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Feature Stories
Edward Jones: Breaking Down Recruiting Strategies
You have a lot to lose—or gain—by how well you recruit. The right people can boost your organization to unprecedented success, while the wrong employees can sink your business. Edward Jones shares how its recruitment strategy is right on the money.
Coveys Say: Trust Is a Must
Training's exclusive interview with father and son leadership gurus Stephen Covey and Stephen M.R. Covey illuminates what organizations need to survive and thrive in today's tough times: It all begins with trust.
Ask the Experts: Social Networking and Engagement
How can social networking, from an internal perspective, increase the visibility of recognition and reward programs?
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Creating Real and Lasting Performance Improvement Through Behavior Change
Is it possible to change those unproductive habits your employees and organization are hesitant to grow past? A performance improvement strategy focused on lasting behavior change may be your solution.
Everything DiSC Pulse: Training Effectiveness—The Manager's Role
We surveyed 2,100 recent training participants about their manager's involvement in past training experiences. Participants with highly involved managers were more likely to view the training as successful. In fact, almost 25 percent of a training program's perceived effectiveness is related to manager involvement.
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
Eight Steps to Tackling Turnover
For some of your employees, a top New Year's resolution will be escape from your company. Before you panic, there are steps to implement to change their mind, says Joyce Gioia, a self-described "workforce futurist" and CEO of Employers of Choice, Inc.
Is Your Company Based in the Econosphere?
You may wonder during times of financial difficulty whether your company is based on Floundering Avenue. But according to one author with a new book out, the place we all do business is the "Econosphere."
Free, On-demand Webinar on Outsourcing Ad Sales
Nielsen Business Media, SMM's parent company, is currently still hosting a free Webinar titled "Boosting Media Profits Through Advertising Sales Outsourcing."
Business Travel Execs Get Educated
A window into how business travel executives get educated was provided earlier this month when leaders in the Canada business travel industry came together in Toronto, from November 8 to 10, for the Association of Corporate Travel Executives' (ACTE) 2009 Canada Education Conference.
Does Your Company Create Sour Careers?
Do some of your workers seem like their job leaves a sour taste in their mouths? We're all told to find a profession we're passionate about, but that's easier said than done. Instead of a gift card, you could give them a book this year about creating a sweeter career—maybe in the culinary industry.
Meeting Professionals Cautious But Optimistic, Survey Shows
Only 12 percent of meeting professionals expect the state of the economy and their industry to improve by the second quarter of 2010.
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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