ATD Houston 2022 Talent Development Conference and Expo

Our keynote panel is an elite collection of executives from a variety of industries. They are excited to share their insights about factors currently impacting their organizations and their industries, as well as emerging trends and which areas of talent development will be impacted most. They will shed light on how they led their organizations through the unprecedented challenges of the pandemic.

In this hands-on workshop:

• Attendees will discuss the methodology and lessons learned from implementing a VR lesson to replace simulator training for bus operator training at Houston Metro.
• Attendees will receive, discuss, and complete a draft checklist and guideline to support the implementation of a VR training project within their own company.
• Attendees will discuss questions, concerns, and challenges with the speakers and each other regards implementing a VR training lesson.

How does this topic relate to the conference theme, Reinvent?
The session relates because the session is focused on reinventing an aspect of a training program, specifically moving from using a one-person simulator, to allowing multiple learners to experience an immersive lesson at the same time. This session will inspire the attendees to think about where they can reinvent aspects of their training to be more safe, effective, and engaging for their audience, using VR technology.

In this workshop, attendees will learn the importance of reinventing their learning operations and receive practical, hands-on learning on how to do so. Topics covered during the workshop will include:

• Strategy (Corporate Objectives & Skills Requirements)
• Business Partnerships (Learning Partners & Effective Methods for Intake)
• Project Planning (Managing Cross-Team Collaboration and Tracking Data)
• Team Capacity (Workforce Intelligence & Prioritization)
• Content Design (7 Design Principles)
• Data Analytics (Telling Impact Stories) 

How does this topic relate to the conference theme, Reinvent?
If you don’t have operations under control, you aren’t running or participating in an efficient and effective L&D department. We will teach participants best practices on reinventing L&D Operations and how to look at processes more holistically to ensure learning teams are data-driven and process-oriented to work more efficiently and effectively.

The competition to advance in the leadership pipeline within an organization is intense. And research has revealed that the small group of people who have mastered this one challenge is amongst the elite who reaps a significant benefit – career advancement. Are you amongst this 10 – 15% elite group?

Join us as we uncover an often ignored asset that inspires personal change that leads to increased confidence, courage, credibility, trust, and connections – setting the stage for thriving careers. It will ultimately ignite your breakthrough and enable you to hold space from a position of strength.

How does this topic relate to the conference theme, Reinvent?
It will provide each participant with insightful information that invites an authentic look at one’s professional persona. With a fresh perspective, participants can discern whether or not behaviors are serving them well in light of their career aspirations and identify the opportunities for an intentional shift that empowers career advancement.

In this workshop:

• Identify the characteristics of graphics that engage learners
•  Describe how to adopt broadcast graphics for learning
•  Understand the utility and production of four types of graphics: infographics, lower thirds, transitions, and loopable backgrounds

How does this topic relate to the conference theme, Reinvent?
Many in instructional design mistakenly think that visual design is about making content pretty-- it's not.  Good design enhances the meaning of instruction, creates credibility, and engages learners.  However, visual design is often ignored by instructional designers.

This session encourages participants to Reinvent visual design within the industry-- and make it a primary factor. Learners are not comparing learning media to other learning experiences-- they compare it to other media. YouTube, Netflix, and video games are the comparison points.

This session makes the point that engaging visual design is one of the paths that, if adopted, will allow us to reinvent online instruction and compete with other media.

In this workshop:

• Help the workshop members/audience understand the new expectations of today's workforce.
• Provide insights and ideas on how to better appreciate the needs of the organizations they work with/support to drive business outcomes.

How does this topic relate to the conference theme, Reinvent?
The entire session is applicable to all 3 focus areas. By focusing on skills as a currency you connect with the individual, and the organization and build resiliency for the future.

