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Anyone involved in the field of workplace learning should consider
attending the industry's premier event: ASTD'99, the International
Conference & Exposition, in Atlanta, Georgia on May 22-27. It's a
great chance to invest in your own performance, get introduced to new
ideas and practices for organizational learning, hear solutions to the
challenges of globalization, and learn proven practices to demonstrate
return on investment.
ASTD'99 offers more than 200 sessions organized in the following
tracks: Going Global, Measuring and Evaluating Training and
Performance, Organization Development, Performance Improvement,
Learning Technologies, Training Basics, and Workplace Issues. It's a
great chance to hear about real-world techniques from some of today's
most successful companies -- Disney's Animal Kingdom, Federal Express,
Microsoft, Nations Bank, Oracle, and Turner Broadcasting System, to
name just a few. You'll get tips from the experts in our field,
including Dana Gaines Robinson, Sivasailam Thiagarajan, Bob Pike, Ned
Herrmann, Ken Blanchard, Daniel Goleman, and Robert Brinkerhoff.
And you can use the EXPO to find the products and services that will
make your job easier.
For more information, visit
www.astd.org. ****************************************