Learning in Difficult Times Workshop Offered at TechLearn

Re-Thinking Learning in Difficult Times: Special Planning Briefing by
Elliott Masie Offered as Pre-Conference Workshop at TechLearn 2001

We have added this special pre-conference workshop to the TechLearn 2001
agenda to address some of the immediate changes that are impacting the
learning and training field. TechLearn will be held in Orlando, Florida
on October 28 and 31.

Elliott Masie will conduct an interactive, 3 hour planning briefing for
organizations developing strategies to cope with the current difficult
times that we all face. This will be held on Sunday morning, October
28th. Benchmarking based procedures will be presented and discussed that
include:

* Learning and Training During Staff Reductions - How can the learning
function be used for rapid internal re-deployment and for employee morale
maintenance during staff reductions and layoffs?
* e-Learning When Investments are Difficult - What happens to enterprise
wide strategies for e-Learning deployment when organizations cannot
provide investment approvals? Can e-Learning be implemented without
significant costs?
* Digital Collaboration as an Imperative - Organizations are changing
their view of digital collaboration tools in the light of recent travel
restrictions. How can organizations rapidly deploy a wide range of digital
collaboration tools to provide alternative delivery of learning, training,
meeting and sales processes?
* Blended Learning Models for Difficult Times - What are easy to implement
changes that can be made to existing classroom programs to rapidly convert
them to blended learning models?
* Budgeting for Tighter Times: How are major corporations changing their
budget projections for the coming year? Decreased to reflect less revenue
or increased as a tool to make organization more competitive and nimble?

Data from research The MASIE Center has done will be presented in detail
during this session. This is a planning briefing. These issues will be
discussed frankly by Elliott Masie and participants will have an
opportunity to assess how their organizations are responding to the
current difficulties compared with similar groups. Each participant will
complete a planning grid to reflect current and ideal strategies for
addressing these hard issues.

For information about TechLearn and the various pre-conference workshops,
please go to http://www.techlearn.com