• Learn distinctions of Mindsets and the Mindset Continuum
•  Identify where you fall across the various categories of the Mindset Continuum
• Design and Commit to three (3) actions to leverage your mindset to support the process of reinventing yourself

By attending this session, participants will enhance the following PERSONAL Capabilities:

• Emotional Intelligence and Decision-Making – shifting mindset supports developing the skill of identifying personal biases that influence one’s own cognition and behavior
• Lifelong Learning – mindset influences one’s desire to learn, which can lead to the expansion and development of knowledge and skills over time

How does this topic relate to the conference theme, Reinvent?
One definition of the word reinvent is “change something so much that it appears to be entirely new.” The process of reinvention may include, among other things, practicing self-reflection, being honest with and believing in oneself, asking for support, learning new things, considering different options, and seeing possibilities. These occur on the foundation of self-understanding and self-awareness, which is greatly influenced and impacted by the mindset one brings to the process. So Mindset is an essential component of Reinventing Oneself.

To help companies implement a successful internal training/communications podcast as an innovative and cost-effective means to communicate.

• Introduce the basics of podcasting
• Explain the benefits of using podcasts for training
• Present case studies of successful internal podcasting programs
• How to distribute a podcast internally
• Tips for creating interesting and engaging podcasts
• Outline the steps for planning and producing a successful internal podcast
• Offer tips for promoting your podcast
• Discuss ways to measure the effectiveness of a podcasting program
• Answer questions about podcasting for training

How does this topic relate to the conference theme, Reinvent?
Using technology and innovation in simple, cost-effective ways.

Learning measurement involves a variety of factors from basic items like quality of design and delivery all the way to financial cost/benefit.  In order to have a complete view on the key learning measurement elements one must start with a solid impact process map.  This session will present a complete impact process map designed by and for learning professionals.  It will review not only basic measurement needs like quality of learning but differentiate between a business outcome (ex. sales) and a talent outcome (ex. culture) and offer clear and simple methods to collect and report on these measurement items.

In this session you will learn the following objectives:

• Introduce a learning impact process map.
• Learn how to apply the process map to build your measurement strategy. 
• Review how to connect the process map to data collection and reporting

How does this topic relate to the conference theme, Reinvent?
It is 100% on topic as it is about reinventing learning measurement, in fact when we created the impact map with L&D practitioners that was the spirit of the work, to reinvent learning measurement.

There is a lot of confusion in the market about what is coaching and how it works, many professionals have called themselves Coaches without studying or applying real coaching techniques. Come to this session to get total clarity about what coaching is, how it works and how you can immediately apply it to reinvent yourself and others.

How does this topic relate to the conference theme, Reinvent?
Coaching methodologies are one of the most powerful techniques to reinvent ourselves and others. The purpose of coaching is to generate a better version of ourselves transforming lives and results. With the formula goal – plan – execution, participants will take away practical tools to start reinventing.

Join in our afternoon ice cream social from 2 pm – 2:30 pm and mingle with the Memorial Hermann service dogs at Memorial City.

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• Support young professionals and employees in managing and influencing up with high impact
• Facilitate ways to train employees in adapting communication styles and orientation to the leaders they desire to influence
• Explore ways to coach employees to influence leaders by relating back to the "big picture" and organizational strategic initiatives

How does this topic relate to the conference theme, Reinvent?
With the demand for top talent, Learning and Development professionals need to reinvent training and coaching programs to fast track young professionals and high potentials into leadership. A crucial first step is facilitating effective communication and influencing skills in managing up for these employees. Through understanding the perspectives and priorities of their leaders and practicing effective communication, these young professionals simultaneously learn to think like the leaders they are becoming.

In a recent Bersin by Deloitte report, it was stated that 80% of CEOs believe upskilling is their most pressing challenge. This means retraining and upskilling continue to be critical to the modern workforce. This said - large workloads, packed schedules, and a dispersed employee base impose a barrier to providing the learning needed to address the upskilling needs of a modern workforce. For learning professionals, this means delivering reinforcement programs produced in scheduled, manageable bites. Thus, giving people a chance to apply lessons, wherever they may be in a hybrid workplace.

This session will help you learn the first steps on how to plan and organize curriculum into spaced and dripped learning reinforcement lessons. All by using a framework that can be easily replicated once back in the workplace. This immersive program will allow for creating conversational and engaging content to support your performance development efforts. Using a given scenario, and through several exercises, you will leave this session with new content and tool ideas to design, prototype, and build drip content that has real impact.

This session will break down into four phases.
1.    Phase one: Determine if you are addressing the right problem.
2.    Phase two: Map conversational content to help achieve a learning outcome.
3.    Phase three: Determine which delivery tools will give drip-feeding efforts the best chance for success.

