It’s true what they say, isn’t it? Time flies when you’re having fun. Well it’s been 10 years of fun around here at BlueVolt.
Hard to believe but we first began offering our learning management system (LMS) to our customers back in 2002.
In our first days, I remember talking to customers about training and hearing, “I don’t want to spend time training, because my employees will just quit and go to work for someone else.”
We’re very excited to announce that we won the Brandon Hall Gold Award for the Best Advance in Rewards and Recognition Technology for our $BlueBucks rewards program.
Do you remember playing telephone when you were a child? Someone would whisper a message to the kid next to him or her and it would continue down the chain, often distorting into something completely different by the time it reached the end of the line. Unfortunately, the same thing can happen with product training.
In previous posts, we’ve discussed the benefits of elearning on your budget, your learners and your profits. You can add the environment to that list as well.
According to the Clean Air Council, the average U.S. office worker uses 10,000 sheets of copy paper each year, which equates to about four million tons of copy paper annually. In addition, U.S. office workers generate approximately two pounds of paper and paperboard products every day. It’s no question that a huge amount of that paper goes to waste. Of course, recycling and reusing help the effects on the environment, but let’s not forget the third “R,” reducing!
I don't know about you, but the thought of "retirement" makes me think of boredom. The way I look at it, if you're not growing, you're letting life slip by. Drink up every last drop of life and grow by experience, by mind and by spirit.
Retire? Oh, someday I might take it easier. I might not punch a time clock, but I intend to keep busy learning and doing.
This list of things to do when you're done being a professional electrician may be all tongue-in-cheek, but let it help you think outside the junction box. Who knows! You could be the next Colonel Sanders.
