ASTD BEST Awards

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We are pleased to announce that 39 organizations from Canada, Hong Kong, India, Singapore, and the United States are winners in the 2009 ASTD BEST Awards competition. More »

Ghana: We Underestimated Local Skills

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(From AllAfrica.com) Accra - Mining giant AngloGold Ashanti has admitted first time since its operation in Ghana that it had not been good listeners with respect to its business culture, traditions and way of doing business in the country. "We have previously made the m... More »

UK: Major firms ban Twitter from the workplace

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(From the Daily Mail) A number of major firms have banned employees from accessing Twitter, after it emerged that time wasted on social networking websites was costing businesses 1.38billion each year. A survey published today found that 57 per cent of workers use sites... More »

Australia: Skills Training To Go Green By 2010

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(From thegovmonitor.com) The Minister for Education, Julia Gillard, today announced that all apprenticeships and vocational education training packages will be reviewed to ensure that they include relevant green skills by March next year, and that all courses will be re... More »

Salary Increases Decline in Asia Pacific after one year of economic turmoil

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Employers throughout Asia Pacific continue to keep a tight rein on the purse strings in 2009, as salary increases remain at low levels, according to an Asia Pacific Salary Increase Survey conducted by Hewitt Associates (NYSE:HEW), a global human resources consulting and... More »