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The Past, Present and Future of Training
Guest Speaker: Ed Scannell
 Scannell speaks about the early days of the training industry and looks at the current state of the training industry. He has seen and done it all - author of over a dozen books including the Games Trainers Play series and hundreds of articles - he has watched the training industry emerge and grow in the last 40+ years and shares his humor and insight with listeners in this interview.		 Order CD Download MP3
Moving Your Training Online
Guest Speaker: Brian Flemming
 In this teleseminar on taking your training online you will learn how to make the right decisions on what to put online and how to avoid common mistakes. In it you will find out how to set good objectives, weigh time and cost factors, and whether to do it yourself or outsource it.		 Order CD Download MP3
No Criticism, No Blame: The Case Against Performance Appraisals and What to do Instead
Guest Speaker: Wally Hauck
 This teleseminar will cover:
- How performance management practices are flawed at the concept level not the practical level.
- How current performance management practices most often attempt to control behavior not improve quality or customer satisfaction.
- How and why performance management practices today hurt trust and therefore quality and customer satisfaction.
- How the Values and System Model enables managers to spend time on more value added practices to improve quality.
- What you can do instead, starting today		 Order CD Download MP3
How to Gain Management Buy-in for your Training
Guest Speaker: Barbara Collins
 Collins addresses:
- “Mapping” the key players in your organization and increasing their connection to training
- Strategies and methods for making the training function more valuable to the organization
- Ways to bring management support to training projects and programs		 Order CD Download MP3
How to Use the Power of Emotional Intelligence in Your Training Programs
Guest Speaker: Marcia Reynolds
 For years, in behavioral training, we've accepted the fact that only 10% of what is taught in the classroom is retained after 48 hours. Discover the missing link to improving retention ­
emotional intelligence. Reynolds explores how helping people become more astute about how their emotions affect their behavior can increase the learning curve.		 Order CD Download MP3
How to Use Coaching as a Training Tool
Guest Speaker: Rosemary D’Arcy
 Coaching can be a valuable tool for developing competency. If you have individuals who are good performers but need to develop in specific areas to become great performers, coaching can make the difference.
- Learn how to identify whether coaching should be part of your training portfolio
- Understand the distinction between performance coaching and development coaching
- Identify how to know when coaching is the best solution
- Learn how to decide when to use an external coach and how to select a coach		 Order CD Download MP3
5 Ways to Increase Subject Matter Retention in Adult Learners
Guest Speaker: Diane Smith
 Do you think your memory works the same now as it did when you were a child? The answer is NO. Yet many trainers base their presentations on the way they were taught in junior high. During this teleseminar you'll learn:
- Three major differences between the 'young' and 'mature' brain
- How to use adult learning styles to maximize your effectiveness
- How to add a whole new dimension to your style of presentation		 Order CD Download MP3
Secrets of Super Successful Meeting Planners
Guest Speaker: Susan Friedman
 Whoever said that being a meeting planner was easy lied! This teleseminar covers:
- The most important aspects of meeting planning ­ the non- negotiables
- How to stay on top of all the details
- Common pitfalls and how to avoid them
- How to spice up the ho-hum “usual” meeting		 Order CD Download MP3
How to Use Microsoft Office to get More Done in Less Time
Guest Speaker: Dave Paradi
Paradi, The Office Technology Lifeguard, tells you how to use Microsoft Office to get more done in less time, including how to:
- Find information quickly
- Send personalized communications
- Create flexible training programs
- GO HOME EARLY!		 Order CD Download MP3
Thinking Out of the Box - Strategies for Handling Change
Guest Speaker: Barbara Butler
 In business, change has become an everyday reality. Layoffs, mergers, and bankruptcies have pushed management and staff to do more in less time with fewer resources. Butler discusses how to identify and overcome the barriers to survive stressful times and gain practical skills for creating brain space to thrive!		 Order CD Download MP3
De-stress by De-cluttering Your Space, Your Time and (possibly) Your Mind! Learn that Clutter is Personal!
Guest Speaker: Anita Taylor
 Taylor discusses how to:
- 'Organize' without the mess
- Find out how to use your time wisely
- AND not clutter your mind (which is the most important of all!)		 Order CD Download MP3
Performance Consulting 101
Guest Speaker: Terence Traut
 Maximize the value to your organization by creating training that is relevant, practical, and engaging. Root out the REAL cause of performance problems. Increase your own perceived value in your organization and get others to respect the contribution that you and training can bring to the organization.		 Order CD Download MP3
Taming the Time Tiger: Get Organized, Get Things Done
Guest Speaker: Anita Taylor
 I don't have enough time!!! The real question is - how do we use the time we have? Taylor will help to “define our time”, and then offer tips to successfully deal with the time that’s left. Here’s a quick preview: habits can make or break a day. . . modifying just one habit can 'give' you back hours each week. 		Order CD Download MP3
Evalutation Short-cuts: Tips and Tools for Measuring More with Less
Guest Speaker: Holly Burkett
 Training and development professionals are under increasing pressure to prove the value of their activities to upper management. How will you know that people have actually learned? And WHAT have they learned? Is it knowledge? Is it skill? Do you want to measure some combination of both? Are they doing “it” on the job? Evaluation is your key to successful training. This teleseminar will highlight practical tips and tools for developing a credible, results-based training focus in resource- constrained environments.		 Order CD Download MP3
How to Deliver Powerful Presentations with Pizazz
Guest Speaker: Tim Richardson
 This teleseminar will show you how adding simple useable strategies to your presentation toolbox will enhance every workshop, training program, or presentation you deliver! Learn the secrets of powerful storytelling and training tips from a 15 year professional speaker and workshop presenter.		 Order CD Download MP3
Breaking Through Overwhelm
Guest Speaker: Ginny Kravitz
 Be more effective, creative, and satisfied on the job and in life. If you are a business professional who “wears many hats” in the role you perform, you are most likely familiar with the feeling of overwhelm. This teleseminar provides practical techniques to preserve your focus, control, and decisiveness. It will help you break through overwhelm and become more effective, creative, and satisfied.		 Order CD Download MP3
5 Levels of Evaluation: When and How to Use Them
Guest Speaker: Dr. Nanette Miner
 Do you evaluate the effectiveness of your training programs? If you had to prove the value of your training or your department ­ could you do it? In this teleseminar you'll discover the common mistakes made in Level 1 evaluations that render them useless, how to involve the organization in Level 3 evaluations, and when to apply levels 4 and 5 - and for what purpose.		 Order CD Download MP3
Coaching: A Valuable Tool in Your Training Toolbox
Guest Speaker: Pam Butterfield
 In this teleseminar Butterfield discusses the incorporation of coaching into your training programs and, how to ensure that the programs are viewed as valuable, and not viewed as "squishy" and too “touchy-feely”?		 Order CD Download MP3

