bozarthzone

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

I keep seeing lots of "tips for using social media tools in training" but not many concrete examples. Certainly the bigger goal is to help training become less an event and more a process, and to support ways for workers to form communities and interact with one another -- not just with the trainer. Ideas for other activities?

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bozarthzone

MARCH 15, 2018

There are lots of reasons why this happens: Managers who don’t understand that “training” involves more than just presenting content; purchasers who believe an authoring tool will allow any user to magically crank out gorgeous, interactive programs; well-meaning classroom trainers who perhaps lack a background in design or have trouble making the leap (..)

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bozarthzone

MARCH 6, 2017

In response to so much bad PowerPoint in our business (L&D) she started Refresher Training LLC. Wendy takes slide decks and other training resources and reworks them into more engaging, effective materials. One thing she had to work through: a confidence problem fed by her lack of formal training.

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bozarthzone

DECEMBER 2, 2020

The assumption that the only point of university education is as the means to better employment options, and should therefore be replaced with vocational training, brings with it a disregard for its less-tangible benefits. I feel that far from limiting those opportunities, we need to look at expanding them.

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bozarthzone

MARCH 27, 2010

As I left -- after a one-item cash transaction that took maybe 5 minutes -- the cashier said, "They told me that in training but I hadn't done it before. In this first instance, performance support could have supplemented, or likely replaced, training simply by programming help screens and prompts. Sorry, but I forgot."

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bozarthzone

JANUARY 5, 2009

They are always more interested in buying an LMS they don't yet need (and often don't even really know what it does) than in designing anything resembling effective online training. All you are doing is measuring the exact rate that the training department is hemorrhaging money out of the company.

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bozarthzone

NOVEMBER 10, 2008

tools.isn't it good enough for your learning and development department and your company to use these tools? I'll be doing my "Collaboration on a Shoestring" workshop live-online next month with Insync Training. Here's what Karl said: ". See About.com Web Trends and CNN for more -- as well as the Change.g ov site itself.

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