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2007 Conference Sessions

Listen to the following 45-minute educational sessions from ISPI's 2007 Annual Conference in San Francisco. If you would like to hear more educational sessions please attend The Performance Improvement Conference, April 3-8, 2008 in New York City!  Click here for more details.

If They Can't Use It, They Will Lose It
Jodi L. Crawford, Bank of America
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There is a common misconception that usability testing is too time consuming and expensive to fit into the average web-based training project. However, a usable interface is a critical element in allowing learners to focus on the content rather than the navigation. This session will explore why usability testing is important, especially for training being used across a global audience. Attendees will receive tips for completing usability testing quickly and inexpensively, as well as reusable templates.

Track: Instructional Systems (IS)
Audience Level: Intermediate

Leadership Blind Spots: Their Impact on Organizational Performance
Ralph Maurer, Blackwell Consulting Services Inc.
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Being human, every leader has "blind spots"--characteristics of performance and behavior that have unintended consequences on the performance of the individuals in the organizations he or she leads. This workshop illuminates two blind spots that have been found to be most prevalent and provides tools and models that can be used by leaders to help mitigate the impacts on their organizations. Tools discussed will include decision-making and accountability models targeted at enhancing leadership clarity, leading to improved performance and results.

Participants will be able to:

  • Identify potential blind spots in the areas of decision making and accountability in their own personal leadership styles.
  • Understand the negative impacts on performance caused by their blind spots.
  • Utilize tools provided in the workshop to reduce the frequency by which their blind spots manifest themselves and, as a result, enhance the performance of their organizations.

Track: Organizational Alignment (OA)
Audience Level: All

CRTD--The State of Competency Assessment in a Profit-Seeking Environment
William Coscarelli, PhD and Sharon Shrock, PhD, Southern Illinois University
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Improving human performance requires that performance be measured. Over the last 20 years, businesses have advanced the technology of criterion-referenced and level 2 assessments more than any other sector. This session will chronicle the major changes that have evolved-- from a time when criterion-referenced assessment was a nonfunctioning box in an instructional development model to its present status as a performance technology itself. We will conclude with a brainstorming exercise that focuses on "what next?"

Participants will be able to:

  • Define the distinction between criterion-referenced tests and norm-referenced tests.
  • Review at least 12 significant changes that have changed the meaning and role of level 2 assessments in profit-seeking environments.
  • Share their perspectives on future trends in the field.

Track: Analysis, Evaluation, & Measurement (AEM)
Audience Level: Intermediate

Just What Did the Doctor Prescribe? A Performance Improvement Case Study
Matt Donovan, Option Six and Dr. M. L. Crismon
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How do you create a statewide mental health care system that provides the best care for every dollar expended? How do you effectively motivate and support health care providers in following a research-based treatment algorithm? This session will present a real-world case study on the design and evaluation of a blended continuing education curriculum. You will learn how the solution was designed and how we are implementing our strategy for a level 3 evaluation.

Participants will be able to:

  • Describe the systematic process followed to design the blended curriculum.
  • Describe the systematic process used to design and implement the level 3 evaluation.
  • Identify key lessons learned in designing and evaluating a large-scale Continuing Medical Education initiative.

Track: Analysis, Evaluation, & Measurement (AEM)
Audience Level: Intermediate

Recognizing Your Competence and Commitment Levels in the Workplace: A Practical Approach to Communicating Your Situational Needs to Your Leaders
Karrie A. Mosley and Ingrid Mellone, CPT, Carley Corporation
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Employees need to feel empowered to communicate their competence and commitment levels to their leaders. In the past, it has been the leader's responsibility to assess the employees' competence and commitment levels. Employees are more likely to understand their own needs and levels. Employees should be able to assess their own levels, and then discuss them with their leaders. The focus of this session is how to communicate their situational needs to their leaders.

Participants will be able to:

  • Given sample workplace tasks, assign level of competence and commitment.
  • Formulate a plan for communicating situational needs to your leader.
  • Relieve leaders from having to gauge supporters' levels, enhancing collaboration and a solutions-based orientation.

