Speaker

Bob Pike has well-earned his reputation as “the trainer’s trainer.” He has been training since 1969, and is the pioneer of Creative Training Techniques Newsletter. Bob is currently founder and Chairman of the Bob Pike Group, and serves on the Board of Directors for both the National Speakers Association and the International Alliance of Learning. Bob still personally leads over 150 days of training & keynote addresses a year, covering a wide range of topics, including his specialty—best practices for trainers. Over the years he has shared his messages with over 100,000 people around the world. An outstanding speaker, Bob has presented at regional and national ASTD and other training conferences. He has earned his Certified Speaking Professional (CSP) and Council of Peers Award of Excellence (CPAE). In 1999 he was inducted into the Speakers Hall of Fame.

Agenda

8:00 AM—Registration and Doors Open

Continental Breakfast will be available.

8:30 AM—Morning Session

20 Best Ideas for Designing and Delivering High Impact Training That Gets Results Every Time!

Since 1969 Bob Pike has designed and delivered over 600 training programs of one day or longer. In this session Bob will reveal the top ten ideas for both design and delivery and his top ten classroom training strategies. Included will be:

• Getting to the C.O.R.E. of Training: Powerful Closers, Openers, Revisit Techniques and Energizers—Including three tests for effective openers, three tests of an effective close, and templates to customize your own powerful openers and closers.
• High Impact Materials: The right types of handouts can be combined to create workbooks that are used during class – and continue to be resources afterwards. Bob’s handouts will model them all and additional examples will be available in his appendix.
• Top Ten Classroom Strategies: Throughout the morning Bob will model these top strategies, and at the end of the session he’ll pull back the curtain, and allow you backstage to see the classroom strategies that he used.

The morning will be full of practical ideas you can start using immediately!

11:45 AM—Lunch “Keynote” Session

Win the Talent Management War

Managers are hired for their technical and functional skills. Most often they are fired for their lack of people skills. Seven out of ten people don’t quit companies—they quit bosses. When performance is the question, training isn’t your first answer—it’s your sixth answer. And yet, getting others to understand that is often half the battle.

In this fast-paced session Bob will identify the other five steps to improve performance and his top secret weapons to insure that you develop and keep great managers—and great people.

1:30 PM—Afternoon Session

Motivating Adults and Transferring Training

How do you make sure people use what they learned?

In this highly-interactive session, you will explore practical techniques and strategies to use before, during and after your training programs to help participants feel good about the learning process while getting results that make a difference on the job. The workshop addresses:

• Five ways to kill the motivation of over eager learners
• Eleven ways to create a positive motivational environment in the classroom
• The three people who have the most impact on transfer of training
• Twenty seven strategies that can be applied before, during, and after the training to insure that training transfers.

4:30 PM—Closing Remarks

Want even more time with Bob Pike? Additional networking opportunity and special “Evening Dialogue” with Bob Pike at the Mid-Michigan ASTD Chapter meeting, 6:00–8:00 PM on Monday, September 22. Bob will present additional strategies and techniques, including answering “burning questions” from his top-notch audience of professional trainers and education experts.

When

Tuesday, September 23, 2008 8:00 AM – 4:00 PM

Where

Lansing Center
333 E. Michigan Avenue
Lansing, Michigan 48933
(517) 483-7400

Fee

• Full Day Registration: $239.00 for a limited time ($289.00 original price)
• Morning Session (includes Lunch session): $169.00 for a limited time ($189.00 original price)
• Lunch Session: $25.00 for a limited time ($35.00 original price)
• Afternoon Session (includes Lunch Session): $169.00 for a limited time ($189.00 original price)

Bob has developed and implemented training programs for business, industry, government, and the professions since 1969. As founder and Chairman of The Bob Pike Group and Creative Training Techniques Press, Bob leads sessions over 150 days per year covering topics of leadership, attitudes, motivation, communication, decision-making, problem-solving, personal and organizational effectiveness, conflict management, team building and managerial productivity. More than 75,000 trainers have attended the Creative Training Techniques™ workshop.

An outstanding speaker, Bob has presented at regional and national ASTD and Training Conferences to crowds ranging from 300–1,100 people. In 2007, he was voted one of the 20 most influential training professionals by Training Industry and received ISA’s prestigious Thought Leader Award.

