March 6, 2008

NOTE: This is a special joint program with the Cascadia Chapter of ASTD. Please note content, dates, time, location, costs, etc as this is NOT the monthly ODN program.

Overview

For some time we have been planning a joint program between ASTD and ODN. The regular ODN program on February 13th will be a prelude to this joint event. You do not need to attend both programs, but you will get more value if you do, since the Performance Consulting model introduced on February 13th will be the basis for the March 6th workshop.

February 13th ODN: Linking OD / Training to Organization Performance

This program introduces the Performance Consulting model and looks at the first component of identifying performance gaps.

March 6th Joint ODN/ASTD event: When Training is Not the Answer: Non-Training Performance Interventions

This program moves to the second component of the Performance Consulting model, and overviews the range of performance interventions that consultant may select from in order to address performance gaps. It will be especially valuable to have a strong representation from our ODN membership as OD consultants typically draw on a much broader range of interventions in our organizational work. Your expertise in many of these will be tapped during this program, and resource connections will be made to pave the way for future consulting and partnering opportunities.

Goals

• Understand that your role is to improve organizational performance – not deliver training.
• Use a human performance model to explain your work around improving organizational performance.
• Explain 30+ non-training interventions that might be useful to close a performance gap.

Click here for a list of the various non-training interventions. Interventions #12 - 16 are considered "training" interventions and are NOT part of the presentation.

Agenda

Welcome, Hook, Objectives/Agenda
Your role as a Performance Consultant
The HPI Performance Model
Performance Interventions

While OD professionals typically view training as just one tool in their organizational toolkit, our peers in ASTD have been undergoing a metamorphosis to expand their roles from that of “trainers” to “Performance Consultants.”

Over a decade ago ASTD National launched the Human Performance Improvement (HPI) certificate program and began teaching a five course curriculum to encourage this transformation. Still many trainers (and some OD consultants) fall into the trap of applying training Band-Aids as the solution even when other performance interventions are probably more appropriate. Perhaps the old adage applies: When all you have is a hammer, everything you see looks like a nail. If training is the only tool in our arsenal, no wonder we so frequently return to it as the solution.

Expand your horizons and build your network at this special joint ASTD/ODN program. You’ll learn to use a Human Performance Model to explain the essentials to improve organizational performance; and then explore more than 30 non-training interventions that might be useful to close performance gaps. While this program does not aim to make you an expert in any of these possible interventions, it does promise to give you a broad awareness of the many options available and to link you with resources you may wish to call upon in order to address future organizational performance issues.

ASTD – The American Society for Training and Development, Cascadia chapter serves over 600 training and development professionals in Oregon and SW Washington.