Lindsey joined us for our ROCATD Consultant's CoP on Aug 11th and requested she share this information with our network (Bob P.).

Lindsey E.

I recently registered for Training Industry's Certified Professional in Training Management (CPTM) program. This program is focused on the training manager role, with an emphasis on building training programs that align with business needs. The program has three steps: approximately 50 hours of online content, a four-day live practicum, and an exam, together estimated to take about 2-3 months to complete.

As a current Training Manager, I had my eye on this for a bit. My formal educational background is in teaching secondary education and now I've been in the corporate environment for nearly nine years. With recent changes to my team structure increasing our reach within the organization, I wanted to build on my Bachelor's in Secondary Education, Masters in Management and experience in training software to customers, taking the next step in managing a training department at the organizational level. And as a passionate L&D professional, I'm always eager to learn more and build my portfolio.

The relaxed social obligation calendar, thanks to a global pandemic, created an opportune time to place energy in personal and professional development. Having reviewed a few programs, I settled on the CPTM for the specificity on training management, as well as the open eligibility requirements. I'm about half way into the online content and I'm really enjoying it. It's placing definition and reasoning behind things I already felt and filling the gaps on what I didn't previously understand or recognize.

Here is the link for more information: https://trainingindustry.com/continuing-professional-development/certified-professional-in-training-management/

Best,

Lindsey

Mary-Frances Winters, founder of the Winters Group, a diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) consultancy spoke to Berrett-Koehler virtually about recent events in the racial justice movement. Her latest book, Black Fatigue, which will come out in the fall from B-K, focuses on the exhaustion that many minorities experience being asked to educate well intentioned whites about their experience. She reflected on how her work has changed over time starting from an emphasis on diversity being a business imperative to it now being about social justice and the right thing to do for the survival of the entire human race.

In case you missed our collaborative webinar with our Greater Rochester Chamber on June 9th, here is the recording.  A special thank you to Leanne and John for facilitating this session.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1GzBTQfeAXjzHMgU2UGgmqruIkMl4Y1kT/view?usp=sharing

If you missed the live event.  Catch-up with our Zoom recording.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1QTRApSttm1w5miWqOAJxvUZeDx5BmrDD/view?usp=sharing

HR Works has an opportunity for this project. Details at: https://jobs.ourcareerpages.com/job/527059?source=ccp&key=6IDS%2bE9Sm5DFfEoI1y7LzwtbhBgN6mqQMmJv3zgv7JU%3d

A few of us connected this morning to discuss the topic of moving from Consultant to Trusted Adviser.  I enjoyed the chance to connect and share some ideas during our Consultant Community of Practice.

Note from participant:

Thank so much for welcoming and including me in this morning's Zoom meeting. I really enjoyed the discussion and appreciated connecting with you an Leanne.  Individual and organizational learning and development is something about which I a very passionate and truly enjoy collaborating with leaders and teams to support.  I look forward to getting more involved in ATD.  -- Jody

   Jody Dietz, https://www.linkedin.com/in/jodydietz/

Jody is also in-transition.  Please check-out her experience, connect and share any thoughts that you have that may be helpful.  

Lastly, join us on Friday for our Corporate Learning and Development Community of Practice zoom meeting, https://rocatd.wildapricot.org/event-3791610.  The topic is "Distractibality".

Stay healthy -- Bob.

Local chamber resources, thanks for sharing Jennifer. In case you were going to send out a follow-up email, if it helps, here’s the link to our Coronavirus resource page: https://greaterrochesterchamber.com/coronavirus-planning-resources-for-business

Please join us at our annual all members meeting T 2/25 at Pane Vino on the Avenue (Pittsford). Details to follow!

We're excited to introduce the new Capability Model which replaces the ATD Competency Model. What is it? Why was it changed? How is it different from the Competency Model? How does this affect the Certified Professional in Learning and Development (CPLP) process? How can it help me in my training and organization development practice? Start to explore it here:https://www.td.org/capability-model/access