Training on a Shoestring
with Shelly Dodge, Scott Lechert and Jenny Sherman
May 14, 2009

Note:  The Learning Directors' Forum (formerly Senior Forum) is targeted for training and development professionals who have a minimum of 10 years of training and development (or equivalent) experience and are responsible for developing training and development strategy. Director level professionals are also responsible for decision making in their organizations. These programs are designed to offer strategic insight and time for round table interaction with peers.

Overview

Anyone who has read any newspaper lately can see that no matter what the business or profession, everyone is being asked to do much, much more with much, much less. Although learning professionals have faced this situation many times before, today’s environment seems as if it will not be quickly fixed.

This Learning Directors’ Forum will provide insight into how four different companies with four different challenges have confronted this reality. The panel of learning professionals will share their experiences on how they approached “shoestring training” and will discuss the “how to” that you can take back to work and implement immediately no matter what the economy because their solutions are inexpensive but also effective – something that you would want to do no matter what the economic environment.

The panel will include:

1. Angie Cuthill from Standard Insurance. Angie will share an Assessment Center approach to training that is simple, effective and inexpensive.

2. Shelly Dodge from Nike. Shelly will share her experiences with Intercultural Communication & Training

3. Scott Lechert from PacificCorp. Scott will share ways to approach eLearning that are effective and on a shoestring.

4. Jenny Sherman from Portland State University. Jenny will share how she has approached leadership development without a budget.

During their presentation and discussion they will cover:

• learning need/opportunity
• budget situation
• solutions they designed, developed and delivered
• obstacles and pitfalls they encountered
• results of the training
• learnings from the work – what they would do differently, how would they approach things differently, etc.

Alignment with National ASTD Competency Model

9 Focus Areas Areas in BOLD will be addressed in this presentation.

1. Designing Learning 2. Improving Human Performance 3. Delivering Training 4. Measuring and Evaluating 5. Facilitating Organizational Change 6. Managing the Learning Function 7. Coaching 8. Managing Organizational Knowledge 9. Career Planning and Talent Management

Speakers

Shelly Dodge
Nike

Shelly Dodge currently serves as the Product Creation Training Manager for the Global Footwear Operations team at Nike, Inc. She started at Nike in 2007. She has managed the ADIT program for the past 2 years; in addition, she is responsible for designing and implementing training curriculum for Product Development teams based in the U.S. and Asia.

Prior to Nike, Shelly served as a Training Manager in the high-tech industry. She has worked as a Training and Development professional for 10 years. Shelly graduated from the University of Oregon in 1994 with a Bachelors degree in Sociology. In 2002, she earned a Masters degree from Portland State University in Educational Policy, Foundations, and Administrative Studies. Internship experiences included project work with Sandata, Inc. in New York, NY and the Cascade Policy Institute in Portland, OR.

Scott Lechert
PacifiCorp

Scott has been writing, designing and developing online courses for over nine years, primarily in the Portland area. For the last five years, he has worked for PacifiCorp, a power company servicing parts of five Western states and has created online courses addressing many topics, including soft skills, technical skills, safety topics and compliance issues. For most of the past nine years, he has found myself under tight budget constraints and has learned to be very resourceful regardless of those constraints. Scott has also learned that being resourceful does not mean that you sacrifice innovation or exclude new technologies; he has been able to incorporate animation, audio and video in many of his courses regardless of the constraints. Scott will share some of the information and tips that he has gathered over the last nine years from attending conferences, networking and researching on the internet.

Jenny Sherman
Portland State University

Jenny Sherman has over 20 years experience in senior level positions in HR, in industries such as banking, insurance, health care and higher education. She currently works as the Senior Manager, Employee Relations/Training and Development for Portland State University. During her generalist career she has served on several boards, including Northwest EEO, Job Service Employers Committee, Columbia Willamette Compensation Group, Monster Health Care Advisory Board, and Portland Area Cross Industry Survey Committee. She is resourceful and creative, especially in her current role, in delivering quality employee and leader development opportunities on a zero budget basis.

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