AIA-LFRT Shared Learning Program
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October 2007

Dear Large Firm Roundtable Member,

We have heard several requests from the LFRT members for a course that will help you develop better classes for your in-house training programs, help you train your firm's trainers to be more effective, and to give you tools for promoting on-the-job use of newly learned skills. This course is the answer to those requests.

The Advanced Management Institute has created a new program for us, featuring three of their top experts in professional development, education, and employee engagement and retention. In this new course, How to Design and Teach High-Impact Training Programs, you'll have the opportunity to work one-on-one with Joe Rei, Cheryl May and Leigh Branham.

High-Impact Training Programs offers you an intensive two-day program that will teach you competency-based curriculum design, adult learning and training skills, how to train your trainers or help experienced trainers upgrade their abilities. They will also show you how to help your managers support on-the-job use of newly learned skills through coaching.

As always, the program features include:

  • Curriculum designed for our industry and
    for the large firms.
  • Small class size to maximize attention to individuals.
  • Group exercises and role-playing, to boost learning retention and skill application.
  • Participants interact with and learn new perspectives from their peers.

Please call Yvonne Truby at our learning partner, the Advanced Management Institute, 707-252-2054 if you have questions, or to reserve spots in this beneficial and informative course.

Large Firm Roundtable Learning Task Force

PLEASE NOTE: Shared Training Program courses are open to the employees of AIA-LFRT member firms only.

Participants of other courses have said:

"Having an instructor who's been in our shoes, in the same profession and from a large firm, made the material relevant and accessible."   ~ 2004 Scope Management Course Graduate

"The content was extremely pertinent to my current position and experience as a young PM. The examples were very relevant and I appreciate the insight I gained from the seminar."   ~ 2004 Scope Management Course Graduate

"I feel this class has provided me a new sense of both how to approach leadership of others, as well as how to position myself in order to lead. In other words, the tools to manage both myself and others!"   ~ 2004 Project Leadership Graduate

"Using movies as learning aids made the lessons less abstract, and made me want to evaluate the leadership I see in everyday life, both good and bad, similar to how I'm always looking at buildings for new details."    ~ 2004 Project Leadership Graduate

"I think everything targeted on the agenda is very helpful and useful in all applications. The material is well-delivered and documented."   ~ 2003 Scope Management Graduate

"I was disgusted with myself for having committed two of my days off to training just before my daughter's wedding, when my 'Honey Do This' list was a mile long - and I had a big deadline! My frame of mind was not good. But I do not recall ever having been fully engaged - and I mean every minute - in any training session, not even a halfday. But there I was, looking forward to getting back to Effective Negotiations again the next morning. Great class! Thank you! I'd like to offer it to my entire staff here at the District." (Note: He did.) ~ Dave Requa, District Engineer, Contra Costa Water District, CA

"The Effective Negotiations course led by Steve Isaacs has been extremely valuable in the work of my professional practice. In addition to his personal skills at teaching what has been very valuable are his personal examples and experiences which add reality to the sessions. I have made sure that my entire professional staff has attended the course." ~ Joe Covello, President, The Covello Group

Winter 2008 Course: How to Design and Teach
High-Impact Training Programs

Format: Two-day session

Who should attend? Anyone responsible for learning and development, creating courses, training trainers, or supporting in-firm coaching.

What is this seminar?

Could your in-house training programs have more impact? Do your trainers need to improve their teaching skills? Do your managers need help ensuring that new learning is actually used on the job? This course offers learning that will help you improve your in-firm training programs in three ways:

  • Better teaching skills and methods for trainers
  • Improved curriculum design and delivery tools
  • Coaching tools for managers to boost on-the-job use of new learning

Our professional development experts, Joe Rei, Cheryl May and “employer of choice” specialist and author, Leigh Branham, will teach you:

  • how to design training programs that have a performance impact,
  • ways to improve the programs you already have,
  • how to train others to teach your courses effectively,
  • coaching methods for managers to support on the job use of new tools.

We'll use our considerable experience in Project Management training as the focus for this course. Leigh Branham will use his recent research in PM competencies to help you understand how to:

  • identify the competencies your firm needs to have,
  • relate those competencies to the firm's current capacity and identify knowledge gaps,
  • develop the capacity to fill those knowledge gaps through training and coaching methods.

You will learn how to design training programs that have a performance impact on your firm, how to improve the programs you already have, how to support that learning through coaching on the job.

While the topic for this session is Project Management, this skill set can be used to develop any training curriculum and prepare trainers to teach any topic.

