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What learning devices are you using to impart effective training?

Whether product training, process training or application training, learning devices play a major role in imparting effective training. Some of the highly used learning devices include scenarios, role plays, reflection, practice test, reckoner and job aids… just to name a few. These devices involve the learner intellectually, emotionally and physically. Each device has a unique objective. So, what device are you using to impart training that leaves a lasting impression on the learner?

 

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first-ever psychological study of the power of live

FaceTime, the newly launched marketing body for the live events industry has unveiled the findings from the industry’s first-ever psychological study of the power of live. Using new research techniques, the findings explain how live events work and reveal the unique attributes of going face-to-face with customers as part of a sales and marketing strategy.

Dietary formula that maintains youthful function into old age

ScienceDaily (Feb. 12, 2010) — Researchers at McMaster University have developed a cocktail of ingredients that forestalls major aspects of the aging process.


The findings are published in the current issue of Experimental Biology and Medicine.

Impact of Laptops on Meetings

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ABSTRACT
We have conducted a study of meetings to gain an understanding
of how conversation is affected by computer use.
We videotaped five workplace meetings, noting the disruptions
that occurred, and recording people’s disengagements
when they performed tasks with paper or with laptops. We
saw evidence that people preferred these disengagements
not to exceed 10 seconds. When tasks were performed on
laptops, disengagements were more likely to exceed this

Must Electronic Gadgets Disrupt our Face-to-Face Conversations?

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EXCERPT:

Over the last century, advances in technology
have massively expanded our choice of
ways to connect to each other. Nevertheless
our original means of communicating –
talking face to face – persists as the most
immediate, natural, and universal means we
have of communicating. Conversing face
to face, we have at our disposal not only the
full richness of our spoken language, but
also a nonverbal vocabulary that includes

Right-Handed and Left-Handed People Do Not See the Same Bright Side of Things

ScienceDaily (Feb. 2, 2010) — Despite the common association of "right" with life, correctness, positiveness and good things, and "left" with death, clumsiness, negativity and bad things, recent research shows that most left-handed people hold the opposite association. Thus, left-handers become an interesting case in which conceptual associations as a result of a sensory-motor experience, and conceptual associations that rely on linguistic and cultural norms, are contradictory.

Language Structure is Partly Determined by Social Structure

ScienceDaily (Jan. 28, 2010) — Psychologists at the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Memphis have released a new study on linguistic evolution that challenges the prominent hypothesis for why languages differ throughout the world. 

The study argues that human languages may adapt more like biological organisms than previously thought and that the more common and popular the language, the simpler its construction to facilitate its survival.

Why sleep-friendly meetings matter

Chris and Charlotte Martins discover the costs of sleep deprivation during residential conferences, and find that the industry is awakening to the problem

A Daily Telegraph report on January 3 notes that better sleep can ‘wake up your mind and increase your brain power’, and that sleep deprivation will ‘affect decision-making and the ability to absorb and adapt to new information.’ 
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