I’ve been giving quite a lot of technical demos lately, so I put together this quick list of what I’ve learned. Some of it came from working with people who have a heck of a lot more experience than I do in demoing to potential clients. And some of it came by “learning the hard [...]
Archive for November, 2009
Keys to Giving a Good Demo
Posted in Insights, tagged demo on November 23, 2009 | 3 Comments »
No Time to Read This? Read This
Posted in Insights, tagged efficiency, performance improvement, time management on November 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In full disclosure, I unashamedly borrowed this blog title from the WSJ article that inspired it by Sue Shellenbarger. I figured if it were good enough to ensnare me, that it would capture some TiER1 followers just like you as well!
Building upon my previous post about personal knowledge management, this article discusses Shellenbarger’s experience trying [...]
TiER1 Performance Solutions Awarded Research Grant for Accelerated Learning around Cyber Threat Reduction
Posted in Press Releases, tagged cyber threats, grant, Small Business Innovative Research on November 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Covington, Ky. – TiER1 Performance Solutions announced today that they received a Phase II Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) award from the 711 Human Performance Wing, Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. The Phase II contract, totaling $750,000, will develop a comprehensive training system using innovative accelerated learning methods and an [...]
TiER1 Helps Coordinate Medical Simulation Event at IITSEC
Posted in TiER1 News, tagged medical simulation on November 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
About IITSEC and the Conference: The Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation and Education Conference (I/ITSEC) promotes cooperation among the Armed Services, Industry, Academia and various Government agencies in pursuit of improved training and education programs, identification of common training issues and development of multiservice programs. Initiated in 1966 as the Naval Training Device Center/Industry Conference, the conference [...]
Twitter – Why Should You Care?
Posted in Articles, tagged training, twitter on November 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
(Scoll to bottom for tips on using Twitter for training.)
Unless you’ve been living under a rock the last couple of years, you’ve probably heard of Twitter. When I first heard about Twitter, I didn’t know what the heck it was. Someone invited me to join, I logged in, created a free account and thought, “so [...]
Brain and Behavior Blog Update
Posted in Articles, tagged Buzsaki on November 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Guess what The Brain and Behavior Blogger is having for dinner tonight. CROW!!!!
As he is wont to do, The B&B Blogger pulled somebody’s chain – and that somebody (this time, eminent neuroscience researcher, Gyorgy Buzsaki) pulled The Blogger’s chain back. Here’s how it went down…
The B&B Blogger hyped a research project conducted by GB. But, [...]
Brain and Behavior Blog No. 4: Think fast and be Merry
Posted in Articles, tagged activation, positive mood on November 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Eat, drink Think fast and be Merry?
Okay. It’s 2:15 on the second full day of training. The trainees are antsy. Your jokes are flat-lining. People are getting Carpel Tunnel from checking their watches. You are desperate to change the mood. NO PROBLEMO!!!! Just make everybody think fast about something!
Scientific American Mind reports on six studies [...]
Second Thoughts on Second Life
Posted in Articles, tagged immersive, learning, Second Life on November 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
We recently had a client come to us looking for some ideas on a new distance education program. Their two main objectives were to reduce the costs associated with bringing groups in for live instructor-led training events, and to have a fun learning program that would be engaging to the younger demographic that they were [...]
TiER1 Awarded “Davey Award”
Posted in TiER1 News, tagged Davey Award on November 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
TiER1 won a Davey Award for our Change Management Primer. http://www.tier1performance.com/change/
The Davey Awards are international awards that are targeted towards small businesses whose annual billings are less than $10-25 million a year.
“The largest and most prestigious awards competition exclusively for the “Davids” of creativity. David defeated the giant Goliath with a big idea and a little [...]
