March 2009

It is interesting that the Wikipedia entry on “Leadership” begins with the statement that “defining leadership has been challenging.” In today’s real world business leaders are a lot less concerned with defining leadership and instead, intensely focused on coping with successfully executing it for their continued personal and organizational survival and success. To do so, practical tools and resources are available from providers like TrainingIndustry.com and its many quality organization members. One such tool is the compass which has been selected as the symbol for our TrainingIndustry.com Leadership Community.

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Global Knowledge (GK), the world's leader in IT Training, has ousted their chief executive. Training Industry, Inc. works with a number of private equity firms and has heard speculation that the owners have been frustrated with the CEO, Joe Cece, due to his inability to consummate the sale of the company. GK is owned by New York based investment firm Welsh, Carson, Anderson, and Stowe (WCAS).

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Is your training organization viewed as an expense or an investment for your company? We all want to say "investment", but many of us would honestly answer "expense". During these difficult economic times, it’s an extremely important question for training executives to be asking.

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How do you determine what training your company should provide? Courses that are popular with employees? Those that get high registrations? Courses that your competitors and peer companies offer? Or is it training that an engineering manager requests for her/his employees? What factors are the most important in making these decisions? And how would you use these to evaluate if your current portfolio has the right programs? These are all important business questions which involve funding and resource allocation.

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Contrary to popular belief, outsourcing is not an ‘either/or’ proposition. Many training professionals view training outsourcing as something either you do, or not do.

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