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 [...]
By Gina Abudi, on February 9th, 2010
How does your organization view the training group? Have you thought about it? If not, you should. I have spoken with a number of clients recently who want to elevate their organization’s perception of the training group and are trying to decide how to best go about it. There are various reasons why they [...]
By Gina Abudi, on February 4th, 2010
Consistently clients tell me that one of the major disappointments from training programs their employees attend is that the employees come back to the job and do not apply what they have learned in the classroom. There are many reasons this might occur, including, for example:
The training program did not provide the opportunity [...]
By Gina Abudi, on December 24th, 2009
Tell a story to help them learn
According to Wikipedia, “Storytelling is the conveying of events in words, images and sounds often by improvisation or embellishment.” Stories are shared in every culture to entertain and educate others and have been told for thousands of years. Grandparents use stories to [...]