Is Your Custom Training Hitting the Mark?
If you want to enhance your employees’ time management skills, the process is simple: send them to the training provider that offers the best value for a generic course. Hundreds …Read More
The Annual Gift-Giving Guide
An interesting contradiction exists in the business world today: Stories abound about how businesses are allowing less and less travel. Between the high cost of gas, the increase in terrorism, …Read More
Is Your Training Program a Help or a Hindrance?
A recent operation on my foot required being on crutches for a few weeks. My lack of mobility gave me time to reflect. Naturally, I was dismayed to learn that …Read More
To Agree or Not To Agree?
It doesn’t take much detailed research to know that most US citizens are frustrated with the domestic political process. Since 2011, the combined total of bills enacted into law was …Read More
Does your training suffer from New Years Resolution Syndrome?
What is the most crowded day at your neighborhood gym? January 2. After the end-of-year holiday binging, New Years presents the perfect time to put one on the straight-and-narrow of …Read More
Is Your Training Program a Jackson Pollock or a Piet Mondrian?
Two 20th century artists create a stark contrast to one another and provide a good analogy for how organizations address their training challenges.
Jackson Pollack was the inventor of abstract expressionism. …Read More
Are You Talking to Me?
When I travel for business, I often encounter people that want to chat with me. Normally I don’t mind, but sometimes, I’m just not in the mood to make small …Read More
Coffee? Tea? Hot Chocolate?
The next time you go to your favorite coffee joint to meet a friend or client over a cup of “hot something,” recognize how good you have it now. In …Read More
Good Reads
It seems like new books are published every day that promise better ideas for “how to” improve the way we work: how to consult, lead teams, manage businesses, design better …Read More
The Power of Questions
“The wise man doesn’t give the right answers, he poses the right questions.”
–Claude Levi-Strauss
One of the biggest mistakes that consultants and managers make is to assume that they must have …Read More
Resuscitating PowerPoint
When Microsoft launched PowerPoint in 1990, they knew they had a hot new tool. It is not clear whether they realized the extent to which this software program would reshape …Read More
The Search for the Perfect Hiring Indicator
Several years ago, while working for another company, I was charged with hiring 40 contract trainers and instructional designers in a 3-month period. As part of this hiring process, I …Read More