From the Coleface

MAY 28, 2012

How effective is virtual classrooms training in comparison with traditional classroom training? What virtual classroom technology would you recommend? What factors influence the success or failure of virtual classrooms in terms of effectiveness? How do you change the learning culture to treat VCT as seriously as ILT?

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From the Coleface

JANUARY 27, 2014

e-learning training' How can I design award-winning e-learning? I fully expect this list of questions may not cover your own questions so do pop along to the eLN stand or tweet me at viv_cole #elnevent.

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From the Coleface

DECEMBER 24, 2013

He demurred and said that the biggest emotion had been relief – he and Steve Redgrave believed that they were best in the world and had trained so hard that even if they had a bad day they would still win. training' I asked him how happy he’d felt when he’d won his Olympic Gold.

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From the Coleface

MARCH 11, 2015

” e-learning training' .” So when someone says “research says…” a polite enquiry may be in order…along the lines of: “Which research? Could I have the link please?”

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From the Coleface

JUNE 29, 2012

As a former training manager at a Big Four accountancy firm, I know many of the pressures that you are under. Happily I make the time to read and surf publications about training and e-learning. Hi…welcome to From the Coleface, brought to you from sunny Sussex by Viv Cole.

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From the Coleface

SEPTEMBER 18, 2009

The “conspiracy of convenience” is “that the manager comes to the training manager and says, ‘I’ve got a problem, my people need training’. The training manager says, ‘Fine, we’ll develop a training programme’. And because no-one measures it, nothing necessarily happens, but everyone’s happy.

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From the Coleface

JUNE 15, 2016

Formal: Simulations, face to face training. Learning channels. Best practices. Formal: Job aids, self-paced e-learning, business process re-design. Complicated. Good practices. Emergent solutions. Informal: social learning. Novel solutions. Informal: action learning/ task forces. Move the need into a known domain.

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From the Coleface

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

e-learning training' Journal of Business and Psychology, 27 (4), 375-394 ) found: “Findings suggest that meaningful differences among generations probably do not exist on the work-related variables we examined and that the differences that appear to exist are likely attributable to factors other than generational membership.”.

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From the Coleface

APRIL 19, 2013

accountancy legal training' UK plc needs people to think more deeply, creatively and relate to each less superficially, and most of all to break out of the negative mindset that too much news consumption engenders.

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From the Coleface

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

accountancy e-learning legal training' To make a positive difference you need a great understanding of what you’re changing. It’s worth investing the time so that you can.

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From the Coleface

FEBRUARY 29, 2008

When you first turned your thoughts to evaluating training, it’s odds-on that a colleague or consultant recommended you to have a look at the Kirkpatrick model. In March’s TJ, Hatty Richmond writes about her research on L&D practitioners who had been involved in evaluating training courses.

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From the Coleface

AUGUST 2, 2012

Also learners may well be accessing the learning in situation where they might get interrupted e.g. the train arrives or the boarding call for the plane goes out. If you want learners to resume learning after that interruption then bookmarking is key.

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From the Coleface

AUGUST 27, 2008

Over many years of running Train the Trainer courses and coaching facilitators, I’ve spent time talking about learning styles e.g. Honey & Mumford and occasionally Visual, Auditory & Kinasethetic. The ELN website highlighted a clip on YouTube which I think that anyone running a Train the Trainer course should watch.

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From the Coleface

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

training' As someone who has often questioned the value of “Employee of the week” awards and glowing profiles in newsletters, this is a welcome piece of research. It will be interesting to see how further research unpicks the nuances of effective praise in the workplace.

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From the Coleface

OCTOBER 3, 2007

So how does this apply to training? Well, you can apply TA to delegation, business development, time management, handling potentially difficult conversations more effectively, assertiveness…pretty much any interpersonal skills training that you’re involved in. The session will be facilitated by the excellent Anne Storey.

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From the Coleface

DECEMBER 9, 2008

My awakening was about face to face training and how the introductory session sets the tone. When I was working as an in-house trainer for a Big Four firm, the message from on high was that the business needed training courses to be more challenging. For the full story on what Positive Psychology is see www.cappeu.org.

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From the Coleface

MAY 9, 2013

” e-learning training' For those of you who are unfamiliar with her, Cathy’s genius is to take a situation that really annoys e-learning practitioners and turn it into something positive that provides a workable solution.

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From the Coleface

JULY 16, 2008

Many organisations that currently offer face to face training to clients have wrestled with the problem of what to do about blended learning and how it fits their commercial model. There are several risks that a training organisation will feel wary of when it comes to blending: Will our current staff stay on board?

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From the Coleface

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Without a sense of level and/or measurability it is hard for a learning objective to be specific enough to be useful.

