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Denny Hall has worked in the training and development field for more than 13 years. His primary expertise is in the area of industrial training system design and development. He has worked with the Training Within Industry job instruction (JI) training model for seven years and has used it at two different organizations. Hall’s team at Marvin Windows and Doors of Tennessee received a 2008 ASTD BEST Award for successfully incorporating JI training into Marvin's new-hire orientation program.

Denny Hall

November 2013 - TD Magazine

The Training Within Industry Approach Resurges in the U.S. Workforce

Fasika Melaku is the SVP, Chief Human Resources and Chief Learning Officer Denny’s Corporation. She is responsible for growing and nurturing the Denny’s culture and operationalizing its ethos—that clarify what is needed from employees to transform the company, ensuring our ability to provide a realiable guest experience and truly deliver for learners.Fasika has a cross-industry track record of successfully unlocking the potential of teams by tapping into the skills and passions of people and the leaders who guide them. Prior to joining Denny’s, Melaku held the position as Vice President of Restaurant Training and Recruiting for Taco Bueno Restaurants, a 161-unit company with annual revenues of $200 million based in Dallas, Texas. In that role Fasika Melaku focused on building a culture of people and operational excellence throughout the organization and building department credibility by establishing collaborative relationships with her peers and operations management.Before that, Fasika Melaku held a variety of roles in operations and HR leadership with Brinker International and Darden Restaurant Group. Within those roles, she worked on delivering learning solutions and driving long-range organizational initiatives including the implantation of broad-range of talent processes, including recruitment and on-boarding, performance management and succession planning, executive assessments, employee surveys, and leadership development programs. She is actively involved in the community and sits on the board of the Urban League of the Upstate.

Fasika Melaku

Jenny Hill, CPLP, has more than five years of experience creating engaging, accessible, and effective learning experiences. She works with a wide variety of clients to ensure learners can reach their potential and do their most meaningful work. She has spoken on a number of learning and accessibility topics, and has presented at the Brightspace Global Conference and The Accessibility Conference at the University of Guelph. She has written for Learning Solutions Magazine, as well as other publications and blogs. Contact her on LinkedIn at www.linkedin.com/in/JenniferReneeHill.

Jenny Hill

Panel on Maximizing the Effect of Sales Training—Part 2

ASTD 2014 Panel on Maximizing the Effect of Sales Training—Part 1

As businesses become more agile and digital, they look to their internal training and development processes to help this transformation. Business leaders want learning solutions that align with business strategies and maximize competencies that drive performance and optimize the time and resources invested in training. Join this webinar to see why artificial intelligence-powered adaptive learning is becoming a must-have enabler for large-scale companies striving to transform their training investments.

During this session, you will:

Discover how to provide employees with targeted and relevant learning opportunities on demand and in the flow of work using adaptive learning.
See how adaptive learning can help increase learner engagement through personalization.
Learn how adaptive learning helps identify and manage organizational skills gaps and risks allowing you to reduce the time to onboard, upskill, reskill, and cross-skill employees.


DEMO: See AI-Powered Adaptive Training and Learning at Work

Jenny Harshman, MSN, RN, NPD-BC, CPN, CCRN-K is a nursing professional development leader at Children’s Health in Dallas, Texas. She serves as the Manager of Clinical Education in the Learning Institute and has a special interest in how modern learning design impacts outcomes. Jenny is an active member in the Association of Nursing Professional Development and has presented on social learning and redesigning learning methods at their national conferences. She was named Educator of the Year in 2018 at Children’s Medical Center of Dallas. Jenny is a recipient of D Magazine’s Nurse Excellence Award in Education and Research and has been named one of DFW’s Great 100 Nurses of 2020.

Jenny Harshman

According to 2021 State of Healthcare Training, a recent study from ATD Research, only 15 percent of healthcare providers report being prepared for the nursing shortage to a high or very high extent.

Nursing Shortage Is the Next Challenge for Healthcare Organizations After COVID-19

Given the quick rate of change, leaders and individual contributors need leadership and business skills training to help their organizations operate in new ways. Ongoing learning for employees is essential for organizations to survive. So, how can organizations boost learners’ engagement? Join us as Benny Ramos discusses why it is important to know learners’ expectations, what research says about learners and their environment, and what modern learners find compelling in content.
To stay competitive, organizations must provide their employees with opportunities for ongoing growth and development. At the end of this session, you will understand:

The implication of digitalization and what it means to the organization
T-shaped learning and how to create the workforce of the future
Business perspectives and technical perspectives within leadership
The modern learning formula for leadership and business skills, and the importance of leadership
 


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