Coastal HealthTrain recently released Infection Control: Bag Technique for home healthcare, a new program that helps prevent infection before, during and after home visits.
QA, the UK’s leading provider of learning solutions, has further strengthened its position in the UK training market through the sale of its sister company, solutions provider IQ Sys.
An outsourced learning service implemented by QA for News International has successfully transitioned the organisation’s Learning & Development to QA, and has created new opportunities for the in-house training team.
BTL Group Ltd is delighted to announce a 6 year partnership agreement with AQA, one of the UK’s largest Awarding Bodies to develop and deliver their e-Assessment programme, TEAL (Technology Enabled Assessment for Learners).
Richardson, a leading global sales training and performance improvement firm releases a new Financial Services Industry report: Sales Trends and Strategic Initiatives. This report reviews strategic adjustments to business processes, practices, and skill development in the Financial Services Industry.
Richardson and ForceLogix form a strategic partnership to deliver a powerful platform that integrates the best practices of training millions of managers with an on-demand sales performance management application that integrates with most CRM systems.
Coastal Training Technologies has released Just Another Day, a new DVD program that dramatically reminds experienced workers of proper safety practices. The program addresses one of the ironies of workplace safety: that the more experienced workers are, the more prone they can be to the dangers. The safety awareness of these employees may be blunted by years of routine work. Confident and complacent, they treat the working day as 'just another day,' leaving them vulnerable to various safety hazards.
Coastal Training Technologies recently released Emotional Wreck, the third installment in its award-winning and best-selling driving safety training series. Emotional Wreck examines the deadly issue of aggressive driving, explains its causes and explores how it can be avoided.
Richardson launches RichardsonConnect webinar series - a series of complimentary online Webinars designed to help sales professionals to better navigate the challenges of today’s complex selling environment.
Amidst the swine flu outbreak and the occurrence of 1.7 million infections among patients every year, Coastal HealthTrain adds one more hand hygiene program, Hand Hygiene: The Best Medicine, to an already comprehensive collection on the subject.
The organisational desire to cut supplier costs has made ‘supplier management’ the up-and-coming focus area for learning outsourcing, according to managed learning specialist KnowledgePool.
Richardson Executives, David DiStefano, President and CEO, and Frank Donny, SVP featured on SellingPower TV.
The videos can be found on http://www.sellingpower.com/video/
NetDimensions (London Stock Exchange, AIM: NETD), a global provider of performance, knowledge and learning management systems, will address challenges faced by organizations focused on training and compliance at the ASTD 2009 International Conference & Exposition in Washington, DC.
QA has again been placed top of the UK IT training market in 2009, reporting revenues over four times that of its nearest competitor. The report, published annually by IT Training magazine, shows QA leading the top 50 providers.
Richardson features new SalesCallPlanner™, a break-through, technology-enabled planning tool, at Selling Power's Sales 2.0 Conference on May 21, 2009, at the Fairmont Copley Plaza in Boston, MA.
NetDimensions (London Stock Exchange, AIM: NETD), a global provider of performance, knowledge and learning management systems announced today that Mace Group, the global consultancy and construction firm, has implemented the Enterprise Knowledge Platform (EKP) learning management system.
A Process Training program developed by Tata Interactive Systems (TIS) was recently short-listed in the 'Best e-learning program' category at the Training Journal (TJ) Awards 2009.
On 18th March Training Synergy awarded some of its first certificates under the Institute of IT Training's new Trainer Performance & Monitoring Assessment service (TPMA).
The latest annual Corporate Issues Survey by The Ken Blanchard Companies suggests that over 70% of international companies asked are optimistic about the economy rebounding in 2009. Only a quarter of the 1700 executive, line managers, HR and L&D professionals surveyed worldwide thought the downturn would continue unabated into 2010.
With six months to go before the deadline date, it's time to be thinking about your entries for the IT training industry's most prestigious awards event, the IT Training Awards 2010, sponsored by the British Computer Society.
Richardson (http://www.richardson.com), a leading sales training and performance improvement firm, today announced a partnership with Bank Administration Institute (BAI), the leading provider of information and intelligence to the financial services industry, to launch a new Sales Performance System. The Sales Performance System is an online training resource designed to help Community Banks and Credit Unions improve the performance of their frontline personnel.
