Dayton Group Breakfast Meeting: Design Active Learning Programs with Your Elite Subject Matter Experts

Some Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) are so valued on the job that getting them to do a training session can be a rare treat...until they start putting even the most interested learners to sleep as they drone on.

Learning Professionals can easily make a difference by introducing SMEs to one of three simple and proven templates for active-learning. Help them fill in the template by recommending active-learning methods that match the SMEs personalities, help them create relevant stories to make learning interesting and real-to-life, and work with them to convert text-heavy slides into easy-to-recall content with visuals.*

In this session, you will:

• Match SME personalities to various active-learning methods using a Matching Job Aid
• Conduct an interview of an SME to draw out stories for use in training using the UPL technique
• Convert an SME's text-heavy slides to something better by applying 3 "Visuals for Recall" techniques

This session will be led by Lisa M. D. Owens, President of Training Design Strategies LLC. 

Lisa M. D. Owens is a learning expert who applies science and instructional design methodology to training programs that move businesses forward.  During Lisa’s 30+ year career at Proctor & Gamble, she served as P&G’s leading training professional (1994-2011), and dean of P&G’s R&D University (2003-2011).

At P&G she was a sought after internal consultant for training design. She was well known for her skill as a coach for executive trainers, a skill she developed in response to P&G’s culture of leaders-as-teachers. Lisa designed a wide range of training at P&G which used a leaders-as-teachers approach, including General Manager College for two CEOs, and several corporate universities across organizations as diverse as public affairs and research & development.  Lisa holds a Bachelor of Chemical Engineering (’77 Georgia Tech), and Masters in Education (’96 University of Cincinnati). She joined P&G as a process engineer in 1977 and shifting to a training role in 1992.

Lisa founded Training Design Strategies LLC in 2012 and consults with large and midsize firms on developing training strategies that advance the business. Her publications include an article "Leader Trainers" in Leadership Excellence (2005) and several articles on forming corporate universities. She is on the advisory board for Ohio University’s instructional design certificate program, on the executive advisory board for the Greater Cincinnati chapter of ASTD, and she has served as a CorpU awards judge since 2010.

*This program has been submitted to the HR Certification Institute for review.