Author Archives: Ian Stewart
Top Five Tips for Improving Safety Training
Mandatory safety training programs run the gamut, from repulsive (remember Red Asphalt in Drivers’ Ed?) to funny, to boring. But more often than not, it’s the latter. But they needn’t — and shouldn’t — be that way. After all, we’re talking about workers’ safety, right? What could be more important? … Read more
Top Five Tips for Sales Training
Sales is a tough nut to crack — some people seem to get it, while others always lag behind, struggling to keep their numbers up. And teaching it to a newbie? It can feel practically impossible. Worn-out cliches and advice about sizing up the situation, or looking for a way … Read more
Top Five Tips for Creating Training Quizzes
It’s about the time of year that we used to get all worked up about grades and cramming for finals. But if you thought takingtests was hard — how about writing them? We know that quizzes play an important role in workplace training, helping people clarify, pull out, and retain … Read more
Top Five Tips for On-Boarding New Employees
School’s out for the summer, and that means eager college interns are flooding into the slowly-but-slowly-maybe-rebounding job market. And that means a lot of companies have a lot of training to get through, quickly. When you’ve only got a worker for two months, you can’t waste two weeks getting them … Read more
Top 5 PowerPoint Design Tips for Trainers
It’s indispensable, it’s maddening. It’s revolutionary, it’s boring. It’s every training designer’s best friend and worst enemy — PowerPoint. Love it or hate it, PowerPoint is one of the most commonly used tools for corporate trainers. But, as is the case with any such tool, its value lies in how … Read more
