The ATD International Conference & Exposition is the largest event for talent development professionals worldwide. It provided me with the knowledge, strategies, and solutions I need to effectively train and develop talent. Top workshops attended: 

• 7 Steps to measure the impact of learning with a competency model: Follow steps to use a competency model to measure changes in skills and results, demostrate impact of personalized and competency-based learning, Leverage the results and templates provided
• 6 Rules to design e-learning for maximum motivation: Analyze the importance of motivation in e-learning design, apply six rules for creating motiviting e-learning solutions, examine design considerations for content, scope, difficulty, jugdment, leveling and user control
• Building the xAPI Ecosystem: Synthesize activitiesinto a coherent picture of learning and performance, Discover possibilities for learning and performance innfrastructure
• Powerful Mentoring: descovering methods for supporting mentors, exploring tools to help create momentum in every mentoring relationship, apply key frameworks to assess and develp mentors
• LXD: Using design maps for active, deep learner expereinces: Define learner cyrcle and categorize behaviours into performance outcomes
• Increasing participation and awareness of training programs: Using analytics to target specific audiences, leverange innovative technology to engage audiences
• Create a strategically driven mentoring program: Identify components that define a mentoring program, Enhance the components of a mentoring program
• Mentoring as a secret strategy for success in higher Ed: Apply best practices for formal and informal mentoring, Communicate awareness of the importance of political acumen in higher education, use resources to improve and develop a mentoring program
• Microlearning: Define the meaning and value of microlearning, identify everyday learning behaviours that support effective microlearning, establish guiding principles for learning solutions
• Maximize microlearning with UMU: What microlearning is, how to create it fast and where it fits in an existing learning strategy