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Registration link:  https://aitd.worldsecuresystems.com/events/PDNSW8February2012

Have you ever found yourself skipping on the evaluation at the end of a training program?
Perhaps you haven't been sure what value you would gain from including an evaluation strategy?
Struggling to get past anything more than a 'happy sheet' to evaluate learning?

If this is the case then this workshop will help you revisit your evaluation practices and provide a renewed perspective.  Evaluation of learning is a vital yet often overlooked or underestimated component of many development programs.  Demonstrating the value of training dollars spent on identifying ways to create more impact in the business helps maintain a clear line of value in the business.

About your presenter, Jane Calleja With 19 years in L&D & a master degree in education, Jane has worked across Australia & in numerous industries including finance, telecommunications, & hospitality.  One thing stands constant for Jane, a passion for what she does.   She is driven to help others to be the best they can by supporting the continued learning of individuals, teams and businesses.  Jane has spent the last seven years building development programs and learning processes for National Credit Insurance (Brokers).  She believes that focus on the development of individuals, ensures continued success for any organisation.

Jane is a director of ‘Developing You’ where focus is on making a difference, by facilitating the unleashing of individual, team & organisational potential.

Timing: Sydney - Friday 10 February 2012 9:00 am - 4:30 pm Venue: Cliftons Sydney, 190 George Street, SYDNEY Please check the monitor in the foyer for the level allocated for this workshop (generally level 5 or 6) Fees: AITD Member $500.00 (inc GST) Non-member $620.00 (inc GST) Group booking rate (3 or more) $430 (incl of GST) per person. Email jenni.noble@aitd.com.au to register your group. Registration Link:  https://aitd.worldsecuresystems.com/events/CreatingValueInYourBusiness

Philippa has over 15 years experiencein adult education and training and 10 years experience in marketing and promotion.  Her posistions have included Training Centre Manager at the Australian Institute of Management and a variety of training and development and marketing positions across a variety of organisations.

•   Training & Development experience
•  Organisational needs analysis
•  Staff recruitment
•  Performance management
•  Coaching
•  Training program design
•  Training program facilitation and review
•  Meeting facilitation and review

Strategic Organisational Learning Implementation - Key Considerations

There is a solid body of evidence which supports the notion that well managed organisational learning provides sustainable competitive advantage for organisations. 

For her Doctor of Business Administration degree, Judy Lundy explored key considerations which contribute towards the successful implementation of strategic organisational learning for her dissertation 'Building strategic organisational learning implementation for the Australian Public Service (APS)'. 

Judy will share with you the results from her focus groups and interviews with learning and development decision makers in a range of APS agencies and provide an overview of the model she developed based on how respondents perceived the relationship between the key strategic organisational learning components.  She will also provide you with some practical tips and tools for consideration in terms of strategic organisational learning implementation in your own organisation.

About your Presenter:  
Judy Lundy, Senior Consultant at Wisdom Learning has over twenty years experience working in the adult learning field in Australia, New Zealand and Canada.  In these various settings, Judy has designed, developed and delivered a wide range of programs with a particular focus on "soft skills" development including management, leadership and communication skills.  Judy has also worked extensively in a consulting capacity, assisting public and private sector organisations to develop role based training programs and learning strategies.  Judy sees her role as that of a catalyst for individual and organisational learning and change and works closely with clients to bring about positive development at all levels. 

Registration Link: 

https://aitd.worldsecuresystems.com//events/PDACT22February2012

1.           Analysis
2.           Design
3.           Development
4.           Implementation
5.           Evaluation

Have you ever found yourself skipping on the evaluation at the end of a training program?
Perhaps you haven't been sure what value you would gain from including an evaluation strategy?
Struggling to get past anything more than a 'happy sheet' to evaluate learning?

If this is the case then this workshop will help you revisit your evaluation practices and provide a renewed perspective.  Evaluation of learning is a vital yet often overlooked or underestimated component of many development programs.  Demonstrating the value of training dollars spent on identifying ways to create more impact in the business helps maintain a clear line of value in the business.

