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Popular Posts for Employee Learning Week
By Christine Martell | December 6, 2007
ASTD Employee Learning Week is Dec 3-7, 2007. To celebrate, BlogCascadia will be posting about different kinds of learning that span the range of our industry. You can learn more about the week at the Employee Learning Week website.
Top 12 posts during Fall 2007
Lessons from a CPLP Quest This is a post by Shari Ward that describes her experience earning her Certified Professional in Learning and Performance. This is a relatively new credential from ASTD national, and lots of people are interested in knowing more. Look for upcoming posts from our Chief Learning Officer Julie Bulrice about how the chapter will be creating opportunities for us to participate and learn more. - Increasing diversity by becoming more inclusive This is a post I wrote about the Strategic Inclusion Initiative the board has been working on the past two years. It highlights some of the things we have achieved so far. We have now formed a Strategic Inclusion Council which will be assisting the chapter to remove unintentional barriers we may have in our operations.
- Powerpoint- Love it Hate it or Both This post is by Kevin Jones describing a movement called Pecha Kucha which seeks to get people to use Powerpoint more effectively.
- How I use Google Reader This is a post about how I use RSS and Google Reader to organize the blogs I read.
- Social Learning SIG-Push vs Pull and how RSS changes learning Here is a post by Kevin Jones about how RSS brings content to you, and how it shifts how we go about gathering information.
- Emotional Intelligence and Diversity This is a post I wrote last July that continues to get lots of traffic. It’s about the program we held last summer with Lee Gardenschwartz and Jorge Cherbosque on the work they are doing in the intersection between emotional intelligence and diversity.
- Straight Talk with Bob Phillips This is a post about the podcast we did with Bob Phillips where we talk about his ethics training and book, Absolute Honesty.
- Are you new to training? This is a category of posts, so far there are five of them, that address the issues we face when we become training professionals. We’ve noticed that when we ask our members how they become trainers, most of us have done it almost by accident. Either we were subject matter experts, or happened to like helping people. These posts are meant to point you in the direction of helpful resources.
- Announcing the new Social Learning SIG Kevin Jones announces the new Social Learning special interest group. This group will meet online through a Ning community, the blog, webinars and other tools. The first webinar is coming up December 11, 2007 at 11 am PST. NOTE: Rescheduled to January 25, 2008.
- Let your training go to the dogs This is a post from August about Dock Dogs and the lessons we can learn about training from watching them.
- Strategic inclusion plan-Drinking and diving in Kelly Orehovec shares her experience of attending the first meeting of the new Strategic inclusion council.
- Hanging Ten and Sharing Waves In this post, Shari Ward shares some resources for new trainers.
What would you like to see us write about next? Would love to know more about what you’d like our blog to cover. We’re also open to guest posts and new member writers. Talk to us!
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