CADDManager on August 29th, 2008

Tools – Talent – Technology – Training Keep the four T’s in your mind at all times.  Working all of these four areas together will provide you with a good platform for success. Select the tools that you will use, seek out the talented people in your firm, give them the right blend of tools […]

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CADDManager on August 28th, 2008

Tools – Talent – Technology – Training These four T’s can be used to define your efforts in you job. Combine these four and you get a balanced approach to CAD. Training is how you get everyone there. Provide it and you succeed. Let it laps and your best tools and talent go stale. Training […]

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CADDManager on August 18th, 2008

Tools – Talent – Technology – Training These four T’s can be used to define your efforts in you job. Combine these four and you get a balanced approach to CAD. Tools relates to the ones that you select. Which ones will you use? What will you use them for? Talent relates to who is […]

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CADDManager on January 6th, 2008

When you set up your lunch and learn (lunch hour training) you want to select your topics carefully. There is no point in presenting something that will not be useful or desired by the audience. You also want to be careful not to discuss things that you do not want your users actually doing. Let’s […]

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CADDManager on January 2nd, 2008

From the Bentley website… Distance Learning Instructor-led distance learning helps your users get training conveniently, easily, and with little disruption of their daily work routine. Live instruction and collaboration Train single users, host training for a group, or simultaneously train users from multiple offices Reduce time spent away from your projects Requires no travel Distance […]

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CADDManager on December 17th, 2007

Continuing my look at Lunch and Learns here are a few random tips to make them better: Get good speakers. First look around the office to see who might be a good candidate for sharing in the instruction. Ask some of the Super Users. Ask some of your CAD Staff. Ask your reseller. They are […]

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CADDManager on December 16th, 2007

FREE FOOD! The two most powerful words – when combined – even more powerful. Offering Lunch and Learns is a very common way of getting people to come to training. It is an incentive that few people can pass up. Most will come for the food, if not for the teaching. The trouble is that […]

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CADDManager on December 13th, 2007

From the AUGI site: (you must be a member to see some of this. Join for Free) AUGI e-Learning Program “AUGI is pleased to offer AUGI e-Learning, a program that offers AUGI members a selection of video tutorials focusing on various Autodesk products. AUGI, in conjunction with CADLearning, is making video lessons available every month […]

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CADDManager on December 10th, 2007

There are a lot of training materials that can be used effectively. Like I said – I like to create my own, but that is tough. Usually I start with other material that I may have used or has been used to train me. If I take a class in the latest software, I may […]

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