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Global Demands Drive Enhanced E-Learning Development
Sales Performance International (SPI) offers sales training and professional development programs for sales professionals, managers and marketers at Fortune 500 companies. Up until 2002, SPI relied on instructor-led sessions to teach its proprietary methodology. But changing times and the needs of Microsoft and other global customers prompted the company to offer e-learning programs in conjunction…
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A World of Differences: Train and Maintain Your Global Workforce
To improve workforce connections, reduce global turnover and increase efficiency across the organization, localized and globally consistent employee training is necessary. It also can increase the productivity of a successful business.
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Podcasting for Learning
Just as you can play great, horrible and forgettable songs on your iPod, you can play great, horrible and forgettable learning podcasts on that same device. Over the past 18 months, corporate learning departments have contributed to an acute rise in both interest and deployment of podcasts for learning. We’ve tracked significant growth in the…
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Best Practices: CLO as Diplomat
With two decades of experience as a learning leader, Time-Warner Cable CLO Pat Crull has been practicing successful CLO habits even before such terms were coined. With a background in clinical psychology, including a doctorate from Northwestern University, Crull knew plenty about how people learn but less about how businesses earn. She soon saw the…
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Life as We Know it is About to Change
According to a recent article in Science News, an international team of researchers is developing a free, multilanguage, Web-based encyclopedia that will aggregate all data about every living species known — currently 1.8 million — and continue to add information about life forms as they are discovered. Dr. James Edwards, executive director of the project,…
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Blended Delivery: Mixing Modalities
Today, blended learning refers to the range of delivery options available to learning professionals, including classroom-based, instructor-led training; synchronous or asynchronous e-learning; portable technologies and on-the-job training. With so many al
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Ethics Training: New Needs, New Times
How does the leader of an organization set an example and instill ethics into the fabric of everyday business? How does an organization go from just a profitable company to one that is also values-based? It’s no wonder ethics training is becoming mandato
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Advanced Technical Training Might Mean Going Back to Basics
Industries such as pharmaceuticals, construction and engineering have one thing in common: At some level, all require hands-on technical training.












