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Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008

Will Kenny, Best Training Practices How do you turn new hires into long-term, valuable employees? Getting off to a good start can make a big difference and whether you call it orientation, a core curriculum, onboarding or something else, that first round of communication and training can make a significant ...

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Training Tradeoffs II: Costs, Costs and Costs

Tuesday, August 26th, 2008

Will Kenny, Best Training Practices “Training cost” is a favorite topic of conversation among training professionals and between training staff and management. As convenient and affordable tools are applied to move training to online delivery, one factor, delivery cost, has shrunk. I’m not convinced this is entirely good news. People talk ...

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Training Tradeoffs I: Efficiency versus Impact

Tuesday, August 19th, 2008

Will Kenny, Best Training Practices Gather the training directors from several corporations and let them talk shop for a little bit. Soon you'll hear words like "efficiency," "convenience" and "cost-effectiveness." More likely than not, you'll catch these phrases in the context of online training delivery, and everyone will nod in ...

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“Training”? Watch Your Language!

Tuesday, August 12th, 2008

Will Kenny, Best Training Practices Training is a key tool in spreading best practices throughout your organization. But if you don't think about how you throw the word "training" around in your company, it could become a dirty word. Now, I don't mean that people will gasp at your impropriety in ...

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Your Inconvenience-O-Meter

Thursday, July 24th, 2008

Will Kenny,  Best Training Practices Does your organization truly value training? How do you know? I believe that the value an organization places on any given training can be measured by the inconvenience that organization is willing to impose on trainees, their supervisors and the company itself. Unfortunately, I see a lot of ...

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