Netbooks versus Laptops

When the person in front of you cranks down the seat, you’ll still be able to work. Just like all computers, the processors will be speeding up and new features are going to be added. So the question might be when to buy rather than if.

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A Test for Resistance to Change

o you adopt new technology when it comes out or wait until there is no other choice? Is resistance to change real and rational or is it just uncomfortable and confusing? Try using the invention in reverse test to find out. by Steve Rosenbaum

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Getting Rid of Flipcharts

n the old days, the output of any team work session was a pile of flip charts that needed to be typed up and sent out to the team for review. This is a slow and unnecessary process. With a little bit of skill with something as basic as Microsoft Word, you can project and then work on documents real time. What’s nice about this for longer one or two day sessions, is that you can print out copies or share documents electronically as you go.

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Revisiting Blooms Taxonomy

Ever since 1956 when Benjamin Bloom first published his hierarchy of education objectives, educators had an excellent tool for writing educational objectives. Simply the list of action verbs provides a useful tool. Over the years, it’s been update and revised to describe learning in action as shown in Bloom’s wheel

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The End of Cognitive Objectives?

I hear it all the time when we build training objectives. People will say, “you’ve got to understand the process,” “you need to know the features and benefits of the process,” “you need to be “aware of all the safety hazards.” Words like understand, know and aware or all things that happen inside people’s heads.

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New Bio for Steve Rosenbaum

After 20 years of experience as a training and development consultant, Steve Rosenbaum founded Learning Paths International in 2004. Steve has led Learning Path initiatives that have reduced time to proficiency for front line sales and service, back office fuctions, manufacturing employees and super- visors, software engineers, health care providers and call center personnel

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Great Success at Roach, Howard Smith and Barton with Learning Paths

Roach Howard Smith & Barton (RHSB), a leading independent insurance brokerage firm and Assurex Global partner, announces the launch of an innovative, highly accelerated development process for Property & Casualty (P&C) Producers. This rapid development process is called a “Learning Path.” It will cut the time it takes new P&C Producers to become fully proficient in their role by at least 30%.

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Learning Paths Whitepapers

New Learning Paths Whitepapers.

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The Secret to IT Training

he ultimate goal of new software is to improve the way people work. All too often is this the forgotten part of IT training because that responsibility is not part of the IT department. IT wants to teach the features of how an application works. It’s also because “hard” skills and “soft” skills are taught by different people or different parts of the organization.

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