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From ASTD's The Buzz - Worldwide Training Industry News (Feb
08)
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Quick News Digest from IT Skills Research
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IT Training Press Releases (Feb 08)
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08)
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Reviews and Current Trends
A Recap of 07
M+A for IT Training (Feb 08)
Mergers
and Acquisition activity in the IT Training sector was average to
quiet in 2007. M&A activity in the broader training industry started
out strong, but cooled steadily during the year according to
Whitestone Communications who monitors the training industry. IT
training acquisitions followed that general trend. In all, there
were only five acquisitions of companies with a significant IT
training presence and four of the five took place in Q2.
©2008 TrainingOutsourcing.com
Training Top 125 2008 (Feb 08)
Training
magazine’s seventh annual ranking of the top companies of
employee-sponsored workforce training and development.
Training Magazine,
©2008 Nielsen Business
Other related articles
are:
True Vision - PWC (Feb 08) -
PricewaterhouseCoopers caps its
steady climb by claiming the top spot on the Training Top 125 with a
focus on client and employee loyalty.
Leadership Leader - EMC (Feb 08) -
Planning for the next generation of leadership at EMC
means developing talent that uses teamwork to manage a global
workforce.
Winning Ways - Wyeth (Feb 08) -
Pharmaceutical company Wyeth’s healthy corporate culture uses
scorecards to track, measure, and analyze almost every job and
training program in some way.
It's the Network - Verizon (Feb 08) -
Verizon Wireless called upon its internal network to enhance
customers’ experiences, become experts on new devices and services,
and commit to leadership development in 2007.
Accounting for Success - KPMG (Feb 08) -
Continuous education, with an emphasis on building competence and
confidence through shared knowledge, is key to KPMG LLP U.S.
Best Practices and Outstanding Initiatives (Feb 08) -
Training
editors recognize innovative and successful learning and development
programs and practices.
Training Top 10 Hall of Fame (Feb 08) -
Training
inducts six companies, which have appeared in the Top 10 of the
Training Top 125 for at least four consecutive years, into the Top
10 Hall of Fame.
2007 Salary Survey (Feb 08)
What affects learning
potential in Learning and Performance?
T+D Magazine,
©2008 ASTD
A Look Ahead - The Training Industry in 2008 (Feb 08)
CLO magazine's Business Intelligence
Board has some predictions about what the learning industry can
expect in the coming year.
Chief Learning Officer,
©2008 Media Tec
Publishing Inc
Leadership Development in 2008 (Feb 08)
Bersin has found six best practices
common to highly successful leadership development initiatives.
Chief Learning Officer,
©2008 Media Tec
Publishing Inc
CompTIA 2008 Colloquium - What were people talking about (Jan 08)
CompTIA's
Colloquium brings together executives and prominent leaders from
industry, academia and government involved in IT education and
training in a relaxed atmosphere that promotes interaction and the
exchange of ideas.
©2008 Trainingindustry.com
Independent versus Certified Training (Feb 08)
Is vendor
certified product training always the best answer? In a
certification driven industry, vendor authorized IT training is
often taken for granted as the best option across the board. But
does it always provide the best overall solution? This ASPE
Technology white paper makes a strong case that independently
developed training can provide better outcomes in many instances.
©2008 Aspe Technology
Focus on Japan (Feb 08)
Japan has a thirst for knowledge, with many training and learning
ideas incorporated from other cultures.
Training Magazine,
©2008 Nielsen Business
360°
Report
on Authoring and Development Tools (Feb 08)
This report
includes detailed analysis on data collected from more than 1,400
e-Learning professionals on how they select, combine, and use these
tools. Data was collected, and is reported in the categories Rapid
e-Learning Tools, Courseware Authoring and Development Tools,
Simulation Tools, Media Tools, and Combining and Deploying Authoring
Tools.
©2008 eLearningGuild
E-learning evolves into two tiers (Feb 08)
Two tiers are evolving
in e-learning material development.
©2008 The British Computer Society
What does it Cost to Purchase Whiteboards? (Feb 08)
A whiteboard is a great
teaching tool in the classroom. There are many difference types and
sizes of this collaboration tool.
T+D Magazine,
©2008 ASTD
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Training
Manager/Director Development
So, You Aren't a CLO
- Do You Deserve to Be? (Feb 08)
Chief Learning Officer - CLO.
An impressive title, isn't it? It speaks volumes about an
organization's respect for the importance of training, and for the
individual who oversees this critical business function. It also
implies that the top training executive has ascended to the coveted
executive "C-Suite," where he or she enjoys unfiltered access to all
other department heads, the CEO, and occasionally even the Board of
Directors. In short, it signals that training has arrived.
©2008 TrainingOutsourcing.com
Getting and Keeping a
Seat at the Table (Feb 08)
In which scenario would
youn rather find yourself?
Scenario A - The
COO plops a thick planning document on your desk along with
the
encouraging words "I know your team will be up to supporting these
new
product roll-outs next month".
