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• Certified Developer of Training (CDT)

  • Start
    01 Jan 2024
  • End
    31 Dec 2025
  • Location
    virtual

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  Applications open for the Certified Developer of TRaining (CDT)

   

  Do you develop learning solutions, such as  Instructor-led training, asynchronous or synchronous training, simulations, serious games, and the like?  
  

  Intended Audience:   The CDT certification is for professionals who develop training and instructional solutions that are delivered live, in-person, or online and who want to be recognized for their ability to create effective learning events. 

  
  

  To earn this performance-based certification you must demonstrate all 9 standards by 1) answering questions about one of your learning solutions that are supported by client attestations and artifacts, and 2) committing to a Code of Ethics.  The CDT is endorsed by ISPI.   

  
  

  The 9 standards are:

  1.  Address Sustainability 
  2.  Align Solution
  3.  Assess Performance
  4.  Collaborate and Partner with Stakeholders
  5.  Elicit Performance or Practice
  6.  Enhance Retention and Transfer
  7.  Ensure Context Sensitivity 
  8.  Engage Learners
  9.  Ensure Relevance

  Click here to download the Handbook for the complete standards and the scoring rubrics.  The cost is $600 for Hale Center Professional and ISPI members and $725 for others.   Applications are accepted throughout the year.    
  

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

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• Certified Facilitator of Training (CFT)

  • Start
    01 Jan 2024
  • End
    30 Dec 2025
  • Location
    virtual

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  Applications open for the Certified Facilitator of Training

  (CFT)

  
  

  Do you facilitate learning events?   Online?   In person?

  Intended Audience:  The CFT certification is for professionals who facilitate training done online or in person and who want to be recognized for their skill in engaging learners. 

  
  

  This performance-based certification is endorsed by ISPI, Training Magazine, and the International Facility Management Association (IFMA). 

      
  

  
  

  You must submit one or more videos for a maximum of 35 minutes that demonstrate your competence in facilitation and are supported by learner evaluations and client attestations, and commit to a Code of Conduct.  The 4 competencies are:

  1.       The Facilitation Process – Competent Facilitators ask questions that:

  • Promote participation
  • Engage learners equitably
  • Promote reflection
  • Reinforce learning points
  • Clarify participants’ remarks and questions
  • Follow up on participants comments
  • Promote relevant conversation among learners so they process the content
  • Redirect questions to other participants to promote engagement

  2.       The Learning Process – Competent Facilitators:

  • Introduce the purpose, content, participants, and value.
  • Establish the relevance of the content; relate the content to needs and the learner experience.
  • Give examples that illustrate and reinforce the learning objective
  • Guide learners in activities designed to reinforce the objectives 

  3.       The Learning Assessment Process – Competent Facilitators:

  • Elicit examples from learners on how they will apply the content in the workplace
  • Assess comprehension                          

  4.       Professionalism – Competent Facilitators:

  • Demonstrate proficiency in the content and facilitation expertise
  • Respect participants’ opinions and perspectives

  The cost is $600 for Hale Center professional members, ISPI, and IFMA and $725 for others.   Click here to download the Handbook with the standards, requirements, and the scoring checklists.  Register here.  Applications are accepted throughout the year.

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

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• Techniques for Getting Valid Data: Certificate Series

  • Start
    02 Apr 2024
  •  
    3:00 PM
  • End
    14 May 2024
  •  
    4:30 PM
  • Location
    Virtual

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  Techniques for Getting Valid Data: Certificate Series: 

  a 6-Part Mini Series

                  Take one, all, or any combination.

                                        Tuesday's 3:00 pm to 4:15 pm Central Time

                                     4/2 through 5/14

  Intended Audience:  This program is for internal and external consultants wanting to strengthen the data-gathering skills used when conducting job task analyses and needs analyses.  The methods include observing and interviewing individuals and groups at task and in work settings.  You will see real examples, practice some of the methods, and get jobs aids with practical guidelines you can apply to your work.   The Data Gathering series is part of Hale Center's 2024 theme on Consulting and specifically focuses on the technical skills required of consultants.  

  You can take the whole series or just selected topics that are most relevant to your work.   When you complete the series, you receive a certificate in Data Gathering.  

  Topics in the series are:

  1. How to Conduct Observational and Cognitive Interviews and Interpret the Results:  learn how to discover what experts do and think, and why they make the decisions they do ($69*)
  2. How to Conduct Critical-Incident Interviews and Interpret the Results:  find out how to discover what high performers do that sets them apart, why they are better at what they do than others, and how to surface attributes that distinguish exemplar performers from the rest ($59*)
  3. How to Conduct Group Interviews including a Delphi and the Nominal Group Technique (NGT) and Interpret the Results:  find out what differentiates the NGT from the Delphi Technique and the process for conducting focus groups; find out why the NGT is a more effective method for uncovering required knowledge and skills in ways that can be more easily analyzed ($89*)
  4. How to Conduct and Interpret a Sociogram:  learn to use this technique that graphically displays a group's communication patterns, and identifies informal leaders, outcasts, social cliques, and measures group cohesiveness ($79*)
  5. How to Conduct a Modified Flanders' Interaction Analysis and Interpret the Results: learn to use this technique to capture communication patterns between group members, confirm who initiates, responds, passes judgment, acknowledges others' feelings and ideas, and the like.  Use the results to help others communicate more effectively ($69*)
  6. How to Develop Surveys:  learn how to design and develop surveys that validate your findings derived from other methods ($79*)

  * Cost per session for the general public.  Discounts are available to ISPI and Hale Center Professional Members.  If you want to register for specific topics only, please contact Judy@HaleCenter.org and she will complete your registration.  Also one paid registration for the series allows up to 12 people in your organization to attend at no additional charge.   Just send Judy the names. 

