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Thanks to Christine (Chris) Young & Julia Urbanchuk for a great session on Change Management. From basic, but essential change management models to heretic view points - aka, you can't "manage people through change" in a workplace, an awesome, fun, and interactive event for L&D Philly.

Check out or fall events and don't miss our CLO panel on Wednesday July 25th

Only 10 seats are left! Register before it is too late for an engaging panel with:

• Emma Engel, Chief Learning Officer, Unisys University
  
• Jim Williams, Senior Director of Training, Carpenter Technology
  
• Karen Clay Basile, Chief Learning Officer, Johnson Controls
  
• Susan Gunn, Exec. Director, People Advisory Services, EY
  

Information & registration here on our site!

Change is everywhere and constant. It’s not going away anytime soon, so we’d better get good at dealing with it.

Change Management is often reduced to a method or process, but it’s more than that. It’s about people. Join us for an interactive session to explore how to think about change, how people really experience it, and how you can immediately apply practical change tools, resources and principles.

This program has been designed especially for you by two seasoned OD consultants with deep experience in transformational and evolutional change efforts in pharmaceutical, biotech, healthcare services and technology industries.

Come learn tried and true concepts, insights, and tools, and gain a new perspective on change management. Learn from local experts Christine Young and Julia Urbanchak along side your local L&D colleagues. And enjoy the scenic beauty of Temple University's Ambler campus as well. Breakfast & coffee provided. Registration and information here on our site!

The "War for Talent" is still on. Do you remember that phrase from 5-10 years ago? It describe how businesses were engaged in an multi-front campaign to attract and retain the best employees. Well, that war continues today. From an L&D perspective, companies still struggle to find innovative ways to overcome this and many other challenges in today's workplace. Join L&D Philly and Beacon for a Chief Learning Officer panel sponsored by Drexel University's Goodwin College of Professional Studies on July 25th at the Pyramid Club of Philadelphia. Details and registration here on our site. Join the CLOs of Unisys, Carpenter Technology, Johnson Controls, and EY as they discuss how they and their organizations work towards overcoming obstacles in today's  L&D space. Hurry - we're down to our last 25 spots! Secure your seat today.

The Philadelphia Society of People and Strategy (PSPS) (www.peopleandstrategy.org) has announced their 2018 Leadership Forum. Join HR leaders from across the Greater Philadelphia area on October 3rd for the annual event. This year's speaker is best-selling author and thought leader Daniel Pink.  

L&D Philly members can save $60 off of registration by using us as a Partner Organization reference during checkout.

For more information about the event and to register, visit the PSPS website. Hope to see you there!

Change is everywhere and constant. It’s not going away anytime soon, so we’d better get good at dealing with it.

Change Management is often reduced to a method or process, but it’s more than that. It’s about people. Join us for an interactive session to explore how to think about change, how people really experience it, and how you can immediately apply practical change tools, resources and principles.

This program has been designed especially for you by two seasoned OD consultants with deep experience in transformational and evolutional change efforts in pharmaceutical, biotech, healthcare services and technology industries.

Come learn tried and true concepts, insights, and tools, and gain a new perspective on change management.

Hey folks - registration is starting to pick up for our 2018 CLO Panel on Wednesday July 25th at the Pyramid Club of Philadelphia. We're already at 25% of capacity and seating is capped. Don't miss your chance to register and attend this great event with four awesome, locally based Chief Learning Officers. Not only will you hear their perspective on how to handle some of today's most pressing training and talent development questions and get your questions answered, you can also network with great folks, enjoy the food, ambiance, and views the Pyramid Club offers, and you will have the chance to win some great prizes. Information & registration at https://www.ldphilly.com/event-2882808

Hope to see you there!

Thanks to Joe Urbanski for a thought-provoking, paradigm shifting, and above all - engaging workshop today as part of our Summer of Learnin 2018. Thanks to Drexel's Goodwin College of Professional Studies for hosting us and for ATD Philadelphia for the partnership in putting the event on. A quick highlight of Joe's main takeaways:

1. Culture is important. CULT ture that is. (Or as they say in the military & business - culture eats strategy for breakfast)

2. There of lots of ways to make "mandatory training" feel engaging and useful. 

3. A lot of "non-mandatory training" - well, feels like it's mandatory.

4. You can give your participants a choice - to be engaged or to be a prisoner. But that choice is yours to make first.

5. If you want to make people want to take training you need to learn what motivates each one of them.

6. We learn through discovery. We remember through reinforcement and repetition. 

7. Content? No, CONTEXT is king in training.

8. Training & Facilitating don't mean the same thing.

Thanks also to everyone that came out and had a blast alongside us and Joe.

Did your summer start on the right foot? I spent a week in Disney before Memorial Day and it rained. All week. And I came back. And it's rained. A lot. But don't let the cloudy and wet start to summer stop your summer of learning. L&D Philly's summer gets kick started this Saturday with the hardest working man in the L&D business - Joe Urbanski. Come out and learn how to Make Training a Want to, Not a Have to. Proudly brought to you by L&D Philly and the Philadelphia Chapter of ATD. Details and registration here on our website. And don't miss on our other great summer 2018 events!

Our June monthly workshop will take place on Saturday June 9th from 9am to 12pm at Drexel University's main campus. Join L&D Philly and the Philly chapter of ATD for the most dynamic and engaging workshop you will see all year! Details and registration at ldphilly.com

Make Training a Want to (Not a Have to)

We don’t teach content; we teach people. That’s why it’s time to start focusing on context. People are drowning in all of the free content that is available since the Internet arrived in 1995. It’s time for an update: Make Training A Want To (Not A Have To) gives you the insight and tools to reverse engineer the ultimate training in order to facilitate learning experiences that create measurable results with your people and compelling reasons to apply the learning. This changes everything.

Today’s training has to be energizing, interactive, fun, and full of valuable content, too! But too many trainers still stand behind a podium—a 20th century practice. It’s time for an update: this experience gives you the insight and tools to help design trainings that create lasting impact with your learners. Content is the loser here; because it’s NOT about “what” people learn. This is about becoming a context expert. Discover training practices that go against standard practice.

Learn from locally based, but nationally recognized training leader Joe Urbanski about how to think differently when it comes to the training we provide learners.