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From Objective to Action: Out with Passive Learning Objectives
If we as educators want to see better involvement and create more effective programs, it is up to us to throw out passive learning objectives. Objectives without interaction are weak and lazy design methods that are failing your students. Focusing on action, rather than the objectives will yield more desirable and measurable results.
Information Dumps: The Unforgivable Bane of E-Learning
Training in the workplace slips all too often into the treacherous territory of information dumps. The quality of the information is directly diminished by the quantity. You could be relinquishing the secret to everlasting life and it could still be lost in a sea of impertinent information. As trainers, it falls to us to ensure our students are provided with the proper tools to succeed. All available information, no matter how pertinent and useful it may be, is not the correct answer. That being said, as trainers, how do we avoid this?
Bland to Brilliant: Tips To Improve Your Virtual Training Experience
Having experienced both sides of the virtual training process, our team here at TrainerConnect has gained unique insights into what seems to be the best laid methods and mistakes that can leave sessions dragging. In this blog, we will discuss tips to make your virtual training sessions both more effective and engaging.
Healthcare Career Opportunities
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How to Make Your Company More Competitive
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Finding efficient methods for educating today's workforce is imperative to our goal of addressing the skills gap in America. Investing in the cutting edge training and development solutions TrainerConnect has to offer, will boost the overall productivity of any labor force by giving them the necessary skills to perform in the 21st-century job market.
Overcoming Gender Bias in the Workplace
Diversity and Inclusiveness workshops are an integral part of 21st Century Corporate Training and Talent Development and from an economic perspective, the case for diversity is clear. Numerous industry studies indicate that hiring a demographically diverse workforce improves a company's financial performance. The workshop addresses issues for the 21st century workplace and will stimulate discussion and challenge our perspectives about gender disparities while learning how to solve them.
People
Recipient of The Shingo Research and Professional Publication Award Building a lean problem-solving culture begins and ends with people and leadership. While many books teach about lean tools, few address the day-to-day leadership requirements of successfully transforming organizations into the lean enterprise. In 15 easy-to-read-and-reference chapters, People: A leader's day-to-day guide to building, managing, and sustaining lean organizations, outlines the high-level concepts, activities, principles, and practices that a lean leader must know intimately and apply daily.
Emotional Intelligence 2.0
Knowing what emotional intelligence is and knowing how to use it to improve your life are two very different things. Emotional Intelligence 2.0 is a step-by-step program for increasing your emotional intelligence using the four core EQ skills—self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, and relationship management—to exceed your goals and achieve your fullest potential.
Traction
All entrepreneurs and business leaders face similar frustrations—personnel conflict, profit woes, and inadequate growth. Decisions never seem to get made, or, once made, fail to be properly implemented. But there is a solution. It’s not complicated or theoretical.The Entrepreneurial Operating System® is a practical method for achieving the business success you have always envisioned. More than 2,000 companies have discovered what EOS can do.
Good to Great
The Challenge:
Built to Last, the defining management study of the nineties, showed how great companies triumph over time and how long-term sustained performance can be engineered into the DNA of an enterprise from the very beginning.
But what about the company that is not born with great DNA? How can good companies, mediocre companies, even bad companies achieve enduring greatness?
Tools of Titans
For the last two years, I’ve interviewed more than 200 world-class performers for my podcast, The Tim Ferriss Show. The guests range from super celebs (Jamie Foxx, Arnold Schwarzenegger, etc.) and athletes (icons of powerlifting, gymnastics, surfing, etc.) to legendary Special Operations commanders and black-market biochemists. For most of my guests, it’s the first time they’ve agreed to a two-to-three-hour interview. This unusual depth has helped make The Tim Ferriss Show the first business/interview podcast to pass 100 million downloads.
Zero to One
If you want to build a better future, you must believe in secrets. The great secret of our time is that there are still uncharted frontiers to explore and new inventions to create. In Zero to One, legendary entrepreneur and investor Peter Thiel shows how we can find singular ways to create those new things.