Re-do the training

I thought some more about the day long PowerPoint festival/new employee training event I attended this week. I think it would be more cost effective to cut it down to half a day. Record the presenters on video and give everyone a CD or DVD they can watch. Use the first hour and a half to take care of the team building activities and covering the key stuff everyone needs to know. Then take the group on a walking tour of campus with a good leader who tells you the history of things and have people create something or do some other hands on activity.