Instructional Designers: Create Workbooks, not Manuals
How many binders do you have on your bookshelf? A lot, right? Just about everyone has taken a training class and been given a training binder, taken it back to their desk, and never opened it again. It’s crazy. So many people have have all these training binders on their … Read more
Three Ways to Make Your Workplace More Like Your Company Party
We had our office holiday party last night. Almost everyone came and brought their special someone. We all had a terrific time. I know it sounds like a vacation postcard, but as I stood in the food line waiting my turn for some outstanding hors d’oeuvres, I noticed how much … Read more
Nine Ways to Make Training More Engaging
Training and performance improvement professionals work hard every day trying to make training more engaging. Our goal is not to make the training more engaging by itself; we want to improve participation in class, increase learning and retention, and ensure application on the job that improves performance. Increasing engagement does … Read more
Surprising & Strange: State-Sponsored Online Training Programs You Never Thought Existed
Online training courses have surged in popularity over the last few years due to their accessibility, efficiency, and low cost. So much so that even the government has turned to the Internet to offoer training programs to the masses. Let’s take a look at some of the strangest and surprising … Read more
Gen Y to Pollsters: We Love Training But Not the Traditional Kind
On the Mindflash blog before we’ve pointed out there’s plenty of evidence for a training crisis in American business, with various experts and surveys bemoaning a “sink or swim” approach to on-boarding new employees. But is one group in particular especially underserved by current approaches to training? Due to their … Read more
