Author: Training Industry Articles

Training is what is shared with the learner. Learning is when they choose to do something with it.

Learning happens when you force your mind to start asking such questions to ourselves. A process that awakens our innate and unique endowment as human beings – the ability to think!

No matter how advanced our technological skills and techniques are becoming, it’s essential for all workplaces to have a thorough understanding of how basic first aid works. Despite the fact that the average emergency services call-to-site time is extremely low, as any paramedic will tell you, it’s what happens in the time before they arrive on the scene that can really determine the patient’s chances of survival.

The digital world has provided modern businesses with an abundance of collaboration and file-sharing tools. But how can you know which ones are worth your time?

Chances are that you’ve seen the classic Saturday Night Live skit “More Cowbell,” starring Will Farrell and Christopher Walken. It’s been rated one of the Top 10 best skits of all time on SNL. The skit originally aired on April 8, 2000.

Given all the work leading up to a training session—assessing business and learner needs, instructional design, slide creation, and so on—it would be easy to assume that the preparation process is well understood and consistently executed. And it is, up to a certain point. However, there is often one step in the process where it is not. That is the step between design and delivery.