"...a thought leader in the Learning and Performance Improvement profession with a track record to prove it..."
-Jim and Dana Robinson
Dick Handshaw, President at Handshaw, Inc., is a consultant, speaker, and champion for real innovation and quality in instructional design. He is a pioneer in the field, with more than 30 years of experience as a learning and performance improvement professional and entrepreneur. Dick has served as a consultant for many organizations to help them establish a results-oriented learning strategy, methodology, and practice.
Last week on November 15th, I had the pleasure of addressing a small but very enthusiastic group of members of the Upstate South Carolina ASTD Chapter at their very nice meeting space in Greenville, SC. A large percentage of the audience were practicing instructional designers so we enjoyed a great deal of discussion during the presentation, “Instructional Design—How to Sell the Real Value.”
Of course, the presentation really isn’t about selling the value of instructional design at all. The whole idea is to create real value and let the results sell themselves. The Upstate members offered the best Southern hospitality. We had such a good meeting that we decided that to reconvene in March for a workshop.
My thanks to Beth Freeman, Vice President of Programs, for her attention to detail in the planning and execution of this event. I also want to thank Beth and her husband for joining me for dinner after the meeting.Beth and her husband Ben used to be neighbors of mine in Charlotte before I even started Handshaw, Inc. If you do the math, that means we go back about thirty years. It was great catching up.I look forward to seeing Beth and the great folks of Upstate ASTD again in 2012.
