Category: Communication
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Video gets better and easier and…
If your not using video in your elearning or normal training room learning…I don’t know why not. It has become so easy to produce good video content. It is just as easy to edit that video and simply stupefyingly easy to upload it to the internet or just place it on your laptop so your…
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Trainers who have failed
A few days ago I posted an article titled Trail and Error Training. Basically I was saying that to improve as a trainer you have to try new things and expect some to fail. I came across this post which outlines 10 great failures. It is an interesting read about how some great people…
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Great Conclusions
The next Training Tips 56 video has been released. You can find it at all the usual locations or watch it below. This is the follow up to the Great Introductions video. I have placed that below in case you haven’t seen it. There is obviously a lot that goes on between the introduction and…
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Web conferencing for Free
Unfortunately DimDim, which was great web conferencing tool, was sold quite a while ago now and ended a good run for free web conferences for trainers. There is another good alternative out there. I have played around with this one and it has worked well for me. The name, AnyMeeting. Try it our and let…
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PowerPoint Extras
You can read all of the articles and posts about the dangers and evils of PowerPoint but it is still a very good tool for the trainer. Of course it should be used professionally and sparingly. I have embedded a video I made a while ago on the use of PowerPoint. The look of PowerPoint…
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Meetings Bloody Meetings
Having been to a few meetings lately I often wonder why I had to go and what was achieved. There are many other ways that the information the meeting was about could have been disseminated. Don’t get me wrong there is a very good time and place for meetings but as we all know many…
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Free websites – for real!
You don’t see a deal like this very often. I just wanted to say up front that I am not be paying anything for saying this and as I already have a number of websites I will probably not be pursuing this free website deal. MYOB and Google have a deal that provides you with…
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How to write training blogs
I have been teaching participants how to write blogs over the last few weeks as a part of elearning and coincidently a Linkedin group that I belong to has had a number of posts on what training blogs are out there and what should I write. Two things come from this. One, why not try…
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Remembering what to say in your next presentation
How do you remember what to say in a presentation? It is a difficult question really and most likely the best results will come from different techniques for different people. Here is a good article covering this topic but it is not really how I would do it. It is important to clarify here that…
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Be very afraid or greatly excited
I really do enjoy and appreciate my IPAD. It is a great media delivery device. I am not that sure about it’s other possibilities but I haven’t had that much time to think about it. As a book it is ok but what if that book was a different sort of book? Check out this…