The Dreaded “DTR” – Business Sense

When I was in high school, the DTR was the kiss of death on any blossoming relationship. The DTR is the “Define the Relationship” conversation. It’s when you set the boundaries, list the expectations, discuss the disappointments. We used to talk about DTRs like they were the plague. Once you had [...]

E-Learning

Many of you won’t care about this, but this transition in my career is stretching me beyond belief. It’s 11pm and I’ve still got another 1hr (minimum) of work left. Tonight’s work is a storyboard. E-Learning or Web Based Training is charted out on a storyboard that displays images for the screen [...]

TRANSFER!!!

GREAT news!!! I found out on Tuesday that I got my internal transfer. It should take place in early January. The functions of my job will be changing from the focus on developing materials to leading small teams of developers with only small amounts of training material development myself.
It looks like travel [...]

Good Day

Today was a great day. I’m at our customer site sitting through our delivery of Train-the-Trainer. It’s been 3 years since I sat through that, so it’s a good refresher. I will tell you this – I’m so ready to train again. I’m ready to lead worship with my wife again. [...]

Generational Differences: Accepting Diversity or Encouraging Discrimination

Well, I may just have a place to voice my opinion on Generational Differences that might stir some conversation. That’s honestly all I wan to do. This glorious piece of writing (Chel’s a much better writer than me) should come out in the Middle Tennessee Trainers Newsletter in the next month:
Much emphasis has [...]

Middle Tennessee – American Society for Training and Development

I prefer not to use the acronym for them, but alas, it is ASTD. I’m now on the Communications and Marketing sub-committe (woohoo…). I met with the VP today and I’m trying to get them to move out of the newsletter format into a bite sized Blog setup encouraging RSS. We’ll see [...]

My Journey Into OD

Set up coffee today with the leader from our local chapter of American Society for Trainers and Developers (ASTD, I know, it’s terrible to use STD in the name of a professional society) SIG (Special Interest Group) on OD (Organizational Development). The more I talk with OD professionals, the more I have to recognize [...]

Millenials

Someone quoted a statistic to me that was mind-boggling to me.

Millenials will have had 14 jobs by age 35. (Source unknown)
Then I realized that by age 21 I had already been through 6 jobs (ages: Joydell’s reception 14-15, Catering Summer job 15, New Generation Kids Center 16-18, Tri-Link composite technologies 17-18, Family Church [...]

You could lose your job for this…

I’ve heard stories recently of MySpace Pics and Facebook info causing people to lose their jobs. A simple search for my name can give you a lot of info on somebody.
I write a lot on this blog, but I’d like to think it’s not something I don’t vocalize with my superiors. [...]

Generational Differences pt. 2

I wonder when someone out there will start calling the hype around millenials exactly what it is: age discrimination. Apply the same conversation to race or sex and you’d hear it quick – it would be dismissed from your OD and HR conversations, but call it coping with millineials and everyone but the [...]