July 20-22 2020
Nashville, TN
Main Conference Day One | Tuesday, July 21, 2020
Start of Main Conference Day One
8:00 am - 8:45 am
Breakfast Networking
Get in the Zone During Registration & Welcome Coffee
8:45 am - 9:00 am
CHAIRPERSON’S WELCOME & OPENING REMARKS
9:00 am - 9:45 am
Opening Keynote: Run Learning Like a Business: A roadmap to getting the ongoing trust and support of the CEO
The L&D department has the potential to become one of the most effective tools for managing a rapidly changing landscape. How are you adapting your department to move from being compliance driven and tactically focused to becoming a trusted advisor? Learn from Dave Vance of the Center of Talent Reporting (and founder of Caterpillar University) how to transform your department to one that is a trusted partner essential to moving the organization forward.
- Learn how to create, present, and manage annual learning strategy plans
- Manage learning with a P&L mindset and win the ongoing trust of the CEO
- Transition from reporting historic snap-shot data to providing decision driving insight
- Learn why the L&D department is often the first to receive budget cuts and what you can do to prevent this
9:45 am - 10:15 am
Learning Evaluation Frameworks Panel Discussion
Listen and engage with a panel of learning measurement experts as they discuss various learning evaluation frameworks, their practical applications, shortcomings, and real cases. Have your questions on everything from Kirkpatrick to Brinkerhoff handy
10:15 am - 10:45 am
Measuring and Reporting Development in Qualitative Soft Skills to Drive Support in your Programs
Learn how the Brinkerhoff Success Case Method can be utilized to identify, analyze, and report the success of training programs that are difficult to measure: an essential tactic to have in your L&D measurement tool bag.
•Identify success cases to highlight
•Conduct interviews to get deeper details to analyze
•Use a variety of media to craft and present a compelling story to decision makers
10:45 am - 11:15 am
DEMO DRIVE Networking and Relaxation
Decompress While local musician provide a soundtrack to your Morning Coffee Break and Demo Drive
MATURITY TRACKS BEGIN! FIND YOUR FOCUS
First Steps to Analytics Excellence
11:15 am - 11:45 am Transforming your Department into a Data-Driven Function: Define your KPIs, Collect Data, and Share your MetricsBefore moving into predictive analytics, your organization requires clean data that can inform your future strategies. Helping your organization move in the right direction with data is also about ensuring employee buy-in. Employees can contribute to the growth and success of the organization by linking organizational strategy with individual performance improvement
Analytics 2.0
11:00 am - 11:30 am Advanced Statistical Methods for Attributing L&D to Business OutcomesFinding an ROI to training and develop is perhaps the most important mandate many L&D leaders have been tasked with. However, given the complexities that arise from dealing with multiple data sources and difficult to measure skills development, this has been an elusive goal for many. If you have already put in place a good foundation of measures but want to extend your capabilities to the more difficult to measure components of your analytics program, join this workshop to work interactively with your peers and SMEs to address your challenges.
11:45 am - 12:15 pm
Aligning L&D with Strategic Business Goals
Keep pace with technological and competitive advancements by transforming your L&D department into a key strategic resource of the senior leadership team.
In this case study, hear how Marc Semprie from the Litens Automotive Group has transformed his L&D department into one that is agile and closely aligned with and responsive to the needs of the CEO in order to ensure the department is always prioritized as an effective tool for the organization to meet the strategic needs of the landscape.
Leave this talk being able to:
- Create and present business cases for programs that get ongoing C-Suite buy-in and support
- Develop metrics that are directly tied to the priorities of the CEO
- Measure the utilization of your platform to ensure top-down adoption
- Develop unique measures for your programs to ensure you meet the challenge of having to define and measure success across various business functions
12:15 pm - 12:45 pm
Conducting a Business Impact Study: A Thorough Analysis of Business Results Garnered from Improvements to Organizational Performance Through Training
The pressure to show the impact of the L&D department’s training programs on the business and its ROI is increasing, with the amount of organizations that are becoming more data-centric, this is not going to change. Luckily, even if you aren’t ready for continuous measurement of ROI, there is the Business Impact Study. Learn how this organization uses this tool to overcome the challenges of measuring across vary different training programs with different parameters to better show senior leadership the value of your initiatives in a way they understand, with numbers.
12:45 pm - 1:45 pm
TABLE TOPICS NETWORKING LUNCH
Join peers that are facing the same challenges and are interested in the same topics as you! Meet and greet counterparts while you discuss your specific challenges and how you all are addressing them as you all break bread together.
1:45 pm - 2:30 pm
The Strategic Future of L&D: A Discussion on How to Leverage Data to Navigate your L&D Department through Digital Transformations and changing landscapes
Now, more than ever, is the time to make the L&D function a top priority in companies and become a trusted strategic function.
2:30 pm - 3:00 pm
Scale and Measure Impact of Capacity Building with Data Driven Analytics
Business requires you to build and scale critical skills in an ever-changing workplace. Stakeholders want to see how you are moving the needle in the right direction. Big question is what does that needle look like? We are faced with a war for talent in data science, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity and modern software development. Learn how Booze Allen is developing their employees and the technology and innovation that is getting them there. We will cover best practices that you can bring to your learning environment.
•Inventory your company’s workforce to identify the skills or gaps that exist and enhance training & development
•Define context taxonomy map to capacity building goals
•Curate learning experiences
•Leverage analytics and data models to build teams without skill gaps
3:00 pm - 3:30 pm
AFTERNOON NETWORKING BREAK
Take in a local artist while you Relax and Network During your Afternoon Networking and Coffee Break
3:30 pm - 4:00 pm
The Agile L&D Department: Leading L&D with Near Real-Time Insights
What good is data and analysis if by the time you act on it, it is too late to have an impact? Often learning program analytics consists of executing training programs and then analyzing the data once it is completed. At best, this provides a historical snapshot and informs how to improve the program in the future. Instead, learn from Dr. Quinn Leoni, of Cox Communications, how to design and implement training programs that you can manage in near real-time so you can proactively make adjustments that benefits the program while it is still underway.
Key Takeaways:
- How to design training programs that lend themselves to real-time predictive analytics
- Identify trends you can act on as they emerge
- Course correct as your training programs run
- Report training program performance that shows proactive stewardship of resources
4:00 pm - 4:45 pm
Methods and Challenges for Attributing Training’s Impact on Business Goals
Break into small groups with SMEs and peers to discuss methods of determining the business impact and ROI for your training programs. Work together to share your efforts, challenges, and discuss similarities and solutions. Come ready to share challenges and find solutions with other L&D leaders!
4:45 pm - 5:00 pm
Closing Remarks – SEC Human Capital Reporting Update
Dave Vance will provide a daily wrap-up as well as provide an update on the SEC’s regulatory decision on Human Capital Reporting Standards
5:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Off-Site Cultural Meetup:
Enjoy a night of music at the legendary Grand Ole Opry alongside your peers and further strengthen your bonds during informal networking and topical
discussion.
