CPS Radio Interview: How interactive, customized training impacts business in the 21st century, and how to leverage it: Part 1: http://filesource.abacast.com/wsradio/bltampa/081111/segment1081111.mp3 Part 2: http://filesource.abacast.com/wsradio/bltampa/081111/segment2081111.mp3 Part 3: http://filesource.abacast.com/wsradio/bltampa/081111/segment3081111.mp3 Part 4: http://filesource.abacast.com/wsradio/bltampa/081111/segment4081111.mp3
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Interactive, Accelerated Learning (Short, Affordable, Customized, Effective)
Organizations want training. Research shows that training does much more than grow skills. Those who receive good training feel that their company has invested in them. Interactive training sparks innovation, engages people and makes it significantly more likely that they will stay with the company and bring their heads, as well as their bodies, to [...]
Three tips for creating competency-based systems
It is very easy to spend months, or $$$$$ on a competency-based program, and end up with very little to show for it. A competency is (per Rodney Rogers of Portland State University) a persistent pattern of behaviour resulting from a cluster of knowledge, skills, abilities, and motivations. The persistence of those behaviors is an [...]
The “Dumbest Generation”?
As GenY specialists, we have to comment on Mark Bauerlein’s new book, “The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future (Or, Don’t Trust Anyone Under 30)”. The Emory University Professor presents his figures showing a decline in US adult literacy (40% of high-school grads in 1992; only 31% in [...]
CPS’s Peer-Coached, Competency-Based Programs for Educators
At times, CPS staffers have crossed the line between business and education, in efforts to reach the roots of business problems that lie in the education system. Glynis writes the Hillsborough Public Schools’ program on developing higher order thinking skills for students (although this is under-used). She coaches teaching faculties (on a voluntary basis) on [...]
Who will have well-paid, secure work in the new global economy?
We live in a global economy where a single ability distinguishes the people who will always have well-paid secure work, from those who will not. This is the ability to think well.* Can we create world-class thinkers in the schools of the United States, at a time when nations who are our economic competitors are [...]
Branding your organization, your learning mission and yourself
1 How does your organization tell its story (brand) in an age of web transparency? 2 How does your learning and development team tell the story of your services and/or products? 3 Does your organization buy stories over quality? 4 Do you know (and monitor) your personal brand? 1 How does your organization tell its [...]
Building organization-wide business thinking
1 Everyone needs to maintain or increase organizational profit in a time of economic slowdown 2 One proven route to profitability: build the financial and business intelligence in all your employees In a time of economic weakness, it’s especially important to make sure that all your key people are financially intelligent. And not only key [...]
Organizations benefit from improving education in their communities
A Is our education system making you poorer, even if you are well-qualified, well paid, and don’t have children in school? B Is there a small, inexpensive action that you, and your organization, can take to change this? A How could our education system be making you poorer, even if you do not have children [...]
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