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A Glimpse into Training in China
By Jean Barbazette, Founder, The Training Clinic During the last two weeks of August 2012, I spent 11 days in China visiting Shanghai, Beijing and Guangzhou. I was the guest of Training Magazine and our host ACT Consulting who are … Continue reading
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Nature vs Nuture?
“The scarcest, rarest energy and talent in this world is entrepreneurship. Too many leaders think that entrepreneurship is something that you can train. You can develop it, but you don’t train it.” This is a quote from Jim Clifton, CEO … Continue reading
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Can-Can’t, Will-Won’t
Although this sounds like a dance move, its’ really a great approach to use when your clients want a “training fix” for each and every one of their employees when they’re “not doing what they’re supposed to be doing.” This … Continue reading
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What can Aikido teach us about training?
I don’t know much about martial arts. So when the subject of aikido came up as it relates to training at a recent facilitator training, I was intrigued. I began to ask myself, “How does aikido relate to training?” Aikido … Continue reading
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Marketing Plan for Training – Where Do I Start?
Marketing training starts with building a solid partnership with your clients while you are developing the product or service in order to get their feedback throughout the creation process. Close to roll out or shortly after, it is essential to … Continue reading
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Make it Matter 4 – Our Last Day’s Reflection!
In our last online session today we explored the remaining steps of the consulting process: Act, Evaluate and Integrate. We invite you to extend the benefit of our work together today by considering these questions. Feel free to post a … Continue reading
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Make it Matter: Reflections on Day 3 of our L+OL Manage Class
Today we worked with a number of additional audit tools Training Managers have at their disposal to diagnose performance problems and identify barriers to performance. Once a problem is clearly identified and mapped, a performance plan or training proposal is … Continue reading
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Make it Matter 2
…a reflection on day 2 of our L+OL workshop, “Manage the Training Function for Bottom Line Results.” Today’s session allowed us to take a high level view of the consulting process and begin an exploration of approaches to diagnosing problems. … Continue reading
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Make it Matter: An invitation to our L+OL Manage Class…
We had a fast and idea filled start to our certificate workshop yesterday. Everyone did a great job of not letting the technology get in the way of why we were there. We invite you to extend the benefit of … Continue reading
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Instructional Objectives: Friend or Foe?
When I was first taught how to write behavioral-based instructional objectives, my initial reaction was, “You have GOT to be kidding!” It seemed such a vast waste of time to include all four elements (write from the learner’s point of … Continue reading
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