COLUMBIA, Md., Sept. 10, 2013 -- Global performance improvement solutions provider GP Strategies Corporation (NYSE: GPX) announced a joint development and services agreement with Information Technology Senior Management Forum (ITSMF), the only national organization dedicated exclusively to cultivating executive talent among African-American technology professionals, to launch a new "Innovation and Creativity Learning Portal." The portal will initially include open enrollment training courses focused on creative thinking to benefit organizations and individual career advancement.
GP Strategies executives have long-standing relationships with ITSMF and GP Strategies continues to sponsor members and events in the organization. It is through this relationship that GP Strategies became involved in the concept development and implementation of the Innovation and Creativity Learning Portal.
Under the agreement, ITSMF will host and maintain the portal while Right Brain Aerobics and Gallagher Management will provide subject matter experts to present the first training courses via live webinar sessions through the portal:
Module 1: Right Brain Starter is broken into four 90-minute sessions that launch today, September 10. Attendees will master commonly used exercises that help improve critical thinking skills and can be used daily.
Module 2: Mental Focus, Creative Envisioning, and Brain Building Basics is broken into four 90-minute sessions and launches in October. These sessions help individuals strengthen mental focus and creative-intuitive envisioning and ignite idea generation.
Coming soon to the portal are five additional modules.
"GP Strategies assists many of our clients that are seeking to promote innovation within their organizations," states Pat Begley, Executive Vice President with GP Strategies. "We have been working with ITSMF, utilizing the program developed by Right Brain Aerobics to unleash creativity within individuals as they prepare their membership and the business community for continued career progression. The Innovation and Creativity Learning Portal enables this partnership to reach a broader community. We are proud to be a part of this effort to launch this new initiative."
Viola Thompson, Executive Director with ITSMF, states, "This powerful exercise integrates innovation and creative thinking, which is what drives greatness in organizations, especially for technology business leaders. All can be better at it. We are proud to be a partner in launching this one-of-a-kind learning portal."
About ITSMF
ITSMF is the only national organization dedicated exclusively to fostering senior-level, executive talent among African-American technology professionals. Our goal is to prepare African-American technology professionals for senior-level responsibility by offering executive career development, mentoring and networking opportunities for advancing to the C-suite.
About GP Strategies
GP Strategies Corporation is a global performance improvement solutions provider of training, eLearning solutions, management consulting and engineering services. GP Strategies' solutions improve the effectiveness of organizations by delivering innovative and superior training, consulting and business improvement services, customized to meet the specific needs of its clients. Clients include Fortune 500 companies, manufacturing, process and energy industries, and other commercial and government customers. Additional information may be found at www.gpstrategies.com.
GP Strategies Partners With ITSMF to Launch Learning Portal
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Fall Issue of Training Industry Quarterly Magazine Released
Cary, NC – Sept. 10, 2013 – Training Industry, Inc. has released the 2013 fall issue of Training Industry Quarterly magazine focusing on technologies that enhance learning. This issue explores emerging technologies that increase performance and productivity in the workplace.
Featured articles include:
Introducing Simulation into Learning Strategies: Examining the Key Considerations
The Evolution of the LMS
Bringing Your Mojo to the Virtual Classroom
Merging Social Learning and Technology to Achieve Business Outcomes
“The 2013 fall issue of Training Industry Quarterly is focused on giving our readers the information they need to develop more enhanced learning experiences by leveraging new tools and technology,” said Ken Taylor, Editor-in-Chief & Chief Operating Officer at Training Industry, Inc.
Training Industry Quarterly is free for both members and non-members and is easy to print or download to a desktop or tablet device.
To read the latest free issue of Training Industry Quarterly, click here.
Training Industry Quarterly is the training industry's only peer-planned and peer-previewed magazine. Training Industry Quarterly magazine publishes new issues each December, March, June and September. Its focus is to help dedicated business and training professionals get the information, insight and tools they need to more effectively manage the business of learning.
For additional information on Training Industry Quarterly, email editor@trainingindustry.com or visit www.trainingindustry.com.
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Docebo Opens New Subsidiary To Serve Customers in Athens, GA
Athens (GA), Naples - Docebo today announced that due to its North American revenues, quadrupled in the last six months, a new subsidiary in Athens, Georgia has been opened to competitively serve its customers base.
Docebo's Athens office will be the hub to expand into the U.S. and Canada: this is a strategic step forward and adds an influential advantage to Docebo’s services and operations in the North American market.
As part of Docebo’s commitment towards the American market, Docebo is already investing and hiring local resources in order to increase engagement with its community of customers and partners.
“This is a unique opportunity for us to expand our business even further into the world's largest economy” said Claudio Erba, CEO and founder of Docebo. “This brand-new office in Athens, Georgia, helps us by serving our Customers and Partners spread across North America territories even more effectively, as Docebo is now be able to physically work with a dedicated team, bringing the e-learning experience to the next level.”
The Docebo E-Learning platform has already been selected by more than 50 North American companies (SMBs and Enterprises).
About Docebo
Docebo is a disruptive Cloud E-Learning solutions provider that is revolutionizing the Online training market with its cloud "As a Service" Learning Management System, doubling its active worldwide customers quarterly and building an international partner network in more than 26 countries. The main products (Docebo SaaS and Docebo Premium) are designed for both SMBs (Small and Medium businesses) and Enterprises. Customers benefit from Docebo solutions thanks to a scalable pricing model, a third party integration (via API), and a reliable service available 24/7 that empowers the user experience.
