With the right practices, any training program can excel performance, while
delivering economic benefits. In this certificate program, you’ll find out how by gaining in
-depth focus and practical methods on managing the entire scope of your organization’s
training.

Bonus! You’ll receive the Training Manager’s Tool Kit which contains a Training Department Benchmarking Tool, 100-point Classroom Instructor Skills Inventory, and a
Performance Improvement Plan Template. PLUS you can earn up to 1.9 CEUs by completing this certificate. 

Start date: March 8, 2012

Ray Jimenez, Author, Story and Experience-Based Impacts: Using Stories and Experiences to Impact Learning and Performance; 3-Minute e-Learning, Scenario-Based Learning: Using Stories to Engage e-Learners and Do-it-Yourself e-Learning: 100 Ways to Simplify Design and Development.

 We now see new types of learners in the workplace. They are savvy, busy, and fast-moving multi-taskers. In their media-rich world it's more and more difficult to reach these increasingly demanding and cynical audience members who are often impatient with instructional learning typically found in classrooms, e-learning and mobile learning. However, in today’s information-loaded world, storytelling is being rediscovered as a powerful tool for helping us make sense of this data barrage and increase learning recall, involvement and application. This certificate will help you design, implement and deliver Story and Experienced-Based Learning and inject them into your programs. You will learn the skills, steps, processes and tools to implement this inexpensive and effective learning initiative. This program is non-software specific and focuses on practical tips to get you started with effective storytelling immediately while enhancing your competitive advantage and upgrading your training and learning department’s capacities.

Bonus Items: You will receive Ray Jimenez’s e-book Story and Experience-Based Impacts: Using Stories and Experiences to Impact Learning and Performance

Start date: March 8, 2012

Dr. Jane Bozarth is the eLearning Coordinator for the North Carolina (USA) Office of State   Personnel. She is the author of E-Learning Solutions on a Shoestring; Better than Bullet Points; From Analysis  to Evaluation, and Social Media for  Trainers. Her graduate research specialty was communities of practice/learning communities/social and situated learning

Social media is no longer seen as a fad – it’s a revolution.  Whether you work in a traditional or virtual classroom, social media provides a low-cost way to broaden your reach and increase the impact of your training. Based on the bestselling book Social Media for Trainers, this interactive certificate invites you on a guided tour of several popular and powerful social media tools such as Facebook, LinkedIn, blogs, Wikis, microblogs (Twitter) and explores concrete, specific ways to incorporate them into your own training practice. We’ll examine their unique features, discuss how to leverage the strengths of each, explore which best fit your training needs and learn how to set up your own accounts. Appropriate for classroom and virtual classroom facilitators, and instructional designers, the course also covers the basics of social learning, informal learning, and communities.  While we discuss concepts such as learning communities and overcoming barriers, the focus of this program is on specific training activities that can be facilitated using social media tools.

Start Date: May 15, 2012.

Learn the step-by-step process of designing and developing scenario-based e-learning programs that heightens e-learners involving and learning. This highly interactive program focuses on raising the level of engagement of e-learning courses and practical steps to control costs. This hands-on course provides opportunities to apply ideas in your projects immediately. This certificate focuses on effective and cost-effective design and development — practical and useful, not theories or software use.

Bonus! You'll receive the digital version of the book Scenario-Based Learning: Using Stories to Engage e-Learners.

Start date: May 17, 2012

Do you have a gap in your consulting skills? Do you want to transition from technician to consultant?  Do you want to distinguish yourself from other consultants?  This certificate will help you identify barriers to performance, explore a suite of solutions, and work collaboratively to get new procedures, technology, behaviors, and ideas adopted. We'll explore the step-by-step techniques you need to conduct performance interventions and you will receive practical guidance and proven tools to help analyze an organizational environment, diagnose performance problems, identify barriers to performance, select appropriate interventions, and measure intervention success. You will complete the course with six valuable tools and numerous tips designed to help you become an efficient, professional and strategic performance consultant.

Bonus! You'll receive a FREE e-version of The Performance Consultant's Fieldbook: Tools and Techniques for Improving Organizations and People, 2nd Edition (a $45 value) when attending this certificate!

Start date: June 4, 2012

This certificate provides you with practical, effective, and creative strategies and
techniques for leading learning in the live online environment. We’ll explore concrete
approaches for synchronous facilitation and ideas for the design of real-time activities
that take learning and collaborating online to a whole new level. Learn to foster
interactivity, use virtual whiteboards and shared Web browsing, create interactive
exercises, ensure your learning and meeting objectives are met, and more.

Start date: June 4, 2012

Bonus! You can earn CEUs by completing this certificate.

Start date: June 5, 2012