Pressure is on for engineers to communicate face-to-face

MIT created this undergraduate program focused on “people skills” in response to industry pressures to produce engineers who are as skilled at communicating face-to-face as they are at writing complicated computer codes on their own.

A great industry example of why the courses in myLearning are VERY applicable to your job!

Read the report here.

You Don’t Know How to E-Mail

I’d say my biggest gripe at the office is our persistent and abundant inability to effectively communicate via e-mail.  I say “our” because I’m guilty of this, too. Two things got me thinking about this today:

1. I received an email with a blank subject line
2. Then I received an email sharing Erik Goodlad’s “5 min/20 Slides” presentation at Ignite Boise about managing emails

Hear me for a minute: if you’re swamped with emails, so are your co-workers, manager, and most importantly… your clients and subject matter experts.  By following some of the tips from Mike Song’s book, The Hamster Revolution, you’ll communicate better and do a better job managing your emails.

Check out Erik’s presentation, too:

What’s The Cost of Misinterpreted Messages?

“What’s the cost of misinterpreted messages?  Like a serve and return, innovation has two core foundational elements:  learning and communication.  New processes and discoveries must be learned and continuously better-communicated. ”  Mike Koper

Read the full article here:  11 Tips on Talk, Improving Communication Improves Human Performance.

What is an example (work or personal) where a mis-communication was costly?  What is your estimate of how much time or money it cost you or your organization?

myLearning Released to Double-Take Supervisors

This week we released myLearning, a learning mangaement system, to Double-Take Supervisors.

Supervisors received an online training course to learn about their responsibilities in the system.  Next week the system will be rolled out to the rest of the company.

Check your email for the link to training and login credentials for the system.

Four Things Every Employee Wants to Know

If you’re striving to be the best manager/coach/mentor/leader you can be, you don’t need to overcomplicate your life trying to achieve this.  All Things Workplace gives you four simple things to think about — and if you can do these for your employees, you’ll achieve your goals.

http://www.allthingsworkplace.com/2009/10/the-four-things-every-employee-wants-to-know.html