Instructional Design PDN—Speaking the Same Language: Effective Communication Between SMEs and IDs
Subject matter expert (SME) relationships directly impact the success of your learning projects. What SMEs have become roadblocks rather than guides? Which ones have made the most effective collaborators? In this interactive in-person session, we will walk through the SME life cycle and how you, as the ID, can influence (and navigate) the process. You will discover practical strategies that will help you turn experts who assume "learners should already know this" into collaborative partners.
Agenda
Time
Function
8-8:30am
Arrival and networking
8:30am
Program start
10:00am
Program conclusion
Parking
Paid parking is available in the 16th St. Parking Structure or metered on the street.
Personal Brand Is Business Insurance. How L&D and Talent Professionals Can Use LinkedIn to Protect Their Careers and Grow Their Influence
In today's workplace, your job title belongs to your employer, but your reputation belongs to you. Join this practical, hands-on virtual workshop to learn how Learning & Development and Talent Development professionals can build a personal brand that creates career security, expands professional opportunities, and strengthens industry influence.
You'll discover how to optimize your LinkedIn profile, define your professional brand, create content that attracts the right audience, and build meaningful visibility without spending hours online. Through live exercises and actionable frameworks, you'll leave with a stronger LinkedIn presence, a clear content strategy, and an immediate action plan to grow your professional influence.
Meet the Speaker
Anjeanette Carter is a LinkedIn strategist, ghostwriter and founder of a LinkedIn growth agency that manages content for founders and CEOs. She has built an audience of more than 30,000 followers on LinkedIn, writes a Bestseller-rated Substack newsletter on freelancing, LinkedIn strategy and personal branding, and has hosted numerous webinars and appeared on many podcasts. She holds a degree in Communication from USC.
Bring Your Toughest L&D Challenge: A Hands-On AI Working Session
Many learning and development professionals have experimented with AI and identified promising use cases, but getting consistently useful results remains a challenge. In this highly interactive workshop, participants will explore how adding clearer context and direction can improve AI-generated results. Rather than presenting a single "right" way to write prompts, we will introduce several approaches to prompt development and help attendees recognize which types of information meaningfully guide AI versus adding unnecessary noise. Through brief instruction, real-world examples, and facilitated discussion, participants will discover how different methods can lead to different outcomes and how to choose the right level of detail for a given task.
This session is built around practice, comparison, and peer learning. Participants should bring a laptop, access to the AI tool of their choice, and a real learning, performance, communication, or development challenge. In small groups, attendees will write the prompt they would normally use, evaluate the initial result, enhance the prompt using one of several approaches, compare the revised output with the original, and share what changed and which prompt elements had the greatest impact. Together, the group will identify common patterns and practical techniques that can be applied across AI tools.
Participants will leave with a stronger understanding of how to improve AI results, practical prompt-building strategies they can use immediately, and new ideas from fellow L&D professionals. Attendees using public AI tools will be reminded not to enter confidential company, customer, employee, or personal information.
Contact Usadmin@sewi-atd.orgPhone: 608-204-9815Association ManagersSeth TrickelHeather L. Dyer, CAE
