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.
Sustaining Best Business Practices
Isn't Easy, but . . .
It's your job! You work, day after day, to help employees of your organization perform better, apply the best methods and procedures, and embrace the values and standards that your leadership has identified as central to success.
Most of the "heavy lifting" on establishing and sustaining best business practices is done by people who have other job responsibilities, who weren't hired specifically to do training and employee communications. Perhaps you were so good at your job that some manager tapped you to make others equally good at that job.
Or you may be part of a training department, dedicated to educating and guiding employees to more effective implementation of corporate strategies. Perhaps you are a consultant or freelancer who helps organizations with these issues.
Then again, you may work in a function that naturally depends on employee communication to make a contribution to the company. Functions like audit, compliance, and quality assurance are most effective when they can get employees in other departments to embrace their messages.
For whatever reason, your success in influencing other employees is a key element in your own success. And that means you could use . . .
Some New Ideas, Some Old Ideas
Truly effective communication is hard work! You know from experience that is it often much harder to get someone else to do something a certain way than it is to do it yourself.
But that's precisely what you have been asked to do for your organization.
What makes it even harder is that powerful communication and effective training demand some "thinking time," some analysis of the situation, some careful design of the best (and most efficient) ways to reach employees. But how do you find the time to apply the careful thought that will make you successful when there is always some "right now" task coming across your desk?
Ideas on e-wheels . . .
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. It offers short articles to remind you of best practices you may have overlooked, and to introduce new perspectives on what you are 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 respond to the current crisis, a nudge to rethink the core issues and the strategies that will build your success. 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.
You know that if you wait "until you have more time" to step back and take a look at how you are approaching best practices, "more time" will never come! By automatically receiving this "conversation" on a regular basis, you get in the habit of thinking about broader issues, better techniques, or fundamental principles that can easily get lost in the shuffle.
And you more effectively, more efficiently reach your employees as a result.
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.
How Does It Work?
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. You may also receive an occasional announcement of a seminar, teleclass, or other event.
Don't worry, you're not signing up for an endless stream of sales pitches from me. I drop out of e-newsletters that constantly bombard me with their "latest offers," and I have made it easy for you to do the same: a link to unsubscribe is included at the end of every issue, so you are in complete control.
And I never share my mailing list : Please read my privacy policy below.
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Why Wait?
You know that you have been looking for some time to consider how your best practices initiatives are working. And you know that finding that time has proved next to impossible.
Let the ideas come to you, every other Thursday, waiting in your mailbox until is it convenient for you to harvest them.
There's nothing to lose (except some good ideas if you don't subscribe), and you can drop out at any time.
And if you sign up before Halloween, you'll receive my 20-page Extra, "Creating e-ffective e-learning: 13 Tips for Maximizing Your Return On Investment in On-Line Course Delivery," as a PDF attachment to the e-mail confirming your subscription.
It's free, easy, and always under your control, so why not give it a try?
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"But I'm not a Trainer . . ."
- Communication is everyone's main job, and
- Training others is probably closer to your original job dreams than you think.
