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Why Do Training Professionals Have an Identity Crisis?

As I work with some of my clients, there’s a common theme: Some training professionals don’t know what their function is. Don’t get me wrong! These pros have solid skills. They love to solve problems. They know the value of learning. That’s why they became training pros in the first place. What Is the True

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“The Soft Skills Are The Hard Skills”

“The soft skills are the hard skills.” That’s a quote from Amy Edmondson, professor of leadership and management at Harvard Business School. (It appeared in “Has Executive Education Gone Soft?” by Frank Kalman, for Chief Learning Officer.) It’s a quote that resonated with me because it’s true. It’s not hard to find leaders who know

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Strategic Training Certification Means Increased Value

Organizations across North Carolina and the Triangle are gearing up for an upbeat 2013. As we end this year, we are seeing signs of opportunity and positive change. It is important to head into the 1st Quarter with a focused business mission and a sharpening of the skills needed to increase profitability and success. It

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ROI Is Everything

Can you prove the effectiveness of your training programs? That’s the sign off on Laura Paramoure’s email signature. Laura is CEO of eParamus. She puts that on her signature because she knows that the answer to that question matters. ROI is everything. As 2013 approaches, chances are you’re making plans, creating budgets, forming goals…all the

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5 Business Training Challenges in 2013

It is often very difficult to predict the future of an organization based on the challenges of the current economic environment. Even with the knowledge of the past few years, it seems more and more certain that we must look at present situations within the company to predict the future. We are speeding to 2013

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4 Ways Organizational Change Can Throw Your Business Off Course

In 1999, Dave Brandon became CEO of Domino’s. Daniel Denison, Robert Hooijberg, Nancy Lane and Colleen Lief wrote various IMD Business School case studies focused on Domino’s. They report that Brandon’s first words to employees were these: “If you don’t remember anything else about me today, just remember these three words: Change is good. Change

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The Support of Strategic Training and Success

As we head quickly through Thanksgiving and into the Holiday Season, our organizational focus is on continuing success and the New Year. The latest business challenges here in the Triangle NC and beyond mean new issues and new methodology as we create goals and complete objectives. Exceeding this speed of change is the continuing training

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Does your Organization Include Essential Training?

In the highly competitive local business environment we have in the Triangle NC, there is intense competition here and around the world for both business and client acquisition. In this situation, there is just one factor that truly makes an organization rise to the top. That factor is strategic training, or an even better term

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5 Strategies for Leadership Assessment

Leadership is a broad and exciting field within organizations. Leaders today work in a variety of business settings and situations. Because both leadership and management are behavior-driven, the continued success of both must involve some aspect of measurement and testing. Characteristics can then be assessed and improved upon for the benefit of everyone in the

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Build Your Business Training From the Ground Up

In the Triangle and across North Carolina, business excellence sometimes involves not only the quality of recruiting but that of the recruiter as well. Recently eParamus helped a local staffing organization align its training program with the onboarding process of its new recruiters. The concern for both the level of the candidate needed, and the

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