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 …

Do you have an exceptional performer on your team — a person who stands head and shoulders above everyone else? If you do, it can be a wonderful gift for a manager to have an employee whom you can count on to get the right results; who thinks about what else needs to be done …

Friends, colleagues and family can be great resources for career planning and career advice. But we also need relationships with a variety of individuals and groups to help us succeed. For example, we need people who can offer information or expertise; who are influential or can provide political insights; who will give us candid feedback …

The cloud (virtual software service) and mobile devices are now being used more and more as a means to provide users easier access to documentation and training. What does that mean for Technical Writers? It means more opportunities, work, imagination, and knowledge, More opportunities will exist for the Technical Writer to become involved in working …

Editorial by Jonathan Bernstein Does being the chief resident of the White House erode your public speaking ability? Is it time to find some new speech writers? Are you making so many speaking mistakes that they become trends noticeable not just back home, but even by a DANISH TV station? Yes, yes and YES, Mr. …

History of Organization Development: A Timeline of Who Did What and When Part 3 of 6 (Guest post from John Scherer, Co-Director of Scherer Leadership International, with Billie Alban, President of Alban & Williams, Ltd. This is the third blog post in a six-part series about the history of OD.) Introduction to this Blog Series …

A speaker shared the analogy of “Panning for Gold” as a metaphor for finding God’s love. Just like when you are trying to pan for gold there is a lot of dirt or muck that needs to be sifted through first before you can even see the gold hidden within. This is like our lives, …

After some $40 million was raised in $10 gifts through cell phones for the Haiti earthquake response in January, 2010, every nonprofit had dreams of cell phones as mobile donation machines. Even for the Red Cross, those dreams seem to have evaporated. However, mobile use among Americans has increased dramatically. It’s probably true that among …

Squeezing Water from a Rock Ask and ye shall receive. I wanted to work with the brightest, most engaged, forward-thinking and forward-acting entrepreneurs and business leaders out there…. and that’s exactly the clients I have in my practice. Hallelujah! Turns out that my client niche has an unexpected hitch…. The best and brightest also tend …

Interviews are a way to collect useful data for program evaluation. They provide qualitative data, which is more text-based–for example quotes, stories, and descriptions– versus the quantitative or numbers-based data that written surveys (also known as questionnaires) provide. I recently interviewed people for a program evaluation and gained a new and fresh appreciation for the …