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• CFT registration

  • Start
    17 Nov 2020
  • End
    17 Nov 2025
  • Location
    virtual

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  CFT

  

  Certified Facilitator

   of Training

  This link is for professionals who want to apply for this performance-based certification including those who deliver curricula for the International Facility Management Association (IFMA).  You will receive instructions for submitting your application.  

  Once certified you will receive a digital mark.  Please contact Judy@HaleCenter.org if you have questions

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• Consulting: Fundamentals of Performance Improvement Consulting

  • Start
    06 Oct 2021
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    12:00 PM
  • End
    13 Oct 2021
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    4:30 PM
  • Location
    Two days; Virtual or onsite in Chicago
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    17

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   Fundamentals of Performance Improvement Consulting

  Two Wednesday afternoons;  Oct 6 & 13; 12:00 - 4:30 pm Central;

  live and virtual 
  

  Description: This practicum-based program introduces the basic concepts of human performance improvement. The concepts are documented in the Performance Consultant’s Field Book: Tools and Techniques for Improving People and Organizations, 2nd edition (Jossey Bass, 2007). Attendees will receive a digital workbook containing the slides and a Toolkit with job aids, templates, and guidelines.   A certificate of completion will also be provided.
  
  Details: The workshop describes the work required for systemic analysis, intervention design, sustaining change, and measuring results.  It builds capacity in two interdependent processes: performance improvement and the change management and consultative processes. 

  Who is this program for? The program is for internal and external consultants - trainers, coaches, training managers, and managers who want to strengthen their capacity in performance improvement consulting.
  

  What will be covered? Human Performance Improvement Process
  

  • How to leverage the client’s information and why
    
  • How to uncover issues quickly
    
  • How to avoid the simple solution
    
  • How to put together a menu of solutions
    
  • How to get important metrics quickly
    
  • How to tell the story of what you did and the impact of your work
    
  • How to demonstrate the value of your work
    
  • How to build sustainability into your recommendations

  Consultative Process
  

  • What consulting involves
    
  • What distinguishes performance consulting from other types of consulting (OD, Quality, HRD, etc.)
    
  • What is the role of the performance consultant - Experts v Facilitator
    
  • How to influence others’ behavior and decisions
    
  • How to manage the politics

  Case studies are used to demonstrate the principles and rules.
  There are practices, polling, key research provided throughout.
  
  Why should you attend? You will learn to:
  

  1. Respond to questions about what you do and what performance consulting is
  2. Leverage the information your client already uses and trusts
  3. Uncover quickly the factors that contribute to poor performance and miss opportunities
  4. Engage clients so they own the problem and the solution
  5. Present information so clients understand the relationship between what they do, the problem, the recommended solution, and the consequences
  6. Avoid the “silver bullet” syndrome
  7. Avoid the “paralysis by analysis” trap
  8. Overcome “there’s no money to evaluate” challenge
  9. Stay above the political fray
  10. Be associated with the positive side of consulting - “practical” “proven” “gets things done"

  Fee - $595;  ISPI members - $555;  Hale Center Professional Members - $495

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• THRIVE! Start Your Own Consulting Practice

  • Start
    11 Oct 2021
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    4:30 PM
  • End
    25 Oct 2021
  •  
    8:30 PM
  • Location
    Online
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    19

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  THRIVE! Start Your Own Consulting Practice 

  This 12-hour online workshop is delivered in three 4-hour segments scheduled on Mondays between 4:30 and 8:30 PM central time starting Oct 11^th.   The workshop is for new entrepreneurs, freelancers, and independent contractors wanting to start or strengthen their own practice.  The benefits to you are:

  • Confidence in your value proposition
  • A proven road map to avoid time and money wasters
  • Comfort knowing you have your bases covered
  • Access to knowledgeable and proven mentors
  • CEUs and PDUs for your CPT and PMP

  The goals of the program are to help you in your journey into the Gig Economy by learning how to:

  • Stand out from your competition
  • Add value
  • Get a competitive edge
  • Better manage your business practices
  • Build your administrative processes
  • Create a support network

  What will you gain from this experience?
  