The Institute of IT Training has announced that learning and development thought leader Bob Mosher is to fly in from the US to give the keynote address at this year's IITT National Training Conference 2009 on 23-24th September 2009.
QA’s Managed Learning Service has had a significant vote of approval from its customers, with several major contract renewals already in 2009. British Airways extended its Managed Service with QA for a further two years; BSkyB has renewed its service contract for a further 2 years; and QA has also been selected as a Master Vendor for eighteen subject and vendor curriculum areas for BT.
BTL Group Ltd is delighted to support the Association of Accounting Technicians (AAT) in promoting e-Assessment to AAT centres.
The recently held Tata Interactive Learning Forum (TLF) examined the role of learning and skills in enabling companies to stay competitive.
BSI Management Systems has awarded NetDimensions, a global provider of performance, knowledge and learning management systems, certification for a Quality Management System (QMS) that complies with the requirements of the ISO 9001:2000 standard.
Global leader in learning solutions, Tata Interactive Systems, receives recognition for its corporate sustainability film.
QA’s Managed Learning Service has been selected as one of the top 20 training outsourcing companies in the world by TrainingIndustry.com. The 'Top 20' list recognises the leading training outsourcing companies for the high quality of their services and comprehensive capabilities.
BTL Group Ltd is once again delighted to sponsor and exhibit at the 7th e-Assessment Question Conference, being held at the Novotel St Pancras, London, on 18 and 19 March 2009.
Communicaid, Europe's leading Culture and Communication Skills Consultancy, has teamed up with MBDA, the global leader in missile technology, to deliver cultural training programmes designed to support the organisation's integration agenda.
KnowledgePool, the UK market leader in managed learning, has been named as one of the Top 20 companies in the global training outsourcing industry, for the third year running, by the US-based learning portal TrainingIndustry.com.
Coastal Training Technologies is now offering STOP™ (Safety Training Observation Program), DuPont's premier safety product. This training philosophy has been successfully used by organizations worldwide for the past 30 years. STOP™ effectively reduces lost workdays, increases productivity and boosts employees' morale.
Communicaid has recently been awarded the contract for the provision of all language training* to the European Commission in Brussels. This highly prestigious contract will see Communicaid open a new language training centre in Brussels in the Spring of 2009.
With at least 600,000 jobs forecast to be lost in 2009 there is intense pressure on organisations to drive up productivity and performance. For most organisations improving the individual and team performance of people is the clearest way to drive up the productivity and performance of the organisation.
A Cumbrian people development company has been named as one of the very best places to work in the UK in a prestigious business award. Impact International, headquartered in the Lake District, was ranked 9th in the Sunday Times Best Companies to Work For at the official awards ceremony on March 11th. Impact is delighted with the result, which is the company's best placing yet in an increasingly competitive and challenging environment.
Pearson Learning Solutions has formed a partnership with Raytheon (NYSE:RTN) through which Pearson will supply content, content development, and content licensing to Raytheon Professional Services (RPS) for their client training and courses throughout the world.
Leading training and development consultancy Bray Leino BroadSkill has redefined its core offer into three key areas - Inspiration, Success and Efficiency - to meet clients’ training and employee engagement needs in these changing and challenging times.
Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU) and Internet research and training specialist, Econsultancy, announce that registration is open for the 2009 Masters in Digital Marketing Communications (MSc) student intake.
Richardson (http://www.richardson.com), a leading sales training and performance improvement firm, today announced at the Selling Power Sales 2.0 Conference the launch of the Richardson SalesCallPlanner™, an online, real-time planning and training solution that integrates with all major Client Relationship Management (CRM) platforms to help maximize every sales call.
Happy Computers this week became the first training provider in the UK to announce it has become carbon neutral in its impact on the environment; and Chief Executive Henry Stewart says he will be happy to help other training providers do the same.
NetDimensions, a global provider of performance, knowledge and learning management systems announced the release of the Enterprise Knowledge Platform (EKP) 5.6 today.