About your presenter, Jane Calleja With 19 years in L&D & a master degree in education, Jane has worked across Australia & in numerous industries including finance, telecommunications, & hospitality.  One thing stands constant for Jane, a passion for what she does.   She is driven to help others to be the best they can by supporting the continued learning of individuals, teams and businesses.  Jane has spent the last seven years building development programs and learning processes for National Credit Insurance (Brokers).  She believes that focus on the development of individuals, ensures continued success for any organisation.  Jane is a director of ‘Developing You’ where focus is on making a difference, by facilitating the unleashing of individual, team & organisational potential

Timing: Canberra - Friday 9 March 2012 9:00 am - 4:30 pm Venue: Cliftons Canberra, Level 2, 10 Moore Street Fees: AITD Member $500.00 (inc GST) Non-member $620.00 (inc GST) Group booking rate (3 or more) $430 (incl of GST) per person. Email jenni.noble@aitd.com.au to register your group. Registration Link:  https://aitd.worldsecuresystems.com/events/CreatingValueInYourBusiness

TAKE YOUR TRAINING TO A NEW LEVEL
Presented by Dr Rich Allen
A one-day master-class of dynamic, practical and relevant content that will have you approaching your next training or workshop with a new perspective and fresh energy!  Suitable for people with a mix of skills - trainers of all levels, workshop facilitators and presenters.

This highly interactive workshop will have you exploring the fundamentals of high impact teaching and training techniques using the latest research in group dynamics, presentation styles and brain-based concepts.  This workshop will give both inexperienced and experienced trainers easy to use techniques.  It complements and builds on skills learned in other training workshops.

The techniques that you will learn are based on the latest brain research - simple and practical so you can use them immediately!

Rich covers a range of topics including:
•  Meaning - purpose - framing - engaging - movement - music
•  Scientific secrets of delivering highly engaging training
•  MAximising attention
•  Making it memorable
•  Efficientrly communicating key ideas
•  Practical techniques to improve training effectiveness

After attending this workshop you will:
•  Be confident at the front of the room and easily build rapport
•  Energise participants and maintain their attention
•  Save yourself time and energy by communicating ideas more efficiently
•  Increase the recall of your learners
•  Enjoy your role more as your training effectiveness increases

Participants can expect to be physically engaged, mentally challenged and thoroughly entertained.  A workbook is included.

More about Rich Allen Dr Rich Allen is a highly regarded educator and master trainer, with a Ph.D in Educational Psychology.  His cognitive learning theory research, which provided understanding on how the brain receives, processes, stores and recalls information, forms the basis for his radical approach to teaching, presenting and facilitating. In 25 years of taking his ideas around the world, he has changed the lives of thousands of educators and executives, by giving them practical new presentation and teaching techniques that massively increase personal effectiveness. Rich works with executives and corporate training divisions in the many countries, including the United States, Canada, England, Australia, New Zealand and Hong Kong.  A former off-Broadway actor, he coaches executives in presentation and facilitation skills.  He also runs 'Train the Trainer' programs and is the best-selling author of TrainSmart and Humane Presentations.

His clients include: PWC, Dupont, AT&T, NZDefense Force, General Motors, NZ Post, NZ Police, Kiwibank, Jade Corporation, L'Oreal, IBM, and Porsche. He is also a popular keynote speaker at international business and communications conferences. Rich lives in the sun-kissed paradise of St Croix, where he supports the local economy by encouraging tourism!

Timing:
Melbourne, 28 March 2012
9.00 am - 4.30 pm (Registration between 8.30 am - 9.00 am)

Venue:
Cliftons Melbourne
440 Collins Street, MELBOURNE
(please check the monitor in the foyer for final room allocation)

Fees:
This workshop is also being offered in conjunction with the AITD National Conference, as pre or post conference workshop.  Special rates apply if you are attending the conference - further information will be available via the conference registration page

AITD Member $500.00 (inc GST)
Non-member $620.00 (inc GST)
Group booking rate (3 or more) $430 (incl of GST).
Email jenni.noble@aitd.com.au to register your group.



