Training Articles

Business » Communication » Training | By Dominic Donaldson @ Tuesday, 18th November 2008

With so much competition in the workforce today, it seems ambition is inflating and the ratio of jobs to jobseekers is dramatically unbalanced. This is advantageous to employers as they are offered a wider selection of talented employees to recruit and harder for jobseekers to get their foot in the door. Saying this, how easy is it to keep those [more...]

Business » Communication » Training | By Leanne Isaacson @ Monday, 17th November 2008

Many businesses still rely on old fashioned communication methods such as fax machines, phone calls and regular mail delivery services. While these methods can certainly facilitate completion of a task, they are not always the most cost effective and efficient method to leverage. Many business owners discover that by learning and utilizing newer forms of technology that their communication speed [more...]

Business » Communication » Training | By Dominic Donaldson @ Sunday, 16th November 2008

Nominating yourself for the role of Fire Safety Warden at your new job may have seemed like an easy way to score brownie points with your new employer, but it\'s important to realise the responsibility you need to take on in your new role. Of course all companies will be slightly different and numbers of employees will vary dramatically but [more...]

Business » Communication » Training | By Sam McCain @ Wednesday, 3rd September 2008

In the wider commercial and government world eLearning, or online training, is often represented by an abundance of glorified Power Point presentations. Back and next buttons rule supreme, and while this type of training can provide some visually interesting content it doesn\'t necessarily engage learners for long. However, if you\'re prepared to spend more on eLearning a whole new teaching [more...]

Business » Communication » Training | By Sam McCain @ Friday, 22nd August 2008

A LMS can no longer rely on it\'s effectiveness as a learning medium to deliver, track and monitor training. It now needs to fend for itself and clearly demonstrate how it adds value to a business\'s bottom line. Previously, a traditional LMS has been able to provide sufficient value and worth to an organisation, by delivering and tracking training in a [more...]

Business » Communication » Training | By Kevin Sinclair @ Saturday, 26th July 2008

New members of your downline will look to you for training and advice or assistance to help them get established in the business. They will be keen to succeed and highly motivated to learn. Here are some important tips to help you be effective in training your distributors. The effectiveness of training sessions depends largely on the trainer. A trainer [more...]

Business » Communication » Training | By Steven Sonsino @ Tuesday, 15th July 2008

How do YOU communicate with your people? If you need to let your staff know something - the latest pay offer, when the office party is, that their department is being restructured - how do you do it? If yours is a fair-sized business, chances are that you leave it to the HR department to fire off a memo or an [more...]

Business » Communication » Training | By Francis Hesse @ Wednesday, 9th July 2008

Reading at a liesurly pace is fine, it is all part of the appeal that reading has to many people. It allows you to relax and process the words slowly. Unfortunately the way we read for pleasure is not suitable when we need to read articles and information for work or study. When you read textbooks or thick technical articles [more...]

Business » Communication » Training | By Art Gib @ Friday, 27th June 2008

Growing up, we\'ve all had dreams of being a fighter pilot, astronaut, space explorer, ancient warrior, or any of a million different occupations throughout history. Unfortunately for most of us, we don\'t ever get to live out our childhood dream, instead settling for a simulated experience in a video game. Sometimes the simulations are so real they have a place in [more...]

Business » Communication » Training | By Peter Geisheker @ Monday, 9th June 2008

Sales training is perhaps the single greatest resource you can give to your employees. It is a means of teaching them the best techniques for today\'s business world. It is also a means of giving your employees the right tools to boost sales and profit margins. Sales training is being used more and more by businesses because of the proven [more...]

Business » Communication » Training | By Karen Miller @ Saturday, 15th March 2008

My assumptions are that: You have some basic knowledge of training. Or you may have experience in the training field as an instructor. You might have developed instructor-led training or printed training manuals. YOu would rather get a root canal than write objectives! Wait, there is hope! The first most important principle to remember about writing objectives is: Understand is not a measurable objective! Let me repeat, [more...]

Business » Communication » Training | By Ricardo d Argence @ Friday, 7th March 2008

If you are interested in succeeding in the area of business, it is essential that you are well educated in the area of effective communication skills. While many individuals seem to be born natural communicators, the rest of us must acquire this particular skill in order to be successful at it. Consistency is the key when it comes to business and [more...]

Business » Communication » Training | By Karen Miller @ Wednesday, 5th March 2008

While catching the early morning news at the gym today, I was astonished to hear the headline that Starbucks is closing nationwide for three hours to train its 135,000 store employees on the art of coffeemaking and the ultimate customer experience. Wow! I have been a training professional for over 25 years and this announcement is monumental to our profession. A [more...]

Business » Communication » Training | By Art Gib @ Thursday, 28th February 2008

What was long thought of a desperate approach to failed leadership, executive leadership coaching has made its way into many \"successful\" businesses as a mainstay. IBM for instance, has permanent staff whose role is strictly to train upper management. Successful companies are looking to maintain that winning streak. Executive leadership training is meant to help executives and CEOs learn about [more...]

Business » Communication » Training | By Karen Miller @ Wednesday, 27th February 2008

Recently I helped a small business owner totally re-write his marketing and business plans. The owner was grateful for the new copy, but expressed a concern that he may have issues writing copy for marketing materials or responding to bid proposals later in the year. He said,\"It is so hard to start from scratch writing a marketing document when you [more...]

Business » Communication » Training | By Art Gib @ Friday, 18th January 2008

There have been dozens of references about unique corporate cultures and why some of them work better in certain situations. There are names being tossed around, some of them seem to be made up on the fly. For instance there is the Work Hard/Play Hard culture or the Live and Let Live Culture. For every pundit there is a new [more...]

Business » Communication » Training | By Art Gib @ Friday, 28th December 2007

There are an array of principals that corporate trainers are trying to help executives understand during their seminars, but they really want to get to the root of why the current state of affairs at the job are not turning results and how minds and culture can be aligned properly. It\'s a top down training principal where executive leadership [more...]

Business » Communication » Training | By Andrew Whiteman @ Friday, 12th October 2007

One of the chief benefits of booking on-site (in-house) training, as opposed to sending your people off to a training centre to attend a pubic course, is that the training can be customised to suit the specific needs of your organisation. When booking on-site training courses, be sure to make this clear to the training company and brief them fully [more...]

Business » Communication » Training | By Paul Sutherland @ Thursday, 11th October 2007

This may come as a shock to a lot of business owners but it is true! Most training does not work! Some companies spend hundreds, thousands and even millions of pounds or dollars on training programs that simply don\'t produce a consistent return on investment. Why? Well, it\'s not that the training courses or seminars themselves are not any good. [more...]

Business » Communication » Training | By Randy Gilbert @ Wednesday, 10th October 2007

Advances in technology and cultural responses to it mean that more people want to work from home and more companies want to outsource. Here are just a few examples of opportunities for companies in taking advantage of virtual workers: reduced overhead costs, higher quality workers not available locally, often higher productivity per hour. Opportunities for the telecommuter: comfortable work setting, [more...]