Scenario B -
You, in the executive meeting where the timeline for a new product
rollout is being discussed. You point out how enabling the
organization to
support the roll-outs will require a different timeline that takes
into consideration
a FTE level and other resources
that had not been part of the discussion.
©2008 TrainingOutsourcing.com
Corporate Diet - Adjusting to a Lean Organization (Feb 08)
As the U.S. economy teeters on the brink of a
recession, corporations might have to check their belts and tighten
them a bit.
CLOmedia,
©2008 Media Tec
Publishing Inc
Rethink Your Budget (Feb 08)
Progressive companies focus on maximizing the value received, and
implement nontraditional, strategic cost savings techniques to
leverage training budgets.
Training Magazine,
©2008 Nielsen Business
Dealing with the Pressure (Feb 08)
This year is going to be far more difficult than the ones we’ve had
recently. There are four critical trends and they’re totally ‘out of
sync’ with each other.
©2008 The British Computer Society
Emotional Notions (Feb 08)
Many
companies include emotional intelligence as one of their core
competencies.
T+D Magazine,
©2008 ASTD
Welcome to the Global Frontier (Feb 08)
The knowledge economy
requires business executives to become global leaders.
T+D Magazine,
©2008 ASTD
Adaptation (Feb 08)
We are in the midst of a great
transition to an era of networks and service and the question is how
do we adapt?
Chief Learning Officer,
©2008 Media Tec
Publishing Inc
Think about accessibility (Feb 08)
Courseware and test
materials are often not available in formats that can be used by
disabled people.
©2008 The British Computer Society
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Selling and Marketing
Education
Avoiding Three Big
Email Marketing Mistakes (Feb 08)
Don't sabotage
the most cost-effective marketing tool in your arsenal.
©2008 TrainingOutsourcing.com
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Learning Methods and Media
Open to informal sources (Feb 08)
The pressure this year
is to deliver more for less - and open source could be your way of
meeting that challenging expectation.
©2008 The British Computer Society
Designing e-Learning - Outside the Box (Feb 08)
Designers who address
the three learning phases will find e-learning success.
T+D Magazine,
©2008 ASTD
These 3 Tips Can Change Your Compliance E-Learning Forever (Feb 08)
Here
are
three simple strategies that will help you meet your compliance
certification needs and get your people back to work.
Rapid E-Learning Blog,
©2007 Creative Commons
Here’s How to Avoid Needs Analysis Paralysis (Feb 08)
We all know that doing a needs analysis is a good idea. The problem
is that we can become so focused on the analysis that we never get
anything done.
Rapid E-Learning Blog,
©2007 Creative Commons
What We Can Learn About Instructional Design from Post-It Notes
(Feb 08)
Why do people use Post-It notes, cheat sheets, and
other job-aids to help them do their jobs? And, how does this
relate to e-learning?
Rapid E-Learning Blog,
©2007 Creative Commons
When and How to Convert ILT courses to WBT (Feb 08)
This
presentation and demonstration by Shawn Nash of HP includes the
audio and video from the February E-learning SIG meeting.
Make Sure Your Media
Makes Sense and Cents (Feb 08)
It is becoming absurdly
easy to add media — especially video — to e-Learning, but a designer
still needs to exercise judgment about when to use media, which
media to use, and how best to match media and learning outcomes.
After reading this week’s article, you will have an outstanding set
of guidelines from a top e-Learning designer to help you liven up
your e-Learning and increase learner engagement.
©2008
The eLearning Guild
Learning, Elephants and Simulation (Feb 08)
For learning professionals, computer
simulations make big, systemic topics teachable.
Chief Learning Officer,
©2008 Media Tec
Publishing Inc
Video Game Nation - The Rise of Gaming and Its Impact on Learning
(Feb 08)
Today, the video game
generation has fully entered the workforce, but only a few
corporations have embraced games and other interactive media.
Chief Learning Officer,
©2008 Media Tec
Publishing Inc
The Learning Webvolution (Feb 06)
Webvolution—the current evolution of the Internet from a static,
one-way, read-only conduit of information through a browser into a
three-dimensional virtual world in which people, as avatars,
interact, work, and collaborate—is beginning to permeate the
learning and development field.
Learning Circuits,
©2008 ASTD
Join the Webvolution (Feb 08)
The Internet has changed business forever. Can learning be far
behind?
Training Magazine,
©2008 Nielsen Business
Second That (Feb 08)
Could Second Life be
Learning's Second Chance?
T+D Magazine,
©2008 ASTD
Virtual World Administrators - Service Requests in Cyberspace (Mar
08)
With some projecting that virtual worlds will completely reshape the
Internet, the demand for those who administer them is growing.
CertMag,
©2008 Media Tec
Publishing Inc
Wikis at Work - Benefits and Practices (Feb 08)
Wikis will
only become more popular in the corporate world, as a result
organizations need to have clear, concise guidelines for wiki
policies and best practices.
Chief Learning Officer,
©2008 Media Tec
Publishing Inc
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Case Studies and Projects
Weaving a Web of Learning (Feb 08)
Sun Microsystems’ Vice President and
Chief Learning Officer Karie Willyerd took a somewhat unconventional
and roundabout road to her current role.
