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Feature Stories
Conversations that Count: Taking a Story-Based Approach to ROI
Evaluating ROI for learning initiatives is viewed as time-consuming, expensive, and difficult to do. In fact, taking a story-based approach to ROI evaluation not only offers an alternative approach to the "science experiment," it is a more powerful approach that has proven to be faster, cheaper, and easier to do.
Organizational Career Development: A Business Imperative Now
In the face of the most severe economic downturn since the great depression, those organizations with the courage, foresight, and discipline to develop their talent will gain the competitive advantage and catapult to success in a rebounding global economy.
Creating a Business Environment for Better Business
Do your employees know how to encourage customers or clients to determine the kind of environment in which they receive services from you? Teaching your employees to do so could reap big rewards for your organization. That's the lesson one nursing home recently learned.
Inside the Innovatrium
Is innovation a matter of setting your employees free from business process, or is it more about finding the right process to take your company where you want it to go? Training magazine visited the innovation experts at the Innovatrium last October to get answers for you.
The Up-And-Coming Innovators
Innovation is a risky business. Eaton Corporation, a power management company focused on the electrical, industrial, and transportation markets, which brought up-and-coming engineers to the Innovatrium, an Ann Arbor, MI-based facility operated by Competing Values, a consulting and training firm founded by business school professors, consultants, and former executives; Haworth, an office and building space design company; and ISCG, a workplace design distributor, told Training about their experience.
Training 2010 Conference and Expo Preview Articles
Training magazine heads to San Diego February 1-3 for the 2010 Training Conference and Expo. Here, conference speakers offer articles based on their upcoming presentations.
Columns
World View: Focus on Argentina
In the face of the economic crisis, many companies have utilized the extra time resulting from low production, plant stops, and declining demand to train their staff.
How-To: Leverage Online Discussions
Online group discussions provide your learners with just-in-time training. As you engage, you can guide their development and ensure their learning continues long after the formal classroom training is over.
Soapbox: Rock of Sages
As people stay in the workforce longer and the economy continues to churn, we need to turn to tap into the wisdom of leadership sages about what is needed to live full lives in the challenging and changing world of work.
Training Today: Manager-Employee Gap Widens
A research study measuring employee development and contribution by Novations Group, Inc., uncovered a discrepancy between managers and employees on performance ratings.
Training Today: How Safe Is Your Job Applicant Data?
ID theft expert Brian Lapidus, chief operating officer of Kroll Fraud Solutions (the data security arm of global risk consulting company Kroll Inc.), offers tips for protecting applicant data.


News
What Should You Be Doing At the Holiday Party?
Drinking and small talking with co-workers creates a prime environment for disaster, we all know. But if you go about it the right way, your company's holiday party could be turned to your advantage.
Workplace Ethics Up 9 Percent
Research shows inverse relationship between economy and business ethics.
Employees Spend Less Time Holiday Shopping on the Job
Employees will be a bit more focused on their work this holiday season.
Employers Cautious as Unemployment Rates Level
Unemployment dips to 10 percent in November, hiring still stagnant.
Maybe Your Company Needs a "Kindness Makeover"
No one would confuse your company with a philanthropic organization, but is there more your executives could do to be kinder? A new book seeks to convince your bosses that you do, indeed, need to get nicer, and tries to give you some ideas on how to do it.
Villanova Launches New Human Resources Program
Villanova University announced that its Master of Science in Human Resource Development degree is now offered 100 percent online.
Online Learning Conference 2009
Online Learning Conference 2009 is an interative, collaborative event, where you'll learn enterprise-level strategies and best practices for designing, deploying, and managing effective learning technologies.
Virtual Training World
Training magazine's Virtual Training World on December 10, 2009 will be the industry's premiere virtual conference and tradeshow. Network with your peers, visit virtual booths, and hear live, online presentations from learning leaders -- including international authority on leadership Stephen R. Covey -- all from the convenience of your desktop.
Training 2010 Conference & Expo
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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