Pick your brain at the 2010 CUNA Experience Learning Live! conference!

Your gig is all about keeping your human resources and training techniques fresh and your credit union motivated — but who's stoking your own energy levels? It's time to amp up your enthusiasm and ideas at the Experience Learning Live! road show!

We're setting the stage for an awesome line-up of amazing speakers, inspired sessions, and a venue that literally rocks!

Each participant will receive:

• Training from industry experts
• Networking opportunities (including a roster of all attendees)
• Program portfolio
• Six-month trial subscription to Credit Union Magazine
• 100% satisfaction guarantee
• Hard Rock Hotel locale

Experience Learning Live! is not your traditional training program! This program is designed to give you long-lasting experiences and peer interaction while you explore hard-hitting topics and cutting-edge training techniques. Experience Learning Live! will be unlike any training event you've ever attended. We'll fill three days to the brim with ways to maximize your ability to boost the energy of staff, energize the dedication of volunteers, and increase the knowledge level of your members.

Pick Experience Learning Live! today!

CUNA CPDOnline Member Summit/Course Design Pre-Conference Workshop:  October 20, 2010

CUNA Creating Member Loyalty Users Pre-Conference Workshop:  October 20, 2010

CUNA Experience Learning Live!: October 21–23, 2010

Schedule at a glance

Creating an Outrageously Cool Culture Where Engagement is High, Connections are Strong, Change is Awesome and People are Not Just Feeling Good, They're Feeling the LOVE

Creating outstanding experiences for members and co-workers is the natural result of having an engaged, enthused and inspired culture where people feel a sense of purpose, a sense of pride and a sense of connectedness. It’s also what this fun, fast-moving, insightful session is all about! While it may sound like a tall order to fill, don’t worry because having a cool and committed culture is not the result of a great and heroic act, it is the natural result of several small, important acts that anyone can start doing more of today!

You will leave this insight-filled session with ideas you can implement immediately to avoid burnout, eliminate stress, get more engaged, feel better, and have more fun! Your work can only get better when you do. Discover your inner motivation and help your team discover theirs too! You’ll discover ways to keep yourself motivated and your batteries charged, all while creating an outrageously cool culture where engagement is high, connections are strong, change is awesome, and people are not just feeling good, they're feeling the LOVE!

The Dog Poop Initiative: Teaching Through Stories

We know that students who are actively engaged in learning retain more information and are better able to apply what they have learned on the job. We also know that good examples and practice scenarios are basic principles of instructional design, but do we always use them in the most effective way? By using the same principles and skills that successful writers use, instructional designers can boost their examples, scenarios and case studies to the next level. Using stories in courseware design is an effective and interesting way to increase engagement and, ultimately, improve performance. In this session, we’ll discuss how using stories will increase learner engagement and retention and see first hand how Kirk uses his story to initiate a world wide culture shift.

Encouraging Inclusion: Leadership & the Art of Nurturing Diversity

Each time one person feels less valued, the entire community suffers as that person withdraws her/his unique contributions. Whether we are thinking about our organization or considering the global community, leadership includes a responsibility to strengthen our individual and team potential. This dynamic session will explore the challenges and opportunities of working and living in a diverse environment.

I’m O.K., You’re Insane: The People Side of Project Management

You apply solid project management approaches, you work your plan, you roll with the punches, but you’re still having trouble with the people that you need to get the project done. If you’re managing multiple projects with multiple stakeholders, all of whom don’t have to help you unless they want to, this session is for you. Lou will lead you through small simulations to teach you concrete ways to build collaboration, leverage negotiation, and manage through change transition. You’ll leave with both insight and strategic “to dos” to help you immediately get your projects finished.

How ELL Can Get You Fired...or Fired Up!

You did it! You made it to San Diego, rocked out with HR and Training experts from all over the credit union world, soaked up a bazillion best practices, and are now filled with Hard Rock-fueled motivation. You can’t wait to blow off this final session, sleep in a bit longer instead, and then get back home to create a gaggle of glorious new training classes and HR programs.

Congratulations! You’re just a few steps away from getting fired. How?

