... project is to revamp our current "Manager Training Program" aka "MTP" certification course. Prior to becoming a manager we require that the employee is certified through the Management Training Program which is currently a 5 day, 100 ... cannot be converted because some of the topics are much more effectively covered through instructor led training. The ... the classroom to bring it all together. We require that managers get re certified in the course every 2 years and up until now we put them back through the same 5 day course that new managers go through. This is a hassle for ...

Alarm bells go off when I hear someone say "Our company has this management training program..." Usually this means ... ill-advised "teamwork" sessions when the manager gets back to the office. "Oh no - the boss has been to another management training session. I wonder if I have enough vacation days...." And I'll admit to having that reaction when I ... "management training" - you probably don't have a training issue. You have a culture issue. Training can help change ... use stealth. "Hey, I'm trying to put together a management training and support system and am putting together ...

Months and Months ago I mentioned how I am starting my first larger scale eLearning project in a posting titled Manager Training Program . I am now knee deep in the project and learning a lot along the way. I designed and developed a prototype for the first course and it is under review now. I am expecting that there may be some barriers I have to overcome due to the fact that this is a big change in how we facilitate training programs, and nobody likes change. Due to budgetary restrictions I am limited to Power Point in combination with a PPT to Flash Converter as my authoring ...

1) I wonder whether, despite the noise in the management literature, CEOs and other managers are TRULY interested in having the training group as a strategic part of the enterprise. What executives seem to REALLY want is a training ... , no time away from their work, and to do it all for cheap/free. Or even better....NO training organization since the ... also wonder whether executives are truly interested in having a training group capable of encouraging their ...

I received an inquiry from someone I know, and I'm hoping people who read this blog can make suggestions. I'm looking for vendors who supply off-the-shelf training for basic manager skills such as, time management and delegation. Thus far I've looked at Element K, SkillSoft, Vital Learning, Ninth House, and Achieve Global. What I like about these providers is the scope of what they offer -- many courses to choose from. Are there other providers you'd recommend I look at? Those vendors are certainly at the top of my list and I'm not sure I have other suggestions. Any other providers ...

I'm currently sitting with my computer working (again) on a weekend. Training documents requiring rewrites surround me. Laptop in lap. 5 firefox tabs and 4 programs open. The boyfriend was flipping through channels and caught Good to Great on WETA HD . Channel surfing stopped. The documentary is based on Jim Collins' research regarding what made the difference between good companies and great companies. Admittedly - the series is a long advertisement for his book ... about management: - The importance of the right people in the right places - The need to confront brutal facts - ...

... necessarily a full blown learning content management system. Identify and develop champions : This is a familiar tactic ... what they're told by specialists or managers. Explain the benefits : Basic but sometimes forgotten. The very least you can do in any change management situation is to explain why the change is necessary. If you can't think of convincing arguments, don't go ahead with the change. Provide training for the trainers : It's likely that your biggest obstacles ... . Make sure they get the training they need and that they get plenty of opportunities to use what they learn.

... are truly end-user friendly with very little training required, 4) a credible management and maintenance story for IT ... implementation. And, fortunately, I'm given the freedom to do so without much gripping from management (so far). What is lost ... to blame-models of management. Employees are actively discouraged from taking responsibility. Way too much energy is ... . Management needs to start actively rewarding initiative. Employees need to start taking responsibility for themselves ...

Management in Practice by Peter de Jager . Now change management isn't a new topic for me, but somehow Peter's approach ... -learning within an organisation. The key here would be not to impose it, but to engage all stakeholders (managers, trainers, learners, IT) in determining how best it should be done. Midcro (I made that up), like implementing a new training ...

To Moodle or not to Moodle, that is the question. I have come to a crossroads with a project that I have written about before. I am currently in the process of developing a series of eLearning courses that are part of a blended management training program. At this point, I have 3 of the 6 courses complete. Here is where it get's interesting, an associate installed Moodle to start playing around. It's up and running, just needs to be used. So here's the decision, do I migrate from simply uploading these courses to MS Sharepoint like usual, or do we get crazy and try to implement ...

