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Huffy Bicycles: Learning New Ways to Prosper
Huffy Bicycles has been the core business of Huffy Corp. for more than 50 years. Most of that time the company featured one brand, Huffy, which was a market leader in inexpensive juvenile bicycles primarily sold through mass-merchandisers like Wal-Mart, T
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Southwest Airlines: Employee Education Takes Flight
With more than 35,000 employees, Southwest Airlines takes a unique approach to learning, empowering its people to build relationships with the company, with each other and with customers to ensure the success of the business. Taking this approach has help
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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












