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Once a month TAT offers FREE Guest Expert Interviews to our newsletter subscribers. Each interview is about 10-15 minutes. These interviews will help you do your job better, faster, or cheaper.

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Learning Measurement - Will Thalheimer

Smile sheets are the most used evaluations to training and they are not good enough. Listen as Will Thalheimer (http://www.willatworklearning.com/ and http://www.work-learning.com/catalog) shares how smile sheets do not correlate with learning or on-the-job performance. Will explains the reasons to measure learning; support learning, improve our learning design, and prove our results to our organizations. He will also share examples of how to use specific questions on individual learning points to get the best feedback from your evaluations.


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Myths about Technical Training - Julie Spokus

Listen as Julie shares how technical training doesn’t have to be boring. By adding interactivity, group activities, and by sharing the reasoning behind technology instead of just ‘do this, do this, do this’ will engage the learner. To contact Julie email her at julieastd@gmail.com


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Micro Blogging in Business – Michelle Lentz

Michelle Lentz from Write Technology, www.write-tech.com, explains Web 2.0, social media tools, and how micro blogging can be used in business. Did you know that there are over 600 learning professionals on Twitter? Do you know what Twitter is? Michelle gives examples on how to use Twitter and why. She puts in plain words how Web 2.0 is a community of sharing and how you can use it to improve your business in real time. Contact Michelle at michelle@write-tech.com.


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Heather Gee – Using Second Life as a Training Tool

Heather Gee from Bloomsburg University explains what Second Life is and how it is not a game but a virtual world that can be used as a learning tool. Heather describes how it can be used for something as simple as a virtual classroom to something as complex as simulations of real life events. Also find out how it can save your company money on travel and accommodations by having participants meet in Second Life for a realistic and interactive experience. Contact Heather at heather.m.gee@gmail.com


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Learning Design with Will Thalheimer

Forgetting what was learned soon after the training is complete is a large problem in training. Listen as Will Thalheimer (http://www.willatworklearning.com/ and http://www.work-learning.com/index.htm) tells us about the three things that can help participants remember what they ve learned; retrieval practice, context alignment, and the spacing effect.


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How To Provide Employee Training without Doing it Yourself

Did you know that 80% of training that occurs in the workplace does not occur in a formal training program? Listen as Dr. Nanette Miner shares tips on to formalize that training and many other tips on low cost training without doing it yourself. To reach Dr. Miner email nanette@trainingdr.com.


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Career Skills Every Professional Can't Succeed Without

Julie Jansen shares tips and skills on Networking, Enhancing Your Image, Delegation, Managing Your Career, Time Management and Getting Organized. To contact Julie directly email her at julie@juliejansen.net.


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Podcasting in Training with Jeff Potocki

Podcasting has become a great tool for trainers. Listen to this interview to find out what exactly podcasting is, how to do it, and how it can help your training department.


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Business Outreach Librarians as a Resource

Listen as Jennifer Koehane from the Simsbury Public Library in Simsbury, Connecticut shares a wealth of knowledge on how your local library and business librarian can help you and your training department. To contact Jennifer directly please use her email jkeohane@simsburylibrary.info


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Spicing Up Classroom Training with Matthea Marquart

Matthea Marquart from BELL (Building Educated Leaders for Life) shares many wonderful tips on spicing up your classroom training. In this interview you will find information on activities such as building in pauses for discussion, visual clues, effective use of games, and using movement to spice up your training. To contact Matthea directly you can email her a mattheamarquart@gmail.com.


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Team Building with Barbara Collins

In this interview you will find out what a team is, how to lead a successful one, and the stages of team development; forming, storming, norming, and performing. To find out more about Barbara please visit her website at www.hainescentredc.com


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Innovation as Improvisation with Izzy Gesell

Izzy is an organizational alchemist who helps individuals and organizations transform their thinking from commonplace to extraordinary. In this interview you will find out how improvisation in training is easier than you think – no improv experience needed! To find out more about Izzy G and Company visit their website at www.izzyg.com.


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The Power of Influence

Join Wally Hauck from Super Training Inc. to hear about how influence, and not control, will lead to more sustainable and predictable results.


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