Posts tagged Training

Leadership in Corporate Training

Corporate Training
Ever sit back and analyze how leadership plays a role in your organizations training? More and more often I am finding a trend in the past 10 years at my current position of designing training programs for corporations that a single way to improve your organizations training is to have a leadership role “Cxx” involved, even if it [...]

ISTE Phila

ISTE Philadelphia
Recently attended the ISTE international show in Philadelphia.  The venue was quite overwhelming in size but the enthusiasm for learning was very intriguing.   The show focused on learning and training (what I do for corporations and government agencies) but leaned towards K-12.  My takeaway from the show on “trends” are two:  Fli [...]

How Intriguing Is Your Training To Yo...

How Intriguing Is Your Training To Your Learners?
How intriguing is your training to your learners?   Is your training of the viewpoint of the future of learning – that includes social learning, gaming and advanced technology?  For years,  I scoffed at the notion of a “half-life” of knowledge theory or that we underplay thinkers and tinkers and xbox gamers and Facebook-ers.   Then – I [...]

Thoughts on Social Media and Collabor...

Social media thoughts
At Brookwood, we design, develop, and deploy all types of learning solutions. Training today is not that same training this day a year ago, or 6 months ago for that matter.  Every day, the training demands of an organization increase, shift, or change.  How do you manage, and inform your trainees in keeping them current and in the know?  Food [...]

NEW: AIR Building Desktop Application...

NEW: AIR Building Desktop Applications with AJAX
Starting in April 2009, this NEW 2 day course will enable experienced programmers to build desktop applications with AJAX using Adobe’s AIR application. Objectives include customized application deployment using AJAX and understanding AIR security. To gain the most from this course, you should have experience using HTML and JavaScript to deve [...]