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Training magazine Announces 2016 Ttv Winners

VitalSmarts’ “The Janitor Story From Crucial Accountability” and Cine Learning Productions’ “CSI Misperceptions” for the University of Phoenix College of Criminal Justice and Security were voted the No. 1 Top Training Videos (Ttvs) for 2016 in their categories at a special awards ceremony at Buddy Guy’s Legends in Chicago.

Reason #4 Why Your Diversity Initiative Is Doomed: You Aren’t Measuring the Meaningful Impact...

Ensure both training effectiveness and the return on your training investment are high through careful preparation before anyone attends a workshop. Take the time to put reinforcement structures and accountability systems in place, and communicate the plans to all involved before sending people to training.

The Missing Link: A Proven Transfer of Learning Process

For training to be truly effective, it must adhere to the ADDIE model, be owned by the Learning & Development department, and incorporate a proven transfer of learning strategy.

Global Skills Every Manager Needs Today (and How to Get Them)

To be an effective global leader, you need the “4 C’s”: cultural sensitivity, collaborative skills, comfort with the uncomfortable, and capacity to motivate.

One Day, I’m Gonna!

Have you ever said or thought: “One day, I’m gonna...” And then you think of an experience you would like to have, a place you would like to visit, etc. How long are you willing to live in that vague and nebulous world? When are you going to put a stake in the ground and declare: “I’m gonna!”

L&D Leaders: Are You Ready for Emerging Technologies? You Should Be!

Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) are very real components of what training and e-learning are fast becoming, promoting a miraculous depth of knowledge and skill we previously never thought possible.

Training Top 125 Best Practice: Leadership Certification at Total Quality Logistics

In utilizing employees who have completed the Sales Leadership Program (SLP) and Leadership Development Program (LDP) certifications, freight brokerage firm Total Quality Logistics (TQL) has seen a 52 percent increase in new satellite office openings in 2015, and an estimated 2016 increase of 75 percent.

Virtual Collaboration and Peripheral Vision

We can experience ambient awareness when using social media tools such as Facebook or Twitter. Each individual update that comes our way might be relatively insignificant, but over time these fragments of information gel into meaningful patterns, i.e., they provide us with digital peripheral vision of people, actions, and events.

The Greatest Challenge Trainers and Leaders Face: Shifting Gears

As you drive, you use gears to move ahead, slowly at first, then more rapidly and easily. As you succeed, you use gears, too. Like good drivers, you must learn to recognize which gear is needed, and when and how to shift up and down.

Embrace New Leadership Programs to Survive in Disruptive Markets

In the old world, good planning and analysis and conservative decision-making yielded good results. In the new world, there is limited information, little time to analyze, and conservative decision-making means you will be out of business seemingly in an instant.

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