Calendar of Events
What: Get Connected with SITE
When: Wednesday, February 1, 2012
Where: Webinar
Description:
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM EST: All SITE members and prospective members are invited to participate in this webinar to:
- Review the Benefits of SITE
- Become familiar with the SITE website
- Participate in an overview of volunteer opportunities
- Learn how to connect with SITE using Social Media
- Hear from both new and veteran members as they share membership experiences
Facilitator: Brad Gutcher
Contact: gutcheb@nationwide.com
Cost: FREE for SITE Members
What: SITE Roundtable – “Conducting a Train-the-Trainer for Facilitators at Remote Locations”
When: Friday, February 17, 2012
Where: Webinar
Description:
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM EST: One of the challenges facing training directors today is handling initial and ongoing training and evaluation of facilitators in person. If you have remote trainers on your team, how do you keep them motivated, refreshed, and current on the latest training methods when you are not in the same office, let alone the same state?
Onsite training is becoming a thing of the past as company budgets are limiting travel expenses. To continue to train and evaluate your remote employees, you are going to have to get creative.
By attending this webinar, you will walk away with ideas on how to reach out to your remote training staff and keep them up to speed on the latest training techniques. While in person training is the most effective, it isn’t always necessary. What are other ways you can reach your employees without incurring the expense of in person training?
We will discuss how distance education plays a big factor in training today and how to give your trainers a positive learning experience via webinars, online training, and video-based training.
This will be an interactive session so come prepared to share your ideas with fellow SITE members on how you effectively motivate and train your remote facilitators.
Host/Facilitator: Ken Swymer – Liberty Mutual
Presenter: Barb Gavitt is the Director of Insurance Licensing and Education for Kaplan Financial Education. She has over 20 years of insurance industry training experience, including instructor led training and distance education. In her current role, Barb is responsible for developing, designing, and maintaining print based and online course material for the insurance prelicensing product line. Barb has developed and facilitated many train the trainer workshops and has completed the SITE Train the Trainer program. Barb has been a SITE member since 2008 and is currently serving on the Board of Directors. She received her Bachelor’s degree in education from Eastern Michigan University and a Certificate in Distance Education from Indiana University.
Facilitator: Ken Swymer
Contact: Kenneth.Swymer@LibertyMutual.com
Cost: FREE for SITE Members
What: SITE Sponsored Webinar: "The e-Vantage: Strategies for Delivering Content Virtually"
When: Friday, March 2, 2012
Where: Webinar
Description:
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM EST: The e-Vantage: Strategies for Delivering Content Virtually
Delivering content virtually is the new reality for many professionals.
Whether you are leading meetings, presenting, or facilitating a training program, you need to connect with every audience member. Just “doing what worked" in a live (in-person) meeting or classroom is not enough. Working with virtual participants presents a different set of strategies to keep your audience engaged, excited and wanting more.
Learning Objectives:
* Understand how people learn in live (face to face) and virtual environments
* Increase their impact with live and virtual audiences
* Build interaction for remote audiences
* Manage their participants’ “cognitive load”
* Prepare materials that prompt involvement
* Use annotation tools to involve audiences
* Create visuals for virtual training and engagement
* Boost presenter confidence in using virtual modalities
Energizing. That’s one word you can use to sum up Amy’s distinct approach to training and coaching. Amy began at BRODY in 1996, and ever since, has successfully led learners with her unique, fast-paced teaching style. Amy facilitates training programs that focus on leadership presence, presentation and facilitation skills, networking, professional savvy, and managing and engaging multiple generations in the workplace. In her roles as professional speaker and executive coach, she also customizes and designs sessions to personally address client needs.
Amy has worked with many Fortune 500 companies and international trade associations in a variety of industries, including pharmaceutical, biotech, finance, entertainment, education, and technology. Amy is a graduate of Boston University, where she earned a degree in Mass Communications. She also studied Organizational Dynamics at The University of Pennsylvania.
Many SITE members will remember her highly rated education session she presented at the SITE 2008 Conference in Savannah.
