Letter from the President
Greetings ASTD Central Ohio Chapter Members and Guests.
We began this year with enthusiasm and eagerness to fulfill our purpose of being Central Ohio’s leader in workplace learning and performance. With your help and involvement we can become a major resource for guidance and information in the training and development field. Your ideas, suggestions, knowledge, and involvement are critical to our success.
As we all know, technology in our field grows and changes at an astounding pace. Who could have foreseen the impact that social media such as LinkedIn, Facebook, blogs, and Twitter are having on our world. Not only must we keep up, we must look into the future and be prepared for what may be coming next. It is certain that we will be using the latest technology in one way or another, whether it’s teaching others, creating course materials, or managing a cutting edge training department. We realize that with this fast-paced change, our members face significant challenges that we must help them address with clarity, foresight and leadership.READ MORE
Connecting Learning and Development to Social Media
By Shane Murphy, Director of Social Media
Welcome to the new Central Ohio ASTD web site! We're glad you're here and hope you'll be part of what we're hoping to become a more integral part of the overall experience for members of our organization. As you are certainly aware, social media has taken the world by storm in the last few years and the profession of Learning and Development is no exception. As we move into 2011, Central Ohio ASTD intends to take advantage of online technology to really give our members a strong experience.
The Internet has certainly changed our expectations of the idea of communication and networking, and Central Ohio ASTD will continue to work to "meet you where you are." Certainly, we hope that CentralOhioASTD.org will be your portal to connecting with Learning 
and 
Development professionals in Central Ohio, as we intend to drive converstations through the forums on this site. You'll notice as you navigate our new site that we have an active LinkedIn presence, a growing Facebook page, and a Twitter feed that will keep you up to date on happenings in Central Ohio. READ MORE
Lessons in LUV and Leadership
from the 2010 ASTD International Conference
By: Amy Franko, Impact Instruction Group
Colleen Barrett is perhaps the most memorable person I met in 2010. She’s the President Emerita and Corporate Secretary (how that’s for a title?) of Southwest Airlines, and the only woman of her ranking at a major US airline.
I had the opportunity to learn some key leadership lessons from her at this year’s ASTD international conference. Her session with Ken Blanchard really stuck with me, “Bringing Love to Leadership: Servant Leadership in Action at Southwest Airlines.”
Colleen isn’t the typical power executive, with her flowing silver ponytail and wearing a sweater covered with embroidered hearts.
In a soft-spoken style, she delivered a powerful message about living leadership and values – and it’s why Southwest is the only US airline in the past decade to grow and sustain profitability.
What can our organizations learn? I’ll share with you 3 areas key to Southwest’s success: READ MORE
Board Member Spotlight
Shane Murphy, Director of Social Media
Entering his second year on the Central Ohio ASTD Executive Board, Shane Murphy has accepted the challenge of leading the organization ahead in the world of social networking in the newly-created role as Director of Social Media. Since the mid-1990s, Shane has been involved with the continuously-evolving social media landscape and is now focused on how still emerging tools such as blogging and Twitter impact the Learning and Development world. An accomplished speaker, Shane sits on the Board of Directors of Northstar Toastmasters in Columbus, where he currently serves as Vice President of Education. READ MORE
Volunteer Spotlight
Lisa Gearhart, Gearhart Training
Central Ohio ASTD Webmaster
As a new member to the Central Ohio ASTD, Lisa Gearhart has accepted the position of website administrator. Lisa has been in the training and development arena since 1990. She has a wealth of cross-industry training and consulting experience including strong business acumen, innovative ISD capabilities, and the ability to program in all current Windows development tools.
Her early years were spent in various design, development, and project management roles at Goal Systems. The past 15 years were spent creating and managing web-based training, instructor-led training, videos, wikis, and forums for the server, workstation, storage, data warehousing, and software business units at Compaq/HP. In addition, Lisa helped create the HTML and Publisher/Lectora templates used for all HP web-based development, and she managed the vendor operational guidelines and parameters for a six million dollar sales training pipeline. During her entire training career, Lisa maintained her own training company focusing on web-based and instructor-led training solutions. After twenty years, she recently broke away from the corporate world to concentrate on taking her own training company to the next level. It will be an interesting new adventure!
Lisa and her husband and daughter reside in Upper Arlington and are very active in the community. They manage the PTO website for the school, the website for their swim club, and are very active in the civic association. The whole family loves outdoor activity, so you can often spot them biking to the Olentangy bike path, roller-blading outside, or walking their two dogs. When vacationing they enjoy skiing, hiking, wind-surfing, and soon plan to add kite-boarding to the list!
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Volunteers Needed! How You Can Get Involved...
The Central Ohio Chapter of ASTD is led by a dedicated group of volunteers who generously offer their time, expertise and passion to make the chapter the vibrant professional development resource it is today. The benefits of volunteerism are clear:
- Develop your leadership skills
- Position yourself on the leading edge of workplace learning and performance
- Partner with professional peers with a broad variety of experiences
- Build enriching, rewarding relationships
- Support the advancement of the Workplace Learning and Performance (WLP) profession in Central Ohio
As well, active leadership in the Central Ohio Chapter of ASTD makes a strong statement on your professional resume! READ MORE
Chapter Incentive Program – ChIP Code is CH3071
With the ChIPs program, chapters have the opportunity to share the revenue from new business they generate for ASTD programs and services. ChIPs include national memberships, conference registrations, and books published by ASTD.
When purchasing a qualifying product or service through the ASTD Store, either online at www.astd.org or by calling 800.628.2783 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting 800.628.2783 end_of_the_skype_highlighting begin_of_the_skype_highlighting 800.628.2783 end_of_the_skype_highlighting, be sure to include ChIP code CH3071 in the ChIP/Global Network Code box on the shopping cart screen. For each qualifying purchase, Central Ohio ASTD will receive a portion of the revenue! Every person that uses the source code will be contributing to our chapter's financial health, further enabling us to accomplish our chapter's mission.
Central Ohio ASTD 2010 Financial Report
The Central Ohio ASTD continued its commitment to be "an extension of you" by focusing on member events in 2010. As a snapshot of our financial position at year end shows, our focus on bringing relevant education and networking opportunities to our membership is reflected in both our expenditures and our revenue.READ MORE
