Portland Program
June 14, 2005

Telling Ain't Training and Training Ain't Performance
One Day Event with
Harold Stolovich, Author of ASTD's Best Selling Books:  Telling Ain't Training and Training Ain't Performance

Based on ASTD’s award winning books of the same titles, this one-day event offers an experiential approach to transforming “telling” into activities that result in long-term retention, behavior change and performance. Despite the irreverent title, this one-day event tackles universal and persistent questions: How do learners learn? Why do learners learn? How do you make sure that learning sticks? How does learning translate into performance?

The Telling Ain’t Training and Training Ain’t Performance one-day event shows you interactive, practical techniques that can be implemented immediately to improve your training programs. You'll come away with solid answers, backed by research and real-world experience, presented by one of ASTD’s best-selling authors and learning and performance expert, Harold Stolovich.

Telling Ain't Training

We derive our most valuable lessons from what we experience, not from what we are told. This session takes a light-hearted, experiential approach to transforming telling (a waste of time) into activities that result in long-term retention and behavior change. Through a series of hands-on exercises, participants will not only have fun learning, but will also acquire some research based principles for building retention and improved performance.

Session Objectives:

• State and apply six principles for transforming the dreaded info-dump into worthwhile learning.
• Apply four cognitive strategies to improve information retrieval.
• Name six universals from learning research which strongly increase the probability of learning.

Training Ain’t Performance

They learned it, so why aren't they producing the results?" This session opens with a real-world case that 
sets the stage for discriminating between training and performance. It provides you with models, tools and examples for handling training requests from a "performance" perspective. You get to practice performance consulting, analytic skills on real-world projects in small groups with guidance and coaching. You also receive a comprehensive reference manual complete with job aids to support you in your next project.
This workshop is particularly useful for those who are faced with training requests and have little or no formal training in playing a performance consulting role with their internal or external clients.

Overall Objective

Analyze and document a request for training or performance support from a performance perspective and prescribe suitable interventions.

Session Objectives

• Define "performance."
• Identify six key factors that affect workplace performance.
• Complete and document a front-end analysis using a set of job aids.

Speaker

Harold Stolovich, PhD, CPT

Harold has been a teacher, trainer, researcher and consultant for over 40 years. Harold has authored more than 200 publications on various aspects of instructional and performance technology and produced countless training materials, games, simulations and other interactive activities. He is Emeritus Professor of Instructional and Performance Technology, Université de Montréal and Clinical Professor of Human Performance at Work, University of Southern California. He is a consultant to business, government, the military and the police. Harold is a Past President of ISPI, former editor of Performance Improvement Journal, editorial board member of several professional journals, co-editor of both award-winning editions of the Handbook of Human Performance Technology and co-author of the award-winning, bestseller Telling Ain't Training. He is co-editor and author of the new Wiley/Pfeiffer Learning & Performance Toolkit Series. His latest book, Training Ain’t Performance, published by ASTD, was released in May 2004.

He received the 2001 ISPI Distinguished Professional Achievement award and has won numerous other awards for his contributions to the field including ISPI's highest award, Member for Life. He was given the 2003 President’s Award for Lifetime Achievements from the Canadian Society for Training and Development, their highest honor. In May 2004, he and his team won the ASTD Outstanding Research Award for their work on Incentives, Motivation and Workplace Performance. Harold is a frequent keynote speaker and presenter for major companies and professional associations.

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