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TrainingZONE LearningWIRE - Issue 161
16 July 2001
https://www.trainingzone.co.uk
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RESOURCES: Featured Toolkit materials for mentoring
NEWS and INFORMATION: EC consults on professional qualifications
WORK OPPORTUNITIES: Get your tender filled - fast!
COMMUNITY FEATURES: Searching for MAST teamwork exercise
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Editor's note
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TrainingZONE Managing Director Tim Pickles, who founded the
community three and a half years ago, has managed its growth from
inception to today - for the first two years he wrote practically
every word that appeared on the site! From a complete clean
sheet he has created one of the UK's leading online training
resources and has also launched sister site HR Zone, which is now
well-positioned in the HR sector.
With Tim now moving on to other challenges within the Sift group
of professional communities, TrainingZONE and HR Zone are on the
lookout for someone to take over the reins and move the sites
into the next phase of their development. With a combined
membership of more than 40,000 and revenues growing strongly,
this is a great opportunity for someone to run two of the UK's
leading online publishing communities.
If you're interested in joining us, send your details through to
mailto:bheald@sift.co.uk .
Stephanie Phillips
Editor, TrainingZONE
mailto:editor@trainingzone.co.uk
RESOURCES
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A comprehensive library of practical resources is available at
https://www.trainingzone.co.uk/toolkit
This month's theme: coaching and mentoring
https://www.trainingzone.co.uk/item/40917
Featured Toolkit materials: Mentoring
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This week, we feature two useful resources created by Stuart
Emmett for those introducing a mentoring scheme into the
workplace, or embarking on becoming a mentor themselves.
The 'How-To' mentor guide uses a checklist approach to give model
examples of how to conduct mentoring sessions. The six-page guide
covers: mentor preparation, mentee preparation, establishing an
agenda, reviewing, mutual feedback, accountability and autonomy
and dealing with problems.
Mentors can help to powerfully develop individual learning. The
second guide contains a useful questioning checklist to help
identify and develop suitable mentors, by highlighting effective
mentor and mentee qualities and build mentor skills.
Both items are available for download now from
https://www.trainingzone.co.uk/toolkit/coaching/
PowerPoint Resource Centre: Recycling your PowerPoint slides
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Frequent PowerPoint users probably produce a fair number of
PowerPoint slides in multiple shows. If you teach or present the
same material recurrently to different audiences, chances are
you'll have to copy slides between presentations or cut and paste
an entire new presentation together from several slide shows.
Find out how you can conserve effort by copying and reusing or
recycling your PowerPoint slides.
https://www.trainingzone.co.uk/item/52492
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Money Laundering, Teamwork skills, Intermediate QuarkXPress and
Preparing A Marketing Plan are just a few of the courses
currently on offer in the TrainingZONE courses directory, many of
which can be booked online. Save time trying to find a provider -
search now at
https://www.trainingzone.co.uk/campus/courses/
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NEWS AND INFORMATION
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For the latest daily updates, see
https://www.trainingzone.co.uk/news
EC to consult on recognition of professional qualifications
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A trans-European policy on the recognition of professional
qualifications could be on the cards
https://www.trainingzone.co.uk/item/51988
Commons questions for new Education and Skills ministers
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Education and Skills Minister Estelle Morris and her new team
faced their first major session of questions in the Commons last
week.
https://www.trainingzone.co.uk/item/52396
E-Skills NTO launches IT recruitment tips
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E-Skills NTO has launched 12 tips for the recruitment of IT
Professionals.
https://www.trainingzone.co.uk/item/52289
LSC Chair: Marketing is key to increasing involvement in learning
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'It is patently obvious that we are not connecting with the vast
majority of the population' - damning words from Bryan Sanderson,
National Chairman of the Learning and Skills Council.
https://www.trainingzone.co.uk/item/52413
How to spot a lifelong learner
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Can you spot a lifelong learner in the street? Peter Honey
thinks he can!
https://www.trainingzone.co.uk/item/52555
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TrainingZONE. For more information about promoting your
training, see
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WORK OPPORTUNITIES
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If you're looking to tender for a training or development
contract, TrainingZONE's tenders area can give you quick access
to thousands of trainers and consultants looking to take on your
project. To find out how to enter your details, see
https://www.trainingzone.co.uk/contracts/contributor.html
Top vacancies from the CareerZone this week:
- Soft Skills Trainer, based Marlow, Bucks, salary neg + bens
https://www.trainingzone.co.uk/cgi-site/tzjobs.cgi?action=detail&id=513
- Soft Skills Trainer/Facilitator, based London, salary neg.
https://www.trainingzone.co.uk/cgi-site/tzjobs.cgi?action=detail&id=521
For details of other quality positions like these, see
https://www.trainingzone.co.uk/jobs
COMMUNITY FEATURES
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Any Answers
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Got a question? Ask 32,000 other training professionals for
advice here!
A selection of questions posted this week:
- Steve Short is looking for a copy of the MAST teamwork
exercise
- Dilys Reynolds needs to convince office staff of the benefits
of 5S
- Jo Patten-Walsh wants to know how to put Japanese at their
ease
Thanks to Christine Hurst, Gareth Pugh and Mark Spencer-Scragg,
who were among those sharing the benefit of their expertise this
week.
If you have a question, or can help with an answer, join in at
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