Speaker: LeRoy Dennison
When it comes to Instructional Systems Design, too many training organizations skip the first step of analysis. If you don't know what the problem is, how do you expect some training intervention that you develop to resolve this "mystery" problem? Likewise, too many training organizations skip the second step as well. If you don't have good objectives--i.e., those with a condition, a performance, a reference, and a criterion--then you don't have a blueprint for the training to be developed that will be able to assess whether someone can perform at the level required to do the job.
Bottom line, if you have not defined the problem and if you don't have good objectives, then you have not defined what success looks like. Come to this session to get pointers on how to do good up-front analysis and how to write good objectives to improve your training initiatives.
Location: The Centre Club
Thursday, February 25, 2010
7:45 AM to 8:15 AM: Networking and hot breakfast bar
8:15 AM to 8:30 AM: Chapter announcements and introductions
8:30 AM to 10:00 AM: Session
Registration Costs
Members: $20.00
Guests: $30.00
Cost includes a hot breakfast buffet.
About our Speaker
LeRoy holds a BS degree in Information Science from Christopher Newport University in Newport News, VA. He retired as an E-9 from the U. S. Coast Guard after 22 years of service. A good bit of his Coast Guard career was spent doing Instructional Systems Design and running a school that conducted training on Meteorology and Computer Operations and Management. His service experience also included being a Total Quality Management Facilitator.
Post retirement, he worked for Computer Sciences Corporation as the head of the Macintosh system administrator team at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, then as the Senior Systems Engineer for MacCenter—the Apple Agent at that time—in Virginia, before starting to work directly for Apple in June of 2000. As an Apple employee, LeRoy worked as a Senior Systems Engineer supporting K-12 education in the Tampa, Florida area while also serving as an Apple Certified Trainer teaching Training and Certification courses on-site to education customers throughout the southeast U.S. From the spring of 2004 until Jan 2010, LeRoy served as the Senior Manager, Technical Training for Apple Global Training where he was responsible for all technical aspects of assets produced by Apple Global Training as well as the IT Training and Certification curriculum. In February, 2010, LeRoy left Apple to become the Partner and Solutions Manager for Active Storage, Inc.
LeRoy and his wife Michele Ann reside in Riverview, Florida, just outside of Tampa. Their four adult children live in Florida, North Carolina, and Virginia. LeRoy has one grandson.