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The Ken Blanchard Companies Announces The SLII® Experience
San Diego, CA (Sept. 19, 2013) — Blanchard® research has shown that today's workforce wants to be more in control of its learning journey and is driving demand that learning and development be done differently. The Ken Blanchard Companies®, a global leader in workplace leadership development, has announced the release of The SLII® Experience, a new learning design for its flagship product Situational Leadership® II (SLII®), the world's most taught leadership model.
Backed by research and validated by more than 30 years of client work, SLII has been relied upon by some of the best organizations in the world. Most leaders gravitate toward one leadership style, but research shows it is more effective for leaders to choose the appropriate leadership style depending on the situation. SLII teaches people to use the right style at the right time. It improves the quality of conversations and strengthens relationships. It helps leaders to be more in tune with their people's needs and aligned with their own intentions.
"The SLII Experience is a different way of learning that prepares people to lead differently," says Ken Blanchard. "It develops authentic, inspiring leaders whom others want to follow."
The SLII Experience immerses people in SLII quickly, deeply, and effectively. Based on a leadership model that teaches leaders to use the appropriate leadership style in response to the needs of the person and the situation, the new experience provides a fast-paced, results-focused design based upon proven content and research.
Unlike traditional classroom training, participants learn fast and practice slow so that each participant can experiment with the key skills and concepts and build confidence in using them back on the job. Once in the classroom, learners move through a dynamic flow of activities. Short, rapid learning scenarios and skill-building focused on real work issues challenge participants to demonstrate their familiarity with the content.
A faster pace of learning paired with reinforcement over time, The SLII Experience is focused on greater learning retention and achieving desired behavior outcomes. Some of the key features include
An SLII Fitness Test that measures leadership intelligence and results in a "before, after, and back-then" approach
Video episodes produced in a modern television-program style, which depict realistic workplace scenarios in an entertaining way that engage participants with the content
A mobile app that helps leaders quickly "diagnose" a situation and practice the right leadership style
A self-paced 12-module online game called "The SLII Challenge" that allows learners to reinforce and deepen their skills while accumulating points
An online learning portal with access to all of the videos, worksheets, and reinforcement tools, which learners can use back on the job with their teams
Self-paced elearning tools further reinforce and internalize the material and provide support in teaching the concepts back to their team. Providing access to a participant’s team members is a partnered approach that gets an entire team speaking the same leadership language.
"We're excited about the game-changing techniques in its learning design that engage, evoke, and express those common challenges we all face in the workplace from time to time," shares Pat Zigarmi, coauthor of Situational Leadership® II and cofounder of The Ken Blanchard Companies. "The SLII Experience teaches new behaviors for addressing those challenges."
About The Ken Blanchard Companies
The Ken Blanchard Companies® is a global leader in workplace learning, productivity, and leadership effectiveness that is best known for its Situational Leadership® II program—the most widely taught leadership model in the world. Because of its ability to help people excel as self-leaders and as leaders of others, SLII® is embraced by Fortune 500 companies as well as mid- to small-size businesses, governments, and educational and non-profit organizations.
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Convergence Training Expands Course Offerings
VANCOUVER, WA – Sept. 25, 2013 – Convergence Training, a leading producer of industrial training products and operational efficiency tools, announced today the addition of 30 new titles to their pulp & paper training course catalog. The computer-based courses, which include titles such as "Tissue Making Basics" and "Yankee Dryer Safety", are designed to provide foundational knowledge of pulp, paper, tissue, and corrugated manufacturing processes and equipment. The new courses reflect a recent initiative intended to grow Convergence Training's pulp & paper catalog to 200 courses by the end of 2014.
Each 10-40 minute course features a combination of video-based instruction and interactive knowledge reviews. Course topics vary in detail, from general paper machine safety to more specific topics such as wet end chemistry and forming fabric design. The courses provide an introduction to common pulp and paper manufacturing and converting processes and target newly hired workers, sales and marketing teams, and even experienced personnel starting new positions within a plant.
"Manufacturers are always looking for ways to speed up onboarding or plant startups," says Randy Kohltfarber, Convergence Training Owner and President. "These courses explain, very effectively, and with great visual presentation, the key stages of the paper or tissue or corrugated board manufacturing process. It’s a really efficient way to make sure that your entire team fully understands the function and hazards of each piece of equipment in your plant."
Convergence Training is a familiar name in the pulp and paper industry, having long produced highly-customized operations and process training for industry leading manufacturers. "We’ve been doing this a long time," says Kohltfarber. "The custom training we produced in the past is usually machine-specific to our clients, however, we always knew there was an opportunity to create affordable, paper-specific training material for the broader industry."
The inspiration for the new courses was drawn from decades of industry experience and customer feedback, and the content itself was developed by Convergence Training’s long-tenured and highly-experienced team of industry veterans, 3D animators, and media professionals. As Kohltfarber explains, "We’re in a unique position to be able to make really effective training on these subjects that can have a significant impact on safety, maintenance, and operational efficiency."
The 30 new courses are available now from Convergence Training’s paper, box, and tissue training catalog. Short previews for each title and pricing info can be found on the Convergence Training website.
