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Feature Stories
Involve, Promote, Tailor: Putting the Meaning Back Into Training Programs
Have your training programs lost the thrill for learners? With a few enhancements here and few adjustments there, your training offerings to employees can regain their potency.
Seven Tips for Effective 20 Minute Leadership Conversations
Do your company's managers dread "leadership" conversations with those they supervise and mentor? One expert says there are at least seven ways to make the process less painful, and more effective.
Strategic Planning Made "Simple?"
Sometimes the solutions to your toughest strategic planning challenges are easier than you think. You may just need a new way of thinking to find them.
Do Social Media Tools Make Smarter Learning Solutions?
Can social media tools be used for something other than distracting your workforce? Implemented the right way, social media technology can be a great complement to your learning strategy.
Mountain America Credit Union's Learning Council
From the Training Top 125 Best Practices e-newsletter
Training with Cultural Intelligence: The Secret to Effective Cross-Cultural Teaching
If you facilitate enough training sessions, you're bound to offend or confuse someone at some point. Those odds increase exponentially when creating training for other cultures. Cultural intelligence could be what saves you from looming inter-cultural disaster.
Columns
Productivity Coach's Corner: Do You Have a Backup Plan?
You've increased your productivity, and are happy with your work performance, but what if something goes wrong (as, eventually, it will)? Do you have a plan just in case?
Last Word: Removing "Personal" from Interpersonal Tension
Tips on how to smooth out office tensions and problem-solve effectively in the workplace.
Productivity Coach's Corner: Develop Yourself—Personally and Professionally
Your employees' development is about more than mastering technical skills. Their personal development is just as essential to making them productive members of your workforce.
World View: Focus on Vietnam
The Vietnamese culture values education. To eventually join the ranks of highly functioning countries, training is key for this once closed--off nation.
Going Global: The Hidden Dimensions of Global Training Events
Those times when your global events fall flat are not as mysterious as you may think. There's a reason why other cultures react interact with and respond to training events differently—and sometimes not for the better.


News
Without a Job, Who Am I?
It was in the news today that the U.S. unemployment rate hit 10.2 percent. So, logic dictates, many of you have employees you just gave the bad news to, or soon will in the next month or so. You may want to send them on their way with a book that just came out.
Unemployment Hits 10.2 Percent
October jobless rates continue on an upward trend.
3-D Negotiations Training
Shapiro Negotiations Institute launched Virtual Training Partners, a new online, 3-D corporate training and education program.
English National Ballet Shares Learning and Development Secrets
At the English National Ballet, it's not just the dancers who get trained.
Central Florida's Chambers of Commerce Bolster Training
Workforce Central Florida (WCF) awarded nine Central Florida chambers of commerce with $5,000 grants, funded by stimulus funds under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, to develop and deliver a WCF joint training seminar.
Jack Welch Launches MBA Program
Former GE CEO Jack Welch will launch the Jack Welch Management Institute in January, according an article by Paul Glader that appeared in the Wall Street Journal's Website last week.
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Join your training peers in San Diego, the city with a near-perfect climate, for Training magazine's 33rd annual event in February 2010. Training 2010 will help you gather insight, skills, inspiration, and best practices as well as engage you like never before.
 
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