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By Dave Basarab Managers are ultimately responsible for having properly trained employees, but they often don’t have time to properly spearhead training initiatives. For decades, companies have hired professional trainers, taking this task off managers’ plates. There are pros and cons to this approach. On the plus side, professional training offers:

Edited by Margery Weinstein Results from SunTrust Bank’s “Voice of the Teammate” engagement surveys conducted in 2010 revealed that teammates were seeking higher education opportunities at the company. Specifically, teammates expressed interest in aligning higher education to their careers and in applying higher educational experiences to their jobs at SunTrust. But first, several barriers had to be eliminated, including:

By David Wentworth, Senior Learning Analyst, and Laci Loew, Principal Analyst and Practice Leader in Talent Management, Brandon Hall Group Ensuring a solid pipeline of suitable leaders has proven to be a daunting task for many organizations of all sizes and in all industries.

Shoya Zichy, a former President of Myers-Briggs Association and creator of the Color Q System, is the author of “Career Match” and “Personality Power: Discover Your Unique Profile—and Unlock Your Potential for Breakthrough Success,”a new book to help each individual worker stay engaged and define their unique strengths to improve and manage their relationships in the workplace.

By Allison Horak, Trainer and Employee Development Consultant, People Development Systems As trainers, we regularly provide relevant training for workforces. Some of us (hopefully!) also have the opportunity to participate as a student in training ourselves, for personal development and resume building.

By Maria Mazursky, CEO of TourDeFIT.com

By Kathleen Brush A strategy is a plan—a unique plan because when it’s executed, it cannot lose. It is the creation and execution of strategies that allow leaders and their departments and companies to succeed today and tomorrow. Being able to identify or create the elements of plans that cannot lose is a valuable skill that should be present in the skill set of every leader. Strategies are created using a process that revolves around defining the five elements of a strategy hierarchy. From top to bottom they are:

By Shawn Achor As I learned during my stint in the Navy, a weapons system can have the fastest missile in the world, but if it’s not locked on its target, it will whiz right past it. Similarly, at work you can have all the success accelerants you want, but if you aren’t on the right trajectory, you won’t accomplish what you want to accomplish.

By Kapil Bhasin, Senior Vice President, Learning, Indecomm Global Services Many independent training companies, as well as internal training departments, find themselves in the position of reacting to their clients’ needs on a one-off basis, making revenue growth and planning a challenging proposition. To overcome this, we in the learning services industry must redefine and evolve the nature of our relationships with our clients. This, in turn, will change the nature of our business from that of an occasional provider into a strategic partner.

By Andrew Mullaney, Curriculum Developer/Senior Trainer, City University of New York- School of Professional Studies The rollout of a training program can be a substantial undertaking for training professionals. Program management of an upcoming session may include everything from assembly of materials and documents to the scheduling of sessions to the actual delivery and reporting of results back to the key stakeholders.