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    • Dealing with Asperger Syndrome in the Workplace: A case study

      World of Learning | London |

      Dealing positively with autism in the workplace is a topic gaining more awareness in the L&D community. The National Autistic Society will be exhibiting at the forthcoming World of Learning Conference. This is a case study about Alan, a Client Services Associate for Towry, a nationwide Wealth Manager. Alan, who works in Towry’s London office, received a diagnosis of Asperger Syndrome shortly before his 50th birthday. Alan is married and has two children.

    • Rapid7 chooses Docebo’s Extended Enterprise LMS

      Docebo | Athens, Georgia, USA |

      Global IT security company Rapid7 has chosen the Docebo Cloud-based, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) Enterprise learning management system (LMS) to help it meet two related challenges.

    • Atlas Knowledge secures landmark Iraq training contract

      Atlas |

      International learning solutions provider Atlas Knowledge has signed a landmark deal that will see it work with the Iraqi Government to deliver world class safety and technical training to the country’s burgeoning oil and gas workforce.

    • Adecco and Speexx launch global blended learning project

      Speexx | Munich |

      Munich – Wednesday, 4th March 2015 – Speexx has signed a global training agreement with leading HR consultancy company Adecco. The project covers sixteen countries and supports potentially hundreds of thousands of Adecco employees in improving their foreign language and business communication skills. Courses are available to all employees via a specifically developed portal, and commenced in February this year.

    • GP Strategies Completes Acquisition of the Effective-People and Effective-Learning Companies

      GP Strategies | COLUMBIA, Md |

      Global performance improvement solutions provider GP Strategies Corporation (NYSE: GPX) completed its previously announced acquisition of the Effective-People and Effective-Learning companies, leading providers of human capital management (HCM) solutions, including sales and support of the full SAP SuccessFactors Business Execution (BizX) Platform, eLearning and blended learning solutions, as well as recruitment and employee development services. Effective-People and Effective-Learning will operate as a part of GP Strategies' Learning Solutions group as of April 1, 2014.

    • Kineo creates online learning center for American Cancer Society

      Kineo | Chicago, US |

      The American Cancer Society has partnered with Kineo, the leading global learning solutions provider, to create a cutting edge online learning center. Using Totara Learning Management System (LMS), the Society can now take a blended approach to training its 3 million volunteers right across the United States.

    • Passmore Duff Initiates Blended Learning With Upside Learning’s End-To-End Solutions

      Upside Learning | Pune |

      Moving towards a blended learning approach to training delivery, Passmore Duff, a training company specializing in Workplace Violence, has recently partnered with Upside Learning. A leading provider of workplace learning technology solutions, Upside Learning will offer its multi award-winning Learning Management System, UpsideLMS, to Passmore Duff for delivering training to its clients and will also help in converting some of its ILT sessions into Flash-based eLearning courses.

    • CM Group creates NHS endorsed stress training to help improve workplace health and wellbeing

      Civica | Bristol, UK |

      CM Group, a global leader in the field of innovative learning solutions comprising of interactive eLearning and mLearning, has created Lighten Up’s eLearning courses which forms part of its blended learning programme to help address stress, improve the work-life balance of employees and reduce the cost of absenteeism for employers.

    • Raytheon delivers first training program under contract with GM Korea Company

      Raytheon Professional Services | RUESSELSHEIM, Germany |

      Raytheon Professional Services LLC (RPS), a subsidiary of Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN), has delivered the launch training program for the Chevrolet Trax Urban Life Vehicle, the first training event conducted under a multimillion dollar contract to manage dealer training for General Motors Korea Company (GMKC).

    • Fresenius Medical Care Selects NetDimensions for Rollout in 24 Countries Worldwide

      PeopleFluent | London, United Kingdom |

      Fresenius Medical Care has selected NetDimensions Talent Suite for a rollout to 30,000 employees in 24 countries in EMEALA (Europe, Middle East, Africa, and Latin America). NetDimensions successfully completes validation for 21 CFR Part 11 and EU GMP Annex 11 requirements.

    • Lumesse extends partnership with Adecco France Group company, Adjust HR

      Lumesse | London/Paris |

      Lumesse has announced an extended partnership with Adjust HR, an Adecco France Group company specialising in the creation and implementation of HR solutions. Adjust HR, a longtime partner of Lumesse, has chosen the innovative SaaS technology of Lumesse TalentLink to offer its customers new ways to optimise their recruitment processes.

    • G4S chooses Lumesse TalentLink for U.S. talent acquisition

      Lumesse | London/Austin, Texas |

      Lumesse, a global leader in integrated talent management solutions, today announced that G4S has selected Lumesse to implement a new Lumesse TalentLink (talent acquisition/e-recruitment) solution throughout the U.S.

    • Opel/Vauxhall & Raytheon win Silver in Best Results of a Learning Program from Brandon Hall Research

      Raytheon Professional Services | Ruesselsheim, Germany |

      RUESSELSHEIM, (February 1, 2010) – Raytheon Professional Services, LLC, EMEA, a subsidiary of Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN), announced today that the European Sales Curriculum it designed, developed, deployed and manages on behalf of Opel/Vauxhall in Europe received a Silver Award from Brandon Hall Research in the Best Results of a Learning Programme category. The Brandon Hall Research Excellence in Learning Awards recognize the Best in Innovative Learning Content and Initiatives.

