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Targeted Learning: Is Your Sales Force Indeed Ready?
At annual or quarterly sales meetings, senior executives commonly make a commitment to achieve established goals and corporate success. But if you ask how ready the sales team is to meet the challenge of selling a new product, you might receive vague resp
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E-Learning in the Government Market
Public- and private-sector organizations have much to learn from each other when it comes to learning management strategies. While public-sector organizations have embraced automation of training and competencies much faster than private-sector companies,
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Lands’ End: Learning That Fits
Lands’ End, one of the largest catalog retailers in the world, has built a successful business by combining high-quality customer service with comfortable, well-made clothing that fits. Over the years, the company has also built a reputation as a great pl
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Creating the Demand for Education
If you’ve been following the trade journals and learning and development conferences, you’ve probably noticed that an awakening of sorts is going on. The fact that we are even addressing motivation as a factor in learning is a sure indication that we as a
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Enterprise E-Learning Architecture: Working With the CIO
The vast selection of e-learning tools available today offers a tremendous opportunity for an enterprise training department to cultivate knowledge throughout the company. It also puts an equal burden on the department to be sure the network infrastructur
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Developing Competency-Driven Learning Content
They have a saying in Michigan: “If you don’t like the weather, stick around for a few minutes and it will change.” Businesses might not change that often, but they are changing, and changing more dramatically than ever before. Today’s news is constantly
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The Role of Middle Managers in Learning
As an aspiring educator in public education, my professors and mentors taught me that the teacher’s first responsibility is to the learners and to helping those students achieve their learning outcomes. That means that teachers have an obligation to utili
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Nonprofit Habitat for Humanity Adopts Corporate University Model
Habitat for Humanity International (HFHI) estimates that more than one billion people around the world live in substandard housing or no housing at all. In fact, just in the United States, around 9.3 million households are living in overcrowded conditions or physically inadequate housing. In light of these statistics, HFHI’s founder and president, Millard Fuller,…