  Materials:  Each topic comes with a workbook containing the slides, guidelines, and other supporting materials. 
  

  Cost:  For the series is $414, a $30 series savings (others in your organization can register at no additional cost); the cost for ISPI and LDA individual members is $384, a $30 series savings; the cost for Hale Center Professional Members is $364, a $50 series savings.    Please contact Judy@HaleCenter.org if you want to find out how to arrange for an in-house program.

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• ISPI CPT Preparation Workshop

  • When
    05 May 2024
  •  
    9:30 AM - 3:30 PM
  • Location
    On site

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  ISPI Pre-conference Workshop

  Certified Performance Technologist (CPT) Preparation Workshop

  May 5th, 8:30am to 2:30pm

  WE-KO-PA Resort, Fort McDowell, AZ

  Checkout the pre-conference workshops here:  https://ispi2024.mystrikingly.com/pre-conference.  Get recognized for your accomplishments.   ISPI's Certified Performance Technologist is the only performance-based credential for professionals in the field.  Join the other 1200 professional who have earned this designation.   The workshop walks you through the process of documenting your work.  See good and bad examples, better assess your readiness.  The workshop fee includes the application fee and you have 18 months after the workshop to submit your application.   To take advantage of this opportunity.

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• The Future of Performance Improvement

  • Start
    06 May 2024
  •  
    9:00 AM
  • End
    09 May 2024
  •  
    5:00 PM
  • Location
    WE-KO-PA RESORT, FORT MCDOWELL, AZ

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  THE FUTURE OF PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENT

  THE 2024 ISPI CONFERENCE

  MONDAY MAY 6^TH TO THURSDAY MAY 9^TH

   WE-KO-PA RESORT, FORT MCDOWELL, AZ 85264

  Invest in your future.  Register now:  https://ispi.org/events/EventDetails.aspx?alias=2024PIConference. The 2024 Performance Improvement Conference is all about stepping up our game in a world where AI is changing the way we work.

  Improving performance goes beyond just creating new learning materials; it is about ensuring that employees have access to the right guidance, tools, resources, and motivation. With 60 presenters from academia, government, and industry, the Performance Improvement Conference offers a unique chance to uncover practical and proven best practices for enhancing human performance.
  
  Register now with the best possible discount and join us to delve into evidence-based tools and strategies designed to improve work and workplace performance.

  Travel & Hotel Details:

  • Closest airport is PHX, Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport (23 miles)
  • Hotel registration:  https://ispi2024.mystrikingly.com/hotel

  
  

  
  

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• Wednesday with Judy - An Asset not Cost Center

  • When
    15 May 2024
  •  
    12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
  • Location
    virtual

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  Wednesday with judy

  an Asset not Cost Center 

  5^th in the consulting series 

  May 15^th, Noon Central, 60 minutes 

  This year's Wednesday with Judy series focuses on the communication, interpersonal, and counseling skills required to be an effective consultant.  The May session describes an approach to communicating your work as an asset not a cost center.  Whether your work is training, learning, process reengineering, or performance improvement, you will learn how to create an asset registry that both enables you to communicate with and engage clients in a dialogue about how to best leverage you and your function's services.  Join us and learn how to look at your services in a new light.   

  Each Wednesday examines and demonstrates how the topic can enhance our professional practice.  So, please join Judy and help create a common or universal model for performance excellence.  You will receive a zoom link upon registration.  

  
  

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• Analytics & Psychometrics: Certificate Series

  • Start
    16 May 2024
  •  
    3:00 PM
  • End
    20 Jun 2024
  •  
    4:30 PM
  • Location
    Virtual

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  Analytics & Psychometrics Certificate Series: 

  a 6-Part Mini Series 

  Take one, all, or any combination.

  Thursday's 3 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. Central Time

  May 16 to Jun 20

  Intended Audience:  This series is for internal and external consultants wanting to strengthen their ability to analyze qualitative and quantitative data, and effectively use statistics.  It is part of the Hale Center's 2023 theme on Consulting and is designed to enhance your technical consulting skills.   You will see real examples and get job aids with practical guidelines you can apply to your work.   

  You can take the whole series or just topics of interest to you.  When you complete the series you will receive a certificate.  

  Topics in the series:

  1. Measurement, Analytic, and Psychometric Basics ($79*)
  2. Controlling Bias - the Four Sources of Error ($59*)
  3. Standard Setting and Establishing Pass Scores ($79*)
  4. Item Analyses and Determining the Equivalency of Different Test Forms ($69*)
  5. Analyzing Quantitative Data ($89*)
  6. Analyzing Qualitative Data ($69*)

  * Cost per session for the general public.  Discounts are available to ISPI and Hale Center Professional Members.  If you want to register for specific topics only, please contact Judy@HaleCenter.org and she will complete your registration. Also one paid registration for $414, allows everyone in your organization to attend at no additional charge.   Just send Judy the names.  

  Materials:  Each topic comes with a workbook containing the slides, guidelines, and other supporting materials. 
  

  Cost:  For the series is $414 (others in your organization may attend at no additional cost), a $30 series savings; the cost for ISPI and LDA members is $384, a $60 series savings; the cost for Hale Center Professional Members is $354, a $90 series savings.    Please contact Judy@HaleCenter.org if you want to find out how to arrange for an in-house program.

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