Past Meetings

2008 Topics

July: Project Management for Trainers—Discovering and Managing Expectations and Delivering Results to All Stakeholders, with Randy McCarty, P.E., P.M.P., B.S., M.B.A.
June: Employee Engagement: Take This Job and LOVE It!, with Wendy Cantrell of Huntsville Hospital
May: Changing Subject-Matter Experts into Managers, with Carolyn Lord and Lori King-Taylor of OmniTeam.
April: Workforce Development with Lucia Cape, Vice President, Workforce Division of the Chamber of Commerce of Huntsville and Madison County
March: Servant Leadership with Sandy Edwards
February: Networking Event: Best Training Tips and Tricks
January: Calculating Return on Investment for Training and Coaching with Laura Huckabee-Jennings. Copy of slides from presentation.

2007 Topics

December: Training Opportunities and the Girl Scouts with Rhonda Lambert
October: Cost of Conflict with Richard Scherberger, Jr., organizational development consultant with Leadership Development Skills
October: Change Management with Sheila Collins and Kate Jones of MSC Consulting, Inc.
September: Change at the Speed of Lights, with Eunice Johnson
August: Bob Pike's Unlock the Power to Learn Workshop
July: Using Games in Training, with Georgia Wertman
June: ASTD's Certified Learning Professional (CLP) Program, with Jeff Rosen of Davidson Technologies
May: Personal Financial Management Training with Scott Scrip of the Dave Ramsey Financial Peace University
April: Check Your Attitude: Diversity Training with Lucy Gardner
March: Train Wrecks: Dealing With Difficult Trainees (roundtable discussion)
February: Engaging Minds: Foundation Learning Principles for Workshop Participants, with Kevin McNulty.
January: Recipes for training success. Members and attenders started a chapter project—a recipe book of ways to make training more interesting, participatory, and effective.

2006 Topics

December: Christmas program at the Huntsville Center for Technology, which provides training in various occupational specialties for high school students
November: The Office Ambassador, with Michelle Powell, Professional Manner (office etiquette)
October: Procrastinators Guide to Action: Stress-Free Self Motivation, with Melodie Wade, People-on-Purpose Coaching
September: Building Relationships in the Workplace, with Nancy Covert of Dale Carnegie Training
August: Event Planning, with Rhonda Williams. Survey results for program.
July: Six Questions To Ask Before Investing a Dime, with Kitty Davenport of Edward Jones
June: It's Not Rocket Science; It's Life, with Cyndy Morgan, President of Junior Achievement of Northern Alabama
May: Getting Everyone to Appreciate the Writing on the Wall (or How to Prevent Death by PowerPoint), with John Hightower
April: Training Showcase
March: Rapid Needs Assessment,with Lori King Taylor. Click here for ASTD book on needs assessment.
February: You've Got To Have Standards, with Ralph Hood
January: Intellectual Property Law and the Trainer, with Mark Bledsoe, Attorney at Law

2005 Topics

Focus Groups
Networking
Training Showcase
Computer Application Tips
Return on Investment and Training
Event Planning
Train-the-Trainer Workshop
Tour of Corporate Space Camp
Tour of Mental Health Center (with discussion of training programs available to business)
Tour of Huntsville Hospital's Corporate University
Tour and holiday program at the Huntsville Center for Technology (which provides business education for high school students)

2004 Topics

2003 Topics

Last Updated: July 22, 2008