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Engaging the Body
In the world of training and development, there is a lack of focus on the body in the performance equation. Once it’s acknowledged that energy is every company’s most important resource, suddenly the body becomes business-relevant, as all energy driving b
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Kevin Wilde: Providing Food for Thought at General Mills
If you work with kiddie cereals and yogurt for a living, it pays to have a sense of humor and a sweet tooth. If you’re responsible for educating 27,000 employees worldwide, it also pays to have a flexible attitude and a committed plan for training and de
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Vastera: Managing Global Trade Learning
Vastera has implemented ViewCentral’s collaboration management solution (CMS) to help it manage its instructor-led and virtual training for both its customers and its internal workforce. Vastera must train its 600 […]
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Learning Utilization: Avoiding the ‘Cricket’ Risk
One of the funniest put-down lines of my daughter’s generation (she’s 15 years old) is the single word, “crickets.” Think of it in the context of telling a joke to your kids, who of course do not think it’s funny: You give the punch line and get nothing i
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The Energy Providers Coalition for Education: A Model Partnership
The industry was bracing for an upcoming “retirement bubble” in its current workforce. Companies were interested in hiring new entry-level employees with higher-level skills. Current employees needed retraining to keep […]
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Collaborating With Universities to Create a Continuous Learning Culture
Four years ago, a South Dakota-based health care organization developed a partnership with a local university to offer an online nursing degree program for its employees. Around the same time, an Illinois manufacturer brought a local university on-site to
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Why Training Spending Levels Don’t Matter Anymore
Training expenditure is a metric still used by many human resources and training professionals, as well as some market evaluators, to measure the value that enterprises place on education and […]
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The Internal Revenue Service: Counting on Learning
With around 100,000 permanent and 20,000 seasonal employees, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), a branch of the Department of Treasury, interacts with more Americans than any other public or private institution. In 2002, the IRS processed almost 227 mill











