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Learning & Development , Career Development

Career Development , Delivering Training , Informal Learning

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Here are four ways to make role plays in virtual worlds more effective than role plays in the real world. As training professionals are forced to move education from the front of the classroom to online, they have discovered many challenges. How do you keep participants... More »

Career Development , Learning & Development , Learning Technologies

Delivering Training , Designing Learning , E-Learning , Informal Learning , Simulations and Serious Games , Social Learning , Trends

One challenge of working in the training field, especially in manufacturing, is that our function is often viewed as an expense. In the current economy with plant closings and layoffs, that is not a good place to be. Calculate what you cost your employer on an annual ba... More »

Career Development , Learning & Development

Assessment , Business Impact , Delivering Training , Managing the Learning Function , Measuring and Evaluating

It is no surprise that organizations have been and will continue to lay off training staff - to reduce overhead. While these individuals added value to an organization when it was financially stable, many training projects are deemed nonessential to an organizations vib... More »

Career Development , Learning & Development

Business Impact , Delivering Training , Economy , Managing the Learning Function , Trends

If you're a training professional seeking to show the contribution of learning and development to the business, the action-planning process is a proven transfer and measurement strategy to add to your toolkit. A call center implements an intensive customer service train... More »

Career Development , Human Capital , Learning & Development

Business Impact , Career Development , Delivering Training , Designing Learning , Human Performance Improvement , Intermediate-level Content , Trends