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News
Quick News Digest from IT Skills Research
(Oct 07)
Industry News from IT Skills Research
(Oct 07)
News from
Elearning! Magazine (Oct 07)
IT Training Press Releases (Oct 07)
Industry News Headlines from CLOmedia (Oct 07)
E-Learning Market Briefing from
Kineo (Oct 07)
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Reviews and Current Trends
What makes them great, or BEST (Oct 07)
We’re often asked “What does it take to be BEST?” It isn’t just one
thing that makes a company a winner of an ASTD BEST Award.
Organizations only make it to the ranks of the BEST if they can
demonstrate excellence in several of these areas: alignment, C-level
involvement, efficiency, effectiveness, investment in learning,
learning opportunities for employees, measurement of effectiveness
and efficiency, and success with non-training solutions to business
needs.
There are also several articles about the winners:
Managing Massive
Change - the Satyam Way
Sales Training as
Dynamic as Big Pharma Itself (sanofi-aventis)
Those who Lead, Teach
(BD)
A Living, Breathing
People Strategy (Deloitte and Touche)
Learning that could
Save Lives (US Army Armament R&D)
Learning on the Rise
as the Company Grows (Equity Residential)
Paving the Path to
Performance Management (Wachovia)
Walking in the
Customers' Shoes (The Home Depot)
Simple is Beautiful
(Tata Consultancy Services)
BEST of the Rest
(Various)
T+D Magazine,
©2007 ASTD
The Chief Learning
Officer - A Retrospective (Oct 07)
The learning
organization's move from a reactive cost center to a strategic
contributor to business goals didn't happen immediately. Rather, it
took time - and a lot of patience.
Chief Learning Officer,
©2007 Media Tec
Publishing Inc
Training Magazine
Salary Survey (Oct 07)
Despite a see-sawing economy that could make even the most cast-iron
stomach queasy, salaries for trainers remain rock-solid at $81,940
in 2007, according to Training magazine's Annual Salary
Survey of 639 readers. Even though that's only $451 up from last
year (a negligible .56 percent), it's better than seeing salaries go
south.
Training Magazine,
© 2007 Nielsen Business Media, Inc
Trendline from
Elearning! Magazine (Oct 07)
Elearning!, Fall 2007,
©2007 b2bmediaco
Remote Worker Reality
Check (Oct 07)
According to two
technology companies, most Americans aren't even offered the option.
T+D Magazine,
©2007 ASTD
A Conversation with Steve Kerr (Oct 07)
Chief Learning
Officer Magazine catches up with the first CLO.
Chief Learning Officer,
©2007 Media Tec
Publishing Inc
The CLO's Top 11 Successful Practices (Oct 07)
How has your learning
organization evolved with your business? What is different about
your programs, services and initiatives? How has your learning
organization adapted to the company's geographic, market and
employee growth?
Chief Learning Officer,
©2007 Media Tec
Publishing Inc
Reliance on Coaching May Have Peaked (Oct 07)
Survey finds that some organizations will rely on coaching less than
in the past.
T+D Magazine,
©2007 ASTD
Social Networking Meets Corporate Learning (Oct 07)
As
learning executives, we should be creating social networking
experiments within learning departments so we can better understand
the power of how to use this medium for learning.
Chief Learning Officer,
©2007 Media Tec
Publishing Inc
Elements of Social Media Arrive on the
Learning Scene (Oct 07)
In January 1996, Elliott Masie declared
himself a nano-learner. In doing so, he placed his finger on the
pulse of a trend in e-learning that was just starting to take shape.
Chief Learning Officer,
©2007 Media Tec
Publishing Inc
New Products - Assessment, e-Learning,
Content, Tools, LMS (Oct 07)
Elearning!, Fall 2007,
©2007 b2bmediaco
Staff Poll Finds Ageism is Still Rife
(Oct 07)
Sixteen million workers in the UK have
claimed to have witnessed ageist behaviour in the workplace in the
last 12 months since new age discrimination laws came into force,
research has revealed.
©2007
TrainingZONE
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Training
Manager/Director Development
Helping New
Managers Learn To Be Managers (Oct 07)
Of all the steps up the business ladder, the move from seasoned
professional to frontline management is the most difficult,
according to an Equation Research survey that asked HR and
learning professionals which career transition is most difficult
for employees.
Links,
©2007 ASTD
The New Chief
Learning Officer (Oct 07)
The value of
traditional learning is diminishing, and employees are depending
more and more on learning acquired through informal networks,
online performance support tools, online references and
communities of interest.
Chief Learning Officer,
©2007 Media Tec
Publishing Inc
Ten Strategies for
Building Successful Partnerships (Oct 07)
This article explores
strategies for building strong partnerships within your
organization.
