Learning to Innovate: Exploring Learnings Critical Role in Fostering Innovation

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Is your learning department innovative? Do you know what learning’s role in innovation is? To help you better understand the connection between learning and innovation, ASTD and i4cp collaborated to study the topic. The resulting report, Learning to Innovate: ... More »

Five Steps to Great Technical Training

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Contributed by Sarah Wakefield, Author of Technical Training Basics Technical Training can be hard to create. Course developers are doubly challenged: they must complete all the regular challenges of writing and putting together courseware, but they must do it by using ... More »

UK skills providers eye India to train its young workforce

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(From TimesofIndia.com) LONDON: A delegation of over 60 UK skills providers are exploring opportunities to strike partnerships in India, which is looking at converting its young population into trained workforce to sustain phenomenal economic growth. The delegation, led... More »

Web Site Makes It Easy to Create a Training Program — and to Charge for It

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(From The New York Times) In a post several months ago, I described how the Web-based service MindFlash allows anyone to create online training presentations, including reviews, quizzes and automatic grading complete with award certificates. (I illustrated the post with... More »

Grants Available for Workforce Training and Small Business Development

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(From bed-stuy.patch.com) Employer matched grants are available through the for small businesses looking to train new or existing exployees or expand their business. The grants are NYC Business Solutions Training Funds, a program of the Department of Small Business Serv... More »