About Convergence Training
Convergence Training, a division of Capstone Technology Corporation, is a leading producer of eLearning media, training management software, and operational efficiency tools for pulp and paper, general industry, manufacturing, and mining.
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CBT Nuggets Releases New Healthcare IT Video Training Course
Eugene, OR, Oct. 10, 2013 -- CBT Nuggets is pleased to announce a new video training course for healthcare IT certification.
The healthcare IT field is growing rapidly, and the new "CHISP" video training course prepares viewers to earn Certified Health Informatics Systems Professional certification.
In this 19-video course, trainer Michael Shannon the CHISP exam objectives as well as the skills needed to become a successful healthcare IT professional. Some of the topics Shannon covers include data types, healthcare terminology, electronic health records software, information and data security, and more.
Preview the first two minutes of any video in this course for free, or subscribe for as little as $99 per month.
About CBT Nuggets
CBT Nuggets is a computer-based technology company specializing in cutting-edge online IT, project management and office productivity training. Founded in 1999, CBT Nuggets provides quick, easy and affordable learning by renowned instructors for individuals, small teams and large organizations.
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CBT Nuggets Releases Cisco Training Series
Eugene, OR, June 03, 2013 -- CBT Nuggets announced a new training series, “Cisco CCNA ICND2 200-101”.
Earlier this year, Cisco revised the two exams in its CCNA certification. Both the ICND1 (exam 100-101) and ICND2 (200-101) tests now cover more topics. In this new training series, trainer Jeremy Cioara covers all of the new ICND2 exam objectives, including VPN, EIGRP, HSRP, GLBP, OSPF, and of course, IPv6.
Cioara, one of the most popular Cisco trainers in the world, has also completed a series on the new ICND1 exam for CBT Nuggets. With both of these CCNA video series now available, CCNA candidates can find all of the training they need at one site.
About CBT Nuggets
CBT Nuggets is a computer-based technology company specializing in cutting-edge online IT, project management and office productivity training. Founded in 1999, CBT Nuggets provides quick, easy and affordable learning by renowned instructors for individuals, small teams and large organizations.
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SAVO Launches CRM Opportunity Pro on Salesforce.com's AppExchange
CHICAGO – Nov. 4, 2013 – SAVO Group, the market leader in sales enablement, today announced it has launched CRM Opportunity Pro on salesforce.com's AppExchange, empowering businesses to connect with customers, employees and prospects in entirely new ways. Integrating with Salesforce, CRM Opportunity Pro enables organizations to better leverage their customer data to improve lead conversion, drive higher adoption rates and accelerate the sales cycle. The application also provides a prescriptive process with continuous coaching to revive stalled opportunities and quickly align sales rep activities with the business goals of their customers and prospects.
CRM Opportunity Pro is immediately available for a test drive and deployment on the AppExchange. Comments on the News
“Offering CRM Opportunity Pro through the AppExchange enables us to provide the market’s broadest, completely embedded sales enablement solution to salesforce.com customers,“ said Mark O’Connell, president and CEO, SAVO. “We look forward to working closely with our customers who are already using Salesforce and other organizations to help them leverage their CRM investments to sell smarter and win more deals.”
“The future of enterprise apps is social, mobile and connected,” said Leyla Seka, vice president of AppExchange and Partner Operations, salesforce.com. “SAVO is helping to drive customer success in sales enablement by harnessing the power of social and mobile cloud technologies within CRM Opportunity Pro.”
Connect in Entirely New Ways with Social and Mobile Cloud Technologies
When combined with the power of Salesforce, SAVO’s CRM Opportunity Pro transforms the realm of CRM possibilities and delivers a unique sales enablement platform that helps customers stand out from the competition and sell smarter. By integrating CRM Opportunity Pro with Salesforce Sales Cloud, a user’s Salesforce environment becomes the single place that provides users with:
A system to manage customers, accounts and opportunities to improve conversions and deliver value to the individual seller
The ability to leverage specific opportunity attributes to deliver enablement assets, tools and “guided selling” tips to sales reps without leaving Salesforce
Product Key Features:
Specifically, CRM Opportunity Pro powers:
Resource Connections – integrates coaching and lead-specific resources, from call scripts to next steps to subject matter experts, into the lead or opportunity record in Salesforce to help convert leads to opportunities
Marketing Automation – aligns conversations and marketing content with a lead’s interests and goals
Lead Conversion with Analytics – provides insight into what messages resonate with buyers to drive messaging consistency and overall deal success
Dynamic Coaching and Content – prescribes assets and advice in the opportunity record as deal characteristics evolve so reps can adapt and keep deals moving forward
Strategic Insights – dashboards provide executives with a view of what sales and marketing resources are directly tied to revenue, and which behaviors are most effective
About the AppExchange
The Salesforce AppExchange is the world’s leading business apps marketplace. With more than 2,000 partner apps and 2 million customer installs it is the most comprehensive source of social and mobile cloud apps for business. The Salesforce Platform is the world’s most trusted and comprehensive cloud platform for building social and mobile cloud apps, powering Salesforce CRM, and more than 3 million custom apps built by customers and partners. Apps built on the Salesforce Platform can be easily distributed and marketed through salesforce.com’s AppExchange.
