Today's post follows on from two of my previous posts of a similar nature, which you apparently found interesting: From Training Specialist to Learning Generalist Instructional Designers need more skills than just writing! Being a Consultant "As consultants we ruthlessly eliminate waste and evaluate at our learning offerings from the perspective of the business, ensuring that we continuously deliver the most efficient solution (instructional or not) to achieve the performance expectations." As service providers to our organisations and clients, we're all consultants. MORE >>

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), it is estimated that the area of “human resources, training and labor relations specialists” segment will grow by 35%. And Kennedy Information LLC, a leading information source on management consulting, states that the global market should expand to $50 billion with talent management emerging as one of the most sought after areas of expertise. How do you know what type or who to hire as a consultant? Here are 5 factors to keep in mind: Certifications – make sure to hire a consultant who is SPHR certified. MORE >>

In fact, the exam writing team is looking for help with the Exam Building Workshop for the E20-651 Connectrix Specialist Exam for Platform Engineers. From EMC Consulting’s Grace Mollison: post where she talks about the challenges of a architecting a software project using AWS (Amazon Web Services – so public cloud). This post is cross-posted from the EMC Proven Professional Community on the EMC Community Network (ECN). Hi everyone! Time for the EMC Proven Professional Roundup! Welcome!! These are great questions! Links to the articles are here. Trouble accessing links? MORE >>

Collaborative Learning Specialists - of all types! Resident expert - is accessible to networks of people, provides ideas as needed, shares expertise, has high visibility, initiates thinking ( SMEs , face-to-face trainers, consultants - as specialist SME bloggers who are sought after, followed by their networks in domain areas inside Enterprises). Social Media Specialist - converts content into short, enticing, provocative, rapid, instant media with the likes of YouTube , e.g. CommonCrafts presentation and Institute of Social Research. Future jobs, now, today! tools). MORE >>

This post continues my discussion of the role of the Performance Specialist.    Over the next few days I am going to look at some case studies where a Performance Specialist working within organisations helped different teams address their own performance problems.   But instead he asked the Performance Specialist to look into this. The Performance Specialist convened a meeting of product managers and sales people to discuss the problem.  Case study 1.   This would however incur some additional costs.  MORE >>