610 Combining Curiosity, Creativity, and the World of Learning & Performance Support
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM Thursday, June 11
Performance Support
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It isn’t enough to build performance support solutions that are instructionally and technologically sound. Motivation and engagement are essential to ensure actual organizational impact. Engagement and creativity can be engineered and trained. They can also be incorporated into the actual design of learning and performance solutions.
In this session you will gain an overview of the discipline and research around curiosity, creativity, and engagement. You will learn how curiosity, creativity, and engagement can be intentionally incorporated into the overall organizational learning and performance strategy and you will assess your own thinking profile to determine your own preferences in the areas of curiosity, creativity, and engagement.
In this session, you will learn:
- About research related to curiosity and creativity as it applies to engagement
- How you can intentionally foster these traits
- How to enhance your strategy via creativity and curiosity
- How to assess your own creativity and curiosity.
Audience:
Intermediate and advanced managers and directors.
Technology
discussed in this session:
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Conrad Gottfredson
Chief Learning Strategist
APPLY Synergies
Conrad Gottfredson, the chief learning strategist at APPLY Synergies, has deep experience in organizational learning, collaborative development, knowledge management, online learning, performance support, and instructional design and development. Conrad is the original developer of the Learning at the Five Moments of Need framework now in use around the world. He has worked with many of the world's largest organizations, helping them attain higher levels of learning agility. Conrad's experience includes the design and deployment of large-scale knowledge management and performance support systems within multinational corporations. In 2014 Conrad was awarded the Guild Master Award for his accomplishments and contributions to the eLearning community. He holds a PhD in instructional psychology and technology.
Oliver Kern
Head of SkillCamp
Bayer CropScience
Oliver Kern is the head of SkillCamp, the global Marketing and Sales Academy program at Bayer CropScience. He has been with Bayer for 17 years in various roles, mainly in marketing and communications, where his focus areas were web strategy, innovation management, financial instruments, and academy programs. Before Bayer he worked as a freelance media consultant. Oliver holds a degree in photographic engineering and an executive MBA from Kellogg and WHU and is a certified FourSight consultant.
