Content about Knowledge

February 10, 2012
Conference Highlight: StrategicPlay

Training is child’s play if you have the right system.

 

Training 2012 Conference & Expo speaker Jacquie Lloyd Smith offers the ins and outs of StrategicPlay® with LEGO® bricks and why it works.

How many times have you attended training or a meeting and thought it was a waste of time? Organizations in North America cannot afford to do this anymore. And life is too short to be bored by another PowerPoint or lecture about some discombobulated concept.

November 8, 2011
Evaluating Training Providers

Everyone talks about the benefits of training, but it’s important to identify these benefits in your organization. Then, when you are ready to look at potential training providers, you will know exactly what you should expect to receive from them. Here are the seven biggest benefits of training, followed by tips for selecting and evaluating training providers.

By Hank Moore, Corporate Strategist

Everyone talks about the benefits of training, but it’s important to identify these benefits in your organization. Then, when you are ready to look at potential training providers, you will know exactly what you should expect to receive from them. Below are the seven biggest benefits of training, followed by tips for selecting and evaluating training providers.

7 Biggest Benefits of Training

October 13, 2011
Supercompetent Speaking: The Value of Rehearsal

Off-the-cuff presentations aren’t impossible, but they’re hard to get just right; and that can limit their effectiveness. Rehearsal can boost the success of even the most casual presentations, and it’s essential for the big ones. Indeed, the more important the presentation, the longer and more often you should rehearse.

By Laura Stack, MBA, CSP

As a business professional, would you ever send the first draft of a report to your boss or client? Probably not; no doubt you’d want to smooth out the rough patches and check it over for typos first. Most of us don’t even let e-mails go without making sure we’ve done our best to communicate both cleanly and efficiently. Polishing our written work is accepted as a necessary part of doing business.

October 7, 2011
Best Practices: After You Train, Retain

Companies increasingly are moving toward the implementation of robust knowledge management systems to collect and share existing information. The truly effective systems improve an organization’s ability to take full advantage of the knowledge and experiences of its employees and make it easily accessible to the entire organization at any time.

By Neal Goodman, Ph.D., President, Global Dynamics, Inc.

All too often, companies invest in the professional development of their workforce only to lose that investment after employees leave (or when they simply forget what they learned). According to Ernst & Young, 44 percent of employees are “poor or very poor” at transferring knowledge.

September 12, 2011
Develop Talent That Delivers Business Results

What does it take to develop talent—through training—to get results, especially under demanding circumstances? While simple training as a strategy won’t contribute enough, an overall program with an integrated action-learning, workshop-oriented, and results-focused approach can deliver powerful business results.

By Evan Smith, Senior Partner, Schaffer Consulting

October 4, 2010
Learning AnyWare Courses Expanded

Learning Tree International, Inc., is expanding the courses it offers through the company's Learning Tree AnyWare solution, which enables participants to fully interact with their instructors and classmates through a media-rich interface that integrates live classroom video, audio and chat features, as well as the ability to view instructor demos.

Learning Tree International, Inc., is expanding the courses it offers through the company's Learning Tree AnyWare solution after more than 5,000 business and IT professionals enrolled to participate in such courses during the first year of open enrollment. Learning Tree AnyWare is a live, online training delivery solution that connects participants to an actual classroom.

October 1, 2010
Netting Know-How

More companies are catching on to the need to capture the knowledge of outgoing employees before they walk out the door. But with the help of technology, and traditional mentoring, organizations are learning ways to spare remaining workers the task of reinventing the corporate wheel.

By Margery Weinstein

January 10, 2002
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May 1, 2001
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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

June 1, 2000
7 steps to media literacy

"The skill set of the 21st century is information architecture. The tools are available to many, but the skills are not," notes Rick Grefé, executive director of the American Institute of Graphic Arts in New York City.

"The skill set of the 21st century is information architecture. The tools are available to many, but the skills are not," notes Rick Grefé, executive director of the American Institute of Graphic Arts in New York City.

June 1, 2000
7 steps to media literacy

"The skill set of the 21st century is information architecture. The tools are available to many, but the skills are not," notes Rick Grefé, executive director of the American Institute of Graphic Arts in New York City.

"The skill set of the 21st century is information architecture. The tools are available to many, but the skills are not," notes Rick Grefé, executive director of the American Institute of Graphic Arts in New York City.

Ideally, the process of becoming media-literate begins near infancy, when we are still 100-percent visually oriented. The early years of schooling are filled with visual images and visual communication techniques that slowly wither as we reach higher levels of education.