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Did you miss last summer’s Breakthrough Ideas in Training webinars from Tortal Training? We’re sorry if you did, but have some great news for you . . . This year’s Breakthrough Ideas in Training Webinars are about to begin, they will be just as groundbreaking as last year’s, they are still free . . ….
Our CEO Evan Hackel believes that one key to building retention, performance and satisfaction is to tell job applicants what will be expected of them if they come on board – and even to tell them during interviews. “Why wait until the first job review and then tell employees what they haven’t done right?”…
In 2014, a 19-year-old driver named Sage Karam finished in ninth place in his first Indianapolis 500. He didn’t do that well in 2015 – he had to leave the race in the first lap, after another car hit him. But he returns to Indianapolis this weekend for his third Indy 500. At age 21,…
Most business leaders know that a comprehensive eLearning training program builds more consistent performance among employees, improves customer service, reduces the amount of time that managers spend training new employees, and provides other benefits that impact the bottom line. But do those same businesspeople also understand just how much a company’s overall profitability will grow…
Everything is going mobile . . . shouldn’t you??!!!! Maybe you have thick old training manuals that you’d like to convert for delivery on mobile devices. Or how about those old lessons that you’ve been delivering on computer terminals in your company’s training room? Isn’t it time to adapt them for delivery on your trainees’…
“The Ideal Work Schedule, As Defined by Circadian Rhythms,” an article by Christopher M. Barnes in The Harvard Business Review, explores the energy peaks and valleys that most people experience through the course of a day. The author writes that it is important to consider those biological rhythms when planning employees’ work schedules ….
“Don’t Be Lazy with Social Learning,” a post that Chris Browning wrote for the ATD Learning Technologies Blog on April 6th, makes some excellent points about why social media channels can be ineffective for learning purposes. To quote from his post . . . “If I see a three-minute video or read a blog that…
Because the first aim of training is to improve the way people do things, all training programs measure hard metrics like these after training is done: Are our salespeople making more sales calls, closing more sales, or increasing the size of the average order? Have our product assemblers increased their output and reduced the number…
How much does it cost to breathe fresh life into an under-performing training program? Is it even worth trying, or do you need to discard what you have and start designing all over again from the beginning? Many companies assume that it cannot be done without incurring enormous expenses. But that is often not the…
