Digital Publishing Platform for Magazines, Catalogs, and more 2013 Best Practices and Outstanding Training Initiatives BB&T Corporation: Leadership Development Program (LDP) Twice a year, a class of Leadership Development Program (LDP) associates relocates to BB&T University for nine months to participate in the four phases of the program. Associates choose one of two concentrations to specialize in: business banking or specialized corporate functions. Program framework and highlights include: Phase 1: All members of executive management visit BB&T University to deliver seminars on their respective areas of responsibility in the banking industry. Visiting outside professors serve as subject matter experts on financial analysis and various banking models. Results: Senior Leadership: Nine of the current 12 members of BB&T’s Executive Management team are LDP graduates. Retention: BB&T’s LDP five-year retention rate of 80 percent outperforms the industry average by 43 percent. Gilbane: Sales Transformation Program The defined success metrics included: Key Performance Metrics: 2011 results: 2012 results: Results:
Chunking Information for Instructional Design If we ran a contest for the favorite esoteric word of Instructional Designers, the term “chunking” might win. It’s a concept embedded in the world of instructional and information design. Chunking content is critical because of how our brain appears to work. Chunking Defined Chunking refers to the strategy of breaking down information into bite-sized pieces so the brain can more easily digest new information. Why We Chunk Content George A. The pearl of wisdom here is that if a learner’s working memory is full, the excess information will just drop out—as in disappear. Chunking Information for eLearning Chunking information is particularly important for online learning. Four Steps to Chunking Information Now that we can proudly say our working memories are basically sieves, what strategies can eLearning designers implement to overcome this? Step 1: Start at the highest level. Start with large chunks of conceptually related content and use these as your modules. Turn Bits into Chunks.
120 Ways to Boost Your Brain Power Here are 120 things you can do starting today to help you think faster, improve memory, comprehend information better and unleash your brain’s full potential. Solve puzzles and brainteasers.Cultivate ambidexterity. Use your non-dominant hand to brush your teeth, comb your hair or use the mouse. Readers’ Contributions Dance! Contribute your own tip! There are many, many ways to keep our brains sharp. What Is HPT? Human Performance Technology (HPT), a systematic approach to improving productivity and competence, uses a set of methods and procedures -- and a strategy for solving problems -- for realizing opportunities related to the performance of people. More specific, it is a process of selection, analysis, design, development, implementation, and evaluation of programs to most cost-effectively influence human behavior and accomplishment. It is a systematic combination of three fundamental processes: performance analysis, cause analysis, and intervention selection, and can be applied to individuals, small groups, and large organizations. How Does HPT Work? HPT uses a wide range of interventions that are drawn from many other disciplines including, behavioral psychology, instructional systems design, organizational development, and human resources management. Principles of Human Performance Technology View the Complete Standards (PDF) The HPT Model Evaluation is done after each phase of the process.
11 Practical Ways To Stop Procrastination You have a deadline looming. However, instead of doing your work, you are fiddling with miscellaneous things like checking email, social media, watching videos, surfing blogs and forums. You know you should be working, but you just don’t feel like doing anything. We are all familiar with the procrastination phenomenon. Don’t let procrastination take over your life. Break your work into little steps. Which tips work best for you? Image How to Write Awesome Facebook Status Updates ASTD-Los Angeles - LearningPro E-Zine While training professionals have many ways to design and deliver learning, we all know that we should start the training process the same way – by analyzing the need. When presented with a potential training opportunity, we first must determine what has created this opportunity and how the organization should expend its resources to address it. In conducting an initial analysis, we have several decisions to make. The HPI model refers to a systematic problem solving process that focuses on identifying root causes of complex performance problems and implementing systemic solutions. As the HPI model illustrates, performance analysis is divided into three phases – business, performance and cause. Under cause analysis, note that knowledge/skills is only one of six key causes of performance problems. Once we have established that a knowledge/skill gap exists, however, we are ready to move to the Training Needs Assessment (TNA) model to further specify the need.
GTD in 15 minutes – A Pragmatic Guide to Getting Things Done GTD—or “Getting things done”—is a framework for organising and tracking your tasks and projects. Its aim is a bit higher than just “getting things done”, though. (It should have been called “Getting things done in a much better way than just letting things happen, which often turns out not to be very cool at all”.) Its aim is to make you have 100% trust in a system for collecting tasks, ideas, and projects—both vague things like “invent greatest thing ever” and concrete things like “call Ada 25 August to discuss cheesecake recipe”. Sound like all other run-of-the-mill to-do list systems, you say? One of the basic assumptions of GTD is that you are dumb—or, rather, that your subconsciousness is quite dumb when it comes to thinking about things you should have done. Jessica Kerr put it perfectly: Pretend your brain is a white board. A great part of the “magic” is to convert both tasks and whims into physical and visible actions as you soon will see. Awesome! Agenda contexts But… why‽
Create A Plot Outline In 8 Easy Steps By Glen C. Strathy How would you like to create a plot outline for your novel in less than an hour that is emotionally compelling and dramatically sound? It's easier than you think. The secret is to incorporate the 8 Basic Plot Elements. Sound intriguing? I'll describe each of the eight elements in turn. On the other hand, if you already have a draft for a novel, that you're looking to revise, then ask yourself, as we go through these elements, whether you have included them in your story. 1. 15K+Save The first element to include in your plot outline is the Story Goal, which we covered in detail in the previous article, The Key to a Solid Plot: Choosing a Story Goal. For instance, let's say we want to write a story about a 38-year-old female executive who has always put off having a family for the sake of her career and now finds herself lonely and regretting her choices. There are many ways we could involve other characters in this goal. ... a mother who wants her to be happier. 2. 3.
Federal Training and Development Wiki - Training and Development Policy Wiki Training and development are one of the most critical areas to the success of an organization and their workforce to facilitate mission accomplishment. For this reason knowledge management is essential in training to maintain the value and usefulness of the training function. In 2011, OPM created the Training and Development Policy Wiki (Wiki) for Federal government training and development practitioners. The shared goal of Wiki users is to learn, share relevant information, and collaborate across the government on all matters related to Federal training and development. The OPM Wiki is open to everyone to view and search for content. Directory About This Wiki Employee Development Leadership Development Innovation and Technology Leveraging New Technologies Training Management Can't find a page here?
Who s Got The Monkey Now? How to find out how well you manage your time Copyright © 2006 Bob Selden, Used with permission of the author: Author: Bob Selden Managing Director The National Learning Institute www.nationallearning.com.au Are you a manager? Would you like more available time? Yes, then read on . . . How come you’ve worked hard all day but haven’t started the one task that was most important to you? Who’s got the monkey? “Management Time: Who’s got the Monkey” has been the second most popular management article ever published by the Harvard Business Review (“Management Time: Who’s got the Monkey”, by William Oncken and Donald Wass, first published by Harvard Business Review, 1974) and has been reprinted several times. They suggested that there are three types of management-imposed time pressure – Boss, System, and Self. Boss-imposed time pressure Activities, which must be accomplished, or we’ll suffer the consequences! System-imposed time pressure Those activities/requests which come from peers and colleagues. Self-imposed time pressure Summary …
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