Chief Learning Officer,
©2008 Media Tec
Publishing Inc
Extra Space Storage Leverages LMS to Achieve Business Impact with
Learning On-Demand (Feb 08)
This case study examines the transformation of learning at Extra
Space Storage through the implementation of an LMS and an on-demand
approach to learning. Although the company has a relatively small
learning budget and staff, its learning organization now delivers
approximately 250,000 training hours per year.
©2007 Bersin and Associates
Communication underpins coursewares success (Feb 08)
Effective communication was a key factor in the successful
introduction of new IT training materials for staff and students at
the London School of Economics.
©2008 The British Computer Society
Training Customer Call Centers (Feb 08)
How do we train our call-center staff to exhibit good manners and
project a friendly, helpful attitude over the phone?
Training Directors' Forum E-Net,
©2008 The Nielsen Company
All aboard at low levels (Feb 08)
What help is
the (UK) government offering to improve IT skills in the workplace
and is it working?
©2008 The British Computer Society
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Measuring Education Value
Obstacles to Measuring ROI (Feb 08)
There are
very few things in our global economy today that are more important
than measuring the impact of learning and development expenditures.
Chief Learning Officer,
©2008 Media Tec
Publishing Inc
Anecdotal Evidence - Worthwhile or Worthless (Feb 08)
Anecdotal assessment of learning
initiatives is both necessary and valuable, and learning
organizations still need to do it.
Chief Learning Officer,
©2008 Media Tec
Publishing Inc
Research - Testing and Assessment (07)
This research report
provides a glimpse into the current readiness of industries in
meeting these measurement needs.
©2007 KnowledgeAdvisors
Increasing Survey Response Rates (07)
This white paper discusses approaches and results to increase
feedback rates. The higher the response rates for training surveys,
the more confidence you can have in the accuracy of the data.
©2007 KnowledgeAdvisors
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Processes/Managing
Costs/Outsourcing
Learning When to Outsource Learning (Feb 08)
Today, for
a number of reasons, the subliminal message of cost reduction
through outsourcing is no longer swaying many minds.
Chief Learning Officer,
©2008 Media Tec
Publishing Inc
Rising Tide of Software-as-a-Service Solutions (Feb 08)
There are many factors to consider before fully
adopting this software solution for your business.
T+D Magazine,
©2008 ASTD
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Training Professional
Topics
Asking for a Raise - How to Manage Common Salary Situations (Mar 08)
Asking for a raise can be one of the most nerve-racking things you
can do at work.
CertMag,
©2008 Media Tec
Publishing Inc
Get a Move On (Feb 08)
Put some life into classroom training with engaging activities that
force participants to leave their seats.
T+D Magazine,
©2008 ASTD
Being keen reaps rewards (Feb 08)
You
first have to convince users of the value of the new system as part
of your role as project trainer.
©2008 The British Computer Society
On the ground (Feb 08)
What should you do if
there is an IT failure when you are delivering a course? We asked
trainers to share advice and guidance for when that occurs.
©2008 The British Computer Society
Mastering IT - Choosing Between an Immediate Job and Higher
Education (Mar 08)
While a master’s degree may not be a necessity in the IT field,
obtaining one can help professionals move up the corporate ladder.
On the downside, it may mean more student loans.
CertMag,
©2008 Media Tec
Publishing Inc
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Education Administration
No
articles this month.
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Skills Gap/Technical
Certification
Educating to Ensure Soft Skills (Mar 08)
You’ve spent years honing your technical skills and developing your
knowledge library. But how do you go about acquiring the soft skills
that will land the job?
CertMag,
©2008 Media Tec
Publishing Inc
The Importance of Business Acumen Training for Managers and
Employees (Feb 08)
Organizations today need
managers and employees who can contribute to financial success.
That's why many of them are offering financial literacy training.
However, a Finance 101 course that focuses on terminology and
financial statements isn't enough. Instead, developing the business
acumen of employees going beyond financial literacy to a true
understanding of what it takes for a business to make money is the
key to producing real results. In this white paper, you'll learn
what business acumen is and how two of the country's leading
companies used business simulations to help managers and employees
impact the bottom line.
©2008
Paradigm Learning
Boomers in IT - Will the Talent Shortage Affect Techies (Mar 08)
The baby boom generation is expected to begin retiring in mass
numbers in coming years. How it contends with this has the potential
to change the industry.
CertMag,
©2008 Media Tec
Publishing Inc
Alphabet soup ousts MCSE (Feb 08)
A
quiet revolution has been gradually brining in a new breed of
Microsoft qualifications, ousting the well-known MCSE.
©2008 The British Computer Society
Proof of skills is vital for business analysts (Feb 08)
The
role of business analysts has evolved to the point where, at their
highest level, they enable effective business performance.
©2008 The British Computer Society
Big iron seeks new blood (Feb 08)
Many of the existing mainframe workforce will soon put down the
reins and the industry is looking to a newly launched certification
to attract a new generation into 'big iron'.
©2008 The British Computer Society
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