Joe Frontiera and Dan Leidl recently authored an article for the Washington Post’s “On Leadership” section regarding leadership and corporate social responsibility. Frontiera happened upon the story of Chapman’s Ice Cream, Canada’s largest independent ice cream manufacturer. Chapman’s largest plant, which employed close to 350 people, had the potential to devastate the 1,200-person town of Markdale, Ontario when it was destroyed in an early morning fire in September of last year. Husband and wife owners, Penny and David Chapman, made the extraordinary decision to rebuild and continue paying all of their employees through the process.

Now, more than ever, is the time to understand your employees. Not just getting to know them, but getting to know what engages them to be happy, productive and loyal to their company. Read the startling survey results and discover the misconceptions and realities that managers and leaders have and how it affects their team. Having studied the nature and dynamics of employee engagement, disengagement, turnover, and retention over the past 14 years, Leigh Branham has come across a few misconceptions that many leaders and managers have. He believes these misconceptions undermine successful employee engagement initiatives before they can even begin, and offers the realities in the hope of enhancing our collective realism, optimism, and effectiveness.

There has always been a debate about how important IT certifications really are. Some believe certifications prove that an IT professional is knowledgeable but may not prove how well they can actually do the job. However, certifications provide the knowledge needed to gain experience and validate skills to potential/current employers. And in the current economy, certifications are an increasingly important tool for building skill levels, improved marketability and career opportunities.

Time and again training professionals appear to have their backs against the wall when attempting to gain support for their training initiatives. Too often training professionals present projects to management by stating what the participants (employees) will learn rather than how the business will benefit from what they learned. Recognizing the business benefits training can provide requires knowing which questions to ask.

Online college education is expanding—rapidly. More than 4.6 million college students were taking at least one online course at the start of the 2008-2009 school year. That's more than 1 in 4 college students, and it's a 17 percent increase from 2007.

At the beginning of every year, TrainingIndustry.com provides our predictions on the learning marketplace for the upcoming year. Our goal is to provide visibility around the trends that may help you in managing, developing or ...

The evolution of informal learning has been interesting to watch. We’ve witnessed decades of changing landscapes within learning organizations and, regardless of the latest or greatest learning theories and behaviors, people continue to learn ...

All industries have deals that are instrumental in defining the evolution of their market in terms of quality and scope of services. The biggest deals are not always industry changers, but the relative complexity, scope, ...

2009 was as challenging a year for the training industry as we’ve had in the past twenty. The good news is that it’s over. Now it’s time to get up, dust ourselves off, and begin the task of making 2010 the best that it can be.

On November 14, 2008, the Securities and Exchange Commission published a proposed roadmap calling for the potential use of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) by U.S. public companies. The roadmap sets forth milestones that ...