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Training magazine’s Training Top 125 Award winners are the organizations with the most successful learning and development programs in the world. Download the 2018 Training Top 125 application and apply by 9 a.m. Eastern September 26.

2017 ONLINE LEARNING CONFERENCE

Training magazine's Online Learning Conference is designed for learning and training and development professionals who want to leverage the latest in eLearning tools, virtual classrooms, serious games, simulations, mobile, social media, and other emerging technologie

Get Mobile. Use Games. Be Social. Drive Engagement. Join fellow learning professionals in New Orleans in September 2017!

Training Live + Online Certificate Programs

Training Live + Online Certificate Programs are available exclusively online, and fit around your busy schedule, while still providing the professional know-how and in-depth content you've come to expect from Training magazine.

Badge Benefits

Girl and Boy Scouts demonstrate life skills and perform service activities in pursuit of merit badges. Military personnel earn badges of honor with acts of valor. Employees may receive ID badges with additional privileges or access when they are promoted. Even today’s fitness trackers provide badges for steps taken and miles logged.

How organizations can use badging to encourage learning and generate results.

LMS Data Deep Dive

Learning management systems have tremendous capacity for obtaining and storing data about your learners and your organization. But how easy is it for you to access that information, and how adept are you at using it?

It's A Super Portal!

Learning portals are assumed to have superhero qualities that, in a perfect world, let them overcome learning challenges in a single bound and demolish roadblocks with bolts of logic. In a perfect world, each learning portal would be as intuitive as Amazon and as searchable as Google. Achieving those goals isn’t easy, but it is possible.

How to turn your learning portal into a superhero that vanquishes training challenges.

Industry Insight: 5 Reasons for L&D Pros to Plug Into IMEX America 2017

This year, IMEX introduced a theme called “Purposeful Meetings,” which recognizes that both Learning and Development pros and meeting planners are under more pressure than ever to deliver events, training, and live development programs that are highly experiential, memorable, multi-sensory, and full of deep learning, insight, and, frequently, behavior change.

Industry Insight: 5 Tips For Improving Training Outcomes In The Virtual Classroom

Many features found in virtual classrooms can be used to mirror and even improve the in-person experience in ways that are more accessible for learners.

LMS Data Deep Dive

It's A Super Portal!

How to turn your learning portal into a superhero that vanquishes training challenges.

Badge Benefits

How organizations can use badging to encourage learning and generate results.

New Orleans as Learning Lab

Posted: August 23, 2017

Experience emerging technologies at Training magazine’s Innovations in Training (IIT) event.

Training Top 125 Best Practice: MasTec Utility Services Group’s Crew Leadership Academy

Posted: September 19, 2017

The training center and 38-module program were specifically designed to support high-potential field employees in their effort to advance toward a leadership position.

Collaborating with the Dead

Posted: September 19, 2017

There are many brilliant minds of the near past and the soon-to-be-past that could be tapped as digital learning and problem-solving resources for generations to come.

Are Your Leaders Doing Only Half Their Job?

Posted: September 18, 2017

Don’t leave the quality of your work culture to chance. Make values as important as results with an organizational constitution.

Up Was Never for Everyone

Posted: September 18, 2017

Excerpt from “Up Is Not the Only Way: Rethinking Career Mobility” by Beverly Kaye, Lindy Williams, and Lynn Cowart, with permission from Berrett-Koehler Publishers (2017). Flattened organizations and limited career ladders don’t spell the end of growth OR careers. Opportunities may be different, but they are still there. The next change frontier means changing the conversation and the mindset about careers.

Occupational Medicine: How Companies Can Cut Costs and Help Employees Avoid Wait Times

Posted: September 15, 2017

Urgent care centers can treat a wide variety of problems that employers may need to address with their workforce—from sprains and back injuries to broken bones—much faster than an ER or a regular doctor’s office.

How Do You Express Anger to Employees?

