T&D articles from August 2003

T&D archives from August 2003

What a concept. (Frontpage).(new feature in Training & Development)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Have you been reading Concept? It's the new one-page piece that starts off the features every month. I was just wondering whether it has been noticed. Concept's tag line is "a powerful, intriguing, inspiring, or perhaps odd idea distilled to...

Contributors.
August 1, 2003... The Contributors Questionnaire asks, they answer: First or most unusual job? Best or worst advice? What did you learn in high school? Claim to fame? And just for fun: Describe your shower curtain (compared to the $6000 shower curtain of the...

Focus on performance.(American Society for Training and Development and performance consulting)
August 1, 2003... Within the ASTD community, performance improvement continues to be an important topic for our members and their organizations. Business leaders know that success in today's knowledge economy depends on the performance of every single individual...

Speaking game. (Mailbox).(Letter to the Editor)
August 1, 2003... [Re: Trends in the June issue], I am 30 years old and play an online game that's free. It's called Runescape I guess I'm pushing the upper limits of the age of the digital natives or the lower age of the digital immigrants. Caught somewhere and...

Encore! (Mailbox).(Letter to the Editor)
August 1, 2003... I have just read Andrew Ewell's article [Working, June], in which he wonders if only there were a way to spice things up. Well, "hear ye, hear ye...." I love Ewell's style and flavor of writing and am working more towards a more...

More redux. (Mailbox).(Letter to the Editor)
August 1, 2003... I am writing in response to the issue raised in Intelligence [April T+D]: Why Women Don't Rule. What can the training function do to help women achieve top positions? That question cannot be answered until females become truly interested...

Job market jungle: new tools help seekers and offerers find their way and emerge safely. (Intelligence).
August 1, 2003... For both job seekers job offerers, the U.S. employment market these days is a frightening place. Unemployment is way up, but so is the number of specialized jobs going unfilled. How is one to navigate the dangers of the job market jungle and...

Bizz: the buzz about small business. (Intelligence).(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Small businesses will be key in helping the U.S. economy recover, predicts trendsters The Herman Group. Future economic growth will come from microbusinesses with just one or several employees. These companies can be "responsive, agile, and...

Global 360. (Intelligence).(online university Universitas 21 Global)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Universitas 21 Global is new open for business, Students worldwide can earn their MSA at the online university in the Asia Pacific A result of the partnership between Thomson Learning and Universitas 21 www.universitas.edu.au, Universitas 21...

News flash. (Intelligence).(Plateau Systems wins contract)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Plateau Systems has won a contract to help the U.S. Transportation Security Administration train up to 70,000 airport screeners. As a subcontractor to Lockheed Martin, Plateau will be responsible for administering Web-based courses and managing...

Why women don't rule update. (Intelligence).
August 1, 2003... The topic that struck a nerve with readers (GO TO) Intelligence, T+D April and June is examined in new studies by Catalyst www.catalystwomen.org/press_room/press_releases/20030603.htm and PNA; Email info@chenpr.com and ask for the "Internal...

Federal Chief Human Capital Officers named. (Policy news: a snapshot of U.S. federal legislation and policy affecting workforce development and the HRD profession).(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... The director of the United States's Office of Personnel Management (OPM) announced the U.S. government's new Chief Human Capital Officers (CHCOs) on May 24. A provision in the Homeland Security Act of 2002 requires each executive department and...

Survey says. (Intelligence).(Cambridge Online Learning's e-learning survey)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Age matters in e-learning preferences and motivations, says a new survey by Cambridge Online Learning. Twice as many 16- to 24-year-olds (33 percent) were concerned about "levels of support" in courses than 45- to 54-year-olds (15 percent). The...

Improv-based training: it's not just fun and games. (Fundamentals).
August 1, 2003... This is the first of a two-part series about using improv-based training. Corporate life is either a comedy or a tragedy, depending on your experience. Look at your daily newspaper's comic pages and Dilbert will show you that we're all...

Pay per view. (The Web).(new kind of online marketing - search marketing)
August 1, 2003... Once the thankless workhorses of the Web, search engines are now set to control the most promising form of online advertising yet. Granted, that's not saying much. But this just might work. A recent report from comScore Network's Media...

An odd existence.(OddTodd.com )(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... I got a chuckle out of OddTodd.com www.oddtodd.com last year and assumed that Odd Todd's out-of-work creator, Todd Rosenberg, would quickly ride the wave of media attention into another job. But with the U.S. unemployment rate hovering around 6...

Talk to the Orb.(Ambient Devices' ambient orb)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... What is it with new technologies and the stock market? When I first read about the Ambient Devices glowing glass orb's ability to track changes in stock indexes, I thought, "Ho hum, another executive toy." Why not get stock quotes from one of...

Quick tip.(saving a webpage for offline viewing)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... To save a Webpage for viewing offline, Internet Explorer users have a few options. Begin by selecting File and then Save As. Just as you would with any file, select a destination and name. Now, here's where those options come into play. In...

Just email me.
August 1, 2003... Just Email Me If you've become averse to picking up the phone, you're not alone. An online survey from META Group www.metegroup. com polled 387 U.S. organizations to find that 80 percent of businesspeople prefer email for work-related...

What it means to climb a rock: facing fear, committing, and, ultimately, achieving human performance. (Concept: a powerful, intriguing, inspiring, or perhaps odd idea distilled to its essential elements).
August 1, 2003... I am 300 feet up a rock face, standing on two sloping footholds, my fingers curled around some small edges. The wall is steep, and my -arms are tiring. From years of doing this, I know that staying in this position, in this place, means that I...