About SAVO
Founded in 1999, SAVO is the leading provider of sales enablement solutions. SAVO’s on-demand sales enablement platform maximizes the sales team’s ability to communicate value and differentiation in clear, consistent and compelling ways. Combining proven sales and marketing best practices with award-winning technology, SAVO addresses all aspects of the sales enablement challenge — spanning people, process, insight and technology.
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BizLibrary Announces New Collection of 4,000 Training Videos And E-Learning Courses
ST. LOUIS, Nov. 5, 2013 – BizLibrary's award-winning content solutions continue to grow with this month's introduction of The BizLibrary Collection. Small and mid-sized companies can now offer their employees unlimited access to more than 4,000 streaming video and e-learning courses anytime, anywhere on any desktop, tablet or smartphone.
"The BizLibrary Collection is simply the best library of online training content available for small and mid-sized companies on the market," said Dean Pichee, President and CEO of BizLibrary. "We have assembled 1,900 streaming videos from our proprietary collection, 2,000 desktop computing videos, 50 leadership videos from leading experts, and nearly 200 e-learning courses into a single library of content that covers virtually every important business and professional skills training topic an employee might need today."
The BizLibrary Collection covers 25 topic areas including communication, customer service,desktop computer skills, safety, leadership and management skills, human resources and compliance. Thousands of additional e-learning courses are available for advanced, specialized topics and certification tracks.
The videos and e-learning courses are delivered through BizLibrary's award-winning Learning Management System. The cloud-hosted learning platform provides clients with a customized learning site, online administration, and a free iOS and Android mobile app.
"Mobile access is important," said Dean Pichee, President and CEO. "Now employees can access their learning content on their tablet or smartphone as well. With the BizLibrary Collection's 4,000+ online employee training and performance support videos, our clients truly have anytime, anywhere access to the most comprehensive collection of business training videos on the market."
About BizLibrary
BizLibrary is a leading provider of comprehensive learning and talent management solutions specifically designed for small and mid-size organizations. Their award-winning online content libraries include streaming videos, interactive e-learning courses, custom developed courses, and performance support. In addition, their cloud-hosted LMS, Performance Management and Social Learning applications help smaller organizations streamline and simplify important talent management processes. BizLibrary has been recognized by Brandon Hall,TrainingIndustry.com, and e-Learning Magazine.
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New Study Shows Two-Thirds Of Companies Are Using Social Learning Technology
REDWOOD SHORES, CA, Nov. 5, 2013 – Saba, a global leader in next-generation cloud solutions for talent management, in partnership with HCM Advisory Group, today announced a new research report, "State of the Industry Study: A Pulse on Social Learning," which examined how businesses are leveraging social learning, the areas of success, and some of the challenges faced when adopting it. The study, which surveyed more than 500 decision makers at companies of various industries and sizes, shows that, while adoption remains a challenge for some, more than 65 percent of respondents are using social learning technology.
"As companies adapt to today's new world of work, it's now more important than ever that they focus on connecting people and content with social technology," said Emily He, senior vice president, marketing at Saba. "Based on the results of this study, a majority of businesses are already leveraging social learning to foster a culture of collaboration and innovation. As a leading provider of social learning technology, Saba is committed to helping organizations to develop their most important asset, their people."
Key findings include:
- Nearly half of respondents cite that the greatest success is achieved through increased collaboration and improved communication between management and employees.
- Nearly two-thirds of organizations are motivated to use social learning to support a culture of learning, even though half of responding organizations mention challenges with adoption and uptake by employees.
- Discussion and communication are the primary drivers, with 59.5 percent of organizations using discussion forums, 57.9 percent using internal blogs and 54.9 percent using secure instant messaging.
- More than half of organizations are using social learning to support communities of practice, with 35.7 percent of organizations planning to develop communities of practice via social learning during the next two years.
"The evolution from social media to social learning is where forward-thinking companies are moving to accelerate the development of their people and better accomplish business goals," said Sarah Kimmel, director, research and advisory services at Human Capital Media Advisory Group. "As employees and learning leaders become more comfortable with social learning and the value it can add to an organization, the challenges with adoption will ease, allowing for even more creative and productive use."
"State of the Industry Study: A Pulse on Social Learning" further illustrates the need to provide social learning technology to enhance people development, allowing for real-time communication of knowledge across the entire organization. Click here to read the full report.
To learn more, please watch the recent webinar "State of the Industry Study: A Pulse on Social Learning," presented by Saba and HCM Advisory Group.
About Saba
Saba is a global leader in next-generation cloud solutions for talent management. The company helps organizations transform the way they work by enabling the continuous learning, engagement and development of everyone in their people network, including employees, partners, and customers. Supporting the new world of work, Saba delivers learning, performance, succession, career development, workforce planning and compensation solutions that incorporate modern technologies such as social, collaboration, mobile and gamification. Saba solutions are based on the Saba Cloud platform, a highly scalable architecture that exceeds industry scalability, performance, and security standards. The company currently supports over 31 million users from 2,200 customers across 195 countries and in 37 languages.
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Brainshark Announces Five Million Presentations Uploaded to SlideShark
WALTHAM, Mass., Nov. 5, 2013 — Brainshark, Inc., the leader in cloud-based business presentations, today announced that more than five million presentations have been uploaded to SlideShark by users around the world. SlideShark is Brainshark’s popular app for viewing and showing PowerPoints from the iPad, iPhone and iPod touch.
