Let Us Not Forget Those Who Perished on 9/11/01

Courage Is Stronger Than Fear!

After over twelve months, it is with great pride that we at ProductivElearn send you this new issue of Continuing-ed Newsletter. Many of you have been very supportive, not to mention patient while we iron out our kinks and make friends with rebuilding the technology. For that I’m grateful.It has certainly been a long road, but I am overjoyed with the vision of making this a practical, useful, and reliable online learning community. The experience has so often tempted me to write a book, but that would take me off track from making this vision a reality.

 We commit ourselves to making ProductivElearn a source for working professionals who want to continue their career development, but without having to travel and spend huge chunks of time in a classroom. Included in that vision is to offer this learning community multiple channels for them to interact, not only with us at ProductiuvelElearn, but also with each other on topics that are relevant to getting the results in their careers that they long for.

The Continuing-ed  Newsletter  is only one piece of that puzzle. We have re-organized the format and will continue to challenge you to respond back through our discussion boards. We have organized the discussion boards according to 5  categories. These categories also conform to how we have organized the articles and tips on the Productive Tools portion of the site: Information Overload, The Socratic Corner (Critical Thinking and Innovation in the workplace), Hotline (workplace communication), Frontline (best practices in management and leadership), The Brain, Health, and Learning.

As a special tip: if you have not visited the site lately, you may want to update your record. We have included preferences for the newsletter that you who are behind a firewall might want to consider.

What’s New On the Site?
* 2 new online courses
* New graphic interface and navigation
* Better free content organization
* Voting polls on workplace hot topics
* Ease for member contributions of articles, tips, reviews
* Your ability to review products and services and publish to the site
* Much, much more

By popular demand, The Brain Teaser continues. Stretch that brain!

We hope you enjoy this issue. By all means, let us know even if you don’t.

Thanks again for your continued support.

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Best Regards,

President & CEO
Productive Learning Systems, Inc.

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