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The Bob Pike Group
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Join the Wave! By Liz Wheeler The internet has become, more than ever before, a forum for social change! With two clicks, I can now show you a cool site instead of just trying to describe it or email you the link. And there are so many useful tools available on the web. When trying to do training well, you are not alone and there are tons of sites to prove it!
As I read industry journals, ezines, e-letters and press releases, I come across dozens of websites that have relevant information that can help trainers become even better at what they do. So now there is a site where you can see my favorite training “bookmarks” and you can add your favorite training sites to mine. At http://del.icio.us/ezineeditor, you’ll of course see the Bob Pike Group website (which has ezine article archives as well as dozens of other articles Bob and other creative trainers have written) and others that I visit on a regular basis.
Joining del.icio.us is easy, but does require you to download a couple buttons for your surf bar so you can quickly bookmark the sites. If you don’t want to join the bookmarking revolution, you can still email me your favorites so I might pass the word along. If you’re promoting your own site, please disclaim that so I’m aware as I evaluate sites to add to my faves.
Liz Wheeler
The Bob Pike Group ezine Editor New Study shows Corporate Social Networking Trends in Talent Management
Overused words banned from English
Stress from a computer screen? If learners are motivated, they retain more information. But can you extrinsically motivate your session attendees? Is it possible?
“While you can’t make your participants be motivated, you can create a motivating environment,” said Becky Pluth, vice president of training and development at The Bob Pike Group. Research shows that interacting with your learners “is one of the most powerful factors in promoting learning” while “interactions among learners is another” (Angelo 1993). And teachers who present the information in a dynamic manner and display a genuine interest in what they Getting people to use learning resources in the company library can be tricky, Kathleen Miller-Buettner and Susan Hayley-Gates say.
Their library has books, videos and audio tapes on communication skills, management skills, balancing work and home lives, and dozens of other topics.
But, as in many organizations, the materials once went mostly unused.
To encourage corporate library use—and learning—the training department initiated a TOM (theme of the month) Club. Membership is free. Each month has a topical theme – effective feedback, industry information and the like. Trainers, however, don’t disclose what the month’s theme is. Instead they post clues throughout the office and via email on the first day of each month. Employees guess the theme, placing their guess in one of the special TOM Club raffle boxes around the workplace. |
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