Chapter Leaders' Workshop
Facilitated by Gary DePaul, CPT, PhD; Designed and Managed by Rose Noxon, CPT, PhD
Monday, April 19; 8:00 am - 4:30 pm Are you looking for waysto develop your Chapter members and build the capacity of your Chapter's leadership? Raise the quality of your Chapter's programs? Boose your Chapter's level of operations? Then ISPI's Chapter Leader's Workshop is the place to start. Chapter leaders attending the conference are invited to participate in a full-day forum hosted by the Chapter Partnership Committee. Tools, resources, and best practices will help Chapter leaders address a wide range of opportunities every chapter encounters. Pre-registration required and available online. Please contact John Chen at johnc@ispi.org or 1-301-587-8570 x106 for details. 2nd Annual Speed Mentoring
April 19; 2:30 - 4:30 pm If you are interested in participating in ISPI's 2nd Annual Speed Mentoring Session, you must RSVP in advance to info@ispi.org, or call 301.587.8570.
Dedicated ISPI professionals will be available as mentors during this fun and fast-paced pre-conference session. Consider your goals, and determine the best fit of available mentors. You will participate in multiple, mini-introductory sessions and get to connect with different mentors. Our mentors will answer your questions, introduce you to other experts in the field, and help orient you through the conference as much as their schedule allows. This event is limited to emerging talent and young professionals who are registered for the conference. Pre-registration is required. Opening Session: High Energy from Start to Finish
Monday, April 19, 5:30 - 6:30 pm, Show begins promptly at 5:30 pm  Join us for a memorable kick-off to our three-day learning event. This year, ISPI is proud to welcome The Drum Café. The Drum Café concept is a unique hands-on application of African drums and percussion that not only builds a team, but energizes, motivates, and entertains them! It's a program that is experienced and felt. A musical background is not required as the transformation that occurs between the music as being "wrong" and the music as being "right" is easily understood by everyone despite their musical sensibilities. And because music is a universal language, it transcends those barriers, traditional or otherwise, that tend to come between us professionally as well as personally. The drummers are integrated in a way that brings ISPI's welcome and recognition to life. A reception immediately follows this program.
Opening Reception
Monday, April 19, 6:30 - 7:30 pm
The Community Center
ISPI kicks off THE Performance Improvement Conference and welcomes attendees with an informal evening reception. This is your first opportunity to meet with conference sponsors and mingle with colleagues, while enjoying hors d'oeuvres and previewing all the exciting conference events. One ticket is included with each registration. Guest tickets for the Opening Reception are available at $35 each. Networking Lunches Tuesday, April 20, 12:00 Noon to 1:30 pm
Attendee Lunch and Awards of Excellence Presentations -- Open to all conference attendees. Guest tickets for the Awards Luncheon are available at $75 each. Wednesday, 12:00 Noon to 1:30 pm
Chat n' Chew Roundtable Discussion  -- Attendees must purchase lunch separately on-site. 2nd Annual University Case Study Competition
-- Part 1: Tuesday, April 20; 4:00 - 5:30 pm
-- Part 2: Wednesday, April 21; 2:00 - 3:30 pm Victory for our inaugural Case Study Competition in 2009 went to Indiana University. Are our new schools up to the challenge? We think so! Teams of graduate students from Boise State University, San Diego State University, University of West Florida, Capella University, and San Francisco State University in human performance technology (HPT) and instructional systems technology (IST) are competing in a competition that provides a connection between ISPI and future practitioners as well as offers valuable real-world experience for students studying HPT and IST. The competition, which began in January, culminates at the conference, where the top three teams will showcase their findings and presentations.
New! World Café
Room: Yerba Buena Salon 8
-- Tuesday, April 20, 4:00 - 5:30 pm
-- Wednesday, April 21, 10:30 am - Noon
-- Thursday, April 22, 10:30 am - Noon In addition to our traditional 150+ opportunities to meet, talk to, and learn from global performance improvement colleagues, you will have three additional, 90-minute opportunities to do more talking, sharing, and learning World Café style! World Café conversations are powerful, intensive dialogues built on the assumption we already have the wisdom and creativity within us to confront our most difficult challenges. This year, Society and Chapter Leaders will convene a forum to access our deeper communal knowledge about what is important to improve human performance and how we can better share some of this knowledge with our partners and clients. Potential topics include: - ISPI in 50 Years - The Dream
- Growing to 10,000 members
- Every member in a chapter, every chapter full of members
- Mainstreeting of Performance Improvement
- Think Mega: 6.9 billion people to improve; first steps might be...
- Building It - ONE improvement (or PI) I can take (personal responsibility - what can I do)
- Using performance improvement to save the world
- Why, Why, Why are we members of ISPI? Who else should be?
- ISPI's Gifts - People, Partnerships, Processes
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