Posts Tagged ‘training’
Sales leadership and training are key to peddling a new product
SmartPulse — our weekly nonscientific reader poll in SmartBrief on Sales — tracks feedback from sales managers and executives. We run the poll question each Wednesday in our e-newsletter. Last week, we asked: Do your long-standing team members have trouble selling new products? Yes, but only sometimes: 46.81% Yes, almost always: 27.66% No, almost never: [...]
Why games make for good training
SmartPulse — our weekly nonscientific reader poll in SmartBrief on Sales — tracks feedback from sales managers and executives. We run the poll question each Wednesday in our e-newsletter. Last week, we asked: Would you consider using games to increase your salespeople’s interest in training? Yes, we already have and it’s great: 33.33% Yes, but [...]
This week’s most clicked
How General Motors keeps its brands from colliding; what to do about a bumbling board of directors; and a bunch of words that are best left out of your next presentation. Read about all this and more in this week’s top five most-clicked links in SmartBrief on Leadership: How GM uses “swim lanes” to keep [...]
The 70/30 Principle: Rebalancing the learning equation
This post is by Victoria Halsey, an expert in workplace learning and author of “Brilliance by Design: Creating Learning Experiences That Connect, Inspire, and ENGAGE.” She is vice president of applied learning at The Ken Blanchard Cos. Contact her at vicki.halsey (at) kenblanchard.com. The traditional approach to workplace learning and teaching is beyond old school [...]
Workers can’t go off site without the proper training
SmartPulse — our weekly nonscientific reader poll in SmartBrief on Small Business — tracks feedback from small-business owners. We run the poll question each Thursday in our e-newsletter. Last week we asked: What worries you most when you think about allowing employees to work remotely? Employees won’t be as productive: 36.28% Managers don’t know how [...]
Do you think your company’s managers have adequate training?
SmartPulse — our weekly reader poll in Smartbrief on Workforce — tracks feedback from leading managers and HR practitioners. We run the poll question each Thursday in our e-newsletter. Last week, we asked: Do you think your company’s managers have adequate training? No — most aren’t well-trained, 42% Somewhat — some are well-trained and others [...]
How franchisors lead the way to entrepreneurial success
The International Franchise Association brought together bankers, politicians, government officials and franchise leaders for a Small Business Lending Summit April 7 in Washington, D.C., in an effort to work toward solutions to the obstacles that franchisees and other small-business owners are encountering in getting the loans they need to start up and grow. As part [...]
Wasting your money
SmartPulse — our weekly reader poll in Smartbrief on Leadership — tracks feedback from more than 150,000 business leaders. We run the poll question each Wednesday in our e-newsletter. Last week we asked: How strongly do your organization’s leaders support training for their teams? We mandate training, attend it ourselves and support it afterward, 39% [...]
