The latest training tips and methods for hotel, restaurant, cafe, culinary, club, bar & waiter trainers and educators.
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Links to useful training sites, culinary resources, food & beverage information, chef training, waiter training and online training. Plus Powerpoint and presentation resources, training in computer and numeracy skills, customer service training and information to help you use blogs, online groups and podcasting as training tools.
If you're from a college or education website, why not add this page to your Link resources.
Also check the Training Library for entries before July 2006 (most still very current and useful).
Provocative words about training...
David Maister's tenth podcast episode from his book Strategy and the Fat Smoker is entitled Why Most Training is Useless.
It deals with 'the reliance many companies and firms place on training as a surrogate for the hard work of true skill development. Training is a wonderful last step in a change process, but a pathetically useless first step. I examine the numerous other essential steps in that process.'
Download and listen on your next walk in the park...
The Google Educators section now has new information pages: one for using Google Earth and Maps eg finding wine regions, creating local tourist maps, food sourcing etc.
The other is an update on Using Google Docs in the Classroom - great (free) tools for collaborating on curriculum, menus, costing projects or presentations with fellow teachers or students.
Tuesday, May 06, 2008 05:49
Sustainable Seafoodies
Here's a great resource* on Australian fish: 'information on your favorite dishes and what seafood is used in them, official data from international, national and state sources on stock status and endangered species, recipes and much, much more!'
Good data for purchasing, menu wording and kitchen staff training.
Jane's E-Learning gathered suggestions from 155 learning professionals, each giving their Top 10 favourite tools for learning (either for their own personal learning or for creating learning for others). She has now put the best 100 into this downloadable collection.
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