Monthly Archives: January 2012

Social Learning Strategies

I work as a Consultant Partner with a company called NetSpeed Learning Solutions.  Yesterday they offered a webinar to potential clients called “Learning Strategies for a Transparent World.” With the public engaging in social media (like these blogs) not to … Continue reading

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Training Department Performance

  I asked a CEO yesterday how often she has evaluated the performance of the training department, which is different from individual performance evaluations.  She said they had never looked at the function and asked me what she would evaluate. … Continue reading

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Time to Train Managers

If you have been reading the training world position on management training lately, you have no doubt read or the urgency to focus on basic management development skills.  In the past several years as training budgets have been slashed, only … Continue reading

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Did Training Survive 2011?

We are not even finished with the first week of the new year, and I’ve already heard of two training directors that were terminated at the end of 2011 “to improve the company’s efficiency ratio.”  I found it odd they both used the same … Continue reading

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