We have finished another round of training pilots. This time, we've focused on the week 1 trainings for 3 general ... you check in for your appointment) - Administrative Staff (Medical Secretaries, Managers, other administrators) Our ... . We found it best to tell them first thing in the training rather than waiting until later, or when we were asked ... everything when they walked out the door. We designed the upgrade training to essentially get them started. NOT tell them everything. - We found a couple of minor educational gaps, that we will add to the final training.

I received a lot of spam with links to information for airline pilots with my Training Pilots post, so I'll be ... vendor is pushing to have us go live by the end of first quarter (April 15). Our upper management has finally realized that ... passing week - we're getting a more concrete feel for how we are going to train our end-users. Our current working plan ... ) Room 2 - Clinical Staff (Nurses, Medical Assistants, Technicians). Their training will be similar to the MD training - without some of the approval tasks that doctors have to perform. (90 minutes) Room 3 - Administrative ...

... all Training Managers. It's a great example of the value of blogging. It offers Wendy and Karyn fantastic ... the management development programme they have asked me to develop, but getting access to SMEs and stakeholders is ...

My Adobe creative suite and Captivate arrived and I have already dove into a project in Captivate. While I was waiting for the software to arrive, I designed and storyboarded a soft skill scenario simulation for management training courses that I am working on. Now I am knee deep in developing it in Captivate and I am kicking myself for not pushing harder for this purchase a year ago. Now I would love to go back and re do several of the eLearning courses I developed using Power Point and a Flash converter. Unfortunately I have too many projects on my to do list to spend the ...

I received an excellent example of the value of IT friends within an organization. Yesterday, I talked to one of the members of our network team. The conversation started with borrowing sugar (all we currently have in our office is Splenda, Equal, and Sweet and Low - YUCK!). As we talked, he saw the Google Sidebar on my personal laptop. So you've found Google Sidebar? Yeah - I'm thinking of using it as a possible training resource tool here. Whaddya think? I love Google Sidebar. Very cool tool. I have it on my home PC. I'm really concerned about how the computers here ...

8217; content in your training. You know the one…the course/class that is actually training for something that does/did not require training . Remember the mandatory ILT for a group because one person has crappy customer service skills? (And they didn’t think the training applied to them anyway). Remember the off-the-shelf soft skill e-learning to address morale-type issues that are actually the result of a bad manager (yet no training for the manager… ... fighting. At least I’ve always thought it was. Why? Because your training solution will fail - that’s ...

My days and nights are still consumed with the issue that our LMS does not manage classroom based courses well at all. I can not find a work around for our courses that run over many different days. The vendor gave me a solution if they are all in the same week, but that doesn't solve it. I tried making session 2 a whole new course and that session 1 is a prerequisite, but they can't register for number 2 until they pass number 1. I tried about putting all the ... registers, they would have to go into the course, see who is new, go the the learner management screen add the ...

I often find myself daydreaming when dealing with LMS problems. I say to myself, "If I built an LMS, it would…….." Ah, if only it were that easy. This line of thinking leads me to these questions: How would you design your perfect LMS? What features would you include (or exclude)? How would it differ from current LMS products on the market? I’ll start this off, but I really would love to hear your thoughts. Who knows, maybe (if we’re lucky) some LMS vendors are listening! My perfect LMS would… Support the AICC, SCORM 1.2, and SCORM 2004 ...

... consider this” to “How do we do this.” By the time Training 09 rolls around I predict we’ll have more than 50 people in the 3Di workshop. Lorri Freifeld (Executive Editor of Training Magazine ) asked me to write a ... function's focus and value proposition must migrate from supporting denominator management (i.e., teaching people how to ... the innovation agenda with more efficient productivity-focused training strategies and technologies is akin ...

... management training program. I am just about ready to run a pilot test of the courses so I will also be able to ...

