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2008 April Training and Development e-Zine
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In This Issue: April 2008 
•   Top 10 Pains of Training Functions
•   Upcoming Events
•   Communication is Key: Opener or Energizer
•   Turning Pussycats into Tigers: Releasing the Passive into the Wild World of Training
•   Looking to Facilitate Change? Be Bold, Be Blunt!
•   Industry News and Notes
Top 10 Pains of Training Functions
Is your training function challenged with any of the Top 10 pains that plague training?

This list is compiled from data we've tracked for the last 3 years.

How many of the Top 10 Pains can you guess?

Okay, here you go - drum roll please...

Top 10 Pains in Training Function
Communication is Key: Opener or Energizer
What Day is It?

Energizer/Opener for Communication Module

To set–up this activity, use this script:
The trainer posted this notice outside the classroom door. What day does this class meet again?

Class is canceled today.
We will meet again at 8:30 a.m. three days
after two days before the day
before tomorrow.

at least try to figure it out...answer and instructions
Powerful Presentations Book
Looking to Facilitate Change? Be Bold, Be Blunt!
Editor’s note: Kathy Dempsey was the first health care worker to have a positive HIV test after having worked with a patient with AIDS. Receiving that news in 1987 started her on a path which gave her a radically different perspective on learning and living. The following is excerpted from her book Shed or You’re Dead: 31 unConventional Strategies for Growth and Change.

What I have discovered over the years is that I learn more from the mistakes I make than the successes and I learn something from everyone I meet. Many of the thoughts and ideas in this book smack right in the face of conventional wisdom…stay with me and be open to what you can learn…even from the crazy strategies!

Strategy #4
Be Blunt!

be blunt...

Shed or You're Dead Book
Upcoming Events
NEW! Getting Started with e-Learning

Minneapolis, MN - 5/21/2008

Minneapolis, MN - 9/29/2008

Bob Pike's Train-the-Trainer Boot Camp

Salt Lake City, UT - 4/10/2008

Minneapolis, MN - 4/14/2008

Newark, NJ - 4/14/2008 NEW LOCATION!

Boston, MA - 4/16/2008

Orlando, FL - 4/28/2008

St Louis, MO - 5/1/2008

Detroit, MI - 5/5/2008 NEW LOCATION!

Atlanta, GA - 5/15/2008

Denver, CO - 5/19/2008

Seattle, WA - 5/21/2008

NEW WORKSHOP!
Instructional Design for
Participant-Centered Training

Minneapolis, MN - 4/23/2008

Chicago, IL - 5/14/2008

Boston, MA - 6/23/2008

Presentation Skills

Atlanta, GA - 5/12/2008

Minneapolis, MN - 6/9/2008

Workshops for Educators

Designing Lessons that Score (1-Day)

Minneapolis, MN - 7/22/2008

Research-Based Creative Teaching Strategies

Minneapolis, MN - 6/24/2008

events by month

NEW! Workshops and Locations
Turning Pussycats into Tigers: Releasing the Passive into the Wild World of Training
In a nicely worded memo, you’re told the company is cutting back and, as head of the training department, you need to layoff half of your staff. You close your inbox, put your head between your hands and ponder the aftereffects of such a chore.

Yes, you may have one or two people you wouldn’t mind letting go. But you think of the alternatives—in order to get the same amount of training done, you now have to “train” in subject matter experts to train others and hope their presentations can encourage some kind of retention.

Worse yet, you now have to inform the SMEs of their additional duties—people who chose their jobs because it didn’t require public speaking! Here are some secrets to buoy these training cubs and ensure training transfer.

cubs to tigers...

Pussycats into Tigers
Industry News and Notes
Elluminate Connects with Moodle to Create the Virtual Classroom

Elluminate, a provider of live eLearning and web collaboration for the real-time organization, released Elluminate Bridge for Moodle™, integrating the Elluminate virtual classroom environment with Moodle, a leading open-source course management system. The new program enables academic institutions using Moodle to add...

CEOs not seen as role-models

CEOs visibly share and live their company's purpose, say most people. Yet, considerably fewer view their CEO as a brand builder, and only a minority view their CEO as a role model, according to a recent Krauthammer survey on corporate governance and CEOs performance.

"It is interesting to see that in many core areas such as networking, personal ethics and presentation skills...

Employers Say It's Tough Reaching Millennials

North American companies are twice as likely to report difficulty reaching Millennials than any other employee group, according to a survey of more than 2,500 senior HR and training executives by Novations Group, a global consulting organization based in Boston.

Asked if their senior management encounters difficulties communicating with a dozen employee categories, 18.9% of respondents reported...

complete industry news and notes...

2008 April News and Notes

Related Articles · More Articles
Don't just tell participants your information. How bland! Use another version of AAA to validate the experience in the room, highlight information, and have them act upon what they've learned.
The latest industry information on new offerings in the training world as well as tips for making a trainer's life easier--both in and out of the classroom. This month includes Univ. of MN and continuing education, live internet browsing in PowerPoint, free airport WiFi, and e-learning software for games/game shows/crosswords with free trial.
Becky Pluth presented a concurrent session at the 2008 Pike Ascent on how to design and deliver participant-centered computer based training (CBT). Sound impossible? Here are a few of her creative tips:
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