Building Facilitation Training Skills for Faculty Members
When people participate in Turpin workshops, individual members and teams enjoy a host of secondary benefits beyond greater comfort with their own communication skills. Managers [...]
Dry Runs: The Key to Training Readiness in the Virtual World
In our book, Effective SMEs: A Trainer’s Guide for Helping Subject Matter Experts Facilitate Learning, Dale Ludwig and I encourage trainers (and subject matter experts turned [...]
4 Ways to Progress from a Trainer to a ‘Thinking Coach’
If you are a trainer or a SME who delivers training, one of your major responsibilities, and possibly one of your major challenges, is knowing [...]
Consider the SME’s Strengths: from “Effective SMEs”
This is an excerpt from Effective SMEs: A Trainer’s Guide for Helping Subject Matter Experts Facilitate Learning.” In this excerpt Dale Ludwig (Turpin Communication’s Founder) [...]
Designing for Busy People at Work: from “Effective SMEs”
This is an excerpt from “Effective SMEs: A Trainer’s Guide for Helping Subject Matter Experts Facilitate Learning.” In this excerpt Dale Ludwig (Turpin Communication’s Founder) [...]
The 3rd Fundamental Principle of Success in the Training Room: From “Effective SMEs”
This is an excerpt from Effective SMEs: A Trainer’s Guide for Helping Subject Matter Experts Facilitate Learning.” In this excerpt Dale Ludwig (Turpin Communication’s Founder) [...]
The 2nd Fundamental Principle of Success in the Training Room: From “Effective SMEs”
This is an excerpt from “Effective SMEs: A Trainer’s Guide for Helping Subject Matter Experts Facilitate Learning.” In this excerpt Dale Ludwig (Turpin Communication’s Founder) [...]
2017 Year in Review
2017 Was a Big Year We celebrated Turpin’s 25th year in business. In case you missed it, Dale wrote 25 Lessons Over 25 Years, which is an [...]
The 1st Fundamental Principle of Success in the Training Room: From “Effective SMEs”
This is an excerpt from “Effective SMEs: A Trainer’s Guide for Helping Subject Matter Experts Facilitate Learning.” In this excerpt Dale Ludwig (Turpin Communication’s Founder) [...]
Criteria for Selecting Instructional SMEs
This is an excerpt from “Effective SMEs: A Trainer’s Guide for Helping Subject Matter Experts Facilitate Learning.” In this excerpt Dale Ludwig (Turpin Communication’s Founder) [...]