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Trainingmagazine named the winners of its 2012 Top Young Trainer awards, recognizing the top 40 training professionals age 40 and under. All Top Young Trainer candidates had to be nominated by co-workers or industry peers. All nominators had to submit a nomination form and a resumé for their candidate.

Robert Vetere, author of “From Wags to Riches,” explores the human-animal bond and looks at moving from extrinsic motivation to intrinsic motivation for both dogs and people. In the business world, he says, intrinsic motivation is widely believed to be the key to employee engagement and one way to ensure people get the highest degree of satisfaction from their work.

Bad bosses have always made great fodder for the workplace and blogosphere—not to mention film and TV. But is there really an epidemic of horrible bosses in corporate America? More than 70 percent of respondents to an anonymous online survey claimed to have a good working relationship with their boss. Respondents also overwhelmingly identified a few key traits that set good managers apart from bad.

While communication typically is considered a “soft skill” that’s often overlooked in machine-filled manufacturing plants focused on production, many of the ills in manufacturing are actually symptoms of poor communication. Once better communication is established, the manufacturer’s bottom line often can increase by 10 percent or more very quickly.

Conversations are building blocks of innovation, ways to move an idea from origination to application. But they often stall at the starting gate or become unproductive, according to Andy Boynton and Bill Fischer, authors of “The Idea Hunter.” Continuers invite honest discussion; they build ideas. Terminators pour cold water on conversations; they kill off ideas.

Trainingmagazine announces the finalists for the annual Training Top 125 list of leading organizations that excel at employee development. The rankings will be revealed at the Training 2012 Conference & Expo to be held February 13-15 in Atlanta, GA.

Persons with disabilities can add much-needed talent to your organization, but do you know how to find them and make the most of their skills?

The customized face-to-face training and personal care of Alpha Pro’s consultants became the golden standard for the company, but also presented a challenge. It quickly became clear that limitations with budgets and logistics provided an obstacle. The solution: training via videoconferencing.

“Know thyself.” For professionals in job transition, blending this ancient Greek aphorism with a well-known marketing concept—the “Four P’s” of product, positioning, price and place—yields essential self-examination lessons. The key involves identifying, and then applying, these critical elements of the marketing mix.

Studies indicate that upward of 70 percent of people currently working are misemployed—meaning they are not doing work maximally suited to who they are. Just think about how much productivity and job satisfaction would go up if the majority of people were in the jobs that are best suited to them. Here are some tips to ensure your employees are successfully matched to the jobs you need to fill.

I admit cash is a motivator for me—it influences my purchasing decisions and my workplace performance. I never say no to more money. But it’s not my only motivator. Flex-time and working from home are two powerful incentives I’ve come to adore in the last year. And, certainly, money does not necessarily negate a micromanaging boss, a bureaucratic corporate culture, or a toxic work environment.

The single most important differentiator between the good managers of Millennials and those who were challenged is that the good managers exhibited the ability to suspend the bias of their own experience, authors Chip Espinoza, Mick Ukleja, and Craig Rusch found in the research for their book, “Managing the Millennials: Discover the Core Competencies for Managing Today’s Workforce.” In other words, they started with the Millennial’s experience and not their own.