... training access). I've worked with many of these managers during various implementations, so I suspect that I will get more ... Now that I have the blessing of the Sr. Managers, I am starting to meet with the departmental managers and providers. The first group consisted of the management staff for OB/GYN, IVF, Neurology, Neurosurgery, Orthopaedics, Emergency Medicine, and Psychiatry. As anticipated, they were not nearly as excited as the Senior Managers. I am a bit nervous since they said very little during the meeting. Admittedly, I only had 15 minutes to present and the Senior Manager's ...

... information and knowledge. The reason I like it is that information is the stuff that I have to manage in the ... wasn't enough thinking about what constitutes the knowledge that needs to be managed, how it differs from information, and ... their own minds. So each of us has to be the knowledge manager of our own knowledge. If we understand that, we can then define what KM in organisations has to do. Its role is to: support individuals in managing their own knowledge ... ; managing the information that emerges from knowledge exchanges using the ICT infrastructure innovatively to ...

Yesterday eLearning Guild announced their Member's Choice Awards for Learning Management Systems (LMS). Now I don't ... SumTotals was little ol' open-source Moodle: Award for market share - Small and Medium Corporate Learning Management Systems - Platinum award: Moodle. Award for market share - Education and Government Learning Management Systems - Gold award: Moodle (the Platinum went to Blackboard). Award for satisfaction - Small and Medium Corporate Learning Management Systems - Platinum award: Moodle. Award for satisfaction - Education and Government Learning Management Systems - ...

... managed by the boomers, and they did this in a period that we would regard now as unbelievably austere and crisis-ridden ... strong arguments for the use of simulations and games for training. Most importantly, from my perspective, he was able to ... training budget. Clearly, 3D worlds are becoming more and more accessible, but the effort to create them is still likely ...

... or for classroom availability for training. 3) Reporting - Managers like reports. One report they all wanted to ... It took a number of attempts and rescheduling but I FINALLY introduced our Senior Management to Moodle. This took a ... together a Learning Management System (Moodle) to help us keep track of the tutorials. This tool will be an important part ... more access to training (rather than waiting for a week or more) and gives them more learning choices. For users who are in and out of the MFA (Residents and Med Students), they will be able to receive training as they need it, rather ...

... training specialist - who's not looking at more than training as a model for learning. Here's what he said: I just ... knowledge management but to classify knowledge management activities as learning seem silly) it makes the term almost ... someone who is a learning professional (especially a training specialist) should somehow care more about these tools than ... Skills ) is that learning professionals (even training specialists) actually have an important responsibility here ... effectively, efficiently, accurately, etc. If you look at this from a training specialist standpoint and stop at ...

Clark Aldrich, in Learning Circuits, emphasized the importance of training pilots during the training development process . Lack of training pilot = invitation to failure. In his comments to the post, Dave Lee outlined the following ... training. 2) They are computer savvy so they will forgive lack of navigational clarity. I built the LMS this early with a ... also be shown the system and asked to log in. - People who come to me for training will be asked to log into the system. The face-to-face training will be used to evaluate the tutorials and the student's reactions to the ...

... on international travel for training. I pity the poorer organisations. Assima Managing Director, Paul Stevens presented some strong arguments for effective IT training: ROI is directly related to the speed of adoption of new systems and processes and the proficiency of users (Prosci). Poorly trained users require six times more support than ... user with their managers. A short period of formal training to cover the new system. Support provided by floor ... jointly by IT training specialists Assima and corporate giant Xerox. I wasn't too familiar with Assima, even ...

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... reaction I get every day when I talk about my plans for online training. My personal learning preferences mirror Mr ... taken online courses. Their first question to me, when they ask about training, is "Do you have any online tutorials?" I'm ... of technology-based training do not allow the flex in timing or words or learning style that you have face-to-face. With classroom training, you can wing-it if you need to. Another perceived disadvantage of technology-based training for ... away with murder. Many classroom instructors won't give up that flexibility willingly. Developing training ...