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TrainingZONE LearningWIRE - Issue 147
9 April 2001
https://www.trainingzone.co.uk
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1. RESOURCES: New themed pages
2. NEWS and INFORMATION: HRD reviewed, ELWa launches
3. WORK OPPORTUNITIES: Learning Architect, NW England
4. COMMUNITY FEATURES: E-university progress
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Editor's note
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TrainingZONE aims to cover many facets of the world of training
and development. From NVQs to emotional intelligence, PowerPoint
to NLP, you'll find news, features and resources a-plenty. From
this month, we'll be making one training topic the focus of the
month's content on the site. Relevant news items, workshops,
training materials and resources will be brought together in a
themed page, so you can access them immediately. We begin this
month with work-place training schemes as the theme. If you've
any related comments to make, please do add them to the site, or
alternatively send us a short item for publication.
As a TrainingZONE member, you'll already be well aware of the
Internet, but among the vast variety of information out there,
what's actually of interest to the training professional? In
this Tuesday's workshop, TrainingZONE's MD Tim Pickles looks at
this very question, using feedback and examples from a
presentation he gave at the HRD show last week. It promises to
be an enlightening session!
Stephanie Phillips
Editor, TrainingZONE
mailto:editor@trainingzone.co.uk
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RESOURCES
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A comprehensive library of practical resources is available at
https://www.trainingzone.co.uk/toolkit
Theme of the month: Workplace training schemes
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Related news items, resources, products, workshop sessions and
expert guides.
https://www.trainingzone.co.uk/item/42840
More themes in the coming months:
Lifelong learning and CPD
https://www.trainingzone.co.uk/item/42856
Coaching and mentoring
https://www.trainingzone.co.uk/item/40917
New: How to - choose and use collaborative learning tools
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There are now a wide range of online tools which enable you to
share files, whiteboard, and conference call with other people in
different locations. They're great for virtual team meetings,
presentations and for delivering your learning sessions online.
Check out our guide at
https://www.trainingzone.co.uk/item/41070
Expert Guides
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TrainingZONE now offers over 20 Expert Guides devoted to
specialist topics providing practical advice and information to
help you make sense of the issues. A complete index of all
Expert Guides is available at
https://www.trainingzone.co.uk/item/25087
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NEWS AND INFORMATION
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HRD 2001: Daily updated round-up of news, events and briefings
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For anyone who was unable to get to HRD 2001 at Olympia this year
(and even for those who were), here's our daily coverage of both
the conference and exhibition.
https://www.trainingzone.co.uk/item/42767
When money's tight, what becomes of the training department?
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With the downturn of the economy, not only in the USA, but
worldwide, it might be time to rethink "funding." That is, what
projects should the training department tackle as money gets
tighter and tighter? This article by Don Clark tackles the issues
surrounding return on investment.
https://www.trainingzone.co.uk/item/43275
Online interview: David Wilson, eLearnity
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As we reported last Monday, last week TrainingZONE launched a
whole new area of the site dedicated to features, news and
comment on e-learning. In an live online interview from the HRD
2001 exhibition and conference TrainingZONE spoke with MD of e-
learning consultancy eLearnity, who'll be co-hosting the area
with us.
https://www.trainingzone.co.uk/item/43053
Communication is problem in determining training strategy
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A new survey from the Chartered Institute of Personnel and
Development finds that despite the growth of initiatives such as
Investors in People, the role of training in strategic
development and helping to support business objectives is still
far from established.
https://www.trainingzone.co.uk/item/43064
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Booking has now opened for the H.O.T.TEST Training Event of 2001.
Can you afford to miss it? See
https://www.trainingzone.co.uk/hot
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Education and Learning Wales becomes reality
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With all the news about the Learning and Skills Council, it's
easy to overlook the fact that big changes are also afoot in
Wales.
https://www.trainingzone.co.uk/item/42868
Management: it's a war zone out there!
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The role of managers in the early part of the 21st century is
filled with stresses and challenges, according to many
commentators and the results of a number of surveys. But some
managers have it easier than others...
https://www.trainingzone.co.uk/item/43058
Self-managed learning still has a long way to go
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Fears that the trend towards self-managed learning will lead to
organisations avoiding responsibility for supporting learning in
the workplace seem to be borne out by a new study from the CIPD.
https://www.trainingzone.co.uk/item/43135
Mentoring and coaching: What about the person being mentored?
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In this article J. Leslie McKeown of mentoring, coaching and
induction specialists Yellowbrick looks at things from the
mentee's point of view.
https://www.trainingzone.co.uk/item/42282
Managers are latest to benefit from 'sitting with Nelly'
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A new report finds that managers, rather than manual workers are
reaping the benefits of on-the-job training.
https://www.trainingzone.co.uk/item/43066
WORK OPPORTUNITIES
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This week's hot jobs and tenders for work include:
Trainers wanted in creative involvement in urban design
Learning Architect, North West, to 50k
For further details, plus many more contracts and jobs, see
https://www.trainingzone.co.uk/jobs
https://www.trainingzone.co.uk/cgi-site/tzcontracts.cgi
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Put News / Resources / Tools / Directories on YOUR website
It's so easy - and your clients and users get the benefit.
See https://www.trainingzone.co.uk/item/37133 for details
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COMMUNITY FEATURES
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How to boost your business: two great opportunities
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Now you can have your own set of branded pages within
TrainingZONE to display all your details, list courses and jobs,
promote special offers, publish your news, make documents
available, and more. This great promotional opportunity is
available at
https://www.trainingzone.co.uk/resources/storefronts
Workshops
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This is the transcript from the special online workshop live from
HRD 2001, on the topic of self-managed learning.
https://www.trainingzone.co.uk/item/43048
To join in this week's session on the Internet for training
professionals, go to
https://www.trainingzone.co.uk/workshop
Webwatch
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Two National Training Organisations have recently launched new
websites.
https://www.trainingzone.co.uk/item/42870
E-universities - the progress so far
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When we reported the government's plan for e-universities last
February, we didn't realise it would be so long before we were
reporting on the scheme again! Here we catch up on the progress
so far...
https://www.trainingzone.co.uk/item/42826
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