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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…
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…
Cordell Riley, founder and President of Tortal Training, is enthusiastic about every aspect of training. But of all the topics that excite him, one of the biggest has to do with . . . Aligning training with important company goals In “Four Ways to Align Training Goals with Business,” his article that just appeared…
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…
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…
For more training solutions, download our free eBook 10 Critical Considerations to Ensure Training Initiative Success Effective training has the power to lead companies to new levels of achievement, efficiency and success. Is training doing that for your organization? If not, the cause could be one of these problems that we have seen take hold…
If you have service workers who work in multiple locations, you know how labor-intensive and costly it can be to create a training program for them all. You have to deliver hands-on training to your employees in all your franchises, restaurants, hotels and health club food concessions, no matter where they work. You might…
Skills, Challenges, and Trends in Instructional Design, a free white paper available from The Association for Talent Development (ATD), is a must-read for everyone in the training industry. It’s the result of surveys of 1,381 training professionals that was conducted by researchers from ATD, the International Association for Continuing Education and Training (IACET), and…
If you plan your training with the help of experienced training consultants, it is highly unlikely that big problems will arise after your program begins. But even under the best of circumstances, trainees sometimes complain about what it taking place in the classroom. You could have some trainees who just like to gripe – or…
A training director we know went to his CEO last year and said, “I’d like to feature you in a video that will be shown to our new employees.” “I don’t want to do that,” the CEO said. “Training shouldn’t be about me, it should be about more important things.” But the trainer convinced…