Links,
©2007 ASTD
Don't Call Them
Trainees (Oct 07)
Being told to take a
training course is like driving on a road with signs, stripes and
bumps.
Chief Learning Officer,
©2007 Media Tec
Publishing Inc
Cultural Fusion (Oct 07)
Don’t let random performance be the impetus of failure after a
merger.
T+D Magazine,
©2007 ASTD
Stretching - Good for Mind and Body (Oct 07)
Stretch assignments are revitalizing careers.
T+D Magazine,
©2007 ASTD
From Stalled to Breakthrough
Transformations (Oct 07)
It
is a common fallacy to mistake "working harder, faster and longer"
for success. These things are really indicators of activity, not
accomplishment.
Chief Learning Officer,
©2007 Media Tec
Publishing Inc
Teaching the Intangibles (Oct 07)
Contrary to popular belief, soft skills can be taught in a virtual
environment.
T+D Magazine,
©2007 ASTD
Leveraging Business Data to Develop Strategic Learning Solutions
(Oct 07)
Leveraging an
organization’s business data to develop a more focused learning
strategy is an opportunity for those responsible for workplace
learning and performance. This is also the secret of those smart
organizations: Getting people to learn how to recognize relevant
business data and using it to your advantage.
Chief Learning Officer,
©2007 Media Tec
Publishing Inc
The Top 22 - a
Priority List for HR (Oct 07)
research found that of
62 processes examined, 22 consistently drive highest business
impact. These processes (we call them the Top 22) represent a
priority list for HR executives and business leaders when it comes
to developing and managing talent. If your organization is
questioning where to start or how to strengthen its talent
management program, these are the processes on which you should
focus.
Talent Management,
©2007 Media Tec
Publishing Inc
Eleven Tips to Retain
Employees in the Technology Industry (Oct 07)
They may be
self-evident, but worth listing anyway.
Talent Management,
©2007 Media Tec
Publishing Inc
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Selling and Marketing
Education
Ten Steps to a
Website That Works (Oct 07)
Forget the one-minute elevator speech. When prospective customers
visit your website, you have 20 seconds or less to get their
attention. If you're successful, your well-crafted website can be a
valuable tool to snag new clients and keep existing clients coming
back. Links,
©2007 ASTD
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Learning Methods and Media
Assembling a Best
of Breed Learning Strategy (Oct 07)
SaaS and Best-of-Breed
go hand in hand.
Elearning!, Fall 2007,
©2007 b2bmediaco
The eLearning Guild's Handbook of e-Learning Strategy (Oct 07)
This free e-Book will
help you make a broad, fundamental connection between learning,
e-Learning, and your organization's mission, business objectives,
and the bottom line.
©2007
The eLearning Guild
Learning's Role in
Talent Management (Oct 07)
Think of talent as an
asset and management as a process. Much of the attention on talent
management has been on the process and the tools to manage that
process. Learning has to do with the creation of a specific asset,
the human capital that fits the business model of the firm.
Chief Learning Officer,
©2007 Media Tec
Publishing Inc
Executing Talent
Management Strategies with Technology (Oct 07)
Software suites bring
together HR processes and talent data, making management imperative.
Elearning!, Fall 2007,
©2007 b2bmediaco
What's new and
where to find it - Authoring Tools (Oct 07)
A quick look at new
products.
T+D Magazine,
©2007 ASTD
The Learning
Organization Meets the Long Tail - Part 2 (Oct 07)
In
an era in which knowledge workers know more about their specialty
than their managers, the traditional filter by which the manager
could be counted on to catch mistakes is obsolete.
Chief Learning Officer,
©2007 Media Tec
Publishing Inc
The 5 cornerstones to effective e-learning localisation (Oct 07)
Get the “must know”
key points for localising learning in multiple markets.
©2007
Mohive
Securing Online
Learning Systems (Oct 07)
Information security probably doesn’t cross the
minds of learning leaders very often, if it ever does. Yet, given
the increasing number of Web-based development offerings - not to
mention a frequent lack of understanding of online threats on the
part of employees - this should be a concern for the people in
charge of the learning function.
CLOmedia,
©2007 Media Tec Publishing Inc
How to Get Your Learners to Remember More (Oct 07)
Everyone wants to build good e-learning courses, whether for sharing
new information or changing workplace behaviors. While not all
e-learning objectives are the same, there are things you can do in
your course design that help your learners recall the information
and use it in the real world.
Rapid E-Learning Blog,
©2007 Creative Commons
What Everybody
Ought To Know About Using PowerPoint for E-learning (Oct 07)
PowerPoint is still the dominant tool of choice for many in our
industry
and for good reason. It’s accessible and easy to use. And since it
is so widely used in most organizations, it’s easy to convert
subject matter content into an effective e-learning course.