QA, the UK’s leading learning services provider, has kicked off National Apprenticeship Week (23-27th February) by celebrating a group of new learners taking their first steps towards achieving its new Credit-based apprenticeship Diploma qualification.
Raytheon Professional Services LLC, a subsidiary of Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN), was named the No.1 training outsource provider by HRO Today Magazine's 'Baker's Dozen in Learning.' This is the first time the magazine solicited input from customers to rank training outsourcing providers.
Global leader in learning solutions, Tata Interactive Systems, receives recognition for its corporate sustainability film.
BTL Group Ltd today published a case study covering its involvement in QTS (Qualified Teacher Status) tests; provides a detailed account of the requirements set by TDA (Training and Development Agency for Schools).
The first batch of IITT Authorised Centres offering the IITT's new Training Performance Monitoring & Assessment service (TPMA) are reporting significant uptake on bookings as companies sign up to get their trainers assessed.
- Up to £1,000 worth of business funding available through LSC's Train to Gain - Grants can be used for individual training courses or in-company training.
A leading learning and mobile content management solution provider, Giunti Labs, has named Stoas Learning, the Netherlands-based provider of digital learning solutions, as one of its 'implementation partners'.
Coastal's Personal Safety For Home Health Caregivers was honored with a Platinum Best of Show Aurora award and a CINE Golden Eagle award.
Harbinger Knowledge Products, the creator of Raptivity and Elicitus Suite of Products and Productivity4You which is its UK partner are pleased to announce that London Ambulance Service has chosen Raptivity and Elicitus Interactive eLearning Suite as its platform for creation of training for its staff. After a thorough evaluation of various eLearning tools, London Ambulance Service chose Raptivity and Elicitus for the ease of use and ability to create highly interactive eLearning content without the need of any programming knowledge.
Visitors gave their top learning tips at Learning Technologies 2009 to help share best practice learning and development with peers.
Richardson(http://www.richardson.com), a leading sales training and performance improvement firm, has again been named a 2009 Top Sales Methodology Training Company in the second annual list published by The Sales Training Community at TrainingIndustry.com. Richardson was also named to this category in the 2008 list.
Two European Leaders cooperate - and realize tailor-made language training - digital publishing and the Cegos Group have signed an agreement to promote their respective e-learning training courses.
Most recognised international prize in the education industry for German language experts digital publishing AG.
Financial services organisation explains how Cornerstone OnDemand’s learning and talent management system is driving employee engagement through building a ‘self-service people development system’.
Visitors to Learning Technologies 2009 will be the first to get a look at the new Training Impact Evaluator on The ROI ACADEMY stand. The Training Impact Evaluator provides an off the shelf solution for everyone wanting to measure training IMPACT and VALUE (also known as Kirkpatrick levels 3 and 4).
Tata Interactive wins Gold at Reader's Digest Pegasus CSR Awards 2008.
Premier IT will encourage visitors to switch on to the full potential of learning and development online when it exhibits for the first time at Learning Technologies 2009 (stand 104), on 28th-29th January 2009, at Olympia 2, London.
Richardson (http://www.richardson.com), a leading sales training and performance improvement firm, today announced that Founder Linda Richardson's New York Times best-selling book, Perfect Selling, has been named The 2008 Landslide Sales Book of the Year in The 2008 Sales Book Awards and has also been awarded The 2008 800-CEO-READ Business Award for the Sales category.
As organisations worldwide face increased economic and competitive challenges, the demand for effective change leadership becomes even greater. Yet according to Blanchard researchers, almost 29% of change initiatives are launched without any formal structure whatsoever, meaning they are effectively doomed to failure from the start.
The Performance Solution supports health and fitness with programme to positively coach obese children.
QA has further enhanced its Global Reach supplier management programme to remove both risk and administrative pain from the training procurement process.
Due to the current economic climate, many companies such as Marks and Spencer have been giving one off special price reductions.
The Performance Solution is pleased to be able to announce half price training in Extended DISC in January 2009, exclusively for those working in human resources, coaching, or training and development.
