Back Issues - August 2005

• Training Journal interview: Danah Zohar
  Danah Zohar talks to Jo Young about her career, her views on business, and how she came to believe in Spiritual Intelligence.
• Worry - a wasted emotion?
  Peter Honey comes to the conclusion that worry is a ‘learned’ activity, and we should strive to ‘unlearn’ this pointless behaviour.
• Relevance
  ASTD President and CEO, Tony Bingham urges learning and development professionals to prove themselves to the business world.
• The challenge of the Outdoors
  Dick Allcock, a pioneering figure in the world of outdoor training. died earlier this year. Ingrid Cranfield traces the origins of outdoor development and assesses the contribution Allcock made in this arena.
• Web conferencing: the future of training?
  What is web conferencing and what opportunities does it offer as a training delivery method within a blended learning programme? Tom Stroud highlights its strengths and weaknesses, and demonstrates its application in organisations today.
• Accelerated Learning: Myth or magic?
  Michael Tipper explains how undersatnding and harnessing the power of our brains enables us to learn more efectively.
• NLP: Business as a foreign language
  From the employment of baroque music to the use of codebreaking techniques, practitioners of accelerated learning techniques can become so focused on the process that it may limit their ability to fully develop practical applications. Similarly, for a community that prides itself on flexibility of communication, Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) practitioners continue to fail to find a language that will persuade business leaders of its effectiveness. Tony Dunk takes a critical look at the issues.
• Getting on track: what's new in fast learning
  Accelerated Learning (AL) can be delivered in many ways. But here Mike Levy looks at some of the more unusual approaches.
• Hot fashions in training
  Jane Smith reveals some practitioners’ views on the latest trends in training and learning.
• E-xposing and e-spousing
  Gilly Salmon traces the history of the university inaugural lecture, and argues the case for its validity to trainers and coaches today.
• The most precious resource?
  Andrew Mayo introduces us to ‘value-adding time’ and suggests we consider more carefully the implications of our actions on other people’s time.
• Netcheck
  Clare Forrest surfs the Internet for pictures and sounds to spice up your training resources.
• Distributing questionnaires
  Part 8 in the Learning Needs Analysis series by Sarah Cook.