Overcoming Silence and Resistance in Virtual Instruction

By Joel Gendelman

Attendees will not always be actively engaged in your virtual instruction. They may feel overworked, resent their boss’s making them attend your training, or not feel positive about your message in the first place. Either way, it is up to you to overcome their silence and resistance without further upsetting them. Here are some points to remember that might help you do so.

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Five Ways to Leave Client Organizations Dancing in the Streets

By Joel Gendelman

All of us serve clients. They may be an internal business group or an external company that your firm depends upon to keep the lights on.

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Structured On-The-Job Training

By Joel Gendelman

Most training is accomplished on the job; in department stores, banks, and other non-retail establishments. Jane, a more senior employee, shows John how to perform a task, shares a few words of wisdom, and later watches John do it himself. It makes perfect sense, but there are several pitfalls with OJT.

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Ten Techniques for Increasing Interactivity

By Joel Gendelman

Everyone wants to increase the interactivity of their training. Here are 10 ideas to start with.

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Practice Makes Perfect

By Joel Gendelman

That was what my father always told me and he was right. Learning by doing is not a revolutionary notion. It first promoted by the educational philosopher Joan Dewey in the 1920s. Learning by doing takes time and who has time to spare these days? This blog is for those of you who want to develop content right the first time.

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Injecting Excitement into Web-Based and Blended Training

By Joel Gendelman

Many organizations have embraced web-based and blended training. The cost of paying instructors, renting training rooms, and the travel costs associated with getting 30 people in the same room is just too much to handle in today’s downsized environment.

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Proposing and Implementing Recommendations

By Joel Gendelman

In my last several blogs, I began describing how organizations can better support current business initiatives, increase organizational responsiveness, and reduce curriculum acquisition and development costs by aligning their business needs with their instructional assets. This final step of the process is “Proposing and Implementing Recommendations”. Following are the activities that are typically performed during this step.

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Analyzing Your Curricula

By Joel Gendelman

In my last two blogs, I began describing how organizations can better support current business initiatives, increase organizational responsiveness, and reduce curriculum acquisition and development costs by alining their business needs with their instructional assets. The second step of this six step process is Analyzing your Curricula. Following are the activities that are typically performed during this step.

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Documenting Your Business Needs

By Joel Gendelman

In my last blog, I began describing how organizations can better support current business initiatives, increase organizational responsiveness, and reduce curriculum acquisition and development costs by alining their business needs with their instructional assets. The first of the six steps of this process in Documenting your Business Needs. Following are the activities that are typically performed during this step.

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Aligning Business Needs with Training Assets

By Joel Gendelman

High-performing training organizations are focused on the alignment of their instructional curricula with the needs of the business. However, the content development field lacks a systematic methodology for performing that alignment. Such a method can provide organizations with a powerful tool to better support current business initiatives, increase organizational responsiveness, and reduce curriculum acquisition and development costs.

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