Launched just two years ago, SlideShark has since seen explosive usage. The app solves a major problem for mobile professionals – as PowerPoint, the No. 1 business presentation tool, doesn’t render correctly on the iPad. SlideShark eliminates garbled decks and frustration, letting iOS users view PowerPoints the way they’re meant to be seen – with fonts, animations, graphics, hyperlinks and videos intact. To get started, users upload a PowerPoint to their free, secure, online account, and SlideShark converts the deck into an iOS-ready file.
Brainshark is also announcing additional major milestones and traction for SlideShark, including:
150 million slides uploaded to SlideShark.
More than 8,700 presentations uploaded each day (steady rate in 2013).
One SlideShark presentation viewed every 3.6 seconds (more than 25,000 viewed every day).
More than two million app downloads (two downloads/min., 24x7).
Corporate and individual users in 150+ countries – from Canada to China to Saudi Arabia, and nearly half the countries in Africa. NASA also used the app under the ocean to train for asteroid exploration.
Rated 4.5 stars out of 5 in Apple’s App Store, based on 4,000+ user reviews.
SlideShark is a top “Productivity App” in the App Store, and is in the top two percent of all one million App Store apps, based on downloads.
More than 25 industry awards, including most recently, Gold-level wins in both the Stevies’ American Business Awards and International Business Awards programs. Within the last month, SlideShark was also named a winner in the Golden Bridge Awards and Small Business Influencer Awards programs.
Free with business upgrades available, SlideShark serves as a platform to securely distribute, track and manage presentations in the cloud. In addition to faithfully rendering PowerPoints, the app has cemented its status as a presenter’s best friend. Users can broadcast their presentations live over the Web, view slide notes while presenting, access content from popular cloud storage providers (Box, Dropbox, Google Drive, EMC’s Syncplicity, Citrix ShareFile and Microsoft SkyDrive), and more.
SlideShark Team Edition, the business version of SlideShark, enables companies to apply permissions-based access to content; centrally manage, distribute and update presentations; and track content usage in the field. Organizations including Cleveland Construction, Delta Dental, Denver International Airport, Guerbet LLC, Heartbeat Ideas, Nerium International, the Networking Toolchest, Nine Network, Teledyne Marine Systems, Visionix and hundreds more rely on SlideShark Team Edition for their presentation management needs.
“The 115 members of our sales team are equipped with iPads, yet PowerPoint is – and always has been – the tool we use to build presentation materials. We wanted sales staff to be able to access and give presentations instantly from their mobile devices – without having to ‘dumb down’ and rebuild all their PowerPoint assets to function in an iOS environment,” said Warwick Sharp, group sales operations manager for Nine Network, a top-rated television broadcaster in Australia, and part of Nine Entertainment Company. “SlideShark Team Edition solves this challenge for us. In addition, as a TV broadcaster, video quality is very important to us. SlideShark lets us display high-resolution program clips that are embedded in our slides – effortlessly and intact – for maximum impact with advertisers.”
SlideShark Team Edition has reached all corners of the globe. Technology resellers worldwide – including En Pointe, Softchoice, Tech Data and more – have inked deals to resell the app to their customer base.
“We’re excited to announce these milestones for SlideShark – chief among them, the fact that the app has hit the 5 million upload mark, a testament to its value and continued innovation,” said Joe Gustafson, Brainshark’s CEO. “As the industry standard for showing PowerPoints from iOS devices, SlideShark continues to solve business challenges for mobile presenters around the world. SlideShark empowers mobile users to deliver presentations in a hassle-free and professional way – maximizing productivity and agility.”
About Brainshark, Inc.
Brainshark enables companies to improve productivity with cloud-based business presentation solutions for sales, marketing and training. With Brainshark’s easy-to-use solutions, customers transform static documents such as PowerPoints into dynamic, mobile-ready content that can be accessed quickly and viewed as on-demand video presentations or presented live – anytime, anywhere. They can also measure the effectiveness of their communications in ways never thought possible and use these insights to take action. Thousands of companies – including half of the Fortune 100 – and millions of individuals rely on Brainshark to increase the impact and reduce the cost of their business communications. Learn more at www.brainshark.com.
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Soft Skills Online Courses Now Being Sold Via Docebo’s Marketplace
Naples & Athens (GA) - Docebo, a Global Cloud E-Learning solutions provider, proudly announces the launch of new soft skills online courses in partnership with its content partner Vado.
Vado’s learning courses are designed to help organizations take action to develop competencies, increase engagement, and quickly onboard and socialize new employees. Vado’s content is now available on the brand-new Docebo Learning Management System, through the Docebo’s Marketplace.
“We are pleased to partner with Docebo to provide our unique learning content that is “changing the face of learning,” comments Cindy Pascale, Vado’s CEO. “We offer learning content in six areas: Competency Development, Project Management, Business Writing Skills, Engagement and Retention, Career Development and Onboarding. Our learning content is delivered in small bite sized chunks to maximize learning retention. Additionally, all courses include a step by step Implementation Guide leveraging the natural way people learn—on the job.”
“Docebo aims at re-humanizing Companies, processes and putting people first through the E-Learning training. We are building a fully-featured Ecosystem, a onestopshop that can be accessed in a click” says Claudio Erba - CEO and Founder of Docebo. “According to the most recent market trends, E-Learning solutions for online soft skills training are increasingly demanded. This is why our partnership with Vado is a strategic asset, and makes Docebo able to offer high-level online training programmes to companies of any kind and size, all over the world”.
