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Advice from Eric Bloom: Hire People Who Love their Work

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  If you attended the webinar that Eric Bloom presented during our two weeks of Breakthrough Ideas in Training Webinars this summer, you already know what great ideas he has for getting the most out of training. Today, we would like to highlight another one of Eric’s highly effective ideas – one that can dramatically…

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Critical Thinking: Why Good Trainers Are a Lot Like Good Leaders

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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…

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Learn Training and Leadership Secrets from Evan Hackel in Our New Webinar

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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…

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Can You Put Baby Boomers and Millennials in the Same Training Classroom?

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  Not long ago, a leading brand of cosmetics started hiring brand ambassadors. Those reps would travel to retail stores to see whether products were being correctly displayed on shelves, whether new displays were being used and, on occasion, to hand out samples and coupons. The company assumed that mostly millennial-aged applicants (born between about…

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The Critical Role Training Can Play in Building Your Company’s Future

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“Kodak’s Fall Wasn’t about Technology,” an article that Scott Anthony published in Harvard Business Review on July 15th, gives a compelling case study of how Kodak fell from a position of leadership in the world of consumer photography. It makes for fascinating – and troubling – reading. Did you know, for example, that Kodak developed…

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Hiring Is Surging in America . . . Now How Do You Train?

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  “Total nonfarm payroll employment increased by 287,000 in June, and the unemployment rate rose to 4.9 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Job growth occurred in leisure and hospitality, health care and social assistance, and financial activities. Employment also increased in information, mostly reflecting the return of workers from a strike.”…

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Transform Your Leadership and Training with these Big Ideas from our 2016 Summer Webinars

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    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…

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Breakthrough Lessons from Jason Forrest: How to Change Behavior and Unleash Top Performance

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Jason Forrest is founder of Forrest Performance Group, creators of a powerful training approach that builds performance by coaching people to uncover and remove hidden beliefs and assumptions that limit their ability to succeed. Jason shared some of his strategies in great webinar last week, part of Tortal’s Breakthrough Ideas in Training series. We invite…

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Breakthrough Lessons from Andrew Fischer on People, Products and Profits

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Andrew Fischer is the CEO and Co-Founder of Choozle, a leading self-service digital marketing platform that powers media execution for over 800+ global advertisers. One of the challenges he faces? Onboarding new employees into a fast-paced, hectic business. How does he do it? He shared some strategies a dynamite webinar about people, products and profits…

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Breakthrough Lessons from Cordell Riley: Training Wisdom from a Lifelong Learner

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Cordell Riley, President of Tortal Training, has created a company that delivers on a deceptively simple promise to its clients . . . “Make Effective Training Easy” How has he built a training company that can do that? After all, any training process is built from a lot of “moving parts” that include technology, instructional…

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