Month: April 2010
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Brilliant Program Design
The 6th episode of Ask Logicool covers how to design a training program or session which will hold participant’s attention, interest and focus. This is a follow on from the last episode which covered how the trainer can maintain the participant’s attention, interest and focus. Both of these videos can be found at the usual…
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Ignore everybody
Just finished a great little book which you might be interested in. Its called Ignore Everybody – And 39 other keys to creativity. Very funny and insightful and just the sort of thing you should read if you have an idea and do not know whether you should try it out. It starts off with…
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Edutainment
A regular contributor to the blog, Steve, (check his post in the training zone) commented on my post yesterday about another term that he had heard which is edutainment which could then bring about another term for a person who provides edutainment, the edutainer. I think I might have created that term. Wikipedia actually has…
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A new training term?
Here’s a new training term for you, edupreneur. Well at least it was for me. I picked this up from a post at the Huffington Post. You can read it here. There appears to be a real educational revolution happening in America as opposed to our educational reshuffle which has really amounted to very little.…
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More on the online debate
It doesn’t take very long to find an article on the online education debate. Part of what I hope my role is in this blog is to review a lot of information and pass onto you some of the better articles, saving you the time taken to scan thousands of useless and poorly written posts…
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The Full Training Needs Analysis Series
I thought it might be a good idea to put in one place the full TNA series of Training Tips 56 videos. I would like to think that this is a good resource for trainers and students. Please let other trainers and students know of this address and allow them the ability to access and…
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Training Needs Analysis. It is a SUSPECT process – Part 7
The last part of the TNA process (suspect) has been posted to all of the usual locations. The last stage concerns ‘The Results and Recommendations’. Typically the result of this stage is a report outlining the data found, the results and conclusions from that data, the isolated performance gaps and the recommended solutions. A good…
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New Horizon report released
If you haven’t read a Horizon Report then start now. You don’t have to read the whole thing. You can just read this nice little summary provided by the education.au. Click here to read this post. You can access the full report from this post as well or just click here. A quick skim over…
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A to Z of excellent trainer traits competition – The final scores!
Well done everyone who managed to complete the last round. It was a tough one with six of, possibly the most difficult letters, in the alphabet. Thanks again to everyone who contributed at any point in the competition as I am sure that everyones’ contributions have given us something to think about and reflect on…
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Are you keeping your participants interested?
Sorry for the delay on the 5th episode of Ask Logicool. I was on holidays and didn’t have the capability to upload the files necessary to make the podcasts etc work. In this episode we follow on with our discussion on how to keep participants interested and focused. There are some excellent tips and strategies…