Citation
(2006), "Whats on the web", Development and Learning in Organizations, Vol. 20 No. 4. https://doi.org/10.1108/dlo.2006.08120dag.001
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Copyright © 2006, Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Whats on the web
The Human Capital Institute is a US membership organization, think tank and educational resource for professionals and executives in recruiting, HR and talent management. It provides educational programs for human capital practitioners, talent managers and executives who recognize the critical importance of human capital.
The site is full of good things. How to motivate under-performing personnel, innovation for teaching and learning, cross training to make your job easier, e-learning predictions for 2006, the classroom as studio, new media and learning in the twenty-first century and questioning whether training is a waste of time. Lots of interesting blogs too and a nice, clean design. Excellent.
Gee whiz
Sivasailam Thiagarajan is best known simply as Thiagi, particularly in America, Africa and Europe. Thiagi’s involvement in training and performance technology started in Chennai (originally Madras), India. Train-the-trainer work has been his company’s mainstay for many years. Currently, Thiagi is involved in leadership and management training. He deliberately chooses as much variety as possible in his project topics, interventions, and clients.
The web site is worth a look – Thiagi is clearly extremely competent and has a number of recommendations from other practitioners. There are some good free training materials.
A good review
The active reviewing guide is a comprehensive guide to active learning and reviewing (debriefing) which, as every trainer knows is a crucial part of the development process. Do you help others learn? Would they benefit from a more participatory approach to learning? Would you like active learning to be even more engaging, dynamic and effective? Then this site may be for you.
Fresh and original writing about experience-based learning (theory and practice) is a key part of the site, as are the many tools and tips for facilitating active learning and development. Aimed at engaging all learning styles and encouraging participation, the site encourages trainers to be more experimental and more experiential.
A nice, cheerful site with good navigation.
Bean counters
BNET is the “Web’s most comprehensive, high-quality source of business thought leadership”. While we are usually suspicious of hyperbole, it does offer an extensive collection of both classic and current business white papers, case studies, web-casts and other interactive aimed at decision makers in large as well as small and medium-sized organisations.
Worth a visit.
Not balls at all
For some excellent free resources, check out the free materials, articles, and ideas for personal and organisational development, leadership, self-help and self-fulfillment on this site. Free resources for the ethical development of people, business and organisations are offered.
For learning, self-development, for helping others there are classical and innovative concepts and materials – simple, free and fun.
And finally
From the above site…
A tale is told about the Buddha, Gautama (563-483BC), the Indian prince and spiritual leader whose teachings founded Buddhism. This short story illustrates that every one of us has the choice whether or not to take personal offence from another person’s behaviour.
It is said that on an occasion when the Buddha was teaching a group of people, he found himself on the receiving end of a fierce outburst of abuse from a bystander, who was for some reason very angry.
The Buddha listened patiently while the stranger vented his rage, and then the Buddha said to the group and to the stranger, “If someone gives a gift to another person, who then chooses to decline it, tell me, who would then own the gift? The giver or the person who refuses to accept the gift?”
“The giver,” said the group after a little thought. “Any fool can see that,” added the angry stranger.
“Then it follows, does it not,” said the Buddha, “Whenever a person tries to abuse us, or to unload their anger on us, we can each choose to decline or to accept the abuse; whether to make it ours or not. By our personal response to the abuse from another, we can choose who owns and keeps the bad feelings.”
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