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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…
Jeffrey Gitomer is one of the most sought-after sales trainers in America – and one of the most opinionated, unusual and results-oriented. He is also a bestselling author, a keynote speaker, and the founder of Training One. Here are some of the views that Jeffrey expressed when he talked with Cordell Riley in one…
“It is critically important to include industry-specific terms and concepts in your training,” Chris Kirchner stated in the Breakthrough Ideas in Training webinar that he presented for us at Tortal last summer. Chris is Director of ROI Certification for the ROI Institute, he knows what delivers results in training, and his recommendation is very,…
“5 Trends for the Future of Learning and Development,” an article that David Wentworth and Mollie Lombardi wrote for Training magazine, delivers an overview of training trends that’s well worth reading. Wentworth and Lombardi, who are researchers at The Brandon Hall Group, first point to these three trends as notable: The increasing use…
It’s not hard to put together training programs that combine classroom and technology-based learning. The problem is that it is really easy to get it wrong. In today’s post, let’s learn how to combine both forms of learning in an optimized way that gets results. The Problem: Breaking the 10% Learning Barrier The…
