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Training Directors' Forum 2005 offers four comprehensive certificate programs. These integrated courses of study are conducted by the industry's top experts and provide you with the theories, best practices and applications you need to become (and remain!) a top performer in your field. In the end, you'll not only walk away with a certificate, you'll also jumpstart your career and enhance your professional know-how. Each specially priced certificate package includes a full-conference and associated workshop registration - save up to $390 when you register for a certificate program.
Performance Consulting Certificate
 Effective performance consulting
requires an intuitive grasp of the needs at hand, a knowledge of which solutions will best address those needs, a mastery of the tools and techniques it takes to implement them and an ability to rally people around the solution - from trainees and line managers all the way to the executive suite. This certificate program - led by Harold Stolovitch, author of Telling Ain't Training and Training Ain't Performance, and Jim Robinson, co-author of Strategic Business Partner: Aligning People Strategies with Business Goals - is intended for independent
and staff performance consultants (and for those interested in joining their ranks) and examines all of the factors that play a part in successful performance consulting. Certificate registration includes:
- Two-Day Pre-Conference Workshop P1: Introduction to Performance Consulting
- 101: Human Performance Improvement (HPI): Research and Theory to Practice
- 402: GAP ZAPPING: Performance Consulting Made Simple
- 601: Designing Learning and HR Functions to be Business and Performance Linked
- Half-Day Post-Conference Workshop A1: Engaging Managers in Performance Consulting Initiatives
ROI Methodology Certificate
 The ROI evaluation process developed by Jack Phillips represents one of the most effective ways to show the contribution of training. With Jack Phillips and Patricia Phillips of the ROI Institute, you'll learn to build skills in collecting evaluation data, monitor program costs and analyze and calculate the ROI. Select a program to evaluate and, if available, bring a sample evaluation report used to communicate program results to senior management. To achieve certification in ROI methodology, you must attend all ROI sessions and implement the process in your work environment. Certificate registration includes:
- Two-Day Pre-Conference Workshop P2: Measuring the ROI of Training and Performance Improvement
Programs
- 102: Show Me the Money! Moving from Impact to ROI
- 602: ROI Forecasting: Justifying Projects Before Implementation
- 701: Making It Work: Implementing ROI in Your Organization
- Half-Day Post-Conference Workshop A2: Planning Your ROI Evaluation
Certificate participants will receive copy of three ROI books by the Phillips, including The Bottom Line on ROI.
Online Learning Manager Certificate
If you play a part in making strategic and tactical decisions concerning your organization's development of e-learning, the Online Learning Manager Certificate is for you. Led by William Horton ? the renowned author of Leading E-learning, Evaluating E-learning, Using E-learning and Designing Web-Based Training ? this certificate
program delves into the intricacies of what it takes to manage e-learning effectively from start to finish, including designing a plan, aligning learning objectives with business goals, navigating purchasing decisions, selling your program to others, evaluation and more. Certificate registration includes:
- Two-Day Pre-Conference Workshop P3: Managing the Move to Online Learning
- 201: Winning Management support for your E-learning Initiative
- 401: Best Practices E-learning Design
- 603: Standards, Objects and Reuse
- Half-Day Post-Conference Workshop A3: E-learning Tools and Technologies
Strategic Planning Certificate
Develop a strategic plan for your training and performance improvement organization. Saul Carliner, author of Advanced Web-Based Training, Designing e-Learning and An Overview of Online Learning will introduce you to the issues that a plan should address, such as technology infrastructure, e-learning, departmental business models, economic conditions and planned introduction of change. Certificate registration includes:
- Two-Day Pre-Conference Workshop P4: Strategic Planning for Training and Performance Improvement Departments
- 202: Strategic Trends: An Analysis of Six Years of the TDF Annual Survey and Other Research in the Management of Training and Performance Improvement Groups
- 501: Strategic Thinking for Training Directors: An Insider's Perspective
- 702: Moving Forward: Roundtable Discussions on Handling Strategic Challenges in Training Departments
- Half-Day Post-Conference Workshop A4: Implementing Strategy for Training and Performance Improvement Groups
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