In my many years of working in the training profession, virtually every training organization I’ve ever worked with uses an external supplier to assist with some part of their training activities. Whether it’s contracting for external instructors; having a company provide print services for student materials; renting classroom space in hotels or conference centers; or hiring companies to create online courses, we all depend on partners to help us deliver successful training programs.
But many of us struggle with how to effectively utilize external partners to get the best performance from our training organizations. For this reason, TrainingIndustry.com created the Partnering for Performance (PFP) Conference. Now in our fifth year, PFP will be held May 1-3 at the Convention Center in Raleigh, N.C.
The event was originally called the Conference on Training Outsourcing (2005-2007) and then evolved to its current format in 2008. Making the change was to emphasize how training executives form strategic relationships with service providers, in addition to how they source high volume, on-shore and off-shore, transactional learning initiatives.
It continues to be the industry’s only event focused specifically on best practices for utilizing suppliers to drive performance improvement through learning services. It is a unique, high networking, boutique event designed around the mission of forming lasting and strategic relationships that drive performance improvement in training organizations.
Examples of the types of partnerships this years program highlights are…
- How a company the size of Boeing uses a strategic partner for rapid instructional design
- How NASA manages high consequence safety and survial training at the Johnson Space Center
- How The Hartford Company measures learning’s contribution to the organization’s performance
- How United Health Group forms their strategy for learning services
- How Xerox, HP, Pearson and Genentech uses Learning Portals to educate their workforce
- How Tesco uses partners to integrate open source and proprietary learning systems in the food services industry
- How Yammer partners with external companies to put social media to work
- How Microsoft partners with a key supplier for eLearning development
- How Fresenius partners to deliver experiential business acumen programs
- How Merck works with training suppliers for manufacturing training
- How CCI and Health Ed Today uses a learning services partner to re-define health care education
- How the American Cancer Society provides talent development
- How The Walsh Group partners for construction project manager training.
Our keynotes will extend our perspectives on how leaders manage resources and technologies to get the maximum performance of an organization. Lieutenant General Rick Lynch, U. S. Army (Ret.), former senior commander of the Installation Management Command will speak about his experiences as a senior officer in the Pentagon, Afghanistan and Iraq, and how the U.S. Military works with civilian partners to manage a worldwide workforce of more than 120,000 people, $12.3 B budget, to provide Soldiers, Families and Civilians with the quality of life commensurate with their quality of service.
Lance Dublin, CEO and Chief Solutions Architect at Dublin Consulting will discuss the evolving market of learning technologies and how to enable, enhance, and extend learning in the enterprise.
If you’ve never attended the PFP Conference, I hope you’ll take this opportunity to participate in what I believe is one of the most unique training conferences in the industry. It’s not designed to be the largest conference you’ll ever attend, or a supplier showcase where you’ll peruse through vendor exhibits.
It is designed to be a high networking, high touch program for the purpose of creating strategic relationships. And I trust you will meet some of the most influential thought leaders in the industry.
And as always, I welcome your comments.
