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Performance-Based Simulations: Customizable Tools
The use of performance-based simulation learning tools to educate the enterprise is growing rapidly due to the decisive success rates of specialized, interactive content that teaches leaders high-level business acumen in a real-world, risk-free setting. C
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Learning Economics: Balancing Time & Investment
Because my first degree is in economics, I have always been interested in the relationships between different variables. Learning organizations often use training investment level as a percentage of payroll (input variable) and the average number of train
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Kathy Sutter: Creating a Balanced Toolkit for Learning
Office Depot offers endless rows of colorful pens, folders and gadgets designed to make working easier, more organized and efficient. A former schoolteacher for grades 4-8, Kathy Sutter, vice president of leadership development and global learning for Off
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ATX Communications: Connecting Content With Results
It was essential to implement an easy-to-use e-learning authoring tool to simplify work for the industry experts and managers who produce the course content. But there was a problem. Budget […]
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Grooming the Next CLO
Chief learning officers often play a significant role in the succession planning activities for an organization. However, some evidence suggests that CLOs are not succeeding in developing their own staff to take on top-level learning executive positions w
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Torstar Corp.: Risk-Free Employee Development
Torstar Corp., a global media company with interests that include the Toronto Star and the popular Harlequin book-publishing line, has made simulation training a key part of its employee development offerings. Simulations, which allow for a significant le
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Taking Simulations to the Next Level
Simulations are poised to be the next big thing in learning and development. According to industry research firm Gartner, 50 percent of enterprises will be using simulations to teach vital skills to their sales and customer support professionals by 2006.
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Motivating Sales Forces
Sales has always been a part of business, but the need for a well-trained and properly prepared sales force has never been more crucial, as businesses now face strong competition […]