About Vado, Inc.
Vado is an employee and management development e-learning courseware provider. Vado’s learning content is offered through a network of resellers spanning five continents. Vado is one of the only learning content providers whose entire library of courses is optimized for the mobile learner.
About Docebo
Docebo is a disruptive Cloud E-Learning solutions provider that is revolutionizing the Online training market with its Cloud "As a Service" Learning Management System, doubling its active worldwide customers quarterly and building an international partner network in more than 26 countries. The main products (Docebo SaaS and Docebo Premium) are designed for both SMBs (Small and Medium businesses) and Enterprises. Customers benefit from Docebo solutions thanks to a scalable pricing model, a third party integration (via API), and a reliable service available 24/7 that empower further the user experience.
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You Make the Call!, Inc. Launches Latest Role-Play Innovation (1)
Raleigh, NC, Nov. 11, 2013 – You Make the Call, Inc., the leader in virtual role-play technology, announces the release of its newest patent-pending role-play tool, You Make the Call! Classroom.
You Make the Call! Classroom enables group role play during virtual instructor-led training (VILT). You Make the Call! Classroom makes it easy for trainers to lead fun, team role-play competitions during online classes. Participants remain actively engaged because of patent-pending methodology that adds gamification and scalability to remote skill practice. Up to 18 learners can participate in each session.
Because You Make the Call! Classroom facilitates repetitive role play, students become fluent with new skills, and subsequently incorporate those skills into their daily conversations. These changes in behavior are easy to quantify because You Make the Call! Classroom tracks valuable data regarding skill performance.
President and founder of You Make the Call!, Inc., Laura Montocchio, says, “You Make the Call! Classroom is so effective at changing behavior because it simulates learners’ real-world activities by facilitating live role-play conversations between participants. This live human interaction takes learning one all-important step further than ‘man versus computer’ simulation tools.”
Instructors customize You Make the Call! Classroom sessions to reinforce skills and role-play scenarios that are relevant to their learners. Participants can connect to You Make the Call! Classroom sessions via a web browser on their computer, or via an iPad or Android.
To learn more about You Make the Call! Classroom visit www.youmakethecall.com.
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Docebo Releases New Research on Value Of E-learning Adoption
Athens (GA), Naples - Docebo today released a whitepaper to help large organizations understanding the value of E-Learning solutions to improve workforce effectiveness and increasing skills transfers across various segments, while reducing costs.
“In order to create a successful corporate training program with a high and measurable return on investment, large organizations need to gain a better understanding of the technologies currently available on the market.” Chief Executive Officer Claudio Erba said. “The ability to adapt, evolve and maximize the opportunities helps global businesses to gain a competitive edge and create a stronger and univocal curriculum that will be disseminated across different audiences.”
The challenge today is not about educating companies and organizations in the benefits of a technological approach for training managing and delivering: it is more around best practices when it comes to actual implementation and provider selection.
E-learning is nowadays the de facto standard for corporate training methods. It allows cost-conscious managers to implement successful training programs and easy development plans. E-learning conveys effective training initiatives with limited investment and accurate control over their quality and effectiveness.
Large organizations are eager to adapt their HR policies and embrace training strategies where all forms of learning are geared towards serving corporate objectives.
About Docebo
Docebo is a disruptive Cloud E-Learning solutions provider that is revolutionizing the Online training market with its cloud "As a Service" Learning Management System, doubling its active worldwide customers quarterly and building an international partner network in more than 26 countries. The main products (Docebo SaaS and Docebo Premium) are designed for both SMBs (Small and Medium businesses) and Enterprises. Customers benefit from Docebo solutions thanks to a scalable pricing model, a third party integration (via API), and a reliable service available 24/7 that empowers the user experience.
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TrainingIndustry.com Announces 2013 Top 20 IT Training Companies
CARY, NC, Nov. 14, 2013 – As part of its commitment to the industry and as a service to its community members, TrainingIndustry.com is pleased to announce its 2013 Top 20 IT Training Companies list.
Selection of this year’s Top 20 IT Training Companies list was based on the following criteria:
Leadership and innovation in IT training
Breadth of IT training and delivery methods offered
Company size and growth potential
Strength of clients
Geographic reach
“The 2013 Top 20 IT Training Companies list truly showcases the breadth and strength of the current IT Training marketplace,” said Ken Taylor, Chief Operating Officer, TrainingIndustry.com. “These organizations offer a wide range of services and innovative solutions that represent the best of the IT Training market.”
“Even through a difficult stretch in this segment of the training industry, these companies continued to demonstrate the kind of growth and innovation we have come to expect from the top companies in the IT training industry,” said Doug Harward, Chief Executive Officer, TrainingIndustry.com.
Click here to view the Top 20 IT Training Companies
TrainingIndustry.com is scheduled to also announce its Top IT Training Companies “Watch List” in the coming weeks. While reviewing application surveys and company interviews, the selection committee discovered a handful of exciting and innovative companies that are solidifying their places in the IT training marketplace.