Registration Link: 

•  How can I be politically savvy without selling my soul?
•  What's the best way to ensure my budget gets approved next year?
•  Where do I start to create a strategically aligned business plan?
•  Why do the above impact my career path?

Boardrooms, Budgets and Business Plans - Career Boosters! addresses the gap in current professional development for L&D professionals.  It’s a practical workshop that covers the fundamentals of building your career through better application of business acumen and management of organisational politics.

Workshop Outcomes
•  Devise a relationship building action plan to open the boardroom door
•  Draft a strategically aligned business plan for your L&D function
•  Select L&D budget planning tools for your operations
•  Compile a comprehensive ‘cheat sheet’ of tips and tricks to apply professionally and personally
•  Generate solutions to persistent L&D management problems
•  Create a support network of connections with other L&D/OD managers 
 
Agenda
•  Core responsibilities for the contemporary L&D manager
•  Action Learning components and practice run
•  Boardrooms:  Relationships, politics and blowing your own horn!
•  Budgets:  Templates / Tools, discerning points of pain, using TNA’s
•  Business Plans:  Templates / Tools, strategic alignment, delivery models  

This workshop will be presented by Wendy Johns Author of T&D in Australia magazine's ‘Guru Quest’ column, Wendy knows the highs and lows of corporate Australia and how to circumvent brick walls.  Having learnt the hard way she’s committed to making the path easier for other L&D/OD Managers.  Prior National Head of L&D for Jones Lang LaSalle Australia, Wendy has also worked in L&D Manager roles in Africa, Dubai and the Caribbean; for employers including the Department of. Foreign Affairs and Trade, Kempinski Hotels, Carnival Cruise Lines and QR.  Wendy holds a Degree in International Business … and your general raft of trainers certifications.  This workshop will be as fun, diverse and challenging as Wendy’s CV! ps:  you may also remember Wendy from the AITD 2010 Conference where she did a great job of MC for us

Applying the ARIES framework in making sense of issues and enabling change.
Presented by Don Dunoon

In this highly interactive, practically-oriented workshop, you will gain skills in mindfully opening-up messy – contentious, thorny – issues and building shared meaning to enable change.  Most of us face messy issues in our roles, whether in dealing with resistance to a new training initiative, a troublesome client or team member, or differences with “the powers that be” about priorities or directions.

We might think we are dealing with messy issues mindfully, but are we?  In our hyper-busy workplaces and lives, we tend to get caught up in some not very mindful behaviours – often without being aware of them.  Examples include immediately judging rather than just taking pause to notice before evaluating; making and acting on assumptions about the realities of others without testing these; and skirting around the more sensitive issues while keeping the conversation on a safer, surface level.  To be effective in enabling change, L&D managers and practitioners need to be able to move past such behaviour patterns.  Doing so requires special skills.

In this workshop, you will learn to apply a set of practices and tools, ARIES (Attending, Reflecting, Inquiring, Expressing and Synthesising), to assist you in working through issues and advancing change mindfully.  You will have opportunities to apply the tools to one or more issues of current concern to you, and to share your experience in doing so with colleagues.

By attending this workshop you will:
•    Learn to use a framework that you can apply to help open-up virtually any messy issue
•    Make headway in understanding and considering action possibilities with an issue that matters to you currently
•    Gain confidence in dealing safely with messy issues involving clients, senior executives, team members and other stakeholders
•    Build skills to help you make headway with problems that can otherwise seem intractable.

Agenda:
•    Understanding messy issues
•    Mindful – and not so mindful – action
•    Two modes for action with messy issues
•    Guidelines for intervening with safety
•    Differentiating what you observe from inferences and conclusions (Attending)
•    Looking at issues from multiple perspectives (Reflecting and the Reflection Matrix tool)
•    Using questions to delve into the hidden reaches and test interpretations (Inquiring)
•    Speaking up to foster engagement and mutual understanding (Expressing)
•    Framing understandings of the challenges of change, for testing (Synthesising)
•    Considering the risks and opportunities of action
•    Making choices mindfully.