Rapid E-Learning Blog,
©2007 Creative Commons
5 Ways Your
E-learning Courses Can Create Understanding (Oct 07)
Information isn’t the same as understanding.
Many e-learning courses are designed to just share information. In
some cases, that’s fine. But, there are many e-learning courses
that are performance-based and in those cases we need to change
how the learner thinks and acts rather than just regurgitate
facts.
Rapid E-Learning Blog,
©2007 Creative Commons
Why Course
Navigation is Less Important than You Might Think (Oct 07)
Here, we’ll explore
if branches are really the magic solution to keep your learners
engaged.
Rapid E-Learning Blog,
©2007 Creative Commons
Create Engaging
E-Learning Courses You Can Be Proud Of (Oct 07)
Everyone wants to create e-learning courses that engage their
learners. Yet there’s a lot of debate about what exactly
engagement means. So I figured I’d boil down the different ways to
engage learners and see how we can use them to make our e-learning
courses better.
Rapid E-Learning Blog,
©2007 Creative Commons
How to Design Rapid e-Learning (Oct 07)
This report describes
three ways in which Rapid E-learning Design is different, and
better, than traditional e-learning methods.
©2007 Kineo.co.uk
Focus on Games and Simulation - Virtual Vision (Oct 07)
Training magazine
looks at the virtual worlds currently available.
Training Magazine,
© 2007 Nielsen Business Media, Inc
Give Your e-Learning Some (Second) Life - Simulation Made Easy
(Oct 07)
Simulation and
immersive learning are topics of great interest in e-Learning
today, but many practitioners believe the cost and the effort are
too great to permit any but the largest companies to use those
methods. Second Life offers a flexible, low-cost environment for
building simulations, and it presents few, if any, barriers to
entry. Bill Brandon gives you insights about the
real Second Life and its potential for many different approaches
to learning. It’s easier to get started than you think!
©2007
The eLearning Guild
Virtual World-building - Designing Environments for Learners (Oct
07)
This includes three
examples of ways in which e-Learning practitioners are employing
virtual worlds in their organizations’ learning strategies. The
key realization for all three designers was that in the virtual
world we are not bound by traditional ways of doing things.
©2007
The eLearning Guild
Solid SIMS (Oct 07)
Boasting lower costs
and more technological bells and whistles, training simulations
appear to be here to stay.
Training Magazine,
© 2007 Nielsen Business Media, Inc
Playing to Win (Oct
07)
Simulations inject a
does of reality into training as they engage employees in
real-world scenarios and foster better decision-making and
communication. Here are four case studies.
Training Magazine,
© 2007 Nielsen Business Media, Inc
Starting with SIMS
(Oct 07)
So you're ready to
take the plunge into simulation training. Here are some tips to
keep in mind.
Training Magazine,
© 2007 Nielsen Business Media, Inc
Learning and
Networking With Blogs (Oct 07)
Blogs are
emerging as powerful learning and networking tools.
Learning Circuits, ©2007 ASTD
Open Source Learning Management Systems (Oct 07)
Mark Abedour of EPIC looks at what's out there.
©2007 EPIC
How the iPhone Will
Shape the Future of (Mobile) Learning (Oct 07)
Mobile learning still
experiences limitations because of technological constraints. This
has changed with the arrival of the iPhone.
Chief Learning Officer,
©2007 Media Tec
Publishing Inc
What does
teleconferencing cost (Oct 07)
Teleconferencing has
become a popular method for conducting meetings, workshops, and
training, as more employees work from home and businesses become
geographically dispersed. The most common ways to conduct
teleconferences are over the phone and internet.
T+D Magazine,
©2007 ASTD
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Case Studies and Projects
Run It Like You Own It - Learning and Leadership at Wells Fargo (Oct
07)
By
incorporating shared services into its decentralized learning model,
Wells Fargo is creating scalable solutions that are "common where
possible, custom where it counts".
Chief Learning Officer,
©2007 Media Tec
Publishing Inc
LexisNexis fuels its search engine (Oct 07)
Helpline staffers at the subscription-research service are supposed
to educate customers who often are experienced researchers
themselves. So LexisNexis has to make its people "better and faster
than the best".
Training Magazine,
© 2007 Nielsen Business Media, Inc
Closure, Layoffs and Learning - A Look at First Allmerica Financials
Life Division (Oct 07)
Employees' trust in the life division's leadership made it possible
for them to spend less time worrying about what they weren't being
told and spend more time preparing themselves and the company for
change.
Chief Learning Officer,
©2007 Media Tec
Publishing Inc
MasterCard's Master
Plan (Oct 07)
To
stage the largest face-to-face learning event in its 40-year
history, MasterCard Worldwide first had to figure out how to create
hundreds of capable facilitators in cities around the world.