Facilitator: Amy Glass - Brody Professional Development
Cost: FREE for SITE Members
What: SITE Roundtable – “Elements of a Successful Communication Plan”
When: Friday, March 23, 2012
Where: Webinar
Description:
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM EST: Where do I begin? What should I include? Whom is my target audience? Attending this session will help you answer these questions and more! Come join the facilitator as she walks participants through a Communication Plan template that is proven to be successful. The template is customizable to your company and is a great starting point for any size project.
Hosted by the Souther Region.
Facilitator: Michelle Kologinczak
Contact: michelle.kologinczak.ckvi@statefarm.com
Cost: FREE for SITE Members
What: Get Connected with SITE
When: Wednesday, April 4, 2012
Where: Webinar
Description:
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM EST: All SITE members and prospective members are invited to participate in this webinar to:
- Review the Benefits of SITE
- Become familiar with the SITE website
- Participate in an overview of volunteer opportunities
- Learn how to connect with SITE using Social Media
- Hear from both new and veteran members as they share membership experiences
Facilitator: Brad Gutcher
Contact: gutcheb@nationwide.com
Cost: FREE for SITE Members
What: SITE Roundtable – “Simulations”
When: Friday, April 20, 2012
Where: Webinar
Description:
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM EST: Subject of a workshop at last year’s Annual Conference and expanded into a Learning Lab by popular request for the upcoming DC Conference; this Cracker Barrel will give you more than just a preview of what you will experience!
Simulations provides instructor guidelines from Paul Balbresky, ITP and past President of SITE who has used these methodologies with many Clients over his career of 30+ years in insurance to stimulate interest, engage learners, solve business problems and identify high potential employees.
During this hour, Paul will share techniques he has used, discuss challenges, provide guidelines, and respond to questions from the audience.
You won’t want to miss this!
Biography:
Paul is the Principal of Balbresky Consulting Services, a marketing/sales strategy and training professional practice specializing in the insurance industry. Development experiences are provided in Sales, Marketing, Negotiations, Sales Management, Customer Service and Critical Business Issues, such as: Operational Planning, Team Building, Innovation, Diversity, Behavioral Styles, Stress and Time Management.
Paul's undergraduate degree is from Albright College, did post graduate work at the University of Brussels, and earned his masters from Temple University.
Paul has over 30 years experience in insurance and is the author of articles in several Education and Risk Management journals. He is a frequent speaker at industry meetings, has taught Marketing and Management as an adjunct faculty member of Penn State University, served as Board member of the Campus Violence Prevention Center, as Board member and National President of the Society of Insurance Trainers and Educators (SITE).
Facilitator: Ken Swymer
Presenter: Paul Balbresky MEd, CLU, ITP
Contact: Kenneth.Swymer@LibertyMutual.com
Cost: FREE for SITE Members
What: SITE Roundtable – “Metrics – Is the Cup ½ Empty or ½ Full?”
When:Friday, May 18, 2011
Where: Webinar
Description:
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM EST: As insurance trainers and educators, we’re constantly being asked to “prove our worth”. I’m sure you’ve been in situations following a major training initiative, when you’ve been asked “so what did we get for that?” Knowing what to measure, how to measure and what it really tells us after we collect the data can be difficult. And, finding a way to tell a compelling story about that data can be even more so.
I certainly won’t profess to be an expert on this topic, but invite you to join us for a discussion about:
• What works and what doesn’t?
• Which metrics really matter?
• What do the metrics tell us?
• Who will care?
Please come prepared for a facilitated discussion. I’m sure you have ideas or horror stories to share about metrics gone awry. Let’s share ideas, best practices and maybe some lessons learned along the way.
Tammy began her career in July 1985 as an Auto Underwriter. She has held a variety of positions throughout the company. Most of her years at State Farm have been in a Learning and Development function. She’s an Instructional Designer at heart and for the last 10 years has managed teams responsible for building and maintaining large curriculums.
Facilitator: Tammy Alsene
Contact: Tammy.Alsene.bcz2@Statefarm.com
Cost: FREE for SITE Members
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