About Brenda
My name is Brenda L. Peterson, and since forever, I have been committed to helping individuals and organizations learn, grow, and transform.
🤹 I am an adaptable organizational development leader who thrives when implementing learning and development solutions that enable company success. I am dedicated to coaching performance, constant learning, continuous improvement, and driving organizational change.
🔺 I help individuals and organizations through the change process. This includes driving digital transformation, organizational culture, process changes, new products, software adoption, and turning new ideas into business as usual. I am a Prosci Certified Change Practitioner who enables the people side of change by helping individuals navigate through the ADKAR process to ensure organizational transformation.
💪 My CliftonStrengths Top 5 are Strategic, Learner, Arranger, Achiever, and Individualization. This unique combination helps me think strategically and then act tactically to achieve goals. I am always gathering information and best practices that influence how I plan and execute against key objectives. I also look at all the parts of a plan and maximize efficiency. Above all, I value building strong working relationships.
👩💼 As a people leader, my goal is to empower individuals to act. That includes coaching them on skills, helping them think through options, guiding them through tough situations, and fostering their development. I love helping remove barriers to performance.
🤹 I am an adaptable organizational development leader who thrives when implementing learning and development solutions that enable company success. I am dedicated to coaching performance, constant learning, continuous improvement, and driving organizational change.
🔺 I help individuals and organizations through the change process. This includes driving digital transformation, organizational culture, process changes, new products, software adoption, and turning new ideas into business as usual. I am a Prosci Certified Change Practitioner who enables the people side of change by helping individuals navigate through the ADKAR process to ensure organizational transformation.
💪 My CliftonStrengths Top 5 are Strategic, Learner, Arranger, Achiever, and Individualization. This unique combination helps me think strategically and then act tactically to achieve goals. I am always gathering information and best practices that influence how I plan and execute against key objectives. I also look at all the parts of a plan and maximize efficiency. Above all, I value building strong working relationships.
👩💼 As a people leader, my goal is to empower individuals to act. That includes coaching them on skills, helping them think through options, guiding them through tough situations, and fostering their development. I love helping remove barriers to performance.
Getting In Touch With Brenda
About This Portfolio
This portfolio includes work samples to give potential employers insight into the types of materials I create to improve employee and organizational performance. Please do not download these documents or use them outside of the context to better understand my skillset. Thank you for your cooperation.
Presenting a Solution: Outlining and Building Support for a New Program
I created these documents to pitch a learning solution to decision makers to get initial approval.
Blended Learning Strategy Onboarding Proposal for [Company] is a PowerPoint presented to a client interested in finding a more effective solution for new employee and contractor onboarding. The presentation would be delivered to the company's decision-makers and key stakeholders, and a high-level course of action would be proposed to address their key concerns. The goal of this presentation was to outline the proposed blended learning solution, including self-paced eLearning, and virtual instructor-led training, to address varying start times and the desire to also start to build strong organizational ties at a distance.
ATD-Nebraska (ATD-NE) Career Development SIG Proposal outlines key components of a special interest group I created for the Nebraska Association for Talent Development (ATD) chapter. I outline the rationale behind the group, the benefits of the group, and logistics, including meeting topics, meeting dates and times, and communication points. The goal of this document was to outline the proposed group, outline key logistical details, and garner buy-in for the creation and ongoing support for this new member-focused special interest group.
Blended Learning Strategy Onboarding Proposal for [Company] is a PowerPoint presented to a client interested in finding a more effective solution for new employee and contractor onboarding. The presentation would be delivered to the company's decision-makers and key stakeholders, and a high-level course of action would be proposed to address their key concerns. The goal of this presentation was to outline the proposed blended learning solution, including self-paced eLearning, and virtual instructor-led training, to address varying start times and the desire to also start to build strong organizational ties at a distance.
ATD-Nebraska (ATD-NE) Career Development SIG Proposal outlines key components of a special interest group I created for the Nebraska Association for Talent Development (ATD) chapter. I outline the rationale behind the group, the benefits of the group, and logistics, including meeting topics, meeting dates and times, and communication points. The goal of this document was to outline the proposed group, outline key logistical details, and garner buy-in for the creation and ongoing support for this new member-focused special interest group.
Making a Business Case For Change: Influencing Attitudes and Actions
I often partner with leaders and key stakeholders to assess the current state, identify areas for improvement, and reccommend a course of action. This process typically involves creating a written reccommendation, helping to lead implementation, and driving change management to promote organizational adoption. Here are examples of materials to support the early stages of driving change.
Business Case: Rethinking SME-Delivered Quarterly Training Sessions includes background information and data to help an organization evaluate a current learning program and determine if, when, and/or how to continue the program in the future. The document includes original goals, a high-level outline of the current process, an list of key program components, and statistics on program creation and utilization. My reccommendation is to rethink the current program and considering more time and cost-efficient learning solutions. My goal with this document is to give decision-makers additional context for making a sound business decision about what started as one person's passion project.
