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Build Soft Skills and Up-to-Speed Training Into Your Onboarding Process

What message are you sending employees about standards and expectations for high-priority behaviors from day one?

Going Global: Proposed Approaches for Training and Education in 2025

There are three distinct technologies already in existence that the education and training industry needs to take advantage of if they want to be competitive in 2025: Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), Electronic Performance Support Systems (EPSS), and Microlearning.

The ADA in Employment: 25 Years Later

The Americans with Disabilities Act has taken great measures to end discrimination against people with disabilities, but businesses need to continue to seek out ways to use modern technology to create a truly inclusive workplace.

Motivation and Mindset: Building Blocks of a Learning Organization

It is critical to understand how a person learns and what an organization can do to trigger, develop, and sustain the learning process in that individual.

Training Top 125 Best Practice: Continuous Process Improvement at Guckenheimer

The training focuses on seven steps to analyze barriers to performance improvement, prioritize the barriers, and develop a plan to overcome them—with the ultimate aim of improving profit margins.

From Profit to Purpose: Engaging Employees Requires Reinventing Management

Purpose-driven management is a different approach to defining objectives, focused on a longer-term, values-based vision for both the organization and its people.

December 2015’s Top Reads

More than 15,000 business books are published every year—an overwhelming choice for busy professionals. Therefore, in partnership with getAbstract, Training brings you December’s top three business books recommended to our readers.

10 Secrets to Successful Customer Service

The Top 10 little things you can start doing to be extra awesome, straight from the horse’s mouth!

How to Lose Your Best People!

Old-school leadership is based on the beliefs that a leader must always be, or at least appear to be: distant, untouchable, revered, and an absolute authoritarian. If you are truly committed to developing a fiercely loyal workforce, come down off that pedestal and get to know your people.

8 Must-Have Digital Skills for Today’s Workforce

Inadequate tech skills cause workers to lose two hours every day, translating into 500 lost hours per year, or about $10 million per 1,000 employees. Organizations need to offer focused, continuous training in these areas.

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