SMR Learning & Development Sdn. Bhd. - Open Tele Seminars (30-min Inspirations @ Work)

Join us and listen to renowned experts speak on topics close to their hearts. They have rich experience and wisdom whom we can learn from and enrich our lives!

Why not invest 30 minutes and take short but well-earned 30-min break once a month to tune in to our 30-Min Inspiration @ Work Series. They will share invaluable tips that could enhance our well-being and performance at work!

Choose all three (3) or any of these topics and register with us.

1) Training Evaluation - Business Partnership Model

Learning professionals all over the world are familiar with Professor Donald Kirkpatrick's Four Levels of Evaluating Training Programs - Reaction, Learning, Behaviour and Results. Unfortunately, most companies fail to implement them properly. Training evaluation typically consist of "Smile Sheets" for level 1 and some pre- and post-program testing at Level 2. Levels 3 and 4 are often totally ignored. Consequently, this creates a significant gap between training departments and their business partners.

Their urgent need to bring what we call the Business Partnership Model to life- that is, the working relationship between training and the business - will be addressed in this teleseminar. Dr. Jim Kirkpatrick, son of Don, will show how easy it is to not only include Level 3 and 4 in the development and evaluation of high impact training programs, but how to enhance the Business Partnership Model in order to create significant training value, and demonstrate that value to key business stakeholders.

About Jim Kirkpatrick Ph.D.
Jim Kirkpatrick is Director of Training and Development at First Indiana Bank, an independent and locally-managed National Bank in Indiana USA. He oversees Balanced Scorecard Management System, Executive Coaching, Training and Development, Employee Retention, and Career Development Programme. Prior to his present role he had been Organizational Effectiveness Manager in the bank.

Jim has an M.A in Education (University of Wisconsin) and Ph.D. in Counselling Psychology (Indiana State University). Jim is adjunct professor in Butter University's MBA programme.

He also has considerable experience in management consulting, clinical and consulting psychology, and career consulting. He is on board of directors for American Red Cross, providing guidance in the area of strategic planning and execution.

2) Creativity & Innovation

If the world has to rise from its status of being largely followers to that of leaders in Industry, Business and Education, it is imperative that we must focus on Creativity at all levels of management.

Training in this module aims to surface qualities inherent in every participant by a holistic approach using techniques that aim at a fusion of Left and Right Brain attributes. The importance of teamwork is stressed through emphasis on the fact that no two brains are the same.

Trainees are exposed to simple creations of children to understand the process of creativity from the stage of observation, insight, preparation, incubation, illumination and verification to practical application and the approach aims at getting them to work closely with people at various levels in an organisation to provide the state of mind to put creativity to work at their jobs. The importance of adding, borrowing, combining and deleting various outputs from different people for arriving at a creative high is stressed.

About Mr. Hari Parameswaran
Mr. Hari Parameswaran is a self-motivated, committed and trained trainer who organises creativity sessions and workshops in Industry and Institutions. He currently runs training programmes specializing in the areas of:

3) Transformative Leadership

Transformative Leadership - by adopting certain patterns, the leadership can change the way individuals behave in an organization. Leadership is about flexibility and fluidity. It is about being completely open to new ideas and adopting different stances at different points of time.

It will focus on three critical skills:

About Mr. Ravi Ramamurthy
R. Ravi is the Chief Advisor and Mentor of Aashwasan Life Enhance Services and Chairman of Epiance, a software product company. His education history includes B.Tech (IIT Chennai), M.Tech (IIT Delhi), ICWAI (Inter) Degree, PMPI Diploma and CQA Diploma.

Passionate about transforming people by bringing their best out, he developed unique courses, which have widely appreciated in India and abroad. Some of the courses which he relishes to deliver are "Adversity", "Art or War" and "Transformative Leadership". He also authored 11 volumes of Interactive Physics that has been widely subscribed to and followed.

He has trained over 10,000 people and conducted hundreds of programmes spanning 15 years.