TJ Conference and Awards 2008
Celebrating best practice
Tuesday 24th June 2008,
The Commonwealth Club, 25 Northumberland Avenue, London, WC2N 5AP
Booking details
To book your place, or for further information, contact Peter Wright at peter.wright@trainingjournal.com or on +44 (0)20 7096 2936
Programme
| 9.00 | Coffee and registration |
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| 9.30 | Opening keynote address The future of UK skills Chris Humphries, Chief Executive, Commission for Employment and Skills |
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| 10.15 | Session 1A Coaching excellence - what does it mean? Karen Frost, Values Based Leadership Session 1B Social learning: What will you inspire? Caroline Prendergast, BBC Training & Development Director Session 1C Dare to be different: the path to exceptional training Tony Bray, Aquarius International |
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| 11.15 | Refreshment break |
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| 11.45 | Session 2A Using cartoons in learning and development Graham Shaw, Vision Learning Session 2B Living Organisations®: Is your organisation truly alive? Lex McKee, CEO of LearnFast World Ltd Session 2C Super models in action Dr Mike Clayton, Thoughtscape |
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| 12.45 | Lunch (including learning sessions with our sponsors) |
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| 2.15 | Session 3A Lateral thinking for business success Nigel Newman, The Edward de Bono Foundation UK Session 3B L&D 2020: Shaping change in learning Paul Fairhurst, Institute for Employment Studies Session 3C Cultural awareness training: reducing the cost of failure Cathy Wellings, Communicaid |
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| 3.00 | Refreshment break |
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| 3.30 | Session 4A Transactional analysis for trainers: game players in the training room Garry Platt, Woodland Grange Session 4B Awarding winning L&D - practical tips for organisational success from the winners of the TJ Awards 2007 Dr Peter Honey, Suzanne Lowe, Picture Financial Group, Ian Robertson and Steve White, City of Edinburgh Council Session 4C Measuring the impact of learning Hedy Tilmanns, Global Learning Alliance |
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| 4.30 | Closing address by Professor Binna Kandola, Pearn Kandola |
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| 5.00 | Drinks and networking |
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| 6.00 | The Awards presentation |
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| 7.00 | Close |
Speakers and sessions
Opening keynote address |
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The Commission for Employment and Skills was a chief recommendation of the Leitch Review and starts work in April. Humphries is tasked with securing a highly skilled workforce for the UK, increasing employment levels, and encouraging more people from disadvantaged backgrounds into the workforce. In the opening keynote of the day he will outline the plans ahead and their impact on L&D professionals. |
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Session 1A |
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There's a lot of talk about the benefits of coaching, but what does excellent coaching look like? This session, which includes a live coaching session on a volunteer's real life work issue, will explore the components of coaching excellence so that attendees can set their sights on its achievement for their organisations. |
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Session 1B |
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Social learning is a new way of defining and providing development opportunities. In an interactive session, Caroline Prendergast, defines and explains the idea, shows how social learning can lead to effective long-term learning and shares some experiences and case studies. |
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Session 1C |
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What differentiates an 'ordinary' trainer from an 'exceptional' one? It's a unique combination of style, flair, talent, content and delivery. In this session, Tony Bray shares some of the secrets he believes can transform a competent trainer into an exceptional one. |
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Session 2A |
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This session will give you an insight into how to use cartoon drawing to enhance learning. A quick sketch will often get a point across easily - and make it memorable. In this lively session you will discover skills you may never have known you had and make a start on using techniques that can be applied in numerous situations. |
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Session 2B |
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Organisations are like living beings - they live, breathe and need sustaining in order to grow and develop. In this entertaining and lively session, Lex McKee compares successful organisations with the characteristics of healthy living organisms, showing what these organisations can do to create working environments and cultures that are a great place for employees to invest their lives in. |
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Session 2C |
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In this entertaining and thought-provoking seminar, Dr Mike Clayton, author of the regular Training Journal column, Super Models, will show you how integrating models into your training and coaching practice can enhance participants' learning and your flexibility as a coach or trainer. |
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Session 3A |
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Thinking is the most important life skill for individuals, businesses and society. However, like literacy and numeracy, it is a skill that needs to be learnt to be effective. This session explores how anyone can use lateral thinking tools systematically to generate completely new ideas that haven't been considered before. |
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Session 3B |
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This year TJ has joined forces with the Institute for Employment Studies (IES) in a ground-breaking research project to explore the future of learning and development. This session presents a fascinating look at the opportunities open to workplace learning and what learning professionals should do to start preparing for a brave new world of work. |
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Session 3C |
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A lack of cultural awareness can have many levels of impact on a business - from an employee's embarrassing faux pas to a failed international assignment or a lost deal. Drawing on a series of real-life case studies this interactive session shows how cultural awareness training enables organisations to become more culturally competent when working internationally |
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Session 4A |
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Occasionally we encounter people in the training room who seem to have just one purpose being there; to wind you up. In this entertaining session Garry Platt will use Transactional Analysis (TA) to look at the purpose and intention of 'game playing' and how the trainer can constructively and positively deal with it. |
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Session 4B |
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This session brings together some of the winners of last year's TJ Awards who will be sharing the stories behind their award winning entries; the problems they were trying to solve and the hiccups encountered along the way. |
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Session 4C |
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One of the biggest strategic challenges of anyone in L&D today is measuring the impact they have on the business. Drawing on the experience of other organisations, this session explores the challenges and provides practical ideas for measuring the value of learning. |
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Closing keynote |
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The commercial value of psychological well-being means it should be a key part of your organisation's priorities. Studies have shown that 22 per cent of variance in job performance is accounted for by well-being related factors. The fact is, it's not a nice-to-have but a must-have. In his closing address Binna Kandola will talk about the specific factors that affect individual happiness, how to identify problems and how to use the science of positive psychology to engineer the conditions that will help your people feel better about themselves and their work. |
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Booking details
To book your place, or for further information, contact Peter Wright at peter.wright@trainingjournal.com or on +44 (0)20 7096 2936












