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 | Top Young Trainers 2008
May 08, 2008 Welcome to Training's First Annual Top Young Trainer Awards. With this new awards program, we recognize the outstanding talents, accomplishments, and leadership of 40 training and organizational development professionals age 40 and under.
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Training's May 2008 TOC
May 02, 2008 Here's a listing of all articles from our May 2008 print issue for easy reference and referral.
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 | Training's Focus on Corporate Universities
May 01, 2008 From McDonald's Hamburger University to institutes of higher learning, there's much to think about and plan when building a stellar corporate training program.
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 | Local Training Leaders
May 01, 2008 Partnering with a college or university can bring additional expertise to training programs or help companies tailor a master's degree program to their needs.
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| EDITOR'S NOTE |
 | Editor's Note: Leading the Way
May 01, 2008 "If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more, you are a leader." —John Quincy Adams
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Editor's Note: Eco-Corrections
March 19, 2008 I'm a printer. I know it's a waste of paper and I'm killing trees by the hundreds, but I can't help myself.
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| STRAIGHT TALK |
 | World View: Focus on Brazil
May 01, 2008 Brazil is known for its beautiful beaches, friendly people, and the excitement of the holiday festival known as Carnival. Is there a place for training in this South American paradise? The answer is a resounding, "Yes!"
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World View: South African Progress
March 19, 2008 Enthusiasm and funding for training, backed by government requirements and a growing economy, augurs well for development into the future.
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| OPINION |
 | Training Soapbox: LeadershipSigma
May 01, 2008 How can Six Sigma concepts be employed to foster and improve the quality of leadership at every level in the enterprise?
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 | Rock Star Revival
March 19, 2008 Most training companies are founded by "rock stars"—very talented and charismatic individuals who constitute both the sales force and the product. Their companies are immediately successful and grow with minimal effort. Life is good.
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| TRAINING TODAY |
 | Speaking My Language
May 01, 2008 With busy schedules to balance, deadlines to meet, and workplace personalities to contend with, work is hard enough in your first language.
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Fresh Cup of Training
May 01, 2008 Imagine the training world's surprise when Starbucks ordered itself up a brimming-full cup of training in February that closed all its stores for three-and-a-half hours.
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Training Products & Services
May 01, 2008 A new e-learning program designed to help lending institutions combat the credit crisis and build quality commercial loans is now available from Omega Performance.
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| THE LIST |
 | Training How-To: Teach Tomorrow's Leaders
May 01, 2008 The fact remains that most training is still characterized by standard lectures, "information dumps" (even if delivered by text messaging!), and standard memorization of new content.
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 | Leverage Subject Matter Experts
March 19, 2008 Effective trainers must be able to break through the SME (Subject Matter Expert) wall to access the expert knowledge they hold.
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| IN PRINT |
Developing Technical Training
March 24, 2008 A Structured Approach for Developing Classroom and Computer-Based Instructional Materials (Jossey-Bass, $40)
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 | Designing Successful E-Learning
March 24, 2008 Michael Allen's Online Learning Library: Forget What You Know About Instructional Design and Do Something Interesting (Pfeiffer, $35)
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 | Three Moves Ahead
March 19, 2008 What Chess Can Teach You About Business—Even If You've Never Played
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| QUESTIONS FOR COVEY |
 | Questions for Covey: Communicating Potential
May 01, 2008 What successful tactics have you seen other organizations deploy to build a culture where all employees (not just leaders to employees) communicate their potential to one another?
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Questions for Covey: Rising Stars
March 19, 2008 What do I do as a new manager/team leader when I see opportunities to improve our team and my manager is unreceptive?
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| Online News & Features |
Global Leadership Leads
May 09, 2008 Just when you thought you had leadership development mastered, our global economy is pressing you to go a step further. Preparing leaders for the global marketplace may be your next greatest training need.
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Leadership Lessons: Attitude Acuity
May 08, 2008 Leadership development means understanding how to guide teams of employees to greatness, but it also means coming to the job with the right attitude. Without the proper attitude the most well planned leadership develop program may fail.
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Engagement Arrangement
May 07, 2008 Employee engagement, you've probably heard, is essential to a high-performing workforce. What you might not know is engagement begins on day one.
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Teaching to the Test
May 06, 2008 Patient satisfaction scores produced by research tools such as the Press Ganey Survey from Press Ganey Associates in South Bend, Ind., play a key role in the sustainability of any hospital’s business model.
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Learning Content Searched and Sorted
May 05, 2008 You know what you want to teach, and you know your learning objectives. But more than delivering structured coursework, training in the 21st century is about giving employees the learning tools they need to find and organize the information themselves.
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Developing Technical Training
March 24, 2008 A Structured Approach for Developing Classroom and Computer-Based Instructional Materials (Jossey-Bass, $40)
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