Death-by-Powerpoint. Training guides followed page by page. The drone of the trainer’s incessant voice inducing head bobs from attendees doing all they can to stay awake. We’ve all been there. I’ve got the whiplash to prove it....
Let’s face it. The “butts in seats,” traditional model of corporate training is washed up. It’s counterproductive ...
Over the course of my twenty-year career, I’ve been to quite a few excellent training programs. There was the two-day organizational culture program in Boston. There was a day-long executive leadership seminar at a gorgeous retreat in North Carolina. Conferences in top-notch resorts in Kona, Palm Desert, San Francisco, and Seattle. And from each, I brought back nuggets of knowledge, ...
If you’ve ever taken an online course (from a webinar to a full-blown college course), you’ve undoubtedly experienced some of the growing pains of online education. Particularly when “virtual learning” is meant to symbolize little more than the posting of bullet-pointed PowerPoints and YouTube clips, this can be frustrating and lead one to question whether online education is on par ...
Picture the last learning event you attended. Chances are, if it was an in-person training session, you sat through a PowerPoint presentation, complete with dozens of slides filled with bullet point after bullet point. At the end of the session, you may have been asked about what you “learned.” Or, you might have simply autographed the “sign-in” sheet that was passed around, ...
Being great is, well....great! Many organizations have reached that pinnacle, however, only to experience the subsequent slide to mediocrity. What are you doing to prevent the decline in your organization?
Over the past decade, there has been an overwhelming effort to understand organizational greatness. If you’re like similar-minded executives, you’ve joined this march from “Good ...