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January 16, 2012
Conference Highlight: E-N-G-A-G-E

Training 2012Conference & Expo speaker Vicki Halsey created ENGAGE, a new six-step model designed to revolutionize traditional workplace learning and teaching. Based on art and science—from Vicki Halsey’s thirty-five years of teaching experience to the most recent discoveries in neuroscience—the ENGAGE Model has a core purpose: to design learning that brings out people’s innate brilliance, drives action, and delivers results.

July 1, 2011
How to ENGAGE and Bring Out the Brilliance in Everyone

We must say goodbye to “sit and git”—the old, misguided learning model so ingrained in our workplace culture—and say hello to ENGAGE. A six-step learning model, ENGAGE is an all-new framework designed to ensure that no learner’s brilliance is left unknown, unnoticed, or untapped. Ready to get started? Here’s how.

By Vicki Halsey, Ph.D., Vice President, Applied Learning, The Ken Blanchard Companies

By all accounts, the corporate training market in the United States is more than $100 billion. Still, according to a recent workplace survey by the American Psychological Association, just 44 percent of working Americans say they are satisfied with their employer’s training and development opportunities.

April 14, 2011
McDonald’s Celebrates 50 Years of Training

In 1961, Fred Turner, McDonald’s former senior chairman and Ray Kroc’s first grill man, founded Hamburger University (HU) in the basement of a McDonald’s restaurant in Elk Grove Village, IL. Over the last 50 years, McDonald’s has learned a lot along the way, and continually adapts its approach to today’s learners. Following are a few of the key lessons learned from its own successes, from others through benchmarking, and through some less-than-totally-successful trials.