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A Spoonful of Sugar Can Make People Grumpy

Tuesday, December 16th, 2008

Will Kenny, Best Training Practices With the economy in the condition it is, and the endless drumbeat of bad news we are all exposed to these days, you are no doubt delivering training and employee communications to people who are afraid, angry and suspicious. You may be teaching staff how ...

The Cart and the Horse: Engaging Leadership Support

Wednesday, October 8th, 2008

Will Kenny, Best Training Practices To promote key messages and crucial best practices that ensure success for your company, you are probably working to get the management visibly involved in your training activities, whether through some kind of public endorsement or by actually participating in the delivery of information. This can ...

Economic Meltdown Points to Power of Training

Tuesday, September 30th, 2008

Will Kenny, Best Training Practices Sometimes companies treat training and employee communications as a "nice to have," as a luxury. Oh, they don't come out and say that, but the eagerness with which they cut budgets for these functions in a downturn reveals much about their perceived value to the ...

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 ...

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 ...