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It’s standard practice to hand out survey forms when a day of training is done, or to email feedback forms to trainees the next day. But is that enough? Probably not. Because getting the right feedback in the right ways can lead to continuous improvement in all your training efforts, let’s take a closer…
Phillip Hatfield is a certified Zig Ziglar team member and a powerhouse motivational speaker who gets trainees to transform themselves into top performers. So it comes as no surprise that he believes that great training depends on face-to-face encounters between trainers and trainees. “Too many companies today believe that online training is all they need…
“Training deserves a seat at the table next to marketing and other company priorities,” our friend Dan Elzer told us in the Breakthrough Ideas webinar that he presented for us last summer. Dan founded The Training Academy, his clients include some of the most successful companies in America, and he is right. Top executives…
Let’s consider a common scenario . . . Your salespeople aren’t selling enough. They’re hitting their quotas by making the number of sales visits you asked for. They’re even identifying and calling on 20 strong new prospects every month, just like you asked them to do. But for some reason, the needle isn’t moving in…
Let’s take a look at two professional trainers. In today’s post, we’ll call them Joan and Jack. How Joan and Jack Are Similar Both Joan and Jack are energetic trainers who get their audiences laughing. They will both do whatever it takes – using props or quacking or asking trainees to do silly things – to…
All of us at Tortal Training are proud of our CEO Evan Hackel. He just wrote a new book, Ingaging Leadership: A new approach to leading that builds excellence and organizational success and we’re all talking about how wise and useful it is. We hope you will look at its listing on Amazon.com and…
In the Breakthough Ideas in Training webinar that Anthony Amos gave for us at Tortal last summer, he made a comment that we’ve been thinking about ever since . . . “Good training coaches people to move through discomfort.” The more we think about that comment, the more we realize how wise Anthony is….
In the Breakthrough Ideas in Training Webinar that he presented for Tortal this summer, top trainer Harry J. Friedman suggested a powerful way to add value to training programs. “It’s important to remember how your company got started and to tell that story in your training,” he said. That’s a great piece of training…
In the Breakthrough Ideas in Training webinar that TJ Shier presented for Tortal Training this summer, he recommended offering incentives to employees who take part in training and use the skills they learn. In the months since that session, we’ve been getting some feedback about using incentives in training. “What a great idea,” one…
We all know that hiring the wrong training development firm wastes time and money. Yet making the right choice isn’t always easy. Even a firm with a good reputation and an impressive client list might not be just right for your needs. How can you increase the likelihood that you will retain the right firm…
