They didn’t say so, but my guess is that they didn’t see any potential podium time. Didn’t think your conference sessions need life support? In Jeff Hurt’s Midcourse Corrections post, “The Conference Session is Dead,&#   he writes, “The conference session is a triumph of standardization and it is so ingrained in our thinking we still buy and sell seat time rather than performance improvement.&#. He is so right. In his discussion — and the great comments posted by others — lots of reasons for the stagnancy are mentioned and deconstructed. MORE >>

We all know how hard it is to get presenters to abandon the safe familiarity of the podium and Powerpoint slides and become true facilitators of learning, so I was tickled to see so many interactive sessions included in the ASAE Great Ideas Conference. These three in particular caught my eye: “Speed Learning for Professional Development Specialists,&# facilitated by Tony Ellis of NACS and Bill Scott of The Obesity Society. “Cookin Up Leadership[tm],&# facilitated by Rhea Blanken of Results Technology. If you’re not familiar with his work, you should be. MORE >>

Allison Rossett & Kendra Sheldon defined Analysis as “the study we do in order to figure things out&# ( Beyond the Podium: Delivering Training and Performance to a Digital World ). In my last post I discussed Innovating With ADDIE by using the X Problem Solving Framework of Immersion, Convergence, Divergence, and Adaptation in conjunction with ADDIE. This term is normally associated with the traditional steps of analysis, such as performing a needs assessment, task analysis, and building performance measures. While on the other end of the continuum is immersion. Reference. MORE >>

The area around the podium is lit. The ThoughtWorks University sessions started yesterday. An induction with a difference (many differences), it was a refreshing experience for a "veteran" like me. have had first hand experience of induction programs in quite a few organizations--each org has been very different but displayed surprising uniformity in the way they conducted the induction sessions, the org values and norms, and so on.You get the point! What happens in typical induction programs? typical Values session experience goes like this. The session ends.thankfully. Follow what!!! MORE >>

Basically you create a room, for example, auditorium seating with a podium and video screen, and then “store&# all items and positions. It has been an incredibly busy month for Ener Hax and the Second Life iliveisl estate. Shutting down an established private estate is no small feat. Thankfully, the good will fostered by Ener meant that the iliveisl community eagerly stepped up to keep the estate together by buying their sims and working together. That is the biggest plus that Second Life has – its residents. Linden Lab has shifted to a platform provider and not much more. MORE >>