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Good leadership isn't about advancing yourself. It's about advancing your team. John C. Maxwell

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Develop a strong mid and senior level leadership team through Personal Effectiveness Programs

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Deliver projects on time and within cost by enabling your managers with the right project management skills

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Commenting Made Easier

September 21, 2009
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| Categories: Blogger, Blogging, Commenting, feedback

I have made commenting easier on my blog. Simply select the post you want to comment on by clicking the title of the post. Scroll to the bottom of the post and write your comment in the comment field. Select one of the profiles as your identity and post your comment. Simple! I don’t have a defined and documented comment policy but will stay with common sense. No spam, no trolls, no hurting sentiments, etc. Anonymous comments are fine, though I personally would encourage you to at least leave your…

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How to be a Successful Technical Writer

September 19, 2009
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| Categories: Career, coaching, Content Development, Jobs, technical writer, technical writing, Tips

Swaminathan Moothy of Society for Technical Communication (STC) invited me to speak at their regional conference in Chennai. I shared what I think is needed to be a successful writer. I spoke about skills companies are looking for in a technical writer, tips on how to manage technical writing projects, and career options for a technical writer. It was quite a learning experience. The audience was a group of technical writers with varied experience and I got to learn new things. Here’s my presentation on being a successful technical writer.How…

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Yammer Adds Outlook Plugin

September 15, 2009
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| Categories: Microlearning, Workplace Learning, Yammer

I wrote in my experiences with micro-learning in corporate environment that one of the challenges to micro-learning environment is the competition it faces from email and IM. Well, Yammer has released a new Outlook plugin. The plugin adds a Yammer pane inside the Outlook window, integrating Yammer with one of the most used application in the enterprise. Looks like an interesting and enticing move. Will this help in micro-learning’s adoption? Wait and watch…

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Agile Instructional Design Team Structures

September 14, 2009
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| Categories: ADDIE, agile, Content Development, Development, eLearning, Instructional Design, project management, Rapid development

I have been reading about agile development lately. One of the key components of agile development is team structuring. Typically in large organizations, content development teams are organized either as functional teams or as project teams with larger organizations typically having functional structures in place. Agile methodology suggests a more project structure. Teams work dedicatedly for the project, preferably located close to each other. Having seen both functional team structures and project team structures, I believe both structures have their inherent strengths. Advantage Project Teams Projects can be completed faster.…

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Now Featured on eLearningLearning.com

September 10, 2009
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| Categories: blogs, eLearning, elearningLearning, Workplace Learning

My post on blogs by learning professionals in India helped Tony Karrer identify some new blogs for his list of top blogs on workplace elearning. In the process, Learn and Lead is now a featured blog on Tony’s eLearningLearning.com site. eLearning Learning is a content aggregation site that serves to bring all of your favorite eLearning blogs together into one site. It is a hub that pulls together content from various members of the eLearning world and make it more easily accessible to people who are searching and/or who want…

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The Future as Children See It

September 7, 2009
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| Categories: Children, Future, Trends

My soon-to-be-10-year-old son has been introduced to various ages of history thanks to a popular computer game. Out of curiosity, I asked him what ‘age’ we are currently in. According to him, we are currently in the “Touch age”. He is inspired by the iPhone and other touch screen phones he is exposed to. The next age according to him will be the “Talk age”. We will just need to talk to the machines and they will act on what we say. After that we will have the “Think age”.…

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eLearning Salaries in India – Part 2

September 2, 2009
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| Categories: Content Development, eLearning, India, Jobs, Salary, Survey

Amit Garg of Upside Learning posted some interesting comments about the elearning salary survey on their company blog. He raises three important points: Salary ranges are very wideDoes variable pay work?Recession has had a severe impact You can see his full post here. Here’s what I responded. 1. Salary Ranges: In the survey, I asked respondents for total experience and relevant experience. As I mentioned in my post, I have considered relevant experience and this has led to some anomaly in data. However when I dig a little deeper into…

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eLearning and Content Development Salaries in India

September 1, 2009
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| Categories: Content Development, eLearning, India, Salary, Survey

The Unofficial Salary Survey for elearning and content development jobs in India is now closed. This year the survey received 104 valid responses. This is up from 54 last year and 10 the year before. NCR contributed with most respondents (25), followed closely by Chennai (23), Bangalore (18) and Pune (15). Mumbai (12), Hyderabad (8), Cochin (1), Surat (1) and Kolkatta (1) were the other cities. There were two responses from outside India which were not considered (the survey is for jobs in India). Key highlights:Instructional Designers (57) were most…

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Experiences with Micro-learning in Corporate Environment

August 21, 2009
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| Categories: Learning, Microlearning, Twitter, Workplace Learning, Yammer

After trying out Twitter for some time, I started experimenting with Yammer sometime early this year. I would say we are still in the experimentation phase with micro-learning. I started with sending some invites and broadcasted some messages. It was a slow start with me invite some colleagues and then the pace picking up quickly as the joining went viral. People invited other colleagues and the membership soon grew (we now have more than 90 people on our Yammer network). Messages started to flow. The Yammer platform was used to…

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Don’t Like It

August 19, 2009
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| Categories: feedback, perspective, responses

Four Three people don’t like my post Great Work is Not Recognized. Would love to hear more about different perspectives.You can add your perspective in comments to the post. If you are viewing the post on the home page of this blog, click either the title of the post or ‘# comments’ link just below the title.Scroll down and at the end of the post and existing comments, click Post a Comment link. Looking forward to hearing more from you.

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