The seven (actually nine) deadly sins of new performance consultants: the transition from trainer or OD specialist to performance consultant involves a lot of "lessons learned." Here's a look at what a number of veteran HPI professionals have learned from their early experience and the most common mistakes they see being made by new performance consultants.
August 1, 2003... There's a story--perhaps apocryphal--about the late Sam Walton, founder of Wal-Mart and how he had managed to achieve so much professionally. A student is supposed to have asked "Mister Sam" how he got to be so rich and successful. "Easy,"...

Blood, sweat, and cheers: Full Engagement: the Full Engagement Training System turns some common thinking on its head, and can make you fully present in your work and your life. The first step might be to stop multitasking.
August 1, 2003... First, they take your blood. That's when you know this is serious. Blood chemistry--followed by a healthy breakfast--is the first item of business for corporate athletes in the initial stage, Face the Truth, of the Full Engagement Training...

New world: print, post, and pray just won't make it anymore regarding ethics codes. An ethics architecture is needed. Here are some guidelines. (Ethics).
August 1, 2003... It has been said many times: The world has forever changed. Terrorist attacks on the World Trade Centers, the Pentagon, Bali, in the Middle East, and elsewhere have transformed the sociopolitical arena. The collapse of Enron, WorldCom, and...

Banking on enterprise e-learning: Part 5 in this series tells how PNC Bank made the most of its learning management system to up-skill employees through a competence manager application. The summary follows.
August 1, 2003... "Leave the t-shirts for conferences," says Paul Dickerson, e-learning manager at PNC Bank. When it comes to getting employees to the computer for training, a well-researched and well-planned communication marketing strategy and course...

8 lessons about e-learning from 5 organizations: this summary of Gold's five-part series of case studies (April through August) on enterprise-wide e-learning captures the crucial and often hard-earned lessons.
August 1, 2003... Implementing an enterprise-wide e-learning system is a lot like raising a child. In both cases, there's a plethora of advice and suggestions for the common problems and situations, but there's no one clear solution. For instance, take the task...

Courage leadership: how to claim your courage and help others do the same. (Leadership).
August 1, 2003... This article is second in a two-part series (GO TO) "Collaborative Decision Making" (Development, July T+D). Speaking up at a company meeting. Confronting gossip. Making the transition to a new position. Opportunities for courage...

Build your CQ. (Development).
August 1, 2003... Practice this exercise to enhance your courage quotient: Recall a specific moment in your work life when you were proud of yourself. Maybe you finally confronted the supervisor who always be-rated you in front of others, or perhaps you...

A vendor-provided case study: online training, on time. (Suppliers).
August 1, 2003... Delivering to the desktop The U.S. Postal Service recently faced a formidable new challenge: how to train 130,000 email users slated to be converted to Outlook 98 and Outlook 2002 email and organizer software, plus employees using the...

The economy-training Op connection: company expansions worldwide are creating career possibilities. (Global).
August 1, 2003... It's common to hear about a company moving or expanding into other country, but we probably don't think often enough about the global economy potential opportunities. It's time to start taking notice. Globalization is creating opportunities...

Built to Learn: the Inside Story of How Rockwell Collins Became a True Learning Organization.
August 1, 2003... By Cliff Purington and Chris Butler As training professionals, we're aware of the importance of the learning organization. More than a decade ago, Peter Senge's book, The Fifth Discipline, made a compelling case that linked an...

On the night stand.(some interesting business books)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... My husband jokes that I look like I'm reading the stack of books next to my bed but that I cheat because I don't read every word I coil less, I do skip and skim But the books I'm sharing are worth reacting every word In Good to Great, Jim...

Alluring Apple. (Igear).
August 1, 2003... Who would've thought it possible to make Apple's iPod more tempting, but Apple's design team has done just that. A new touch wheel and back-lit buttons create a sleeker look, and an included dock provides a needed high-volume line out for...

Timeless image. (Igear).(Letter to the Editor)
August 1, 2003... Famed camera designer Leica Camera AG brings a touch of elegance to digital camera design with its Leica D-Lux. Within the stylish aluminum housing are a 3.2 million-pixel sensor, a high-performance Leica DC Vario-Elmarit triple-zoom lens, and...

Stellar projection. (Igear).
August 1, 2003... Whether you're using Canon's LV-5200 at the office or on the go, it provides a 1.5X zoom lens for easy placement in any size room, a DVH interface for digital or analog input, and 800X600 SVAGA resolution with bright, 1700 ANSI lumens...

Moving pictures. (Igear).
August 1, 2003... With electronics, miniaturization often means reduced features and increased cost. And though Toshiba's SD-P2500 portable DVD prayer isn't cheap, the 8.9-inch wide-screen, high-resolution LCD display, component video output, and high-resolution...

Software: a Ninth House Roundup. (Ratings).(Partnering for Results, Reframing Change, Virtual Teams, and Innovation: WOW! Projects)(Product/Service Evaluation)
August 1, 2003... Partnering for Results, Reframing Change, Virtual Teams, and Innovation: WOW! Projects Ninth House continues to distinguish itself with top-notch production values and extensive use of audio and video. In addition, its use of the CD-ROM to...

The marketplace in T+D.
August 1, 2003... In the following pages you'll find a one-stop resource packed with new and exciting products, services, opportunities, and information to help you do your job better. We suggest you save this section for future use. OPPORTUNITIES +...

Reality check: it's that time again. (Working).
August 1, 2003... The HR Reality Show Run for your life, says a recent Cubicle Corner by Jared Sandberg career journal.com if HR wheels in one of those big red popcorn making carts to your next all-staff meeting. It probably means that the company is going...