Lastly, we will review examples of how to apply drip feeds to any organization. The amazing part will be the understanding that creating conversational design using bots, blogs, and email can be fun, and impactful. Therefore, demonstrating the combined value of spaced and self-directed dripped microlearning content.

How does this topic relate to the conference theme, Reinvent?
Using drip-feed learning reinvents the way L&D can use learning reinforcement to apply spaced learning techniques without causing workplace disruption. By providing spaced learning through dripped applications, we give knowledge a greater chance of sticking and give the people a better chance of knowledge application. This in turn adds greater value to all L&D initiatives. By doing so we create a win-win for the people and the business.

​In today's professional environment, having an online presence is a necessity. In this workshop, you’ll explore the components of a successful personal brand online and determine your goals in building a personal brand. You'll be able to identify your target audience, who they are, and how to communicate effectively and purposefully to build credibility and authority for your personal brand.

In this workshop:

• Define personal brand identity and develop a branding statement. 
• Define SMART goals. 
• Decide which channels fit best for personal branding: social media; blog; podcast; etc. Define a consistent process for amplifying your personal brand.
• Review and measure.

How does this topic relate to the conference theme, Reinvent?
Personal branding is an integral part of a professional's career journey. With many people rethinking their professional choices after the pandemic, focusing on and reinventing their personal brand is important and necessary. This workshop will help talent development professionals amplify their personal brand digitally, in order to prepare them for their next career shift.

Gain practical insights on how to maximize and target resources to develop a skilled workforce aligned to business needs. In this keynote, Taylor Blake will share his 7 Key Opportunities to Accelerate Talent Development.

Learn how to:
•    Fulfill the skill needs of your employees, company, and CEO
•    Optimize resources for upskilling every employee via internal talent academies
•    Give more of your employee's access to deep, intensive programs
•    Put new skills into practice sooner
•    Meet shifting skill demands quicker, and more effectively

Please RSVP:
https://tdhouston.org/event-4979744
Sponsored by: TiER1 Performance, an ATD Houston Silver sponsor

All conference attendees are invited to attend the Conference Reception immediately after the conference at The Rouxpour located at Memorial City Mall, #604 (located just three blocks away from the conference site, next to Maggiano's Restaurant).

Light hors d’oeuvres and beverages will be provided. Come and go from 5-8pm. The reception is intended to allow attendees to mix and mingle and will honor past ATD Houston Chapter Presidents.

Join us to avoid rush hour, network, and have fun!

For registered conference attendees only. RSVP at: 
https://tdhouston.org/event-4970163  

Donations are welcomed at https://www.memorialhermann.org/services/specialties/tirr/about-us/donate

In guided tour in the Memorial Hermann Texas Medical Center, you’ll explore the neurorecovery research center, pediatric unity, therapy gym, and sports court.

TIRR is continually recognized as one of America's Best Hospitals by U.S. News & World Report, TIRR Memorial Hermann is a national leader in medical rehabilitation and research. Some of the world’s leading physicians in rehabilitation medicine provide care at TIRR Memorial Hermann. We offer comprehensive inpatient and outpatient care, as well as a community wellness program, that address the individual needs of each patient who has experienced catastrophic injuries or illnesses. https://memorialhermann.org/services/specialties/tirr

Location: Memorial Hermann Texas Medical Center, Parking Garage: Park in the Sterling Garage, 1400 Ross Sterling Ave. Houston, TX 77030.
What to Wear: No specific attire is required.
What to Bring: Your Camera

For registered conference attendees only. RSVP at: 
https://tdhouston.org/event-4970179
Donations are welcomed at https://memorialhermann.org/foundation/donate

Come learn about Memorial Hermann’s Life Flight program, history, and a legend, Dr. Red Duke. This hour is 1 hour long and includes taking a picture in front of the helicopter! https://memorialhermann.org/services/specialties/trauma/life-flight

Location: Memorial Hermann Texas Medical Center, Parking Garage: Park in the Sterling Garage, 1400 Ross Sterling Ave. Houston, TX 77030.
What to Wear: No specific attire is required.
What to Bring: Your Camera for a group photo in front of the helicopter!