About your presenter:

Don Dunoon is the author of In the Leadership Mode (Trafford, 2008), a book that frames leadership in terms of in-the-moment interventions to build shared meaning for change with contentious issues, and which differentiates leadership - and management-mode forms of action.  He is joint author, with mindfulness expert Dr Ellen Langer of Harvard, of a 2011 article, “Mindfulness and Leadership: Opening up to Possibilities”, Integral Leadership Review, October. As a consultant with over 20 years’ experience and based in Sydney, Don works with clients in Australia and the US, helping groups and individuals develop their capabilities in dealing productively with messy issues.  A regular presenter at international conferences, he has an M Com (Hons) degree from the University of New South Wales, and has contributed to post-graduate teaching at that university. Don presented a highly successful workshop on his ARIES framework at the 2011 AITD Conference. ARIES is made available under Creative Commons licensing (Attribution, Non-commercial, Share Alike) at www.dondunoon.com

Timing:
Sydney, 17 April 2012
9.00 am - 4.30 pm (Registration between 8.30 am - 9.00 am)

Venue:
Karstens
111 Harrington Street, SYDNEY
(please check the monitor in the foyer for final room allocation)

Fees:
This workshop is also being offered in conjunction with the AITD National Conference, as pre or post conference workshop.  Special rates apply if you are attending the conference - further information will be available via the conference registration page

AITD Member $500.00 (inc GST)
Non-member $620.00 (inc GST)
Group booking rate (3 or more) $430 (incl of GST).
Email jenni.noble@aitd.com.au to register your group.

Registration Link:  https://aitd.worldsecuresystems.com/events/MindfulActionwithMessyIssues

BOARDROOMS, BUDGETS & BUSINESS PLANS - Career Boosters!
A special workshop focusing on the three forgotten competencies L&D Managers need in today's world:  managing executive relationships, creating savvy business plans and implementing targeted budgets.

•  How can I be politically savvy without selling my soul?
•  What's the best way to ensure my budget gets approved next year?
•  Where do I start to create a strategically aligned business plan?
•  Why do the above impact my career path?

Boardrooms, Budgets and Business Plans - Career Boosters! addresses the gap in current professional development for L&D professionals.  It’s a practical workshop that covers the fundamentals of building your career through better application of business acumen and management of organisational politics.

Workshop Outcomes
•  Devise a relationship building action plan to open the boardroom door
•  Draft a strategically aligned business plan for your L&D function
•  Select L&D budget planning tools for your operations
•  Compile a comprehensive ‘cheat sheet’ of tips and tricks to apply professionally and personally
•  Generate solutions to persistent L&D management problems
•  Create a support network of connections with other L&D/OD managers 
 
Agenda
•  Core responsibilities for the contemporary L&D manager
•  Action Learning components and practice run
•  Boardrooms:  Relationships, politics and blowing your own horn!
•  Budgets:  Templates / Tools, discerning points of pain, using TNA’s
•  Business Plans:  Templates / Tools, strategic alignment, delivery models  

This workshop will be presented by Wendy Johns Author of T&D in Australia magazine's ‘Guru Quest’ column, Wendy knows the highs and lows of corporate Australia and how to circumvent brick walls.  Having learnt the hard way she’s committed to making the path easier for other L&D/OD Managers.  Prior National Head of L&D for Jones Lang LaSalle Australia, Wendy has also worked in L&D Manager roles in Africa, Dubai and the Caribbean; for employers including the Department of. Foreign Affairs and Trade, Kempinski Hotels, Carnival Cruise Lines and QR.  Wendy holds a Degree in International Business … and your general raft of trainers certifications.  This workshop will be as fun, diverse and challenging as Wendy’s CV! ps:  you may also remember Wendy from the AITD 2010 Conference where she did a great job of MC for us

Applying the ARIES framework in making sense of issues and enabling change.
Presented by Don Dunoon

In this highly interactive, practically-oriented workshop, you will gain skills in mindfully opening-up messy – contentious, thorny – issues and building shared meaning to enable change.  Most of us face messy issues in our roles, whether in dealing with resistance to a new training initiative, a troublesome client or team member, or differences with “the powers that be” about priorities or directions.

