Enabling People

Good leadership isn't about advancing yourself. It's about advancing your team. John C. Maxwell

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Leadership Development

Develop a strong mid and senior level leadership team through Personal Effectiveness Programs

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Coaching and Mentoring

A coach and mentor with more than two decades of corporate experience

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Sales Training

Set up your sales process, train your sales team and sales leaders, and build a sales culture in your organization

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Project Management Training

Deliver projects on time and within cost by enabling your managers with the right project management skills

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Ratings by Outbrain

I discovered ratings by Outbrain and am loving it. Very simple to install on your blog, it puts an unobtrusive widget to allow readers to rate your posts. The software is still in beta stage so somethings aren't easy to find on your own. You need to write to them to get your ratings report on their site. And you need to add an extra bit of code in the widget to make the most popular posts visible on your site (add var OB_showMP = true; as first line after…

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Engaging, Interactive – Engaging First Amongst Equals

Clive Shepherd writes in defense of page turners and I agree. It is not that page turners as such are boring but the way content is written and presented makes it boring. And the same could well happen to content with high level of interactivity. To me content in any form needs to be engaging. Engaging content is more important than interactive content. I tell my team Harry Potter book is engaging, and it doesn’t have an iota of interactivity. In my personal learning environment, I read many blogs. None…

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Blogs vs. Wikis

As I continue with my collaborative experiment eCube, I am attempting to integrate and popularize the organization Wiki. I am finding working with Wiki much harder than working with a Blog. I find Wikis more complex and less user-friendly, which sort of defeats the purpose I guess. With my blog, I find I have more control over what I want, how I want the content to appear, and linking other content in my blog. Wiki seems to present me complex codes to create a meaningful page. While I guess once…

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eCube – An Experiment to Create a Collaborative Learning Environment

Ray Sims recent blog post about motivation for technology adoption by end-users came in at an opportune time for me. Having blogged on my own for a while, I am now embarking on the journey of experiments. Inspired by the Bamboo Project, and challenged by the job of enhancing skills of a diverse and divergent (in more ways than one) large team of instructional designers and content developers, I have decided to experiment using Web 2.0 tools to bring in some convergence. And I need suggestions to make this succeed.We’ve…

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Instructional Design – Art or ADDIE

Clive Shepherd makes a case for successive approximation in his recent blog post. Makes sense, after all, most learning professionals in the industry are arguing that ADDIE is not relevant today.I have always thought that as a method, the E looped back to A in ADDIE. Clive talks about how those who work in classroom could teach instructional designers a thing or two. But aren’t trainers implementing ADDIE model, except perhaps in quick succession? Isn’t putting together a quick and dirty design and then trying it out in the class…

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Personal Learning Environments (PLE)

I first read about PLE in Viplav Baxi’s blog. Then I came across it again in a blog that I am currently following with great interest – Michele Martin’s The Bamboo Project. Michele’s blog has many posts about PLE and her blog and the Bamboo project make an interesting case study for using Web 2.0 tools for collaborative learning. And of course my much revered blogger Tony Karrer has many posts on PLE. And with a little more research, I realize that I am about 6 months behind in discussions…

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Mobile Learning

I was required to do some research on mobile learning. I am not particularly enthused by the idea of formal learning on mobile phones and don’t have much insight into mobile learning or the use of mobile devices in education. However some thoughts emerged after my digging around:Mobile phones will play a major role in social networking. They will be a key tool for social networking.Downloading songs, ring tones and wallpapers will be the main applications. Gaming on mobile phones is also increasing. Major content revenue from mobile phones will…

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eLearning Growth Areas and Client Satisfaction

I recently was responding to journalist questions about the elearning industry. While most answers could be found in innumerable industry reports, there were two that caught my attention. I would be interested in hearing more about these.Do you see demand for e-learning from any particular sectors in the economy?As a vendor organization, we have seen elearning clients grow in almost all sectors. Technology has been an all time favorite and demand for technology training has been consistent across the years. Other sectors are banking and finance, retail, engineering, and education,…

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Instructional Design – If, When and How Much?

Learning Circuit's big question for Feb 2008 Instructional Design - If, When and How Much? seems relevant to the ongoing discussion we've been having in my blog.Starting with Death of the Instructional Designer and continuing in Instructional Designer Competencies.There are many related questions asked in Learning Circuit's big question and it will be interesting to see responses to those.

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Dump the Drone – Cathy Moore

I would like to thank Cathy Moore for making Dump the Drone available on Slideshare. Many of the concepts are drilled into training programs at our organization but I just love the way she presents these ideas. Absolutetly great!!! | View | Upload your own

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