Dear Readers,

Great training is not only valued, it is evaluated. This month’s selections point to ways you can measure ROI in your workplace learning initiatives, as well as ideas on how to continue to develop and deliver training that is effective, as well as efficient.

If your training organization is committed to creating, delivering and measuring learning effectiveness, we invite you to consider applying for Training magazine’s 2007 Training Top 125 Awards Program. Deadline for Award Entries is September 14, 2007. If you would like to download an application form, click here.

We also hope you will value the link to
the white paper about Blended Learning Solutions for Smaller Companies from the Business Training Library, as well as this month's product review, presented by Training Media Review.

Guerrilla ROI: Building a High-Impact Project Portfolio
By Mark Bower

As the economic climate improves, and companies transition from a bottom-line focus to a top-line focus, businesses must respond quickly to new opportunities and changes in the landscape. In this ultra-competitive economy, enterprises are introducing products, services and processes at an accelerating rate. This faster pace influences all business functions, especially workforce learning and performance. Every function must maximize its resources to produce the highest-possible impact.  Learn More

The Emerging Possibilities of E-Learning 2.0
By Gary Woodill

By its very name, e-learning must involve learning. That is certainly the hope and message of e-learning providers, who want to sell their products and services to corporations, educational institutions, and the general public.  The web sites of e-learning providers are replete with claims of effectiveness, huge savings, and transformations in individuals and organizations. Learn More 

Informal Knowledge Transfer
By Eric Sauve

The dynamics of the North American workforce are rapidly changing, and that trend is altering how organizations facilitate the transfer of ideas and information to their employees. The millennial generation, globalization, and workforce diversity are changing the rules of traditional knowledge sharing, learning, and training in organizations of all sizes. Learn More

Well I’m No Einstein but...
By Gary Trotta

Are you a right brain or left brain thinker? Let me ask you a couple of questions. When speaking, do you use many hand gestures? Or when reading a magazine do you simply jump into whatever article grabs your fancy rather than starting from the beginning and reading to the end? Are you typically running late for your appointments? At work do you juggle ten tasks at once, rather than taking them one at a time? Well, you might be a right brain thinker. Learn More

Five Steps to a Magic Facilitation
By Jeremiah Walsh

Do your customers—program participants—leave your program feeling as though they had an exceptional learning experience? Release the MAGIC within you and apply the same Five Steps you teach your associates to your own facilitation—you may find this will leave them wanting to come back for more.  Learn More

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