Discussion Sessions
The Performance Support Symposium offers 45+ sessions, all laser-focused on helping you explore the strategies, technologies, and practices for enhancing your training efforts by putting information in the workflow, when and where it is needed. Learn from the experience of colleagues and industry leaders who are successfully improving individual performance within their organizations.
Featured Session
The Future of Performance Support: A Conversation with Allison Cerra
Allison Cerra, Technology and Marketing Expert
The renewed interest in performance support is powered by advancements in technology that enable workers to receive support in the context of work. As technology continues to advance at an ever-increasing rate, more opportunities to provide performance support will emerge. More…
The program is organized into five distinct tracks to give you a comprehensive look at the key areas you’ll need to address:
STRATEGY
Find the right methodologies and tools to build a business case for PS, demonstrate its success, and nurture its growth in your organization.
IMPLEMENTATION
Implement best practices that will make your next performance support project more efficient and effective.
GETTING STARTED
Explore the critical first steps that you can take to start building PS solutions and incorporating them into your organizational culture.
INTEGRATION
Learn how performance support fits into and enhances your existing organizational learning strategy.
SOLUTIONS
Learn about performance support technologies and the companies that can help you implement PS across your enterprise.
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Sessions in Block 7
When formal learning finishes, we release learners back into their everyday reality, back into a structure that includes both formal hierarchies of support as well as social structures we can call “tribes.“ These are the communities where workers make sense of the learning and rehearse new behaviors. But we don‘t have to leave this to chance. If we understand how these tribes form, how these communities work, and the types of roles we play in them, we can better support learners in these sense-making activities. All too often, we rely on the technology to do this, while in reality it‘s a social issue. Technology can‘t deliver great performance support without functioning communities, coherent tribes behind it.
Read MoreDelivering performance support tools for sales can be a challenge. There are many approaches to consider, departments to align, and technology options to decipher, all in an effort to create a strategy and provide resources that will effectively support the performance of sales reps. A successful performance support strategy is absolutely critical for optimal sales productivity.
Read More723 Managing the Ebb and Flow of Performance Support Across the Enterprise
Concurrent Session
We often describe the shift towards performance support as a linear journey, one that continues in a single direction. The reality is quite different. Over time an organization’s utilization of performance support rises and falls with the changing tides. Managing your journey over the course of time can be a challenge.
Read MoreIn large organizations, learning and performance support content typically develops over time in an organic, ad-hoc fashion until one day the organization realizes it has an unmoderated mass of content stored on file servers, intranet sites, and the LMS. As a result, employees don’t know what’s available and can’t find the content they need when they need it, falling back on familiar and possibly incomplete, inaccurate, or outdated information. To the organization, the task of making this mass of content easily accessible, usable, and targeted to workflow performance can be daunting, to say the least. Where and how to start?
Read More725 The Learning Is in the Doing: A Roundtable Discussion
Concurrent Session
Alphons van de Wal, Diana Trombetta, Gaye Maust, Jean Avison, Marti Chamberlain
2:30 PM Thu, June 11
Track: Solutions
Strategize, design, develop, implement, integrate, roadbock!, re-strategize, re-implement … the realities of doing performance support unfortunately seldom match up with the idealized stories you hear. Join practitioners and leaders from KPMG, Wells Fargo, and Ontuitive in this candid conversation about learning by doing, about moving forward around roadblocks, about constant tinkering, and about some surprising successes, too.
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