In this funny, fast-paced, and brutally honest Grand Finale to ELL, a self-confessed credit union junkie will show you how to spot the HR and Training department dysfunctions that could kill your ideas and your career. More importantly, he’ll show you how to keep your shiny new initiatives on track, become an indispensable part of your credit union’s future, and stay fired up long after you leave ELL.

Advanced Trainers Set 1: Rock Your Outline, Roll Out Improved Outcomes

Want to deepen your presentation's effectiveness or improve your ability to rapidly design presentations? This fast-paced session will explore a fresh approach to instructional design by identifying the key touch points an instructor can use to impact training participants. This session is ideal for trainers looking to refresh presentations they have given for several years and for people who frequently design new presentations. While newer training professionals may benefit from this session, the content is geared for those who are comfortable and competent with classroom training.

Advanced Trainers Set 2: Pumping Up the Volume on Participant Engagement

Do you dread awkward silences after you ask a group a question? Do you long to limit the impact of overly-dominant participants, or are you simply looking for simple and effective tools that can make your presentations more engaging, more interactive, and more effective? We are going to experience a handful of techniques that have helped hundreds of trainers expand their instructional design toolkits. Attending Advanced Trainers Set 1 is helpful, but not required.

Putting Your Content to Work

If you’ve ever heard yourself mutter “but I’m only one person," then this session is for you! You’re going to take all of the resources and contacts you’ve collected at ELL and build a plan for taking them back to your credit union. You’ll discuss ideas, tackle strategic prioritization, identify ways to plant seeds, exchange resources, and talk about best practices. The conference advisory group will help you build a plan scaling the conference concepts and ideas into an actionable plan for you to implement when you get back to your credit union.

Improving Your Trainer Skills & Techniques

Whether you’re brand new to training or you’ve been training for years, you’ll benefit from looking at your own training skills and focusing on how you can improve it. In this session, you’ll practice handling reactions and challenges constructively and confidently. You’ll learn and practice behaviors that will help build staffs self-esteem, identify your training strengths, and recognize future development areas. Come prepared to be coached to reach a higher level of training proficiency!

Your Most Valuable Asset: Maintaining Engaged Employees in the Face of Economic Downturn

Yes, it’s possible even in challenging economic times to have engaged, encouraged, and empowered employees. See how one of the largest credit unions in Arizona transformed their employee engagement efforts by removing all barriers to knowledge, training, and mentoring opportunities; allowing them to foster unique participation by recruiting a champion of employee development and learning expectations. Learn the techniques, tips, and tricks to transform your credit union!

C-Level Panel: Getting a Seat at the Table

The keys to selling training internally are being prepared, involving the appropriate individuals, and clearly understanding what executive management wants to hear. The focus must be on the benefits of the proposed training, not the features. In this session, you’ll hear how to get training a “seat at the executive table” from a panel of C-level credit union executives.

Credit Union Mashups: HR's Role in Mergers

HR plays a critical role in ensuring that employees’ needs are taken care of after a merger, especially if they're from the merged credit union. In this session, you'll get a helpful checklist of things necessary to follow through on for each employee. You’ll also hear from one of your peers who has "been there and done that" in the merger world before.

Strategic Issues Facing Credit Unions

As HR and training professionals, you need to be aware of legislative, regulatory, economic, demographic, and other trends that will impact your credit union. But all of these changes can be overwhelming and complicated. This session will prepare you with a better ability to look at your area with a greater strategic focus and have a stronger ability to discuss those issues with your management team.

4 Keys to Achieve Peak Performance

In the mood to break some rules? Want to help employees better perform their jobs? If you said yes, then this is the session for you! We will explore what the world’s greatest managers do differently that the rest. This session outlines what it takes to become a great manager in today's world and how to get better results. Here's a hint: It's all about the people! You will discover why it is important to hire for talent, set realistic expectations focused on outcomes, motivate by focusing on strengths, and develop staff by finding the right fit, not just by moving them to the next rung on the ladder.

