Posted: January 17

On Thursday evening, January 12, ISPI Charlotte’s 2012 year got off to a great start with an outstanding program.  We met in our new location in the UNC Charlotte building uptown with a great turnout.  It appears the new location will be a healthy change for us.
 
Our presenter Cal Wick told us a story about a learning solution that his company designed for one of his clients that appeared to be a great success.  The only problem was that when he visited the company a few months later, everything seemed to have reverted back to the behavior that was causing problems before the learning event.  Now who hasn’t been there?

Posted: January 5

I had a good year last year teaching performance consulting skills to a few hundred people within my client base and at conferences and professional societies. By far the most common reason anyone attends these classes is because they are dissatisfied being order takers for training requests and they want to have a measurable impact on the business. Another possible motivation for improving skills in performance consulting should be the current economic situation. One would think that with increasing layoffs and tightening budgets, two factors would come into play:

Posted: December 21

This will be my last blog entry for this year. I’m sure I will think of lots of new things to write about next year, but for this year, I would like to say thank you to some special people. First of all, thank you to all of our clients who have supported us this year and in years past. I hope we have been able to make your lives better and I hope we have helped to make your organizations work smarter and better.
I also want to thank the wonderful people I am privileged to work with here at Handshaw. You are hard-working, talented and dedicated. Your passion for your profession and your clients shows through in everything you do.

We have had a very successful year in 2011 and we are all grateful. We are working right now on strategic plans for an even better 2012. I know I have my clients and my colleagues here to thank for that success. Here’s wishing you all a Merry Christmas and a very prosperous New Year.

Sincerely,
Dick Handshaw

Posted: December 13

I’ve never written about Virtual Instructor Lead Training (VILT) before. I didn’t think I really knew much about it other than attending a few sessions about it at conferences. But after finishing my 27^th one yesterday, and all since November 7^th, I think I know something about them now.

Posted: November 22

Last week on November 15^th, I had the pleasure of addressing a small but very enthusiastic group of members of the Upstate South Carolina ASTD Chapter at their very nice meeting space in Greenville, SC. A large percentage of the audience were practicing instructional designers so we enjoyed a great deal of discussion during the presentation, “Instructional Design—How to Sell the Real Value.”