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Dan Black, Tortal Training’s VP of Client Engagement, just did an interview on Up or Out with Connie Pheiff, a series of podcasts that are always stimulating and just a little bit different. If you’re a training professional, you should listen right now. You’ll hear Dan discuss what he calls “The 4 Rights of…
With December starting in a few days, it’s time to ask this question . . . How well did your 2016 training resolutions work out? You might be wondering why we are asking that question now. Wouldn’t it be smarter to ask about the New Year’s resolutions that you will make for year 2017? The…
Since it’s Thanksgiving week, let’s ask a question about your leadership and management style . . . Do you thank people as often as you should? Too many busy professionals, I am sure you have noticed, are so busy rushing from one pressing task to another that they never take a moment to thank…
More than 40 years ago, Donald and James Kirkpatrick wrote Evaluating Training Programs, a book that is now regarded as a classic. “Ensure Your Training Is Effective,” an excellent article that recently appeared in Training Today, does a very good job of explaining Kirkpatrick’s system of measuring the results of training. In today’s post, we…
Hear Evan Hackel talk about his book Ingaging Leadership . . . “Ingaging Leadership is a timely and eminently practical book that will definitely help leaders to improve their ability to bring out the best in others. The strategies and case studies Evan Hackel shares are relevant to businesses of all shapes and sizes.” –…
Every year Forbes contributor Dan Schawbel interviews hundreds of HR professionals and employees and writes up a list of important workforce trends. He has just published his 2017 list in Forbes, and we think it makes for important reading. Because Tortal Training is a training development company, we tend to see trends through the lens…
Evan Hackel, Founder and Principal of our partner company Ingage Consulting, will deliver a keynote address, “Engagement: A Key Driver of Franchise Success” on November 10, 2016 at Franquicia Future, one of Europe’s largest and most important franchising conferences. “I am excited to bring new insights about engagement to such a large and important European…
Boring training is bad training, because people who are bored tune out and do not learn. That could explain why so many professional trainers like to exhibit such high levels of energy. They burst into a training session at the start of the day with so much oomph that it is hard to imagine how…
Something new is happening in the world of sales . . . About 65% of sales prospects have already conducted extensive research online about what you are selling and are about halfway to making a buying decision before they contact you. That statistic from Walker Sands Communications is reported in “Millennials, Mobile and the…