    • TAP the key for BT Expedite

      The Training Foundation | Birmingham, UK |

      Sally Taylor, Head of Client Training at BT Expedite says: 'When we display a slide that says our trainers have a TAP qualification, we're demonstrating to our clients that they are in safe hands. TAP provides a rigorous structure for course design and endorsement of high standards of training delivery, which gives clients and our staff the confidence that we know what we are doing.'

    • Capita Learning & Development achieves Silver TAP Partner status

      The Training Foundation | Coventry, United Kingdom |

      Another major UK learning provider has announced a policy commitment to the TAP® Learning System, the UK’s leading training skills certification programme, administered by The Training Foundation. Under the requirements of the TAP® Partners programme, organisations commit to utilise the services of TAP-qualified learning and development specialists.

    • TAP top of charts for Moorfields

      The Training Foundation | London, United Kingdom |

      Moorfields, the oldest Eye Hospital in the world, is internationally renowned for its ophthalmic treatment, cutting edge research and medical training. Sustaining its world leading reputation depends on recruiting, training and developing staff of the highest calibre - not just those administering the treatment but all the non-clinical staff responsible for managing the whole patient experience from first appointment to discharge.

    • The Training Foundation announces the 150th TAP Partner Organisation

      The Training Foundation | Learning Technologies Conference and Exhibition, Olympia, London |

      The 150th organisation has announced a policy commitment to the TAP® Learning System, the UK’s de facto standard for training skills certification administered by The Training Foundation. Under the requirements of the TAP® Partners programme, organisations commit to solely utilise the services of TAP qualified learning and development specialists.

    • TSYS Adopts TAP to stay ahead

      The Training Foundation | York, England |

      As one of the world’s largest payment-services companies TSYS enables hundreds of millions of consumers globally to navigate their lives with confidence and convenience every day. The US arm of Client Training is based out of Columbus, Georgia, whilst the European arm of Client Training is part of the Product and Knowledge division and is based in York, England.

    • Lombard finds TAP an asset

      The Training Foundation | Redhill, Surrey |

      Since its founders started leasing out rolling stock almost 150 years ago Lombard, a leading asset finance specialist and part of The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) Group, have been helping businesses to obtain the vehicles, vessels, aircraft, machinery or technology they need. In the competitive finance arena, where customer loyalty is vital and much harder to come by than in the banking world, attracting, developing and retaining the highest calibre of staff is a top priority. Until the latter part of 2006 investment in learning and development (L&D) had been steady but unspectacular. Having disbanded the training function for a while, the business decided it needed to up its L&D game to achieve ambitious business targets and a new small team was formed in the autumn of 2006 to drive the L&D agenda forward.

    • Oxleas records the 2000th NHS TAP Trainer

      The Training Foundation | Dartford, Kent |

      Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust is one of only six mental health trusts in the country to have achieved an 'excellent' rating for the quality of the mental health and learning disability services it provides to people in Bexley, Bromley, Greenwich and Lewisham. In the fast changing mental health care environment, skilled and accurate use of clinical records systems is central to maintaining the highest standards of patient care and clinical practice. Like most community and mental health trusts in London, Oxleas uses the RiO IT system for recording, managing and retrieving patient records. This new system allows the Trust to drive forward a standardised, faster, safer approach to all aspects of patient care from referrals through to discharges and communication between teams. The Training Foundation's TAP Learning System is playing a vital role in supporting the Trust's aim to provide the best mental health and learning disability services in the country.

    • AXA regulates training quality with TAP

      The Training Foundation | Coventry, United Kingdom |

      Part of the 15th largest company in the world, AXA Sun Life provides pensions, financial planning and investment solutions and advice to millions of individuals and businesses through Britannia and Birmingham Midshires. In the fiercely competitive, tightly regulated financial services sector, it is essential that all customer facing staff are trained to sell the right product at the right time in a way that is fair to all customers, whether individuals or companies. This responsibility falls to Regulated Sales Training Manager Paul Ingleby and his team of four trainers, who operate out of AXA's Coventry-based head office.

    • TAP Inspires Oxford University

      The Training Foundation | Oxford, England |

      The University of Oxford lays claim to be the oldest university in the English speaking world, attracting over 18,000 students from more than 130 countries and employing over 8,500 university staff. In an environment where the mission is to provide exceptional education to the very best of the world's students and to attract, develop and retain the highest calibre of academic staff it is not surprising that similarly high aspirations apply to the delivery of essential business support systems and services.

