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Driving Performance Through Training
Tough times demand tough action. You have a mountain of training and reference material, but does this mountain of material address your current business goals? For example, your training department has been in existence for a number of years, and you hav
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Guidelines for Effective E-Learning
As the economy picks up, two things will happen. First, companies will have more money to spend on training. While a critical mass of courses is important, those e-learning companies that have high quality will get the majority of the business. The others
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Innovative Corporate/University Alliances
The National Center for Education Statistics reports that over the past decade more than 500 institutions of higher education have closed their doors. During this same time, corporate universities have grown fivefold, to more than 2,000, compared with 3,6
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Blended Leadership Development Programs
In the past, economic downturns meant cuts in leadership development programs; however, in most organizations today the opposite is found to be true. Organizations recognize that the turbulence of global markets, competition, geopolitics and the economy r
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Human Capital Measurement: A Challenge for the CLO
A recent study conducted by the human capital practice at Deloitte & Touche in the United Kingdom made an interesting conclusion: There is much confusion about what to measure and monitor in the human capital arena. This comes as no surprise t
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Why Content Management Systems Fall Short of Great Learning
If the pilot on your next flight told you he had never flown a jet before but not to worry because he had read the training manual, would you stay on board? If a builder told you she had never built a house before but would have no problem building yours
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Get the Best Return on Your Training Dollars
The training budget is one of the first to be slashed in a troubled economy, leaving managers searching for ways to make the most of the training dollars left. One might be inclined, especially in this case, to splurge on a cheap program that yields no be
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Brink’s Home Security: Safe Solutions
Monitoring the safety of more than 800,000 homes, Irving, Texas-based Brink’s Home Security knows that learning is imperative to customer satisfaction and company success. With more than 2,600 employees in the United States and Canada, Brink’s Home Securi