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Corporate Visions Acquires Executive Conversation
INCLINE VILLAGE, Nev. – November 19, 2013 – Corporate Visions, Inc., the leading marketing and sales messaging, tools and training company, today announced it has acquired Executive Conversation, Inc., an award-winning business and financial acumen sales training company. This deal further expands Corporate Visions’ customer conversation system and makes it the industry’s largest provider of consulting and training services for helping companies deliver selling conversations that create more opportunities and win more profitable business.
For more than 20 years, Executive Conversation has been helping sales professionals elevate their confidence and credibility when conducting persuasive business and financial conversations with senior decision makers, including C-level executives. This ability has become increasingly important as C-level executives and line-of- business leaders now require business and financial justification for even modest investment decisions. Salespeople must have the financial skills and business know-how to add value during these critical conversations.
“The addition of Executive Conversation will bolster our world-class customer conversation skills training lineup, which will now feature three of the best offerings in the world: Power Messaging, Executive-Focused Selling and Situational Sales Negotiation,” said Corporate Visions CEO Joe Terry. “Corporate Visions has focused on creating sales and marketing messaging, tools and skills to break the status quo and create differentiation, while Executive Conversation provides the skills to support the business and financial rationale to validate decisions. Through this acquisition, we now create and deliver a complete approach for conversational selling to our customers.”
Jim Melillo, co-founder and chairman of Executive Conversation, added: “Corporate Visions was by far the best fit for our company moving forward. We share the same passion for enabling salespeople to be more effective in their customer conversations and provide complementary offerings that will give companies a more holistic approach to both improving conversation skills and increasing deal-closing impact.”
A just-released study by TrainingIndustry.com found that companies rated “understanding customer business needs” as the most important sales training topic. The research also indicated that high-performing companies rate “training on executive selling skills” and “financial acumen” as critical sales skills more than twice as often as average-performing companies do. These results emphasize the importance of the types of skills training provided by Executive Conversation.
“Understanding the best practices of high-performing companies helps other organizations more effectively align their sales skills training,” said Ken Taylor, chief operating officer at Training Industry, Inc. “For many years, we’ve recognized both Executive Conversation and BayGroup International, now a Corporate Visions company, as two of the world’s top training companies. Incorporating these complementary curricula into one organization brings tremendous value to the marketplace.”
The Executive Conversation acquisition follows Corporate Visions’ acquisition of BayGroup International, the leading negotiations skills training company, in April 2013. The expanded Corporate Visions portfolio now covers a complete customer conversation continuum – from creating value at the beginning of a sales cycle, to confirming that value with executive buyers and capturing it during negotiations.
“B2B selling still comes down to a series of conversations. Early in the sales process, your reps need to be provocative; in the middle, your reps need to build and prove differentiated value; and late in the process, they often have to elevate their conversation to the senior-most executive levels,” said Jim Ninivaggi, services director for the sales enablement practice at SiriusDecisions. “Companies that enable their reps with the content and skills to have these conversations will position themselves to create a sustainable competitive advantage. Corporate Visions’ recent acquisition of Executive Conversation, and previously BayGroup, positions the company well to offer solutions for each of these different conversations.”
The Executive Conversation acquisition was officially completed on Nov. 8, 2013. Terms of the agreement were not disclosed.
About Corporate Visions, Inc.
Corporate Visions, Inc. helps global business-to-business companies create more sales opportunities, win more deals and increase sales profitability by improving the conversations salespeople have with customers. Companies engage Corporate Visions in three key areas:
Developing differentiated messages that concentrate on customer needs;
Deploying tools that support critical steps in the buying cycle; and
Delivering sales skills training that enables salespeople to create, confirm and capture more value.
Corporate Visions helps clients such as ADP, Motorola, Philips, UPS, Cisco and others align marketing and sales with a repeatable approach for creating and delivering winning customer conversations. For more information about Corporate Visions, visit www.corporatevisions.com.
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The Training Associates Added to Top 100 Women-led Businesses
Westborough, MA – Nov. 21, 2013 - The Training Associates, the largest global provider of training talent and solutions, announced that it has been named to The Commonwealth Institute’s list of Top 100 Women-led Businesses in Massachusetts with a ranking of 22, as published recently in the Boston Globe.
“To be named to the list of Top 100 Women-led Businesses in Massachusetts is quite an honor," TTA President Maria Melfa said. "We are humbled to be recognized among the many fine established women-owned businesses in the Bay State. I congratulate all of the women who were named to the list for their passion, drive, and vision to guide their company on the path to success.”
About The Training Associates
Founded in 1994, The Training Associates (TTA) is the largest global provider of training talent and solutions. TTA’s stringent quality procedures, vast network of over 25,000 diversely skilled IT and professional skills training delivery and design consultants, and convenient training delivery administration services enable organizations to secure top‐notch training professionals, on demand. Importantly, they can accomplish this without the fixed overhead associated with a large training staff, or the delays, classification risks, and administrative burdens associated with recruiting training contractors directly. With unparalleled experience and expertise in all aspects of training delivery, TTA is best equipped to meet the unique requirements of each training initiative – regardless of size, scope, or location.
Directly or through partners, more than 1,000 organizations – including most of the Fortune 500, all government departments and military branches, major consultant and training companies, and major colleges and universities – rely on TTA for a variety of training delivery services including consulting, project management, train‐the‐trainer, courseware, curriculum development, and large‐scale training rollout management. TTA’s numerous awards reflect their commitment to help organizations use training to increase productivity, reduce costs, and drive revenues. Learn more at www.thetrainingassociates.com
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TrainingIndustry.com Announces IT Training Companies Watch List
CARY, NC, Nov. 21, 2013 - As part of its commitment to continuously monitor the training marketplace for the best providers and services, TrainingIndustry.com has released its 2013 IT Training Companies Watch List.
