Training Industry Blog

Community college's enrollment have seen considerable growth over the last couple of years - driven by a down economy with unemployed workers reskilling for future employment. With tax revenues down, there's increased pressure on schools to get needed funding to pay for the growth in student enrollment. So what are colleges doing to help pay for the increased demand?

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An old coworker of mine recently appeared as a keynote speaker at a local tech workshop. This previous coworker has done well for himself moving out of the ranks of corporate America (we were both at the time in a large corporate training organization) and moved into Academia landing himself at Duke University. Not a bad gig if it comes with free basketball tickets.

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The Maytag salesman isn’t lonely anymore: Depending on what city he or she calls home, about 10,000 colleagues are about to drop in for an impromptu party that includes music, food and training. It’s all part of a new 70-city “Whirlpool Corporation on Tour” initiative that’ll provide cluster training to thousands of professionals who sell the company’s appliances. They’ll get more than the chance to kick the metaphorical tires on a series of new products: They’ll get in-depth product information designed to increase sales through increased knowledge.

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For the third year, hundreds of learning executives came together recently for the CLO & Talent Management Forum, a discussion-driven event that has senior learning leaders sharing solutions and resources to power corporate people processes. With a who’s who of corporations including Apple, Bank of America, Hertz and ESPN, the event featured a series of strategic conversations that ranges from aligning learning to business acumen, and from corporate communications to supporting top talent. In case you couldn’t make it, here’s a recap of the spirited conversations taking place under the desert sun.

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Drill bits and saw blades seem like the ultimate hands-on tools, the kinds of things you have to pick up to use and practice to learn. While practice is always a good thing, it’s now possible for professionals to learn about tools by putting their hands on a keyboard. LearnIRWIN.com is a still-evolving learning portal that Newell Rubbermaid is using to help train sales professionals, distributors and customers on how to build great things together.

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Over the decades working with owners, leaders, and managers/supervisors at all levels across industries ranging from small to mega-corporations I continue to be astonished that far too many do NOT know, let alone consistently perform by, fundamental critical principles that shape their personal, team, and organization’s effectiveness resulting in sustained success. Here are three of these most essential principles which, when consistently put into effective practice, can pay dramatic dividends for them and their organizations...

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