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COUNTDOWN, less than one week to American Society of Training and Development Global Conference
The Refinery is going to be attending the largest training and development-oriented conference in the world this year. The ASTD Global Conference will be held in Dallas, Texas. Along with Terry Dillon, VP of Practice, and Isabelle Eaton, Manager of Practice Development, I will be hanging out with fellow T&D industry folks for a few days in downtown Dallas.
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TO THE RESCUE – AME BC’s Mineral Exploration Magazine features Team Miracle
TEAM MIRACLE is raising the profile of mine rescue competitions – and mine safety practice. The team, which includes The Refinery’s Moira van den Akker and Angelica Tellez have been invited to participate in a demo at BC Mining week in Vancouver from April 28 to May 4, 2013.
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Leadership Voices – Lori Triolo, Inspiration from the Arts in the World of Work
The next Leadership Voices series features Lori Triolo. She shares ideas about “Inspiration from the Arts in the World of Work”. Join the conversation.
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The Perfect Students by Mark Frein
I’m not a big fan of much of the language surrounding training and development. It is gauche to call adults “students” as opposed to learners or some other term. But for the most part, these changes are political as opposed to real. We still teach/train students because they tend to want us to be teachers. Some learn. Some don’t.
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Learning to play with Children’s Blocks by Jenny T.A. Nguyen
I believe that every person should be accepted as a unique individual, regardless of their colour, size, age, orientation, lifestyle, culture, education or any other differential that is but only one small aspect of their person.
Yet, the same courtesy is often hard to extend to myself.
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