Designing Participant-Centered Curriculum

• Need to learn how to design a learning program?
• Have no idea how to make learning interactive and experiential?

Attend this two-day internationally proven comprehensive skill-building curriculum design program.

New trainers will learn how to develop a detailed participant-centered lesson plan and design accelerated learning participant exercises that meet the needs of diverse adult learners. Seasoned trainers will benefit because it will validate what they are doing well, enhance their current trainer's toolkit with participatory learning and facilitation techniques, and provide workable solutions to difficult learning design challenges.

When: November 5-6, 2009
Registration: 8:00 am – 8:30 am November 5th
Program: 8:30 am – 4:30

Where: Wisconsin Dept. of Corrections
Madison Training Center
3099 East Washington Avenue
Madison, WI 53704

Investment: $800.00
($750.00 if received before October 15th)
The fee includes all course materials and post- training curriculum review and coaching.

SPECIAL RATE FOR STATE EMPLOYEES AND MEMBERS OF ANY ASTD CHAPTER: $750.00

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Train the Trainer: Designing and Delivering Dynamic Learning

• New to training and wondering how you will develop the skills you need?
• Skilled in training and seeking new learning and constructive feedback?
• Need to design and facilitate participant-centered training modules?

Attend this four day internationally proven comprehensive skill-building train the trainer program. New trainers will learn how to develop a detailed participant-centered lesson plan, design accelerated learning participant exercises that meet the needs of diverse adult learners, and improve their professional presentation and group facilitation skills.

Seasoned trainers will benefit because it will validate what they are doing well, enhance their current trainer's toolkit with participatory learning and facilitation techniques, and provide workable solutions to difficult training design and classroom challenges.

When: December 8-11, 2009
Registration: 8:00 am – 8:30 am December 8th
Program: 8:30 am – 4:30

Where: Wisconsin Dept. of Corrections
Madison Training Center
3099 East Washington Avenue
Madison, WI 53704

Investment: $1649.00
($1549.00 if received before November 1st)
The fee includes all course materials and post- training curriculum review and coaching.

SPECIAL RATE FOR STATE EMPLOYEES AND MEMBERS OF ANY ASTD CHAPTER: $1529.00

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Polishing Presentation Skills

• Need to make scheduled and impromptu persuasive presentations?
• Does your audience start to doze when you start to speak?
• Do you have to speak on controversial matters to less than receptive groups?
• Does the thought of speaking in front of any group make you anxious?
• When Roscoe Drummond said: "The mind is a wonderful thing- it starts working the minute you're born and never stops until you get up to speak in public" – was he describing you?

Attend this two-day internationally proven presentation skill-building program. If speaking in front of groups is new for you, this workshop will show you how to analyze your audience, organize your thoughts, build your speaking skills, and give an effective and engaging presentation. If you have been speaking in front of groups for a while, and you (and your audiences) are enjoying it less, this workshop will refocus you on the keys to effective presentations, help you to avoid the six major speaking faults, and give you an opportunity to receive constructive feedback as you practice both impromptu and prepared presentations.

When: January 21-22, 2010
Registration: 8:00 am – 8:30 am January 21st
Program: 8:30 am – 4:30

Where: Wisconsin Dept. of Corrections
Madison Training Center
3099 East Washington Avenue
Madison, WI 53704

Investment: $800.00
($750.00 if received before December 1st)
The fee includes all course materials and post- raining presentation review and coaching.

SPECIAL RATE FOR STATE EMPLOYEES AND MEMBERS OF ANY ASTD CHAPTER: $750.00

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How to Avoid Learner Overload

• Do you need to help new employees learn highly complex content?
• Are you under pressure to accelerate the speed and quality of the learning process?
• Do your novice participants already complain about information overload?
• Do your experienced participants complain about being bored?
• Do you want to increase your learning design expertise?

Attend this two-day workshop to learn how to design more efficient and cost-effective learning programs that result in faster and better learning because they are based on how the brain works.

When: February 23-24, 2010
Registration: 8:00 am – 8:30 am February 23rd
Program: 8:30 am – 4:30 p.m.

Where: Wisconsin Dept. of Corrections
Madison Training Center
3099 East Washington Avenue
Madison, WI 53704

Investment: $800.00
($750.00 if received before January 1st )
The fee includes all course materials and post- training curriculum review and coaching.

SPECIAL RATE FOR STATE EMPLOYEES AND MEMBERS OF ANY ASTD CHAPTER: $750.00

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