Turning Check-In into a Second Chance
By Kristy Westfall Moyer, Training Account Manager, Signature Worldwide
Do we ever get a second chance to make a first impression? Are first impressions the only ones that count? Have you ever realized that you judged a person or situation completely wrong at first? Moreover, what if what you were certain was an accurate impression turned out to be the complete opposite of what really was?
Creating Conditions for Breakthrough Results
By Chris Grivas
Teams are the way work gets done in business today. The potential of any working group is defined by its members—not just individually but collectively. Whether live or virtual, results are as dependent on team members’ ability to work together as on their individual skills and abilities. CEOs and managers prize “team players” because they know that in today’s collaborative world economy, an organization’s success, and even survival, hangs on its ability to tap team potential.
Technology Plus Formal and Informal Learning Strategies=FUN
By Heather Loisel, Chief Marketing Officer, Skillsoft
The Vanguard Group Creates a Career Café
By Margery Weinstein
8 High-Impact Collaboration Opportunities
By Ron Ricci and Carl Wiese
Collaboration technology has maximum impact when it addresses your top business priorities. Here are eight of the most common areas where collaboration solutions—such as video and Web conferencing, customer care, social software, unified communications, messaging, and mobile applications—are delivering results.
1. Enable Virtual Teams
Keeping Employee Information Safe in the Clouds
By Caryn Tijsseling, Litigation Partner, Lewis and Roca
The increasing popularity of cloud computing will have far-reaching effects on the data management systems of many companies. One area where cloud computing can have a major impact is on the storage of Human Resources (HR) information and records. In fact, recent studies indicate that up to 84 percent of surveyed companies either are transitioning or planning to transition their Human Resources functions to more accessible and affordable data management systems such as cloud systems.
Mobile Learning: Finding Common Ground
What do soldiers, nurses, and franchise operators all have in common? Mobile Learning.
Before You Innovate, You First Must Kill Your Company
By Lisa Bodell, Founder and CEO, futurethink
How Leadership Cross-Training Works
By Jack Zenger, CEO, Zenger Folkman
Productivity Secrets
By Maura Nevel Thomas, Chief Trainer, RegainYourTime.com