U-Blog 4

"The Changing Face of Corporate Training"

Corporate trainers are finding themselves under increasing pressure to minimise the time employees spend undergoing training "off the job", resulting in a decline in formal classroom training and a greater emphasis on e-learning. "Corporate training always evolves and adapts, and right now the challenge is to justify what we do in terms of quantifiable outcomes and contribution to the bottom line," said Novations Senior Vice President Rebecca Hefter. "Companies want training that's relevant and with exercises that closely simulate the way work is conducted on the job. Case studies where teams solve real work problems are very popular."

I think that e-learning is a really good idea. A common complaint is that training participants feel that they can not focus on the training because of distractions such as the phone ringing, other people interrupting with questions or concerns, or simply no one there to cover while they are in a training session. Companies want to extend the learning experience beyond the classroom, using learning logs, job aids, action plans and even printed reminders to make learning online more interesting.

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http://www.womackcompany.com/In_House_Seminars.html

This article is about workplace performance seminars. After college people never stop learning. In today's world we are at such a fast pace and new technologies and research is being done frequently to where we learn beyond school and learn in our jobs as well throughout life. Therefore we need good workplace performance in corporations. These paid seminars cover the basis of doing multiple tasks at once, focus on results, and performance management.

Doing multiple tasks at once focuses on collecting information and ideas, front-end decision making (work-related processing), managing delegated tasks and outcomes, maximizing calendars and to-do lists bunching tasks, and outcome reviews to increase efficiency

Focus on Results focuses on identifying mid and long-range strategic plans, mapping internal interests and strengths to professional objectives and goals, minimizing distractions and working smarter, not harder or longer, identifying and implementing a weekly debrief process

Performance management focuses on organizing in less than 10 minutes a day, eliminating procrastination, identifying and monitoring work habits, and tools to add & gear to use

If we learn all of these from this seminar then we as workers should be able to be successful in personal and work environment.

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http://www.newhorizons.org/neuro/markus.htm

This article is about arts learning and the creative economy. Professional development for the creative economy is one that embeds "arts learning" into the organization's "innovation infrastructure" along with brain-compatible, self-managed, team-driven, collaborations that draw upon the benefits of intrinsic motivation for shaping projects that sustain the creative vision of the organization. "Arts learning" can help dissolve the line between play and work, the line that often gets adults into systemic difficulties.

Creative learning keeps the learner fully engaged about what they are learning. Classrooms that connect art and technology into projects with other environments is where people are getting the most effect out of learning. I know from a personal stance that learning hands-on in a creative environment helps me learn things more quickly and it sticks with me longer through the years. If I just read or listen to lectures or the teacher just demonstrates what is going on I really do not grasp the concept of what I am trying to learn. In a working environment you have to work with every thing yourself and the teachers need to start doing that from the start.