“Get Motivated”

Whether you are an individual looking to reach your personal goals or a leader seeking to motivate your team, this session will assist you in overcoming obstacles, achieving your goals, and accelerating your success. We will explore motivational DNA, what your DNA means, how to determine your DNA and how to apply it to your life. Your DNA toolkit will include: DNA worksheets, DNA profiles, and three quick start DNA profile applications to change your environment and kick start your success.

Creating Leadership Rock Stars: Using PowerStart Onboarding to Accelerate the Success of Newly Placed Managers

We've all got rising stars in our credit union ranks, and our succession plans tell us who should be promoted when a management opening occurs. But it's not enough to put those rising stars in their new positions and just wish them luck. In this session, you'll have a chance to see a blended approach to accelerating the impact of new leaders, both promoted and recruited, while also developing the leadership skills needed now and throughout their career. Learn how you can get your new managers up to speed faster, avoid common missteps, and develop them into leadership rock stars.

Improve Your Program with Subject Matter Expert Collaboration

Improving collaboration with your credit union experts will result in higher quality training. Whether recruited or hired internally, Subject Matter Experts (SME) often need technology education to help understand the capabilities of new Internet-delivered products. When SMEs and development team members share expertise, the overall interactivity level of training increases. It is crucial during the product development process that effective leadership guides the expertise-sharing process and establishes a culture of collaboration.

Participants in this session will:

• Learn the importance of explicit direction and leadership to guide collaboration between experts and development staff
• Receive an academic grounding, as well as concrete, real-world tips for how to enhance the collaboration process, and create mutual respect between staff and experts
• Gain tactical techniques to enhance product development by creating a “rule-book” for development staff to work with experts
• Learn what works and what doesn’t when implementing an SME collaboration policy

Toy Box Leadership

The most important leadership lessons are learned as kids through the simplest of sources; toys! In fact, some of your favorite childhood toys have already taught you the secrets of successful leadership. In this session, you’ll learn what Mr. Potato Head taught us about communication, what little green army men have to say about strategy, along with the leadership traits of LEGO® blocks, yo-yos, Play-Doh®, and the Rubik’s Cube®. Come and experience simple-to-use lessons that will help you successfully lead and influence others!

ELLy Award Winners Showcase

Come to this session to hear from ELLy award winners. See how they were able to demonstrate their training vision and futuristic thinking into their award winning credit union training program. Listen as they share the results of the training investment, how successful their program was, and how it was measured. Learn about to their award submission best practices and find out how they were able to take their enthusiasm and ideas back to their credit union.

Building Your 2011 Incentive Strategy

It seems obvious that having motivated employees and members can provide a competitive edge. And although motivation clearly has an impact on performance, alone it can't guarantee success. Attend this session and discover how to develop an effective incentive program for 2011 that will motivate your employees, boost their performance, and teach them to work with maximum commitment toward achieving your credit union's goals.

Cleaning up Your Play Lists: Getting People "Off the Bus" as Humanely as Possible

In the movie Up in The Air, with George Clooney, you saw both best and worst practices in firing staff. It's one of the hardest parts of our job and we often don't have the chance to practice before it's time to do it. In this session, you'll learn best practices in letting people go, how do deal with different emotions and reactions, and get a chance to practice firing someone humanely.

Social Networking for Credit Union Trainers

Join us in this special remote session about social media! Blogs, YouTube, Twitter, MySpace and Facebook, what do they all mean for your credit union? Love it or hate it, your employees and members are engaging in social media and it's not going away anytime soon.

This session will introduce social media and web 2.0, and provide examples of how credit unions and others are leveraging this new technology to stay relevant. Learn ways to use social media in your employee training, internal communication and much more.

Training Technology Trends

There are so many cool ways to learn online now, making the whole world a school. Join us in this fast-paced session to see what’s coming down the pipe in learning and what the learning industry’s top experts have predicted for 2010 and beyond. See where your credit union is lining up with these pieces of technology. Are you preparing your credit union for the future of learning, or will you be left behind?

Teach Less, Learn More

Using accelerated learning techniques guarantees results by creating an environment that maximizes learning and encourages on-going application and growing. This presentation offers suggestions for the successful implementation of accelerated learning in both course design and interactive teaching.

