Award of Excellence
Congratulations to all AFC members on your ISPI Chapter Award of Excellence!

February Webinar
Date: All Month!!
Session Presenter: A re-broadcast of the April 2009 ISPI Skillcast by Calhoun Wick [Biography]
Title: How to turn learning into improved workplace performance

Learning improves performance only when it is transferred and applied in the workplace. Based on six years of research and the highly-acclaimed book, The Six Disciplines of Breakthrough Learning, this webinar will equip you with a systemic process, frameworks, tools, know how, and best practices. You will be prepared and hopefully inspired to take action that will improve learning transfer and optimize the results of your most important learning initiatives.

Objectives:

*     Improve performance by accelerating transfer of learning to work.
*     Employ six research based disciplines.
*     Use tools, processes, and job aides provided during session.

January Webinar
A warm thank you to Dr Steve Villachica [Biography], Deborah Stone [Biography] and John Endicott for another great presentation. Another engaging presentation, well attended by upwards of 20 AFC members! The new Live Room platform worked exceptionally well! Congratulations also goes out to AFC Member Lee (Kirk) Schultz USN who was the webinar door prize winner and will be receiving on of the three volumes from the series "Handbook of Improving Performance in the Workplace" (This is the link to the books - http://www.ispi.org/content.aspx?id=1066 )

For $10 a year - you can't beat that!

December Webinar
A heartfelt thanks to Dr Rossett [Biography] for her patience and willingness to share her expertise with the Armed Forces Chapter. The last half of her presentation was excellent! The material are all available in the archived events section under Webinars. If you didn't have the chance to attend today - check out the webinar. Also keep an eye out for her latest articles in T&D! Thanks again Dr. R... the Starbucks Card is in the mail!

AFC Elections
It is that time of year again when the call is going out to find our next Secretary Treasurer and President Elect for the 2010/2011 year. All the details on how the elections are conducted are available in the AFC Bylaws Section 3. The application form is available here for download.

Committees
The AFC Membership Committee has been established to examine the current membership structure and benefits associated to each type of membership in the current AFC By-Laws. Members Scott Rooke from the USCG and Rebecca G. Bodrero from Concurrent Technologies Corporation have both come forward to work on this initiative. If you would like to know more about the committee or have opinions you would liek to share, please let them know and they will pass it to the other committee members!

The AFC Website committee has also been established. The committee is hard at work defining what the next generation AFC website and Web 2.0 presence will look like. If you have suggestions, please send them to David Padley or Michael Polkinghorn.

The Benefits of Membership
In addition to the discount that Armed Forces Chapter members receive for the annual Performance Improvement Conference, we will now receive a $50 discount off the ISPI member rates for the Fall Conference and for Public Institutes as well as the ISPI member rates for other events such as the Workshops and SkillCasts. To receive these discounts, contact the ISPI Director of Marketing and Sales at marketing@ispi.org or 301 587 8570, ext 111.