Training
Training Strategies For The Best Learning Outcomes
New members of your downline will look to you for training and advice or assistance to help them get established in the business. They will be keen to succeed and highly motivated to learn. Here are some important tips to help you be effective in training your distributors.
The effectiveness of training sessions depends largely on [...]
How Cutting Back Communication Can Save You Time and Money – Part I
How do YOU communicate with your people? If you need to let your staff know something – the latest pay offer, when the office party is, that their department is being restructured – how do you do it?
If yours is a fair-sized business, chances are that you leave it to the HR department to fire [...]
The Evelyn Wood Secret
Reading at a liesurly pace is fine, it is all part of the appeal that reading has to many people. It allows you to relax and process the words slowly. Unfortunately the way we read for pleasure is not suitable when we need to read articles and information for work or study.
When you read [...]
Stabucks Closes For Training: News At Ten
While catching the early morning news at the gym today, I was astonished to hear the headline that Starbucks is closing nationwide for three hours to train its 135,000 store employees on the art of coffeemaking and the ultimate customer experience.
Wow! I have been a training professional for over 25 years and this announcement is [...]
Business and Communication Skills
If you are interested in succeeding in the area of business, it is essential that you are well educated in the area of effective communication skills.
While many individuals seem to be born natural communicators, the rest of us must acquire this particular skill in order to be successful at it. Consistency is the key when [...]
Write 38 Measurable Objectives In Minutes!
My assumptions are that:
You have some basic knowledge of training.
Or you may have experience in the training field as an instructor.
You might have developed instructor-led training or printed training manuals.
YOu would rather get a root canal than write objectives!
Wait, there is hope!
The first most important principle to remember about writing objectives is: Understand is not [...]
The Differing Corporate Cultures in the Business World
There have been dozens of references about unique corporate cultures and why some of them work better in certain situations. There are names being tossed around, some of them seem to be made up on the fly. For instance there is the Work Hard/Play Hard culture or the Live and Let Live Culture. For every [...]
Understanding a Need for Leadership Training
What was long thought of a desperate approach to failed leadership, executive leadership coaching has made its way into many “successful” businesses as a mainstay. IBM for instance, has permanent staff whose role is strictly to train upper management. Successful companies are looking to maintain that winning streak. Executive leadership training is meant to help [...]
Don’t Start With a Blank Page, Use Content Blocks
Recently I helped a small business owner totally re-write his marketing and business plans. The owner was grateful for the new copy, but expressed a concern that he may have issues writing copy for marketing materials or responding to bid proposals later in the year.
He said,”It is so hard to start from scratch writing [...]
Making an Executive — The Principals of Executive Leadership Training
There are an array of principals that corporate trainers are trying to help executives understand during their seminars, but they really want to get to the root of why the current state of affairs at the job are not turning results and how minds and culture can be aligned properly.
It’s a top down [...]
