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by Evan Hackel Every company pays for training. You can either pay for it up front or you pay for it through poor results at many times the cost of doing it right. People don’t think about it this way, but maybe they should. Let me tell you a story about a company where a…
Our Editorial Team had a busy year researching and writing post for the Tortal Blog. Here’s a list for your review. If you see a post that you would like to read, just click on its name and it will open in a new window. All of us at Tortal Training wish you every success…
“How can you avoid wasting money on frivolous training?” our Founder Evan Hackel asks in “Know the Difference between Edutainment and Productive Training,” his new article in The GIS Professional. We invite you to read the whole article, which appears on Page 8. Here is an overview of some of Evan’s advice . . ….
“Even Your Satisfied Employees Are Job Hunting in January,” an article on Salary.Com, reports that finding a new job could be the most popular New Year’s resolution of all. Citing a study conducted by Salary.com, the article notes that as many as 51% of all currently employed workers are thinking of starting a job search…
Every year 24/7 Wall St (247wallst.com) publishes its list of the 10 worst American companies to work for. This year’s list, based on research by Evan Comen, Samuel Stebbins and Thomas C. Frohlich, makes for unpleasant reading. It includes a list of the 10 worst companies, which we will not share in today’s post. It…
Dan Black, Tortal Training’s VP of Client Engagement, just did an interview on Up or Out with Connie Pheiff, a series of podcasts that are always stimulating and just a little bit different. If you’re a training professional, you should listen right now. You’ll hear Dan discuss what he calls “The 4 Rights of…
With December starting in a few days, it’s time to ask this question . . . How well did your 2016 training resolutions work out? You might be wondering why we are asking that question now. Wouldn’t it be smarter to ask about the New Year’s resolutions that you will make for year 2017? The…
More than 40 years ago, Donald and James Kirkpatrick wrote Evaluating Training Programs, a book that is now regarded as a classic. “Ensure Your Training Is Effective,” an excellent article that recently appeared in Training Today, does a very good job of explaining Kirkpatrick’s system of measuring the results of training. In today’s post, we…
Every year Forbes contributor Dan Schawbel interviews hundreds of HR professionals and employees and writes up a list of important workforce trends. He has just published his 2017 list in Forbes, and we think it makes for important reading. Because Tortal Training is a training development company, we tend to see trends through the lens…
Boring training is bad training, because people who are bored tune out and do not learn. That could explain why so many professional trainers like to exhibit such high levels of energy. They burst into a training session at the start of the day with so much oomph that it is hard to imagine how…
