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Are you missing the link between your training department and the company's overall goals? If you are, you've got some work to do. This year, plenty of trainers are concerned [...]

Twenty-first-century companies can no longer depend on the 'sales superstar' to deliver the big deal or close the critical sale. Generating more revenue with a smaller, smarter sales force is [...]

As we approach the mid-point of the 21st century's first decade, senior learning executives face enormous challenges. They range from perennial--how do we become a strategic partner with business?--to the [...]

Plagued by market confusion, LCMSs have been slower to take hold than their LMS counterparts. However, marrying the two systems can result in robust environments that are capable of making [...]

What are training leaders' top priorities for 2004, what obstacles lie in their way, and how do they, intend to accomplish their goals? Last year, Training magazine and Brandon-hall.com kicked [...]

This month's column takes a big-picture look at the industry, examining the need for multilingual capabilities. The findings are based on the results from the 'LMS 2004 Report: Comparative Analysis [...]

This month's column continues to take a big-picture look at the industry and LMS features, and examines some of the key issues for vendors. The findings are based on the [...]

Tracking employee training with an LMS has become a familiar part of your job, but are you living a nightmare or is your dream LMS on the horizon? To answer [...]

You might be paying them $26,000 per finished hour to create a course. Yet you're hard-pressed to name five good ones, and you're not sure how they compare. Do you [...]

If I were to put odds on what the next big thing to change the face of workforce learning within the next five years will be, I'd bet on human [...]

As the senior training professional in your organization, you have two choices: Get an enterprise perspective or get out of the way. CEOs have a love-hate relationship with enterprise software. [...]

Which authoring tool is best? It depends on your needs, but if you are thinking seriously about making a purchase, there are four critical elements that should be considered, regardless [...]

You probably hear plenty about the benefits that electronic learning management systems (LMSs) can provide. But before you get too enthused, check out the large price tags that accompany such [...]

It never fails: Every year I'm more impressed with the ways in which technology is changing our jobs. It not only helps us design better learning, it delivers better access [...]

The beginning of a new year is the perfect time to determine what innovative learning and development projects you want to launch at your organization. Just in case you need [...]

Years ago, I was fortunate enough to have as a mentor Larry Wilson, the founder and former CEO of Wilson Learning Corp. in Edina, Minn. Wilson said something that has [...]

A few years ago, under increasing pressure to lower head counts in training departments, companies laid off trainers--and hired them back as contractors. It's called outsourcing, and it has drawn [...]

If your organization produces an annual corporate report, should your training programs be a part of it? Should your executives and the corporate communications department cite the annual training budget [...]

If you or I were in charge of helping people file their taxes, would we build a training program? The Mountain View, Calif., business and financial management provider Intuit, maker […]

For all of you who didn't jump on the train when e-learning first blew through town a few years back, take comfort in the fact that there are benefits of [...]

Leaders of learning have to keep abreast of trends in any function likely to impact their department. If you want to stay up to speed with your peers, and you're [...]

It's time to set aggressive training goals for 2004. Training initiatives must prove their business worth because competitors are aggressively going after your company's market share. Top companies are taking [...]

Repeat after me: 'Must get data. Must show business impact of training.' It's the mantra we've been reciting for years, just as, for years, we all know too few of [...]

When I hear someone say that training professionals need to think like CEOs, I find myself nodding in agreement. We need to stop thinking only about training results and focus [...]