The first Leanlab.ca Course

The first LeanLab.ca course is open for leaners or learners.  This video will allow you to see the content expert Murray Guy as he introduces the Lean Project Facilitator course.

The Lean Project Facilitator course is designed to flow from one module to the next and will allow the learner to apply the learning.

The Course flow can be seen below...

For more information about the course go to 

http://leanlab.ca

The Leanlab.ca first course is open for leaners or learners

In our Online Lean Project Facilitator course you will learn how to:

Build a TEAM capable of a Championship Performance.

Implement SYSTEMS that "Get Work Done"

COLLABORATE to improve Profitability and Value.

The Leanlab.ca has opened it's first course call the Lean Project Facilitator's course.  It is normally worth 900 dollars but will only be 375 dollars for the first 35 learners as we fine tune it.  Be one of the first to register to save yourself 525 dollars.

Integrated Project Delivery Course Announcement

Lean Project Delivery Course

Well, it has been eight years since we first published “Design-Build-LEED-Cx” an article describing why working with contractors and designers is a spirit of collaboration is a much better way to deliver building projects.  It took two bailouts by the same contractor to realize they need to be at the table during design where the opportunity to add value is the greatest. This contractor fixed a broken design by saving $1.7M on a $7.5M budget and our team proceeded to deliver a LEED GOLD project that achieved 55% less energy use. 

To try and market this new collaborate high performance building approach we decided that it needed a better name.  Why not expand “Integrated Designs” to include the whole project team, “Integrated Project Delivery” (IPD). When we searched the name, we discovered a whole new world (132,000 hits) of pioneers already practicing this collaborative approach more formally known as relational contracting. We drew up a graphic wrote some papers and started to market this new approach.

Since 2007, we have adopted lean project delivery (LPD) for over ten projects, our first being the $80M Richardson College for Environment Project and our most recent the Mosaic Centre a Living Building Challenge projects that is out to prove we can achieve triple bottom line economics in the building industry. By eliminating waste the significant amount of waste in traditional processes we can afford to build beautiful building that provide productive work spaces for the people and take care of the planet at very little if any additional cost. 

Companies that are early adopters of this new approach are creating a significant competitive advantage for themselves by achieving a higher level of customer satisfaction, greater productivity and profitability. The process also achieves improved safety, reduced risk and shorter project schedules.   

The LPD system is supported by the Lean Construction Institute (LCI), the local communities of practices that provide professional development opportunities for there growing membership. 

Our goal in providing this course is straightforward.  We want to demystify the world of lean design and construction to empower more people to deliver exceptional high performance (WOW) projects. They need to be taking care of the planet, they need to provide productive workspaces for people and they need to be profitable. (Triple Bottom Line) 

This course will distill all of the jargon, knowledge and multitude of processes into 3 simple things! 

How to assemble a great TEAM, implement the SYSTEM & COLLABORATE to deliver a WOW project 

Not only will you be provided with great information in a collaborative online working environment that promotes learning but you will also come away with a Lean Project Playbook that will empower you to take your projects to a much higher level!

50 Coupons to an online marketing course

I have 50 coupons which can be used by the reader of Teaching and Developing Online.  These coupons will give one access to The Online Marketing Crash Course.  These were given to me by a marketing person for this course.  This is not a TADOworldwide course this is an Udemy courses.  It is a video based course and might be of interest to some of you.   If you would like a coupon, add a comment to this post and I will forward the coupon to you.

This course was written by Aaron N. Fletcher

https://www.udemy.com/online-marketing-crash-course

Be a better marketer and Learn more in the next 30 days than most small business owners will ever know

Dear small business owners and bloggers,

Do you struggle to find the time, money and expertise required for success in online marketing?

If you're like me, your inbox is flooded with marketing messages, spanning every imaginable topic: SEO, social media, blogging, copywriting, web design, etc. You may be also getting bombarded with offers, webinars, courses and videos, all pointing you to the next "bright shiny object", trick and tactic that promises to double your traffic overnight. Yuck!

While there are many great, trusted online marketing resources out there, most of us feel like we're constantly gathering pieces of a ginormous jigsaw puzzle. What you really need is the puzzle itself!

The 30-Day Online Marketing Crash Course is super-simple, "geek-free" blueprint that walks you through proven, actionable steps to establish the right foundation for online success.

