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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 employees on its software, as well as the intricacies of trade law. In addition, the company reaches more than 1,500 people externally. “Obviously every single…
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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 up-to-date with changing technologies. Training and education for existing and new workers was clearly needed, and adding a new online program would allow existing utility…
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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 training. However, it is known that training expenditure per person is not an indicator of: Access to training for employees. The quality of the training.…
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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
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Fireman’s Fund Insurance Company: Ensuring Educated Employees
In business for 140 years, Fireman’s Fund Insurance Company (FFIC) provides business insurance for specific industries, including marine, entertainment, manufacturing and real estate, and personal insurance to protect the homes and assets of families and
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Innovations in technology are forever transforming the learning and development industry. Management needs to continue to immerse themselves in these transformations in order to keep up with current trends and changes in competing companies.
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