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How Effective is Your Sales Training Program?
It’s the job of sales performance consultants, human performance technologists, sales trainers and human resources professionals to help salespeople produce better results. Why aren’t more of these professionals stepping up to the challenge?
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Improving Organizational Performance with Podcasts
When it comes to the latest, hippest technology for corporations, podcasting is up there with BlackBerries and blogging. But this technology has more potential than just being a cool tool — it can revolutionize the way learning leaders deliver content.
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CoreNet Global: Choosing the Right Guide For the Job
It’s the CLO’s job to make sure workers constantly enhance the skills and knowledge they need to excel at their jobs. A majority of CLOs have a passion for learning and development and dedicate themselves to meeting this challenge from their first day on the job. But CLOs require training too — both before and…
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Middlebury College: Bringing Podcasting to Class
There’s been so much buzz about the term “podcast,” it’s easy to lose sight of the fact that it’s just an audio recording, something that has been easily adaptable for decades in terms of where and when you experience it. Emma Hamer, CEO of career and performance consulting firm eHamer Associates Ltd., offers a podcast…
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Desktop Learning Should Reflect Reality
The training industry has spent many years attempting to capture the just-in-time (JIT) training promise. I’ve spent more than 15 years of my career with my colleagues trying to orchestrate and design learning strategies that live and thrive at the desktop. It has long been believed that once bandwidth, authoring tools, instructional designs and other…
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A Look at Outsourcing Learning
To really get the full impact outsourcing is having on the industry, it helps to understand what the term means today, why learning outsourcing is a strategic imperative for many companies and how to prepare for what might be inevitable for your organization. Success Breeds Success Outsourcing is no longer a trend. Rather, it is…
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Using In-House Experts to Deliver Exceptional Learning
A sluggish economy means everyone must do more with fewer resources. Many organizations have cut conference budgets and opt for more in-house presentations by in-house presenters. Corporate education departments are enlisting the help of internal subject-matter experts (SMEs). With a little planning and support, the experience can be a win-win-win for the presenter, participants and…
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Looking at Learning through an Innovation Lens
Do you wear glasses? I’ve had spectacles for more than 20 years. And I confess I’m not always appreciative of what they do for me. Sometimes when I can’t remember where I put them, for example, they feel like a nuisance. Every time I get a new pair, I become a bit disoriented, a bit…