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Transforming Training Programs with Soft Skills

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While most employee training has traditionally focused on technical or functional knowledge and skills (for example, product knowledge, software or equipment, safety, and compliance), new initiatives are highlighting the need to focus on soft skills.

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How to Improve Learning Outcomes With Performance Support

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In this video, Charles Jennings articulates the natural tendency for people to learn, then quickly forget: “We have the situations where people are training, they go back to the workplace … and we find that it hasn’t actually changed their behaviors and they can’t do what’s expected of them.

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Make Learning An Experience. Blend It! | Social Learning Blog

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Software tools such as Articulate Presenter or Adobe Presenter allow you to transition your current PowerPoint into a streamlined e-Learning modules complete with narration, interactive quizzes, and Flash-based output compression. This approach also encourages the collaborative and social learning experience.

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Four Phases of Learning

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Here are some examples: Collaborative pretests and knowledge sharing. Individual reflection and articulation. The goal of the Presentation Phase is to help the learners encounter the new learning material in ways that are interesting, enjoyable, relevant, multisensory, and that appeal to all learning styles. Interactive presentations.

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I Don’t Care What You Had For Lunch: Finding Professional Value in Twitter

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It’s been my experience so far that the folks who participate in #lrnchat are clever, articulate people working across a variety of learning disciplines. But if learning to effectively use hash tags was good, the second take away, #lrnchat, has been an amazing find for me.

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Four Phases of Learning

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Here are some examples: Collaborative pretests and knowledge sharing. Individual reflection and articulation. The goal of the Presentation Phase is to help the learners encounter the new learning material in ways that are interesting, enjoyable, relevant, multisensory, and that appeal to all learning styles. Interactive presentations.