E-learning on a Shoestring
Guest Speaker: Jane Bozarth
 With creativity and care, e-learning CAN be had on a shoestring budget. This teleseminar takes a look at cost-cutting strategies for dealing with vendors, doing it yourself, and keeping up with it all. Bozarth discusses the 'buy vs. build' decision and free and low-cost tools you can start using today to create professional and interactive e-learning for your organization.

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Tips & Techniques for On-The-Job Training: Fast, Low-Cost, Bottom-Line Results!
Guest Speaker: Diane Walter
 Structured on-the-job training (OJT) is a perfect fit for solving everyday training and performance challenges. Save yourself time and energy-learn a team-driven process that puts your SME’s and even less experienced employees to work immediately developing and delivering their OWN OJT. OJT can be developed and implemented quickly and inexpensively. Your training can begin next week!		 Order CD Download MP3
Preventing Death by Lecture! 12 Ways to Turn Passive Listeners into Active Learners
Guest Speaker: Sharon Bowman
 You know there are better ways to deliver information other than straight lecture. So how do you make your presentation or training interactive, whether online or face-to-face? In this teleseminar you’ll discover a dozen ways to make your message memorable. Take away a trainer's tool bag full of great ideas you can use with any topic and any audience.		 Order CD Download MP3
Razzle Dazzle Design: Developing Training for 21st Century Learners
Guest Speaker: Lenn Millbower
 Reaching a learner intellectually may result in comprehension, but reaching that learner *emotionally* changes behavior. From music to comedy to live theater, the entertainment industry excels at eliciting emotion. Given appropriate templates, the emotive techniques of entertainment are easily applicable to any learning environment. The result is energized instruction that commands attention, increases results, reduces training times, and expands business success. Discover the power of show biz to razzle dazzle your trainees!		 Order CD Download MP3
Designing Great Programs Using Learning Styles
Guest Speaker: Abby Marks Beale
 When you design your training classes, how often do you consider your and your audience’s learning style? Marks Beale presents two learning style models ­ David Kolb’s 4 Quadrant and Roger Sperry’s Hemisphericity ­ helping you to understand your preferences and how they affect your training. She also presents the accelerated learning styles model and how you can use it to design a great program, every time!		 Order CD Download MP3
Thinking Styles
Guest Speaker: Jennifer Whitt
 - How would you like to be able to dramatically improve your performance as a thinker, a team member, and a leader?
- Would you like to be able to give your life and your job your best thinking?
- What if you could unlock the performance potential within yourself to reach new heights of success?

