Event: ATD South East Asia Summit 2021 Organizer: Association for Talent Development (ATD) Location: Virtual Talk description The speed with which teams is developed is far more critical now to meet the challenges of complex next-generation projects amidst a fast-paced business environment. The time to proficiency is critical business metrics to enable speed of employee development in the new business world. While training and learning interventions are the first line of defence for developing employees, the world is moving towards eLearning, remote or online training at an accelerated rate. Based on extensive research with 85 world leaders, this talk will provide powerful insights to learning leaders on reducing time to proficiency through e-learning. The goal of this talk is to educate training and learning designers with research-based strategies to design e-learning that positively speed up time to proficiency of the workforce. The talk brings a set of distilled practices drawn from 66 success stories drawn from 70 world-leading organizations spanning 40 industries across 7 countries and a wide range of skills, job types and contexts. This talk will equip participants with a renewed thinking process to design highly effective and efficient eLearning geared towards developing skills at a faster rate. Key Takeaways:

• Understand the value of reducing time to proficiency of employees
• Review conditions and considerations for speeding up performance
• Identify poor e-learning design elements that make time to proficiency longer
• Learn 5 powerful strategies for designing online training for accelerating proficiency
• Acquire a new thinking process for proficiency-focused e-learning design