IT's Easy Training

Oh well what can we do??

2012-02-29T13:35:00.000-08:00

I have just found out that a training company that I have recently worked for and owe me money have gone bust. Tell me that the MD, CEO and the rest didn't know that before they booked training, less than 10 days prior. The staff don't know what is happening they are still asking me training questions. What a joke and a moral disconnect they must have. Why do we allow people to do this? I know they will reform and try again regardless of the people they destroy on the way to getting rich. God help us.

Keyboards

2011-03-10T14:07:00.000-08:00

Why do computer manufactures create keyboards using symbols instead of descriptive text? I am currently training some basic users on Word and Excel. The biggest issue I have is explaining the keyboard layout. The young generation have grown up with the keyboard and know it well, however the over 40's have no idea. It is just an extra barrier to them and an excuse not to learn.

Tailored Training

2011-03-07T13:56:00.000-08:00

How good is a tailored training session? I have just completed a one to one session with a PA, she arrived with all her data and issues. We worked through them one by one solving each problem and saving the correction. She left with information that saves time, creates a standard scheme of work and the ability to automate her whole business process.

She felt great I felt great and there was not a script in sight.

Customise training sessions

2011-02-14T11:44:00.000-08:00

I have recently gone and am still going through a bit of a metamorphosis in the way I deliver training sessions. Gone is the structured session following a lesson plan stating goals and objectives, in is a learner reactive approach.

It is much harder to achieve as a trainer but seriously more beneficial as a learner. How does it work?

I have loose structure to start with and a lot of useable examples from a range of levels and experience. The learner is interviewed prior to the session starting, sometimes on the day, with the aim of identifying skill gaps and potential time saving procedures. The sessions are far more interactive and job specific. It is limited to smaller groups and usually from the same company but it really works, even though it breaks a lot of the more established training conventions a better service is delivered.

What Christians

2011-02-03T13:29:00.000-08:00

Why do Christians use their faith to excuse impolite abnormal irrational behaviour? It's not Christian? Oh really, I thought it was you being ignorant. I didn't realise that you are taught to be like that in the Bible. Is that true? Of course not, people make rules for themselves to suit themself. God didn't, Jesus didn't and we shouldn't churches are full of self-righteous people sitting in judgement of others, people nodding in agreement with the pastor but not identifying anything spoken about to their own position. They see faults only in others. God help us all.

PC brigade

2011-01-27T02:23:00.000-08:00

wwwWhat has gone wrong with people, when did everyone decide to judge everyone from a self-righteous position based on a holier than thou attitude towards anyone caught out making a mistake or a public slip. People need to get real. Call a spade a spade say what you mean, tell people if you’re offended, don't mumble about it. Alternatively we can all go on courses to learn how to be nice.

The Learnig Cycle

2011-01-05T10:57:00.000-08:00

Having received over 80 comments on ”Does training work”? I believe the learning cycle should be as follows:

Identify a need through Training Needs Analysis and on the job assessments

Agree a plan and timescale with management

Agree outcomes and timescales for implementation

Attend a tailored training session that provides after course support

Apply new skills to the workplace

Management to carry out on the job assessment and measure improvement if any

Apply a cost benefit to the process and advertise the results

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Marketing your business can be time consuming

2010-12-03T10:05:00.000-08:00

You often get conflicting advice when asking for marketing tips for websites

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The weary press on

2010-11-15T12:33:00.000-08:00

The fat cats get fatter the poor get poorer. What has changed in 4000 years. The Romans, the Saxons, the Vikings, the Normans, the Government all take from people who have no say in the matter and no power to resist. The vast majority have no chance of doing anything that will cause change. The system that we all live in and strive to protect controls us and destroys us, even the rich that think that they are in charge are not, they are only part of the same system that would destroy them given half a chance. What is the solution? The system that we all work and live in has to be destroyed, the greedy exposed and the rich brought in to line, even to account. How will it happen? The whole establishment must be pulled apart and redesigned, people should have a say in every level of society, no one person or one group should dominate another. Corporate structures and alliances need to be broken down in to component parts no one entity can have more influence than the people. Nothing should be bigger than the voice of the people and everything must be subjected to them. Will it ever happen? I doubt it, unless there is a global war that acts as the catalyst to destroy the current structures, and change the viewpoint of the massess to such an extent that the people stop the elite regaining control. Then we may see a different world.

Web traffic

2010-11-03T12:14:00.000-07:00

How do I generate more taffic to my site??

Training cuts or Not?

2010-10-15T03:03:00.001-07:00

In the present climate businesses are looking at cutting costs. Unfortunately training is seen by many as a cost that can be saved. When times are tight, training budgets get cut. What are the impacts of doing this?

Staff are less productive.

Time is wasted asking questions about processes or tasks that simple training sessions would sort out.
New initiatives are not undertaken
Statutory training is not undertaken
People are frustrated by simple things

Businesses should look at training as an investment as an asset. Training staff will make them more productive which in turn could lead to less staff being employed to do the same job, therefore saving money. Check out courses at http://www.itseasy.co.uk/

Are admin staff trained correctly?

2009-03-17T05:26:00.001-07:00

I am often amazed at the lack of basic computer skills in the administration sector. People that have a job of working as admin support and or training support quite often do not have the skills to do their job. They are in fact paid to do a job that they have not been trained to do. Bosses seem to think that everyone can do admin work and worse still some think that the time lost trying to muddle through is OK. Is there a training need? Ask two colleagues to do the same task, if one takes one hour and the other ten minutes then there must be a training need. This so called training gap costs business millions. Yet training is still seen as a dirty word by some companies. Will this down turn wake them out of their slumber, I think so. What do you think??

Basic Excel functions

2009-02-23T09:26:00.000-08:00

Click here to see how to use basic functions in Excel.

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Our moral fibre

2009-02-20T12:18:00.001-08:00

Wondering about the state of the country. What has happened to our morals. Our problems arise from the lack of standards within the family. This country encourages laziness and greed. Without moral fibre we are doomed.

Line breaks in Access

2009-02-20T12:05:00.000-08:00

If you want to create a line break in Acccess press the control key and enter.
=IIf([trainingvenue]="Wingrove House Newcastle","The Training Venue Address is:Wingrove HousePonteland RoadNE5 3DE","The training venue is at " & [trainingvenue])