Professional Organizations

Hi Everyone,
I hope you all are doing well and work is going well . I just wanted to write to you all to ask and few questions and gain insight on some different professional organizations that I am considering joining.

Are any of you a member of the International Society for Performance Improvement or the American Society of Training and Development?

If so, what you do like about the organization in which you are a member and how has the organization or organizations helped you in your current position?

Any feedback would be awesome. Take care and hope to talk with you all soon! :-)

Kaye

Please...Help with Standards!

As I posted about last time, I'm continuing to try to find time to work on the Development standards. I know that everyone is really busy, but if you can find an extra half-hour of time (maybe in-between projects or at the end of the day when there's not enough time to start something new) I would really appreciate you all's opinions. Many of us writers have been involved with varying aspects of development, and it's always beneficial to have an "outsider's" perspective on what has been written. Due to a lack of formalized development processes, we have all developed our own "best practices". What I'm asking of you is to review the draft standards that I have written, and make edits/comments as needed.

I have created a spot on Sharepoint to post the standards so they can be kept confidential and we can utilize version control. It is: http://sharepoint/Training/Documents/Quality%20Initiative--INTERN1/

Remember, if you've not yet gotten your goals approved, there is a section where you can contribute directly to the Quality Initiative by writing 8 standards.

Thanks to all in advance for your help!

Goals

Hello Everyone!

I hope everyone is doing well. I know that deadlines have been crazy busy this week!

I just wanted to remind everyone about SMART goals. I sat down with Andrew today to have a discussion how to write measurable goals. I had totally forgotten what the acronym was. It is:

S-pecific
M-easurable
A-ttainable
R-ealistic
T-imely

I know you all probably have your goals written, but I thought maybe this would be a good refresher.

For my individual goals, I am planning on learning more about writing effective learning objectives. I also want to know more about creating basic image treatments.

What are you guys doing for your goals?