Amy Graft

"The final piece of the puzzle was the mapping of core training and secondary learning requirements to the 17 capabilities," said Amy Graft, program manager for External Training at Siemens ICN, and part of the intra-company team at Siemens USA.

Amy Graft
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Amy Graft has been a member of ASTD for 8 years, though heavily involved for the past 3 years, and currently heads up the eLearning SIG for our chapter.In 1992, Amy started in the training arena with an internship with Siemens while finishing her Master's degree , and has been there ever since!Amy is currently a Program Manager with Siemens Communications in the Educational Services Department and works on various programs, including vendor management, curriculum design, project management, and management/leadership development.Amy is originally from Illinois, but has been in Florida since she was 5.

Amy Graft ( Amy.Graft@icn.siemens.com ) responds with these suggestions:

o Determine what information you want to gather and why, says Graft, principal technical trainer with Siemens Corp.'s Information and Communication Networks unit in Lake Mary, Fla. Instruments that let learners score questions on a 1 to 5 scale aren't particularly useful to improve training, Graft says.

Amy Graft ( Amy.Graft@icn.siemens.com ) responds with these suggestions:

o Determine what information you want to gather

and why, says Graft, principal technical trainer

with Siemens Corp.'s Information and Communication

Networks unit in Lake Mary, Fla. Instruments

that let learners score questions on a 1 to 5

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training, Graft says.Instead, ask respondents

what they would change about a course, and give

them room to comment.

The selection committee was chaired by Thomson NETg Chief Learning Officer, Dr. James L'Allier, and the other judges included: Allison Rossett, San Diego State University; Tim Sosbe, Chief Learning Officer Magazine; Brenda Sugrue, American Society for Training & Development (ASTD); Josh Bersin, Bersin and Associates; Colleen Fuhs, Northwest Airlines and Illuminati Learning Leader of the Year 2004; and, Amy Graft, Siemens, Most Innovative Learning Program Illuminati Winner 2004.