Training

I've been delivering live training for over twenty-five years.  

I love being in a room of designers, helping them work better.  

I love the two-way dialog.  I work to keep everyone engaged.  My classes are lively, laughter is frequent. We all learn a lot.

There is a spectrum of real Live Training Value compared to OnDemand self-study.

I'm happy to travel to you, though Live Remote training is faster to schedule and less expensive.  Which is right for you?

Remote-training via Teams, Zoom, or other host, provides much of the experience of in-person, on-site training.  It works particularly well with confident users who are excited to engage "through the computer".  For those people, there is little dropoff in what they get out of the class, outside of the interaction with their peers and me (the bonding). "Shier" learners engage less and require encouragement from the instructor to address their needs.  That's comparatively easy in person.

Contact me to discuss what you might need: email me!

Note: you are probably paying for Bentley's LEARNserver courses.  You should take advantage of them. They have high value and they're available to you right now.

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One of the first things I do when I start an on-site class is ask:

"Why Am I Here?"

• What value do I add by being here?
• Why did your company pay me money to teach you something that is available for free?
  • Videos of these lectures and exercise are availble online.  In fact, in many of them, I'm the narrator (unlikely now, but common at the time).
• Why Am I Here?

 

1. It forces staff to spend the time 24, 32 or 40 hours taking the training.
2. I can answer "detail" questions and provide context.
3. I diagnose, triage, and curate.  There is a LOT of content available, some of it is critical to you, much is not.  Some has a negative consequence.  The first hour I spend focused on learning your needs, picking appropriate foundational material to work through for the first day.  Over the course of the day (and the next), I refine my understanding of what you need and then find the best material available.  Generally if there is a day 4, I've got some new custom exercise that fill the biggest gap in the material that fits your needs.
4. I can translate the generic workflow to how you do things or how you should be doing things for your projects' unique or quirky needs.

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Jeff has been developing and delivering Intergraph/Bentley Civil software training since 1995.

He has had the rare responsibility/opportunity for almost thirty years of designing training, delivering it, and improving it based on learner feedback. If you've been in my classes, you know I ask you a lot of questions about the effectiveness of training particulars.  "Is this clear?" "Would it be better if...?"  "How do you think this works for your staff?"

He also had the privilege of being part of the leadership in transforming how Bentley delivered training - from 4-day instructor led monoliths to modular OnDemand self-taught training.  Peter Huftalen led that transformation where we studied Learning Theory and Training Best Practices - something that most engineering training authors are not well versed in.  "It's not how we want to teach, it's how you want to learn."

For full background of Jeff's Training Qualifications, go to JeffMartinPE.com Training.

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