Training: An Opportunity to Communicate Organizational Values

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Swati Karve

Failure to be ethical in leadership and management leads to immense losses at both the personal and corporate levels. That makes organizational values and ethics important for all stakeholders in the business, including employees, shareholders, and the general public. More »

Web Conferencing 101: Learn the Platform

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Wayne Turmel

A discussion of all web presentation software would be impossible; more than 100 different packages are out there, with more added all the time. As if that werent daunting enough, most of them do version or feature upgrades at least once a year. Instead, lets focus on t... More »

Practical Advice for Bringing Professional Continuing Education Online

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Brian Giuffrida

The challenge to creating an online continuing education program is how to move education content in a way that provides the best possible learning experience for the student, and the easiest all around management experience for the organization providing the content. T... More »

Draw Out the Best from Each Participant

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Brownell Landrum

In Latin educare to educate means to draw out. But it seems as if education and training are often more focused on a top-down teaching approach, where information is disseminated, than a true drawing-out process in which participants discover the learning through a proc... More »

Building Rapport with Learners

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Robert W. Lucas

One point to remember when designing activities and planning your delivery strategy is that some learners might be uncomfortable being a focal point in your workshop. This could create challenges if you call upon them to role-play or ask them to share ideas and informat... More »