The Unexpected Benefits of Boosting Retention
Presenter: Christopher Giles
Human Resources Manager
Training, Development, and Performance (TDP)
Oak Ridge Associated Universities
ATD Pre-Approved 1 CEU
Model Domain:
Build Personal Capability - Collaboration and Leadership, Lifelong Learning
Develop Professional Capability - Learning Sciences, Training Delivery and Facilitation
Impact Organizational Capability - Organization Development and Culture
Interactive Remote Event: Current Chapter Members Free.
Guest $10.00 Student $5.00
Program: 12:00pm - 1:00pm ET
Registration will close 5:00pm ET on Thursday 8-19-2021
Each Registrant will receive a personal email invitation link prior to the remote event with directions for logging into the event.
Learning Objectives, During this session participants will:
1. Understanding why learning boosts may be the success to many training initiatives.
2. Review some practical, no cost and little time methods of boosting learner retention.
3. Discover some real-world, unexpected organizational culture benefits to boosting retention.
Organizations often think of training as a once and done activity. As learning professionals, we know that knowledge retention drops off significantly once training has ended. In this session, we will discuss some real-world examples of how to implement a knowledge boost component to a training initiative. We will also discover some unexpected organizational culture benefits from implementing a boost program.
Speaker Bio: Christopher Giles
Christopher Giles is the Human Resource Manager of Training, Development, and Performance for Oak Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU) in Oak Ridge, TN. In this position, he oversees the professional development and performance management for the Department of Energy’s ORISE contract, as well as ORAU Corporate.
Oak Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU) provides innovative scientific and technical solutions to advance national priorities in science, education, security and health. Through specialized teams of experts, unique laboratory capabilities and access to a consortium of more than 100 major Ph.D.-granting institutions, ORAU works with federal, state, local and commercial customers to advance national priorities and serve the public interest.
Christopher has a BS degree in Human Resource Development from The University of Tennessee.
Oak Ridge Associated Universities
christopher.giles@orau.org
