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In the world of business, the era of networks is crowding out the Industrial Age. Network connections are replacing rigidity with flexibility, penetrating internal boundaries and silos and knocking down the walls that have separated businesses from their customers. Networks are ushering in new ways of doing business. Corporate approaches to learning have to change as well.

Some cutting-edge corporations are adopting a new bundle of practices – let’s call them informal learning 2.0 – in order to… Continue

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The TOPYX Trainer Franchise Training 2.0 solution enables franchisors and franchisees to extend virtual training to owners, area and unit management and employees with 24/7 real-time access… Continue

In tough economic times, finding money for professional development of your staff can be a challenge. But it doesn’t have to be, given the proliferation of inexpensive or free web applications for personal and workplace learning.

It’s sometimes assumed that learning tools means tools specifically dedicated to learning and often we overlook the value in ordinary tools. This duality is what makes these tools so powerful – because they are not separate tools you have to use but ones that are famil… Continue

When [Jim Sullivan] I’m not writing a monthly column for readers of Nation’s Restaurant News and NRN.com, I have a day job designing leadership, sales-building and service-energizing training programs for managers and crew at foodservice and retail chains worldwide. Many companies and customers are curious how social-media sites will affect how foodservice training programs will be designed and delivered to Gen Next.

The short answer is: a lot.

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Traditional sales orientation for new and experienced representatives provide your revenue producers with periodic “core dumps” of key messaging, market positioning and updated best practices to effectively sell to customers. The time between these meetings is focused on managing the progression of tactical activities to attain revenue projections. The sales management processes center on the execution of potentially flawed, misaligned or sub-optimized activities that extend the time required to… Continue