It's a wise thing to prepare for emergencies. After all, that's why people buy insurance. However, the type of insurance mentioned here is the self-reliant kind. No insurance company can help you when there are no light in your town or the grocery store shelves are empty. Preparing for this type of emergency is something you must do for yourself. If you have a business, than you also definitely … [Read more...]
10 Ways to Determine If There’s a Bully Boss in Your Company
When most people think of the word bully, they picture their grade school or teenage years. Unfortunately, bullying can also carry over into adulthood. If you think there may be a bully boss in your company, it’s important to know which signs to watch out for. Read on for ways to determine if you’re dealing with a bully boss. 10 Ways to See if You Have a Bully Boss 1. They Humiliate Their … [Read more...]
Top 10 Contract Management Software for Managing Your Workforce and Clients
One of the most important factors that contribute to the success of any business is contract management. And you can't really do that efficiently without contract management software, can you? You enter many contracts as you hire employees and interact with your clients. Without proper contract management practices, it is possible that so many things can go wrong. There could be bottlenecks in the … [Read more...]
What Are the Barriers to Effective Communication?
Imagine the following situation. You work in a company, and you want to have a discussion with your CEO. You express this desire to your Manager. He or she takes it up with the Director, who goes to your CEOs secretary. Finally, after all this dangling about, you get to meet your Main Man. In the meantime, your message gets distorted because it went through three people. This is just one of the … [Read more...]
What is a flipped classroom?
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 nearly the opposite fashion. In the flipped classroom, students are assigned … [Read more...]
Planning Training with a Bias Toward Scarcity
Shirley J. Caruso When planning training, the relationship between resources (people, time, and money) and budget can become rather complicated. This relationship can become even more complicated when resources are scarce. It is logical to assume that increased money resources enable investment of more people and time to the training project. Conversely, a limited budget seems to imply that less … [Read more...]
Assessing Training Effectiveness – The Legacy of Donald Kirkpatrick
Shirley J. Caruso, Ed.D. Donald Kirkpatrick (March 15, 1924 – May 9, 2014), Professor Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin and past president of the American Society for Training and Development (ASTD), which is now known as Association for Talent Development (ATD), first published his Four-Level Training Evaluation Model in 1959, in the US Training and Development Journal. Assessing training … [Read more...]
Instructional Design Templates
The following templates are sample documents that already have some details of the instructional design process in place. These templates can be adapted to meet the needs of your training. Once the templates are completed, you can edit, save and manage the result as a Microsoft Word document. Project Description-Goal and Timeline Template (.DOC) This template includes a brief executive summary … [Read more...]
Learner, Context, and Task Analysis Templates
Learner Analysis A learner analysis is needed to identify the characteristics that affect trainee learning. The analysis includes information about learners' educational background, previous training/learning experiences, relevant work experiences, and motivation for training/learning. This information helps designers customize training for the intended audience. A learner analysis also … [Read more...]
Terminology for Human Resource Development (HRD) Professionals
Shirley J. Caruso Ability The capacity to perform an act, either innate or as the result of learning and practice. Ability Grouping Arrangement whereby students are assigned to groups on the basis of aptitude testing. Accelerated Learning Combining adult learning theory and whole brain learning theory in the learning environment to achieve a faster learning rate. Accuracy The degree of … [Read more...]