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The Greater Los Angeles chapter of ISPI is a community of practice for performance improvement professionals in corporate, industrial, and non-profit settings. ISPI advocates the application of the principles and practices of human performance technology (HPT) to organizational issues.

 
Saturday, November 10

ISPI-LA is pleased to announce our next chapter meeting:  Saturday, November 10th, at Antioche University. Registration begins at 8:30AM. 

Our meeting will feature: A Model Partnership: How Coastline Community College and Chevron Prepare Qualified Refinery Personnel

Five years ago, Chevron Products approached Coastline Community College to create a program in Process Technology to produce more qualified candidates for So Cal's oil refinery industry. In turn, Coastline worked with Chevron's Learning & Development unit to improve the Company's in-house training programs--moving toward more active application and problem-based learning.
Come learn more about this unique career education partnership between educators and trainers. See how this model partnership between community colleges and industry can applied elsewhere to generate a more qualified workforce and improve performance!
Four dedicated members of this partnership will share:

  • Details on the relationship between Coastline and Chevron.
  • How the refinery’s approach to training was refocused on a competency-based approach.
  • Examples of the problem-based learning interventions that led to performance improvement.

 

Presenters: 

• Bob Nash - Associate Dean of Distance Learning & Prof. Development at Coastline Community College.
• Dr. Ann Burress - Learning & Development Mgr. at Chevron’s El Segundo Refinery.
• Denise Cusano - an ID consultant with over 15 years experience in the financial services, healthcare and energy industries.
• Dan Jones - Executive Dean, Office of Learning & Information Technologies at Coastline Community College for the past 12 years.

 

Competency-Based Games A Quicker Path to Competency

Presenters:  Crane Morley President Thom Pratt and Millar Farewell

Crane Morley President Thom Pratt and Millar Farewell will demonstrate the competency-based game learning system developed for American Honda’s Motorcycle Division.  Dealer salespeople in a motorcycle dealership are faced with an overwhelming amount of product knowledge to master.  In some cases, a dealer may carry six different brands of motorcycles and inside each brand there may be as many as 50 model variants.  Because this is an enthusiast business, many salespeople do develop a deep understanding of the type of bike they ride – a sport bike rider for example.  But this same person may lack experience and product knowledge of off road vehicles such as dirt bikes and ATV’s.  So working closely with Honda, CM developed a learning solution that enabled the salesperson to quickly demonstrate and get credit for existing product knowledge and then focus precious learning time on areas of weakness.  Its game-based theme also was deigned to tap the competitive nature of sales people and invite repeat sessions to improve scores and learning.  From a technophile’s point of view, the learning system was also developed in an efficient XML-based structure that reduced development cost by 75% and enables the Crane Morley team to write, program and deliver a course in less than a month.

 

 

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Sept. 15 - ISPI-LA Meeting

  • Dr. Richard DiNinni of USC’s Institute for Creative Technologies will share the U.S. Army’s Latest Research in learning strategies and interactive technologies

  • Doug Leigh, Project Leader at the National Science Foundation and Associate Professor at Pepperdine, will share his expertise on Training Needs Analysis.

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ISPI stands for International Society for Performance Improvement. But our chapter is really about managers, trainers, instructional designers, coaches, and professionals like you who want to continue to grow in their field, to get new job opportunities, to network with other key folks, and to just plain have fun in the process.

Each year, we host four get-togethers that are free for our Members, as well as other educational meetings. Our meetings are usually on a Saturday (avoiding LA weekday traffic) and include two world-class presentations along with breakfast, coffee, lunch, and more fun.

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Featured Websites

CraneMorley, as demonstrated by Thomas Pratt and friends, creating "high performance tools for training, marketing and communications."

BasisMedia Communication,established by John Luttrell, BasisMedia transforms corporate training and education content into web-based training solutions.

Performance Solutions LLC , the international consulting firm headed by Harold Stolovitch.

 

 
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