Is Your Corporate Culture “Ready” for Gen Y?

by treasurer on August 31, 2010

Register Here Are you ready for Gen Y?  Few organizations are.  Not only do we need to understand how Gen Y workers are different, we need to understand how to create the proper Organizational Culture that will engage and retain them.  Gen Y’s view the corporate world differently and will demand change – whether we [...]

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Advertisers, Exhibitors and Sponsors for The Shift-Challenge to Change … VOS Annual Conference

August 20, 2010

We’ve made it quick and easy for advertisers, exhibitors and sponsors to get involved with our annual conference: The Shift – Challenge to Change. Just hover your mouse over the CONFERENCE menu link and look for the “Sponsorships and Advertising” link in the drop down menu. Click on it and you’ll be taken to the [...]

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8.26.10 CoP: Avnet’s L&D Leaders Talk Attendance and ROI

August 18, 2010

Please join us for August’s Community of Practice (CoP).  This month’s topic: Get Them to Tune In: Five Proven Attendance & ROI-Boosting Techniques Your Employees Will Find Irresistible When 12,000-employee global distributor Avnet, Inc. saw their online training usage and course satisfaction rates declining, the company responded by implementing five strategies that have reversed that [...]

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Keynote for The Shift – Challenge to Change

August 16, 2010

We are excited to announce that we have arranged to bring in Neil Dempster, an internationally acclaimed speaker and student of the behavioral components of success, who will be opening AND closing our conference with a fun, informative, and thought-provoking keynote. His high-energy presentations are guaranteed to provide you with practical, common sense knowledge on [...]

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8.19.10 Monthly Meeting: Measuring the Business Impact of Training

July 30, 2010
Ed Eyler

Time: 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM, Pacific Zone time Location: Rio Salado College, 2323 W. 14th Street, Tempe AZ 85281 Attire: Business Casual Fees: Member: $20 / Non-members: $40 Register for this Meeting. In life we always want to know how what we are using is performing.  How many miles per gallon is my car getting? [...]

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Articulate for ADVANCED users

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Join David Anderson, Articulate Community Manager, at the Southwest Institute for Healing Arts on August 27th [Friday] from 1 to 5 pm for an ADVANCED Articulate workshop. This is a follow up to the June and July workshops. Let us know if you or your company has specific training needs and we will do our [...]

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7.29.10 Community of Practice: Strategic Speed

July 15, 2010
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Date: July 29, 2010 Time: 5:30 – 7:00pm Place: Avnet Headquarters, 2211 South 47th Street, Phoenix, Arizona, 85234 Cost: Free Register:  Through cvent announcement, or email professionaldevelopment@vos.astd.org. Description: It’s a fact: Success in business goes to the swift. It’s about who can create the most value smarter and faster than the competition. Yet the majorities [...]

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Articulate for Beginners and Investigators

July 12, 2010
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Are you considering using Articulate and want to know more? David Anderson, Community Manager for Articulate, will be facilitating an informative workshop for beginners and investigators at the Southwest Institute of Healing Arts in Tempe, Arizona. It will be held on Friday, July 30, 2010. Join us for an excellent opportunity to learn more about [...]

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Tony Bingham & Marcia Conner talk “Transforming the Learning Organization”

July 12, 2010
Tony Bingham & Marcia Conner

The following is an excerpt from an interview with Tony Bingham and Marcia Conner from the June issue of ASTD’s LX Briefing for Senior Learning Executives. There is no doubt that social media has everyone’s attention, including the learning profession. Sessions at the recent ASTD International Conference & Exposition that touched on the topic were [...]

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New ASTD VOS Website Launched!

July 10, 2010
ASTD VOS Website

In an effort to continue to enhance the services and offerings to our members and the greater Phoenix community at large, we have launched a new ASTD VOS website.  The new site features a new look, new navigation and more frequent content updates.  The ASTD VOS Board elected to move towards a more interactive web [...]

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