AXIOM is pleased to present today’s guest post from Tom Snyder, co-founder of Smartstainable, a non-profit organization that provides computer programming training to empower women and children affected by poverty and disease. Smartstainable is the volunteer collaboration of Professor Susan Kiene, who teaches and studies public health, and Tom Snyder, a seasoned software engineer and […]
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Seems like there’s a little bit of marketing in every job; no matter what you do, you need to get people on the same page as you to be successful. The Learning & Development industry is no different. If you want to hold a quality training, you need to get your participants to buy in
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AXIOM will be represented at upcoming ATD events over the next few months. We would love to see you there! October 15: ATD Greater Boston Chapter. “Come Mingle with Social Learning” Peter Ward and Jason Ruff will be there, come say hi! About the event: “In this month’s learning event, Jean Marrapodi, Ph.D, CPLP. invites
Status and Negotiating Across Cultures Understanding the importance and source of status is a vital part of working cross culturally. People can attain status in two ways: Achieved status – what you do In the US and other English-speaking countries, status is achieved and based on your own hard work and results. Titles are not
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AXIOM is happy to be a part of many well-respected Learning and Development organizations, like ATD. We do our best to get to networking events, trade shows, and seminars geared toward like-minded learning professionals. Anyone going to tonight’s Central Mass ATD Chapter Networking Event? AXIOM’s Peter Ward and Dave Franco will be there, look out
In the next 10 years, many men and women will make the tough (or maybe very easy) decision to retire and spend their days living as they please. Wouldn’t we all like a chance to do that! While we dream about summers in the picturesque New England area and warm snow-less winters in the south,
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7 Great tips on running virtual meetings As time moves forward, it seems that more and more companies are creating multi-location work-groups and allowing people to work from home. As a result, new and experienced managers alike are having to learn to run meetings via speakerships, Skype sessions, and other distance shrinking communication tools. It
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A few weeks ago, we did a fun post about our friend Tom Snyder, a co-founder of a great non-profit called Smartstainable that provides computer training to women and children in poverty. You can read it here. We got a lot of positive feedback after posting this, and many thanks from Tom for helping spread
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In today’s world, you can’t escape Social Media. While there can be a lot of information out there that is not always accurate, generally being in touch with friends, colleagues, businesses and family over the internet is a really great thing. But what if you are looking for a new job? What if your future
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Despite these steaming hot temperatures up here in the Boston area, we know summer is on its last legs. We had some great summer vacations over the last few August weeks and hope you had some time to relax, too. We were glad to get some beach time in before the cool weather comes because
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