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iPads Make Smarter Salespeople
A recent article in The New York Times and blog post by my colleague Joe Tertel tout the popularity of the iPad as a business tool. Many companies are finding that arming employees with the device can give them a competitive advantage. I’ve been talking to a number of clients about putting iPads into the [...]
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Onboarding Online
Onboarding is a critical function that gets new hires up to speed on organizational culture and structure. It’s the best opportunity to set expectations and define responsibilities before employees get sidetracked by all their new responsibilities. But let’s face it. Large portions of orientation content doesn’t change very often, and it can tie up HR [...]
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Improving the perceived value of training
Training and e-Learning can clearly have a positive impact on reaching business goals and increasing profitability, but sometimes it seems like the training department doesn’t get the respect it deserves. I recently spoke with 55 educators attending a Central PA ASTD meeting. Overall it was a diverse group – corporate trainers, HR professionals, and independent [...]
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Out-learn the Competition: Using Learning Technologies to Power Sales
Even with technology playing an increasing role in connecting buyers and sellers, most buying decisions still happen as the result of person to person interactions. Your marketing program may attract the targeted buyer but fail to win the sale because your “sellers” lack the required knowledge and skills. Buyers expect your company’s representatives to have [...]
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Leadership Brings Learning Technologies to Government
Government agencies face some of the most challenging training circumstances. They have to reach geographically dispersed employees and constituents with valuable training that is timely, consistent and accurate. Today, most government training leaders I talk to support using technology to distribute learning but face obstacles that prevent them from using alternatives to instructor-led, classroom style [...]
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Innovative Ways to Educate Customers
“We don’t sell – we educate our customers.” You’ve probably heard this before. For some businesses, educating prospects and customers is a primary form of branding, lead generation and business development. You see this in the form of user conferences, webinars, white papers, blogs and other educational marketing outreaches. With today’s learning and social media [...]
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Creating Characters for eLearning
When I first started as a Management Development Trainer, a colleague and I had an ongoing debate about the need to be a performer when facilitating. We agreed that proper facilitation requires charisma and the best facilitators we knew had a personality that lent to their presentation. However, we disagreed about who was the star [...]
Motivating Adult Learners – Part 1
As a training planner for many years, I often was discouraged by the reaction to my programs. I would sweat out writing objectives, pore over literature to get the latest information, gather appropriate visual aids and coerce experts into speaking to our staff. But more often than I’d like to admit, the reception to training [...]
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Learning Games and Simulations: Getting Started
I know many training leaders who have developed strong workflows to produce valuable e-Learning courses for their organizations. They have built teams, processes and infrastructure to deliver consistent, quality courses that meet standards and learner expectations. That workflow has also been essential to them meeting productivity goals, deadlines and budgets. The challenge for training leaders [...]
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