Posted: September 14, 2017

A key to being respectful in expressing anger is doing so in a private setting with an employee, rather than in an open area where all of that person’s co-workers can overhear him or her getting dressed down.

Managing the Art of Tough Conversations

Posted: September 14, 2017

Use the I.N.S.P.I.R.E. feedback script: Initiate, Notice, Specific Support, Probe, Invite, Review, and Enforce.

Using Company Culture to Shift the Employee Mindset from Job to Career

Posted: September 13, 2017

By getting workers away from their computer screens, business leaders can help create a workplace environment that encourages teamwork, innovation, and personal growth.

Applying Training Principles to Teaching Photography

Posted: September 12, 2017

Ask open-ended questions such as: What did you like most? What would you tell your friends about this learning experience? What would you change or modify?

Training Top 125 Best Practice: Johns Hopkins Community Physicians’ Manager Report Overview Course (MROC)

Posted: September 12, 2017

The training course targets managers who underutilize the Performance Reports based on electronic health record (EHR) data.

Top 5 Uncommon Sales Tactics that (Actually) Work

Posted: September 11, 2017

Tips for solidifying effective and ongoing sales processes.

Getting Your Boss to Provide Clear Guidelines and Boundaries…

Posted: September 11, 2017

…Even if you’re doing creative work or know more about the work than your boss.

Front-Line Management 101: Change Your 10%

When I was in the military, I was taught to “change your 10%”—which means to focus on the areas of your job and your life you can control, the ones you can affect and change.

Your Office May Be Like a Bus Depot

Posted: September 8, 2017

How can we use the many communication tools we have available in our offices to keep everyone in the loop about employee comings and goings, temporary employees, and visitors to the office?

TRG Mag Events - today

Join us in New Orleans Sept. 25-27, 2017, for the 2017 Online Learning Conference. Save $150 on the Conference with Discount Code: TMAF. Come early and attend a Certificate Program or The Allen Experience with Allen Interactions; watch a video here. Stay after the conference for an immersive learning event, Innovations in Training, that takes place at innovative sites throughout New Orleans.

Tight Travel Budget? Log in and learn today with a Live + Online Certificate Program. Upcoming courses include: Designing eLearning with Captivate; Developing Small Bites Learning; Instructional Design; Project Management for Learning Professionals; Scenario-Based eLearning Design; Training Coordinator; and Training Manager. And, new for 2017: Practical Cost-Effective Video Production for eLearning.

Registration is open for Training 2018 Conference & Expo, February 12-14, 2018, in Atlanta, GA! Save $250 on the conference with Early Bird Discount Code: TMAG. Register by Dec. 15. Download a brochure to learn more. Click here.

Get trained on Articulate Storyline with a Live + Online Certificate program. Register for both the Articulate Storyline Fundamentals Certificate and Articulate Storyline for Next Level Design Certificate in 2017 and save $200 using discount code TCAF. Offer is for new registrations only.

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Industry Insight: 5 Reasons for L&D Pros to Plug Into IMEX America 2017

Industry Insight: 5 Tips For Improving Training Outcomes In The Virtual Classroom

LMS Data Deep Dive

It's A Super Portal!

Badge Benefits

New Orleans as Learning Lab

Training Top 125 Best Practice: MasTec Utility Services Group’s Crew Leadership Academy

Collaborating with the Dead

Are Your Leaders Doing Only Half Their Job?

Up Was Never for Everyone

Occupational Medicine: How Companies Can Cut Costs and Help Employees Avoid Wait Times

How Do You Express Anger to Employees?

Managing the Art of Tough Conversations

Using Company Culture to Shift the Employee Mindset from Job to Career

Applying Training Principles to Teaching Photography

Training Top 125 Best Practice: Johns Hopkins Community Physicians’ Manager Report Overview Course (MROC)

Top 5 Uncommon Sales Tactics that (Actually) Work

Getting Your Boss to Provide Clear Guidelines and Boundaries…

Front-Line Management 101: Change Your 10%

Your Office May Be Like a Bus Depot

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