Susan Otto
Susan Otto Quick Facts
Susan Gamel Otto is the founder and owner of Training-Modules.com. Susan has three websites: Training-Modules.com, Self-StudyCourse.com, and Training-Workbooks.com.
Training-Modules.com emphasizes Susan’s expertise in the design, development, and documentation of training. Her niche is creating Instructor and Participant Guides, which internal trainers and non-trainers use to facilitate the training. She believes in making the training experience interactive, and as such, more meaningful for participants.
Susan sells a wide collection of Training Modules; yet, also creates customized training modules to reflect her clients’ business as well as to meet their corporate, department, and/or training objectives.
Self-StudyCourse.com and Training-Workbooks.com provide material for individual contributors, such as Training Kits and eWorkbooks.
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Development Time
How much time should you anticipate for creating an in-depth module, which includes Facilitator and Participant Guides with all the additional "stuff?" The industry standard, or a good rule of thumb, is forty hours of development for every one hour of instructor-led training. So, a four hour class can take as much as 160 hours or four weeks. The figure includes the following components: 1. Research, interview, collection, etc. the content. 2. Document the content. 3. Deter
December 2, 2008
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Just Because I Can: The Secret
Most of you know me on different “levels.” Today, I felt compelled to share a “secret” that is really not so secret at all. Some of you may have heard me refer to myself as a “kook.” And while you may have your own perception of what that word means…it really means a great deal to me. Several years ago, as I sat in Taco Bell (which was my favorite restaurant, yes, it really was) with two very special people, I mentioned that Ron, my husband, referred to me as a “kook.” And,
November 25, 2008
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Other highlights
Training Modules in the following areas:
Human Resources Modules
- Coaching: A Beginning
- Giving and Receiving Feedback
- Coaching: Now Do It
- Performance Management
- Preventing Harassment
- Diversity
- Delegation
- Business Ethics
- Meetings: A Roadmap to Success
- Conflict Management
- Six Steps Six Figure Job Search
Personal Development Modules
- Time Management
- Stress Management
- DiSCovering Why: Our Behavior and Others'
- Learning Styles
- QuikDiSC and More
- Leadership: When to Lead and When to Follow
- Creativity in Innovation
- Creative Whack
- Decision Making: The Power of "No"