Training Today: Partnerships and Alliances (July-August 2011)

>> Athabasca University approved certified university credits for four of Vubiz Elearning’s Small Business Certificate Online Programs. The programs are: Small Business Management Program, Small Exporter Management Program, the new Small Business Health and Safety Program, and this year’s Small Business Human Resources Program.

>> Training Partners, an Asia-Pacific leader in networking, project management, and data communications training, joined NetDimensions’ global reseller network as a certified reseller for the company’s learning and talent management products. NetDimensions is a global provider of performance, knowledge, and learning management systems. NetDimensions and Training Partners currently are implementing an EKP (Enterprise Knowledge Platform) Learning Management System (LMS) and mEKP (mobile EKP) solution for a large pharmaceutical company with operations in Asia, including China and India.

>> 2logical developed a customized, 360-degree program to develop both sales managers and salespeople at Konica Minolta. The result is Propel, a curriculum that benchmarks effectiveness at the beginning of the process, provides more real-time feedback, and implements tools to help participants’ progression through the program.

>> Training and performance firm Management Concepts announced a partnership with American University and MCR, LLC, to enhance the Federal Acquisition Institute’s competency-based Senior Program Management certificate program (FAC P/PM). The partnership gives federal agencies, government contractors, and their employees several options to meet all training needs for a Senior Program Management Certificate.