Curt's View of Workplace Learning

See Us At ASTD Booth 2004!

Come see us at the ASTD conference in Orlando next week. We’ll be discussing how a centralized web-based project management and reporting tool like TrainPro Central can help training teams track, manage, and measure things like: * Department projects, in-progress, completed, and awaiting resources * Number of learning courses or objects created * Work done [...]

10 Reason Why Your Department Needs Online Project Management

I think that any training team that has more than 5 people needs an online project management system to keep track of things. Here are my top 10 reasons for getting a system if you don’t have one now. With an online project management system you can: Track and see all projects that are being [...]

Training Department Metrics

I know that deciding what metrics you report on to your leadership is a very important issue. Here is a list of some that you might measure now: classes held students that took classes e-learning classes accesses or completed students in key programs satisfaction level of classes or e-learning courses completed increase in knowledge gained [...]

We Are All Generals!

Image via Wikipedia The Empowered Project Work Team I had a boss once that had spent some time in the Marine Corps and he was coaching me one day on how to operate and succeed in the new middle management position that I had just been promoted to. He told me to consider myself a [...]

This Is NOT What I Expected!

How many of us have been happily working on a training project only to find out in the later stages of the project that it really doesn’t meet the sponsor’s expectations in some way? I’m raising my hand, are you? Maybe it doesn’t meet their needs as far as graphic design, or interactivity, or content. [...]

Other Things To Manage Besides Your Development Methodology

Once you have your development methodology defined for the different types of training projects your team will be working on, you won’t want to forget about the other things that you and your team should be keeping an active eye on while managing a training development project. Here are a couple of things to keep [...]

Is ADDIE Your Project Management Process?

I’ll be continuing my series on building a world class sales on-boarding and certification program soon, but I was thinking about this lately. What do you think? We all know that ADDIE (Analyze, Design, Develop, Implement, Evaluate) is the most used and a very effective learning design methodology. Yes, there are variations, and you shouldn’t [...]

Building a World Class Sales On-Boarding & Certification Program, Part 10

This week’s article will continue the discussion about instructional design strategies to consider while developing your own world class sales on-boarding or certification program. Sometimes I’m amazed at the amount of things to consider. On one hand, I want to think that this really isn’t brain surgery. And given a reasonably intelligent approach anyone should [...]

Building a World Class Sales On-Boarding & Certification Program, Part 9

The instructional design strategies section of this series is going to stretch out over several articles. There are simply too many things to consider to jam into one. But it is also where the rubber starts to hit the road. Where the real work gets going. So let’s get to it and discuss the first [...]

Building a World Class Sales On-Boarding & Certification Program, Part 8

Image via Wikipedia At this point we’re ready to ask more questions about our audience by completing an audience analysis. You might be thinking that we’ve already figured out what they need to know, what they do, when they do it, how they’re measured, how they’re rewarded, what tools they use, and even what we’ll [...]