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An Executive Guide to giving Leadership Advice
by Tim Coburn
As a chief executive, C suite director or senior manager, what advice would you give to help your leaders succeed in today’s corporate world?
Senior leaders – like you - are often asked to speak on …
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Employee Training and Development Across the Generations
by Cam Marston, President, Generational Insight
Today’s workforce includes people of many ages and backgrounds. So how do you find common ground and provide training and development that’s effective for everyone? Start with an understanding of generational dynamics.…
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How Did Leaders Score During the Downturn… And What To Do Next?
by Ann Mamallo, Pacific NW Director at BlessingWhite
The economic dust is beginning to clear: It would appear — for the time being at least — that our economic environment has stabilized. Bloomberg BusinessWeek’s optimism meter remains at a lukewarm level since September …
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New evolution to Healthcare Learning
by Jason Gaya
The future trend of e-learning method in medical education is greatly influenced by major trends in education industry i.e. (1) continuous change in Healthcare environment inclusive of advances in biomedical sciences and diagnoses & management …
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Online education gets serious as iTunes U sees 300 million downloads
by Wilson
The Internet’s greatest achievement is without doubt how it has democratised information and learning. Knowledge one previously could not acquire without spending hundreds, if not thousands, of pounds is now available ‘for free’ with a …
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iTunes Texas education channel launched
by Sarah Portlock
Texas students can now download podcasts, videos and other multimedia lessons directly from iTunes through a new online program aimed at providing free, supplementary coursework that can be accessed anywhere, state officials announced Tuesday.…
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The Secrets of SaaS Training: Delivery
by Beth Chmielowski
This is the second in a series of three articles on the secrets of SaaS training. The first article, Secrets of SaaS Training: Design, explored approaches to designing SaaS training, and how it differs from …
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Is Immigrant Training Truly Effective?
by Raymond E. Floyd
The U.S. Department of Labor injury reports coupled with Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) incident reports citing training and language as major causes of accidents, prompt the question of possible lack of understanding by …
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Aug 24, 2010 .The Best Way To Waste Money on Training
by Michael Couch
I had the opportunity recently to work with two organizations that made a significant annual investment in leadership training but were concerned that they are not seeing an impact – those attending the training were …
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Educational Marketing: A New Strategy for Building Customer Loyalty
by Intrepid Learning Solutions
Educating customers about products and services has long been a priority for leading companies. But new Internet-based approaches now enable them to develop far deeper customer relationships through ongoing education and information sharing. You can …
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Online Learning 101
by Susan Landay, These articles originally appeared on eLearnMag.org June, 2010, and are made available here as a PDF with permission.
If you're anything like me, you have plenty of experience with face‐to‐face training, but are drowning in
the wake of online (or blended) learning tools.
Uncomfortable with this sinking feeling, I set out to educate myself, while …
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Building Trust
by The Ken Blanchard Companies
Trust has taken a hit lately in all facets of our life. Chalk it up to the combined effects of the
economic meltdown, financial mismanagement, and an increasing sense that, in business at
least, everyone seems to …
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ABC News Investigates For-Profit Education: Recruiters at the University of Phoenix
by Chris Cuomo, Gerry Wasgschal and Lauren Pearle
Ads for online schools are all over the Internet, plastered on billboards in subway cars and on television. The University of Phoenix, with nearly 500,000 students, is the biggest for-profit college. But some former students …
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Teaching the Attributes of Courage
by Sandra Ford Walston
Most people have differing opinions about who has courage and how they got it. Is it learned or innate? Do you maneuver in and out depending on the circumstance at stake or can you keep …
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Plugging-In Six Strategies for Sales Success
by Mike Koper, Senior Projects Specialist, RWD
Lately I’ve been deluged with the question of “How’s business out there?” from
customers past and present to new acquaintances. The sales landscape is
composed of many challenges for any large multinational corporation - they’re
seeking to gain …
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