Know Your Business for Strategic Learning Alignment

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Rita Smith

Knowing your business allows you to identify strategic opportunities for learning to add the most impact. More »

Teaching Not-for-Profits to Fish with HPI

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Patricia Radakovich

Human performance improvement (HPI) is a field that is generally applied in business. Most of the time, practitioners are external consultants, but there are some internal positions as well. Rarely do you see an HPI practitioner work for a not-for-profit, however, becau... More »

Efficient Meetings = More Time - Keeping meetings on task and on topic can save you over one full month every year

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Hannon Brett

How many meetings did you attend or hold in 2006? Did you discuss and collaborate on training curriculum in those meetings? Now take a minute to consider how many of those meetings actually resulted into positive, productive action that made your business and training p... More »

Learning Management as an Operation

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Denny Panakal

Extending the conventional LMS to cover more then just e-l earning. Historically, it has been quite common for organizations to view training as a necessary expense rather than a capital investment. In response to the challenges within the global economy, however, compa... More »

From Basic Competencies to Job-Specific Curriculums

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Diane J. Krieger

Curriculums benefit business in many ways. They are a major contribution to employee productivity and retention. Curriculums add value by reducing training costs and achieve performance goals by setting a true expectation for an employee to transfer learning to the job.... More »