Seven Types of Activities to Enhance Your Training
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,…
Privacy by Design: 7 Important Principles
Many businesses are reactive when it comes to data privacy, which was highlighted with the recent enactment of the General Data Protection Regulation. We see that when a new privacy regulation or law is enacted, many businesses have…
Communicate more efficiently with Microsoft Teams
Trying to decide whether you need a chat-based collaboration tool for your office? Also called group chat, collaborative business chat, workstream collaboration tools, workplace application messaging, team messaging or digital workspace, these platforms are designed to provide an…
Marty leaving for ‘greener pastures’
There has been a great deal of talk in the office over the last two weeks about two subjects: the impending legalization of marijuana in Canada, and Velsoft account representative Marty leaving for ‘greener pastures’. I am able…
Power BI Desktop: Connecting to Data Sources
This is an excerpt from Power BI, the latest computer course released by Velsoft Training Materials. The courseware shows learners how to link and model data in Power BI and create visual reports that reveal data insights. Your…
Four Management Tools for Generating Ideas
Generating ideas is important to business processes. There are a number of methods to generate ideas, as well as to reduce the number of ideas, to achieve better consensus. Here are four tools for producing them: 1. Brainstorming…
Michael Welton: Dialogue and Adult Education
Education professor Michael Welton, true to his Habermasian roots, sees society through a ‘learning lens’ and puts dialogue at the centre of his critical perspectives of adult education. Unlike the traditionalists who emphasized specific content knowledge learned in institutional…
Donald Schon: How Professionals Think In Action
Donald Schon, in his influential books Educating the Reflective Practitioner and The Reflective Practitioner: How Professionals Think In Action, argues that we need to look at how adults learn in practice. He introduces the notions of ‘knowing-in-action’, ‘reflecting-in-action’…
Icebreaker: Cup Challenge
The Cup Challenge Icebreaker is an excellent way to form a connection between your participants and see that working together is better than working alone when trying to generate ideas. This is an especially good icebreaker for a…
The 3 Sentence Icebreaker- Realizing Connections
The 3 Sentence Icebreaker is an excellent way to have your participants feel a connection to each other. Relationships are built on realizing common connections. This is an especially good icebreaker for a group of people that do…
Breaking the faith, what’s to be done?
We’ve seen it all before, it’s a favorite story line of movie makers and novelists. The main character loses the faith of his companions and has to rebuild the relationship, with it often becoming stronger than it was…
Measuring Training Results: Kirkpatricks 4 Stages of Evaluation
Each week, I try to pick an interesting, useful or informative topic to write a blog about, but this week I thought – why not see what our readers have found interesting, and write something related to that….