Training Magazine,
© 2007 Nielsen Business Media, Inc
Out with the Old, In
with the New for Trendy Saks (Oct 07)
Expensive, conventional
training gets the boot at New York's fashion giant.
Elearning!, Fall 2007,
©2007 b2bmediaco
Case Study - Web
Conferencing (Oct 07)
Coast Guard Logistics Center increases efficiencies and
communications.
Elearning!, Fall 2007,
©2007 b2bmediaco
Case Study - Training
(Oct 07)
Different languages
power Getronics training software.
Elearning!, Fall 2007,
©2007 b2bmediaco
Case Study - Online
Programs (Oct 07)
Corporate Training does
e-Learning better, worldwide.
Elearning!, Fall 2007,
©2007 b2bmediaco
Case Study -
Podcasting In Corporate Training (Oct 07)
How one company explored the delivery of sales promotion and product
information using podcasts and vodcasts.
Learning Circuits,
©2007 ASTD
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Measuring Education Value
The Training Value Gap (Oct 07)
For
the past several years, companies have placed increased pressure on
their training departments to quantify the impact that the programs
they deliver have on the larger organization. As a result of this
pressure, training managers have spent more and more time attempting
to prove value that their training brings. This effort has tended to
focus on return on investment or ROI, and essentially argues that,
"when we have training, the organization is better because ..."
©2007 Training Industry, Inc
Measuring Pains (Oct 07)
A
recent survey finds a surprisingly high level of dissatisfaction
with LMS reporting capabilities, particularly limited standard
reports. (For convenience, the complete survey can be seen
here.)
Training Magazine,
© 2007 Nielsen Business Media, Inc
The Case for Effective e-Learning Assessments (Oct 07)
Getting feedback is just the first step. Accuracy is next.
Elearning!, Fall 2007,
©2007 b2bmediaco
Legal defensibility of assessments - What you need to know (Oct 07)
Questionmark's white paper examines key issues surrounding
assessment defensibility, including the four main areas of legal
challenge. It also identifies best practices and technologies that
can help ensure the validity, reliability and defensibility of
assessments.
©2007 Questionmark
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Processes/Managing
Costs/Outsourcing
The Latest Approach
to End-User Learning Development and Collaboration (Oct 07)
This presentation
describes how RWD uPerform, a comprehensive end-user
performance support solution, allows the collaborative creation,
storage and management of application simulations, procedural
documentation and e-learning courses.
©2007 RWD Technologies
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Training Professional
Topics
Certification Outside Technology (Nov 07)
Not every
certification means kicking around software and hardware — there’s
a whole world of professional certifications that have little to
nothing to do with computer skills per se but nevertheless hold
real value for IT pros.
CertMag,
©2007 Media Tec
Publishing Inc
How to Fit Certification into Your Schedule (Nov 07)
Think you
don’t have time to study for and earn that certain certification?
You probably do, if you take steps to avoid or eliminate
distractions at home and at work and carefully plan your
preparation methods and goals.
CertMag,
©2007 Media Tec
Publishing Inc
Give Your
Presentation - Don't Talk About Your Presentation (Oct 07)
The “presentation” is a concept that is relevant only to the
speaker, not the audience. Your audience isn’t thinking about your
“presentation.” Instead, they are “in the moment,” and they are
thinking either, “This person is saying something interesting and
useful to me, so I’d better listen carefully,” or “This person is
a bore, so I can tune out and think about what I’m going to have
for dinner instead.” The following discusses some ways to keep you
and your audience in the moment and be relevant. ©2007 Media
Training Worldwide
Make the Room
Work for You (Oct 07)
Every
presenter has experienced difficult presentation environments and
can tell their own horror stories. We know there’s a direct
connection between the learning environment and the outcome. We
know that appropriate facilities are a huge part of that
environment. Now, I insist on them. You should, too. Here are
10 ways to make the room work for you. ©2007 Dianna Booher
Customizing
Clipart (Oct 07)
Many presenters are not graphic artists nor do we have a score of
graphic artists helping us create our presentations. The solution
for many people is to use clipart liberally in an effort to make
our presentations colorful and, hopefully, engaging. But, you can
easily customize your clipart to add a level of sophistication and
panache to your presentation.
©2007 Entelechy
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Education Administration
No
articles this month.
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Skills Gap/Technical
Certification
Spotlight on ISACA’s Certifications: CISA, CISM and
the New CGEIT
(Nov 07)
As IT regulations become increasingly
complex in their purpose and enforcement, demand for IT governance
grows. ISACA’s programs meet this demand with certifications that
help companies identify prospective employees with experience and
expertise.
CertMag,
©2007 Media Tec
Publishing Inc
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