Digital Training Library

 One of the major tools that's come to my attention is...   Both for work and school I have found this tool to be increasingly useful as an established method to allow classmates and coworkers alike to respond to question I have for them without causing them to lose time in their day. The free version of SurveyMonkey's "Basic" plan allows you to to create as many surveys as you would like, while limiting the amount of questions per survey to 10, easy enough if you're looking to just ask for some quick feedback on an issue or idea.  You can provide a web-link or a QR code for users to scan and respond to via PC or mobile devices and view up to 40 responses to your survey (you get more responses, but can only view them all buy buying in). While you do get a lot with the free package, upgrading also includes tools and features that better enhances your own experience and better shows off your survey to others.  It will also allow you to use SurveyMonkeys respondent p

There are two sides of us when we hold a job, one of the most recent analysis tools I've used is regarding a DISC assessment.  We can lead a natural and adapted style depending on our job and what is expected of us.  This is a tool that asks you a series of questions and related them into four categories: A free assessment can be found here:  https://openpsychometrics.org/tests/ODAT/ Dominance: How we act to express ourselves, by being outgoing in making our demands known to others. Influence: The ways we interact with others to gain approval or make ourselves known. Steadiness: Being calm in the face of stress, value of cooperation. Conscioentousness: How we follow regularity, order and adaption to changes. These are concepts we can use to identify ourselves and how others can be identified.  Using this assessment, my team recently was able to find out what they were doing from the perspective other than their own.  Much of the assessment was accurate to the way they didn't kn

 While there are so many blogs out there that push for self-cooking and self-reliance on food, there are almost certainly staples which will only remain available through the stores.  Having enough storage in your own home through the winter is costly and an investment that not everyone can make at any one time.  We're also living in a time where space is getting more valuable.  Taking for example Nampa, Idaho where I've lived for the past twenty years, seeing the city expand on all sides by three miles and grow out into the towns around it has shown me that we're expanding at an incredible pace and this idea that we can make our own personal room for all of our needs is becoming less of a reality. I bring up this issue of space to highlight the needs that have sparked our food industry here in the U.S. and more or less the rest of the world to grow to accommodate the need of a bigger population.  Along with this, the population is growing more insightful on what they eat w

 I wanted to take this chance to highlight one of the programs I had mentioned in last weeks post, Coorpacademy.  The reason I wanted to bring this up is because it highlights one of the topics mentioned this week regarding the use of turning learning into a game.  You can take such parts like your own personal score:   Or you can view how you are doing up against colleagues: And even challenge your colleagues to a one-on-one to completing courses. This has lead to a great amount of interest in the learning activities presented here, especially with the backing of leadership in the company to have your colleagues find things they are interested in.  While they learn these skills they can apply them to their work, reflect the ideas back on each other and further use what each other knows to become more proficient with application of the skill rather than just the knowledge of it. If you're looking for a resource available for your local or even international organization I believe t

 When I look at what some blogs offer, I notice some say to do things, but rarely go into endorsing something in particular.  Whether this has some implications for businesses or not I don't know at this point, but there are some tools that my business has used that I would like to take this week to highlight. SharePoint I've been using SharePoint for the past few years as a tool to provide group workspaces, a document library, document management, auto-mailer and a few other specialty tools.  Granted I am using an older version but I have also used the newer SharePoint Online which opens up to communication between other Microsoft Office products as well (moreso that I am used to).  You can give users their own logins into this collection, enable it to be through a certain connection (your building) or open it up to wherever you have access to the internet (this latter for better use/functionality for your team).  I think to fully use this program it takes more than just one u

Growing up through my generation I've watched Yahoo Groups, AIM, MSN Messenger, MSN Games, MySpace, and so on and so forth come and go through my life.  Much of my experience was short-lived unless I actually was active with someone through one of these ideas, such as joining a group to talk about a game or a book series (or MUD, a Multi-User Dungeon). This all leads up to our most recently popular items:  Twitter, Facebook, SnapChat, BlogSpot, so on and so forth to name just a few that come to mind immediately.  Each of these barely come within an inch of my notice, but with the re-focus in these programs I have found they are not the same thing I remember from when they first started. This week we are focusing on Twitter and how it's used to reach out and meet, greet and respond between consumers and a business.  This, some might not know, can be a very serious issue.  Tweets can be saved, re-tweeted, shared and dispersed elsewhere across the internet, so if you're not pr