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Congratulations Chicago OD Practitioners Network

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The Chicago OD Practitioners Network sponsored an exciting and informative event on Friday morning, April 15th.

Attendees welcomed guest speaker, Beth A. Williams, an executive, career and life coach.  She introduced, “The Hogan Leadership Series…A Premier Leadership Assessment Tool,” which addresses fundamental leadership and coaching issues and provides useful insights on how the tool can be applied to support workforce development.

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Congratulations to Co-Chairs Steve Garrett and Karen Pinkney on a successful event!

Participants left this exciting event with a fresh perspective and new solutions to enhance coaching and leadership success.

If you would like to attend an upcoming program, click HERE for more information.

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Congratulations ATDChi – Modern Mentoring Clinic

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Congratulations! 

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Dr. Gia & Randy Emelo

On April 14th, ATDChi hosted a Modern Mentoring Skill Building Clinic called Building Your Learning Network with guest speaker, Randy Emelo. Randy is the Founder and Chief Strategist of RIVER. He is also the author of Modern Mentoring. 

One of the most impactful statements shared by Mr. Emelo was,

“It is impossible to achieve mastery without giving your knowledge to others”Randy Emelo

During this exciting program, future mentors and proteges’ were challenged to rethink the traditional one-on-one model and see mentoring as a flexible and dynamic learning relationship between learner and advisor.

Matt (president), Lauren (VP Programming), Dr. Gia, Marilyn (Mentoring Director) & Ana (Event Management Director),
Matt (President), Lauren (VP Programming), Dr. Gia, Marilyn (Mentoring Director) & Ana (Event Management Director)

If you are interested in ATDChi’s mentoring program, contact Marilyn Clark, Director of Mentoring at admin@atdchi.org!

ATDChi’s Workplace Learning and Performance Institute, Full Program (7 Sessions – Spring 2016) starts this Spring. It is a great opportunity to acquire training and development competencies with ATDChi’s state of-the-art certification program. Click HERE for more information.

Ms. Peete-Taylor & Dr. Gia
Ms. Peete-Taylor & Dr. Gia

I was joined by Ms. Tamiko Peete-Taylor PMP, MBA who is always looking for innovative ways to maximize project management and talent development opportunities. If you share this interest, consider her article Breaking Into the Project Management Profession!

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Is Gender Equality Good For Men?

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Michael Kimmel: Why gender equality is good for everyone … men included

If you listen to what men say about what they want in their lives, gender quality is actually a way for us to get the lives we want live.Ted Talk - Michael Kimmel

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In-services Require More Than Subject Matter Expertise

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Effective In-sertice Education Requires More Than Subject Expertise

Journal of Healthcare Risk Management

Volume 29, Issue 3 pages 15–21, 2010

The development of a training program is not an event but rather a process. This process is driven by the business needs of the organization for a specific target audience … SMEs are somethings so good at what they do that they leave out information or performance steps that are intuitive for them (but not their students).  Krishna Lynch & Dr. Gia Suggs (p. 17)

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Effective in service education requires more than subject expertise

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