30-Day Online Marketing Crash Course Outline

• Lesson 1 sets the stage for your online marketing by using a simple but powerful, 3-step funnel to view and measure your online marketing strategy
• Lesson 2 is all about WordPress, the best, most powerful and easiest- to-use website platform for small businesses
• Lesson 3 reveals 8 secrets of user engagement: how to build instant trust and authority with your audience
• Lesson 4 covers 12 ways to double conversion rates, generating more opt-ins and leads. Just one of the strategies in this video can be used to double your website's conversion rates!
• Lesson 5 "SEO Made Simple" is a straightforward, easy-to-understand overview of how Google works and how to find and use the right keywords to reach your audience
• Lesson 6 lays out the top 10 places to reach your audience online and best practices for listing your business, engaging in groups, industry blogs and forums
• Lesson 7 covers the basic website metrics that every business owner needs to know and includes an awesome "one-click" at-a-glance Google Analytics dashboard!
• Lesson 8 details a unique content strategy unlocking 6 highly effective content marketing secrets that large brands and publishers use to exponentially "multiply" the reach for every piece of content you produce.
• Lesson 9 "Blogging made simple" will walk you through the Anatomy of a Perfect Blog post, providing a simple template for creating great, highly engaging blogs every time.
• Lesson 10 "Intro to Online Video" simplifies the process for creating editing, publishing and marketing great web videos and video blogs, including the "$199 video studio."
• Lesson 11 will teach you how to get more online reviews, referrals and renewals using proven and inexpensive email marketing tools.
• Lesson 12 the 30-Day Quick Action Checklist walks you through a series of simple and specific daily steps that will take you from zero to online marketing ninja in one month flat! This last lesson contains 5 additional tutorial bonus videos

Don't let the low price fool you! I set out to make the best introductory online marketing course available, revealing a simple and proven blueprint for growing your business. There are many courses available for $497, $997 or more. My passion is helping business owners succeed by making this highly valuable material available to everyone with the desire to build a thriving online business. Take action, implement the 30-Day Quick Action Plan provided in Lesson 12 and please let me know if you have any questions.

Thanks and Happy Marketing!

Aaron, Liz and Maddy

Geek-Free Marketing, Inc.

• Category:

  Marketing

WHAT'S IN THE COURSE?

1. Over 13 lectures and 4 hours of content!
2. Get more leads and customers using a proven, foolproof strategy
3. Over 3 hours of unique and powerful marketing content
4. Simple to follow 30-Day Action Plan provided
5. Implement a simple online marketing plan that works
6. Reach your audience everywhere they hang out online
7. Launch a simple but powerful WordPress website
8. Create killer content and syndicate it across the web
9. Write simple and compelling blog posts
10. Create super engaging online videos

COURSE REQUIREMENTS:

1. Basic working knowledge or WordPress
2. 1 Hour per day to implement Quick Action Steps

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

1. Small business owners looking for more traffic and customers online
2. Bloggers looking for a clear-cut content marketing strategy

Lean Learning Laboratory

Join our Lean Learning Laboratory and work with masters and like minded professionals to learn a whole new approach to deliver high performance projects that is based upon best practices and lessons learned from the Lean Construction Industry. In our Integrated Projects Course you learn how to create a team and execute an IPD project, practice with the systems and collaborate with course participants to develop a PLAYBOOK for implementing an Integrated Project Delivery project. 

Lean is a new way of thinking that promotes collaboration, productive work flow and the elimination of waste.   Toyota who were pioneers of LEAN practices were able to transform and become the leader in automobile manufacturing.   Their book "The Toyota Way" the BIBLE for lean,  outlines the fourteen main principles that enables them to achieve operational excellence and become one of the most profitable manufacturing companies.   The Lean Construction Industry (LCI) has adopted these same principle and developed systems and processes for design and construction. In this module we will learn WHY Integrated Project Delivery is a far superior approach for managing a project.  How the The Last Planner System and Target Cost Design are used to optimize design and construction practice.  You will learn from case studies WHAT is achievable : 200% improvements in productivity, 40% less capital cost, 30% less operating cost and 20% more profit 

Estimated start date for this course is September 1, 2015.  Pre-Launch Sale will begin end of June, 2015. Spaces are limited.

I have seen a lot of online courses, and ours are not like them.

Many people believe that all you need to make an online course is a manual digitized, put online and attach a test and you have an online course..

Interaction, engagement and the effective use of multi-media will help many of these courses but even that does not explain how to make and effective course..

The following blog post says it better than I ever could...it is worth a read.

How to Avoid Building Online Training That Wastes Time » The Rapid eLearning Blog: "Building an effective online training program requires packaging the right content with the right type of learning experience. However that often doesn’t happen because it’s easier to pull a lot of information together, create some slides, and then publish a course.

To top it off, many of these types of online courses are merely repacked content that already exists on the organization’s network. So instead of building a real learning experience, we’re just repurposing existing content."

