I decided to mull this over this morning. If you’ve been to this site before you can certainly find both. I believe I tend more toward commentary. “How-to” is easier to come by and you don’t have to really know anything about training just where to find a piece where someone else tells you how …
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An article by guest blogger, Carter McNamara: About Carter McNamara, MBA, PhD ~ Carter, of Authenticity Consulting, LLC, has helped organizations across the nation to design Action Learning programs. Typically Mentioned Outcomes from Action Learning The peer-based Action Learning process is known worldwide as a straightforward, yet powerful approach to personal, professional and organization development. …
Continual learning is essential for survival in the workplace-instruction in the form of training is not. For workers who are already able to do what is expected of them, but are not performing to expectations, training is not the answer." Robert F Mager as quoted in the ASTD Handbook for Workplace Learning Professionals p. 173
I was approached recently to train medical staff how to give patients and family members bad news. I asked why this consortium of trainers thought I was a good choice for this. The answer: because I was an actor. I knew how to be someone else. Did I leave my body and my feelings behind? …
Tom in The Glass Menagerie wants to know how the magician or anyone can “find a way out of a coffin that is nailed shut without removing one nail,” or you could say how to find “a way up the slippery slope.” Work and work relationships can do more harm than good. This is one …
Here’s your question–just for the fun of it. What will training be like in the future? Have you thought that far out? What will companies look like that far in the future? We know what they were like in the past. We know who they bankrupt and “ages of misery” they spawned. We know how …
Michelle Rosenbloom with the 3Leaf Group is a marketing professional. Now, what she is marketing is the Netflix(TM) of training. The wave of the future. She has been involved in creating a “lean, mean, learning machine.” But there is more to it than marketing when it comes to a savvy training professional or manager who …