cathy received her BS in Education from the University of Illinois and her MS in Instructional Systems from Florida State University.

Fun stuff: Tennis (poor skills, great attitude!), hiking (especially the Appalachian Trail), podcast junkie, Kindle, craft cocktails, and bread (not baking, just eating)

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ISPI Atlanta Chapter Webinar:
August 18, 2021, 12:00 – 1:00pm EST

“Look Ma . . . No Hands!” Error Free Performance for People Who Work With Their Hands – Guest Speaker, Bill Crose

What do mechanics, nurses, and scientists have in common? They must all complete complex or infrequently performed tasks flawlessly – but it is unsafe or impractical for them to hold paper procedures or refer to electronic devices while they work. In this session, Bill will:

1) Demonstrate how to assure quality employee performance with little to no training among people who work with their hands and can’t safely, sanitarily, or efficiently hold phones, tablets, or even printed aids as they work

2) Explain how to automatically capture and report valid and reliable performance data among global, manual laborers

3) Discuss how to use performance interval data to reveal continuous performance improvement opportunities and to produce an ROI Report for all performance improvement initiatives

4) Guide participants through setting up their own processes to be delivered via an intelligence augmentation system + performance assurance system, then execute a global process change in seconds. Join entrepreneur Bill Crose as he shares how mobile intelligence can integrate learning into the flow of work and provide valuable user information to assess employee progress, identify workflow obstacles and improvement opportunities, and more.

Guest Speaker: Bill Crose

Bill has a long history of performance improvement and learning technology leadership across many industries including healthcare, hospitality, pharmaceuticals, energy, and more. His driving force has always been to create competitive advantages through learning and performance improvement. Bill holds 2 patents, 1 patent pending, and has produced the world’s smallest, FCC certified earphone, which is designed to be used with the Pythia software. Bill enjoys using, learning about, and developing new technologies. He and his wife have 2 grown children; one is a pediatric intensive care room nurse and the other is a globally recognized information security professional.

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Cost for Non-Members: $5

Date/Time: Wed. May 19th, 12-1 pm

Location: Zoom (link provided upon registration)

The ISPI 2021 International Conference is focused on Human Performance Improvement in the Age of Disruption. Hear conference highlights from your local Atlanta chapter board members, Cathy Brown (ISPI Atlanta, President/ and Conference Presenter) and Lauren Hizami (ISPI Atlanta, VP of Communications). . . and possibly additional guest speakers.

This meeting is free of charge however, pre-registration is still required in order to receive the meeting link.

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It is not too late to register for the National ISPI Conference (April 26th-30) yourself. Click here to see the program options and register. 

ISPI Atlanta Chapter Seminar:
March 31, 2021, 12:00 – 1:00 pm EST

Free for ISPI Atlanta members, $10 for guests

Have questions about survey design but didn’t know who to ask???

Program Recording:

Program Recording (password emailed to attendees)

Slides:

Evidence-Based Survey Design

 

Topics:
1. Various survey response scales
2. Include or exclude a midpoint in the Likert scale?
3. Use ascending or descending order of Likert scale response options?
4. Extreme makeover – Survey edition

Our Guest speakers:

Yonnie Chyung, EdD, is a professor and Chair of the Organizational Performance and Workplace Learning department (OPWL) at Boise State University. She currently teaches a graduate course on Evaluation, and has designed and taught other graduate courses on Survey Design and Data Analysis, Quantitative Research in Organizations, and Foundations of Instructional and Performance Technology. For her research, Chyung focuses on synthesizing and developing evidence-based principles for survey design and has written a series of practitioner-oriented articles on that topic with her research teams consisting of OPWL master’s students and graduates. She is an author of books, 10-Step Evaluation for Training and Performance Improvement (Sage) and Foundations of Instructional and Performance Technology (HRD Press). Chyung also provides pro bono consulting to assist organizations with performing program evaluations, survey design, and statistical data analysis. For more information, visit www.boisestate.edu/opwl.

Jennifer Shamsy, MS, is a commercial airline pilot by day and instructional designer, researcher, and writer by night. Over the last twelve years, she has combined her love of aviation and passion for instructional design through course design, development, implementation, and evaluation as well as instruction of hundreds of future aviation professionals at several higher education institutions. Since graduating from the OPWL master’s degree program, she remains involved in several performance improvement initiatives including Dr. Yonnie Chyung’s research lab and the Idaho Youth Ranch instructional design internship program. Through collaboration with Dr. Chyung and other researchers, she has participated in several program evaluations for non-profit organizations and more recently researching and writing about evidence-based survey design. For more information, visit https://www.boisestate.edu/opwl/faculty-staff/jennifer-shamsy/

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Members: All ISPI Atlanta members will automatically receive the Zoom registration link.

Non-Member Registration:  Please use the “Buy Now” button to register for the event. We will then send you the Zoom link to attend.

Cost: $10 for Non-Members