Topics discussed include:

• Learning the difference between the facilitator of learning and an instructor
• Understanding how to modify your classroom techniques to maximize students’ short and long term memory
• Mapping creative training techniques to the three learning styles
• Learning how to build a plan to ease the students’ experiences into an accelerated learning approach to maximize learning

Start Well, End Well: Successful Project Management

Development activities can take on a life of their own if they are not properly managed. The project manager is a critical role whose responsibility is to plan, organize and control the development effort. If you are looking for concrete steps to improve your project management skills and convince your staff to practice the skills, this session is for you!

You will learn how to:

• Apply the “Dare to Properly Manage Resources” model to projects for strategic project management
• Define a project
• List the steps of planning a project
• Choose techniques for scheduling, estimating and assigning resources
• Create charts to troubleshoot the progress of a project; and perform a post project review

Trainer’s Treasure Chest: Free Resources Every CU Trainer Should Know About

Who isn’t on a limited budget these days? We’re all looking for ways to create exceptional learning by cobbling together tools and resources we find. Well, we’ve done the work for you. We’ve researched, scoured the Internet and asked the right questions to the right people to get you a “treasure chest” of goodies, including tools, exercises, templates, icebreakers, articles, software, graphics, fonts, trials, and case studies. All free, all for you! We’ll share websites you should subscribe to, blogs you should favorite, Twitter accounts you should follow, and networks you should belong to.

Affiliation with CUNA/League is required for attendance.

CPE Credits

Credits for this course:

You can earn 17 group-live CPE credit hours for Experience Learning Live! No advance preparation or prerequisites are required.

"This was the best of three ELL conferences that I’ve attended. The diversity of the presenters was excellent. The take away ideas were numerous. I was sorry to see the reduced attendance; however, understandable. Thanks for a GREAT experience!" (2009)

”This was my first time at ELL, and I did enjoy it, and will definitely plan on attending again in the future. It was all very well organized.” (2009)

"This was my first time attending ELL! I feel so energized now and have already implemented some of the things I learned. I have to present what I learned to my Senior VP's and am so excited to share the $15K in free consulting advice I received. Andy was wonderful! It was nice to hear from someone who knows exactly the challenges you face as a trainer. The ELLy awards were great! I felt like I was at the Oscars for trainers. It was nice to see other trainers get recognized for their hard work and efforts to make their CU better. I hope I get to go to Nashville!" (2008)

"I was a first time attendee and the Conference exceeded my expectations. I am very critical too, I think you all did a great job & I look forward to returning next year!" (2008)

"I praised the conference to the powers that be at my CU. I hope they can find it in their hearts and budgets to let me attend next year!! I'll show results!!" (2008)

"This was my first year and I thought it was fantastic! I've been to other seminars, but this was by far the best! I am already scheming to attend in 2009!" (2008)

"Just knowing there are others in the same boat as me is priceless." (2007)

"We spend so much time re-inventing the wheel when credit unions are there to help each other. Being able to share our programs with one another is part of the philosophy of 'people helping people.'" (2007)

"I am rejuvenated and ready to take on 2008. The fire was starting to go out and this is what I needed to have it relit." (2007)

"I had no idea of how to start putting a training department together. Now I have the resources and contacts to successfully begin our program." (2007)

"The ELL conference is the best place to meet other credit union trainers, to network, and share ideas." (2007)

"I learned techniques for presentations not only from the speaker's content but from the speakers themselves. What great presenters! Time flew by." (2007)

"This was my third ELL conference and it keeps getting better and better! I walked away feeling more empowered than ever. I went to this year's conference with specific goals for myself and my organization. My expectations were certainly exceeded. Thank you for providing an avenue for trainers to work together and share in the credit union philosophy!" (2007)

"I walked away this year with at least a dozen ideas of things I'd like to integrate into my current training programs, or changes I'd like to make to make training more meaningful." (2007)

Andy Janning

Lou Russell

Paul Wesselman

Kirk Weisler

Marlo Foltz

Angela Prestil

Carla Schrinner

Denny Graham

Christopher Morris

Jayne Hitman

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