LEVERAGING LEARNING IN A

DOWN ECONOMY

OVERVIEW

Is your workforce able to do more with less?  Are you positioned to grab market share while your competition struggles?  Are you ready to ramp up quickly when the economy picks up?  

Leveraging Learning in a Down Economy is a dynamic one-day workshop that will give you proven strategies and tactics to address each of these challenges.  This workshop presents Learning Paths Methodology as the best way to leverage learning in your organization.  You will learn how to:

• Turn employee development  into a competitive advantage
• Get higher productivity and quality from current employees
• Implement process changes and operational improvements faster and more effectively
• Quickly get employees fully productive when roles expand or change
• Capture and transfer best practices before they are  lost or leave
• Drive out time, waste, variability and cost from training
• Identify and close proficiency gaps in record time
• Use your onboarding process as a key recruiting and retention tool
• Dramatically cut the time it takes your salespeople to become fully productive in their roles

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN

Proven through extensive use at GE and other leading companies, the Learning Path Methodology has been successful applied to more than 400 function and 30,000 employees in seven countries to drive down time to proficiency by more than 30%.  The heart of the Learning Path methodology is to create a detailed proficiency definition for all critical jobs.  In this workshop we will be discussing how to use a proficiency definition to:

• Determine who is 100% proficient
• Define proficiency gaps that need to be closed
• Identify parts of the job that don't need to be done
• Assign parts of jobs to others
• Focus on results rather than long term development

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

• Senior Management
• HR Executives
• Sales Executives
• CFOs and CLOs
• Operations Managers

PRESENTERS

Steve Rosenbaum is President and founder of Learning Paths International. He is the author of five books including Learning Paths: Increase profits by reducing the time it takes to get employees up-to-speed (Pfeiffer 2004). Steve designed and developed training for major corporations such as DuPont, Disney, IBM, Apple, GE, and Carlson Companies.

Ira Kasdan is President of Performance Builders, a performance consulting group.  In the past 25 years, he has created and implemented organizational development and performance improvement solutions for more than 70 major corporations and over 400,000 participants. Clients include: IBM, Forrester  Research, 3Com, Motorola, Symantec, TRX, GE, Caterpillar, Qualcom, Microsoft Great Plains, US Bank, BCD Travel, and American Express

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