Partnerships & Alliances – Nov/Dec 2014
The latest training industry mergers, acquisitions, partnerships, and more.
Sticky Notes: Management’s Vicious Cycle
One of the greatest challenges in providing leadership/management training is that most experienced managers severely overestimate their own leadership effectiveness.
Know Them Before Coaching Them
Sales Progress (Training Reinforcement Partner Company) and Training magazine surveyed 500-plus managers to discover attributes that make employees perform at their optimal level. Attitude was the top attribute (64 percent), while willingness to invest time in their own learning came in second at 43 percent.
Productivity Coach’s Corner: Getting Luckier Every Year
Often, a little luck is all you need to succeed, and that doesn’t require a lot of magic. It just takes a little forethought to set the stage for good things to happen.
4 Ways to Save Your Eyeballs
I’m sure you've endured training sessions that made you want to rip your eyeballs out—or more accurately, the eyeballs of the person leading the session. And I’m guessing when you conduct your own training, you don’t want people clawing at your eyeballs.
Getting the Message
I’m writing about my experience at the relaunch of the Turtle Bay Resort in Oahu, HI, because it emphasized for me once again the power of our mantra: Training Matters.
L&D Best Practices: Nov/Dec 2014
Training magazine taps 2014 Training Top 125 winners and Top 10 Hall of Famers to provide their learning and development best practices in each issue. Here, we look at SunTrust Banks’ PATHways certificate program.
Shifting from the Traditional LMS
Learning management systems should be in the business of managing learning”; however, the LMS domain remains largely centered on authoring, managing, and delivering courses and content.
OLC Hits the High Notes
Attendees learned how to marry the power of emotion and the thrill of technology to keep learners coming back for more at the 2014 Online Learning Conference in Chicago.
BRAIN POWER
Motivating your employees to learn is easier when you understand how their brains work.