• WINTER 2020

    InSynch's Designing Virtual Training Certificate
    ​(via ATD)

    Online
    ​December 7, 14, 21, and 28, 2020 and January 4 and 11, 2021
    11:00 am to 1:00 pm ET each day
    Determining how to effectively deliver training in the virtual environment should be a proactive, intentionally planned effort.  A common pitfall is assuming training from the physical classroom can be delivered online without modifications. This approach can negatively impact participant engagement, lead to technology challenges, and reduce the effectiveness of the training.

    This course provides grounding in everything you need to know to avoid that pitfall and successfully design virtual, instructor-led training programs that establish learner engagement, incorporate collaborative activities, and enable you to create effective instructional materials.

    Learn more and register.

    Going From Good to Great as a Trainer

    Corporate Conference
    January 12, 2021
    Let’s be honest—as a store manager, you wear many hats and your “sometimes-a-trainer” hat can look like a 10-gallon-hat to fill.  But, excelling as a trainer actually hinges on just a few key actions and honoring proven best practices.  In this session, you will discover simple—yet powerful—strategies to create and deliver meaningful learning events in less time and with less stress. 

    EdTrek's Don't Waste My Time™

    Online
    January 14, 2021
    1:00 to 4:30 pm ET 
    How many meetings have you attended this week? In how many of them were the goals accomplished – or even defined? Meeting frequency has skyrocketed while meeting effectiveness, for many, has plummeted. Going virtual isn't an excuse for poorly planned and executed events. Stand out by leading meetings that inspire, engage, and get results!
       
    Whether you are leading in-person or remote meetings, all meeting members share a common expectation of you: don't waste my time. This learning event won't waste yours and will prepare you to facilitate meetings that inspire, engage, and get results by planning powerful agendas, involving meeting members, managing challenging behaviors and situations, documenting quickly and efficiently, and by integrating EdTrek's Three Guiding Principles    ®.

    Effective meetings have a few expert secrets in common; incorporating the them into your meetings won't be difficult, but will be essential.   

    Enrollment is limited to 16 participants. Registration: $149 per participant.

    InSynch's Facilitating Virtual Training Certificate
    ​(via ATD)

    Online
    ​January 17, 24, February 2, 9, 16, and 23, 2021
    1:00 to 3:00 pm ET each day
    Engage your learners in the virtual classroom!

    Virtual facilitation has been on the rise over the last decade—two thirds of organizations and growing regularly leverage this modality, according to ATD Research. But in today’s remote work environment, virtual facilitation is a core competency for trainers and educators. No matter how skilled you are as an in-person classroom trainer, success in the virtual environment requires unique skills in learner engagement, creating non-traditional interactivity, sensitivity in how to use your voice, and confidence to multitask in a new technical and logistical setting.

    ​Advance your skills in delivering effective and engaging synchronous (live and online) training. Learn techniques to engage your remote participants, and take your online training sessions to the next level.
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    Learn more and register.

    ATD's Coaching Certificate 

    Online
    ​January 28 and 29, 2021
    10:00 am to 6:00 pm ET each day
    Help others develop, take action, and reach their goals.

    Develop successful coaching competencies and skills by applying a comprehensive model to individual, team, and organizational coaching initiatives.
    Learn more and register.
    SPRING 2021

    ATD's Training Design and Delivery Certificate

    Online
    ​March 29 - April 2, 2021
    10:00 am to 6:00 pm ET each day
    Advance your career as a talent development professional with this dual-focused program that combines key knowledge and actions from both the Instructional Design and Training Delivery areas of expertise as defined by the ATD Competency Model.
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    Learn easy-to-implement techniques to design complete training programs aligned with business goals, whether for online experiences or face-to-face.

    Kimberly has written three books on instructional design. In this five-day ATD certificate program, you will work with her and learn the ins and outs of conducting needs assessments and best practices for designing and developing courses as well as how to make them come alive as a facilitator.

    ​​Learn more and register

    Focus On This, Not That

    ATD ​New England Area Conference
    March 26, 2021 
    Needham, Massachusetts
    Looking to shape and advance the performance of individuals?  You need to engage employees, manage performance, and get results! 

    This session will take you through the steps to avoid and fix three common mistakes managers make and set you on the right track for crafting work goals that take employees out of their comfort zones, into their growth zones, without encroaching on their panic zones.
     
    The session’s strategies and activities have been field-tested by thousands of managers who have applied them while attending training with the speaker, and they have been published in the latest Smarter in an Hour series title.  This practical, application-based session will have managers getting results to brag about – in surprisingly little time!    

    Learn more and register!
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    SUMMER 2021
    CHECK BACK....and see what fun we will be up to next!

  • Powerful Strategies for Engaging Virtual Learning

    ​Corporate Conference
    December 2020
    Let’s be clear—converting face-to-face programs into effective virtual learning events requires more than an Internet connection.  But, successfully making the transition hinges on a few key actions and honoring best practices.  In this session, you will discover simple—yet powerful—strategies to create and deliver meaningful online learning events in less time and with less stress. 

