Financial advisors are in the business of providing advice and direction. The pinnacle of this hierarchy is wisdom. Joe Kringdon, Principal, Kringdon & Associates/HMC, spent several decades in the Wealth and Asset Management business, managing and leading both advisors and wholesaler investment consultants. Today’s post is by Joseph D. Kringdon, Principal, Kringdon & Associates/HMC. Have you ever eaten at the Cheesecake Factory? MORE

Simplifying the training experience is pinnacle to both effective learning and knowledge retention. . Gamification in Business. Corporate Universities author, Jeanne Meister, notes compelling evidence for incorporating gamification in business today: “interactive learning games can increase long-term retention rates by up to 10 times”. Follow Follow Follow. In the ever-changing world of technology, the race to stay up to date is an exhausting feat. MORE

Using various social signals we came up with the following as being the hot items during February 2009 via eLearning Learning. You can find a bit more on this capability in the post Hot List. Enjoy. Top Posts and other Items The ‘Least Assistance’ Principle eLearning is not the answer Multi-Generational Learning in the Workplace Here’s How I Built That PowerPoint E-Learning Template Informal learning - what is it? What Goes in the LMS? MORE

Hess, is a Professor of Business Administration at University of Virginia’s Darden Graduate School of Business and has spent decades studying and consulting with high-performance learning organizations. Hess explains that the key interaction around which these groups operate is the “learning conversation,” an open, deliberate, non-defensive exchange to test beliefs. If this doesn’t sound like any conversation you’ve ever been a part of, you’re not alone. MORE

For the past year or so, massive open online courses (MOOCs) have been busy upending all kinds of assumptions about education: content is king, quality education is expensive, and instructor-led training is the gold standard, to name just a few. A PLN represents the pinnacle of informal learning. Twitter discussions and hangouts can be used to host real-time conversations. Bryant’s business career has been based on his results-oriented style of empowering the individual. MORE

For busy employees, it’s imperative that workplace reading is introduced as a personal and professional benefit, not as an additional burden. Ensure that the conversation centers on how this practice can provide the most value to them , and not just about how they can squeeze it into their schedule. At Pinnacle Financial Partners , the CEO and other senior team leaders host book club meetings at their homes. We read every day at work. MORE

Not just the traditional educational institutes, but also the corporations and businesses are leveraging online courses for their own goals. . Video processing: Adobe Premiere Pro, iMovie, Final Cut Pro X, Power Director, Adobe after Effects, Pinnacle Studio etc. Highlights : PowerPoint Conversion: Instantly convert your courses into PowerPoint presentations. MORE

Hess, is a Professor of Business Administration at University of Virginia’s Darden Graduate School of Business and has spent decades studying and consulting with high-performance learning organizations. Hess explains that the key interaction around which these groups operate is the “learning conversation,” an open, deliberate, non-defensive exchange to test beliefs. If this doesn’t sound like any conversation you’ve ever been a part of, you’re not alone. MORE

The gist of the article is that two new wrinkles in corporate IT that have sprung up in the past twenty years, the web and enterprise software, have enabled companies to take good ideas- improved business processes, sets of workflows, plans about who should get to make which decisions, etc.- Conversations among peers are the stem-cells of innovation. Customer/company conversations are the pinnacle of customer service. Business life is no longer that simple. MORE

If your business relies on having top-notch video quality (and if you are in the online course business, this is definitely true), then having access to professional video editing software is an investment worth doing. 21 Pinnacle Studio 23. Pinnacle Studio 23 Screenshot. MORE