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April 2020
Webinar: Tips for Converting ILT to Virtual Classroom Delivery
“Deliver that training online!” It’s easy for your boss (or their boss) to say that, but successfully converting classroom training to the virtual classroom takes work. It’s just similar enough to trick you into thinking it’s easy. But your traditional learning methodologies need a makeover if they're going to work in the virtual classroom. Think about the best virtual sessions you have attended – we bet it was more than lecture and uploaded PowerPoints! This session will explore…
Find out more »**Canceled** April Professional Development Program
Due to the COVID-19 outbreak, we are canceling the April Professional Development Program at the City Club of Washington DC. Please read the message from the TOC Executive Board for more information.
Find out more »**POSTPONED** 2020 Annual Institute
April 19-22, 2020 at the Clarion Fountainebleau in Ocean City, MD The 2020 Annual Institute is postponed due to the COVID-19 outbreak. Read the message from the TOC Executive Board for more information.
Find out more »May 2020
Unintentional Bias Impacts Your Agency
Successful agencies hire a diverse workforce, but does that diversity of perspectives make it to the members of the public whom you serve? Does your public relations team understand how different cultures impact the mission? In this highly interactive session, you will make an action plan for bringing unconscious bias to light in your agency to better serve your mission. Learning Objectives: Understand unconscious bias and uncover some of your own; Discover the implications of unconscious bias on your agency;…
Find out more »Webinar: The Neuroscience of Gratitude – What Leaders Need to Know About This New Neural Knowledge
Imagine a community of leaders able to surpass the limitations of traditional leadership strategies and proactively address the negative consequences inherent in today’s high stress, often conflict laden, challenging work environments. Imagine leading from a strengths-based philosophy armed with the latest research and evidence-based practices in gratitude and contemporary neuroscience, in order to create more positive, collaborative, and engaged teams. The human brain, with its built-in negativity bias, identifies the workplace first and foremost as a social system. Leaders attending…
Find out more »June 2020
Annual Distinguished Service Awards Program
The Training Officers Consortium Distinguished Service Awards Program was launched by the Training Officers Consortium in 1955 to stimulate improved government-sponsored training programs through recognition of individuals making significant contributions to the Federal training community in the field of human resource development (training, education, and development). Awards are given in the following categories: Leadership Development: Presented to an individual, team or agency that has made significant accomplishments in leadership development. Leadership development can encompass any number of developmental processes including the…
Find out more »Webinar: L&D’s Opportunity to Help Engineer the Future Organization
In this session, you will learn how L&D can 1) build its constituency, 2) enhance its effectiveness, and 3) increase its ability to help shape strategy by capitalizing on the enterprise imperative to become more flexible and adaptive. The nature of work is changing. Organizations are shifting employees from low value work (computers do easily) to high value work (only human beings can do). The work is changing quickly, but leadership is often far removed from the work. Front-line employees…
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