Are you a Miss (or Mr) Wall to Learning?
I first started to learn to play the piano at the age of about 5, having shown an ‘inclination’ at a very young age. (I used to clamber on to the piano stool and bash at the keys, but hey, parents will cling to anything!) My first teacher had been my Dad’s. This was unfortunate, […]
How To Improve Your Sales Teams’ Performance
In today’s extremely competitive marketplace, your business can’t afford to rely on a sales team that isn’t in tip-top shape. Business owners and managers alike should be constantly asking themselves what they’ve done lately to ensure their sales team is hitting levels of peak performance, and should regularly be offering training to employees to boost […]
Tips for choosing effective training methods
If you’re training employees, whether they’re old-timers or new folks on the job then you already know how difficult that can be. Aside from the obvious difficulty of conveying everything there is to know about a given job or task in as little as a few weeks or, at most, a few months there’s also […]
How To Create A High Impact Training Program
Companies everywhere are starting to realize the vital importance of having an impactful training program, but few managers and entrepreneurs seem to know where to start when it comes to outfitting their work forces with the skills needed for success while keeping to a budget. Isn’t there an easy way for competent managers to build […]
Blended Learning for Employee Training
Blended learning, also known as personalized learning or hybrid learning, refers to an education program that combines web-based learning methodologies with traditional classroom methods. A blended learning is suitable for both formal as well as informal settings. Though the learners still attend real-life classrooms, their face-to-face classroom practices are brought together with online activities. Blended […]
The Do’s and Don’ts of Organizing a Live Workshop
You are about to embark on a new journey. You may have taught through e-learning, webinars, or podcast before, but you are now facing a new teaching environment – the face-to-face workshop during which participants will be physically in front of you. Assuming that you have your learning objectives solidly in place, you are now […]
Recruiting Teachers into Corporate Training
Making the transition from classroom teaching to corporate training is easier than many people might imagine. Teachers already have the bulk of skills you need for being a professional corporate trainer. The business world might be different from the school setting, but you need the same basic skills to do the job. The transition mainly […]
How to Decide What Content to Use in The eCourse
One of the more enjoyable aspects of creating an eCourse is creating and collecting great content. It’s exciting to create something that you know will engage your audience and drive home an important concept. When you stumble across a video or great infographic that is ideal for a course you’re developing, that’s always a good […]
Three Tips To Supercharge Employee Training
Studies show that employees that are locked in and engaged receive 20% greater productivity. If you have employees that are undergoing training, you’ll want them to be highly engaged every step of the way. This way, you won’t allow employee orientation to become a humdrum formality. Regardless of what sort of training that you’re putting […]
Starting Every Session with Fresh Energy
It’s tough not to get burnt out when you’re teaching the same thing for the thousandth time. It’s even harder to bring fresh energy to a group when the last one’s negativity has dragged you down. Anyone that’s been doing this for long enough, sees the ebbs and flows of training. The good doesn’t stay […]
Infographic: Microtraining & How To Do It
How To Develop Training Strategies for Creatives
Creativity. It is that human thought factor that results in virtually every innovation known to mankind. It is what brought us the light bulb, the telephone, the computer, and virtually every piece of technology that has been bestowed on humankind. It is what drives a society or an organization forward, whether it is the design […]
How to get your coaching program to Carnegie Hall
There’s an old joke that goes like this: a pedestrian in Manhattan stopped Jascha Heifetz, a famous and incredibly talented violinist and, in the mid-1950’s, a household name. “Excuse me, ” the pedestrian inquired. “Could you tell me how to get to Carnegie Hall?” “Yes,” said Heifetz. “Practice, practice, practice!” — I think everyone would agree […]
Coaching models explored: PESOS
As part of Tim Hawkes’s continuing series exploring coaching models, he takes a look at one called PESOS. This model is particularly suited to clients who have a strong need for hands-on experience when learning, or who might be more analytical by nature and like to have something empirical to hang on to, rather than […]
How to Enable Employee Leadership in The Workplace
It’s no longer enough for growing companies to train employees in the skills they need to do their jobs. Team leaders and managers must also help their people develop leadership skills. After all, when current leaders move upwards, they need people who can move into their roles. The time to develop these important skills isn’t […]
Coaching models explored: CIGAR
Tim Hawkes kicks off his series looking at the many coaching models out there by examining the CIGAR model. Coaching Models When you embark on the development of a coaching culture for your business, it’s important that you have a good toolkit at your disposal. Over the coming months, we will be taking an objective […]
Three Keys For Network Marketing Success
It’s clear that we’re in changing times when it comes to how business is carried out. For example, the baby boomer generation, which consists of close to 80 million people, are on record saying that they’d be open to starting a business — according to studies. The day of the 9-to-5 being the end all […]
How Google Creates Impactful Employee Training
Businesses today spend more on employee training than ever before, but the results have failed to keep pace with spending. Every worker can recount being sent to some seminar or classroom and listening to some hotshot drone about some topic, only to forget what was being said 30 minutes later. Google is looking at this […]
How to Train Employees on New Technology
LearnTech 2018 is almost here – so, with learning technologies on our mind, I thought it would be useful to take a look at something that many training providers ask: How do I train employees on new technology? It’s happening. Finally. After months of research, IT teams wrangling with executives, and more demos and trials […]
Are you getting the most out of your role-players?
Emma Jowett tells the community about the benefits of role play and drama-based training. Drama-based training, namely role-play, can make a huge impact in businesses across all industry sectors. It’s no surprise really that actually feeling best practice in action is typically much more effective in developing behaviours than simply talking about it in a […]
