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Conference Program/Sessions
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Certificate
Programs
ASTD Certificate Programs provide
practical content presented by expert practitioners and
time for skill-building with your peers. Enhance your competitive
advantage and advance your professional development. Certificate
program fees are in addition to the conference registration
fees. Advanced registration is recommended, many certificate
programs sell out weeks in advance.
Learn
More about Certificate Programs.
General Sessions
General Sessions are an opportunity
for all conference participants to come together and learn
from notable thought leaders whose work challenges our assumptions
and widens our horizons. Presenters offer insight and inspiration
on a range of topics of interest to participants. General
Sessions are scheduled for Monday and Tuesday from 8:00
a.m. to 9:15 a.m. and Wednesday from 3:00-4:15 p.m.
Learn
More about the General Session Speakers.
Legends Series
As a special feature in San Diego,
we have invited pioneers of the field
of workplace learning and performance to make presentations.
This year's Legends met the following criteria: wide, international
name recognition and stature in the field; enduring impact
and influence; originality of ideas; a career of sustained
currency: work done more than five years ago is currently
discussed, applied, and adapted; a substantive body of published
work; a contribution that raises the visibility, credibility,
and stature of the field.
Learn
More about the Legends Series sessions.
Showcase Speakers
These are speakers whose sessions
were exceptionally popular at the 2007 conference and have
been invited to return and reprise their topics, or offer
new ones, which offer substantive or innovative content
with a positive impact on people and the profession. All of the showcase sessions will be repeated to allow for maximum
participation.
Learn
More about the Showcase Speakers sessions.
View from the
CLO
The View from the CLO series features
leading CLOs from various industries and organizations.
Each will share from his or her experience leading at the
top of the profession. You will hear how they got there
and what they’re doing in their organizations that
make them so valuable.
Learn More about View from the CLO sessions.
Preconference
Workshops
These interactive
programs are offered on
the Saturday prior to the start of the conference and offer a more hands-on approach than the concurrent
education sessions and are an ideal way to develop new skills
or gain new perspectives, while focusing on a topic in-depth.
Learn More about preconference workshops.
Concurrent
Sessions and Tracks
For 2008 the Conference Planning Committee
and ASTD staff combined their collective expertise with
attendee evaluation feedback and results from a survey of
past attendees to develop a comprehensive program of topics
to meet your needs. The Topics listed are in one of nine tracks and mapped to the ASTD Compentency Model Areas of Expertise.
The nine tracks are:
 Career
Planning and Talent Management
Designing
and Delivering Learning
E-learning
Facilitating
Organizational Change
Leadership
and Management Development
Learning
as a Business Strategy
Measurement,
Evaluation, ROI
Performance
Improvement
Personal
& Professional Development
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Learning Approach
This layer is designed to focus
the program at a greater depth within each track. See below
for detailed descriptions of each.
BEST
PRACTICE/AWARD WINNER
Includes topics that have been recognized by an outside
body or been nominated or received an award including
ASTD Award winners.
CASE
STUDY
A Case Study is a first-person
account of a project, initiative, or program from it’s
inception to the end result.
COMPETENCY
MODEL CONTENT
Sessions showing how
organizations are applying the ASTD Competency model in
part or in its entirety.
CORE
TOPIC
Core Topics are those
that are the nuts and bolts of the Workplace Learning
and Performance field. These are the topics that make
up the backbone of the field and speak to the new as well
as the seasoned practitioner who wants a refresher or
has changed roles.
EXPERIENTIAL/INTERACTIVE
LEARNING
These are sessions which substantially depart from the
lecture/presentation model and use creative ways to incorporate
hands-on learning both as a topic and by modeling the
concept being presented in the session.
FUTURE
OUTLOOK/TRENDS
These sessions exemplify the
most advanced thinking about the Workplace Learning and
Performance field and discuss trends in an applied way—that
is, showing how these trends and outlooks will likely
have an effect on those who work in the field.
GLOBAL
PERSPECTIVE/INTERNATIONAL FOCUS
These sessions includes topics which are relevant to attendees
working in multinational organizations as well as international
participants and cite a broad range of examples from countries
and regions around the world.
HOT
TOPICS
Hot Topics are the things that everyone is talking about
now in the Workplace Learning and Performance field. These
are the topics that everyone wants to discuss, learn about,
and figure out ways to apply the information in their
own workplace or to get ahead of the learning curve.
INNOVATION
Session topics highlight an innovation and show how it
can be used by participants in their own workplace. It
may be a new application or new spin on a familiar subject;
or a core topic with a fresh treatment or totally new
ideas which are gaining ground in the field.
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