December 01, 2011 - by Pat McLagan
The learning professional's role in self-service learning is to help learners make learning more effective, efficient, productive, innovative, and fun. This is the era of self-service. We pump our own gas, file our own taxes online, tally and bag our own g... More »
November 01, 2011 - by Swati Karve
Successful role plays require meaningful and relevant characters, skillful facilitators, the participants ability to play the roles, observer involvement, and an effective debriefing process. Role plays can be prewritten, part of a video clip, impromptu, or created spec... More »
October 01, 2011 - by Paul Harris
Customer service and community support go hand in hand at this large Texas hospital. Learning is a principal ingredient of both. University Health System is a large institution that includes a single inpatient hospital and 17 ambulatory care facilities scattered through... More »
April 13, 2011 - by Pat Galagan
In 1961, Fred Turner, McDonald's former senior chairman and Ray Kroc's first grill man, founded Hamburger University in the basement of a McDonald's restaurant in Elk Grove Village, Illinois, making McDonald's the first restaurant organization to open a full-time traini... More »
February 19, 2011 - by Darlene Christopher
Imagine yourself in a virtual classroom. The instructor puts an image of a game of cricket on the screen and says, "Sometimes dealing with pressures at work may feel like a game of 20/20 limited cricket, where you are chasing a score of 220 and it's the last over. You h... More »
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