Jerry Babbs

Professional Portfolio

Professional Experience

  • Leadership experience – 10+ years

  • ADDIE Model knowledge

  • Expert virtual and in-person facilitator

  • Top Learning Organization

  • Employed by a Forbes 500 Company

  • Project Management expertise

  • Learning Management System knowledge

  • Ice breaker and teambuilding specialist

  • Mentor and coach

  • Mentoring and coaching consultant

  • MS Office Suite

  • Professional Development Academy Lead

  • Understanding of Camtasia and Storyline

Professional Philosophy

I believe:

  • All individuals are equal and should be treated equally.

  • Building relationships is fundamental to personal and business success.

  • Everyone has the capability to learn.

  • Bringing to the surface and utilizing one’s strengths makes one feel valued.

  • Showing empathy helps create an environment all can thrive in.

  • Seeing the best in people fosters openness to ideas, suggestions and withholds judgement.

  • Respect is earned and deserved.

  • Optimism is foundational in creating a safe place for free-flowing dialogue.

  • Being receptive contributes to a harmonious environment.

  • Creating a sense of community and belonging equates to successful teams.

  • One should work to live and not live to work.

  • All should strive for a healthy mind, body, and spirit.

  • Open communication strengthens trust.

  • Taking responsibility and eliminating excuses nurtures growth.

  • Being prepared, on time and paying attention increases efficiency and effectiveness.

What You Can Expect from Me

I create quality, interactive, engaging and applicable professional development opportunities for teams, individual contributors and leaders. I help improve soft skills, team performance, employee engagement and more, through valuable and purposeful training sessions. One of my greatest professional accomplishments is managing a very successful professional development academy for our sales and support division. This professional development academy provides individual contributors and leaders the opportunity to learn, grow and enhance multiple skills. With over 25 years of leadership, coaching, facilitating, content creation, curriculum development, team building and mentoring, I have the experience necessary to help organizations professionally develop their workforce through a variety of methods.

Examples of Recent Responsibilities

  1. Utilize the ADDIE Model when designing end to end learning solutions that include e-learning, instructor-led (face to face and virtual), and self-paced (on-demand)

  2. Meet with and manage stakeholders and subject matter experts in the content development process, ensuring alignment, engagement, and expectation management through a thorough needs analysis and communication process.

  3. Coach and mentor to individual contributors (frontline through seasoned employees) and leaders.

  4. Serve as a trusted and valued thought leader and subject matter expert in learning experience design, facilitation and needs analysis.

  5. Apply strong project management discipline for setting expectations, execution and resolving issues.

  6. Examine insights from multiple sources of data and feedback about how our programs and courses perform to continually improve them.

  7. Conduct independent research, that includes focus groups, interviews with subject matter experts and translate findings into compelling learning content.

  8. Facilitate pilots with audiences of all levels of leadership and individual contributors.

  9. Develop all relevant materials related to a program roll-out, including learner materials, pilots, and facilitator guides.

  10. Create interactive and engaging training that focuses on purpose and value.

On Leadership

  1. 10+ years as a public-school administrator

  2. Responsible for hiring, managing and leading a staff of 63 exempt and nonexempt staff

  3. Creating leadership training curricula for seasoned and newly appointed leaders

  4. Project Lead of internal professional development academy

On Learning Delivery

Programs

  1. Camtasia

  2. WebEx and Zoom

  3. Mindtickle

  4. Cornerstone OnDemand

  5. Microsoft Office

  6. Storyline


Experience

  1. Learning Journeys

  2. Virtual Presentation

  3. Learning Management Systems

  4. Job Aides

  5. Learner Guides

  6. How to Videos

What Others Are Saying

Congratulations on being a recipient of the Q1 ABIE award. The focus on development and offering individual contributors and people leaders the opportunity to engage in a learning journey to assist with their growth and development has been well received. Click HERE to read what others have said.

On Project Management

  1. Refresh of Internal Learning Academy

  2. Competitor Analysis on OneNote for Gulf Zone

  3. WebEx Lead for division

  4. Productivity

On Strengthening Teams

  1. Creator of Icebreakers for meetings

  2. Leader of teambuilding activities

  3. DiSC Communication Styles Expert

*DiSC Workplace

*DiSC 363

*DiSC for Sales

*DiSC Catalyst

  1. Five Dysfunctions of a Team Facilitator

  2. Skilled in Strengths Finder

  3. Adept in Emotional Intelligence

  4. Coaching to Behaviors knowledge

On Life Experiences

  1. Small Business Owner

  2. Executive Board Member

  3. Church Board Member

  4. Public Address Announcer

  5. Volunteering

  6. Coaching youth sports

  7. Greeting team lead

  8. Fall Festival Coordinator