What Is The Keys to Engaging Virtual Classroom Training? Planning, Design—and Channeling Oprah

When Cindy Huggett envisions a great online training facilitator, she’s thinking about Oprah. A key skill is “building rapport with an audience that you don’t have visual contact with. People do this all the time. Think of a television personality like Oprah. She’s the master of creating that connection. And how many of us have […]

Tsuji Culinary Institute In Japan

How to Survive In Japanese Culinary School Wanted to share with you this incredible video found on CBS online with Seth Doane visiting a famous and renowned culinary school in Osaka, Japan called the Tsuji Culinary Institute. I think you will find the school’s absolute attention to detail quite remarkable. The Tsuji Culinary Institute was […]

Jhana Offers Targeted Coaching for First-Level Managers

It can be difficult for first-level managers to find their way. They might excel at specific job skills, but if they’ve never led a team or project before, they’re likely to have a lot of questions about managing others. An enormous industry provides management research and advice, but it primarily targets executives and corporate leaders. The […]

The Mistake Of The Culinary School : Not Looking at Accreditation

In culinary education, the value of accreditation is much like the value of a diploma program. Some accreditations mean quite a bit, and should be a standard part of any school you consider. Other accreditations mean little more than that the school pays an annual fee to an “Accreditation Body” that comes up with its […]

Professor lawsuits University Forced Him To Teach Maths Only Because ‘Asians Are Good At Maths’

A Korean-American professor filed a lawsuit against the University of Illinois at Chicago last week, claiming that officials in his department “systematically harassed” him because of his ethnicity and forced him to teach a math class because he was Asian. Seung-Whan Choi, a professor of international relations, says that UIC’s political science department denied him […]