Proving that Your LMS Fuels Business Growth
By Matt de Feo, Senior Vice President, Sales Training & Recruiting, Techtronic Industries Inc.
Techtronic Industries Inc. (TTI) is a $3.7 billion global company operating on every continent with nearly 20,000 employees. Since 1985, the company has grown rapidly by focusing on excellence in the design, manufacture, and marketing of portable power products such as Ryobi and Milwaukee Electric Tools. When I joined TTI in 2006, I was determined to ensure the same focus on excellence applied to learning and development, too.
A Glimpse into Training in China
By Jean Barbazette, Founder, The Training Clinic
6 Steps to Building Your Million-Dollar Coaching Practice
By Andrew Neitlich, Founder and Director, The Center for Executive Coaching
Many training professionals have gotten into coaching. This makes sense, because coaching is a powerful agent for sustaining results after training. Also, coaching is a growth field for trainers, especially with the rebound in the economy and studies that prove coaching gets great returns for clients and their organizations.
Will the Customer Service Process Ever Be the Same?
By Floyd Adler, Training Account Manager, Signature Worldwide
What an interesting question and what a challenge! Personally, I do not look at customer service being the same as it used to be; however, the challenge lies in the demand to work harder to make EVERY customer service encounter better than it has ever been.
Leadership Development at Edward Jones
By Margery Weinstein
Educating a Better Customer
By Norma Jarman, Training Account Manager, Signature Worldwide
A customer may not know about the skills needed to succeed…but they know what does not work. How can we condition a customer to stay at our hotel property repeatedly?
For us Road Warriors, that time of year when our patience will be pushed to its limit is quickly coming upon us—the summer travel season!
Applying Mastery Learning to Instructional Design: Part 1
By Robert Cooperman, Training Academy Program Director, Ohio Office of Budget and Management
What Switches On Self-Interest, and Switches Off Company Interests?
By David Gebler
Most leaders already know that to achieve superior results they must foster a healthy corporate culture grounded in strong values. This should be easy—most employees already share the same values their companies endorse. So why is it so hard? Why is it that in most organizations their corporate culture works against high performance and top results?
The Art of Interviewing Like a Pro
By Michael B. Junge
Training Still Matters
By Mark Miller, VP, Organizational Effectiveness, Chick-fil-A