Selection to the 2013 IT Training Companies Watch List was based on the following criteria:
New and Innovative Service Offerings
Unique Approach to IT Training Solutions
Quality of Initial Clients
Company Reach and Growth Rate
“This year’s group of IT Training Companies to Watch covers a broad range of solutions focused on IT skills training,” said Ken Taylor, Training Industry's Cheif Operating Officer. “There are several excellent new additions to our list, clearly highlighting the innovation taking place in this segment.”
“The Watch List features a set of emerging IT Training companies,” said Doug Harward, Training Industry's Chief Executive Officer. “These companies exhibit strong signs of growth in a tough market and they demonstrate a dedication to meeting the needs of their clients.”
Click here to view the 2013 IT Training Companies Watch List
The 2013 IT Training Companies Watch List is intended to help buyers of training services evaluate IT training providers. Please provide any thoughts or feedback on this list to us by emailing info@trainingindustry.com.
About Training Industry, Inc.
TrainingIndustry.com spotlights the latest news, articles, case studies and best practices within the training industry. Our focus is on helping dedicated business and training professionals get the information, insight and tools needed to more effectively manage the business of learning.
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Many Firms Expect Rising Employee Turnover
NEW YORK, Jan. 17, 2013 – One in three employers expect turnover to rise at their organization in 2013, according to a survey by AMA Enterprise, a division of American Management Association.
In fact, five percent think turnover will increase significantly, 28 percent somewhat; 58 percent expect no change, and nice percent don’t know.
AMA Enterprise, which provides organizations with assessment, measurement and tailored learning solutions, surveyed top managers and executives from nearly 1,000 U.S. employers.
“We had an unusually strong response to our survey, which was conducted during the holiday period,” said Sandi Edwards, AMA Enterprise Senior Vice President. “Based on our findings, there’s a widespread sense that more workers will be on the move this year, and this will be due largely to a revived job market, which nearly two out of three of our respondents feel confident about.”
“The good news is that there’s growing confidence about the economy and the job market,” Edwards said. “The bad news is that there’s also growing disgruntlement among employees, which is likely to result in increased turnover.”
Are companies ready to cope with a mounting loss of employees? Of those that anticipate higher turnover, organizations seem evenly divided on how well they are prepared.
“Regrettably too many companies admit they’re not ready to deal with the probable challenge,” warned Edwards. “And a great majority say they’re only ‘somewhat prepared,’ which leaves them highly vulnerable to the loss of talent.”
Edwards advises employers to tune in to employee sentiment and have one-on-one career discussions, particularly with high potential and high value employees. “Let them know how they contribute to the success of the firm and what role they play both today and in the future.”
The survey was conducted Dec. 18 to Jan. 6, and respondents consisted of 977 senior-level business, human resources, management professionals and employee contacts drawn from the AMA database of contacts.
About AMA Enterprise
With more than 85 years’ experience and headquartered in New York, American Management Association is a global leader of comprehensive talent development. AMA Enterprise, a specialized division of AMA dedicated to building corporate and government solutions, transforms enterprise-wide talent to fuel a culture of innovation, high performance and optimal business results.
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Most Employers Are Worried About Bench Strength
NEW YORK, Feb. 11, 2013 – Two-thirds of U.S. employers are concerned about gaps in their organization’s management ranks, according to a survey of nearly 1,000 companies by AMA Enterprise, a division of American Management Association.
Only 28 percent of respondents are confident their companies have sufficient leadership depth and no significant gaps in management.
“With widespread expectation that employee turnover will increase as the job market improves, organizations are taking a hard look at their management bench strength,” said Sandi Edwards, Senior Vice President of AMA Enterprise, which provides organizations with assessment, measurement and tailored learning solutions. “And in most cases they’re finding their pipeline spotty or weak.”
Furthermore, few employers (19 percent) regard themselves as well prepared to deal with either rising turnover or management departures, according to the survey. “For several years now organizations haven’t paid sufficient attention to retention or turnover,” Edwards said. “But years of complacency may be giving way to costly turmoil and loss of key players. Most organizations just aren’t ready to deal with it.”
Employers need to be proactive, Edwards advised. “Don’t wait for the bad news from your high-value employees. Talk to them now and address their aspirations. Counteroffers usually don’t work or compensate for years of taking people for granted.”
“There can also be a ripple of consequences when leadership succession isn’t well planned,” said Edwards. “The gap left after a sudden departure can trigger a spike in customer defections or dissatisfaction, a slowdown in productivity, increased hiring and training costs, and general uncertainty for the people who remain in the organization”.
The survey was conducted from Dec. 18 to Jan. 6 2012, and respondents consisted of 977 senior-level business, human resources, management professionals and employee contacts drawn from the AMA database of contacts.
About AMA Enterprise
With more than 85 years’ experience and headquartered in New York, American Management Association is a global leader of comprehensive talent development. AMA Enterprise, a specialized division of AMA dedicated to building corporate and government solutions, transforms enterprise-wide talent to fuel a culture of innovation, high performance and optimal business results.
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