Is Texting To Blame for Poorly Written Emails?
Whenever you’re in an elevator, in a lunch line, standing at the checkout at the grocery store or waiting for…
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Learning & Development Blog
Atlanta Debuts TrainSMART’s Train-the-Trainer
Whether you call it A-Town, The Big Peach or The A, Atlanta rolled out its southern hospitality for its first…
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Surviving A Mistake As A Corporate Trainer
Mistakes are peculiar. One trainer can make a mistake, and it’s just a hiccup that no one remembers and most…
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Challenges Of Getting Adults To Learn New Skills & How To Overcome Them
Under the category of “All I need to know I learned in Kindergarten,’ many people would include learning how to…
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How To Start Your Training Session With A Bang!
Why settle for breaking ice when you can start your training session with a BANG! What do you see when…
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Surviving The Disruptive Participant In A Training Session
The disruptive participant can sink your training faster than you can say, “Please Don’t Do That.” Whether it’s someone who…
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How to Survive The Worst Case Scenarios As A Trainer
When my daughter was ten years old, someone gave her a copy of the Worst Case Scenario Survival Handbook. She…
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How To Assess Yourself & Your Training Skills
When we hold a Train-the-Trainer Workshop, participants have multiple opportunities to practice their training/facilitation skills in a variety of assignments….
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How to Take Dry Content and Make It an Interesting Training Experience
Think about the most memorable training experience you ever attended. Now focus on one or two lessons that you took…
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Do You Have Poor Business Email Etiquette? 5 Tips For Writing Better Business Emails
Emails are so pervasive in the workplace that few people see them as a strategic communication tool much less one…
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The Trainer’s Tool Everyone Loves to Hate: The Facilitator Guide
You wouldn’t think that facilitator guides would be a particularly controversial topic. Maybe controversial is too strong a word. Let’s…
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5 Steps To Effective Sexual Harassment Prevention Training
Before Harvey Weinstein was exposed, before Matt Lauer and Charlie Rose were booted out in disgrace, before Senator Al Franken…
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