Certificate Programs

New for 2008! Business Essentials Certificate
May 29-31, 2008
The Learning Professional’s MBA: designed to develop deeper knowledge in business core competencies. Participants will enhance their workplace value and credibility by focusing on key business drivers: strategic planning, financial management, and marketing. The results will be greater alignment of training with business strategies and greater personal impact on business results. Developed in partnership with the Lake Forest Graduate School of Management.
ASTD Member: US $1,395; Nonmember: US $1,595
Register Online

Designing Learning Certificate
May 29-31, 2008
Developed for participants new to instructional design, this is the complete foundation workshop for designing outcome-based training, giving participants a competitive advantage when creating programs. The workshop follows a human performance improvement approach to designing learning and includes practice in needs assessment, job/task analysis, and course design using templates exclusive to ASTD. Participants learn how to apply a structured step-by-step process towards designing and have the opportunity to apply what they learn to their own work during the workshop. The content of this program is based on the ASTD Competency Study and helps in preparation for obtaining the CPLP credential.
ASTD Member: US $1,395; Nonmember: US $1,595
Register Online

HPI in the Workplace Certificate
May 29-31, 2008
Tired of providing the same solutions with no results? Applying the principles of HPI in your organization is a proven way for getting those results. This in-depth workshop is the first step in making the transition. Find out what over 11,000 of your colleagues, worldwide, know—that HPI is an excellent systematic approach to solving organizational problems. Learn how to use the ASTD HPI model, articulate the three critical components of HPI, link organization goals to human performance, outline a strategy for finding and addressing performance gaps and describe a process to evaluate the impact of your HPI solutions.
ASTD Member: US $1,395; Nonmember: US $1,595
Register Online

HPI: Analyzing Human Performance Certificate
Revised to include Performance DNA Desktop™ Software!
May 29-31, 2008
Are you looking for an efficient and streamlined process for getting at the real performance gaps and their root causes? ASTD, in partnership with Platinum Performance Group, developed a state-of-the art analysis model-- Performance DNA that is a systematic approach for uncovering the true root cause. The Performance DNA Toolkit is a complete and flexible set of tools—guides, checklists, and templates—necessary to conduct a comprehensive analysis of human performance for any position. With flexibility of the analysis process in mind, the tools were designed to meet the needs of both a newly indoctrinated performance analyst and a seasoned professional. These tools are effective in all workplaces including high technology environments, sales, manufacturing, and every situation in between. They include the best tools and processes for today’s complex and rapidly changing workplace.
ASTD Member: US $1545; Nonmember: US $1,745
Register Online

HPI: Evaluating HPI Solutions Certificate
May 29-31, 2008
How do you track the success of your performance solutions and prove you’re achieving bottomline results? This program shows how to demonstrate return-on-investment for an HPI project. It is a practical class providing tools and experiences for building an evaluation process into all HPI projects. Unique to this program, participants will practice conducting an evaluation on a non-training solution.
ASTD Member: US $1,395; Nonmember: US $1,595
Register Online

Measuring and Evaluating Learning Certificate
May 29-31, 2008
This comprehensive three-day certificate program provides a solid foundation in all aspects of the measurement and evaluation of learning and performance solutions. Through small group interaction, application exercises, and a running case study, participants will leave the program knowing how to determine the impact of learning programs and develop and implement an evaluation strategy for their organization. The content of this program is based on the ASTD Competency Study and helps in preparation for obtaining the CPLP™ credential.
ASTD Member: US$1,395; Nonmember: US$1,595
Register Online

Managing the Learning Function Certificate
May 29-31, 2008
Providing leadership in developing human capital to execute an organization’s strategy is key to organizational achievement. This three-day program will prepare you to provide critical leadership in developing the learning function (its people and programs) so it can have meaningful impact on the overall strategy. This interactive workshop includes self-assessments, small group case study discussion, best-practice review, and feedback on specific challenges participants face. The content of this program is based on the ASTD Competency Study and helps in preparation for obtaining the CPLP credential.
ASTD Member: US $1,395; Nonmember US $1,595
Register Online

Training Certificate
May 29-31, 2008
This is the trainer’s training program. It is a practical, how-to overview of the entire training function. It prepares new trainers with critical training skills and introduces seasoned practitioners to the latest techniques for delivering powerful training. The workshop is based on the ASTD Competency Model and covers the key actions and knowledge necessary to deliver world-class training. The content of this program helps in preparation for obtaining the CPLPTM credential.
ASTD Member: US $1,295; Nonmember: US $1,495
Register Online

