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Business-Based Learning: Methods to Ensure Profitable Programs
The basic question, ‘So, how do training activities become profitable?’ does not have an easy answer. Some folks try to throw technology at difficult situations. But, poorly executed technology solutions will only worsen the environment.
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Outsourcing Learning: Choosing the Model for Success
With increasing pressures to provide more return on investment for their training initiatives, many organizations are taking a more strategic view of vendor relationships and outsourcing. Synonymous primarily with software services and back-office process
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Diversity Training and Microinequities: Ensuring All Voices Are Valued
Imagine you’re on a project team, working on upgrading the organization’s technology infrastructure. In meetings, you find you are often interrupted—you feel your voice isn’t heard. You receive an e-mail about the project, and notice you’ve been left off
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Jim LaRocco: Blazing a Path to Learning Success
When it comes to enterprise learning, most companies are as concerned with return on investment as they are with the quality of the training they provide. And the bottom line is: Are employees better able to do their jobs after a training program? Are the
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Cutting Outsourcing Costs Through Effective Skills Management
Contractors have always cost more than the equivalent full-time staff. In the employer’s mind, this higher cost is mitigated by the accompanying benefits. Contractors are short-term employees, an expensive resource for dealing with peak demand that can be
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E-Quality in E-Learning
Some claim that e-learning presents new modes of discrimination. A recent, global e-learning initiative at Deloitte Consulting that analyzed more than 135,000 test scores of 19,000 Deloitte employees offers some insight, demonstrating that an online setti
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Organizing Enterprise-Wide Content
What’s the best way to pull together the content that underpins training? Call this job climbing “Mount Content,” if you will. With the right tools, you can make the ascent.
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Evaluation as a Strategic Tool
Why is evaluation important to you, the learning executive? This article will attempt to answer this question from the point of view of someone who directs the training efforts for the entire enterprise.











