Will Kenny
"Think Pieces"
(free articles)
Best Training Practices
Will Kenny
3927 York Ave N
Robbinsdale, MN 55422
612-978-3050
The Training Tipsheet
a bi-weekly e-newsletter for all communicators and trainers
To see past articles from The Training Tipsheet, visit my "reprints" section.
You are working to spread best practices . . .
It's challenging work, and every one of us can use a few new ideas, or the occasional nudge to apply "old" ideas that are important to your success. The Training Tipsheet is a free "e-coach" who arrives in your mailbox every other Thursday with a quick tip for more effective training and employee communications.
Every two weeks, The Training Tipsheet will bring you ideas that enhance the impact of your communications and training, improve efficiency, and ensure that you're getting results that really matter to the company.
The Training Tipsheet is for everyone who influences other members of an organization to produce better results. That includes managers and supervisors, your own experts on products, services, and procedures, corporate staff in areas like legal affairs or human resources, and the professional trainers, whether in-house staff or external consultants, who spend most of their time delivering training for your company.
What is The Training Tipsheet?
Simply, The Training Tipsheet is a biweekly e-mail newsletter. Once you sign up, you'll receive an e-mail every other week with a short article related to best training practices for the corporate and professional environment. And your privacy is assured.
These are brief tips that will remind you of best practices you may have overlooked, and provide you with new perspectives on what you're trying to achieve and how to get there. The Training Tipsheet is a way to take a moment, every fortnight, to pull your head up out of the mad rush to produce better results from your employees, to take a moment to rethink the core issues and the strategies that will lead to success.
Why Free, What's the Catch?
Don't worry, you're not signing up for an endless stream of sales pitches from me -- see more about privacy below.
This e-zine provides two benefits to me that are worth the effort to produce it:
- Convenient Visibility: obviously many of my clients, and future clients, subscribe, and this e-zine approach means that they are a little more aware of who I am, what I do, how I think, when that next project comes along that needs outside help. And it is more convenient for my clients and prospects than frequent calls and letters. With e-mail, you have control over when and if you see what I have to say.
- Professional Development: ever try writing something useful for your colleagues and clients every other week? It forces me to follow new developments, come up with new ideas, and to hone my skills in presenting helpful information effectively but very briefly. Some people who write blogs about their fields discover the same effect: even if no one reads their blogs, they still are more effective at their jobs because the constant re-examination and re-focusing on what they do benefits them and the people who depend on them.
Those benefit makes this worth my while, and I work hard to make it worth yours. That isn't to say that you will never get a special, off-schedule announcement, as describeded below, but driving you nuts with a stream of pitches won't be very satisfying for either you or me. Won't happen!
Format
The Training Tipsheet is distributed both as a plain text e-mail, and in HTML format. Your e-mail software will automatically use whichever format is appropriate.
The content is exactly the same. And I never use images or other HTML tricks to check on whether you've opened the e-zine or clicked on any links in the newsletter.
Read Past Articles
Past articles from The Training Tipsheet are kept in my "reprints" section. Browse some of those topics to see if the ideas I share in my e-zine might be helpful to you in your work -- whether "training" is in your job title or not!
PRIVACY: What do you do with
my
e-mail information?
I use it to e-mail The Training Tipsheet to you. That's it!
I never share your e-mail address with anyone, and I don't use it to "spam" you with sales pitches, "exciting" news about what I'm doing, or other information that is a waste of your time.
There may be occasions when a special event, changes in The Training Tipsheet , or other news of importance to subscribers will lead to an occasional e-mail in addition to the regular bi-weekly sequence. But rest assured, I will not "spam" you with reams of self-serving information, and since I never share your e-mail, no one else will ever spam you through Best Training Practices, either.
Under YOUR Control
To make sure that you intentionally signed up for The Training Tipsheet, you will get a message asking you to confirm your subscription before you are added to the list. In fact, I can't even put you directly on the list without your independent confirmation of your subscription, even if you ask me to!
And since you have complete control of your subscription, you can cancel your subscription at any time with a click on a link conveniently provided at the end of every issue of The Training Tipsheet.
Get Started!
To sign up, simply enter your e-mail address on the form in the upper right corner of this page (or any page ) and click on the "Subscribe" button. Confirm your subscription from the e-mail you receive, and you're signed up.
The Process
If you want to understand the entire process, after you submit your e-mail address, here's what happens:
- You'll receive an e-mail from trainingtips@besttrainingpractices.com asking you to click on a link to confirm your subscription. This confirmation process ensures that no one else can sign you up for this e-mail list without your permission.
- After you confirm your subscription by clicking on the link, you'll be sent to a "confirmation page" on this site.
- After that confirmation, you will also receive an e-mail from trainingtips@besttrainingpractices.com thanking you for subscribing. This is a good opportunity to make sure that your spam filter or corporate firewall is not excluding e-mail from this address, simply because it is unrecognized. (If there's a problem, please add besttrainingpractices.com to your "whitelist".)
- You can cancel or modify your subscription information at any time. Convenient links to manage your subscription will appear at the bottom of every single issue of The Training Tipsheet.
That's all there is to it. There is no cost, no risk, so why not give The Training Tipsheet a try?
And in the meantime, don't forget to stop back at this site for new "Think Pieces", expanded topics in training and communication for everyone who helps other workers adopt best practices.
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Is This You?
- Communication is everyone's main job, and
- Training others is probably closer to your original job dreams than you think.
