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Employee Learning Week
Listen to "We Want a World That Works Better"
Submitted by bwurtz on August 19, 2010 - 4:39pm.0:0:50 minutes (724.51 KB)
Listen to the Chapter's new Employee Learning Week promotional Public Service Announcement. Thanks to Scott Melanson and Debi Green for their work in producing it. (PS. This is the "long" version.)
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The New York Times Discovers the Skills Gap
Submitted by bwurtz on July 2, 2010 - 8:31am.Today's New York Times features on the front page, above the fold, an article on "Factories Ready to Hire, But Employers Find Skill Shortage." It looks like our Nation's Newspaper of Record has finally discovered the skills gap, something ASTD, including this Chapter, have been talking about for quite some time now. While you can read the whole article by clicking the link above, here is a key passage:
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VAST NEED FOR RETRAINING IN WASHINGTON STATE
Submitted by bwurtz on February 20, 2010 - 1:58pm.Eleni Papadakis, executive director of Washington State's workforce Training and Education Board (and a member of ASTDps's Employee Learning Week Advisory Board) reports a startling statistic on her blog.
Addressing the need of "those adult workers who have not gone beyond high school and are unable to find and hold a family-wage job," Papadakis observes as follows:
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CREATIVE ACTION -- THE ANTIDOTE TO DESPAIR
Submitted by bwurtz on November 19, 2009 - 9:56am."Action is the antidote to despair." -- Joan Baez
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New Skill Programs to Help You "Link Learning to Organizational Results"
Submitted by bwurtz on November 15, 2009 - 4:53pm.You can register now for two new learning programs in December to help you "walk the talk," in honor of our profession's upcoming Employee Learning Week (ELW) celebration, the ELW slogan of "Linking Learning to Organizational Results."
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LINKING LEARNING TO ORGANIZATIONAL RESULTS -- A Research Study of "An Extra Blessing," A Sales Improvement Intervention
Submitted by bwurtz on October 31, 2009 - 1:04pm.Employee Learning Week is ASTD's awareness campaign to build public understanding of, and support for, workplace learning as a vital business development strategy. On-going employee learning is essential in all American organizations -- large or small, for-profit, non-profit or government -- to help the United States maintain its economic competitiveness in a rapidly changing and increasing global marketplace.
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FORMER ASTRONAUT AND SCIENCE/MATH EVANGELIST JOINS ADVISORY BOARD
Submitted by bwurtz on October 28, 2009 - 1:52pm.I am pleased to announce that Dr. George "Pinky" Nelson, Director of the Science, Mathematics and Technology Education program at Western Washington University and former NASA astronaut has accepted an appointment to the Chapter's Employee Learning Week Advisory Board.
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