Presentations Available:
Instructional Development (ID) Project
Management
Below are some professional development sessions which Michael Greer could present for your organization. In most cases, particularly if yours is a non-profit professional group, the costs will be limited to Greer's out-of-pocket expenses only. For clarification, contact Michael Greer at greers_pm@yahoo.com
Presentations listed here include:
Planning Successful ID Projects (Condensed Version)
Presentation Type: Professional Workshop
Duration: 1 Day
Audience: Training and HRD professionals, as well as performance technologists (PTs)
When Available: On request; typically for non-profit professional organizations
Synopsis: This is a condensed version of Greer's Planning Successful ID Projects.
Objectives: See Planning Successful ID Projects.
Handouts: Copy of text ID Project Management, as well as many other materials too numerous to mention (e-mail for details)
Critical Attributes of ID Project Success
Presentation Type: Professional Development Session
Duration: 1 - 2 hours
Audience: Training and HRD professionals, as well as performance technologists (PTs)
When Available: Upon request
Synopsis: What's the best way to organize your ID project? How should you manage your resources? What checks and balances should be built into your project plans? In short, how can you help assure that your ID project is a success? Michael Greer surveyed Performance and Instruction readers to find out which ID project management techniques they use and how these techniques contribute to the success of their projects. In this presentation he will present the results of that survey and give you the opportunity to apply a fifty-one item project management assessment tool to one of your projects.
Objectives: Using a handout as reference, participants will be able to:
 | List the critical attributes of ID Project Success. |
| Determine which attributes you could immediately apply to your ID projects to increase the likelihood of their success. |
Handouts: Copies of overhead transparencies, 51-item self-assessment worksheet "ID Project Management Practices Self Assessment"
Beyond Sales Training: A Model for Building a Performance-Based Learning Organization
Presentation Type: Professional Development Session
Duration: 1 - 2 hours
Audience: Training and HRD professionals, as well as performance technologists (PTs)
When Available: Upon request
Synopsis: This session will present Respironics' six-step model for building a performance-based learning organization. It will compare this model with a traditional development approach, showing how the recommended model supports the shifting of responsibility for teaching-learning from a centralized training group to regional offices and individual learners. Tools (guidelines) will outline the steps and substeps required to execute the model, then show the required outputs, challenges likely to be faced, and keys to success.
Objectives: After attending this session, participants will be able to:
| Compare the typical development process with that required to support a performance-based learning organization. |
| Describe the six types of learning support mechanisms needed to enable a performance-based learning organization and describe who in the organization should define and maintain each of these mechanisms. |
| State the importance of performance analysis, job models, career path descriptions, curriculum architecture, and formalized instructional development standards in implementing a performance-based learning organization. |
| Use a multi-page set of guidelines to plan and begin the transformation of your organization into a performance-based learning organization. |
| List typical obstacles you might encounter and keys to success for completing the transformation. |
Handouts: Several pages of job aids related to implementation of the six-step model, copies of key overheads, samples of Respironics' deliverables
Instructional Design versus Message Design
Presentation Type: Brief Professional Development Session
Duration: 20 Minutes
Audience: Newcomers to the Training, HRD, or performance technology (PT) field
When Available: On request
Synopsis: This presentation distinguishes between the design of a complete instructional system and the design of a message. It illustrates how an instructional system provides participants with information, practice, feedback, and bridges to the world outside the classroom, as compared to a message which provides primarily information. The presentation then contrasts the typical questions asked by the instructional designer with those asked by the message designer. It is suitable for introducing the novice client or beginning ID/PT student to the process of instructional design.
Objectives: After attending this session, participants will be able to:
| Distinguish instructional design from message design. |
| Describe why instructional designer typically must take more time and gather more data than message designers. |
Handouts: Copies of overhead transparencies
ID Project Management: Is it an Art or a Science?
Presentation Type: Cracker Barrel or Roundtable Discussion
Duration: 20 - 45 minutes
Audience: Training and HRD professionals, as well as performance technologists (PTs)
Synopsis: Originally developed for ISPI's popular Cracker Barrel sessions, this discussion is facilitated around a small conference table. Greer prompts discussion among participants with a worksheet that lists critical elements of an art as compared to critical elements of a science. The free flow of ideas which ensues can lead to clarification of many ID project management issues.
Objectives: Participants will be able to list the characteristics and practices of ID project management which make it an art, versus those characteristics which make it a science.
Handouts: Worksheet -- "Critical Elements of an Art Versus Critical Elements of a Science"
From ID to PT: What Must ID Project Managers Learn?
Presentation Type: Cracker Barrel or Roundtable Discussion
Duration: 20 - 45 minutes
Audience: Training and HRD professionals, as well as performance technologists (PTs)
When Available: Upon Request
Synopsis: Originally developed for ISPI's popular Cracker Barrel sessions, this discussion is facilitated around a small conference table. Greer prompts discussion among participants with a worksheet that compares the work product of ID projects with the work products of PT (Performance Technology) projects. In addition, several project management models from different industries are provided as input. Participants are asked to discuss the essential project management skills that ID project managers must acquire to move from ID to PT project management. The free flow of ideas which ensues can lead to clarification of many PT project management issues.
Objectives: Participants will be able to list the characteristics and practices of ID project management which make it an art, versus those characteristics which make it a science.
Handouts: Thought provoking handout, with a table comparing PT versus ID work products, graphic depictions of PM models, and essential PM actions in any industry