We might think we are dealing with messy issues mindfully, but are we?  In our hyper-busy workplaces and lives, we tend to get caught up in some not very mindful behaviours – often without being aware of them.  Examples include immediately judging rather than just taking pause to notice before evaluating; making and acting on assumptions about the realities of others without testing these; and skirting around the more sensitive issues while keeping the conversation on a safer, surface level.  To be effective in enabling change, L&D managers and practitioners need to be able to move past such behaviour patterns.  Doing so requires special skills.

In this workshop, you will learn to apply a set of practices and tools, ARIES (Attending, Reflecting, Inquiring, Expressing and Synthesising), to assist you in working through issues and advancing change mindfully.  You will have opportunities to apply the tools to one or more issues of current concern to you, and to share your experience in doing so with colleagues.

By attending this workshop you will:
•    Learn to use a framework that you can apply to help open-up virtually any messy issue
•    Make headway in understanding and considering action possibilities with an issue that matters to you currently
•    Gain confidence in dealing safely with messy issues involving clients, senior executives, team members and other stakeholders
•    Build skills to help you make headway with problems that can otherwise seem intractable.

Agenda:
•    Understanding messy issues
•    Mindful – and not so mindful – action
•    Two modes for action with messy issues
•    Guidelines for intervening with safety
•    Differentiating what you observe from inferences and conclusions (Attending)
•    Looking at issues from multiple perspectives (Reflecting and the Reflection Matrix tool)
•    Using questions to delve into the hidden reaches and test interpretations (Inquiring)
•    Speaking up to foster engagement and mutual understanding (Expressing)
•    Framing understandings of the challenges of change, for testing (Synthesising)
•    Considering the risks and opportunities of action
•    Making choices mindfully.

About your presenter:

Don Dunoon is the author of In the Leadership Mode (Trafford, 2008), a book that frames leadership in terms of in-the-moment interventions to build shared meaning for change with contentious issues, and which differentiates leadership - and management-mode forms of action.  He is joint author, with mindfulness expert Dr Ellen Langer of Harvard, of a 2011 article, “Mindfulness and Leadership: Opening up to Possibilities”, Integral Leadership Review, October. As a consultant with over 20 years’ experience and based in Sydney, Don works with clients in Australia and the US, helping groups and individuals develop their capabilities in dealing productively with messy issues.  A regular presenter at international conferences, he has an M Com (Hons) degree from the University of New South Wales, and has contributed to post-graduate teaching at that university. Don presented a highly successful workshop on his ARIES framework at the 2011 AITD Conference. ARIES is made available under Creative Commons licensing (Attribution, Non-commercial, Share Alike) at www.dondunoon.com

Timing:
Sydney, 20 April 2012
9.00 am - 4.30 pm (Registration between 8.30 am - 9.00 am)

Venue:
Karstens
111 Harrington Street, SYDNEY
(please check the monitor in the foyer for final room allocation)

Fees:
This workshop is also being offered in conjunction with the AITD National Conference, as pre or post conference workshop.  Special rates apply if you are attending the conference - further information will be available via the conference registration page

AITD Member $500.00 (inc GST)
Non-member $620.00 (inc GST)
Group booking rate (3 or more) $430 (incl of GST).
Email jenni.noble@aitd.com.au to register your group.

