The Importance Of Online Cognitive Training Programs
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Perhaps one of the diseases most feared by the older population is dementia, but more specifically Alzheimer’s Disease. Characterized by confusion, difficulty completing simple tasks, personality changes, hallucinations, and memory loss, Alzheimer’s is a progressive disease that often leaves people upset, confused and completely dependent on others to survive. With a rapidly growing older population worried about memory loss, online cognitive training programs have recently exploded across the internet. NeuroNation, Luminosity, My Brain Training and many other sites promise to boost memory, attention, and other cognitive skills that could be lost to the aging process. While research has shown that engaging in such tasks does help the…show more content… While they hypothesized that training can improve areas of functioning, they also stated that the skills developed from it cannot be transferred to untrained tasks. Participants were to practice reasoning, memory, planning, attention and visuospatial skills over the course of six weeks, again with the level of difficulty increasing throughout the regimen. Although the participants were able to improve specifically what they practiced, these improvements were not shown to transfer to other untrained tasks (Owen et al., 2010). Both teams present a thorough research study, however a more compelling argument was made in “Putting brain training to the test,” suggesting that while online cognitive training may improve cognitive function, those learned skills cannot be beneficially transferred to untrained tasks which in turn, does not lead to an overall improvement. The study discussed in “The Effect of an Online Cognitive Training Package in Healthy Older Adults: An Online Randomized Controlled Trial” presented several limitations that worked to decrease the legitimacy of it’s argument. The study was biased towards those who acquired education and had access to computers, thus and as stated by the authors, the results cannot be generalized to other populations, which is
The course objectives are:
1. Identify the company’s customer service principles.
2. Explain customer service language and the importance of using it when speaking with customers.
3. Demonstrate a consistent, professional style when talking with customers.
4. Prepare the employees to manage demanding customers and difficult circumstances (“Customer Service Training,”n.d.).
The Main Topics with subtopics are:
1. Define excellent customer service.
• What does excellent service look and feel like
Policymaking is the next step in non-cognitive skill development in elementary schools. The research is recent, current, and available to formulate educational policies across the country to address the development gap between non-cognitive and cognitive skill development. As stated previously, a big obstacle in affective policymaking is defining which non-cognitive skills to focus on and finding a way to measure the success of the development of such skills. However, researchers and some policymakers
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Distance Learning MBA Programs?
Today, managers need more than just top notch technical and intellectual skills. Leaders in healthcare, business and technology are learning that successful managers need high Emotional Quotient (EQ) or Emotional Intelligence (EI) to work effectively. This paper will define EQ and EI and then explore why these skills improve workplace functioning. This paper will also explore whether distance learning programs can effectively teach EI to managers
mentality, however, leads adults to the critical error of assuming children do not need to be taught technology if anything adults should be using technology to teach. As the article “Even Digital Natives’ Need Digital Training” elaborates students today lack important skills in online etiquette, safety, and productivity that must be addressed by the educational system. If it is not, adolescents can harm themselves (McNeill). With this in mind, the described digital problem, the actual student risk
the nation’s best wireless voice and data network. Because of its widely known reputation management needs to be aware of these issues and take action immediately. In order to move forward, we must evaluate the training process and proceed accordingly.
Our first task is to conduct a training needs assessment for Verizon Wireless Corporate. We begin with the organizational analysis. Due to the high sensitivity of complaints, management
Training and development is a key component to any organization’s current and future success. By fostering a learning oriented organization, you are creating a culture and environment that will deliver high quality service and products, anticipate and prepare for the future needs of the organization, and increase both customer and employee satisfaction. Training and development must be supported by the Human Resource function, and utilized by senior management to drive staffing strategy and decisions
Once the anxiety has been put on the table, and intervention needs to be established. There are many forms of therapy for children and adolescents suffering from anxiety but this paper will cover only a few important practices. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, both online in clinically, Attention Bias Modification, Pharmacotherapy, and some alternative methods have all been found to be effective in their own way. Dependent on the client, each of these therapeutic methods can be used to help alleviate
that resistance is exactly what is causing many people to see only the shortcomings of computer-based training (CBT), regardless of the enormous amount of benefits the implementation of computer-based training could bring to their companies and their employees. CBT training has a distinct role in the achievement of an organizational goal by integrating the interests of the
Strategic Training and Development in Organizational Success
Dr. S.K.Prasad, Director, New Horizon Leadership Institute
directornhli@newhorizonindia.edu
Introduction
By definition, training and development refers to the process to obtain or transfer knowledge, skills and abilities needed to carry out a specific activity or task. The benefits of training and development--for both the employer and employee--are, in fact, much broader. To meet current and future business demands, training and development
There is no doubt that clinical psychologists have an enormous amount of responsibility, and in order to be an effective clinician, one must acquire a certain set of skills. Yet still today, individuals are being accepted into postgraduate training programs for clinical psychology, without these skills being accurately measured. Similarly, some individuals may be being wrongfully rejected due to universities measuring irrelevant skills. This issue is heightened by the attrition rate in clinical