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February 21, 2012
Training Top 10 Hall of Fame

Microsoft Corporation and SCC Soft Computer are the newest inductees into the Training Top 10 Hall of Fame, joining the ranks of the 11 companies named to the hall since its inception in 2008.

November 23, 2011
2011 Training Industry Report

The economic roller coaster ride continues, but training appears to be on an upswing: Total 2011 U.S. training expenditures—including payroll and spending on external products and services—jumped 13 percent to $59.7 billion, according to Trainingmagazine’s 2011 Training Industry Report.

November 18, 2011
Leading with Humility

Humility is one of the most important attributes of leadership, because it helps connect the leader to followers through their common bond of humanity, say Merwyn A. Hayes, Ph.D., and Michael Comer, D.M., authors of “Start with Humility: Lessons from America’s Quiet CEOs on How to Build Trust and Inspire Followers.” The question is: Can humility be learned or is it innate?

By Merwyn A. Hayes, Ph.D., and Michael Comer, D.M.

November 14, 2011
Siemens USA Revamps Its Recognition Program

Siemens USA is a decentralized organization comprising autonomous business units—many of which have had their own employee reward and recognition programs in place for years. A successful transition to a company-wide program required skillful consensus building, as well as a flexible design approach. The resulting program is called “You Answered.”

By Mike Ryan, Senior Vice President, Marketing & Strategy, Madison Performance Group

Creating and implementing a successful large-scale employee recognition program in the workplace can be a challenge in any environment. Inherently, obstacles can be more complex within a self-governing business structure. Siemens USA—with 60,000 employees in all 50 states and Puerto Rico—recognized the need for a company-wide program that balanced its business autonomy with enhanced corporate-level visibility, oversight, and control requirements.

September 14, 2011
Vi Changes Its Workforce Culture with Learning Management

Thanks to its creative use of learning management technology, Vi—the owner and operator of older adult living communities—has enjoyed dramatic results: Online course use has grown more than 1,000 percent, learning costs have fallen by 28 percent, and the company has enjoyed a 5.5 percent increase in customer satisfaction.

By Michael Boese, Sr. Vice President, Taleo Corp.

Thanks to its creative use of learning management technology, Vi—the owner and operator of older adult living communities—has enjoyed dramatic results: Online course use has grown more than 1,000 percent, learning costs have fallen by 28 percent, and the company has enjoyed a 5.5 percent increase in customer satisfaction.

July 26, 2011
Managing and Maximizing Flex Work

State Street’s Flex Work Program has evolved from a disparate collection of employee-initiated arrangements into a proactive, manager-initiated program supported by an array of tools, technologies, and resources.

By Mike Scannell, SVP, and Maia Germain, VP, State Street

July 25, 2011
Strategies for Success (July-August 2011)

Trainingmagazine taps 2011 Training Top 125 winners and Top 10 Hall of Famers to provide their learning and development best practices in each issue. Here, we look at strategies for onboarding and professional development.

Employee Onboarding

By Darren Short, Director, Global Learning & Development, Avanade

June 6, 2011
Strategies for Success (May-June 2011)

Training magazine taps 2011 Training Top 125 winners and Top 10 Hall of Famers to provide their learning and development best practices in each issue. In this May-June 2011 edition, we look at strategies for leadership development and collaboration.

Values and Leadership

By Rafael Pastor, Chairman and CEO, Vistage International, Inc.

An essential component of leadership is to articulate and exemplify the organization’s core values. These values must be clear, compelling, and repeated. And the leader must both “walk the talk” and inspire his/her colleagues within the organization to also live the values.

May 16, 2011
Teambuilding Across Cultures

Few workforces are entirely mono-cultural these days, and the challenges of welding disparate cultural elements (whether based within the same office or from offices dotted around the globe) into effective teams are challenges faced by an ever-increasing number of organizations. The key factor when it comes to teambuilding across cultures is to get every member to focus on the objectives of that team.

By Christian Arno, Founder, Lingo24

The presence of talented individuals is important for any organization that wishes to innovate and excel in its field, but good teamwork is essential, providing the bedrock on which future success can be built. The importance of having an effective teambuilding strategy in place is widely acknowledged throughout the business world, with a plethora of resources offering advice and tailored teambuilding services.

October 1, 2010
LMS Lessons

Three 2010 Top Young Trainers 
share their experiences with 
implementing or re-engineering 
a learning management system—
from identifying the innovative 
functionality they needed to 
meeting the training 
challenges associated with 
the launch. Plus, the latest 
LMS bells and whistles.

By Lorri Freifeld

With technology changing 
every second of every day, it’s no surprise a learning management system (LMS) quickly can become outdated. But it’s no easy task to re-engineer a current LMS or find exactly the right new one to purchase. For some of the latest LMS 
innovations, see the sidebar below, and check out the lessons three 2010 Top Young Trainer winners who faced such challenges in the last two years learned about LMS functionality and training.

Vanguard’s Vision

July 1, 2006
Dial 1 for new-employee orientation
Call it "T-learning." FAMILY Dollar, a retail chain with 42,000 employees at 6,000 stores nationwide, is now providing part of its new-hire orientation over the telephone.

Call it "T-learning." FAMILY Dollar, a retail chain with 42,000 employees at 6,000 stores nationwide, is now providing part of its new-hire orientation over the telephone. Realizing many of its employees don't have access to the Internet at work or at home, the retail chain rolled out an automated phone line that enables new hires to register, order name badges, listen to training on company policy and receive company updates. In the system, the new employees confirm that they've received training, and that data is stored so Family Dollar can monitor the progress.

May 1, 2001
Problem

If one in five U.S. high school students has trouble reading a diploma, what does that mean for the workforce that awaits? Undoubtedly, it signifies a countrywide need for remedial skills training at all levels. And if measured in terms of financial interest, it means literacy problems cost corporate America about $60 billion a year in lost productivity, according to the National Institute for Literacy.

By Hank O'Roark

January 1, 2001
TRAINING TODAY: Knowledge Management: Digital Age Decision-Making

If conducting "business at the speed of thought" has left you feeling as though your "business" is getting away from you, you're not alone. According to a recent survey on quality decision-making by Kepner-Tregoe, Princeton, N.J., today's employees are being asked to make more decisions than ever before, but in less time?at the expense of quality, productivity and customer service.

If conducting "business at the speed of thought" has left you feeling as though your "business" is getting away from you, you're not alone. According to a recent survey on quality decision-making by Kepner-Tregoe (KT), Princeton, N.J., today's employees are being asked to make more decisions than ever before, but in less time?at the expense of quality, productivity and customer service.