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Training Day – Professional Development

By Jack Shaw on October 28, 2014

What is Professional Development? I began this article by looking again at the differences between training and education, or trainers and teachers. In A Look at the Education vs Experience Debate and in an earlier post, What’s the Difference Between Training and Teaching, I made a few comparisons. This time, I thought it might be interesting […]

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The PowerPoint Crutch and How to Fix It

By Jack Shaw on October 21, 2014

You stand at the podium or in the classroom waiting to begin. You have all the symptoms of person who has to do public speaking and doesn’t do it all the time. You’re nervous. Your sweaty hands shake. Your knees wobble. You adjust clothing and eyeglasses. All those things you do when you are uncomfortable […]

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Performance Management: Why Aren’t We Using Performance Information

By Jack Shaw on October 20, 2014

Every once in a while it is necessary to get the details. The following article is reposted with permission from John Kapensky via GovLoop. John is a Senior Fellow, IBM Center for The Business of Government in Washington, D.C. WHY ISN’T PERFORMANCE INFORMATION BEING USED? Champions of performance management in government are confounded. After decades of trying to integrate […]

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Risk Averse? Me?

By Jack Shaw on September 30, 2014

Nah uh! But I don’t gamble in the traditional way. I hope you enjoy this mild rant even if you don’t agree. This blog is in response to comment I received about a previous training article, Preparing Millennials – A Matter of National Interest…and the inference that we shouldn’t single Millennials out because risk aversity […]

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Failure Résumés—A Training Guide for Success

By Jack Shaw on September 11, 2014

Who says your failures can’t lead to success? Employers it seems. We are fond of saying, “Failure is not an option.” And “when it’s rough, the tough get going.” That may be a positive result of the United States unemployment situation and lagging economy. Today’s unemployed may have failed in nailing a specific job or […]

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Rating Training

By Jack Shaw on August 27, 2014

  We know training is important to both organizations and employees, yet it is often seen by workers and supervisors as extra work of no real value. It interrupts the workflow. It is the immediately tangible evaluations that become most important. The effectiveness of training should matter. That’s what we tell ourselves and, yet, we hand out […]

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Are We Falling Into Internet Space?

By Jack Shaw on July 22, 2014

Most of us “technology-minded” people think we are connected to the world, but we aren’t. Not really. Not in what matters. Now, that’s the real question. What matters? Little things like humanity, a caring, giving society, right? Isn’t that what we hope for? Then, the stark reality sets in. Humanity be damned and survival of […]

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Résumés Can’t Speak

By Jack Shaw on July 22, 2014

The Age of Technology seems to be creating more introverts than ever. Although not true in every workplace, introverts in most work environments used to be the minority. Now that’s changed. Our electronic devices are pulling us inward. We all have phones but rarely use them to make a call. The idea of talking to […]

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Preparing Millennials–A Matter of National Interest

By Jack Shaw on May 12, 2014

Our current generation of millennial professionals will make up the majority of the workplace in the next twenty years. Employers report millennials aren’t ready for work–that in management and leadership areas they only succeed because they are bright achievers. So far. We have the power to change that. It’s not anyone’s fault–everything is happening so […]

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Training the “Educated” Consumer

By Jack Shaw on November 30, 2013

Do we educate the consumer or train those who do, or should that even be the case? Now, the rest of this article is commentary and reaction to that question, hopefully to give us all something to think about.  Anything you buy today you need to research on the internet and still you could buy […]

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