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McDonald’s Awarded College Credit Recommendations from ACE
McDonald’s USA has more to celebrate than launching its new Arch cards in time for the holiday. The popular restaurant chain’s training curriculum for managers and mid-management employees was recently awarded 46 college credit recommendations by the Amer
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Gold’s Gym: Strengthening Learning to Build Growth Plans
The most effective physical fitness workouts engage all muscle groups in the body and increase the heart rate to offer aerobic benefits to major organs such as the heart and lungs. Learning and development should have the same overall effects in an organi
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Sell Learning to Gain Executive Support
Executives understand that corporate education activities bring value to an organization in many ways, but that understanding does not always translate into financial support for learning initiatives or development programs. Often, chief learning officers
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Government Printing Office: Cultivating Potential
The U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) has been the federal government’s primary centralized resource for gathering, cataloging, producing and preserving published information in all its forms for all three branches for the past 140 years. Today, the GPO is at the epicenter of technology as it embraces its historic mission of printing and access to…
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Learning Management: The Enterprise Approach
The high-impact learning organization can be vitally linked to the management system that serves as its foundation. However, there are some pitfalls to successful implementation. Learn more about choosing an enterprise LMS.
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Contrast: The Mother of Learning
To say that I am a golfer would be a very liberal use of the term. Mark Twain once called golf, “A good walk, spoiled.” On the other hand, I believe that most golf courses provide a beautiful environment and that the game offers some powerful learning analogies. The best golf lesson I ever experienced…
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E-Reference: The Real Just-in-Time Training
I was recently talking with a colleague about how blurred the definition of e-learning has become. For many organizations, it means an online tutorial or Web-based training. For others, it involves different modalities, such as synchronous technologies. And for others, it includes Web communities driven by threaded message boards, blogs or wikis. The point here…
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Identifying and Cultivating High-Potential Employees
As the future leaders of their organizations, high-potential employees should be identified early and developed effectively. By building their leadership skills and competencies, organizations can build their competitive advantage for the future.












