Some L&D Articles / Blog Posts that You Might Have Missed this Week

Posted by Jason Silberman on Posted in Learning and Development
Hey everyone. Hope you have a great weekend! With that said, here are 4 articles from this week: mLearnCon 2013 Opens in San Jose (Learning Solutions Magazine) – A comprehensive summary of all the happenings, keynotes, sessions and news and analysis from one of the year’s biggest conferences on all things mobile learning. They Don’t Know…

Three Challenges With Training a Mobile Sales Team

Posted by Jason Silberman on Posted in Mobile Learning
This is a guestpost by Laura Martin, Vice President of Marketing at Axonify.   Three Challenges With Training a Mobile Sales Team Hot off the heels of mLearnCon 2013, we decided to write about an area of training that could greatly benefit from mobile applications. That area is sales training. More specifically, training a sales team…

5 Myths About Employee Engagement and 12 Tips for Truly Motivated Staff

Posted by Jason Silberman on Posted in Employee Engagement
Motivating staff is a very timely topic for managers and directors of organizations. While recognizing the importance of this topic, there exist some misconceptions or myths regarding personnel’s motivation. Here are the 5 most common myths regarding employee motivation: Myth no. 1 – “I can motivate people” Actually, this is not completely true. Employees must…

How to Hit the Ground Running After Employee Training

Posted by Jason Silberman on Posted in Employee Performance
A common scenario relating to performance proficiency : John just completed 3 days of training on using Salesforce in the enterprise software company he started working at a week ago. John’s manager Amanda expects him to hit the ground running and begin showing results quickly, but is also aware of the well-quoted statistic that on average,…

Global Knowledge Wins Cisco Geographical Region Awards for Learning Partner of the Year at Cisco Partner Summit 2013

Posted by Jason Silberman on Posted in company news
 Global Knowledge announced earlier this week that it was awarded the cisco Partner Summit Geographical Region Award for Learning Partner of the Year.  Cisco unveiled the winners during its annual partner conference that place recently in Boston. The Cisco Partner Summit Geographical Region award recognizes exemplary partners who demonstrate best-in-class business practices and serve as…