Hamburger University Turns 50: 90,000 Served

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Pat Galagan

In 1961, Fred Turner, McDonald's former senior chairman and Ray Kroc's first grill man, founded Hamburger University in the basement of a McDonald's restaurant in Elk Grove Village, Illinois, making McDonald's the first restaurant organization to open a full-time traini... More »

A Harder Focus on the Global Classroom

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Darlene Christopher

Imagine yourself in a virtual classroom. The instructor puts an image of a game of cricket on the screen and says, "Sometimes dealing with pressures at work may feel like a game of 20/20 limited cricket, where you are chasing a score of 220 and it's the last over. You h... More »

As Future Brightens for Job Seekers, Disturbing Trends Emerge for Trainers

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Ann Pace

Many companies are gearing up to hire new staff within the next 12 to 24 months, according to Accenture's 2010 "High-Performance Workforce Study," but along with optimism for employment comes concern among companies that their HR and learning functions do not have the c... More »

Live and Direct

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Marci Powell

Have you ever taken a different route than planned, only to discover the drive was far more rewarding? On a trip halfway across America, we took one route to reach the West Coast and found it boring and tedious. On the way back, we took a different route that surprising... More »