Richardson (http://www.richardson.com), a leading sales training and consulting firm, today announced the release of the second edition of Sales Coaching: Making the Great Leap from Sales Manager to Sales Coach (McGraw-Hill; 2 edition; November; $24.95), by Linda Richardson.
Harbinger’s ‘Double Deloitte’: Technology Fast 500 Asia Pacific, Technology Fast 50 India
Ladbrokes, Britain's biggest bookmaker, is aiming to further improve the performance of its UK shop business by introducing a series of HR initiatives and creating a more supportive management style. The HR initiatives include a new focus on performance management and talent management. The company has also created a leadership framework and it is working with learning specialist KnowledgePool to design, develop and deliver new training programmes.
Blue Eskimo, the specialist recruitment company for the learning and technology industries, has announced its 2008 salary and work survey - and participants can win an iPod Touch worth £219.
NetDimensions, a global provider of performance, knowledge and learning management systems, announces that DAK Americas LLC, a leading producer of PET Resin, Polyester Staple Fibers and raw materials for polyester-based products, will be transitioning their training programs and implementing the NetDimensions' Enterprise Knowledge Platform (EKP).
A sales simulation created by global learning solutions developer, Tata Interactive Systems (TIS) for telecom major, Telus has made it to the final round of the IT Training Awards.
According to Vijay Kumar, Senior Associate Dean and Director of the Office of Educational Innovation and Technology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology – and an advisor to India’s National Knowledge Commission – the traditional education model has been based on scarcity and assumed limited educational resources.
Exploring a compelling vision of learning in the 21st century; demonstrating how 'learning' can ensure economic survival in the light of the current global financial crisis, and promoting technology for 'upskilling' learning as well as building knowledge and skills within professional communities are the priorities for The European Learning Industry Group (ELIG) in 2009. These priorities were agreed at the organisation's annual general meeting (AGM), which was held in Sestri Levante, Italy, at the end of October and hosted by Giunti Labs, a leading learning and mobile content management solution provider, whose CEO, Fabrizio Cardinali, is chair of ELIG.
Today see the launch of the Forces Business Network (FBN), a business networking facility for ex-serving members of the UK Armed Forces that also aims to support and raise money for related charities. The FBN was created by Premier IT, the workforce performance improvement specialist and Gemini Resourcing UK, an independent, multi-sector recruitment agency.
Employee Performance Management report praises Cornerstone's software suite for global capabilities, user experience, breadth and configurability.
The fifth annual Tata Interactive Learning Forum (TLF) 2008 brings together industry thought leaders to share strategies and meet challenges in learning solutions and corporate training.
Blue Eskimo, the leading recruitment agency to the training and e-learning sector, has been successfully inspected by the Recruitment and Employment Confederation, the body dedicated to improving recruitment practices in the UK.
Coastal HealthTrain offers a program that deals with a perennial threat to healthcare professionals. BBP In Your World: Don't Risk It examines the ever-present danger of bloodborne pathogens and explains how they can be prevented. The program identifies common BBPs, traces their transmission routes and cites infection-control measures.
Global people development company Impact International has been short-listed for a prestigious World of Learning Award. Joining just three other finalists in the Coaching Programme of the Year category, Impact was selected for its innovative work with Barclays Bank. The awards recognise organisations and people who have significantly advanced workplace productivity and performance within the field of learning and development. Impact's innovative methodology develops leadership and coaching skills through the medium of movement.
Genworth Records Management online course developed by Tata Interactive Systems (TIS) has been selected for a Bronze Brandon Hall Learning Award.
Raytheon Professional Services LLC (RPS), a subsidiary of Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN), has opened a training center in Samara, Russia, to provide basic and advanced technical and sales training for automotive dealerships.
The ROI Academy™ has been contracted by e-skills UK to measure the value of the ITQ to corporate clients. The ITQ is a qualification based on building capability in the use of IT systems and software. The ROI Academy is developing a case study looking at the impact of the ITQ programme within a major National Retailer.
Harbinger Group, the global provider of software products and services, today launched YawnBuster, a path-breaking new addition to its range of innovative software products.
Impact International and 'Save The Children' join forces for emergency aid operation in Myanmar.
