What are 21st Century Skills?

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Permalink Reply by tom abeles on September 28, 2010 at 12:39pm

Hi Christina

You just answered my question. You might want to share with this site your M Ed program, institution, courses and links to courses and descriptions so that we can see what you are getting over time. It also would be helpful to know where you are located (city) and what training organizations you have joined and whether there are local chapters or members in your area.

Also, it would be helpful to understand something about the training department and how they are supporting you as a new trainer to get up to speed and how much responsibility they have given you along with their expectations for your performance.

Physicians are very reluctant to give advice, prescribe or offer other medical help without doing a physical. Even prescribing an aspirin, especially w/children, could be a disaster. Unfortunately, too many HR consultants are willing to play the same game at the drop of a question.

My advice, based on the above: Pull together the answers to the above questions and go to professional meetings, attending workshops where you can wander between sessions and talk to vendors, find colleagues in your community outside of your company who are in the HR training arena and go from there. M Ed programs are great for theory but talk to those on the front line who face the same issues you are raising.

This type of a blog is best suited for a clearly defined problem complete with good diagnostics for many reasons.

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Permalink Reply by Christina D'Errico on September 28, 2010 at 5:27am

Thanks Adam for the information on Motivation. This is extremely helpful and the question you ask whether it is the trainers responsibility and/or managers is a very good one. Part of this has to do with the culture of the organization. We are not fostering creative and innovative skills, resulting in the lack of desire to learn - which I believe is a direct correlation.

Christina

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Permalink Reply by Christina D'Errico on September 28, 2010 at 12:58pm

Thanks Tom - I will do that.

Christina

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