By Gina Abudi, on June 24th, 2010
I often hear clients use the terms “training” and “education” interchangeably. But they aren’t the same at all. Companies may offer both training and education – depending on their goals – to their employees.
Let’s define each term. According to Wikipedia, training “refers to the acquisition of knowledge, skills and competencies as [...]
By Gina Abudi, on June 23rd, 2010
Case Study: Using a Learning Council to Ease the Move from a Decentralized to a Centralized Learning and Development Group – Part II
Part I of this post covered the case study background and up to the one year mark. We continue Part II with one year later and ongoing use of a [...]
By Gina Abudi, on June 22nd, 2010
Case Study: Using a Learning Council to Ease the Move from a Decentralized to a Centralized Learning and Development Group – Part I
To read about how to create and launch a learning council, see a previous post, Best Practices: Creating and Launching a Learning Council.
This post will focus on [...]
By Paul Slater, on May 25th, 2010
Why bother having external speakers for your training courses? Well, there are many reasons and it depends on what the course is trying to achieve, but a couple of obvious reasons spring easily to mind. Firstly, by bringing in someone who has real life experience of the course subject matter they can provide [...]
By Gina Abudi, on March 18th, 2010
I was talking with a client recently who was trying to decide which path to take for hosting a conflict management course – he was looking at all of the options: elearning, virtual, classroom, or a blended solution – and trying to determine what would be the best route to take. Price alone [...]