BTL Group Ltd is proud to support the CBT (Computer Based Testing) conference in Baarn, Holland on 16th October 2008. The aim of the conference is to share experiences in using computer based technology to administer exams.
BTL Group is pleased to announce it will be exhibiting at this year's Federation of Awarding Bodies Conference, Ricoh Arena, Coventry on the 15th and 16th of October.
Coastal Training Technologies announces the release of a timely environmental protection training program. Spill Prevention & Control: Insuring A Safer World examines the safeguards and procedures to prevent and contain oil spills and leaks. It addresses the training needs of oil facilities for production, distribution, consumption and storage, helping them comply with SPCC regulations and maintain safe and environment-friendly operations.
Richardson announced that Linda Richardson's newest book, Perfect Selling: Open the Door, Close the Deal. (McGraw-Hill; July; $19.95), has won a 2008 Editors' Choice Award from SalesPractice.com. The Editors' Choice award recognizes the 'best of the best' sales training resources and includes websites, blogs, books, articles, videos, and more.
Coastal Training Technologies has released a timely program to address an issue that puts thousands of facilities and their surrounding communities at risk. Combustible Dust: Up In A Flash explores the nature of dust explosions and examines how they can be prevented.
In a ground breaking move following extensive research and development, the Institute of IT Training (IITT) has today launched a nationwide programme to upgrade and monitor the performance quality of trainers of all disciplines.
QA-IQ Group has today announced that its offer to acquire Xpertise Group PLC has been declared wholly unconditional. As two of the leading companies in the delivery of training to technology departments, the combination of the strengths, experience and knowledge of the organisations will provide significant benefit for existing customers and new opportunities for future development.
Following the successful launch of the new elearning publishing platform Luminosity, CM Group has this month promoted Tom Randell to the role of technologist.
Perfect Selling, written by Founder Linda Richardson, has reached the Best Seller List for BusinessWeek magazine, adding to Perfect Selling's appearance on Best Seller List of The New York Times and USA Today.
Organisations can cut up to 30 per cent off their learning costs by addressing four areas of inefficiency, according to a new white paper launched today by KnowledgePool.
Called Are You Cutting It?, the paper exposes supplier management, administration, scheduling and solution design as four areas where organisations can make significant savings. It features a worked example showing how a company with a £1m learning budget could cut its learning costs by 31.9 per cent.
Coastal Training Technologies has released a vital new training program, Confined Space Entry: Keeping Public Employees Safe. It surveys the issue’s critical aspects - confined space definitions, permit space characteristics, the permit space process, changing conditions, OSHA permit, lockout/tagout, ventilation, flammability, testing, toxicity, retesting, heat precautions, communication, equipment, PPE, and rescue and training duties. Available on DVD or video, the program provides life-saving know-how to keep public employees safe and well-informed in confined space conditions.
A team led by Raytheon Technical Services Company (RTSC) LLC, a subsidiary of Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN), has received a 10-year contract to provide training support for Federal Aviation Administration air traffic controllers. The single contractor award is valued at $437 million for the five-year base period. The contract also has two options. If exercised, the first option is three years and the second option, two years.
eglue and Tata Interactive Systems (TIS) signed a worldwide partnership agreement under which TIS will promote and distribute the eglue InterAct suite and also provide professional services around eglue’s products.
Cornerstone OnDemand, a provider of on-demand, integrated learning and talent management software and services, is exhibiting its state-of-the art products at this year's Zukunft Personal 2008 (9 - 10 September, Cologne, Germany).
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Richardson has again been named to the Inc. 5000 List of Fastest Growing Companies in America. After a rapid growth rate of more than 75% over the past three years, Richardson's Inc. 5000 rank climbed to number 3908 in 2008, from 4477 in 2007.
Today and unbeknown to most people, NLP forms the basis of much of today’s communication that employees and employers are embracing the term with infinite ease
The University of Manchester's UKCDR project team (UK Collaboration for a Digital Repository for High Stakes Exams) found that BTL e-Assessment solutions came out on top in their independent study analysing current e-Assessment tools. The study, funded by JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee), was conducted to determine which tools could potentially form part of an e-Assessment solution that would be sophisticated enough to support in house and national examinations.
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