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Using technology to monitor and verify employee training and certification.

As more and more Baby Boomers stave off retirement, do their learning needs change as they remain on their jobs into their 70s and even 80s? Does the training of these employees need to be tweaked as they get older?

Technology offers a plethora of on-demand learning solutions, from just Googling answers to questions to curated, searchable in-house repositories of information. The question is: What do your learners need most?

Average trainer salaries jumped more than 5 percent in 2017-2018 to $88,174, according to Training’s annual Salary Survey.

Total 2018 U.S. training expenditures—including payroll and spending on external products and services—declined 6.4 percent to $87.6 billion, according to Training magazine's 2018 Training Industry Report.

Being influential is not about what we learn to do to others but what we learn to be for others—consistently becoming the kind of person others want to follow.

Are you ready to put some goggles on and really learn?

As Training professionals, we need to go beyond the “traditional” right answers and look for new solutions if we hope to get better results from our training efforts (or even maintain current results!).

The emergence of new players in the certification market has produced three phenomena.

How you build trust, manage people, plan, and make good impressions all are linked to cultural differences—and that’s where training comes in.