iPods for Docs
iPods are becoming a powerful tool in learning and development. And for those of you in HR L&D in the medical business, iPod learning can even help save lives. Yahoo News reports:
Doctors can greatly improve their stethoscope skills and therefore their ability to diagnose heart problems by listening repeatedly to heartbeats on their iPods.
Previous research has shown that the average rate of correct heart sound identification by physicians is 40 percent.
In a new study, 149 general internists listened 400 times to five common heart murmurs during a 90-minute session with iPods. After the session, the average score improved to 80 percent.
In L&D, you can’t always get what you want, but with iPod learning you get what you need.
UPDATE: In a comment, Charlie writes: “I’m wondering if cheap mp3 players could be used in less esoteric fields, such as call center training. Each month, a group of tough calls could be uploaded to the players of hundreds of call center reps - like podcasting for employee development.”
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Want to Enter a Best Presentation Contest?
SlideShare is conducting a “World’s Best Presentation” contest. Do you have something you’d like to submit? Maybe you can get some inspiration from some of the presentations already submitted to the contest. Could be fun.
Just Because You’ve Been Diagnosed as Paranoid Doesn’t Mean That Your Company Isn’t Watching You
Note to employees: Your company is watching you. And as much as I personally dislike that (and many of you do, too), it’s their equipment and they’re paying you to work…not play. So, you might want to think about sending notes to a co-worker who isn’t your wife that says, “I think about us together all of the time. Little moments like watching your face when you kiss me.” Oops. That’s what USA Today reports in a story called Wal-Mart alleges sex, misdeeds in counterclaim to firing lawsuit.
Lots of Inappropriate E-Mail: The Repercussions
If that Wal-Mart story isn’t enough to remind you of how to use company e-mail (as in, if you wouldn’t want your grandmother to read it, or if you wouldn’t want to see it printed in USA TODAY, then don’t send it), then I’ve done a public service and added a couple other cautionary tales for your reading pleasure.
Rep. Mark Foley and the White House Pages. We all know about this one, but the Rep. Foley story tells about e-mail monitoring and how hitting delete doesn’t work.
I once witnessed an incredible e-mail faux pas a long time ago, sort of at the early entry point of e-mail in business. A guy in a group I worked in, which was very few men and a LOT of women, wrote up a detailed report of partying and debauchery at his bachelor party…in Las Vegas. And somehow, instead of sending it to the group he wanted to (I can’t imagine why he’d want to send it to anyone) he accidentally hit “All Group” in Lotus Notes. And before you could say ruh-roh in your best Scooby-Doo voice, over 100 people were reading his e-mail. And what happened in Vegas didn’t stay in Vegas. Not once he hit “send.”
Use Your Own Equipment for Your Own Business
Here’s what my dad would have said: Don’t be a bonehead. If you have personal business, either on the phone or by e-mail, use your own stuff. I’ve seen it happen all too often that people get caught up with what they think is private communication when they might as well have written it on a flying banner over the Super Bowl.
ARSEMail: When You Care Enough to Send the Very Zest
Want to reach out and punch someone? Want to let your zingers do the talking? When you care enough to send the very zest, now there’s ARSEmail. Bob Sutton, author of The No Asshole Rule, developed ARSEMail. Prof. Sutton writes:
You have a choice of sending one of two cards, one to help someone who is dealing with an asshole, OR the other to apologize if you have been asshole. You can send a personal message with each card. Plus the card about dealing with assholes has some tips, as well as a link to my post on tips for victims of workplace assholes. You pick your card, write your message, and then send it.
I’m sure this is one of these things that makes you both laugh and go, uh-oh, if you’re in HR. I’m sure you can imagine that first phone call you get when someone in your organization gets their first piece of ARSEmail. You could feign shock and indignation. Or, you could just realize that ARSEmail could very well be a behavior modification device that actually could work. I’d be interested to hear your thoughts about that.
I do think that ARSE Self-Exam would be a great item to add to the performance review system. Rate over an 11? No bonus for you. Rate a 24? Then you’re a certain New York-based client manager at a place where I used to work a long time ago. I wish that Prof. Sutton would have invented ARSEmail back then. I might have used a card or two.
Apple Employees Get a Second Bite of the Options Apple
Apple announced that some of their employees will receive cash payments to offset the effects of tax penalties and losses from backdated stock options reports the San Jose Mercury News.
You can download the Tender Offer here. (Mar. 16, 2007 filing) It’s interesting reading for those of you in the compensation business.
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