Why Do They Keep Asking for Training?

July 19, 2009

So you send out an employee satisfaction survey. Results come back that your workforce needs training in specific areas. You send everyone through training in those areas. Next year you complete a training needs assessment. Results are compiled that your workforce needs training the same areas that you trained last year. Frustration ensues. Maybe the [...]

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Why Does Training Matter?

July 12, 2009

Don’t you just love telemarketers?  You sit down to eat dinner and the phone rings with someone you don’t want to talk to, offering a product you don’t need.  My thoughts exactly.  But I must confess that I one of my most profound experiences occurred while training telemarketers to do exactly what we all dread [...]

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Adventures of Ted and Tina Trainer – Learning Styles

July 11, 2009

(c) 2009 Linda M. Farley

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Corporate Walls That Lie?

July 11, 2009

The employees are not performing.  Supervisors are not developing employees.  We have too much gossip in the workplace.  Objectives are not being met.  We have inconsistency.  Let’s have a training class.  But we don’t have much time.  And money is an issue.  Can we do it in 30 minutes?  We could put it in a [...]

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Adventures of Ted and Tina Trainer-Recall

July 11, 2009
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Appliances in the Workplace

July 11, 2009

The employees are not performing.  Supervisors are not developing employees.  We have too much gossip in the workplace.  Objectives are not being met.  We have inconsistency.  Let’s have a training class.  But we don’t have much time.  And money is an issue.  Can we do it in 30 minutes?  We could put it in a [...]

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No One Cares if I Get Out of Bed

July 11, 2009

The excitement continued to build over the weeks.  I had been offered an “early out.”  Not exactly golden parachute, but enough that I could leave the corporate pressures behind.  I had plans that ranged from re-upholstering my mom’s kitchen chairs to fulfilling my one life purpose on earth (which had yet to be determined).  I [...]

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Saturday

July 11, 2009

Every move was painfully slow.  Each step seemed to drag his body forward.  He lumbered from one task to another.  A young man.  In life’s prime.  At the beginning of his purpose.  Detached, uninterested, tired, checking the box.   His eyes never met others.  He took what was offered, processed, handed it back.    I [...]

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What Dad Taught Me

July 10, 2009

It’s Father’s Day; so, in keeping with the spirit of the day, I was thinking about mine. What had I learned from him? He believed that everyone should have two ways of supporting themselves. Dad had two primary careers: carpentry and insurance adjustor. He could build a box, a cabinet or a house. Estimating homeowner’s [...]

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Trust

July 10, 2009

Last night at ASTD (American Society for Training and Development)Jon Morse with the Center for Success, presented a great session on Trust in organizations.  He used 3 books as the basis of the session and the melding made sense:  “5 Dysfunctions of a Team,” “the Speed of Trust” and “Emotional Intelligence.”  This was a great [...]

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