Training Today: Products and Services (May-June 2011)

>> Odyssey Teams launched its Build-a-Hand kit, a do-it-yourself philanthropic teambuilding effort that allows companies to improve teamwork and boost innovation while helping land mine victims and amputees. The core of the exercise is the team assembly of a prosthetic limb that is donated to an amputee in places such as Haiti, Cambodia, or Colombia.

>> Freebinar, the free Web conferencing and Webinar service, has rebranded as AnyMeeting and added new features, including integrated video broadcasting and raising the meeting capacity from 150 attendees to 200. AnyMeeting will continue to be free, and is broadening its service offering beyond Webinars to include any type of meeting, from small two-person collaborative Web meetings to full 200-person online events.

>> Talent Plus now offers Clinical and Non-Clinical Health-Care Professional Talent Online Assessments (TOAs) to health-care organizations for front-line selection and development. Through the use of these assessments, organizations can increase patient satisfaction and employee engagement and reduce turnover.

>> SOS Leadership Institute LLC launched the SOS Coaching Network. The network unites an elite group of coaches, trainers, and consultants from around the world, providing them with customized leadership programs, personalized coaching, and tools to help them succeed in the rapidly growing coaching industry.

>> Zuma Learning opened a new state-of–the-art learning center in Boca Raton, FL. The center offers a broad curriculum of instructor-led courses that are designed to improve the skills, knowledge, and expertise of e-learning professionals.