Whitt discusses 8 Ways of Thinking from her latest performance
potential program, Optimize Your Thinking!

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Lessons Learned from a One Person Training Department
Guest Speaker: Dr. Carol McCoy
 Dr. McCoy is the author of Managing a Small HRD Department: You Can Do More Than You Think and Managing the Small Training Staff. In this session she discusses:
- The greatest advantages of being a One Person Training Department
- The two biggest challenges - and how to conquer them
- The key competencies needed to be a successful trainer
- Critical resources to marshall in your favor		 Order CD Download MP3
Managing and Leading Change: Teaching the Caterpillar to Fly
Guest Speaker: Scott Simmerman, Ph.D.
"The Square Wheels Guy"
 This teleseminar covers:
- Understanding issues underlying resistance to change and will provide you with a clearer understanding of different approaches to impact change.
- Specific ideas about involving and engaging people into the transformation process.
- How cartoons in training work!
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Today's Workforce Encompasses 4 Generations
Guest Speaker: Lynne Lancaster
 In this teleseminar you will learn:
- Who the generations are
- Why the differnent generations have different needs and expectations
- How to engage every participant in a multigenerational training 		Order CD Download MP3
Finding and Developing Training Content
Guest Speaker: Abby Marks Beale
 Need help sorting through piles of reading material Quickly in order to find content for your training? Abby shares invaluable tips, including 'cheat reading' to make the most of your time while getting the information you really need. 		Order CD Download MP3
EnterTRAINmet
Guest Speaker: Karin Joy Whitley
 Make your training more memorable and fun by using visuals, icebreakers, activities and more.		 Order CD Download MP3
Unleashing Your Leadership Potential
Guest Speaker: Kevin Eikenberry
 Kevin shares how to bring out the remarkable leadership potential in ourselves and those we train.		 Order CD Download MP3
Did they Learn it? Interactive Activities to Review and Assess Learning
Guest Speaker: Susan Boyd
 In this teleseminar you will hear about:
- Why it is important to review
- Activities to use during reviews
- Interactive learning
- How to provide follow-up after training 		Order CD Download MP3
Clues to Unlocking Candidate Potential from Resumes and in Prescreening/Regular Interviews: Jan Melnick
In this teleseminar you will hear about:
- 4 key attributes in a great employee
- 4 precepts to good hiring decisions
- How to identify predictors of success on resume and in cover letter
- Assessing likelihood of candidate success in prescreening and regular interviews
- Top interview questions - to dovetail with resume and elicit authentic candidate strengths		 Order CD Download MP3
Understanding eLearning: Jennifer Hofmann
In this teleseminar you will hear about:
 - Why eLearning is more than just a trend
- The various delivery technologies
- The changing roles of instructional designers, facilitators and learners in this new learning environment
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Learning to Design Effective Quizes & Assessments: Dr. Nanette Miner
 In this teleseminar you will hear Dr. Nanette Miner, The Training Dr., share information on why we should test, how to test, and most importantly, how to create good tests!

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Tips for the Lone Ranger Trainer: Jane Bozarth
Are you the first trainer your organization has ever had? Are you the only trainer in your organization now? This teleseminar is the right one for you! Listen for tips on:
- building a training program from the ground up
- introducing training where no training has gone before
- locating and utilizing the many resources available

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Five Steps to Success for the Newly Promoted Trainer: Michelle Porchia
In this teleseminar you will discover the five steps that will help you transition the new trainer into your department or company successfully!		 Order CD Download MP3
Date before you marry: Why you should only expect a consultant to reach a stride with the third engagement: Saul Carliner
 In this teleseminar you'll hear information on working with consultants and contractors; and what the differences are. The most significant difference being that contractors are an extra set of helping hands vs. a consultant who works at a much higher level to help define problems and do strategic planning. 		Order CD Download MP3

How to use "Gadgets, Games and Gizmos for Learning" : Karl Kapp
 In this teleseminar you will:
- Learn how corporations are using Gadgets, Games and Gizmos to obtain a competitive advantage
- Learn how video games have influenced an entire generation of learners
- Discuss the use of Web 2.0 technologies to foster innovation and learning within organizations.

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