Training
Understanding a Need for Leadership Training
What was long thought of a desperate approach to failed leadership, executive leadership coaching has made its way into many “successful” businesses as a mainstay. IBM for instance, has permanent staff whose role is strictly to train upper management. Successful companies are looking to maintain that winning streak. Executive leadership training is meant to help […]
Don’t Start With a Blank Page, Use Content Blocks
Recently I helped a small business owner totally re-write his marketing and business plans. The owner was grateful for the new copy, but expressed a concern that he may have issues writing copy for marketing materials or responding to bid proposals later in the year.
He said,”It is so hard to start from scratch writing […]
How Fire Safety Training Is Vital For Your Business
Today training your staff in fire safety should be a major concern for all bosses and managing directors. Not only is there a liability issue but making sure your staff undergo training that ensures the safe evacuation of a building is a vital responsibility for anyone who runs a workspace. Not only should safety training […]
Stabucks Closes For Training: News At Ten
While catching the early morning news at the gym today, I was astonished to hear the headline that Starbucks is closing nationwide for three hours to train its 135,000 store employees on the art of coffeemaking and the ultimate customer experience.
Wow! I have been a training professional for over 25 years and this announcement is […]
Business and Communication Skills
If you are interested in succeeding in the area of business, it is essential that you are well educated in the area of effective communication skills.
While many individuals seem to be born natural communicators, the rest of us must acquire this particular skill in order to be successful at it. Consistency is the key when […]
Write 38 Measurable Objectives In Minutes!
My assumptions are that:
You have some basic knowledge of training.
Or you may have experience in the training field as an instructor.
You might have developed instructor-led training or printed training manuals.
YOu would rather get a root canal than write objectives!
Wait, there is hope!
The first most important principle to remember about writing objectives is: Understand is not […]
The Differing Corporate Cultures in the Business World
There have been dozens of references about unique corporate cultures and why some of them work better in certain situations. There are names being tossed around, some of them seem to be made up on the fly. For instance there is the Work Hard/Play Hard culture or the Live and Let Live Culture. For every […]
Making an Executive — The Principals of Executive Leadership Training
There are an array of principals that corporate trainers are trying to help executives understand during their seminars, but they really want to get to the root of why the current state of affairs at the job are not turning results and how minds and culture can be aligned properly.
It’s a top down […]
Getting The Most Out Of On-site Training Courses
One of the chief benefits of booking on-site (in-house) training, as opposed to sending your people off to a training centre to attend a pubic course, is that the training can be customised to suit the specific needs of your organisation. When booking on-site training courses, be sure to make this clear to the training […]
How To Get Your Training Started
Training has always had the same problems facing it, the main one being time constraints. Organisations have recognised that personal development is needed to get the best out of employees to make them more efficient, however taking people out of work proves costly. This puts many people off developing their staff, which if left can […]
