East Meets West in Training

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Neal R. Goodman

More and more training and development programs are being exported from the West to Asia with little appreciation or accounting for the fundamental differences between Western and Eastern approaches to learning and development. Lets examine one re... More »

Considering Culture in Training and HPI Solutions

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Swati Karve

Training or nontraining solutions begin with a needs analysis where the designincluding content, material, delivery, and methods of implementationare decided. In many cases, decisions regarding the solution are made at corporate headquarters, without taking into... More »

Training Across Time Zones

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Neal R. Goodman

While it is important to keep in mind a number of cultural aspects when training across cultural and geographic areas, the most critical factors are no-brainers: time zones and the differences in time between you and your trainees abroad. These problems are clear, b... More »

Why Organizations Need Social Learning

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Laurent Pacalin

The world has changed people now live and work in a world where Google gives the answers, where a mobile phone is the lifeline to the Web and to your GPS location, and where Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter link people to each other in their own way. By leveraging these ... More »

Skills to Train Across Cultures

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Neal R. Goodman

Consider the following case: A European company sells a new telephone system to an Asian client with the condition that they will provide one day of on-site training for the equipment. The instructor arrives the night before the training and the next day reviews the use... More »