New for 2008! Rapid Learning Techniquese Certificate (formerly Accelerated Learning)
May 30-31, 2008
Less Lecture. More Doing.
Are you wondering how to go beyond just lecture and slides. Accelerated Learning, a new two-day workshop for experienced trainers dispels the myth that learning can’t be fun AND effective. Research tells us humans transfer learning faster when they’re an active participant in the learning experience. This program provides an active environment stimulating the participant’s senses by using a combination of learning techniques including teach-backs, break-out groups, and practice re-call. It is designed to introduce participants to the principles and experience of accelerated learning and to equip them to walk away being able to immediately put these to use.
ASTD Member: US$995; Nonmember: US$1,195
Register Online

Action Learning Certificate
May 30-31, 2008
Action learning is a powerful problem solving process and is also valuable to a growing number of organizations worldwide as an effective and dynamic tool for solving problems, building teams, developing leaders, and changing corporate culture. In this workshop, participants will discover the six essential elements for successful action learning programs, explore the steps and processes of action learning, and have the opportunity to coach action learning groups. The workshop will include strategies for implementing action learning in organizations and groups.
ASTD Member: US$995; Nonmember: US$1,195
Register Online

Advanced Designing Learning Certificate
May 30-31, 2008
Now that you have a solid foundation in the competency of designing learning, ASTD's Advanced Designing Learning Certificate program is the next step in learning how to design and develop complex learning activities. This two-day workshop is a hands on, roll up your sleeves workshop that allows participants to practice designing activities using projects they are currently working on. ASTD has created multiple opportunities to practice designing learning activities including role plays, case studies, collaborative learning, projects, stories, and games.
ASTD Member: US$995; Nonmember: US$1,195
Register Online

Advanced E-Learning Instructional Design Certificate
May 30-31, 2008
This certificate program redirects and narrows the focus of instructional design to those things that matter most in creating successful e-learning: effective ways to design meaningful, memorable, and motivational experiences, while blending in successful behavioral change principles. Based on dozens of research studies, these principles will help you design learning events that go far beyond the transmission of information to achieve behavioral change and targeted performance levels. Learn to counter change inhibitors, design pre-instructional events, blend formal and informal learning, use techniques for performance change, create performance aids, and space learning events. This popular program was developed in partnership with Allen Interactions and is based on the second book in Michael Allen’s E-Learning Library: Designing Successful E-Learning: Forget What You Know About Instructional Design and Do Something Interesting.
ASTD Member: US$995; Nonmember: US$1,195
Register Online

Building Workplace Relationships Certificate
May 30-31, 2008
You can’t get there alone! The process of building and sustaining relationships is vital to creating growth in any organization as well as to your own career success. This certificate program, developed in partnership with FerrazziGreenlight, shows how to transform instinctive behaviors that inhibit success into positive, conscious choices. Identify contact groups and consitituencies who can contribute to personal and professional success, while broadening your areas of influence and expanding group management skills. Understand the relationship principles of intimacy, generosity, and commiting to others’success in order to better manage the relationship cycle.
ASTD Member: US$995; Nonmember: US$1,195
Register Online

Career Planning and Talent Management Certificate
May 30-31, 2008
Career planning and talent management are key functions of the learning and performance professional. Participants of this program will learn how to ensure employees have the right skills to meet the strategic challenges of the organization; align individual career planning and organization talent management processes to achieve an optimal match between individual and organizational needs; and promote individual growth and organizational renewal. The content of this program is based on the ASTD Competency Study and helps in preparation for obtaining the CPLP™ credential.
ASTD Member: US$995; Nonmember: US$1,195
Register Online

Coaching Certificate
May 30-31, 2008
This two-day workshop demonstrates the functions of a successful WLP in the role of coach, including using an interactive process to help clients develop more rapidly and produce more satisfying results, and improving others’ ability to set goals, take actions, make better decisions, and make full use of their natural strengths. Participants will learn a model that outlines a coaching process they can use with individuals, teams, or an entire organization, and will practice coaching competencies through role plays, group exercises, and case studies. The content of this program is based on the ASTD Competency Study and helps in preparation for obtaining the CPLP™ credential. The ASTD Coaching Certificate is aligned with the International Coaching Federation (ICF) Code of Ethics and the ICF Core Coaching Competencies.
ASTD Member: US$995; Nonmember: US$1,195
Register Online

New for 2008! Consulting Skills for Trainers Certificate
May 30-31, 2008
Learning and performance professionals must demonstrate strong consulting skills in order to achieve success as a business partner and to guide their organization toward results. The ASTD Consulting Skills for Trainers Certificate Program demonstrates the behaviors and processes for effective internal consulting, including identifying stakeholder expectations, the actions to take to achieve desired outcomes, establishing goals and managing expectations, efficiently and effectively guiding clients through the process, building credibility to influence decision-making, and overcoming obstacles and resistance. This practical workshop allows participants to practice key consulting competencies and provides participants with tools, templates, and checklists that can be put to use in the professional setting immediately.
ASTD Member: US$995; Nonmember: US$1,195
Register Online

