Benefits of a 4 Day Work Week

Here’s a nice video about Brevard Community College.  It talks about how they moved to a 4 day week for classes and how it has increased moral and productivity.  Additionally, absenteeism is down as well.
Video on Yahoo News
With the energy crisis coming back in full swing, we might see more of this happening.  And [...]

Executive Coaching – A Performance Enhancer Extraordinaire!

Recently, I had the opportunity to attend an excellent presentation at an NNJ-ASTD meeting entitled "Increasing Your Stategic Influence Through High ROI Executive Coaching" presented by Janet Steinwedel, PhD, of Leader's Insight and Katherine Handin of Global Coaching Alliance, LLC.  It provided a case study method of looking at how coaching was brought into an [...]

Reinforcing Learning

Albert Mehrabian, currently Professor Emeritus of Psychology at UCLA, is credited with establishing that there are basically three elements in any face-to-face communication: words, tone of voice, and body language.
Obviously, he is a man of notoriety.  So when I read that he had said this, I took notice:
"Within 30 days, people forget 90 percent of what they have learned [...]

Hello virtual readers!

I've been a part of the Workplace Learning and Performance world for nearly 25 years and have worked in both corporate and the consulting side.  I've always found my work to be stimulating, unique, and ever changing.  So it makes sense that having a blog to share my experiences would be a logical step in my career [...]