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Meeting Announcement

September Meeting: New eLF Launches with “The Age Wave and Learning”

The Age Wave is coming….the 21st Century workforce will be significantly different than the workforce of the past century.  These unparalleled demographic shifts will change workers, work, and learning as we know them.

This session will explore ground-breaking research and analysis that has identified six employee segments, each with a different set of drivers that affect levels of engagement and performance.  Understanding the learning implications and potential solutions for these segments will help businesses anticipate and respond with customized strategies for attracting, retaining, and developing high performing talent fundamental to delivering business results.

We will learn how one organization, Fireman’s Fund Insurance Company, is coping with the “Age Wave” and why it is important for business and learning leadership to engage in this important strategic dialog and commit to working together to find innovative solutions.

The goal of the meeting is to present the direction and plans of the New eLearning Forum and the exciting new programs and resources designed to connect business issues and learning solutions for business results for our members.  This September meeting is the first in the new Fall Program lineup, that will examine emerging business issues of workforce demographics and learning.


Format:

  • Eilif Trondsen will present the direction of the New eLearning Forum
  • Our keynote speaker, Tammy Erickson, will reveal results of extensive research and examination of The Age Wave and its implications for business and learning.   Questions and answers will follow. 
  • Randy Kohout, VP Fireman’s Fund will present issues and solutions to the demographic shifts the company is facing.

Agenda:

9:00-9:30--Registration and networking
9:30-11:30--Presentations and discussion
11:30-12:00--Box lunch and networking

Meeting Speakers:

  • Tamara Erickson – Executive Officer and Member of the Board of Directors of The Concours Group.  Click here to download Tammy's presentation.
  • Randy Kohout -- VP, Fireman’s Insurance Company (part of the Allianz Group, a global financial services organization).  Click here to download Randy's presentation.
  • Eilif Trondsen – Chairman, CEO, eLearning Forum, Director, SRIC-BI Learning on Demand Program. 

Speaker Bios:

Tamara J. Erickson is an Executive Officer and member of the Board of Directors of The Concours Group. She and her co-authors are the recipients of the 2004 McKinsey Prize for the award-winning Harvard Business Review article, “It’s Time to Retire Retirement,” March 2004.   She is co-author of the book Retire Retirement, Rekindle Careers, Retain Talent to be published by Harvard Business School Press in 2006 and was a lead contributor to the multi-year research initiatives:  Demography is De$tiny, exploring the implications of current demographic changes on human resource practices, and The New Employee/Employer Equation, developing new and powerful approaches to increasing employee engagement through segmentation.  She is also a respected authority on technology and its implications for business and coauthor of the book Third Generation R&D: Managing the Link to Corporate Strategy, a widely accepted guide to making technology investments and managing innovative organizations, published in 1991.  Mrs. Erickson consults on issues of corporate strategy and organizational effectiveness and oversees intellectual capital development at The Concours Group.  She is a member of the Board of Directors of PerkinElmer, Inc., a Fortune 500 company competing in advanced technology markets, a member of the Audit and Governance Committees, and a former member of the Board of Allergan, Inc.

Randy  Kohout has 15 years of work experience in the training, development and performance improvement business. He joined Fireman's Fund in November 1999 and now serves as the Vice President, Organizational Capability for the Fireman's Fund Insurance Company. His focus has been change management implementation and building a learning organization that blends web-based learning content with role specific learning in the classroom and on-the-job. Before joining Fireman's Fund he was leadership development consultant to the presidents of the Card Services and Interactive Banking divisions at Bank of America. Prior to working in the financial services space, he was employed by Pacific Gas and Electric Company as the director of their corporate Learning-Center. His initial career focus was in the start-up, field engineering, operations, safety and emergency preparedness of nuclear and fossil power plants. Mr. Kohout is a graduate of the University of San Francisco with a BS degree in Organizational Behavior. He is a member of the American Society of Training and Development, the International Society of Process Improvement and is on the board of the Insurance Education Association.

Who Should Attend:

  • Learning executives, managers, practitioners who want to learn from and share with colleagues who face similar business and learning issues.
  • Business managers who are interested in the intersection of business and learning.
  • Solutions providers interested in business drivers for decisions on learning technology and solutions.

Pre-meeting Preparation:

  • Click here to read Tamara  Erickson's recent testimony before The U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
  • Click here to listen to "A Changing American Workplace, as Boomers Retire," as heard on NPR's Talk of the Nation, September 21, 2005.  As baby boomers start retiring, the nation's workforce will lose an immense amount of institutional knowledge. A look at what this means for the workplace, post-boomer.

When:

September 30, 2005
9:00 a.m. to Noon

Where:

SRI International
333 Ravenswood Avenue, Menlo Park, CA
(SRI is on Ravenswood drive between Middlefield and El Camino Real)

Remote participants:

For those of you willo not be able to participate in-person in this meeting, you can listen remotely.  Logging on to the following URL just prior to the start time will enable remote participation using Macromedia Breeze.  If you have not used Breeze before, please log on at least 15 minutes early to install Breeze and test your connection and audio.
 
http://breeze16165304.breezecentral.com/elf0905/

Cost:

$20 with on-line registration or $30 at the door.
 
Note:

Please use the parking lot at the corner of Ravenswood and Middlefield (next to the church) and walk the half block to the meeting. SRI has very limited parking in front of Building A; those spaces are reserved for SRI's use.



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