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After 12 lectures, with pairs of students working in rotation, each of the 30 participants has reproduced the learning matter in his own words and at his own pace for six hours compared with 20 minutes in total if the participants had spoken and questioned the lecturer one after another.

The majority of salespeople make routine sales visits without thinking, “How am I going to earn their business?” and “How can I make my selling proposition so compelling that no one else will stand a chance?” That’s why it’s critical to focus on adding value to your repertoire, along with providing education for your clients. Focusing on these two areas will bring in huge increments of revenues.

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Training 2012 Conference & Expo speaker Dan Pink is changing how we teach and lead by bridging the gap between scientific study and business practice.

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Technology allows us to be more productive and, potentially at least, more profitable. The dark side of technology is the electronic wall that has grown brick by brick over the last 20 years. As more and more technical opportunities arise that allow workers to communicate without being “face to face,” people are learning less and less about how to communicate effectively.

Training is not an end to a means. It’s part of the journey. When you’re going on a trip, typically you plan ahead and buy tickets, make reservations, and line up transportation. With training, you need to do the same thing. You must choose your destination before you plot your course. This is why you should include behavior reinforcement in your training design—it’s part of planning how you’re going to get where you want to go.

If you want to be the training Zen master of social tools, says Scott Klososky, a former CEO and author of the new books, “Enterprise Social Technology” and “The Velocity Manifesto,” “then first understand the need to implement elements of social technology that will both drive revenues, and cut back office costs. Too many people think of social tools as only being for sales and marketing when, in reality, there are valuable uses in the back office.”

As companies grow and scale to maximize market opportunities, they need to increase their leadership pipeline to ensure a ready and able succession bench. And with workforces more global and dispersed, companies need to reach and connect with leaders more frequently in a cost- and time-effective way. One way they can do this is via communications and training solutions, such as Web conferencing.

Citrix Online unveiled HDFaces, a high-definition video conferencing technology for its Web conferencing products, GoToMeeting, GoToWebinar, and GoToTraining. HDFaces features the new Citrix Multistream HD technology, which enables all participants to view up to six high-resolution video conferencing streams in a high-definition session for a total maximum resolution of 1920p x 960p, and allows participants to view video and the presenter’s shared desktop in the same screen.

Workforce Alliance is working with Workforce Florida Inc., the Agency for Workforce Innovation, and Microsoft as part of a public-private partnership to provide free technology training to qualified individuals, ages 18 and over, throughout Palm Beach County.