Renewed Focus on Training

by RPS May 24, 2013 Friday 5

Each Friday, RPS highlights five popular news stories from the world of training professionals. Visit our blog each week to see which stories were trending amongst your industry peers. Chief Learning Officer Learning Should Be as Mobile as We Are by Josh Bersin We’ve all read about informal learning. Mobile is where it belongs. The [...]

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Training by PowerPoint

by RPS May 23, 2013 Learning Curves

A Cartoon Series on the Challenges and Triumphs of Training Still training by PowerPoint? There are more efficient and effective ways! Check out this post by Manuel Galadi: Stepping Up the L&D Pace Via Agile Learning Want to share a Learning Curves cartoon on your blog or website? Simply cite the cartoon’s original URL under [...]

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Multi-Channel Curricula – The Freedom of Choice

by RPS May 21, 2013 Global Perspectives

The current technological environment of our everyday lives presents a catch-22 for training program leaders. It offers countless new and exciting mediums to incorporate into training programs, and makes overthinking current curriculum design and learning paths practically a requirement for training leaders. Blended Learning Curricula (incorporating both virtual and in classroom-training) are well established in [...]

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This Week in Learning

by RPS May 17, 2013 Friday 5

Each Friday, RPS highlights five popular news stories from the world of training professionals. Visit our blog each week to see which stories were trending amongst your industry peers. Chief Learning Officer Innovative Methods to Develop Leaders by Patrick Sweeney Successful leaders, by their very nature, are consumed with what they are doing — connecting [...]

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Training Facilities – Own, Lease, Rent, Or None of the Above?

by Mark Oliver May 15, 2013 Training

When you think of the hot topics in training, what comes to mind? Technology, leadership, onboarding, knowledge transfer? What about facility management? It probably wasn’t at the top of your list, but it’s a critical component of training programmes. The need for large, dedicated areas to conduct technical exercises, soft-skills role play and systems training [...]

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The Multicultural Aspects of Training: Communication, Translation, and Localization

by RPS May 14, 2013 Global Perspectives

There are several factors that go into deploying an effective international training program, most importantly communication, translation, and localization. Let’s start with communication, which is a key success factor to any effective training program. Communication between the program developers (which are typically decision-makers within the organization) and the trainers is essential. One best practice to [...]

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Looking forward to ASTD

by RPS May 13, 2013 Observations from the Road

Last week I reported in this space on my week spent at the HRO Today Forum and how I was encouraged by the amount of buzz being generated around growth, activity and trends in the HR outsourcing market. This week, we are gearing up for yet another conference: the ASTD International Conference and Exhibition right [...]

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Shake-up Onboarding, Promote Play, Focus on Performance

by RPS May 10, 2013 Friday 5

Each Friday, RPS highlights five popular news stories from the world of training professionals. Visit our blog each week to see which stories were trending amongst your industry peers. Training Journal Traditional Onboarding of Staff Requires a Shake-up, Academic Says by Staff Writer Organizations need to radically rethink their traditional approaches to onboarding new staff [...]

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Onboarding and Knowledge Transfer: Where to Start?

by Tracy Cox May 8, 2013 Training

My last two blog posts discussed the state of onboarding and knowledge transfer in today’s organizations. While these aspects of training are both extremely important to overall success, we must acknowledge that most learning leaders are not working with an unlimited budget. With this in mind, how should organizations allocate their investments in these areas? [...]

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Market Your Training Programs

by RPS May 7, 2013 Global Perspectives

Marketing and training are no strangers to each other. Constant pressure to demonstrate value to the organization and ensure training programs are fully utilized, has program managers recognizing the need for a well-defined training marketing strategy. Many learning and development departments already use marketing as an essential component to ensure the success of their training [...]

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