One of the biggest complaints we often hear when we design a modular curriculum is that it is too complex.
First of all, every job I have analyzed is pretty complex so why wouldn’t a comprehensive curriculum to capture and distribute that know-how be complex also?
But PLEASE!! Listen to conversations between people who perform the jobs, […]
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In the training business, one of the things we try to do is manage complex content. That is, we create models and categories, etc. to organize concepts and information so that it can be learned. Part of learning is taking a new thing (skill, concept, fact, etc.) and figuring out what it is and what […]
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The Wall Street Journal ran an article (maybe last week?) about how the word “bucket” has become a hip word to use in place of “category” or “group.” As in, “how do the earnings ‘bucket’ out between the various products?” Maybe it really is a trend. Maybe there is a deeper significance as mentioned in the […]
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I have been visiting Tom Peter’s website occasionally and enjoy it immensely. It conveys the same sense of energy, enthusiasm, ideas, and (a little) scare factor as his talks and books. Lot’s of great links to other blogs and sites as well.
Peters recently posted a powerpoint from a presentation he did–if you can take the very in-your-face […]
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Recently, Christopher Null’s blog on Yahoo (The Working Guy blog) addressed the topic of multitasking. There were a LOT of comments and many were VERY emotional. He clearly hit a nerve and a quick review of the comments revealed that they started to fall into some common categories.
Those who blame management…Multitasking is just a way […]
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