Written by Oonagh Montague, Training Manager at Technically Write IT As a business owner or an employee, you may have heard the term "technical writing skills" and wondered what it means. Is it important for my business? The answer is yes, it really is. Poor...
When we think of training, the most common image we have is the classroom-based instructor-led training (ILT) that is provided in our early and formative years. Businesses more and more frequently need to support their employees to become proficient in the...
By Heidi Staples, Senior Instructional Designer at TWi In my previous life as an academic, university faculty ritually bemoaned the diverting presence of smartphones in the classroom. Those baddie students weren’t looking at us but were too often staring into those...
As a company that has a large pool of employees that work via telecommuting, TWi has a long-established tradition of onboarding new team members using an online strategy in conjunction with office-based and on-site training. As our blog piece on the telecommuting...
In 1959, then-senator John F. Kennedy introduced a new trope to the western world when he famously evoked the Chinese word wēijī – “crisis”. It’s composed of two elements, said the future president: danger (危 - wēi) and opportunity (机 - jī). Kennedy wasn’t quite...
Whether you call it telecommuting, remote working, or simply working from home, most of us are doing it these days and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future. As people and businesses come to terms with the Covid-19 pandemic, we are all facing a new reality...
