Archive for category Stupid Trainer Tricks

More Self-Centered Idiocy From the Social Network Fringe.

Posted by Robert Bacal in Stupid Trainer Tricks, Thought Jolts, Training Wisdom or Training Foolishness, Writing & Publishing on March 5, 2010

In a virtually rambling and incoherent blog post, BFChirpy seems to write about metrics, knowledge and such stuff. Take a quick look. A great example of self-indulgent writing and thinking, AND the common extreme self-centeredness of almost all the most active social media pundits and fringe members.
I posted a response on the blog, but you [...]

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Informal Learning’s on first, Whats on second, and I Don’t Give a Damn is on Third

Posted by Robert Bacal in Mouthing Off, Robert's Editorials, Stupid Trainer Tricks on October 21, 2009

So, tell me. If I happen to go to the water cooler down the hall, and bump into George, who tells me about the new software I could use, is that informal learning? Sounds like it.
We don’t know what position Social Learning plays on this team. And you know what? I don’t give a [...]

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Trainers Don’t Know the Difference Between Training and Learning?

Posted by Robert Bacal in Stupid Trainer Tricks on August 26, 2009

You’d be surprised how many trainers believe that training and learning mean the same thing, which is one of the scariest indictments of at least some trainers one can imagine. It’s like not understanding the difference between driving a car or riding in a car. Or listening and speaking. Or being sick and doctoring the [...]

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Incest, Diversity, and Damage to Social Learning and Learning Profession

Posted by Robert Bacal in Learning Theory To Practice, Mouthing Off, Robert's Editorials, Stupid Trainer Tricks, Training & Technology, Training Tools & Techniques, Training Wisdom or Training Foolishness, adult education on August 14, 2009

We know from psychological research that human beings tend to discount information, data, or viewpoints that conflict with their pre-existing positions on any issue. We all do that to some degree. What is jarring is seeing learning professionals, trainers and teachers deliberately avoiding interacting with those who have views different from their’s.
I’ve seen this among [...]

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Meharabian, verbal, non-verbal communication and some lovely irony

Posted by Robert Bacal in Research, Stupid Trainer Tricks, Training Wisdom or Training Foolishness, Videos of Note on August 7, 2009

I’ve pointed out that the numbers oft quoted with reference to the percentages of meaning that come from verbal, and non-verbal cues, and attributed to Meharabian, were never actually said by him, at least in the way that is commonly understood.
So I was looking forward to seeing a video entitled “Busting the Meharabian Myth” which [...]

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Appalling Behavior By Social Learning/Social Media Proponents Damages Their Cause

Posted by Robert Bacal in Bacal's Twitter World, Robert's Editorials, Stupid Trainer Tricks, Training & Technology, adult education on August 3, 2009

You’d expect more. These are educated, intelligent people who, in general, have achieve some level of success in their careers. No failures here. Yet, you’d expect more of an awareness of what they are doing and how they are treating people who don’t agree with their positions. You’d expect more critical thinking. You’d expect more [...]

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A Well Deserved Poke At Adult Learning Principles and Styles

Posted by Robert Bacal in Advice For Trainers, Learning Theory To Practice, MBTI - Learning Styles, Stupid Trainer Tricks, Thought Jolts, Training Wisdom or Training Foolishness on July 20, 2009

It is no secret that I believe adult learning principles and styles are essentially vague and useless in terms of instructing “adults” versus “non-adults” and that the work of many popular adult learning “experts” is terrible, and that includes Knowles. I’m not alone in that respect.
So I was browsing around and came across a well [...]

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Comment on Some ASTD Comments (or, My God, You let these people train others?)#astd #trdev

Posted by Robert Bacal in Mouthing Off, Robert's Editorials, Stupid Trainer Tricks, Thought Jolts, Training Wisdom or Training Foolishness, Training and Consulting Business on June 7, 2009

Some of you may know that the ASTD Conference concluded last week (American Society For Training and Development). A few people took the time and made the effort to either inform during the conference, or write up their impressions after the conference, and no doubt, they should be commended for the spirit of sharing.

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Attempts to sabotage creating a training/development community of practice

Posted by trdev in Bacal's Twitter World, Mouthing Off, Stupid Trainer Tricks, Training & Technology, Training For Trainers, Training Wisdom or Training Foolishness, Training and Consulting Business on May 5, 2009

Earlier today I announced the creation of a twitter hashtag, #trdev so people wanting to create a training and development community of practice on twitter could find each other, and interact. We have additional plans to make this work. However it will NOT work if the tag is used for NON-RELATED tweets.
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Blogging – Losing Distinction Between Content and Form

Posted by Robert Bacal in Mouthing Off, Robert's Editorials, Stupid Trainer Tricks, Thought Jolts, Training & Technology on January 31, 2009

I was doing a lot of searching on the Internet to provide content for our new TrDev Toolbar (described elsewhere), and so I’ve been coming across some interesting things. One of the most interesting comments went like this:
“I blogged about this topic….”

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