Registration Link:  https://aitd.worldsecuresystems.com/events/MindfulActionwithMessyIssues

INSTRUCTIONAL DESIGN ESSENTIALS
A one-day introduction to Instructional Design

No matter what format you use to deliver your training, it is still essential that training professionals deliver good quality materials which have been developed using a sound Instructional Design framework.   This training workshop will familiarise you with adult learning principles, instructional design models, and the different phases involved in a training project.  This workshop is suited more for those relatively new to instructional design and looking for some flexible guidelines for building effective training material.

This workshop will cover:
•  Familiarisation with adult learning theories and the role of instructional designer
•  The five phases of the ADDIE Model

1.           Analysis
2.           Design
3.           Development
4.           Implementation
5.           Evaluation

•  The activities carried out in each phase of the ADDIE Model
•  Instructional writing - structure, sequencing material and chunking
•  What else do you need to consider for great instructional design?

Presented by Arndria Seymour
Arndria is a well known, commercially oriented senior Human Resources/Organisational Development (OD) professional with a deep expertise in OD/Learning & Development (L&D) strategy development & execution. Arndria has a proven track record in crafting & executing learning strategy & learning deliverables aligned to business goals.  This experience has been gained in blue chip Banking, Financial Services, Financial Planning, Life Insurance, General Insurance & Workers Compensation companies over the past 30 years. 

With a passion for technology, Arndria has domestic & international experience in the implementation of enterprise-wide Learning Management Systems (LMS), instructional design & content development (all mediums), service excellence delivery, quality assurance & project management. She also has hands on experience in managing operational L&D teams, cultural change agendas, & project management of large scaled implementations of systems & strategic Learning & Development programs within large global organisations.  Arndria founded Seymour & Associates in November 2010 & her own consultancy practice - ArndriaSeymour.Com, where she helps organisations craft and/or aligns their learning & development strategies & operational plans to support the delivery of their strategic business goals.

Arndria holds a Masters of Commence (Organisation & Management) University of NSW & Bachelor of Commerce (Marketing) University of Western Sydney (Nepean). She has written a number of articles & presented at many events over the past 10 years.  Arndria is a professional blogger for DynamicBusiness.com.au in the Talent space.

Have you ever found yourself skipping on the evaluation at the end of a training program?
Perhaps you haven't been sure what value you would gain from including an evaluation strategy?
Struggling to get past anything more than a 'happy sheet' to evaluate learning?

If this is the case then this workshop will help you revisit your evaluation practices and provide a renewed perspective.  Evaluation of learning is a vital yet often overlooked or underestimated component of many development programs.  Demonstrating the value of training dollars spent on identifying ways to create more impact in the business helps maintain a clear line of value in the business.

About your presenter, Jane Calleja With 19 years in L&D & a master degree in education, Jane has worked across Australia & in numerous industries including finance, telecommunications, & hospitality.  One thing stands constant for Jane, a passion for what she does.   She is driven to help others to be the best they can by supporting the continued learning of individuals, teams and businesses.  Jane has spent the last seven years building development programs and learning processes for National Credit Insurance (Brokers).  She believes that focus on the development of individuals, ensures continued success for any organisation.  Jane is a director of ‘Developing You’ where focus is on making a difference, by facilitating the unleashing of individual, team & organisational potential

Timing: Brisbane - Friday 4 May 2012 9:00 am - 4:30 pm Venue: Cliftons Brisbane 288 Edward Street, BRISBANE Fees: AITD Member $500.00 (inc GST) Non-member $620.00 (inc GST) Group booking rate (3 or more) $430 (incl of GST) per person. Email jenni.noble@aitd.com.au to register your group. Registration Link:  https://aitd.worldsecuresystems.com/events/CreatingValueInYourBusiness

•  How can I be politically savvy without selling my soul?
•  What's the best way to ensure my budget gets approved next year?
•  Where do I start to create a strategically aligned business plan?
•  Why do the above impact my career path?

Boardrooms, Budgets and Business Plans - Career Boosters! addresses the gap in current professional development for L&D professionals.  It’s a practical workshop that covers the fundamentals of building your career through better application of business acumen and management of organisational politics.

