360 Degree Leadership Training: Does It Work?

By Jack Shaw on July 25, 2011

Although generally thought of as a performance appraisal tool, 360-degree feedback has been used as a awareness tool during training–especially Leadership training. When I was involved in training management, I worked with a team of contractors who used 360 feedback as part of the training program we asked them to design and deliver for us. […]

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Is Classroom Training Dying?

By Jack Shaw on July 20, 2011

It seems traditional classroom training as we know it may be dying, but there are ways to bring it back to life. “Recent remarks* by Tony Bingham, CEO of ASTD, suggested that much of the formal classroom with instructor-led training has gone the way of scheduled classes, blackboards and overhead projectors. Replaced by the ‘pull’ […]

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Why Small Regional Training Conferences Are Most Effective

By Jack Shaw on July 18, 2011

I recently published a blog on 5 Ways to Make Your Training Conferences Rock! But we all know that large training conferences aren’t always the most effective training platform. In fact, if we have to have a training conference at all, the smaller conference or meeting (sounds less formal) is the best face-to-face way to go. It costs […]

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Trainers: Acting or Faking It

By Jack Shaw on July 13, 2011

In the world of training, there comes a time when the trainer feels he or she is not “on.” Is it that important? It can make the difference between a successful and unsuccessful training session. Do we fake it? Now, I’m not talking about subject matter here–not knowing what we are talking about–but faking the […]

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Training The Government Where the Buck Stops

By Jack Shaw on July 11, 2011

As a customer service manager, I am called upon to train others on the subject. In my search for continuous learning, I happen to run across an article by Pivot Point Solutions, based on President Obama’s Executive Order to improve customer service. What a lot of people don’t know is that, although the Executive Order […]

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In Business as in Sport: Straight Sets of Training and Professional Development

By Jack Shaw on July 8, 2011

Jason Novosel, Novo Horizons Management Training, our guest blogger gave me a quote this morning: “You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction.” (George Horace Lorimer). I thought this would be a good day to look south to my Australian colleague for his answers on […]

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Training by Toastmasters?

By Jack Shaw on July 3, 2011

This is both a training and a communication topic. A single question this time, but with a big impact and controversy. The question had to come up sooner or later–one that I was afraid I’d have to answer as a trainer and a speaker. Why Toastmasters, a great international organization that helps people learn public […]

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Teleseminars, Stage Fright and More

By Jack Shaw on June 30, 2011

Webinars are often used in the business training environment, but it is a newer version of that webinar idea with a host that is taking over when it comes to online/teleconferencing training: the teleseminar, which can be used to provide information, training, or promote or sell products to group of people interested in a particular […]

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Are Corporate Universities the Answer?

By Jack Shaw on June 23, 2011

In any discussion of educating or training our young, we must talk about both education and training. We want our managers, and certainly our CEOs, COOs, CFOs, CTOs, and quite a few others to have impressive degrees and from impressive institutions of higher learning. The levels have changed over the years. A long time ago, […]

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Training Blogs – Using the Web to Train the World

By Jack Shaw on June 22, 2011

Your first reaction is to say: “You can’t train with Training Blogs alone.” You are absolutely correct; however, it’s human nature to look for the quickest and easiest way to do anything, and it takes some prodding to be thorough and detailed. It is certainly faster today than it was in the past to learn […]

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