“We are so excited to have Bob present at our fall kick-off program. Bob is such a dynamic presenter and his presentations will appeal to the brand new trainer or the seasoned veteran trainer” says Mid Michigan ASTD President Debbie Myrand.

More information to follow as plans are finalized.

The ASTD Mid Michigan Chapter achieved 100% CORE (Chapter Operating REquirements) for 2006

This informal session brought together good food, friendship, shared discussion on needs, community activities, programs, and more. Several existing members and board representatives attended, and we even met one of our newest members that joined the chapter, Ann Andrews.

Please mark your calendars for this every other month event. No registration is required! It’s easy! Come as you are and bring your appetite for discussion and breakfast.

More information…

Prior to coming to Dart five years ago, Lori was responsible for leadership and employee training at Foote Health System in Jackson, MI and prior to that, started a new training department for a large, mid-west uniform rental company headquarted in the Detroit area. Her early work history was with associations in the Lansing area, including as Chief of Physician Education at the Michigan State Medical Society and Executive Director of the Michigan Dental Hygienists Association. With this strong background in the association arena, she has been a member and strong supporter of ASTD, both national and the South Central Michigan Chapter, since early on in her career.

Through her training, Lori specializes in presenting creative and “participant-centered” learning experiences for employees on a variety of topics, including: personal accountability, improved communication skills, diversity/harassment, customer service excellence, and other leadership development topics. In addition to training for Dart, she occasionally trains similar courses for the Michigan State University Human Resource Development department, and plans to branch out this fall by offering some Saturday programs to bring some of her favorite courses to the general public. Some of her favorite classes to teach include a custom-designed course on personal accountability, “Thunderbolt Thinking” (a creative thinking course), “Fish Philosophy” (based on the Seattle-based, Pike’s Place Fish Market), “Feedback Fundamentals”, and Mindmapping. Her most difficult course? She says, “It has to be either conducting the “Fish Philoso phy” course to a group of nurses on a bus-ride to Chicago so that they could get CE credit for their trip, or the time I had to teach creative thinking skills to a room full of Engineers!”

Lori’s educational background includes a Bachelors of Science (B.S.) in Management and Marketing from Northern Michigan University. In 2004 she earned a Masters in Adult Education/online-learning (M.A.E.D.) from the University of Phoenix. She loves to read and considers herself blessed to have a career where she gets paid to continually read and learn new information.

Lori is the single parent of three “twenty-something” young adults, 2 daughters and a son. They are all living out of the house (for the moment anyway!) and in college or graduate school in East Lansing, Lexington, and Boston. She is active in the Lansing Area Emmaus community and her local church, working to develop strong Christian leaders. She has also served as a volunteer, on-call advocate for a local domestic violence project. She says that her most far-reaching leadership role was when she led a group of high school students on a work project in a Russian orphanage during the summer of 1997. This summer she plans to repeat that experience when she travels to Romania with an adult group to do volunteer work in orphanages, children’s hospitals, and gypsy camps. She loves to travel and has also recently been to the Grand Caymans, England, Australia and various places around the U.S.

Use our chapter code (CH5093) when you buy ASTD products and services from National ASTD (such as: books, National conferences, HPI or ROI courses, and new or renewal memberships) to benefit the chapter. Not a Local or National ASTD member? That’s OK, you can still use the chapter code.

Sue has been a national member of the American Society for Training and Development since 1982, and served in numerous leadership roles at regional and national levels. She is a Past President of Mid Michigan Chapter, has also served as Treasurer, Board Member at Large, and chaired the Chapter’s 25th anniversary celebration. Sue is responsible for bringing the ASTD Human Performance Improvement Certificate program to LCC and the mid Michigan area.

Sue is a member of the International Society for Performance Improvement (ISPI) and has earned the designation of Certified Performance Technologist (CPT) from that organization. She is certified to administer the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, AchieveGlobal, PRISM/CLS Team Achievement and Quality Improvement training materials, and is certified as a Master Trainer for Development Dimensions International (DDI).

Sue is an alumna of Michigan State University, where she did both graduate and undergraduate work in education and counseling.