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Challenging the Challenger
A sluggish economy and hyper-competitive business environment have organizations desperately seeking the next game-changing sales approach. The Challenger is the latest sales model to take center stage. Is it really your ticket to heroic sales results or destined to be a short-lived sales fad?…
3 Essential Skill Sets for Instructor Excellence in Multi-Platform Training
Our experience is showing that a really good instructor can usually overcome the deficiencies that may exist in a multi-platform training program's curriculum or its delivery mechanism. Moreover, unfortunately, even the strongest program can be undermined if the instruction is inadequate. The instructor is a critical make-or-break element in any connected classroom – and an…Variability in Patient Care Is Healthcare’s Hottest Topic
A transformation of the healthcare delivery system is about to occur thanks to reform legislation and continued market pressures. The perennial challenge to ensure consistent, quality patient care remains a hot topic. Achieving this consistency presents an enormous challenge to the management skills and cooperative spirit within every single department. However, optimizing your institution’s learning…Who’s More Arrogant: Americans or French?
We've heard it over and over as fingers point across the Atlantic: THEY are so arrogant! When the topic comes up in intercultural training, people from other countries usually laugh and say: Both French and Americans are arrogant! What's there to talk about?…3 Reasons Why Behavior Change Fails in the Workplace
Every workplace has some behavior they need to change. Whether it’s getting the sales team to improve their success rate by relying on what they know rather than whom they know, or whether it’s training front-line employees to be better at customer service, behavior change is serious business. And it’s incredibly hard not only to…Knowledge Capture to Ensure the Effective Flow of Information
Like it or not, but employees leave and they take their knowledge right along with them. If strategies are not in place to effectively capture knowledge, then organizations waste time, money and resources recreating information to fill the knowledge gap. Implementing proper measures will ensure that relevant information is captured and stored in an accessible…Enterprise Learning Strategy: Leverage Beyond the Project
When executives need to transform business and operations, they launch an initiative or project to accomplish their goals. The success of the initiative or project is entirely dependent on the adoption and execution of the new ways of working. Reaching the goals rest squarely with workforce, the front-line performers. The front line can be in…Fostering Top-Notch Talent This Fall: 5 Destructive Talent Practices
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, job openings are up 45 percent since the official end of the recession in July 2009. While this is good news for the U.S. economy, the increase in job opportunities also makes it more challenging to hold on to high-performing, talented employees.…From Contributor to Leader: A CEO’s Advice on Successfully Navigating Critical Transitions
Have you ever wondered how George Washington became George Washington? Most American children are told stories about a certain cherry tree and are then skip right to Valley Forge and the presidency. But is that all there is to it?…The Coaching Connection
Training professionals know that, no matter how powerful the training initiative, it may have limited long-term performance gains. Benefits of training depend on how skills and knowledge are applied after the learning event. Acclivus conducted more than 300 post-training measurement projects to examine the factors that affect long-term performance gains.…
