Could PowerPoint Be Ruining Your Virtual Training Sessions?
When facilitators/trainers started transitioning their workshops to the virtual space, they knew they had to give up many of their…
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Learning & Development Blog
Posts By: Leslie Ciborowski
Differences Between Facilitators & Trainers – 4 Reasons Why You Should Never Use “Facilitator and Trainer” Interchangeably
Probably not — But your clients are going to do it anyway. And that’s the real problem. Corporate culture is…
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Why Employees Want Their Leaders To Show More Empathy In The Workplace
In a recent video workshop on Work-Life Balance, several participants shared some of their struggles in maintaining their professionalism while…
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Train-the-Trainer: The Ultimate Instructor Development Workshop for Corporate Trainers
Take a survey of any training department, and chances are 90% of the staff members never intended to work in…
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Part II – What TrainSmart’s Team of Learning And Development Professionals Learned in 2020
Learning and Development professionals are not essential workers. When organizations, businesses, and state governments issued stay-at-home orders last year, the…
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2020: The Year Learning Professionals Went Back To School: A Lessons Learned Series
Never has the expression “Hindsight is 20/20” felt more appropriate. Not only was 2020 a meteoric year of disruption, for…
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How To Pivot Your Customer Service Skills To Excel In Extraordinary Times
Customer Service has long been the lynchpin for achieving customer loyalty. What many organizations are finding is that what worked…
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TrainSMART Served As A Chief Learning Officer For A Texas Engineering Firm
Good Evening, Many ask about the various projects that TrainSmart is involved in outside of the services that you are…
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How to Avoid Becoming the “Norma Talmadge” of Virtual Training
During the era of silent movies, there wasn’t a bigger star than Norma Talmadge. She was the “IT” girl for…
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What Skills Do Facilitators Need To Have? – 3 Key Skills Every Skilled Facilitator Needs To Have
It’s not unusual for someone to contact our offices asking for training on facilitation when what they are actually looking…
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How To Improve Your Virtual Meetings – 5 Best Practices
Are Virtual Meetings The New Business Activity You Love to Hate? In 1969, a television program debuted with an OPENING…
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Corporate Training: The Importance of Being Adaptable
If life had occurred according to plan, the budgets for corporate training in 2020, would have increased over 2019 spending….
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How To Design Successful Virtual Training To Avoid Zoom Fatigue
In 2014, we wrote an article about the status of virtual training. Did we call it: Will Virtual Training Always…
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Tools of the Trade: What To Include In Your Training Room
Walking into a training room for the first time always reminds me of a new home or condo before the…
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How To Write Business Emails – 5 Tips For Writing Better Business Emails
Do You Have Poor Business Email Etiquette? Here Are 5 Tips On How To Write Better Business Emails Emails are…
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How to Take Dry Content and Make It an Interesting Training Experience
Think about the most memorable training experience you ever attended. Now focus on one or two lessons that you took…
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6 Ways to Convert Lurking Online Participants into Active Participants During An Virtual Training
Ask a seasoned trainer what’s their least favorite venue and there’s a 90% chance they’ll say: virtual. It doesn’t matter…
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How To Survive A Technical Disaster When Conducting A Training Session
Worst Case Scenario #1: How To Survive A Technical Disaster Technical disasters include equipment failure, equipment that doesn’t talk to each…
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