Employees are doing something all managers and L&D leaders never know about, but should. Individual employees are constantly figuring out how to solve problems or work better, faster, and smarter. Often they are meeting challenges that other employees just ignore,…
Author: Tita Theodora Beal
How I Learned To Train Senior People Who Think “Training” Is Just for Lower-Level Employees! – Tip #275
An American Fortune 50 company was unexpectedly running into competitive challenges in countries around the world where they’d dominated the markets. Although their offerings were limited, the local competitors were positioning themselves as understanding local needs. When the company’s CEO…
Old-Fashioned Job Training Transformed in Today’s L&D Profession. Is a New Shift Coming? – Tip # 270
Once upon a time, there were no Learning & Development departments. So where did our profession emerge from? “Vocational Ed” trainers for technical skills “Survival of the Fittest” for professionals/managers, unless lucky enough to find mentors and, with few exceptions,…
When Psychologists Train Pigeons… Tip #268
When psychologists train pigeons… the pigeons are hungry. Duh, but sometimes we forget. After I took my first Vignettes Learning course with Dr. Jimenez, I threw out all introductory topic-talk and looked for typical, dreadful challenges to make human trainees…
Missing Sales Strategy – Tip #265
When we train salespeople, we need to align with organizational sales strategy, but what if it’s M.I.A.? When a company expanded into a new market by hiring twenty new sales representatives, account development process and sales skills training were urgently…