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Sales Training Manager, Inkling Jill Clark is the sales training manager at Inkling. She uses her more than 10 years in direct sales to empower sales professionals with consultative skills and business savvy. Prior to Inkling, Jill built an extensive training curriculum for a global sales organization at Quantcast, which enabled her to see how Millennials work best.

Jill Clark

Few activities are as nerve-wracking as networking. Some professionals eschew it altogether because they think it means stilted conversations with strangers or exploiting others for personal gain. It's time to reclaim networking. The real goal is to turn brief encounters into mutually beneficial and lasting relationships. Drawing on her new e-book Stand Out Networking, Harvard Business Review contributor and Duke Fuqua School of Business professor Dorie Clark will share concrete strategies on how to turn small talk into meaningful exchanges, unlock the power of social media as a networking tool, make the most of conferences, and more. This webcast will help you turn networking from a chore into a joyful and enriching activity.

Stand Out: Networking

Fact: In 2011, organizations spent $156 billion on workforce learning programs. Fact: Employees of Fortune Global 500 companies clock an average of around 34 learning hours per year. Fact: You are faced with making major decisions to get the most out of all your training efforts. Given all that time and money, shouldn't you take your decisions as seriously as doctors, engineers, and others who are required to use research to do their jobs safely and efficiently? The Evidence-Based Learning Virtual Conference will show you how! Join researchers and practitioners for a full day of the latest evidence in adult learning. You'll also get solid advice for translating the evidence into your own arsenal of best practices, from the practitioner's perspective, as well as the researcher's. Expert presenters include Ruth Colvin Clark, Will Thalheimer, Karl Kapp, David Merrill, Susanne Lajoie, and Robert Atkinson. This is a first-time, one-of-a-kind web event, not to be missed!

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So what's your area of specialization? Many of you might chime right in with, "Instructional Design!" or "Learning Facilitation!" And some of you, of course, might just laugh a little.It seems I am always hearing about today's learning professional who, as part of their day-to-day work, has the fortune of doing eight jobs under one title. How does one even claim a single area of specialization when working in a department of one or two people? Conversely, perhaps you are a part of an exceptionally large department and hold a very specific role. Even then, you probably have areas in which you are interested, but rarely find the opportunities (or the time) to sharpen your skills and broaden your horizons.So, just how can you heighten your performance while honing your capabilities—whether the you're one-person department or part of a larger functional team? Enter the L&D Community of Practice.My job as the Community of Practice Manager is to find new and engaging ways to bring to community members resources on thoughtfully targeted centers of interest. At the same time, my goal is to expose people to some fresh ideas, emerging trends, and innovative learning solutions to implement in their organizations. Perfect example: IT training. Not everyone does it, but no matter your specialty in L&D, there are some lessons to be learned—perhaps from software or other high-tech industries.Another way ASTD can help designers is with ASTD's ISD Network on Yammer. This network can really help this community dig deeper into areas of interest by enabling them to form groups around specific industries or topics. If you aren't already a member, click here to learn more and sign up!Of course, you can control your own topic preferences, too. In fact, did you know that you can manage (i.e., reduce) email from ASTD? When you log in to your profile, simply click on the link “Manage Email Subscriptions” and use the sliders to indicate the Communities of Practice that are most relevant to you. It is that easy.On a slightly different note, thanks for those of you who chimed in about post-conference buzz last month. It led to some great discussions. And July promises to be an excellent month on the L&D Blog, with, hopefully, something for everybody. Ruth Colvin Clark will be back with more evidence-based best practices, Willis Thomas will share more of his lessons learned about training project management, Sarah Wakefield will share technical training tips, and Chopeta Lyons will join us to talk graphic design for trainers. If you have any other bloggers to suggest, send me a note. I love hearing everyone's ideas—and I really do use them!And lastly, for those of us celebrating in the United States, have a safe, fun, and relaxing Independence Day!!!

July 2012 Community Editorial: What’s Your Specialty?

According to Dr. Ruth Colvin Clark, a renowned specialist in instructional design and workplace learning, workplace learning and development professionals are wasting their time and money focusing on fads and myths like learning styles and relying on course satisfaction surveys as evidence of training effectiveness.Colvin Clark has written a new book, Evidence-Based Training Methods: A Guide for Training Professionals, that helps learning practitioners professionalize their work by using research and evidence to validate their methods. Bridging the gap between instructional research and workplace practice, Colvin Clark tackles popular training myths and makes a strong business case for dropping fads that don't work and investing resources in proven methods.Instructors, training managers, and instructional designers will find this book insightful and practical as it guides practitioners to incorporate evidence and learning psychology into program design, development, and delivery decisions.Evidence-Based Training Methods: A Guide for Training Professionals is published by ASTD Press.Ruth Colvin Clark will be speaking on Sunday, May 16th at the ASTD 2010 International Conference & Exposition in Chicago, IL, where she will also have a book signing.

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