Track: Management of Organizational Performance (MOP)
Audience Level: All

Building a Blended Synchronous and Asynchronous Performance Solution
Curt LaLonde, CPT & Zhuoran Huang, PhD, Carlson Marketing Worldwide and Chris M. Bower, Saturn Corporation
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Saturn developed a three-phase approach (awareness, knowledge, application) to improve consulting practices with online customers. Research indicated that many Saturn sales consultants were not providing the same consistent approach with online customers as provided to more traditional showroom customers. After rolling out a series of carefully designed synchronous and asynchronous online tools for training, performance support, and coaching and mentoring, Saturn was able to positively affect the quality and the timeliness of online customer responses.

Participants will be able to:

  • Discover how a performance solution totally built on an online platform and executed using online components can be used as part of an effective delivery strategy.
  • Differentiate between online synchronous and asynchronous strategies for audience communication, knowledge, and application as it relates to client business objectives.
  • Describe elements of a performance support system that incorporates training, task support, and performance follow-up elements.
  • Describe elements of an online coaching and mentoring system designed to promote best practices and facilitate sustainment of performance.

Track: Blended Interventions
Audience Level: All

Performance Analysis Tools That Work!
Timothy L. Haws, US Coast Guard
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Performance analysts have a wide array of methodologies and e-tools at their disposal, but how many actually work? In this session, the U.S. Coast Guard's Performance Technology Center will share what performance analysis methods and e-tools have worked and what is being beta-tested for future use. The discussion will focus on the pros and cons of "tried and true" software packages used to execute a variety of Coast Guard analyses as well as new initiatives.

Participants will be able to:

  • Identify the pros and cons of certain performance analysis and data collection e-tools.
  • Define the different types of analyses conducted in the Coast Guard and their associated terminology.
  • Discuss instances of when e-tools are used in different Coast Guard analyses.
  • Apply methods and e-tools to their own organizations to solve problems and realize opportunities.
  • Discuss the benefits of "triangulation" of data sources.

Track: Analysis, Evaluation, & Measurement (AEM)
Audience Level: Intermediate

Using Level 3 Evaluations to Ensure Effective and Efficient Training
Richard D. Molloy, Jr., US Coast Guard
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Kirkpatrick's four levels of evaluation is a favorite among training and performance professionals. The Coast Guard has developed a pragmatic Kirkpatrick-based evaluation program to routinely evaluate performance-based training. In this session, the presenter will provide a detailed description of the Coast Guard's program and offer two case studies of how evaluation data, particularly the Level 3 evaluation data, has been used to measure and increase efficiency and effectiveness.

Participants will be able to:

  • Describe Donald L. Kirkpatrick's levels of evaluation.
  • List five reasons for evaluating training.
  • List the steps to follow when setting up a pragmatic evaluation program.
  • List strategies and methods for implementing level 3 data.

Track: Analysis, Evaluation, & Measurement (AEM)
Audience Level: Basic

Intrinsic Motivation: The Neglected Performance Factor
Patricia S. Radakovich, CPT, CPLP, MA, SHARK Consulting Group
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Although performance technologists often focus on motives and incentives as a way to improve performance, most of that focus is geared toward extrinsic motivational factors. Few performance technologists take on the challenge of intrinsic motivation because they feel it is a bigger obstacle with minimal results. This session will challenge that notion by outlining a case study where intrinsic motivation was the biggest factor that needed to be addressed to boost performance.

Participants will be able to:

  • Identify when intrinsic motivational factors should be addressed.
  • Develop methods to address intrinsic motivation.

Track: Motivation, Incentives, & Feedback (MIF)
Audience Level: All


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Roger Addison and Judy Hale discuss the upcoming Fall Conference scheduled for September 24-27, 2008 in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
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Roger Addison on Predictions 2008 - ISPI plans for the coming year.
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