People Are Mistaken for Employees – Sales Coaching’s Biggest Barrier

Mark Wayland

For many sales managers who ask themselves “Why should I coach?”, the answer  seems a little counterintuitive and confusing. Here’s their logic. Their sales representatives applied to join the company of their own free will. They then happily acce... More »

Designing Manager-Led Training

Cameron Polek

Efficiency. Intimate training environments. Scale. Does your company strive to achieve all three of these important aspects of business when it comes to learning and development? Is it even possible at all anymore? Unfortunately, many training teams are challenged as co... More »

Made to Measure: Developing Sales Training That Fits

Dan Smaida

When I moved to Minneapolis to start college, I immediately got a job selling men’s suits at a department store downtown. When I started, I knew nothing about clothing, but I learned enough so I could torture an analogy here to make a point about sales training. More »

The TechKnowledge App: Your Guide to Learning in San Jose

Darlene Christopher

The app that is available for ASTD TechKnowledge attendees is a great tool for planning how you'll spend your time at the conference. It’s also a helpful tool navigate to the conference and keep up with Tweets once things get started in San Jose. If you haven&rsqu... More »

Q&A with Koreen Olbrish

Karl M. Kapp

On January 29th, in San Jose, renowned speakers and authors Karl Kapp and Koreen Olbrish are conducting a specially-designed one-day workshop on game design and gamification. Recently, Karl sat down and interviewed Koreen about the event.  More »