The CPLP™ Prep Workshop
May 30-31, 2008
The CPLP™ Prep Workshop is a two-day workshop that is the perfect starting point for preparing for both the knowledge based CPLP exam and the all-important work product submission. It’s important to prepare for both components of the CPLP credentialing process – not just the knowledge-based exam -- so ASTD created this workshop to help participants fully understand the criteria for their work. It is designed to give a high-level review of the nine areas of expertise from the ASTD Competency Model, help identify areas where further study is needed, enhance test-taking skills, and show how to prepare the required work product for submission. Through exclusive samples of successful work products and 250 assessment questions, this workshop will bolster exam-day and work product preparation confidence (but is not meant to serve as a substitute for full preparation).
ASTD Member: US$995; Nonmember: US$1,195
Register Online

Creating Leadership Development Program Certificate
May 30-31, 2008
This two-day workshop will teach participants how to successfully create or modify an existing program that aligns with a participant's organization and culture. It includes a model exclusive to ASTD for creating leadership development programs as well as a process for selecting the best assessment model and or methodology that can be used in a leadership program. During the workshop, participants will use data from their own organization enabling them immediately apply what they are learning to their own organization.
ASTD Member: US$995; Nonmember: US$1,195
Register Online

E-Learning Instructional Design Certificate
May 30-31, 2008
The workshop helps you develop e-learning experiences for users that are “meaningful and memorable” and motivate learners to actually change their behavior. This two-day class reinvents instructional design common wisdom with fresh e-learning examples from real clients using real budgets, focusing on making your instructional design approach better than most who create e-learning. This is not a tools class. The focus is on skillfully meeting instructional design challenges in any industry. This original course of study was development by Michael Allen, creator of Authorware and founder of Allen Interactions, in conjunction with ASTD.
ASTD Member: US $995; Nonmember: US $1,195
Register Online

Facilitating Organizational Change Certificate
May 30-31, 2008
Key roles of the learning professional are to lead, manage, and facilitate change within organizations. This two-day workshop will prepare participants to establish sponsorship for change, help clients clarify expectations, conduct diagnostic assessments, and provide feedback and build support. Through application exercises, case studies, and interactive program modules, participants will learn a comprehensive change model that can be immediately applied to their current situation. The content of this program is based on the ASTD Competency Study and helps in preparation for obtaining the CPLP™ credential.
ASTD Member: US $995; Nonmember: US $1,195
Register Online

Managing Organizational Knowledge Certificate
May 30-31, 2008
Effective knowledge sharing throughout an organization enhances employee performance, fosters innovation, and facilitates the exchange of an organization’s most important commodity—the knowledge of the people who make the difference between success and failure. Managing Knowledge combines the organizational culture, strategic goals, individual needs, and expertise of people to create an atmosphere of learning and growth. So how do organizations transform their current structure and processes to become learning organizations that leverage knowledge management? This workshop covers the essential components of knowledge efforts. The content is based on the ASTD Competency Study and helps in preparation for obtaining the CPLP credential.
ASTD Member: US $995; Nonmember: US $1,195
Register Online

Project Management for Trainers Certificate
May 30-31, 2008
Trainers juggle multiple, complex activities; serve numerous clients with conflicting needs; and operate in a world of changing business requirements. Yet many trainers do not apply a project management approach that could help them be more effective. This workshop will assist trainers in planning, organizing, monitoring, and controlling their workplace learning and performance projects, as well as the costs, as they establish project scope; create schedules; manage change, risks, and resources; and celebrate accomplishments.
ASTD Member: US$995; Nonmember: US$1,195
Register Online

ROI Skill-Building Certificate
May 30-31, 2008
In this two-day certificate program, participants will build the skills needed to develop and deliver effective return-on-investment (ROI) evaluations for learning and performance, organizational development, human resources, technology, change, and quality solutions. The program emphasizes the Phillips ROI Methodology and participants learn to apply the ROI Process Model. Participants are asked to bring a real-time project to enable them to build their skills with an example relevant to their professional responsibilities.
ASTD Member: US$995; Nonmember: US$1,195
Register Online

Test Design and Delivery Certificate
May 30-31, 2008
A customized test can help you determine who should participate in a training program, and if the participants mastered the material presented. Developed by ACT Inc., an international leader in test design and delivery, in conjunction with ASTD, this program provides a comprehensive understanding of how to design and deliver tests that will meet organizational needs and follow professional standards.
ASTD Member: US $995; Nonmember: US $1,195
Register Online