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We are pleased today to publish a guest post by Shep Hyken, one of our favorite training professionals. It was the lead story in his newest newsletter. We read it, we loved it, and Shep graciously gave us permission to republish it here on the Tortal Training Blog. About Shep Hyken . . . …
We just enjoyed “Great Leaders and Great Trainers Have a Lot in Common,” a terrific blog post that Dale Ludwig published on the Training Industry Blog. Mr. Ludwig, the president and founder of Turpin Communication, shares some wise insights about why great trainers and great leaders have a lot in common. Here are three reasons…
We are pleased to announce that we have just added one more Webinar to the other Breakthrough Ideas in Training Webinars that you have been enjoying over the last month. It’s a powerful session with Evan Hackel, CEO of Tortal Training and Principal of our partner company Ingage Consulting. Evan, as you know, wears many…
We have aired 11 webinars so far this summer in our Breakthrough Ideas in Training series, and people are raving about what they have learned. In today’s post, we will share some of our favorite success secrets from our presenters. If you haven’t taken part in any webinars yet, we invite you to…
Fresh ideas from my new book Ingaging Leadership Everyone in your organization needs top communication skills. That’s true for your executives, salespeople, middle managers and front-line employees. It is also especially true for trainers. If they only deliver information without motivating trainees to welcome and use it, the key concepts you want to teach…
. . . insights from my new book Ingaging Leadership There is so much power in the ongoing, simple process of identifying and monitoring performance indicators in your business. When you identify and measure them before and after training, you enjoy dramatically better results. That process becomes a key part of measuring the ROI that…
“I wish they’d told me how to deal with the most common complaint I hear from customers, but it never came up in training.” “As soon we got back onto the selling floor, we saw that we hadn’t really learned any tools to do our jobs better.” If you have ever gotten comments like those after…
“What have you learned lately?” is an important question to ask your in-house training professionals and the training consultants you are working with. And one more thing – if you are a training professional, why not ask yourself? Learning is important. When trainers are life learners, they bring a lot more to training . ….
In the Breakthrough Ideas webinar that Anthony Amos gave for us at Tortal Training last summer, he observed that using training to teach too many company “rules” can harm training. Anthony is a top former Australian rugby player, a successful entrepreneur, and now a sought-after trainer. And we think he has a point, because…
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…