Workshop Outcomes
•  Devise a relationship building action plan to open the boardroom door
•  Draft a strategically aligned business plan for your L&D function
•  Select L&D budget planning tools for your operations
•  Compile a comprehensive ‘cheat sheet’ of tips and tricks to apply professionally and personally
•  Generate solutions to persistent L&D management problems
•  Create a support network of connections with other L&D/OD managers 
 
Agenda
•  Core responsibilities for the contemporary L&D manager
•  Action Learning components and practice run
•  Boardrooms:  Relationships, politics and blowing your own horn!
•  Budgets:  Templates / Tools, discerning points of pain, using TNA’s
•  Business Plans:  Templates / Tools, strategic alignment, delivery models  

This workshop will be presented by Wendy Johns Author of T&D in Australia magazine's ‘Guru Quest’ column, Wendy knows the highs and lows of corporate Australia and how to circumvent brick walls.  Having learnt the hard way she’s committed to making the path easier for other L&D/OD Managers.  Prior National Head of L&D for Jones Lang LaSalle Australia, Wendy has also worked in L&D Manager roles in Africa, Dubai and the Caribbean; for employers including the Department of. Foreign Affairs and Trade, Kempinski Hotels, Carnival Cruise Lines and QR.  Wendy holds a Degree in International Business … and your general raft of trainers certifications.  This workshop will be as fun, diverse and challenging as Wendy’s CV! ps:  you may also remember Wendy from the AITD 2010 Conference where she did a great job of MC for us

Create Value in your Business

Have you ever found yourself skipping on the evaluation at the end of a training program?
Perhaps you haven't been sure what value you would gain from including an evaluation strategy?
Struggling to get past anything more than a 'happy sheet' to evaluate learning?

If this is the case then this workshop will help you revisit your evaluation practices and provide a renewed perspective.  Evaluation of learning is a vital yet often overlooked or underestimated component of many development programs.  Demonstrating the value of training dollars spent on identifying ways to create more impact in the business helps maintain a clear line of value in the business.

•  How can I be politically savvy without selling my soul?
•  What's the best way to ensure my budget gets approved next year?
•  Where do I start to create a strategically aligned business plan?
•  Why do the above impact my career path?

Boardrooms, Budgets and Business Plans - Career Boosters! addresses the gap in current professional development for L&D professionals.  It’s a practical workshop that covers the fundamentals of building your career through better application of business acumen and management of organisational politics.

Workshop Outcomes
•  Devise a relationship building action plan to open the boardroom door
•  Draft a strategically aligned business plan for your L&D function
•  Select L&D budget planning tools for your operations
•  Compile a comprehensive ‘cheat sheet’ of tips and tricks to apply professionally and personally
•  Generate solutions to persistent L&D management problems
•  Create a support network of connections with other L&D/OD managers 
 
Agenda
•  Core responsibilities for the contemporary L&D manager
•  Action Learning components and practice run
•  Boardrooms:  Relationships, politics and blowing your own horn!
•  Budgets:  Templates / Tools, discerning points of pain, using TNA’s
•  Business Plans:  Templates / Tools, strategic alignment, delivery models  

This workshop will be presented by Wendy Johns Author of T&D in Australia magazine's ‘Guru Quest’ column, Wendy knows the highs and lows of corporate Australia and how to circumvent brick walls.  Having learnt the hard way she’s committed to making the path easier for other L&D/OD Managers.  Prior National Head of L&D for Jones Lang LaSalle Australia, Wendy has also worked in L&D Manager roles in Africa, Dubai and the Caribbean; for employers including the Department of. Foreign Affairs and Trade, Kempinski Hotels, Carnival Cruise Lines and QR.  Wendy holds a Degree in International Business … and your general raft of trainers certifications.  This workshop will be as fun, diverse and challenging as Wendy’s CV! ps:  you may also remember Wendy from the AITD 2010 Conference where she did a great job of MC for us