    • Cwm Taf NHS Trust in TAP

      The Training Foundation | Merthyr Tydfil, South Wales, UK |

      The integration of the former North Glamorgan and Pontypridd & Rhondda NHS Trusts in April 2008 to form Cwm Taf NHS Trust brought together a full spectrum of healthcare services with the objective of providing quality, patient focused healthcare to around 330,000 people across both regions. From a training and educational perspective this means ensuring that staff have the right skills in the right place at the right time. The merger presented a number of challenges to Helen Thomas, who heads up the new Trust's Corporate Training Department. Not only did she have the cultural issue of amalgamating two training teams from the former Trusts, but also the task of ensuring a consistent, high quality
      approach to the design, delivery, accreditation and evaluation of all corporate training programmes.

    • BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeraete GmbH introduces CLIX® for training service engineers

      imc | Seveoaks, UK |

      The Customer Service Department of BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeräte GmbH has opted for CLIX® by way of a corporate-wide Learning Management System to train its service engineers. The roll-out of the system will kick off with courses at the Customer Service Centre, as well as in Austria and Turkey, and by 2010 there should be 20 branches all over the world using the learning platform created by IMC, the leading provider of Learning Management solutions.

    • Content Master at MIX show in Vegas

      Civica | Las Vegas USA |

      Content Master developer guru Derek Lakin will be at the MIX show in Las Vegas. The show, which runs from 5th to 7th March is billed as an intimate opportunity for cutting-edge technical, creative and business strategists to engage Microsoft in a conversation about the future of the web. Speakers will be exploring the latest opportunities to redefine the boundaries between content and commerce, PC and TV, Windows and the Web.

    • Microsoft launches Customer Care training by Content Master

      Civica | Redmond USA |

      Microsoft Corp has launched an integrated range of training and product launch materials produced by the leading UK technical communications company Content Master. The range of materials supports the launch of Microsoft Customer Care Framework (CCF) 2008, and includes media rich e’Learning courseware, 4 MSDN virtual labs, and a 2-day instructor led training course. The audience for the materials are developers and Microsoft’s partners that are introducing CCF into customer care solutions worldwide.

    • Torbay opts for Tata Interactive Systems' Integrated Working Programme

      MPS Interactive Systems | London, UK and Mumbai, India |

      Torbay Children's Services has commissioned the global learning provider, Tata Interactive Systems (TIS), to develop an eLearning course in Integrated Working. The modular programme enables those working across children's services to understand how to work together more effectively in order to improve outcomes for children and young people.

    • AccessPlanit celebrates a £1,000,000 milestone

      Accessplanit | Learning Technologies 2008 |

      Training management software company AccessPlanit is celebrating a £1,000,000 milestone by announcing the launch of a new version of its AccessPlan software exclusively for training providers.

    • Content Master "masters" Microsoft Silverlight and Expression Studio

      Civica | UK |

      Content Master has produced "Core Silverlight 1.0 for Designers", an instructor led three-day training course for Microsoft Corp. The course is the first to be available reflecting close collaboration with the Microsoft Expression Studio team and it will be available for Microsoft training partners worldwide.

    • Epic announces e-learning programme for social care workforce

      Epic | UK |

      Epic are delighted to announce that they are working with The Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE) to develop an e-learning programme on inter-professional working skills. The Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE) was established by Government in 2001 to improve social care services for adults and children in the United Kingdom by identifying good practice and helping to embed it in everyday social care provision.

    • NLP Practitioner Certificate with The Performance Solution helped to create popular new fashion webzine

      The Performance Solution | UK |

      A Website Creator and NLP graduate describes how she used NLP Skills to create the popular new webzine http://www.designerhighstreet.com. The fashion webzine was launched in June this year, after the creator completed NLP practitioner training with The Performance Solution in Wiltshire. It is described as ‘the ultimate guide for ladies of style’ and is experiencing a rapid increase in its viewing figures since launching.

    • Content Master developer guru John Sharp's latest VS2008 book launches in December

      Civica | UK |

      Microsoft Press are publishing the latest book by best selling author John Sharp, "Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Step By Step". This book replaces previous editions of John's hugely successful C# Step By Step books and includes coverage of the many new features recently added to the C# language. John is an experienced developer and technical trainer, a background which goes some way to explaining his success as an author.

    • Information Transfer and Superquinn win E-Learning Age award

      Acteon Communication and Learning |

      Information Transfer and Superquinn have been awarded the prestigious E-Learning Age award for 'Best Project Securing Widespread Adoption'. This is the second year in succession that Information Transfer has taken top prize in this hotly contested category.

    • Airwave invests in training with QA-IQ: Critical Firelink project supported by technical skills

      QA |

      QA-IQ is to deliver technical and end-user skills training to support the critical Firelink communications project for the English, Scottish and Welsh Fire and Rescue Services (FRS), having been appointed by Airwave (formerly O2 Airwave) to design and deliver a comprehensive training programme for technical staff, end-users and FRS instructors. In addition, QA-IQ will provide a fully managed service incorporating additional training from key technology vendors into the programme.

    • Tata Interactive Systems supplies learning materials to satellite television subscribers

      MPS Interactive Systems | London, UK and Mumbai, India |

      The global learning provider, Tata Interactive Systems (TIS), is bringing the basics of corporate e-learning to a wider audience by producing a series of 365 animated stories for the satellite television company Tata Sky. Tata Sky will broadcast these stories to its customers at the rate of one story per day for the next year.