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Ken O'Brien
Member since 04th April 2007
Ken O’Brien is the owner of Spear IT (http://www.spearitlouth.ie), a computer services company based in Drogheda, Ireland, which offers a range of managed services including online backup. Spear IT also provide training and training courses to small businesses. He can also be found reflecting on IT and other issues on his blog(http://www.spearitlouth.ie/spearitblog).
20th July 2007
IT Support! It seems to be one of those expressions that makes people froth at the mouth and send a shiver down their backs. It takes forever to connect and even when you do they seem content to say anything in order to get rid of people.
How much of ...
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17th May 2007
I had a thought about training recently and seeing as I was reviewing my own courses and training, I began to wonder how good it actually is. Much of what I learnt in college is now forgotten. This suggests to me that I may not have found it useful to lea...
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06th May 2007
In a previous article I looked at reasons why training is important and how organisations could look at providing training for employees. In this article I’ll consider some practical ways of going about providing internal training. It must be said that ...
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06th May 2007
Training in its broadest sense is the provision of information to allow someone to carry out an old task better or to learn to perform a new task. Yet training is often seen as an extra cost and therefore affecting the bottom line. When the business env...
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04th April 2007
Pronunciation can affect how we communicate. Many people, who have had a go at learning a foreign language, have experienced that sinking feeling when they try a well-constructed sentence in another language only to be met with a blank face.
Why is...
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04th April 2007
The learning process is incredibly complex and made up of many factors. We all have preferred ways of doing things. Evaluating what that is can help us influence our learning. As good as a course or training material is, the one unknown is the person taki...
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04th April 2007
A number of years ago I took the plunge and went back to college to complete a night-time degree. While it is good to have the qualification and it was certainly beneficial to me in my career, that road is fraught with difficulties and it is not one that ...
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