Karate Kid Lessons for Training Managers: Mr. Miyagi Still Knows What’s Best

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By: Jason @TStationBlog Silberman In this legendary scene from the 80’s classic The Karate Kid Daniel San thinks he is about to learn great Karate skills only to be told to do chores around the house. Only when he complains does he realize that he has been training all along. We are given learning moments all through…

How to Identify Your Organizational Training Needs

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When you find yourself thinking about your company’s organizational training needs, it’s important to remember that different organizations require personnel who possess different sets of skills and expertise. Specialists and experts who are desperately needed in one organization may not be particular important in another. This is why organizations must always consider the skills of their…

This Week’s Best in Training

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Jason @TStationBlog Silberman In this week’s best in training, we see articles that discuss sustained motivation in training or learning opportunities, find sales enablement tools that help with training and motivation and identify the challenges with social learning. 1. DevLearn 2014 Conference Review In this article by the E-Learning 24/7 Blog, we learn about the conference Dev/Learn,…

3 Ways Training is the Best Employee Medicine

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Jason @TStationBlog Silberman Any HR manager in a large company can tell you about the complexities of employee satisfaction and retention. Are they happy or unhappy (but not telling us)? Is a lack of engagement, motivation and satisfaction impacting performance and productivity, and from the worker reaching his/her full potential? Sometimes it’s best to begin…

Developing a Killer Corporate Learning Strategy

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A corporate learning strategy is a term which refers to broad range of topics. Basically, it is a framework for creating employee training programs within a particular organization. Like all other strategies, corporate learning strategies are designed to help organization reach their goals. In this case, those goals involve the personnel development and employee training.…

Infographic: Onboarding- It’s Time to Invest

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Onboarding boosts employees productivity, engagement, and job satisfaction keeping your business running the clockwork. There are both drivers and barriers for this. The drivers include: employees productivity and engagement seem to be the most important. This boosts 39% of getting new employees productive quicker. The barriers include: time not money is the biggest constraint to…

5 Sales Enablement Tools to Consider

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Sales enablement tools traditionally referred to any equipment, format or medium which optimized a company’s marketing capabilities. These days, however, these tools generally refer to various types of software which increase the efficiency and returns of marketing campaigns, many of which are reliant on digital gadgets and online networks. The popularization of most sales enablement tools…