TADOworldwide goes live on May 1, 2015...want to know more contact me at Dcannell5@gmail.com

Some dark facts about schools, is business professional development any better?

Education needs to reflect the reality of the students living in the information age.  Authentic activities have real-world relevance is the most critical in any educational environment.  A couple of high school student’s quote clarifies how they feel about the current educational system. “We have learned to 'play school'. “We study the right facts the night before the test so we achieve a passing grade and thus become a successful student."  “It’s not attention deficit – I’m just not listening” (Ferriter, 2007 ¶ 3)!

The current approach to education has resulted in a dropout rate of nine point four percent (2005) and only twenty-eight percent of 12th grade high school students believe that school work is meaningful.  Twenty one percent believe that their courses are interesting and a mere thirty-nine percent believe that school work will have any bearing on their success in later life. (Wirt, Choy, Gerald, Provasnik, Rooney and Watanabe, 2002 p. 20)  Students today according to Gardner (1983) are “interpersonal, logical, spacial, intrapersonal, musical, linguistic, naturalist and Bodily-kinisthetic learners”(p. 6).  However Prensky (2001) proposes that “Today’s students are no longer the people our educational system was designed to teach” (¶ 1).   Furdyk  (2007) states “teachers need to exist in the spaces the students exist, understand their culture.  You have no credibility if you are not where they are” (taken from a keynote).  The information age allows the students the opportunity to “create, consume, remix and share material with each other” as described by Rainie (2006,  ¶ 3). 

How many of us have sat through a day of professional development or training and walked away thinking that was a total waste of time.  A waste because we already knew the material or a waste because it did not apply to all equally.  

Pre-testing, challenging the exam, smaller modules can all be used to personalize individualize education and training.  This is not possible with all your employees gathered in a room for eight hours but it is possible online, with interactive material, testing tools and ever-changing material...you might want to consider the TADOworldwide alternative to training...after all it is virtual and cheaper than what you are doing now.

If you would like to know the references for the above paragraph or more about TADOworldwide...drop me a note..dcannell5@gmail.com

Why should you use TADOworldwide to do your business training?

Why should you use TADOworldwide to do your business training?

The first reason and most powerful one in business is money, we can do it cheaper than you would be able to any other way.

Second we have been developing an online training system for over 15 years.

Our team is made up of educators, which is greatly lacking in many training events.

We have the ability to track your employee's activity and learning.

Our goal is to provide a solution to all your training needs now and in the future.  We are able to grow to be as big as you require and in the end you will save yourself money.

TADOworldwide business training virtual training center will come on line May 1 2015...you may want to contact us and get in on the savings before we go live.

Contact us at dcannell5@gmail.com

Cyber School vs Business Training Virtual Center

How does the cyber school differ from the business training virtual center?  In actual fact very little.  The cyber school was designed to transfer information into the heads of  students in grade 10 to 12.   The cyber school has for 14 years using trail and error to teach all the subjects offered in any normal high school.  So, approaches and procedures fail greatly and some did not and in the end we found we can actually teach students high school subjects via the internet.  The flexibility of allowing students to take courses when they want, work at the speed they wish and work on mastering the material can be used in the business world as well.

All the above stuff means the cyber school when used with business employees should be able to teach the training needed in the business.  It can be done anytime and anywhere since it is done over the internet.  This means no bringing all the employees into a center, allowing them to work on it when they have down time.  In the end it should save the business some money.

What is the Business Training Virtual Center?

For 15 plus years, I worked on helping design an online high school.  During this time we perfected many practices that allowed us to create one of the most successful systems in the world.  The tools, system, and approaches that we tested and developed will very effectively allow one to train employees in a business setting.  The current method of train and professionally developing a person in the business world today is normally done by bring everyone into a central location and lecture style transfer the necessary information during a full day of training.  What we offer in the virtual training center is an alternative method, by allowing a person to do the training anywhere anytime, it makes it more flexible, takes less time and can be a big cost saving for a business.

Want to know more...contact me at 3063615206

Grand Opening May 1, 2015 TADOworldwide Business Training Virtual Center

May 1, 2015 Grand Opening

On May 1, 2015 we are having the grand opening of the Business Training Virtual Center.  We have the ability to train your employees.  What we offer is flexibility and cost savings to your current method of training and professional development.  We can custom make your virtual training and allow your employees the opportunity to access it anywhere and anytime for much cheaper than you are currently doing.  If you would like to know more contact me at Dcannell5@gmail.com 

We are also looking for a few good commission sales people to help build the client list.