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Looking ahead to September’s Lunch and Learn

September 28th brings Brian Jones and Pam Bilbrey to ASTD Pensacola at Zea’s on Gregory Street, from 11:30am to 1pm.  OK ,so this is not really an advertisement, but I don’t want anyone to miss this great opportunity to see/hear these two local experts on TEAMWORK and getting your group to function at their optimal best!

They’ll discuss Patrick Lencioni’s incredibly book – The Five Dysfunctions of a Team. There’s nothing like a good story – and I mean,  realistic story –  to drive home the point that lack of trust, committment and avoidance of accountability and attention to results will corrupt your team every time. 

Brian Jones and Pam Bilbrey are both consulting partners with The Table Group, a worldwide organization, dedicated to helping organizations of all kinds function more effectively through better leadership, teamwork and overall health.

Can’t wait for September 28th! – All ASTD members see this program, free (you buy your own lunch at Zea’s,  of course) – but if you’re not a member, you pay just $10 – what a deal!

See you there!

Adobe Captivate – Captivates ASTD August Lunch Meeting

At the August ASTD lunch meeting, we were treated to an hour’s worth of really great learning. ( By the way, I attend a lot of other lunch meetings and can’t say something like this very often).

San Dee Governale, certified Adobe Captivate expert and Jeff Harris, President of SkillQ, Gulf Breeze gave us a fantastic overview of Adobe Captivate, a development tool that can help you to rapidly create multimedia eLearning and communication products for your clients and customers. It was a chance to learn what Captivate was all about (SkillQ is not a seller or reseller of Captivate which was kind of nice to know, by the way) and see some of the great things that can be done with it.

San Dee and Jeff made the whole process seem so workable that we all wanted to either leave and order the Captivate Suite of products or at least take a training class at SkillQ to learn how to do even more with it!

For those who develop training right now, questions were flying back and forth about what Captivate can do versus (or in conjunction with) other development tools that were currently being used by training professsionals.  For those who facilitate training or consult, it was an opportunity to learn more about how elearning was developed right now so we can continue to speak the “language of our training and development business.”

What a great deal at ASTD lunch and learns – where you truly have the opportunity to expand your learning.  The networking is amazing as well.

And…this and many other sessions are video taped by our own Tamika Lee of SkillQ and VP of Communications for ASTD Pensacola!  Check out this excerpt of our meeting as members and guests shared ideas with one another and really got a great overview of Adobe Captivate!

Check out our Home Page for more video and photos of our meetings.

See everyone next month!