Portland Program
May 23, 2006

Interactive Instructional Design:
Maximize Participant Retention, Minimize Design Time
Catherine Mattiske

Discover the simple secrets to leading powerful training sessions with proven results every time from an internationally recognized speaker!

Catherine Mattiske is coming to Portland to lead a one-day workshop that instructional designers, training directors, technical trainers, soft skills and e-learning trainers of all levels will not want to miss.

This workshop will teach you tips, tricks and techniques for writing and creating sensational training courses, including Catherine’s proven, simple, tangible Nine-Step Instructional Design process that has been successfully put to use by Coca-Cola, Blue Cross Blue Shield and Reuters. This process ensures that all of your learners are catered to, while significantly reducing design time and increasing retention.

According to Marguerite Samms, Director of Education Services at MultiCare Health Systems (winner of the 2005 ASTD BEST Award), “Catherine has helped us reduce our instructional design time from 60-80 hours for every hour of learning to 10-20 hours, which we have maintained for 2 years. Catherine was instrumental in helping us get traction right after we centralized education. Most classes provide new skills for people but Catherine builds the skills, provides templates and processes for putting the skills to use, which is where she really adds value. She also surprised us with the amount of pre- and post-course support for no extra charge.”

Applicable lessons includes:

• What Makes Great Instructional Design?
• The Instructional Design Process
• Developing Your Course
• Creating the Opening Phrase
• Making Adult Learners Tick
• Creating the Content Session – the Cycle of Each Topic
• Creating the Major Review and Close
• 25 Ways to Do It Faster and More Effectively
• Putting It All Together

Each participant will prepare and walk away with a personal action plan to take back to their workplace, as well as skills and a fresh perspective on how to:

• Write clear and concise course goals
• Write results-oriented learning objectives using action verbs
• Demonstrate practical use of the Nine-Step Instructional Design model in course development
• Create a smooth-flowing session opening, including the Welcome, Icebreaker, Agenda, Objectives and Connect Activity
• Work with all types of content and create interactive learning sessions with sound adult learning processes
• Design training that will ensure participant interaction
• Write effective review activities and closing phase to all training

Her workshop will fuel you with new ideas and recharge your enthusiasm for course design. Learn how to spice up your training sessions by seeing a master in the industry. Everyone who attends will take home a new perspective, as well as a workable plan in hand. Additionally, by seeing the master in action, you will be able to steal pieces of Catherine’s teaching style to include in your program to push your own training to the next level.

At this price, you cannot afford to miss Catherine Mattiske’s only appearance in the Pacific Northwest this year. Spend a fraction of the money and time it would take you to attend Catherine’s $425 pre-conference session at the ASTD’s International Conference in Dallas, not to mention the fees for the conference ($1000), as well as travel time, hotel accommodations, airfare and meals. By attending this one-day workshop, you will receive Catherine’s same, valuable session at a fraction of the cost ($115 for members, or $150 for non-members who sign up by May 5th), in 8 hours.

Don’t kick yourself later for missing this tremendous opportunity.

Core Competencies in this Program
(based on National ASTD Competency Model for Learning and Performance)

• Designing Learning
• Improving Human Performance
• Measuring and Evaluating
• Managing Organizational Knowledge

Speaker

Catherine Mattiske
President
The Performance Company
Australia

Catherine’s expertise in training is the result of 25 years working with leading professionals in the United States, Australia, Africa, New Zealand and Asia. For the last seven years, Catherine has presented at the ASTD International Conference to a packed house with the highest attendance of any of the pre-conference workshops. And, most importantly, no one leaves her training sessions for fear of missing something vitally important.

Catherine is a witty, inspirational, engrossing speaker who involves her classes in an interactive style. Catherine’s true passion is trainer development and, with over 2,500 days of face-to-face training experience spanning 25 years, she knows how to speak directly to you and your situation.

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