    ATD Southeast Asia Summit:
    ​Driving Success in the Digital Workplace

    ​December 2020
    ​Access it (ATD members)

    ​Be the Manager You Always Wanted to Have:
    How to Engage Employees, Manage Performance, and Get Results

    In partnership with Soundview
    ​June 2020
    Being a manager is a job. Being an incredible manager, however, is a choice. In this Soundview Live webinar, Kimberly presented powerful techniques from her book, Focus On This, Not That, to guide leaders toward being the managers they always wanted to have.  

    Same Training, Half the Time:
    Delivering Results for Busy Learners

    ATD Virtual Conference: Building Capabilities and Connections
    ​June 2020
    ​Access it (ATD members)
    ENGAGE with this pre-recorded session!  Yes, you read that right. When this event moved to the virtual space, Kimberly's plans for the session had to be scrapped. With a clean slate and "Devlin Determination" (a family trait) to make this interactive and as collaborative as in the past (see below), she got to work. The program has been redesigned to include four interactive exercises, enable you to share and compare your work to others', access free resources, giveaways, and more.

    Training Design and Delivery Bootcamp

    Dallas, TX
    ​March 2020
    This week of face-to-face collaborative learning was a fast-paced five days focused on advancing the skills of professionals working in employee development.  The program combined key knowledge and actions from both the instructional design and training delivery aspects of the field. 

    ​Participants contributed to the overall learning and walked away with new     techniques to design training programs aligned with business goals and learner needs, as well as feedback on their practical application of the concepts introduced.  They were rock stars!
    This week of face-to-face collaborative learning was a fast-paced five days focused on advancing the skills of professionals working in employee development.  The program combined key knowledge and actions from both the instructional design and training delivery aspects of the field. 

    ​Participants contributed to the overall learning and walked away with new     techniques to design training programs aligned with business goals and learner needs, as well as feedback on their practical application of the concepts introduced.  They were rock stars!

    Microlearning

    Chicago, IL
    ​September 2019
    The learning may have been micro, but the ideas were BIG!

    In this two-day ATD certificate program, learners experienced highly practical learning, were introduced to ATD’s MILE model for microlearning, and left with personally-created microlearning assests in hand and ready to design and develop practical and effective microlearning programs.

    Book Signing

    ATD’s International Conference and Expo - Washington D.C.
    May 2019
    ​This was a thrill!  The bookstore carried four of Kimberly's books and sold out of both in this photo.  It was a fantastic experience making memories...

    Don't Waste My Time

    ​FACC's Summer Conference - St. Augustine, FL
    June 2019
    People don’t like meetings for lots of reasons—they are boring, unproductive, exhausting, and lack structure—bottom line, meetings are often a waste of time.  But, you can run effective meetings every time—if you approach them with forethought. While planning a meeting will take some of your time, not planning your meeting will waste everyone’s time, including yours. The key to success (meetings that inspire, engage, and get results) is in the PLANNER framework.  Including PLANNER’s seven factors transforms a gathering around a conference table or on a call into a collaborative environment in which individuals are inspired, everyone engages, and the team achieves results.  The insights and strategies from this application-based session accelerated everyone's meeting effectiveness quotient, putting them on the fast track to meeting successes!     ​

    Disrupt Your Participants

    ATD’s International Conference and Expo - Washington D.C.
    May 2019 
    Kimberly and four of the best facilitators in the industry pulled back the curtain and shared their top ten secrets for keeping learners engaged and achieving learning transfer. After all, nobody goes to a learning session wanting to be bored. Participants want to be engaged. Desperately. What did we divulge?
    • What makes a learner's brain switch off?
    • What makes a learner's brain switch on?
    • How do the best facilitators go rogue (aka have fun) without losing focus?
    • What are the top secrets to keeping learners engaged when you cannot see them?
    • How do you bring your personality into the virtual classroom?
    • How do you prevent learners from wanting to multitask?

    Same Training, Half The Time

    ​ATD’s International Conference and Expo - Washington D.C.
    May 2019
    Can 10 pounds of training fit into a 5-pound bag? Impossible, right? Especially when time is tight and expectations are high. Yet, in today's time-constrained workplace, organizations must develop their workforce faster and faster to compete and achieve business results. No one got left holding the bag! Instead, they discovered expert designer, SME, and trainer strategies essential to designing, developing, and delivering better training in half the time. To meet the same training, half the time conundrum, we focused on:
    • Shifting stakeholders’ preoccupation with “content” to a focus on results.
    • Moving from ‘pushing information’ to developing competence.
    • Constructing experiences that build on learners’ existing skills and knowledge.
    • Creating engagement by easing learners’ pain points and actively involving them.
    • Converting content-heavy discussions into relevant hands-on exercises.
    Because you can have better training in half the time!