{"id":592,"date":"2008-05-23T16:38:37","date_gmt":"2008-05-23T20:38:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.voipsupply.com\/?p=592"},"modified":"2016-01-28T15:50:46","modified_gmt":"2016-01-28T15:50:46","slug":"employees-teaching-themselves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/employees-teaching-themselves\/","title":{"rendered":"Employees Teaching Themselves&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Phil Laurenzi, a VoIP Supply colleague, recently wrote a great blog for our sister company&#8217;s blog: <a href=\"\/ip-cameras\" onclick=\"ga('send', 'event', 'voip-insider-blog-post', 'click', 'ip-cameras');\">www.voipsupply.com\/ip-cameras<\/a>.\u00a0 Just wanted to post a shout to it, because it has some great ideas on management, and having your associates learn about products by having THEM teach! Here&#8217;s an excerpt:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Studies show that the retention of new material increases beyond the archaic lecture. Here at <span style=\"color: #2b394d\"><a title=\"IP Camera Supply\" href=\"\/ip-cameras\" onclick=\"ga('send', 'event', 'voip-insider-blog-post', 'click', 'IPCS');\">IPCS<\/a><\/span> and <span style=\"color: #2b394d\"><a title=\"VoIP Supply\" href=\"\/\" onclick=\"ga('send', 'event', 'voip-insider-blog-post', 'click', 'VoIP Supply');\">VoIP Supply<\/a><\/span>, associates are encouraged and rewarded for \u201cpresenting a lesson\u201d to their peers. <em><span style=\"font-family: Lucida Sans\">Teaching others&#8230;<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&#8230;For those of you categorized as a VAR in our economy, why not challenge your associates to read-up on PBXs, switches, routers, IP cameras or WI-FI and have them demonstrate skills and subject mastery by having them instruct their peers? I think you may be surprised by the results and the acquisition of a product specialist.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p align=\"left\">For more check out:<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><a href=\"\/blog\/voip-insider\/product-specialist-teaching-and-grooming-101\/\" onclick=\"ga('send', 'event', 'voip-insider-blog-post', 'click', 'product-specialist-teaching-and-grooming-101');\">http:\/\/blog.ipcamerasupply.com\/management\/product-specialist-teaching-and-grooming-101<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Studies show that the retention of new material increases beyond the archaic lecture. Here at IPCS and VoIP Supply, associates are encouraged and rewarded for \u201cpresenting a lesson\u201d to their peers. Teaching others&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1026],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=592"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":146073,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592\/revisions\/146073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}