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Sometimes, it’s fun to be able to manage the world around you. There’s an entire genre of management games out there that allows you to do just that – managing businesses, theme parks, and even the occasional fantasy world. These games have various types of control schemes and different levels of complexity, but they’re all […]

Human Resource Development and Instructional Design

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| Adult Learning, featured, Instructional Design

Shirley J. Caruso, Ed.D. What is Human Resource Development? Human Resource Development, or HRD, is often difficult to explain to others and is often confused with Human Resources. HRD is a practice that combines training, organization development, and career development efforts to encourage improvement of individual, group, and organizational performance. Its purpose is to enhance […]

Workplace Training Topics: The Top Four of Today’s Organizations

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| Adult Learning, featured, Instructional Design, Needs and Task Analysis

Shirley J. Caruso, Ed.D. Workplace training can be either proactive or reactive. When organizations take a proactive approach to workplace training, the goal is to prevent or promote a certain behavior or behaviors in an effort to increase revenue, avoid costs, and/or improve service. Taking a proactive approach to workplace training often requires organizations to […]

3 Tips for Effective Desktop Publishing

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| Adult Learning, featured, Instructional Design

Shirley J. Caruso, Ed.D. Desktop publishing can be tricky. If you want your desktop-published products (documents or presentations) to have a greater impact and communicate your message more clearly, you must carefully consider several basic design decisions. You may be familiar with the types of products produced by popular software such as Microsoft Word, Microsoft […]

What is a flipped classroom?

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| Adult Learning, featured, Instructor Resources

Shirley J. Caruso, Ed.D. In the traditional classroom, the teacher lectures for the majority of the class time, gives an assignment, and students usually have very limited or no time at all to work on the assignment in class where the help is – while the teacher is present. The flipped classroom is conducted in […]

Improving Organizational Communication Skills

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| Adult Learning, Employee Performance, featured

Assertive communicaiton is based on the belief that you and others have the responsibility to ask for what you want or need.

Laying the Groundwork for a Team Foundation

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| Adult Learning, Audio/Video Presentations, Career Development, featured

Before you can build a cohesive team, individual team members must understand their own team values. Wehn values are not in alighment, individuals feel uncomfortable and conflicted. The more your values and behavior are in alignment, the less internal conflict you’ll feel.