Getting Started with Word Online Word Online is the cloud-based version of Microsoft’s powerful word processing program. Using Word Online, you can create professional documents of nearly any type. You can also add tables, images, and much more….

An important aspect of privacy compliance is spreading the word both internally and externally. Employees need to know that privacy-related policies and procedures exist in your organization, and they need to be instructed on their use. Customers also…

I’m often asked if someone can learn to lead. My short answer is: If you want to be a leader, you can absolutely learn to lead! If you’re interested in helping others (and yourself) grow, and you enjoy…

All training can be useful and applicable if the trainer keeps some simple tips in mind when developing and applying training. We all learn differently, but there are some truths about learning that can be applicable to most…

For most of my 20 plus years as a writer and editor, it hasn’t been necessary to collaborate with anyone on any of the pieces I’ve written. So it was a new experience for me recently when I…

So you’ve developed a privacy policy for your company. Now what? The policy is useless if it sits on a shelf in someone’s office. Once it’s completed, you need to let everyone know about it. This includes providing…

At Velsoft, each one of our softskills courses begins with an icebreaker. Icebreakers are used as part of training courses for several reasons. They can help introduce workshop participants to each other, they add energy, and at Velsoft,…

When conducting training, choosing the right activity is really important. Because you may run into groups who have tension about “games” at work, you may want to refer to games as activities. Often used to make dry topics engaging,…

With summer in full swing, the last thing you may want to do right now is think about students heading back to school in the fall. But it’s actually a perfect time to think about the workplace classroom…

National Talk in an Elevator Day is tomorrow, July 27. It’s a day designed to encourage people to break the awkward silence that happens between people riding in an elevator. I’m not sure why most people are silent…

So, in your company’s efforts to comply with the General Data Protection Regulation, you have updated your privacy policy, and written some new internal procedures around data handling. With all that paperwork done, you must be ready now,…

Today is Space Exploration Day. I thought I’d write about Star Trek and their five years (turned out to be 50 plus years) of space exploration.  Kirk, Scotty, Bones, and of course, Spock, Uhura, Checkov, … Gothos, Haven,…