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In her recent book “IT’S YOUR BUSINESS,” JJ Ramberg, host of the MSNBC program, Your Business,shares tips she’s gathered from six years of interviews with business owners across the country, and from running her own company, http://www.GoodSearch.com. Her book features many tips that could be instrumental in training, including the following: TIP #61: Have “expectations meetings” with your employees.

By Melissa G. Wilson and Larry Mohl

By Melanie Holmes, Vice President, World of Work Solutions, ManpowerGroup

By Frank Waltmann, Ph.D., Head, Corporate Learning, Novartis The business environment in emerging markets for the next 10 to 20 years will be challenging due to talent shortages and fierce competition for competent, trained employees. A strong leadership brand may be just the elixir as data continues to show talent looks for, and places a high value on, personal and professional growth when choosing where to build a career.

Innovation is a hot topic for businesses. Everyone wants it, but how do you know if you have it? In Brandon Hall Group’s recent survey on Relationship Centered Learning, participants were asked to describe their company’s top two business priorities, and Improving Innovation was one of the top picks. How do you know if you are encouraging innovation in your organization? Here are some ways companies can foster innovation:

By Patti Lind, Founding Partner, Lind Consulting Group When I come out to talk with groups, there is invariably someone in the audience who says, “I don’t buy this. I am who I am and if people can’t accept that, then that is their problem.”

By Joseph Grenny, Co-Founder, VitalSmarts There’s a lot more to influencing new behavior than just delivering high-quality training. Once training finishes, participants return to work and immediately are pulled in a dozen different directions. In fact, research suggests that all these distractions are the reason why less than 10 percent of what is taught in the classroom translates into real behavior change back at work. So what can trainers do to ensure learning translates into action?

By K.M. Lowe

By Alan E. Hall, Founder and Chairman, MarketStar (now a division of Omnicom) Imagine half of your workforce going through the motions while looking for other employment. According to a recent Gallup study on employee engagement, approximately 54 percent of employees in the United States are not engaged in their organization (http://www.gallup.com/poll/150383/Majority-American-Workers-Not-Engaged-Jobs.aspx).

By G. Riley Mills, co-founder and COO, Pinnacle Performance Company