Paradigm Learning and Expedia to Present at 2008 American Society of Training and Development

PRLog (Press Release) – May 20, 2008 – Paradigm Learning and Expedia to Present at
2008 American Society of Training and Development

How to Accelerate Your Manager’s Learning:
The Development of a Leadership Competency Model

Tampa, Fla.,— Paradigm Learning announced today that it will be co-presenting with Expedia, Inc., at the 2008 American Society of Training and Development (ASTD) conference in San Diego, Calif., on June 1 from 1:45 to 3:00 p.m.

The presentation, titled How to Accelerate Your Manager’s Learning, will focus on several learning objectives, including the development of a leadership competency model. Participants will learn how to do the following:

•   Define the skills and knowledge necessary to develop successful managers and leaders in an organization.
•   Translate these skills and this knowledge into a highly effective leadership competency model.
•   Develop evaluation criteria for the selection of training partners who will complement the organization’s curriculum and in-house expertise.

When Expedia separated from its parent company in 2005, its priorities became standardized manager training, business acumen, and consistent learning objectives across global and company brands. It took Expedia less than two years to successfully globalize its corporate learning function for building management and leadership skills. At this session, you’ll hear how that was accomplished.

Paradigm Learning will join Expedia in this presentation to talk about business acumen, business games and simulations, and discovery learning as components of Expedia’s overall training strategy.

Please join us at ASTD in San Diego on June 1 for a stimulating interactive presentation.


ABOUT EXPEDIA
Expedia, Inc. is parent company to some of the world’s leading travel companies, providing travel products and services to leisure and corporate travelers in the US and around the world. Expedia owns and operates a diversified portfolio of well-recognized brands — including Expedia.com, Hotels.com, Hotwire.com, TripAdvisor, Expedia Corporate Travel, Classic Vacations®, and a range of other US-based and international businesses.

ABOUT PARADIGM LEARNING
Paradigm Learning (www.ParadigmLearning.com) is a privately held company based in Tampa, Fla. Since 1994, it has worked with more than half of the companies on the Fortune 500 list, creating award-winning business games, business simulations and Discovery Maps® to address a company’s specific business needs. Its flagship business acumen training program, Zodiak®: The Game of Business Finance and Strategy, has been played by more than one million people worldwide. Other products address such issues as talent management, employee alignment, leadership accountability, building teams, project management and organizational change.