Best Place to Learn Winner Dell Perot Systems SHARES!

Save the Date!    February 16, 2010

Team ADDIE: Secrets to leveraging your learning team

The Perot Systems (now Dell Services) Learning team will demonstrate some of their most effective and cutting edge learning secrets.  Come early to browse through class materials, certification programs, dashboards and evaluations.  See how they build world-class blended workflow courses and partner with adjunct learning professionals for key business acumen courses. 

Come and Learn through  

A fun dinner exercise and table talk which sets the stage for examples of best-in-class learning applications.  Learn how to take ILT role plays into the virtual space using discussion threads and communication technology to teach global leaders key skills to leading virtual teams.  See a board game they created to teach staffing principles based on Collin’s book “Good to Great”.  Learn how to organize a learning team to maximize creativity, efficiency and effectiveness.  Discover how this dynamic team aligned with Perot Systems’ business strategy to become a key success factor touted the C-Suite in marketing literature and Wall Street analyst presentations. 

Walk away with  

·      A great “tech to exec” presence exercise you can use tomorrow.

·      Ideas for structuring certification programs.

Ways to move key relational exercises from the classroom to the airwaves while improving the learning and increasing the application of skills in the workplace. 

Perot Systems Learning & Development Team Bio

The Dell Perot Systems Learning & Development team is organized around the ADDIE model.  This facilitates a rapid instructional design process and provides a focus on building learning that solves business issues and accelerates workforce performance around strategic initiatives. 

Led by Suzanne Mickelson, Global Director of Learning & Development, the team is comprised of  learning professionals from diverse backgrounds spanning industries from finance, wholesale, food, telecom, retail, oil & gas, education and manufacturing.   Before joining Perot Systems learning, this team enjoyed successes at both Fortune 500 companies like Wal-Mart, Citigroup, IBM, AT&T and Oracle as well as many smaller entrepreneurial businesses.

Formal and informal education is an important aspect of their backgrounds with 76.2% holding bachelor degrees and 33.3% holding graduate+ degrees in a wide range of subjects including Physics, Electrical Engineering, Composite Sciences and Education to the more traditional business degrees in Economics, Accounting, IT, and Applied Technology & Performance Improvement.  In addition, 47.6% hold advanced certifications in various aspects of the WLP (Workforce Learning Performance) profession.

This meeting is a DINNER meeting:

5:30 - 6:00 pm   New Member Orientation
5:15 - 6:00 pm   Registration/Networking    
6:00 - 7:00pm    Dinner

7:00 - 8:00 pm    Speaker

 

Meetings are held at the Sheraton Hotel, 4801 Lyndon Johnson Freeway Dallas, TX 75244  1-972-661-3600 Fax: 1-972-385-3156

Cost: $35 for members of Dallas ASTD/$45 for guests

 

Register here!   Thank you!

 

PLAN AHEAD!   Monthly Meeting Dates for 2010:  February 16, March 16, April 20, May 18, June 15, July 20, August Learning Summit – TBD, September 21, October 19, November 9, December 14