Director of Operations and Platforms at Microsoft, responsible for training and readiness for the customer facing roles at Microsoft. am responsible for a variety of things including reporting, quality, tools & platform, technology, innovation and the operational services necessary to deliver nearly 2 million hours of training per year to 45,000 employees. From a training perspective, we use SharePoint in a few interesting ways. We’re just wrapping up a project to build a SharePoint search experience for training. Assessment wrapped around online training. MORE >>

In keeping up with our trend this week of offering newly available and FREE resources to help keep you informed and up-to-date on learning and elearning, we offer you this link to the Masie Center’s open source e-book, “Learning Perspectives,&# with contributions by “40 Global Learning Leaders.&#. If you’re curious about the four key elements of training within the Central Intelligence Agency, for example, this is your resource. Many thanks to the MASIE Center for providing this great book! MORE >>

I recently attended one of Elliott Masie’s Learning Directions sessions held at the Southwest Airlines home office in Dallas. Elliott Masie is an “internationally recognized futurist, analyst, researcher, and organizer on critical topics of workforce learning, business collaboration and emerging technologies.” have to admit that attending a day-long training session seemed counterintuitive to the J4 philosophy. It made me wonder … when was the last time I consulted a learner before writing a training program? d like to share a few of my takeaways. It’s been awhile. MORE >>

This is what Elliott Masie, Founder & President of The MASIE Center, said this week at the beginning of his Keynote session at the Human Capital Media Symposium for Chief Learning Officer. Masie went on to talk about trends that have the potential for changing the field dramatically. third major trend identified by Masie is learning agility. Organization Culture Organizational Learning Teamwork Training '“if anybody says to you here’s where learning will be in five years, run in the other direction.” One is personalization of learning. Related articles. MORE >>

Carol Bond is the Senior Training Analyst for the specialty benefits division at Principal Financial Group. She oversees the training and development of leaders and underwriters. Carol previously managed an eLearning team and has worked in training management and consulting for the past 17 years. Senior executives, project/training managers, instructional designers and programmers are all a part of training and development initiatives. From the perspective of a training analyst, what are some of the challenges you’ve seen these stakeholders face? MORE >>