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Training Without Words

Training Without Words I, and about 30 million of my “closest friends” watched this summer’s Olympics. I was totally amazed as .01 seconds was all that separated the gold medalist from the silver medalist in some events – .01 seconds! … Continue reading

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Aren’t they all the SaME?

Are you in a love-hate relationship with your SMEs? Maybe it’s because they’re not the right ones for the job. The biggest mistake most folks make when adding SMEs to their training force is thinking SMEs are all the same.  They’re … 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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Climate Change in the Learning Environment

Setting the learning climate is nothing new – it’s just been tossed aside due to “not enough time” or “not important enough to include.” Yet when we ask trainers (especially SME’s) what they want to get out of our train-the-trainer … 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: 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: 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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The Trainer as Peak Performer

Jean Barbazette and I recently conducted a webinar entitled, “The Trainer as Peak Performer: Scale the Heights.” During this highly interactive 60 minutes, we discussed and received feedback from our participants on the following characteristics of peak performers: Transcend their … Continue reading

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Training in Europe by Dianne Faieta

“Embrace the unfamiliar.  You can’t get somewhere new without exploring uncharted territory.” Shortly after embracing the above quote from Healthy Living I responded, “Sure, I’ll present training in Luxembourg.” I enjoyed both the journey—planning for my European training—and the destination—presenting … Continue reading

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Power Learning: Facilitate Discussions with Impact!

A discussion is primarily an exchange of opinions and feelings, and of facts secondarily. Successful discussions include listening to others. Since opinions are neither right nor wrong, a facilitator encourages everyone to contribute to the discussion. A facilitator comes prepared, … Continue reading

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