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From the Coleface

JULY 4, 2014

When I was a training manager at a Big Four accountancy firm, I found it bizarre that L&D people in professional services firms did not get together more to compare notes about their challenges and successes when they have so much in common.

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From the Coleface

DECEMBER 18, 2007

In the posting Corporate eLearning’s Dirty little Secret , the results from a survey of instructional designers and developers show that using web-based training to learn about how to use authoring tools is the least popular method of learning. Vendor training. Well there’s lies, damn lies and statistics.

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From the Coleface

JUNE 25, 2013

accountancy e-learning legal training' Often you’ll want learners to add their own favourite content so it may be appropriate to aim for 80% comprehensiveness rather than 100%. Happy curating!

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From the Coleface

OCTOBER 13, 2008

He suggests that a typical ratio of organisational effort around a training course 10% pre-work, 85% learning event and 5% follow up would have greater impact if the allocation was 26% pre-work, 24% learning event and 50% follow up.

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From the Coleface

DECEMBER 8, 2008

I hate to see pseudo-science such as this masquerading as fact – the sooner that training writers (and editors) stop publishing claims like this, the better for the profession as a whole.”. Whilst I’ve heard this percentage bandied about before, what was missing was anything to back it up.

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From the Coleface

JUNE 23, 2009

Designers of face to face training know that there is a relatively small number of learning points that you can fit into an hour of classroom training whilst keeping things interesting and promoting interactivity.

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From the Coleface

JANUARY 24, 2013

lets you get the train time you have looked up straight into Outlook with just the click of a button. You may have noticed that more and more websites are allowing you to download appointments into your calendar e.g. www.nationalrail.co.uk Though the technology for sending iCalendar files (.ics)

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From the Coleface

JULY 2, 2012

Waiting for a train/ plane. But before you rejoice at the prospect of being able to publish your existing content through another channel have a thought about the emotional/ psychological state that your target learner will be in when they get the content. Two opportunities that mobile opens up are: In the taxi on the way to a meeting.

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From the Coleface

AUGUST 3, 2009

Budget cuts have moved the goalposts; it used to be a choice of “face to face training or e-learning”, increasingly it’s a choice between “work it out yourself or e-learning” This has driven up e-learning usage and consequently driven down scepticism. It’s the recession, stupid.

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From the Coleface

JULY 21, 2008

I have read TJ (aka the Training Journal) for several years and found it a good read for fresh ideas and CPD the face to face training that I’ve been doing over that time.

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From the Coleface

MARCH 13, 2012

For formal learning, social media can be used to enhance/ replace existing activities that happen before, during and after a training or e-learning event. In broad terms the answer “what should L&D do about/ with Social Learning” question seems to depend on whether it’s informal or formal social learning we’re dealing with.

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From the Coleface

DECEMBER 6, 2009

Training courses and e-learning modules are longer events so you need to be careful about how you extrapolate what the generation effect says. The longer the course/ module the more that learners will get bored and frustrated by devices like this.

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From the Coleface

JUNE 24, 2008

L&D’s role will be more to facilitate the process of self-managed learning rather than being the monopolistic provider of training courses. To make best use of their time they will need to become more skilled at metalearning i.e. being more aware of how they learn best and choosing the appopriate learning approach.

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From the Coleface

MARCH 11, 2009

At a time of training budgets being cut further, good customer service seems like a way for companies to differentiate and therefore grab a larger slice of a shrinking pie. As money gets tighter, the Buffet metaphor of seeing who’s wearing swimming costumes when the tide goes out applies.

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From the Coleface

AUGUST 10, 2009

Over the years on Train the Trainer courses, I have witnessed hundreds of course delegates learn from failing to be able to give adequate instructions for a novice to make a jam sandwich or wrap a pad of Post-Its in paper. It’s well known amongst trainers just how hard it is to issue clear instructions that people can follow.

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From the Coleface

FEBRUARY 15, 2013

As an independent L&D consultant who has expertise in face to face training, e-learning and happens to be a Chartered Accountant with digital marketing experience, Linkedin allows people who are looking for my skillset to find me. It would be crazily more expensive for me to have the same reach via my company website.

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From the Coleface

JULY 17, 2007

If a training identifies that learners need some learning content, it typically goes through the following process. I attended a Clive Shepherd webinar today and found that one of his early slides encapsulated what I’d been reflecting upon for a while.

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From the Coleface

FEBRUARY 8, 2010

When I was a Training Manager, I used to value facilitators in the second category far more highly than those in the first, but I get the sense this is a minority practice. Happy sheet ratings are often to used to measure the peformance of freelance trainers against each other. And if the trainer knows that they will tend to play it safe.

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