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April 16, 2012
HR Meets the Cloud

The need to find affordable and effective ways to develop talent is more critical than ever. But how to juggle the cost and time of curriculum design and development with an organization’s need for training and developing? An Employee Engagement Library delivered via the Cloud may help.

By Bob Kelleher

There’s no doubt the recession has affected training budgets in companies of all sizes and across all industries. The need to find affordable and effective ways to develop talent is more critical than ever. Clearly, employee development is essential to engage and retain your employees. In fact, studies reveal that Gen Yers believe career development is three times more important than money.

October 7, 2011
How Tweet It Is

OK, I admit it. I enjoy sci-fi movies and am intrigued by both benign robots such as Star Wars’ C-3PO and R2-D2 and the destroy-everything-in-my-path Terminators. So my creative antennae started vibrating when Nike Global Talent Director Joe Campbell and General Physics Corp. VP of Knowledge Management Solutions William Finegan proposed writing an exclusive story for Training magazine headlined, “Dawn of the Social Cyborg.”

By Lorri Freifeld

OK, I admit it. I enjoy sci-fi movies and am intrigued by both benign robots such as Star Wars’ C-3PO and R2-D2 and the destroy-everything-in-my-path Terminators. So my creative antennae started vibrating when Nike Global Talent Director Joe Campbell and General Physics Corp. VP of Knowledge Management Solutions William Finegan proposed writing an exclusive story for Training magazine headlined, “Dawn of the Social Cyborg.”

September 13, 2011
Supercompetent Speaking: Using Stories in Presentations

Stories help us process, visualize, and remember facts and raw data, giving complex information meaning. This makes them an invaluable part of any professional presentation, since all the bullet points and graphs might otherwise overwhelm the listener. Furthermore, because we all love to hear stories, they help us connect with people.

By Laura Stack, MBA, CSP

September 1, 2001
Weaving in stories makes a presentation memorable

As a regular speaker, I know how important it is to keep an audience informed, riveted and influenced by what you are saying.

As a regular speaker, I know how important it is to keep an audience informed, riveted and influenced by what you are saying.

June 1, 2001
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Chances are that when you first heard the word metaphor, you were sitting in a high-school English class,

Chances are that when you first heard the word metaphor, you were sitting in a high-school English class,