If you ask most training professionals to give you an example of training or learning content, you are likely to hear responses like, “a class” or, “an e-learning course” or “a webinar.” While there is no question that these are examples of learning content, they only represent formal types learning content. Informal or social content represent a much larger share of the learning content that individuals use to get better at what they do.

You Tube videos, blogs, wikis, second life, and forums a… Continue

Colette Ellis, Founder and CEO of InStep Consulting will share her 10-year long career development expertise to help you position your talent strategically beginning on Monday, March 16!

"Land Your Dream Job - Position Yourself Strategically" Online Coaching Group will focus in on three key skills:

Session 1 - Envision Your Ideal Role (Monday, March 16, 2 - 3 PM EDT)
* Rediscover your true values and key motivators - Who… Continue

The first step required to expand the scope of the training organization, during harsh economic times, is to increase the understanding of when learning takes place. Training professionals typically interpret learning as a formal process that occurs at an appointed time; a 3 hour class that happens on Tuesday at 3 PM, a 30 minute e-Learning course that must be completed by Friday, a 45 minute webinar that will run tomorrow at 10 AM.

This elucidation of the process fails to account for the compo… Continue

Thanks for visiting my blog! For my first post, I invite you to listen to, download and share my most recent podcast called: Create a Buzz - Manage Your Fear of Public Speaking. It's an informative conversation I had with Stacey Shipman, host of a wellness TV show called Back to Your Senses.

While I don't want to give away all of Stacey's tips… Continue

Today’s Reality

You don’t need to be an economist to know that things are rough right now. Our country is in a recession. Markets are down. Unemployment is up. Customers aren’t spending. And credit is hard to come by. Each day we open the newspaper and find yet another company reporting that profits are down. Economist Steven Wood from Insight Economics, LLC. even reported in the Wall Street Journal that consumers might need to be concerned about “deflation.”, and Goldman Sachs’ US Econo… Continue