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Awards will be given for successful courses, sites, and products, in three categories: e-learning, blended learning, and mobile learning. Each category includes awards in both the Academic and Business divisions. The winners will be announced in June 2012 at the ICELW Conference in New York, though you do not need to come to New York in order to win an award.

The International E-Learning Association is a leading international group that brings together researchers and practitioners in all forms of e-learning. IELA's sponsorship of international conferences and journals, and its strong membership base, continue to advance the state of the art of the e-learning field worldwide in academic and business areas.

Submissions for the 2012 International E-Learning Awards - Business Division are due on March 1, 2012. For more details regarding the submission process, please check the IELA Awards Page at http://www.ielassoc.org/awards.htm . We look forward to your submissions!

I wanted to take a moment and personally invite all ASTD members from your local chapter to our 10^th annual Learning Analytics Symposium. It is March 5-7 in New Orleans. The event will feature workshops, breakouts and general sessions from world-class organizations including Microsoft, NetApp, Boeing, BlueShield, Verizon, P&G, Bersin & Associates, the ROI Institute and many others. The theme is Executive Reporting and will focus attention on how learning leaders report performance to business executives.

I would like to offer your local ASTD members a 50% discount pass to the event. If any local chapter member goes to http://www.knowledgeadvisors.com/events/symposium/ and enters code KAVS50Y they will receive half off the $1,500 registration fee.

We would value your membership participating in the event and feel it is a good use of their time to do so.

If your members do consider attending we suggest making arrangements soon as the hotel (which you can also book from our site) has a great rate that will soon be filled.

ILA 33rd Annual Convention

We ARE Listening: Advocate, Research, Educate

More details on our calendar

The members of ILA cover a broad spectrum of interests and professions, from education, business, research, and general backgrounds. These include university professors, physicians and healthcare providers, business consultants, training and development professionals, business coaches, leadership professionals, musicians, and many other specialties. What field does not encompass some aspect of listening!
For this particular session, we will probably see mostly our business special interest group members, but we will also see members from the other specialties, as well.

The International Listening Association is a professional association dedicated to the study and teaching of effective listening in a wide variety of settings.
(Please see our website at www.listen.org for further information about the organization. There is additional information about the 2012 Convention on the site, as well.)

Our Convention typically has about 120-150 attendees, and they come from the U.S. and a number of foreign countries. We also have a special interest group in the organization that focuses on listening in a business setting, and we have partnered with several other ASTD chapters around the country at some of our past Conventions, offering special programs and mini-conferences that relate to training and development and listening.

Had a great opportunity to chat with Jane McGonigal at a learning conference today. See her TED speech and read her book on Reality is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World.

Jane McGonigal: Gaming can make a better world

www.ted.com

Games like World of Warcraft give players the means to save worlds, and incentive to learn the habits of heroes. What if we could harness this gamer power to solve real-world problems? Jane McGonigal says we can, and explains how.

• Largest conference in the field providing the most choices for your development
• 230 top rated educational sessions
• World-renowned speakers
• Networking with like-minded peers from around the world
• World-class expo

Tony

Seeing and Exploring Coaching in Action: The Puget Sound Coaches Association Fish Bowl Adventure

Bring your hip boots and wade right into this collaborative coaching experience.  The PSCA meeting on March 6^th at REI Seattle, 5:00 p.m.- 8:30 p.m. will be a deep dive into a real-time exploration of ICF professional coaching.  Your PSCA program committee has come up with a program that will reel you in and add to your tackle box of resources and coaching skills.

We have carefully selected four coaching scenarios that will challenge all levels of coaching experience: 

1.  Creating awareness with a micromanaging leader who wants to empower a team but continues to wonder why they are not responding.

2.  Direct communication with a client who may need therapy rather than coaching.

3.  Accountability with a client who "talks a good game" but rarely follows through.

4.  Being fully present with an angry, blaming client who has just been laid-off from their job.

Local coaches with current ICF credentials are stepping forward to coach peer clients in each of these four scenarios.  They are courageous and bold to come forward to coach for all to witness and learn from together.  After each scenario we will deepen our collective learning through a variety of reflection processes, including insights from a powerful panel of experienced coaches who are intimately familiar with the ICF Core Competencies; small group dialogue; and debrief with the full group.

Those on the outside of the Fish Bowl will have the opportunity to support the coaching container and to learn from observation and discussion. The activities after each session are intended to evoke thoughtful reflection, insight, curiosity and inquiry into the many styles of effective coaching and the variety of ways to be of service to the client within the coaching paradigm.

Come get your feet wet in this evening of experiential learning!

Request for coaches and clients:  Break out from the safety of a school of fish: volunteer to be a client in our Fish Bowl Adventure. Individuals who volunteer to be clients will be asked to embody the scenario without being canned or scripted.  The program committee will assign your situation and coach on the night of the meeting so there's little pressure to “act” or prepare.  Our intent is that these impromptu, real-time scenarios come alive from the essence of the person who is the client.  

Please send an email to Amoráh and Jody at programs@pugetsoundcoaches.org about your desire to be coach in the Fish Bowl on Tuesday, March 6th. Share with us your coaching background and training, your area of coaching specialty and which ICF credential you currently hold. If you’d like to be a client, please step forward; no credentials necessary!  Swim upstream and volunteer today!