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February 20, 2012
Mohawk Maximizes Learning

For flooring manufacturer Mohawk Industries, it is not enough to teach employees how to be great. The long-time Training Top 125 contender focused last year on helping employees to blaze their own learning paths while meeting organization imperatives. That meant improving the technology that supports employee performance, as well as creating new social networking platforms to enable learners to challenge and teach one another.

By Margery Weinstein

February 13, 2012
Content Curation Strategies for Corporate Learning (Part 2)

With content curation, the running theme is to enlist yourself and other knowledgeable and passionate subject matter experts to filter and provide context to the resource materials that they value the most—trusting that your knowledge also will provide value to others interested in the same subject. Then the communities and portals we develop and support will become sought out as trusted sources of sustainable learning and performance in their own right.

By Chris Frederick Willis, CEO, Media 1

October 7, 2011
Training Today: Partnerships and Alliances, Sept/Oct 2011

The latest training industry mergers, acquisitions, partnerships, and more.

  • Universum Development, parent company of employer branding firm Universum Group, acquired Doostang, a global career networking platform for young professionals. Founded in 2005, Doostang has more than 900,000 members. Members join Doostang to get exclusive access to 15,000-plus hand-picked positions with thousands of employers across finance and investment, consulting, media, and technology industries.
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
How-To: Reinforce Training

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.

By Kendra Lee

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.

April 20, 2011
Next-Generation Social Intranets

Organizations that switch to next-generation “Social Intranets” can leverage the tools of Web 2.0 and social networks, such as Facebook, within a corporate setting, says Chris Yeh, vice president, Marketing, PBworks. “By providing greater transparency with user profiles, activity streams, and Twitter-like micro-sharing, a social intranet can build common context between disparate departments.” Find out some tips on how to implement such a solution effectively.

By Margery Weinstein

Among the key challenges facing organizations that want to implement workforce management is the disconnect between the functional departments involved, says Chris Yeh, vice president, Marketing, PBworks. “HR, Operations, and IT sit in technological and organizational silos, with little common context to foster understanding,” he points out. “Often, the only common technology platforms between the three are the phone system, e-mail, and the corporate intranet.”