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Planning Determine the recruitment objectives. Identify the required and desired candidate profile. Determine the required personal attributes of the candidates (I place weightage on willingness to learn and share). Design and Develop Components of the training (or induction) program: Corporate orientation: Corporate values, vision, goals, structure, teams, market and competitors. Organization orientation: Various teams within the organization that the employee will work in (for example, project management, quality, engineering services, learning strategy, visual strategy), organizational structure, values, vision, goals, structure, market and competitors of the organization. #1 and #2 could be merged for smaller companies. Team orientation: Reporting structure , team interaction, roles and responsibilities and expectations. Project orientation: Customer orientation , introduction and usage of tools (content management system, authoring tools, time tracking, bug tracking, graphical e

This post is in response to a request from elearningtyro. I hope you find it useful. What is seat time? Seat time is variously described as: * Amount to time a learner spends to read through each page within the course (Does that include all the related tools and supplementary document? Does the learner need to read every glossary term? What if the learner already knows the terms?) * Amount of time taken by a learner to click every link within the course (What if the learner clicks the link but does not read it? ) * Amount of time a learner takes to complete the course How is it calculated? One of the ways I know (If you know any other, please feel free to leave a comment): A sample from the target audience is selected to complete the course. The time taken by each is recorded. Seat time is the percentile time that approximately 80 percent of the learners take to complete the course. When was it used? In early elearning days, seat time was taken as a metric to charge the cl

While watching Young Turks on CNBC, I found a profile particularly fascinating- Ayyappa Nagubandi, 28, started his professional life as a security guard. He joined Satyam Computers as a receptionist but soon discovered his talent for web design. He was provided opportunities within Satyam to grow as a web designer. By the time he left the cafter six years, he was a team lead and had supported clients in the US, Singapore and Europe. He left Satyam to launch his own company, TrulyIntelligent Technologies. NowPos Online Services (shortened form of Now Possible), the company’s first subsidiary, offers free voicemail over the Internet, aimed at users in developing countries with connectivity but little literacy. Tens of thousands of users in countries like Vietnam, China, and South Korea have already registered for the NowPos service (www.NowPos.com). NowPos was rated by Frost and Sullivan as one of the top 20 Broadband Innovations in Asia Pacific. Ayyappa Nagubandi’s journey from being an

Internet Youtube, Second Life, Mozilla Firefox, Google Calendar, Google Spreadsheet, Yahoo! Audibles, Yahoo! Answers, Internet connection on cell phones, Internet content on cell phones, proliferation of webinars and webcasts and strategies used to accommodate geographically distributed audience, mySpace, Flickr...realizing that the world is indeed smaller than ever. Professional growth Innovative learning solutions blending traditional classroom, elearning, webcasts, coaching and mentoring, competency development for a large (450+) technical workforce, facilitating training sessions, PMP preparation and exam. Besides the profession European holiday, swimming, interior design, blogging, Internet games.

A couple of months back, a member from the PMI organization visited my office campus. His goal was to collect inputs and feedback on PMP certification from various organizations across India. In Bangalore, he visited only one other organization besides my own. Apparently, India has the fastest growing PMP certified population. I also found out that my organization has the largest number of PMPs any organization has in the world. Among other things, the one input that cropped up repeatedly was that despite being PMP certified, many professionals were unable to manage projects successfully. I felt PMP certification should include an interview round for those who qualify the written test to ensure quality. It was an interesting discussion since it included employees of different levels who brought out varying perspectives. I am curious to know when and what changes will finally be rolled out in India by PMI.