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Feature Stories
Focus Group Suites: The Next-Generation Training Venue
Next time you're looking for a training venue, consider a focus group suite—it costs less than a hotel and has all the necessary services, and then some.
Problem Personalities—In Your Office
So, the manager who's constantly angry, the staffer who constantly whines, and the other one who too often cries, are regulars in your office? Luckily there are coping mechanisms to better manage employees who are dominant, emotional, and resistant to change.
Foreign but Familiar Training
Everyone agrees global experience is a must for global leaders. That's where overseas job rotations come in. But what is required from the training perspective to make them happen?
Leading Women
The women who rise to the top of your organization in the coming years may have a few things in common.
Body of Knowledge—Needed to Use the Phone?
They can't see you on that sales call, so does it matter that you're scowling, slouching, or maybe even making funny expressions? Maybe—if body language really matters when talking on the telephone.
Counterintuitive Training
With an economy threatening to implode on a whim, trainers need something more than the conventional wisdom to succeed.
Columns
Training World View: Focus on Singapore
Singapore's open economy, literate workforce, and key global location make it a prime prospect for business expansion—and lots of training.
Learners Say: Simple Techniques Improve Training
When training included problem-solving exercises, multiple examples, practice, and action planning, survey participants noted a significantly greater impact on self-perceived job effectiveness.
Learning Exchange: What We Learn in a Downturn
There is no time like a reversal of fortune to think about what's really important.
Business Etiquette: The Art of Thanks
A thank you note after a job interview is a two-way street: Interviewees should send such a note to all the people they meet with at a company, and the company should reply in kind.
The Top 12 Strategic and Systems Thinking Mistakes: Mistake No. 2
What are the "12 Common Analytical Thinking Mistakes" most people, teams, and organizations make?


News
Marketing Resource Management
MRMLOGIQ released "Marketing Resource Management: The Noble Art of Getting Things Done in Marketing. Efficiently."
Industrial Espionage Spikes
Beware: The recession could be affecting your employees' work ethics.
Retention and Engagement Forecast
An end to employee cut-backs in 2009?
On-the-job Training Goes the Distance
Cross Country Staffing on-boards new recruiters with training that models daily workflow.
Obama Job Trends for 2009
What are the most wanted new jobs, listed by major Obama initiatives?
Rise in Workplace Theft
Will you need to keep your cubicle belongings under lock and key?
Trainingmag Network
Network, Share, Learn. Anytime. Anywhere.
Live Webcast: How FranklinCovey Uses Webinars
Learn to build business, reduce costs and provide world-class training with Training magazine and Dave Green.
Training 2009 Conference & Expo
As the source for professional development, the 2009 Conference promises all of the in-depth content and practical insights you've come to expect from Training magazine…and much more.
Nominate 2009 Top Young Trainers Today
Do you know an up-and-coming training leader age 40 or under?
2008 Training Industry Report: Gauges & Drivers
Training magazine's exclusive analysis of the U.S. training industry.
 
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