Dates and Location?
January 28-29, 2008, Kansas City

Cost?
The $1,190 fee includes training, continental breakfast, box lunch, all materials, and registration of AIA-CES credits.

Logistics

Click here for a PDF-format brochure which includes course descriptions and schedules, registration forms, and logistics. If you have any questions about the upcoming courses, or if you’re new to this and need background information on the LFRT Shared Learning Program, please contact us at 707-252-2054. For your convenience, highlighted details about the program follow.

Location
Gould Evans
4041 Mill Street
Kansas City, MO 64111
P: 816-931-6655
F: 816-931-9640

Airport
Kansas City International Airport

Hotels

The Quarterage
560 Westport Road
Kansas City, MO
P: 816-931-0001
F: 816-931-8891

Embassy Suites - KC Plaza
220 W. 43rd Street
Kansas City, MO
P: 816-756-1720
F: 816-756-4260

Time
All sessions run from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM.

Food
Continental breakfast at 8:30 AM in meeting room. Box lunches will be provided.

Dress
Business casual.

CEU's
7.5 Continuing Education Units per day will be registered with the AIA for attending architects. All students will receive a completion certificate.

Venues
Thank you to Gould Evans for generously volunteering their conference rooms for this program.

Faculty

Joseph D. Rei, Ph.D.
Director of Executive
Development, AMI
Joe Rei offers firm leaders in the A/E industry the resources and guidance for developing healthy, high-performance organizations that consistently achieve successful results for the firm and their clients. He helps firms educate and develop their leaders, and create positive environments where people can flourish and productively serve their clients and communities.

Dr. Rei's professional experience includes leadership roles in corporate learning, higher education administration, and the US Army Reserve. He has extensive experience designing and managing educational settings, and the delivery of education to a wide range of individuals and organizations.

Cheryl May
Director of Strategic Leadership Development, AMI
Cheryl May has a passion for working with organizations and individuals on strategic leadership development, executive
assessment, succession management, team building, coaching, performance management, employee surveys, onboarding, and the creation and execution of Organizational Leadership Training Academies.

She is an expert in the use of assessment instruments and is a certified in the application of numerous assessment types. May cultivates trust with clients and creates environments that foster teamwork, innovation, and heartfelt customer service.

Leigh Branham, SPHR
Faculty, AMI
Leigh Branham, SPHR, Faculty, works with organizations to analyze root causes of turnover and employee disengagement, then helps them develop and implement employer-of-choice strategies. Leigh has 25 years of experience in human resource consulting, and speaks frequently on the topics of employee engagement/ retention, career development in organizations, employment practices, workforce trends, leadership, and management development.

He is the author of The 7 Hidden Reasons Employees Leave: How to Recognize the Subtle Signs and Act Before It's Too Late (AMACOM Books, 2005) - about the root causes of employee disengagement and turnover, based on post-exit surveys of more than 19,700 employees in 17 industries conducted from 1998 through 2003.

Registration

IN PERSON
Register by contacting the Advanced Management Institute for Architecture and Engineering. Yvonne Truby at AMI will be happy to help you.
P: 707-252-2054
F: 707-252-4793
E: ytruby@ami-institute.com
M: Advanced Management Institute for Architecture and Engineering
1370 Trancas St., #178
Napa, CA 9455

ONLINE
https://sslws028.alentus.com/ami-institute/aia/AIARegistration.html

VIA MAIL OR FAX
Mail or fax our printable registration form to AMI:
Adobe Acrobat Registration Form || Print-Friendly Web Page || Adobe Acrobat Brochure

Cancellation Policy

Substitutions may be made at any time. Cancellations for a credit or refund will be allowed up to 7 days prior to a session. Cancellations made less than a week before the session, including absentees, will be charged for the session.

Contact

Advanced Management Institute
AMI provides the content and faculty for the program, and handles all the program marketing, registration, and administration.

Advanced Management Institute
1370 Trancas St., #178
Napa, CA 94558
P: 707-252-2054
F: 707-252-4793

For registrations, logistics, student confirmations or substitutions, payments and CEUs:
Yvonne Truby, Director of Public Programs
P: 707-252-2054
E: ytruby@ami-institute.com

Questions?

Please e-mail Yvonne Truby, AMI Director of Public Programs, or call her at 707-252-2054.

About the AIA Large Firm Roundtable

The AIA Large Firm Roundtable of Chief Executive Officers is committed to supporting our professionals in lifelong learning by creating and sharing learning opportunities that will enhance the quality of our work, reduce the expense of providing meaningful and targeted training, and improve the careers of our professionals. In cooperation with AMI, they have created this series of training programs, available to the Large Firms.

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