I’ve always said that nothing gets you a bad review from training feedback faster than running over on your time. If you promise students they will be finished with class at 5, you’d better be finished by 5. (Before is even better!) These tips are fairly obvious, but something I’ve seen a lot of people…
The implications for this truth are quite far-reaching, no? Whether we want to talk about in a training environment or have a discussion about lawyers and eDiscovery technology, there’s a lot to think about here. I have always said, in fact I just said it a couple of days ago, that I’d much rather have…
This is something I’ve been concerned about for a long time, because links on social media are usually shortened using a service like bitly, or even WordPress, and you don’t really know where they go until you click on them. “A link, attached to a Twitter post put out by a robot account, promised a…
These are all good, but this is one that I have seen time and time again. You can bring in an expert who says the same exact thing that someone has been saying for years internally, and suddenly it will seem like a great, new, idea. People get used to internal people hectoring them about…
Sadly, this is all too true: “Many programmes don’t actually improve skills, says Nanette Miner, founder of the Training Doctor, a company in the US state of South Carolina that designs training programmes. Why? Most are too generic, too basic and too boring, she says. The misguided one-size-fits-all approach comes from companies training everyone, in…
This one in particular is one that I’ve seen in the training industry and it irks me to no end. People who can’t be bothered to prepare ahead of time to make sure they know exactly how the material and classroom exercises flow before teaching it the first time. “At a recent presentation training workshop…