Professional Development Webinars

Join fellow Learning & Development managers to learn how to create and utilize a Learning Blueprint. A Learning Blueprint is a schematic which depicts fulfilling your organization’s strategic learning goals through planned educational programs and offerings. The Blueprint directs all learning events into a training and educational structure that you can customize for your organization. Learn the key aspects of a Learning Blueprint, and how to use one to align your program offerings to your members’ needs and your organization’s strategy.

By the end of this webinar, participants will be able to:

• Describe the purpose and use of a Learning Blueprint for accredited training programs
• Create the elements and features of a Learning Blueprint unique to your organization
• Direct the actions of training professionals through application of the Learning Blueprint

Transfer of training--which is sometimes called transfer of learning--is the process of ensuring that off-the-job training translates into on-the-job behavioral change (near transfer). However, it is more difficult to measure the indirect effects, such as intuitive flash of insight about a new idea (far transfer). This webinar will differentiate near and far transfer of learning; describe ways to design virtual training that ensures both near and far transfer of learning; and explore ways to spark innovation in the virtual learner.

By the end of this webinar, participants will be able to:

• Define and provide examples of near transfer and far transfer of training/learning
• Describe typical ways of designing virtual training and how they may be adapted to ensure both near and far transfer
• Exploring new ways to initiate far transfer and thereby sparking innovation by training/talent development efforts
• Examine how near and far transfer of virtual learning can be measured