When Michael Harding started out to raise funds for children in need, he didn’t know his family had once benefitted from the same spirit of giving. The Chief Happiness Officer at Velsoft Training Materials is one of the…

Bad bosses. Almost everyone has had at least one in their working career. You do not want to be the bad boss in your work environment, the one who causes good employees to cringe when you enter the…

PowerPoint Online is the cloud-based version of Microsoft’s powerful word processing program. Using PowerPoint Online, you can create professional presentations of nearly any type. You can also add videos, pictures, and much more. Best of all, PowerPoint Online’s…

I once had a boss who occasionally terrified me. He left passive aggressive notes on our desks and when he got angry — he cursed, yelled, kicked the garbage can and threw things. Believe it or not, he…

Welcome back, folks! This edition of Favorite Features will open your mind to a new reality, which until a few years ago, was considered impossible — instant eLearning. To understand how instant eLearning conversion came to be, it’s…

The HTML computer programming language is an invaluable tool in creating and editing webpages. A basic knowledge of HTML will allow you to assemble the basic components of a webpage, and organize them exactly the way you want….

A friend of mine once told me a story about his days as a sports reporter: “I looked through the viewfinder at the four impatient women staring at me. I asked again for their indulgence while I silently…

How much do you know about cannabis and its legalization? In Canada, the use of recreational cannabis is now legal. Even if you’ve been following the news and think you have a fairly good idea of what this…

Cannabis and Your Body is an excerpt from Velsoft’s softskills course: Cannabis and the Workplace. Cannabis is one of the most commonly used mind-altering substances in the world. The laws on growing, selling, possessing and consuming cannabis vary greatly…

As trainers, we sometimes take for granted that our students are able to experience a course setting in the same way that we ourselves can. The reality now is that many of the students we teach will come…

There’s a pet store down the street from my office. I went there once. I will never go back. When I walked into the store, no one was there to greet me. The store didn’t seem to be…

I remember reading a newspaper story years ago about a car getting swallowed up by a giant pothole in the community where I lived. Along with the story was a photo of a small car in the crater-like…