T Is For Training

We wrap 2025 with Paul, Aaron, Jared, and Maurice talking about quality control, personal responsibility, changing hearts, and committing to professionalism everywhere. Show them the mountain behind the clouds. tisfortraining.wordpress.com next show on Jan 8th, 2026.

T is for Training 385 - I Love The Penny? With Paul, Maurice, Tom & Aaron. tisfortraing.wordpress.com is the place you can find notes when I post them. Adaptability discussion primed with https://status.net/articles/what-is-adaptability-in-the-workplace/ article. We will next record on December 11th, then January 8th, 2026. Happy every damn holiday to you if you don't join us. 1) How do we effectively move learning from one environment to another (and, sometimes, back to the original environment)? 2) What are the key skills related to adaptability in learning that we foster among ourselves and the learners we serve?

Lively hour podcast focusing on Training/Teaching/Learning. Usually with Maurice, Paul, Tom, Mark and a cast of friends. When the lazy host writes them, notes are up at tisfortraining.wordpress.com Aaron B joined us as we talked about what preparation goes into a successful training session, started with this https://www.sessionlab.com/blog/training-session-plan/ article.

Lively hour podcast focusing on Training/Teaching/Learning. Usually with Maurice, Paul, Tom, Mark and a cast of friends. When the lazy host writes them, notes are up at tisfortraining.wordpress.com We talked about how we influence with words, who influenced us and how we can show others how they can shine. Inspiration - https://georgecouros.com/resilience-and-risk/

This article sparked our talk about How to Teach During Turbulent Times. https://searle.northwestern.edu/resources/our-tools-guides/learning-teaching-guides/turbulent-times-guide-page.html Let's see if Talkshoe recorded THIS version. Paul, Aaron, Tom and Maurice talked about how to deal with BIG OUTSIDE topics in a learning session. Like a shutdown, or AI. You know, easy subjects. find notes usually on tisfortraining.wordpress.com

Paul, Maurice, Aaron and Tom talked about the Six Disciplines of Breakthrough Learning (new edition just came out) Here is an introductory PDF link https://the6ds.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Introduction-to-the-6Ds-3.0.pdf Find our show notes (when the host writes them) at tisfortraining.wordpress.com Next show September 4th, 9 eastern.

Maurice, Tom, Paul, Mark and Aaron used this https://www.lisedunetwork.com/training-and-professional-development-of-library-professional/ article as a jumping off point to talk about what WE get out of training/teaching/learning. Mostly we talked about how teaching others energizes us. Notes eventually on tisfortraining.wordpress.com Next show on August 7th then September 4th.

Lively hour podcast focusing on Training/Teaching/Learning. Tom, Maurice, and Paul were joined by Madeline Shellgren from https://onlinelearningconsortium.org and Laura Geringer from https://pumpkinberryconsulting.com/ (this is their consulting group) We talked about excape rooms and how to apply escape rooms to create different learning pathways and an engaging way to convey many different types of information. Be present, be authentic, and have some fun designing your escape room. Records on Thursdays notes usually up by Sunday at tisfortraining.wordpress.com

Lively hour podcast focusing on Training/Teaching/Learning. Usually with Maurice, Paul, Tom, Mark and a cast of friends. Records on Thursdays notes usually up by Sunday at tisfortraining.wordpress.com

Lively hour podcast focusing on Training/Teaching/Learning. This week featured Maurice, Tom, Mark and Aaron B. We started off talking about reflective writing and then went tangentially many interesting places. Records on Thursdays notes up by Sunday at tisfortraining.wordpress.com

We used the excellent article from Political Librarian Safeguarding Libraries, Schools, and Communities from Political Threats: A Strategic Framework for Engagement, Advocacy, and Sustainable Organizing as a jumping off point of what we can do as trainers/teachers/leaners to create a civil and civic minded society. Libraries are non-partisan political entities and need to start acting like it. Lively hour podcast focusing on Training/Teaching/Learning. Records on Thursdays notes up by Sundayish at tisfortraining.wordpress.com

Paul, Tom, Mark and Maurice discuss the recent news about IMLS, what we can do as trainers to help library staff deal with the good and the bad of modern libraries. And on Public Service and On Bullshit. Lively hour podcast focusing on Training/Teaching/Learning. Records on Thursdays notes up by Sunday at tisfortraining.wordpress.com

Maurice, Paul, Tom and Sardek talk about some ways to deal with the everyday and professional situations when your world has gone to [redacted.] Sardek is developing content to help his learners negotiate and influence outcomes in some of our most challenging "world on fire" situations. He will be drawing from Chris Voss's book Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended on It. Notes and links up this weekend on tisfortraining.wordpress.com

Maurice, Tom, Diane and Jared talked about Copyright, AI models, AI as index or author, how everything is tainted and should everything be open and not bound by copyright laws if it advances knowledge? notes on tisfortraining.wordpress.com sometime soon this weekend. Join us in two weeks at 9 pm ET on March 20th for another episode of T is for Trianing

Tried to start the show on Talkshoe. Didn't start recording, so we switched to Zoom. Look for notes on tisfortraining.wordpress.com we recorded an episode about advocacy in light of foolishness.

Maurice, Tom, Diane, Paul and Haneda–Campos comet Aaron Blumberg talked about effective advocacy for libraries, some resources, and a realistic timeline of advocacy efforts in libraries. Find links on tisfortraining.wordpress.com

Paul, Tom and Maurice use Kate Murphy's Book You're Not Listening to talk about the power of listening and the need to listen in all of our spaces. We then tangentially (I know you are all shocked) talked about other things related to listening and thinking such as the Candle Test (aka Duncker's Candle Problem) and how to create spaces where people listen to each other to build new pathways of thought. our web home - tisfortraining.wordpress.com

Paul, Mark, Tom, Diane & Maurice welcomed in Jimmy Glenos from ATD South FL chapter https://www.atdsfl.org/mentorship and returning guest Dan Bassil from Chicago www.tutormentorexchange.net/dan-bassil to talk about mentoring during January, which is National Mentorship month! Notes up this weekend at tisfortraining.wordpress.com We next record on Jan 23rd at 9 ET. Join us!

Paul, Mark, Maurice and somewhat Tom talked about activism in Libraries, Acting Locally while thinking regionally, and globally, How small acts can make powerful change. Activism comes in many forms, from pinging networks to making transformative connections for the people you directly and indirectly work with in a learning session. Notes eventually on tisfortraining.wordpress.com