T&D articles from September 2001

T&D archives from September 2001

T + D ONLINE.(sitting or standing while making a presentation)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... COMMUNITY To sit or to stand while training? Is it simply a matter of preference, or are there sound reasons to prefer one to the other? That was the question an ASTD Website visitor posited in ASTD's Training Basics Community. To...

Subject : Change.
September 1, 2001... Here it is July and I'm writing the Front Page for the September issue. Such is the magazine business. I have to wonder: What momentous (or even not so momentous) event might happen before September that would render what I say here irrelevant...

MAIL BOX.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... Junior League Welcomes All The article, "The Junior League Wants You!" (June) was accurate and informative, and I thoroughly agreed with the premise. However, it contained a glaring error. The picture in the article sent a not so...

Information Underload.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... Info overload is on the decline. Might we take just a little credit? We didn't expect that you'd get a handle on it quite so quickly. In February, T+D's cover story was on information overload. We told you that the amount of existing...

E-Learning Terms of the Month.(AchieveGlobal to train volunteers for 2002 Olympic Games)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... FAQS frequently asked questions) A file established for public discussion groups containing questions and answers new users often ask. Lurking Reading the postings in a discussion forum but not contributing to the discussion. Do...

The Introverted Trainer.
September 1, 2001... A courseware developer takes to the platform. I was once asked to be on a panel for the now-defunct Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences. My boss at the time said, "Oh good, you can meet people and pass out your cards." I can be a bit...

Online and Organized.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... Getting organized is a snap with Websites that help you schedule, connect, and stay on track. And they're even snappier when they synchronize with your mobile gear. Check out these sites that help bring order to the chaos with Web-based...

Swimming With the Big Fish.(e-learning market)(Industry Overview)
September 1, 2001... Some e-firms have tanked, others are rolling on. A year ago, the e-learn-ing market resembled a big goldfish bowl: lots of similar fish competing for food floating on the top. Twelve months and an economic downturn later, it's a...

Train Today Sell Tomorrow.
September 1, 2001... Would training have saved Willy Loman? Remember the icon of the 1950s?: Clean-scrubbed men meticulously dressed in blue suits and felt hats, going door to door peddling their wares--brushes, vacuum cleaners, encyclopedias. And the tin men...

Working With Suppliers.
September 1, 2001... How not to trample on each other's feet. Who better to peek under the tent of supplier relationships than one of them? Most of the time, my column Diary of a Consultant focuses on me and my partner as suppliers. However, just as a defense...

The Mind-Body Connection in Learning.
September 1, 2001... Neuroscientists, educators, nutritionists, psychiatrists, geneticists, and yogis are examining the mind-body link to figure out how we learn. In This Article: Brain-based Research * Our ability to generate new brain cells accounts for...

CC: YOU.(avoiding burn out)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... Beat Job Burnout How to refocus and revitalize without quitting your job. The United States has surpassed Japan as the most overworked country in the industrialized world. U.S. workers earn the fewest number of vacation days out of a...

DIARY OF A CONSULTANT.(start up consultancy)
September 1, 2001... In last month's entry, David and Jeff acknowledged and thanked the people who have supported them in their new venture. This month, David reflects on some of the low points. 2000 December 16 Maybe it's advancing age, but the dull...

Learning Equality.(skills development programs in South Africa)
September 1, 2001... South Africa creates the workforce of today--and tomorrow. How often have you said to yourself, "If only I had a second chance, I'd do it differently"? Most people have wished for the chance to start over--to remake themselves--but few get...

FORWARD OBSERVER.(listserv etiquette)
September 1, 2001... The Four Deadly Sins of Listservs I believe the off-hours behavior of people who work in the helping professions, such as trainers, is a strong commentary about their on-duty professionalism. Would you rake health advice from a doctor who...

E - FINANCE.(learning content management systems)(training company securities)
September 1, 2001... What's all the hoopla? Since the last column, there has been a tremendous amount of hoopla about LCMSs (learning content management systems), or what we at Jefferies & Co. term knowledge management systems (KMSs). Centra, Click2Learn, and...

Perelman on Books.(recent books on electronic learning)
September 1, 2001... The American humorist S.J. Perelman wrote, "Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century." I ran into that quote continuously while surfing the Web for documents on e-learning. Apparently, the verdict among e-learning...

AirPacks.(ergonomic backpacks)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... Low back pain is a common complaint among America's workforce, especially business travelers who lug laptops and other heavy articles through airports on a regular basis. AirPacks Inc. has developed its own solution to this problem with...

Sure-Fire Sherpa.(web-based learning systems)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... Sherpa Learning, Rapid Performance Systems's Web-based learning infrastructure, is designed to manage and deliver training using a variety of mediums. The system features interactive simulations, hands-on practice with immediate and variable...

Logical Projects.(Kepner-Tregoe Inc.'s Project Logic overlay software)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... Kepner-Tregoe's software overlay product, Project Logic, aims to simplify and highlight the capabilities of Microsoft's program Project. Project Logic is compatible with Project 98 and Project 2000 and is, designed to guide users through the...

Beads Around the World.(diversity training exercise)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... How has diversity affected you? Trainers can help employees begin to answer that question with the diversity training activity. Global Beads. The exercise uses colored beads that represent different ethnicities and a series of questions and...

MEDIA REVIEWS.(Global Country and Global Business Navigator)(business training software from AcrossFrontiers International)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... The Global Country and the Global Business Navigator series, developed by AcrossFrontiers International, provide useful and informative content for anyone working across cultural borders. Global Country, targeted to expatriates and short-term...

E-COURSE REVIEWS.(Microsoft Corp. products)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... Highly Recommended ***1/2 Microsoft Access 2000: End User Fundamentals: 5 hours, US$49.95 for 1 year of course access. Publisher: Knowledge Quest This course offers helpful information on designing and creating databases. It emphasizes...

Translation Software.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... Computer-aided translation can be useful for businesses conducting correspondence internationally. Businesspeople with limited multilingual skills and no access to a human translator might find that CAT tools offer an effective solution....

EXECUTIVE SUMMARIES.(e-business training and learning methods)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... Swimming With the Big Fish Patricia A. Galagan If you want to swim with the big e-learning fish, you have to know which way the tide is running. First, there are the suppliers, fighting for a chunk of the market. Then there are...

True Tales From the Workplace.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... An HR manager interviewing applicants devised a test that asked one question: "How much is two and two?" The first applicant answered, "Twenty-two." The next pulled out a calculator and said the answer was between 3.999 and 4.001. And...

Tsk, Tsk!(Apostrophe Protection Society)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... John Richards just couldn't take it anymore. Everywhere he looked, there were misplaced apostrophes defiling business signs in his hometown of Boston, England. So, Richards, a retired newspaper copyeditor and reporter, founded the Apostrophe...

MeMail.(British Psychological Society study on e-mail usage)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... People are driven psychologically to reveal more on email, says I. T. reporting on a study by the British Psychological Society. In fact, the findings indicate that people make four times as many personal disclosures when communicating via the...