2012 Conference Report
The opening day of the ASTD conference T he 8th International ASTD S.A.
conference was officially opened on the morning of 14th March 2012.
The President Robin Probart welcoming the 250 delegates, along with the seven international speakers and the 21 South African speakers, to the relaxing surroundings of the Champagne Sports Resort in Drakensburg. Here we feature some of the speakers and their plenaries and workshops.
During the previous day, a large number of the delegates attended a choice of six different pre-conference workshops, which was a wonderful way to start the four day event. On day one of the conference, Richard Straub (Peter Drucker Society, Europe) kicked off the conference with his plenary Making knowledge workers effective; The great challenge for 21st Century management. Straub touched on the relevance of Peter Drucker’s management theories in today’s world, asking the audience if there was
anything in modern management theory that did not actually come from Drucker. Straub took a look back at the last 20 years of Learning and Development, and then took the audience on a journey of today’s challenges and how we are driven to do more with less, and how a huge part of our leadership challenge is in breaking down silos so that we can foster innovation and entrepreneurship.
This was followed by Dr Wayne Cascio’s
(Professor of Management at the University of Colorado) plenary entitled Classic training design meets new technology: Maximizing your ROI. This was an enlightening session which explained Technology-Delivered Instruction (TDI) as the presentation of text, graphics, video, audio, or animation in digitised form for the purpose of building job-relevant knowledge and skill. Cascio shared that TDI is catching on, whether training is Web- based or delivered on a single work station, on a PDA, or on an MP3 player. “Due to the
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