  1. You’ll learn how to define your services in ways that distinguish you in the marketplace.
  2. You will find out how to build a workable and effective marketing plan that includes your messages and distribution channels.   
  3. You will gain tips and techniques for negotiating contracts, defining your terms, and pricing your services.
  4. You will learn how insurance and contracts work; how to make smart use of brokers and lawyers.
  5. You will receive a digital Toolkit that includes job aids, rules, and worksheets to guide you in your journey.

  How the program works

  The program starts with a virtual overview to give you a taste of the Gig Economy.   Next is a 12-hour virtual workshop delivered in three 4-hour segments with the option of a series of personal coaching sessions.   The sessions are scheduled from 4:30 PM to 8:30 PM central time.

  $495; $395 for ISPI Members; $355 for Hale Center Members

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• 2nd Symposium on the Economics of Ignorance

  • When
    30 Nov 2021
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    2:00 AM - 5:00 PM
  • Location
    Virtual

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  2^nd Symposium on the Economics of Ignorance

  

  

  November 30th

  Information Brings Hope

  
  

  
  

                                                              

  
  

  Why a Symposium on Ignorance?

  How does ignorance of climate change, poverty, education, inclusion, healthcare, and other global challenges impact us as professionals in learning and development, talent development, and credentialing?  The focus of the Symposium is on these macro level trends and how they are affecting the education, training, credentialing, and talent practices of our employers and client organizations (government, military, and the private sector).  The value added is to better equip you to get your employers or clients to understand how they should be leveraging you, their training, education, and credentialing assets as part of their strategic reactions to these macro-level trends.  Our position is that failure to do so constitutes not just a missed opportunity but an act of willful ignorance (denial) about what it takes to get our constituents ready to embrace and respond effectively to the macro trends.  We see willful ignorance as often the line of least resistance, which ultimately allows each of the macro trends to turn into existential threats. How can we impact these problems?  Too often we avoid the conversation because of the political implications.  This made sense in the past, but no longer.  Ignoring ignorance is just feeding many of these continuing world-wide issues. 

  We are on the from-lines. We have the greatest opportunity beyond our schools to have a positive effect on how people think and consider the world around them. We also have a responsibility to foster good critical thinking skills and evidence-based practices.  

  This Symposium explores how better rigor in thinking and more accountability among us can change the world for the better.  Each speaker explores a specific global challenge and how we can think about that problem from a multi-disciplinary and critical perspective.  We then will engage in how we can apply what the speaker shared practically to each of your own worlds.

  Who is this Symposium for?

  You, if you want to shape the conversation.  Events over the past two years magnified our global interdependence, the power and threat of technology, the pervasiveness of institutionalized ignorance, and the clout of social media.  We are witnessing a war on science and critical thinking.  Talking about Post-Covid is still a long way off and growth at any cost can no longer be the goal.  We must help others comprehend the social, environmental, and economic forces that are shaping the global marketplace.  But it begins with us, otherwise we will be left out of the conversation.  

  Why parts?
  

  The Symposium occurs over a 18 hour period, but it is in parts to better enable participation by a global audience.  The whole program is virtual and live.  It is also recorded.  All parts will have speakers addressing this year's themes; however, the specific content and speakers will be different.

  Last year's topics were: 

  • Rotary's 4-way test:  Is it true?  Is it fair to all concerned?  Will it build good will and better friendships?  Is it beneficial to all concerned?
  • How technology and social media affect critical thinking
  • How innovation is the new currency
  • How companies establish and maintain a culture of collaboration that fosters innovation. 

  This year's topics & speakers

  • The Erosion of Critical Thinking, Rob Foshay
  • The Institutionalization of Poverty, Mary Kay Wagner
  • China's Emerging Capitalist Model
  • The Cost to the Environment, Even Jahr
  • Undoing Institutionalized Helplessness, Janet Annan
  • Innovation the New Currency, Veronika Shestakova
  • Collaboration - Hope for the future, Judith Hale

  Discounts are available to LDA, ISPI, and Hale Center Professional Members.

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