Are you new to training?
I do new employee orientation when we hire, am I a trainer?
Friday, June 6th, 2008Yes, you are!!! Even if you do not have the word “trainer” in your title, if you do new employee orientations, you are training! Orientations are prime opportunities for seasoned employees to share with new employees ideas about what makes the organization/company a great place to work. All of us train differently during new employee [...]
Hangin’ Ten and Sharing Waves
Tuesday, September 4th, 2007I’d love to share with you some of my favorite training resources I have found over years of surfing the web, trainer-style. As professionals we recognize the importance of keeping abreast of new concepts and ideas, so I often visit the sites for ASTD-Cascadia and ASTD. On our local site, I can read BlogCascadia (as [...]
More training lessons on my bike
Tuesday, August 28th, 2007In May, I attended Rita Bailey’s program through ASTD-Cascadia. I applied the learning about the four A process, and got myself a new bike. It’s been teaching me things all summer. On the Providence Bridge Pedal, I learned about spontaneous storytelling and stereotyping . I recently rode the Banks-Vernonia bike trail, and I learned about [...]
Where Does One Begin in Training?
Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007If you are like a lot of us, you sort of “fell” into the training field. You are a subject-matter expert who likes to talk to people and has a knack for explaining things. Voila! You are a trainer! That’s how I got into the field many, many moons ago. (Yup, I began training when [...]
Let your training go to the dogs
Friday, August 3rd, 2007What dog trainers can teach us about training people
I was watching the Dock Dogs competition at the Washington County Fair last weekend. My grand step-dog was entered into the Big Air. If you haven’t seen Dock Dogs, there is a 40 foot pool set up with a dock built onto one end. The dogs compete [...]
The Accidental Trainer
Saturday, July 14th, 2007I became a trainer because I’m not afraid of speaking in public. I knew nothing. I had a knack for it- for fifteen years before getting my graduate degree. Until then I had no formal training in training, never even read a book about it. It was the school of try something and see what [...]