Learning Options for New Implementaton Success is a customer-facing presentation that outlines the learning process for onboarding new SaaS customers as part of a software implementation project. I created this presentation when I was new to a training leadership position at a software company and received several “special training requests” from new clients. After investigating, I discovered we did not have a process for salespeople or other training team members to describe our training plan for onboarding new clients. This presentation is intended to build new client confidence in the organization, outline learnign options, and garner buyin for their participation in this new program. It also includes robust notes to enable other team members to present this information as needed.
Business Case: Rethinking SME-Delivered Quarterly Training Sessions includes background information and data to help an organization evaluate a current learning program and determine if, when, and/or how to continue the program in the future. The document includes original goals, a high-level outline of the current process, an list of key program components, and statistics on program creation and utilization. My reccommendation is to rethink the current program and considering more time and cost-efficient learning solutions. My goal with this document is to give decision-makers additional context for making a sound business decision about what started as one person's passion project.
Learning Options for New Implementaton Success is a customer-facing presentation that outlines the learning process for onboarding new SaaS customers as part of a software implementation project. I created this presentation when I was new to a training leadership position at a software company and received several “special training requests” from new clients. After investigating, I discovered we did not have a process for salespeople or other training team members to describe our training plan for onboarding new clients. This presentation is intended to build new client confidence in the organization, outline learnign options, and garner buyin for their participation in this new program. It also includes robust notes to enable other team members to present this information as needed.
Trainer Guides: Facilitation Notes for Instructor-Led Training
I created these two facilitator guides to help technical trainers deliver instructor-led software training sessions to end users at customer organizations. Notes included help ensure a high-quality, consistent learning experience across facilitators.
Adult Learning 101 Facilitator Guide supports a facilitated virtual learning experience for new learning and development professionals. This presentation is intended to be facilitated by one or two people and help people new to the training profession gain a better understanding of core adult education principles. This 45-minute session includes adult learning theory, popular learning models, and best practices for creating educationally sound learning experiences for adults. This guide includes a copy of each slide, talking points, and activiites to promote learner engagement.
[Class Name] Trainer Notes supports a training consultant to ensure consistent delivery of an advanced software end-use class. The guide includes PowerPoint slides, a list of key topics to cover in that platform, points for interaction, and robust trainer notes. In addition, this guide has facilitator notes for delivering the session as an in-person instructor-led session or as an instructor-led webinar with multiple points for attendee interaction. To help this guide stay current with an ever-changing SaaS software platform, trainers are expected to stay current on software functionality and use provided prompts to demonstrate current platform functionality without detailed step-by-step directions.
Adult Learning 101 Facilitator Guide supports a facilitated virtual learning experience for new learning and development professionals. This presentation is intended to be facilitated by one or two people and help people new to the training profession gain a better understanding of core adult education principles. This 45-minute session includes adult learning theory, popular learning models, and best practices for creating educationally sound learning experiences for adults. This guide includes a copy of each slide, talking points, and activiites to promote learner engagement.
[Class Name] Trainer Notes supports a training consultant to ensure consistent delivery of an advanced software end-use class. The guide includes PowerPoint slides, a list of key topics to cover in that platform, points for interaction, and robust trainer notes. In addition, this guide has facilitator notes for delivering the session as an in-person instructor-led session or as an instructor-led webinar with multiple points for attendee interaction. To help this guide stay current with an ever-changing SaaS software platform, trainers are expected to stay current on software functionality and use provided prompts to demonstrate current platform functionality without detailed step-by-step directions.
Microlearning Videos: Supervisor Skills and Product Overview
I created, edited, and narrated these two microlearning videos covering strategies for employee coaching and a training video on using a new paycheck solution.
Smart Coaching: Adjusting Your Style outlines the practical application of the skill/will matrix for coaching employees. It includes engaging graphics, showcases diversity, leverages movement, and provides valuable information in an under-5-minute video that can stand alone or be leveraged as a part of a larger eLearning course. I also narrate the video.
CHANGE card Training Video for Talent outlines key benefits of a new paycard product for employees who will be encouraged to receive their paychecks this way. The first part of the video outlines the benefits for paycard users. Then, the video outlines how to activate the card and an overview of the website's user interface where paycard users can manage their money. The goal of this video is to give new and potential users insights into how this product works. I also narrate the video.
Smart Coaching: Adjusting Your Style outlines the practical application of the skill/will matrix for coaching employees. It includes engaging graphics, showcases diversity, leverages movement, and provides valuable information in an under-5-minute video that can stand alone or be leveraged as a part of a larger eLearning course. I also narrate the video.
CHANGE card Training Video for Talent outlines key benefits of a new paycard product for employees who will be encouraged to receive their paychecks this way. The first part of the video outlines the benefits for paycard users. Then, the video outlines how to activate the card and an overview of the website's user interface where paycard users can manage their money. The goal of this video is to give new and potential users insights into how this product works. I also narrate the video.
Video: Fun Video to Celebrate Product Launch
I designed, created, and edited this fun video to celebrate the launch of a new product. I worked with groups who helped with the product launch to decide how they wanted to have their team celebrate in the video. Included footage includes video recorded on an iPhone and Teams webinar recordings.
