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Bluedrop President Emad Rizkalla to lead upcoming Managing the Training Function conference – February 1-2, Toronto, ON
Thursday, January 21st, 2010
St. John’s, Newfoundland – Bluedrop Performance Learning President and CEO Emad Rizkalla will be included among an impressive roster of lecturers for the Federated Press’s upcoming Managing the Training Function conference. In addition to presenting, he will be acting as Course Leader and Principal Lecturer for the session.
Drawing from his more than 17 years experience at the helm of a successful and award-winning learning development firm, Mr. Rizkalla will be giving a presentation entitled “Training Needs Analysis & Managing a Training Budget”. In this lecture, Mr. Rizkalla will examine in detail not only the importance of, but also the most effective and efficient methods for, successfully analyzing your organization’s training needs and implementing and managing a training program that maximizes your organization’s Return On Investment.
“Providing training within an organization is a business investment – organizations proactively create for themselves a more informed, engaged, and productive workforce – and as with any investment there’s an expectation of a positive return” says Mr. Rizkalla. “Yet a study by the Canadian e-Learning Journal found that while fully 95% of organizations that implement training programs diligently measure learner satisfaction, only 5% to 20% of these organizations measure business outcomes. Organizations are investing a great deal of time and money into learning initiatives and then overwhelmingly failing to evaluate the success of this investment, often because they don’t have the knowledge and tools to do so. I provide that knowledge. Bluedrop has been building and continually improving upon these tools for well over a decade.”
The two day conference, which takes place February 1st and 2nd in Toronto, provides a unique opportunity for attendees to learn first-hand from Canada’s foremost training and training management experts. Course highlights include lectures and workshops on a broad range of training-related subjects, including: best practices in optimizing both the effectiveness and efficiency of organizational training programs; the importance of, and methods for, accurately evaluating the effectiveness of e-learning and e-learning ROI; and ways to incorporate and leverage the positive aspects of informal learning in organizational training.
Additional information regarding Federated Press’s 4th Managing the Training Function conference, including registration details, is available at: http://www.federatedpress.com/pdf/MTFT1001-E.pdf
About Bluedrop Bluedrop
Performance Learning is dedicated to helping its clients create a culture of true performance learning. Founded in 1992, Bluedrop takes a partnership approach with its clients to ensure their desired outcomes are achieved and validated. Bluedrop focuses on training in the areas of health and safety, products and systems, and corporate compliance. Bluedrop clients are broadly based, but are concentrated in the government, technology, oil and gas, aerospace and defence, pharmaceuticals and life sciences, financial, and publishing industries. In fact, in seven different industries, Bluedrop boasts the world leader as its clients and was awarded the 2005 Silver medal Excellence in Learning award from Brandon Hall. For more information about Bluedrop visit www.bluedrop.com.
For more information contact:
Eric Kedrosky
Bluedrop Performance Learning
18 Prescott Street
St. John’s, NL
A1C 3S4
Tel.: 1-800-563-3638
EricKedrosky@bluedrop.com