36 FREE SEMINAR PROGRAMME Tuesday 30 September 2014


10:45 – 11:15 Champion or saboteur: Employee engagement for managers Managers are key to improving employee engagement levels. This session gives practical advice on personal satisfaction of employees within their role, needs alignment between the employee and the organisation, as well as be proactivity and drive of employees.


Neil Lewin, Senior Consultant, Festo


11:00 – 11:30 Mobile learning success stories Discover the practical steps taken by a large number of organisations to integrate mobile learning into their L&D programmes. With examples from Microsoft, RBS, O2 and Pernod Ricard.


Alex Mackman, Technical Director, CM Group


11:30 – 12:00 Learning transfer: It’s not what you learn, it’s what you use! The ability to convert learning to perfomance on the job (learning transfer) is a business imperative, but what are organisations actually doing to improve usage of newly acquired skills?


Tom Roth, Chief Operating Officer, Wilson Learning Worldwide


11:45 – 12:15 The power of online immersive learning Immersive learning in 3D is making simulation and experiential training more accessible across industries. This seminar will address the ways in which live immersive learning in 3D environments can engage learners and improve performance.


Simon Macartney, Education and Learning Director, Immerse Learning


12.15 – 12.45 The power of experiential learning This seminar will include an interactive demonstration of how ‘learning by doing’ can engage people of all ages and abilities, becoming a powerful medium for memorable learning that can easily be transferred back to the workplace to improve a team’s effectiveness.


Lucy McGibbon, L&D Director, Sundial Teamscapes


12:30 – 13:00 Beyond Kirkpatrick This session explores various models, theories and ideas to show how much is happening outside of the original Kirkpatrick ideas. It will demonstrate how much evaluation can transform design, delivery, impact and valuation, giving a fresh approach to evaluation.


Russell Thackeray, Director, TrainingEvaluation.com


13:00 – 13:30 Want a productive workforce? Start focussing on employee engagement The Gallup Employee Engagement survey highlights that engaged employees make a difference to the bottom line, but how do you engage employees? Find out at this seminar.


Jo Keeler, Business Director, Belbin


13:30 – 14:00 From LMS to LES Historically, the LMS was just a tool used to deploy training processes within a company. However, the rise of a new generation of connected learners has changed the way training tools are seen and what to expect from them. Find out more at this seminar.


Paul Morton, Business Consulting Director, CrossKnowledge


14:00 – 14:30 The new role for L&D: Ensuring capability, not just learning You do realise that L&D is changing don’t you? Come and find out what the new role of L&D means to you and how to take advantage of it. Take ideas from Paul’s recent book which has received great reviews from Peter Honey, Head of L&D at Google and many others.


Paul Matthews, Managing Director, People Alchemy (T2) (T1) (T2) (T1) (T2) (T1) (T2) (T1) (T2)


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The free seminars take place in Seminar Theatres 1 & 2 (T1) Seminar Theatre 1 (T2) Seminar Theatre 2


14:15 – 14:45 Five reasons video should matter to your business


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Leading analyst Gartner predicts that by 2016, large companies will stream more than 16 hours of video per worker, per month. That’s 45 minutes spent watching video each day by each employee. This session explores five compelling ways video can enhance training, social learning and communications, with examples from users.


Peter Ingle, Head of Sales, Panopto EMEA


14:45 – 15:15 Clueless: Coaching people to change behaviour Current research suggests that a large group of leaders see themselves inaccurately relative to their direct reports, colleagues and manager. Find out more from two case-studies at this seminar.


Dr Kenneth Nowack, Chief Research Officer, Synermetric


15:00 – 15:30 Moving from a ‘one size fits all’ to a rich digital learning and instructional model HSELandD is the Irish Health Service’s online learning portal for over 60,00 active learners across the organisation. Find out how this award- winning rich learning environment has been developed and has grown in learner activity 276% per annum over the last three years.


Dr Maureen Murphy, Managing Director, Aurion Learning and Pat Kenny, National E-Learning Manager, Health Service Executive Ireland


15:30 – 16:00 Using neuroscience to drive L&D return on investment This seminar includes the latest knowledge on how people think and behave, and how some new L&D tools can specifically enhance training and development events to deliver immediate, visible results.


David Sales, Managing Director, Emergenetic


15:45 – 16:15 elearning has changed! Have you? Capitalise on the elearning evolution by working smarter with partners. Paul Service, Director of Learning Services Comms Learning


Wednesday 1 October 2014 (T1) (T2) (T1) (T2)


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10:30 – 11:00 How to persuade anyone to do anything (well almost) In business, you have to be persuasive if you want to succeed at any level. During this interactive seminar, Lee Warren fuses magic, business psychology and showbiz to create a ‘business cabaret’. This hands-on session will enable you to try these techniques for yourself.


Lee Warren, Director, Invisible Advantage


10:45 – 11:15 The secrets of effective negotiation Join Huthwaite to learn the latest insights into the art of negotiation. Based on 40 years of continuing research they train thousands of people globally, every year, helping them to make or save millions.


David Freedman, Associate Director, Huthwaite


11:15 – 11:45 Blended learning – beyond the module This presentation will highlight how a blend of learning resources including videos, mini-movies, hands-on practical assessments, discussion plus physical and virtual classroom sessions alongside responsive elearning and delivered from the Knowledge Centre LMS has helped to effect and embed businesses change within the working environment.


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Laura Scarlett, Consultant, Acteon Communication & Learning


11:45 – 12:15 So what really is a coaching culture? This workshop will dive into the depths of what a coaching culture really is. It will ask delegates the three fundamental questions to ask themselves and delegates will leave the workshop with an understanding of how to take their coaching culture to the next level.


Tim Hawkes, Managing Director, Unlimited Potential learningmagazine.co.uk (T1) (T1)


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