Performance Learning Productivity

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2015 Top Tools for Learning

Performance Learning Productivity

PowerPoint: Although PowerPoint’s linear nature is often restricting, I’ve never found Prezi or other tools as robust and flexible. PowerPoint is the useful ‘Swiss army knife’ in the toolbox for assembling presentations and creating simple flow diagrams and graphics. I’m a member of far too many LinkedIn groups.

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2016 Top Tools for Learning

Performance Learning Productivity

PowerPoint : despite its many restrictions, PowerPoint continues to be my tool of choice for most of my presentations. But Skype feels a little like it’s creaking at the edges – status flags are often wrong, message sync is flaky, it often drops after a while even when there’s plenty of bandwidth on both ends.

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When it's just so obvious NOT to train it's painful to watch it happen

Performance Learning Productivity

I have seen multiple PowerPoint decks of 200-300 slides delivered over 2-3 days for CRM upgrades. The instructional designers and SMEs feel the need to cover every possibly eventuality and load courses with scenarios, examples and other ‘just-in-case’ content.