Randy Krum runs the Cool Infographics Blog here. Check out his post on infographic wall stickers… what a great job aid…

The  ASTD (American Society for Training & Development) is the world’s largest association dedicated to workplace learning and performance professionals. ASTD’s members come from more than 100 countries and connect locally in more than 130 U.S. chapters and with more than 30 international partners. Members work in thousands of organizations of all sizes, in government, as independent consultants, and suppliers.

As Twitter grows and we find new and better ways to use it, moving beyond the “I am now eating lunch”, “or just saw the new Transformers movie”, it’s no surprise that the world of corporate learning is turning to this micro blogging tool. In her  article Twitter as a Learning Tool. Really, Pat Galagan focuses on the informal communication aspect of the tool and how it helps build a community, participation and how it fosters learner collaboration outside of the formal learning events. At it’s strongest the tool helps support behaviour modelling.

Read more here at the ASTD site. There is a well intended caution about the permanent nature of tweets and to remember that once let loose, they are hard to call back.

August 2009’s first installment is on Facilitator Principles and can be found here.

Our last edition focused on facilitator principles, this edition looks at different learner characteristics. Appreciating these characteristics will help you when delivering your learning material and activities.

Allison A.S. Wimms and Zane L. Berge write about this in their article for Chief Learning Officer Magazine here. They focus on the rise and common place usage of Manga comics in Japan and how that influence is spreading here in the West.

We are looking forward to releasing our comic covering Trainiac and our business and and how we use these for induction and employee readiness programs.

August 2009’s first installment is on Facilitator Principles and can be found here.

As people become more swamped with data, information and “noise,” the ability to lead productive group dialogue will steadily increase in value. Here are six principles to guide our practice as facilitators in today’s times.

Clear advice on using “action verbs” to set objectives, determining criteria for success and establishing measurement parameters is given. There are some interesting practical tools and a focus on engagement and brevity, given the average adult’s attention span. All good factors that make picture based learing and interaction a valuable tool in the training toolkit.

Lastly the article focuses on the compliance issues we face in safety training and how that can destroy a program before it starts.

The entire article is found here.

This video is a neat little introduction to thoughts on continuing education. In our current climate, people need to be responsible for their ongoing improvement from a personal and a professional point of view. As the video states, “we are at some type of school for 20 years and in retirement for another 20, what are you going to do with the time in between?”

So ask yourself, what are you doing right now to improve your education? What is your company doing to make sure that you are fulfilling your potential? After all, they pay you for your contribution.

July 2009’s first installment is on Facilitator Roles and can be found here.

A principle role of a facilitator is to guide and steer the training program.   We acknowledge that everybody has his or her own style of facilitation and we want to encourage you to continue to develop your own personal strengths. Use the following facilitation objectives as a reminder of what a good facilitator should aim to achieve at a training session.