How to Ensure an Audience for Your Virtual Presentations

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Wayne Turmel

Every great presentation deserves an audience, and every great audience deserves a presentation that delivers on its promises. Its important to create a compelling story so people will want to attend and to organize content in a way that engages people and moves them to... More »

ASTD Policy Brief, Winter 2011

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ASTD Staff

New state resource for training incentives With the help of IBM, ASTD recently posted a new tool to help learning professionals identify state resources for training including grant funding, tax credits, or other public programs for specific industries and populations. More »

Story-Based Design Principles

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Terrence L. Gargiulo

I feel we have a tendency to confuse communication with learning. Most of us spend the majority of our time in organizations communicating in the explicit ways expected of us. We think if we cant say it straight, or make a thought immediately digestible, then we have fa... More »

Draw Out the Best in Your Training

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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 »