Improving Training

Building Managers and Creating Results Action Learning is an exciting and productive form of management development. What makes it effective and productive is that participants learn while working on actual business problems or opportunities. This is also why Action Learning pays for itself many times over - the initial investment is usually dwarfed by the value of the long-term results.
How A Virus Can Be Good for Your Business Not all viruses are bad news. In fact, there is one kind that can make your business thrive. All it takes is a good idea that infects the right people and valuable new knowledge or skills could be spreading throughout your company with little investment in training. Learn how to create and spread such a virus in this article.
How Learning Goals Will Help You Reach Your Business Goals Goals for learning help your business in several ways that make it easier and more likely that you will reach your major business goals.
What Does Good Training Look Like? In this article I discuss the key characteristics of good training so that you can select or develop training for your employees that will be effective and suitable for your business.
How Managers Develop Judgment: Learning by Action Where does good judgment come from and how do you help an employee develop good judgment? Learn a few secrets in this article.
All I Really Need to Know, I Learned in the Break Room Are you aware how much learning goes on every day in your business? Find out why and how this happens and what you can do to harness it for the betterment of your business.
Coach Like a Pro
The single most dangerous practice in working with employees is to give them some training (even excellent training) and then put them to work with little or no further support. This article shows you how to give that support in just minutes.
Do You Know These 10 Reasons Why Training Fails?
Training doesn't work. At least not very often. Do you know why not? In this article you'll learn ten reasons why the training you do may be almost completely useless. And if you know why something fails, you can fix it. Right?
Are You Committing These Seven Deadly Sins of Feedback?
Giving your employees feedback is supposed to improve their performance, not get in the way of improvement. But making any of these seven errors will hurt you more than help.
How to Give Feedback to the Ninth Power
Do you know the nine different types of feedback? Do you know when to use each one most effectively to improve your employees' performance?
Why Being Systematic Guarantees Performance Daily
Do you struggle with how slowly your new hires get "up to speed?" Do you know the five key steps to doing effective on-the-job training? Why not?
How to Make Work Standards Work
Do your employees know exactly what you expect in every task they do? Why not? Making your expectations clear is the first step in becoming a high-revvin', high-performance business.
How Your Ego Could be Getting in the Way of Improved Training
Do you know if the training done in your shops or stores is effective? How do you measure the training you do? Do you have the guts to find out how effective your training is? I hope so.
Are Your New Hires Learning Fast Enough? Getting your new hires ready to do great work is an essential step in building a strong business. Doing the most effective new-hire training means putting five key practices into place.
Why You Need Written Work Standards Written work standards take away all the guesswork in deciding what it means to do a good job. This article tells how having written work standards can improve six important parts of your business.
Train Like the Military - Because It Works! Why would anyone accept less than 100% competence from their employees? Many do, but when training is done right - like the military does it - anything less than 100% is unacceptable.