“Unfortunately,” says Elliott Masie, “my phone rings on a regular basis with the news that one of our learning colleagues has been laid off.” He goes on to write about what he has been sharing with these colleagues. It’s worth reading.
Recently, one of the most competent trainers that I know, with an excellent [...]
Since I have elsewhere written about the lack of focus on “equipment training” at professional training conferences, it is only right to remind people about the annual HI-TEC (formerly SAME-TEC) conference coming up in July in Phoenix. This conference has partial roots in task force activities at TPIC beginning in 1994.
Today, HI-TEC (High Impact [...]
This was too good to ignore… I had to pass this on. Now, what to file it under? “Recession-proofing”? Or “Training Design”?
I have to thank Cathy Moore at her blog, Making Change for calling this to my attention.
You would get a LOT more out of this video by clicking the YouTube full screen button; otherwise, [...]
“Follow the money,” goes the famous line in All the President’s Men. Many companies in the United States have received federal/state funding for training programs they needed to accomplish their business goals. How can your company learn more? Follow the money. This is also, then, good advice for Training Managers looking to find some recession-days [...]
Some Found Articles
Here’s what training departments are doing to face up to the challenge of the recession. Please keep in mind that the trends noted are for all kinds of training departments, but I assume primarily HR groups that focus on soft skills. Nevertheless, there are lessons here.
1) Focusing more on informal learning and developing [...]
…And My Reactions to Them
1. Practice builds competence.
Certainly this is a primary goal of hands-on practice. But what is competence? Performance-based training defines competence as meeting the requirements of the performance objective. But for competence to result from practice, at least three things must be true:
The conditions of the practice must realistically reflect the [...]